The Cedarville Herald, Volume 55, Numbers 27-52

-p>j. 1 -7 | V firto ■* * $4A tr fOX^-OS* i h b C B D A i C V i L L i i H E R A L D — IfiDITOR AND PUBLISHER KARLH BULL Ifiatwed » t the Past O fru*.- Oedarville, Ohio, October 31 ,188T, u r.econd c lau mutter. UlHkXK-JteU.eal WUorbU A muc .; 0M» jiwwiw Ai»cc.; MiaU Vallay ¥xm Jams, FR IDAY , JULY 15, 1932. AUDITOR HAS PLAN FOR PROPERTY REDUCTION County Auditor James J. Curlett has a plan under consid­ eration fo r the reduction o f valuation of all real estate in the county for purposes of taxation. This will be welcome news to property owners. Details are not yet available and of course what ever plan is adopted by the Auditor will be passed upon as approved or rejected by the State Tax Commission. There is no good reason why valuations for real estate should remain at the peak of 1929 prices when we all know that valuations of 1932 are much lower. Not only is land down in price, but building material is lower. Labor has been reduced, all of which figures in the present day scale of replacement prices. There may some necessary changes in governmental func­ tions in county, school, village-or city, due to a reduced income but we have reached the time when we dare go over our income with safety of the future. There are always things we all want but we must now stop wanting so much-rat least until we get ■back to more prosperous days. ’ . Last year we believe farm land was given a reduction but town and city property did not fare so well. What ever plan Mr. Curlett works out giving property owners more relief will be appreciated. The idea of reduction, is uppermost in the minds of most all people whether it concerns public or private affairs. It is such movements as these that will put the nation back on its feet quicker than any plan of pumping hot air in a ’balloon in an effort to hold up something that mufct come down. GERMANY NOW IN FIGHTING MOOD . News dispatches bring the information that constitutional government in Germany has broken down and that a dictator of the old military type is in charge. Rioting has been tak­ ing place in Berlin and many hundred killed or injured. As a result that nation is looked upon as somewhat hopeless. It was but a short time more than a year ago that this country granted the moratorium on payment of public debts to America. We had loaned Germany hundreds of millions through public and private sources. Much of this money was used to pay war debts to other nations. More of our money Was used to erect stately public buildings, build bridges and create public parks aqd thus beautiful the attractive places provided by nature. When the moratorium was granted we were told that such was absolutely necessary to save the. nation owing to her finan cial plight. Thirteen months later Germany's population is in a civil war so to speak. Instead Of America insisting, on debt payments and Germany keeping her people busy, idleness has brought about civil strife and loss of life. While America as­ sumes ah additional load by federal taxation to meet non-pay­ ment of European obligations as a result of the Hoover mora­ torium, we must witness the result as much different than What was promised a year ago. PAYMENT OF TAXES AND DELINQUENCY The legaftime limit IFor payment o f taxes “ended Wednes day. Time after time in recent weeks we have heard the tax payment question discussed along with what delinquent char­ ges could be added. When taxes are not paid on the final date a ten per cent penalty may be added, After two consecutive in­ stallments of taxes are not paid, the property is then certified delinquent and a charge o f 8 percent is made from the certifi- . cation date to the time the taxes ate paid and the property re­ deemed by the taxpayer, at which time the interest charge is ridded to the tax duplicate and paid by the taxpayer. This really makes 18 per cent the first year, and then eight percent interest each year thereafter until paid and each year’s taxes receiving a 10 per cent penalty until paid. When business, conditions are normal this law providing such a drastic penalty may be within reason, but it is pure con­ fiscation of property during the brand of prosperity the past year or more. The present tax law should be modified so that the farm and home owner has at least an even break with the county and state. W e do not believe the public would stand for a strict application of the law under present conditions. It is not likely a jury would take a widow’s home from her. It is safe to say that no judge would dare face re-election on such an issue regardleess of the law and of course minor county officials having a hand in it would suffer a like fate. People are in no frame of mind to stand for one-hundred percent application oi any law that means confiscation of property. Taxes are a very necessary part of government and should be paid but even, as large a political unit as the state can only make the public pay something within reason. Again we say the coming legislature should modify the present tax law to within reason with out the advice or dictation of Senator Robert A. Taft, who claims to be an expert on taxation. CORPORATIONS CANNOT PAY TAXES I HERALDWANTANDSALEADSPAT IP * Gov, George White w ill ask the next special session o f the legislature to authorize the -use o f a portion o f the Ohio gasoline tax fo r payment o f as­ sessments o n roads built before the state took over the highway system. Many farm owners are paying road assessments while the state is build­ ing other broads free to farm owners with the gasoline tax. For some Ume representatives Of : an organization have been collecting a three per cent g ift from farm owners on the plea that their organization could get hack what tlie owner had paid in road as­ sessments. Two officers o f the or­ ganization promising to get farmers a return paid this office a visit last summer and stated their plans. W e were not impressed with it because we could see no way how this could be done without special legislation and a new form o f tax on some one to repay the farmers. W e agree with Gov. White on his plan o f using part o f the gasoline tax to meet these as­ sessments but would go a step further and ask him i f it would not also be fair to town and city property owners to repay them fo r their share o f brick or cement streets on state route con­ nections ? Town and city people help pay the gas tax just as rural people do. Why discriminate against them ? Some compliment has been paid the village by the interest banking insti tutions have taken follow ing the clos­ ing o f opr bank. A Springfield- Washington C. H. banking concern is operating an armed truck toa gather deposits, make change and render us as well as a number o f other towns a service. Two other banking institu­ tions have their eye on the village for either new or branch banks. This situation must be considered a com­ pliment as to our financial standing. Well, all we can say is let all comers be welcomed, but come on their own initiative just as would the grocer, the butcher, the baker dr the candle­ stick maker. People in general have had a good education in banks and probably have much more to learn, It is safe to say that more people can digest a bank statement today than anytime in the past twenty=five^years.~ The peculiar part is that our people are not and have not asked fo r all of this gratuitous service. When the his- -tory o f this prosperity boom we arc in is finally written and the pangs o i the trail o f losses forgotten, there wilt without question be a demand fo r a home-owned bank. A s we see it there are very few banks large enough and strong enough to serve more than, the one community it was intended to serve. Meantime-we are open to all­ comers, every fellow taking his own chance. ACCIDENT PREVENTION ON THE ROAD Bad manners on the part of drivers are held by many authr- ties tq be the principal cause of automobile accidents. Accord­ ing to traffic engineers and statisticians, the accident rate would drop to a minimun if drivers would display a little more courtesy in operating their cars "by giving way when other ma­ chines are passing, and would discontinue crowding cars com­ ing in opposite directions, the unnecessary use of loud horns, driving slowly in the midst1 of fast-moving traffic. According to a recent survey the automobile itself is least responsible for accidents. Poor brakes, steering and similar factors cause only a small percentage of mishaps. Human na­ ture has not yet adjusted itself to take advantage of the full efficiency and safety of the modem car. Nine olii-of ten cars involved in accidents are in perfect condition. Thus, in 90 per cent of cases, accidents result from human carelessness, incom­ petence or bad judgment. Good driying manners can cover a multitude of other fail­ ings. The driver who resents passing cars, who attempts to hold an undue share of the road, who has no respect for the rights of the pedestrian or other motorists, is a potential killer And destroyer of property. It is against him that future high­ way safety campaigns must be conducted if they are to show results. In spite of all the political bunk to the contrary, the giant corporations do not, in the .exact sense, pay taxes. They cannot. This is unfortunate but it is true. The people pay the taxes whether they be millionaires or day laborers, and there are a good many more day laborers than millionaires, even in boom times, rhey pay taxes when, they write, a check for the meat, electricity or grocery hill, when they purchase a house and lot or a package of playing cards, when they eat a meal or go to a movie, when they smoke a cigarette or take a spin in the car. ^ Our gigame corporations have no magical means of pro- i l S * irT the ^hey can get it only from the people to whom they sell their commodities or services. A ll costs necessary to the running of a business, whether they be taxes, labor or purchases of supplies, must be passed along to , ^ "0 customer. And the customer, in the aggregate, is all of us, * Lopscquently next time you hear political demands for tax* mg the rich to help the poor, dismiss them for what they are usually worthy-nothing. It would be pleasant if it were pos­ sible* but the inexorable laws of barter rule otherwise— and they are laws that politics can't repeal. may h*vt to go to Dayton to’txke «d- yan ta f* o f tiw now t a r vtiem on g u , a » no cut hag boon announced here. W e were interested in a.radio ta lk Tuesday where a graftga in Northern Ohio passed a resolution’ urging the government to drop Sec. Hyde o f the Agriculture department and his 20,000 appointees under him and save ' the $200,000,000 the government was ap­ propriating each year fo r work along agricultural lines. Thirty-five • cent wheat and a many million dollar fed­ eral farm board must have soured the grange members on governmen­ tal aid fo r fanners. This would be a radical step and w ill not take-place as you might as well t r y to move the “ Seven wonders o f the world” to one spot as to try to displace 20,000 public appointees. There should be reduc­ tions in government operation o f all departments, fa r more than what con­ gress has provided, but the step has been taken and more w ill no doubt follow at the next session fo r con­ gressman and senators are mostly at home now: following adjournment, and badk where the depression started and is slowly developing into a real old fashioned 1892 panic. Washington D. G. knows little about that other than a political issue, like a political party platform—not seriously taken believe he lias not left his comrades in the proper light. There may be abeeea in the present system o f granting aid but the same was true with Civil War veterans. Cur boys gave o f their best while others stayed at home and won financially. Under present economic conditions We no doubt are straining the nation’s purse to grant this aid. But why object to this when the ad­ ministration has been so liberal with it loans to foreign nations that have used part o f our money to be liberal with their ex-soldiers, viewed from the standpoint o f living conditions in the various countries that have used o f our financial support? W e cannot agree with the present administra­ tion on its foreign policy and each day o f development seems to prove our conclusion to be true, roll and reside toTcledo .'where *ke[ W A N T E D I am w»w prepared to w ee idea over her household. Two bun-resume my trade a* a painter and presides over i » r « decorator, interior and exterior work, dred dollars a month from Uncle Sam ^ ^ je r v t a let me give and reside at home during such times ygU estimate.. Phone 129- as these would be tempting to all. - Elmer Jurkat. ...... .......................... MnmnwwtMmHmiHHninniwweiliwWAW (JAN BK CUBED HEMORRHOIDS (OR PILES) W ITHOUT USB OF KN IFE W ITHOU T LOSS OF TIME n , A successful treatment fo r internal and protruding piles, Requires from four to seven treatments a t intervals o f about once a week fo r a cure o f the average case. Also the Ideal Non-Confining Method o f Treatment fo r Fistulae, Pruritis An i (itch ing) and Fissure, etc, DR. J. A . YODER Osteopathic Physician and Proctologist 18, 19, 20 Steele Bldg., Xenia Phone 384 , In speaking o f the bank situation each town has its own problems. Fol­ lowing the closing o f the local bank one o f our citizens tells us he made a trip to South Charleston. There he consulted friends and was given to understand everything was “ O K ” . The deposit was made and the resul. speaks fo r its self. Now we learn on the closing o f the South Charleston bank a number o f fanners between that place and Springfield moved their accounts to the Commercial, that only last week joined the parade to the financial graveyard. A ll o f which has been a university education to many people regarding banks. W e have re­ peatedly said that had the State Bank Department heen one-half as interest­ ed in checking the wild loans being made by banks under their supervis­ ion four years ago, as they are today, there wpuld isS a different story about bank failurees in Ohio. But we have to live to learn— and evidently live to pay fo r the education. The action o f the above mentioned grange reminds us o f mention being made in this column a few weeks ago about the government inspectors in search o f the purple lea f barberry as an enemy o f wheat by creating a pe­ culiar rust. Several days later one o f Uncle Sam’s representatives made u6 a call to discuss the object o f the campaign and how the country was scoured, to locate the devestating bar­ berry bushes, He gave us figures as to what it cost in loss to farmers, all o f which no doubt is true. He cited the. fact that one local man, usually a worthy young farmer was selected to aid in this work-for each regular government employee on the job in that county. He gave the names o f the young men who are aiding and are being paid fo r their service and we could not select a more coropetant or worthy set .of young farmers if given the chance. Anything we said was in no way meant to stop •work that meant a protection to a wheat crop but we did in fer something as to the cost o f various governmental ac­ tivities. With the government broke and_ trying to_balance the-budget by taxing everything in-sight, we meant that we must* have ^some functions, and probably all, greatly reduced. The campaign against the barberry is in company with the corn-borer and so nany other government activities’. To make ourselves more plain we have reached the .place where all govern- nent costs must and will be curtailed to. some extent to bring about more economy— and w e include the huge appropriation fo r prohibition enforce­ ment which is now and has been hand­ led by politicians as so much graft. We would get as much enforcement for ten , million dollars as one hun­ dred million. There can be liberal ap­ propriations but there must be more honest and sincere effort added fo r enforcement.. The more bf the latter the less o f the former will be requir­ ed and thus reduce the qost o f govern­ ment. Some o f our economic writers have taken a pretty firm stand against the government dole idea to individuals as well as corporations. Babson thinks you cannot balance a budget, federal, state,-local or personal until labor is employed, A corporation cannot sol­ ve its debt problem by borrowing money, neither can a nation. The more money taken from the people in taxes beyond the actual necessary require­ ments o f a government, the poorer the nation is. No nation is rich when the people are broke, regardless o f gold reserves. President Hoover has cut his own salary 20 per cent and ordered reduc­ tions o f 15 per cent in the pay o f +he vice president and Cabinet members, There was no law making this compul­ sory. The President w ill draw only $60,000 this year instead o f $75,000, while cabinet members and the vice president will draw $12,750 instead o f $15,000. These reductions are in line with the demand o f the times. It is unfortunate that Congress takes no cuts. Congress even defeated the bill that would drop members o f a congressman’s family from the public pay roll. Each congressman last ye!nr cost the nation $28,000, which is about the value we suppose o f a government antique. Our own. Senator can still keep his daughter-in-law on the pay r "'-s ■ =}L LUXURY that Women Love & n // n // // There's a world of compliment inthe my women invariablychooseTheSinton-St.Nich­ olas in Cincinnati. The.eagerdesire to please, the airof refinement and comfort, the cen­ tral location, the splendid food and the surprising economy excite theiradmiration. Rates for rooms with bath,shower and servidor, $2.50 upwards. Five dining rooms serving finest food - at very moderate prices. ' The hotel of character in a city of character JOHN.L MORGAN., ...iVoncjiViy Director C IN C IN N A T I CHICAGOOFFICE-'520haMICHiGMiAVE•SUITE42*2-PHONESUPERIOR4416 Extra VALUES f i r e s t o n e COURIERTYPE % 88 GUM-DIPPED CORDS The Firestone patentedGum-Dip* ping process transforms the cotton cards into o strong, tough, sinewy unit. Liquid rubberpenetratesevery cordand coats every fiber, guarding against in­ ternal friction and mat, greatly increas­ ing the strength of tha cord body, and giving longer lira lift. TWO EXTRA GUM-DIPPED CORD PLIES UNDER THE TREAD ’ m H Lsk EACH H V WHEN W BOUGHT IN PAIRS 30 x 3^ Cl. This is a1patented construction, and the .two aictra Gum-Dipped cord plies am 'so placed that you get. 56% stronger bond between tread and cord body. f - and tests show 26% greater protection i against puncturesand blowsouts. It sets a new standard for tire performance on . high speed cars. NON-SKID TREAD 1 ' As to more proof that we are en­ tering the panic stage, we leam that various corporations are preparing to reduce their capital stock by one-half. Several days ago we learned o f a wid­ ow that held $3,000 in. a once good company that until the moratorium was declared was sound and able to do business .and make profits fo r the stockholders. The move now is to re­ duce the capital to cut overhead and save taxes. But the cut o f one half takes $1,500 o f the widow’s money and she gets nothing in return fo r it. Thirty years ago the late Edward Ha- gar, one o f the best business execu­ tives in the county, and we had great faith in him, gave this advice to the writers “ Never own $100 worth o f stock in an industrial company unless you have $100 in cash o r good govern­ ment security laid away to back it fo r some day you may need it.” That day seems to have arrived with holders' o f industrial stocks. According'to Dayton papers a war has been declared between the big gasoline companies. Tuesday motor­ ists drove to fillin g stations o f one o f the big companies to find the price o f one grade had been reduced over night from 16 1-2 cents to 14 cents a gallon, State and federal tax includ­ ed, In these days o f the depression which are slowly closing while we en­ ter the first stage o f a panic, a re­ duction in gasoline price is on par with demand fo r reduction in govern­ mental costs. The gas barons prob­ ably learned that wheat was a t a new low price and slashed the gas price to panic prices. But the wheat farmer Archabald Roosevelt, son.of the late ex-president by that name, is head o f the “ National Economy League” and he gave a radio talk a few evenings ago on government costs, the depres­ sion and what it was costing to pro­ vide fo r World War veterans, he being one who had service overseas. His talk was no doubt inspired to arouse public sentiment and more interest bn the part o f all classes to demand jeven greater reductions than congress has provided fo r todate. He made no men­ tion o f names or direct reference to either political party but his talk was plain- and to the point— each hearer being le ft to form his own opinion. He gave the sad news that we yet have not reached bottom, can expect nothing permanent from the prescrip­ tions suggested by recent legislation and that after balancing the budget we leaped many steps further in gov­ ernment debt, to try to do the impos­ sible. His remedy was simple and that was getting our feet back on the ground. Creating more debt would in ;no way pay past debts but greater re­ ductions would help. Drop many o f our present day government functions and all branches o f government as well as Individuals living within their income and yet have a saving fo r the future. His reference to what World War veterans were costing the nation o f course would not bring much ap­ plause from that section. He claims some 360,000 veterans fire being paid pensions fo r illness and injury sus­ tained since their discharge, a ll-a t a cost o f many millions o f dollars. A c­ cording to his figures by the end o f this month next year there will be dt least 500,000 on the pay roll with still additional government cost*. The Writer o f this column agrees with the speaker on his. economy plan but we Tough, live rubberspecially compound- ad For long, slow wear. Scientifically designed nop-skid gives greater trac­ tion and safe, quiet performance. COMPARE CONSTRUCTION. QUALITY and PRICE oca Tlr* Flrotw* OMIMtf Trpt CliftFife* E k I i Firatm OldIMI T m CnftPilci r«r>w Fknltm- Otdft *Ztr CtumraUt/ ChanoUt- 4.40-21 4.50-20 4.50-21 *4 -79 S.3S 5-43 •9 .3 9 10-39 19 .54 Stn’b’k’r Aubturn—. 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Relatives an Josephine' Fi tonio, Texas the news of little daught two years, itas. She is Richard Eugi ely Corn and ing o f Xenia The ■date the Research from Thursd Farm Park, A tennis Xenia, by the two weeks be in by July Entry fee a team. For Sale: Eggs, Milk, ers, Dunkle V IRG IN On July 2 15th Annual ginians,' now joining coun held at th Ground.?, To mer Virgin!; basket foj be served at Hall. As a resul more than 5 to the roste so .a larger ent this yea friends and Dominion to Grounds on 5 'J’i !* *e IS •xl fi si •II 1 % y j 3 . I T6 & !E 1 . NO T lI TO WHOM That until 1932, at 12 sealed prop] the office op o f Education ed Rural County, Qhl motor vehid include chaj according tl fitions on lil the aforesal Each bid.I each persotj in the sair contract wi perfotmar.; cured. None bull will be aei’l serves the bids. No hi more than | ($1500.00) considered. I The Board Twp. 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