The Cedarville Herald, Volume 55, Numbers 1-26

M h C f c U i U v A . A . * , m jCABLH BULL -------- laSOTB-XaUMud Kdititial A msc . — EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Ohio IJcwaraper Aaaoo,; V.-jUryPress Assoc. Entered at the Post OfDss. Uedanillo, Ohio, October Si, 1887, ■'as s .econd class matter. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1932. PLENTY LETTUCE AND LAMB CHOPS FOR SHERIFF The announcement last week of the appropriation for the Da!1.gh" tif' nlnktoJi!? ■ation of Sheriff John Baughn’s office for the present year ln the han<*s of the state f “nk "B A new turn has been taken in the defalcation of the Ohio State Bank in Washington C. H., controlled by Mai oper ....................... . has caused much comment. It is evident that the average tax payer is just a little bit more on the job this year, than any time within the past fifteen years. Taxpayers are finding it hard to get the money just at this time to meet tax bills and the subject is on most every lip. Financial institutions are ask­ ed daily for loans to meet tax payments. The average tax payer has taken notice of the published report of a budget of $14,447.50 for the Sheriff’s office this year, which has set tongues in motion. It is more money than is asked for by anyother county office and several times more than what it cost only a few years ago to operate the office by other sheriffs. Fourteen thousand dollars worth of lamb chops and head lettuce for the Sheriff should keep “ Old Man Depression” out of the sheriff’s office. Probably such a sum is necessary to keep the “ best sheriff” in the United States in motion and his feet from the top of a fine desk. If he is doing more for the county than other county officials, it may be a good invest­ ment and worth it to the taxpayers who are on beans and corn bread. All will admit the Sheriff has a fine opinion of himself and a better one of what he can do with his badge -and big gun he flourishes, but the public has its opinion of what is and what is not “ apple-sauce” . STICK BY OUR GUNS— DEMi» ND DEBT PAYMENTS ( , ONE NOBLE EXPERIMENT AFTER ANOTHER It is doubtful if any United States Congress, in a generation, has faced a greater responsibility than the present, one. It has assembled at a time when every country in the; world is puzzled and despiring. Pressing economic and social issues abound on every side. Unemployment, various.plans for stabilizing indus­ try with governmental aid, farm relief, taxation'—these and other issues are engaging the public mind and we must look to Congress for action. Many plans for various kinds of relief are being discussed. Laws of all kinds are in the making by the economic doctors and no one will even venture a'statement or advance a word that success can be assured. However noble the experiment, it seems we are trying to cure a bad credit sit­ uation with more credit and more expenditure. It has never worked with the individual or any private corporation. If it succeeds, well and good ; if it fails the country’s credit will be in a worse condition than was ever before experienced. One of the most foolish plans is proposed in the issue of a large amount of bonds to aid the umemployed. It is something that carrys with it sentiment but how and who is to pay the bill? Such a plan will do more harm than good.' There is a lim­ it for spending even to a government— a point beyond which the taxpayer can no longer produce revenue. When this point is reached, industrial stagnation inevitably results— and severe unemployment, instead of being a temporary evil, becomes a permanent one. The past few years Congress has been on a drunken spend­ ing spree, especially on millions worth of government buildings in Washington. New government postoffices over the country have cost hundreds of millions. We have reached the end. The credit of the country is not where it Was two years ago and we find the proof in the low price of all government securities. The time is also here when the sale of government bonds may not be a wise thing—nothing can make them attractive to investors but a higher interest rate. This would require more taxes of different kinds to meet the bonds and interest. The citizen not able! to own such bonds would be taxed to pay the other fel­ low. England has its dole and Germany its paternalism. Both have a condition that America should" avoid. ; partment for many months, A few days ago two suits were filed against each of two former state superintend­ ents o f bank, Messrs. Blair and Gray. Each suit is for $50,000, the amount of the bond o f the former state offi­ cials and is brought in behalf of 4,300 depositors on the ground the reorgan­ ized institution was opened while in­ solvent under Blair, and operated in the same condition under Gray, It is the most unusual suit ever filed in the state in connection with a finan­ cial institution under the supervision of a state department. Congressmen and Senators are going to have a new man­ date from the people, to, whom they must look for votes‘this fall. It will be nothing other than a pledge to insist that Europe pay her financial debt to this country. President Hoover has already made one1great mistake in'granting Germany the year of moratorium while this country suffers for. a lack of money. He must also rectify, if possible, the wrong in permitting inter­ national bankers on Wall Street in making loans amounting to billions, also adding to our economic ills, that has effected our own banks, building and loans, manufacturers, farmers and all classes of labor. This nation has been plunged into a panic greater than it would have been, irrespective of world conditions, all because interests abroad have been regarded paramount to those at home. Meantime foreign nations have spent billions preparing for future wars but plead poverty when it comes to paying this country what is due on debts. Otherwise 1932 and probably the year to follow will find conditions at home with all classes much worse, than they are today. The public has become con­ vinced that'we have had the wrong foreign policy. The evi­ dence offered before a Senate committee by Wall.Street bank­ ers is absolute proof. • Charles G. Dawes, former vice president and recently re-’ signed embassador to England, is to head the American delega­ tion to the coming conference at Geneva next month. It is to be expected that Dawes will insist, on a reduction of arms and payment of debts to this country. It is to be hoped that he will exert a more determined influence on the foreign powers than has our own state department, which has had far too friendly consideration of Wall street bankers, who have insisted private, loans should he paid before Uncle Sam gets his. President Hoover may or may not be guilty o f all laid at •his? door at present-by American citizens in most every walk of life. His future will without question be determined by the re­ sult o f the Geneva conference. The public cannot be fooled longer and is in no frame o f mind to accept an alibi o f any kind. This country is not Europe. Its citizenship has the abil­ ity to pass judgment on most public questions and it is well that the present administration is not forced to defend itself at the polls today. With our banks and building and loans as hungry for life blood as our citizenship is for food, there can be no side­ stepping any vital issue. Not only financial institutions but our manufacturing industry, along with labor and. the farmer, has 'been brought to the “ bread and butter” line. Much confidence has been lost by the American people by what has happened the past year. It is time to recognize home folks in need and to restore some of this confidence foreign, nations must pay their debts rather than inflict additional burdensome taxes' on indus­ try orjndividuals. The cry o f “ balance the budget’ ’ must be met with foreign debt payments or reduced government ex­ penses and not additional taxation. Slow Business due to seasons, the depression, or probably from a chari­ table view, probably caused the major gasoline companies to reduce the price of gasoline in the state Saturday. The drop was one cent ini most places and two cents a gallon in a few cities. But the drop in price, when we hear the inside o f the story, is not all on the part-of—the-eompanies—t-he-independ' ent dealer must stand one half o f the drop, at least where the price was lowered one cent. A new turn in re tailing. Heretofore independent fili­ ng stations were allowed three cents gallon profit but under the new order hey will get but two and one-half ;ents a gallon. The companies will take the loss of one-half cent and are forcing the other half on the dealers. Former Governor Mycya Y. Coop­ er, prospective candidate fo r the Ba- publiean nomination fo r governor this year, continues to hammer away ,at the .new classification tax law and the cigarette taxes in his many speeches over the state, He is openly advocat­ ing a reduction o f twenty-five per cent o f taxes on all kinds o f real es­ tate. He is not making known just how he would do this in view o f the fact he is not advocating the reduc­ tion o f the number o f office holders on the state pay roll. One Ohio concern, the Selby Shoe , Company, with factories in Ports- j mouth, Ironton and other Ohio cities, j announces it has purchased a large i shoe factory in Canada, to manufac­ ture shoes for that country and thus get around the obstacles o f the new tariff laws. Heretofore shoes fo r that country have been made in Ohio, hut now Ohio capital goes to Canada and Ohio labor, will be the looser. And yet there are some that contend there is nothing wrong with the last tariff bill. Some o f these days there may be a few people living that when they let their memory wander back will say: *1 well remember the days when trac­ tion lines covered most every section of the state and you could rid from north to south boundry lines as well "as east to west.” The announcement that 125 miles o f electric roads went out of commission Saturday mignight reveals that modern mode o f transpor­ tation is fast suplanting a service of raction lines, that most every section o f the state once covered. The past few years has seen many traction companies go on the .junk pile. Just iow long the few remaining compan­ ies can hold out, no one can predict. FIRST YELP FROM WALL STREET Hugh Bancroft, President of Dow, Jones & Co., Inc., pub­ lishers o f the Wall Street Journal, says: “ If the federal govern­ ment is not to add tb the difficulties of economic recovery, it must'balance its budget and at the same time must1 not increase federal taxes. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent for the purpose of harassing business, destroying business and competing unfairly with business.. The government is compet­ ing with its citizens in 97 separate activities.” It is interesting to hear from this source for Wall street in­ terests are the ones who have been profiting from much of this government competition in private business. Now that larger taxes loom aa a possibility, even the Wall Street Journal has become alarmed. The Journal must have had in mind the gov­ ernment in the wheat business which lost the nation millions in money and ruined the farmer’s 1932 wheat market. JVhile traction lines did much dam­ age to the railroads in years past, it was small competitipn to what the -motor bus and truck have developed. The railroads are holding on while tractions are passing, and the motor bus and truck business continues to jrow. Here is where the motor car owner gets it in the neck, He pays a high tag license and gasoline tax to make possible a right o f way for bus and truck companies, that commer­ cialize the roads for profit. True those companies pay a high license but not as much as they should in justice to the -railroads that must keep up a right-of-way and pay taxes, and the motorist, o f which only a small per cent use cars for business purposes. We have two commodities on (the market that a rural commuuity is di­ rectly'interested in and the situation of . the market with both is sure a puzzle at this tim e -e g g s and hogs, We are told that eggs were only about eleven cents to the farmer Saturday, and retailing around fifteen cents to the consumer. The past week has seen hogs at a low price and around three and one half cents to four cents in the city markets, While the con­ sumer may look with pleasure on eggs at 15 cents a dozen, it would be better for the community if they were twen­ ty to the farm er.. While corn is only around twenty-five cents a bushel the farmer has had cheap feed, from the market standpoint, but high priced when we consider what most of the farm land has cost the average owner. There is something wrong with otir market situation, indications that the law of supply and demand is not hav- ing a free hand. We have no remedy and we do not believe there is one, unless the boards o f trade,, stock mar­ kets of different kinds are closed for a reasonable time to eliminate the gambling feature that seems to exist. We know this that with better prices the farmer could be in the market for more manufactured things, thus giv­ ing laboring men more employment and make it possible to purchase the farmer’ s products. Senator Couzens, Michigan, Repub­ lican, has the right idea on lowering the cost o f the federal government. He would start with the vice president and then aupreihe court on down to senators and congressmen and cut their salaries, twenty-five per cent, putting them back where they were before the war. Another proposal is when a government appointee, resigns or dies, not to fill the vacancy but to transfer someother employee and di­ vide his work among other employees. In this way within ten years the list of 700,000 government employees can be reduced, about 2,500 a year. There is the advantage o f the Couzens’ pro­ posal and that is he is willing to in­ clude himself among the first to be cut. Press reports state that Presi­ dent Hoover is strongly opposed to salary reductions o f government em­ ployees, and will resist the bill intro­ duced by Senator Couzens, s In reference to the tariff we are re­ minded o f seeing an important letter some days ago that a well known cit­ izen had received from a company in another city. This citizen had $3,000 invested in stock in the company in question. It had paid dividends regu­ larly for several years until this year. Each six, months TiefiaiTreceived ~his dividend until the past year. !He says the dividend always went a long way to pay his taxes and especially was it welcome the past few years with farm produce prices very low. Some weeks ago he wrote the company relative to the reason no dividend had been paid and the letter we saw plainly stated the company had little or no business owing to the tariff law. The company had. for years enjoyed a nice foreign business but it was lost at present, if more-farmers owned a little stock in manufacturing companies, hanks, etc., and more manufacturers and big bankers owning farm land, we be-. Iieve one would understand the other- fellows troubles a little better and we would have better cooperation in the country. The more that is unravelled 'about the loans in foreign countries the more the average citizen is disgusted with the situation. .Billions o f money 'oaned abroad while business suffers in this country has been a poor policy and there is little feeling o f sympathy vith the foreign powers in whatever Idilemma they are in. These countries ure spending millions, yearly in sup­ port o f armies and big navies while the world talks peace and yet they are pleading hard times when it comes to paying their debts to this nation. The recent exposure o f a guge loan being made in a South American country by international bankers in Wall street, throug the son o f the president of that country, and a graft o f several hundred thousand being paid the son, is a fair sample o f what has been go­ ing on. The South American country has deposed itsi president and their courts have found the president and the son guilty o f treason and both are under sentence to prison. In this country such transactions are regard­ ed smart business practices and we laugh and jest how suckers were tak­ en in buying the bonds. Some months ago President Hoover made a. trip to Detroit to talk before the American Legion to plead with the veterans not to ask for additional aid in view o f financial conditions at home. Yet we now learn that not millions but bil­ lions have been loans abroad. “ Hands across the sea” is a beautiful expres­ sion, but painful when the hand is in the Aemrican pocketbook most o f the time. “ America fo r Americans” is yet to be a dominant slogan for guid­ ance. When one Teads the news about the courts and notices from week to week the number o f divorce suits and the number o f divorces granted the thought is that we have more divorces than are necessary and how can the divorce problem be handled? So far as we have ever heard there is little or no chance o f eliminating divorce for it has to do with the human ele­ ment. While rural counties no doub t; have their share o f divorces yet when j we get the inside facts, most o f the ! number are from the cities. It is now j claimed that only one per cent of di- , vorces come from farm marriages. It j is the great cities that contribute the r divorces, Social standards with mil- ! lions of people in the cities are not I what they should be, which does not reflect the statement that even in the rural communities they are one hun­ dred per cent perfect. Crowded cities , cannot make possible home life as it : can be in the great open spaces. There one gets more o f the atmosphere of what nature intended. The city is a composite make o f hustle and strife under great strain for a living. Na- ! ture has been pushed back for the ar­ tificial glamor o f what science and in­ vention has produced. Millions in'the city want to return to the country , but cannot for one reason and the j other. The present economic situation is to be an education to the city chap and we predict with our modern mode of transportation there is to be a gen­ eral exodus to the smaller towns near , largo cities. 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