The Cedarville Herald, Volume 55, Numbers 27-52

0 a s ^ l jpf I'l. •jrr JrV f l*it*e*. THE CEDARV1LLE HERALD EAELB B U L L --------- ~ KDIIOB ANP FUBU3HEB~ ttatejfrd *t the Post srcdturville, QMo* October 31,18871 a* e'/ocond cltuwmatter. •UUtBKlt"K s U om I *4Uorl»l A moc .; OhioNw*iw$cr Asaoe.tJJiawl Valky^m* A moc . 1 9 3 2 . . . WHAT SHERIFF'S OFFICE COSJS TAXPAYERS There ia in Ohio what ia known as “The Organ- ization Tax Association”, comprised of the heads of a jumper of civic, farm, manufacturing, banking, retairana wholesale representatives, more than a score in all. Data has been, col­ lected showing the increase in the cost of government, all of which is interesting a t this time. ] 0* A, Dyer, secretary of this organization, says, the in­ crease in population from 1920 to, 1920' in Ohio was 15 per cent and the increase in taxed wealth* w? per cent. Increase in tax collection for the same period wha^ft11 per cent, Mr, Dyer gives a report on each county in the state, which makes inte eating reading. ■ , , * * . .We find that the" cost of the sheriffs office in Greene county nearly doubled from 1920 to 1930, having increased from $5,595.84 to $10,947.65. Greene county is about the size of Champaign, Madison, Fayette and.Clinton,and you will find what it cost to operate the sheriff's office fn each of these four counties during the year 1930: Champaign, $3,989.28; Madi son, $7,956.86; Fayette, $5,191; Clinton, $6,704,02. While there is a wide difference of cost between these four counties, Greene county^ sheriff cost the tax payers nearly three times what the same office cost in Champaign county; more than twice the cost in Fayette county; one third more than Clinton county. Tp make comparison with .former sheriffs in Greene county the present sheriff's operating, cost, including hot house lettuce and lamb chops, is more than twice .what it cost during any single year of the terms pf the late Frank Tarboxj or Frank A- Jackson,- -In-addition-the-CostJast year fa r exceeds the-cost during any year 6f the predecessor, Ohmer Tate. Mr. Tate paid $60 a month for a cook for prisoners; Mr. Baughan has been paying $120 for the same service. Why?; \ ■ OHIO TAXES EQUAL VALUE OF FARM CROPS The^ spectre of tax bankruptcy is faced by a good many Americans these days. Tax levies, ,according to Melvin Traylor, President of the First National Bank of Chicago, take the esti mated equivalent of one day’s labor every week from everyone in the country. A few years ago one out of every 22 persons gainfully employed was on the public-pay roll ; ’now the percen tage is one in 11. It is said that if the present rate continues, in a little over twenty years we will have one person working for government for every person who pays taxes! Recently, in amiddle-western state,' one million acres of land were taken over by the counties for unpaid taxes. Another state has an $18,000,000 deficit. Another has $10,000,000 , in signed contracts for certain projects and is unable' to raise single dollar with which to meet them. In many parts of the' country local bond issues.have defaulted,, schools have been • closed,/necessary functions of government have been crippled, public employes have been unpaid. This is what government extravagance has done. Higher taxes is not the solution. The people cannot pay. In Ohio, ac­ cording to Mark Sullivan, with present low commodity prices, the state and municipalities take, in taxes, an amount abtfut equal to the entire value of every farmer's crop. Nothing but tax bankruptcy can result if the trend of today is continued. BUSINESS SUICIDE FOR.FARMERS From what we can learn,.farmers have no one to blame bui , themselves for the present low prie& of*butter and hutterfat - Otoe grocer itothis city says he sells46 pounds,of oleomargarine • to one pound'of butter and he' sells mu&Hmore oleomargarine to farmers than he does to town, folks.” One'grocer here kept a record fdr a month of the aniourit'of oleomargarine and butter , he sold. In that month he sold twelve times as much oleomar­ garine as he sold butter. All of the butter was sold to town folks-and farmers brought three-foifrths of the oleomargarine. We. are told the proportion of oleomargine now sold to farmers is not as large as it was before the towns became so hard hit by the-depression.- ■ ■ !, . A,farmer, who sells butter or hutteTfat and then buys oleo- margarine, is committing business suicide. He is injuring the sale of his own product and boosting the product of his compet­ itor. It is just as foolish as for the manufacturer of automobile tires to buy the tires manufactured by a competitor. Just us foolish as for an independent grocer td“buy all of his groceries from a chain grocery. We believe the biggest service the Farm-Bureau could per­ form for farmers would be to start a .campaign for every far­ mer to use butter and under no condition to buy a butter substi­ tute. The campaign should also be carried on by all farm pa­ pers. It is u well known economic principle that the. price of everything is determined by the law of supply and demand.. If there is a shortage’of any product,,, the price goes up. As long as there is more butter than people want, the price will be low. Just as soon as the supply of butter is less thaft the demand, the price will go up£ And the amount that makes the difference between a surplus'and a shortage may not be very great. One man well posted on. farm conditions, told us that he believed if every farmer farmily in the United States now Using oleomargarine, would use a pound of butter each week, that the price of butter would double almost at once. If the amount • of oleomargarine being used by farmers is as large as reported, we believe he is entirely too conservative in his estimate. Any farmer who sells butter or butterfat and then buys butter sub­ stitutes, deserves no sympathy no matter how low the price of butter. He has forced the price down.—Hillsboro News-Herald It w u not ever twenty-five years ago that the Conklin land, located a t thp edge of Xenia on the Columbus pike was regarded as one of the host farms in the county. No doubt it was in the class of $200 land during the days of high values. But what do we find today? Farm stands vacant. All the fields growing up in weeds. Not a sign of human life about thehome or even a pig or cow about the ham or in the fields. I t was only a few weeks ago that the farm sold under the ham­ mer for $37.50 an acre and bid in by the insurance company holding the mortgage, -We suppose the situation is but part of the evolution of the times. It is a sad picture indeed to see good land going to waste and be­ ing infested with weeds which will add only damage to the farm in the years to come. But what else can we expect with all farm prices at a low ebb ? It was only a few days ago we were told that new wheat would probably start as low as 25 cents a bushel, and this in­ formation came from one in the grain business that must sell in a market, eleewhere. The. pqlitician speaking ■ ruesday~over"fhe~radio- went-into- the farm situation at great-8 length and made the statement that the Federal Farm Board had done wonders for the farmers of the nation. It was of course a purely political speech but we doubt if many, farmers can be con­ vinced that the Farm Board has been an asset. In reality most farmers as well As most business interests look on it and what has been done as noth­ ing but a handicap to farm products in the world market. It has been a profitable board to the farm politici­ ans drawing the five figure salaries. It has enabled the politicians and wheat speculators to continue selling wheat “short” on a down market and taking great profits, all because the government held millions of bushels of wheat in competition with commer­ cial wheat. There is no hope for the farmer ,as long as the Farm Board is in existence, buying wheat, holding it and selling it later a t a great loss, to the government that had. furnished the capital. tical asaodatea, has turned Ms face | towards Sodom.” This was a new ' •laat and we recalled th a t in our opin­ ion he had not turned but had been in the .city with his friend Pemberton, th e former liquor lobbyist, directing, events political for some months. It Was our turn to laugh, W ien those conscientiously interested in the dry cause are “worked” to pass out “ sat- sfactory” ballots, the dry leaders could better understand the situation had they been iti the fourth Ward on primary day to witness their “satis­ factory” candidate sitting in an auto­ mobile with - a negro wench, noted jootlegger and operator of a house of: ill-fame, giving instructions as to how to line-up the negro vote in that ward. The good ladies were innocent of de­ ceiving the public by .the house £i house canvass, but they did hot have all the back-ground to the picture u which they placed themselves. The prohibition situation is getting interesting. Whether to be wet or dry is now the question ? The average citizen does not have to change his personal views or his position but it is interesting to see how those that are seeking public suffrage are weak­ ening^ Ju ft a few days ago the Ohio Supreme Court gave prohibition en f orcement a black eye when i t came to search and seizure. The Courts . are nowing becoming more “liberal” in construing the • laws, knowing that prohibition is not so popular.’A judge is supposed to pass on a case taking into consideration the law and the evidence.. What was right the past ten or twelve years ago was upset by the Court last week and hundreds’.of prisoners in jails waititag trial arc now being liberated. But judges have to be elected and the popular, trend of the times evidently cut quite a figure in the recent court decisiori. It must have been pitable to see the Anti Saloon League wheel-horses at the Republican convention in Chicago begging supposed friends p f prohi­ bition to come forward and make fight for the cause. Senator Borah was absent. Senator Fess was there and had a front stage seat but turned down, the "dry leaders like Gherring- ton, -DinWiddie, McBride, Cannon. The wets want “repeal” the Hoover ad­ ministration wants a referendum. The drys want law enforcement and up holding the 18th amendment, but they have no convention spokesmen as in former years. The so-called dry pol ilicians were two blocks ahead of the dry leaders for several months lining up the delegates for the wets. The excessive heavy taxes placed on all business and many of the commodities of everyday use were to convince the public that a beer tax would give the necessary relief. Great business ex* ecutives that have been dry, along with leaders in religious reform work have left the dry ship and with open statements are supporting a change, Once more we hesitate to reflect on the Seventh District congressional situation previous to the primary. It was stated then that Arthur Hamilton as a Republican delegate had - been pledged wet and In the trade Warren county was to endorse L. T. Marshall, Meantime W. C. T. U, members were passing out the “satisfactory*’ mark­ ed ballots—-for the wet cause, It was a neat trick the wets put over the W, C. T, U. redecorated And remodeled over Co’apletely ROMOI spent in making the Hotel Chittenden the iegtatl choice for the traveler. Home of the “Purple Gow” Coffee Shop. Large, comfortable rooms— service. Rates from $1.50 upward. Gea. A W cydlg, Manager COLUMBUS, OHIO “HERALDWANTANDSALEADSPAY” Tuesday when in Xenia we met a prominent woman that has for many years been interested in the dry cause. She' asked for our opinion AS to the probable result of the Republican con vention in Chicago as to a dry or Wet plank in the platform. We quoted Senator F obs t h a t's plank would be written that would be satisfactory to both sides when she broken into the conversation that such was impos­ sible, I t was our turn to ask the next question and we wanted to know how the good ladies interested in the dry cause looked on the Seventh District and the result so far. Her answer was something like this: “I think Mr. Marshall by his actions and Ms poll- Cincinnati and Hamilton' " county./: wanted classification of property for taxation. Now they find put it ia not what they thpught it was./ They have discovered their fellow citizen, Sena­ tor Robert Taft, author of the classi­ fication tax law, that placed more of the tax burden on the people and lift­ ed the, load on certain utility and financial interests Taft represents. A suit was brought some days ago at­ tacking the distribution of the intan­ gible tax jn that county, part of which was to go to other counties. l»Jow the different organizations in that_coun ty think‘less o f. classification. Ham­ ilton county has no right to collect taxes from its citizens and then have a large share of it go to Cuyahoga, Franklin; Greene: or Adams county. It would be unfair if Greene county taxs were turned over to Hamilton or Ad ams counties. I t is a pooh rule that you can .take from the pockets of the taxpayers of one county and divide with other counties. If a county can­ not .care for itself it has no right to exist, We oppose the-prlncipie-of the dole in this country and then Ohio adopts that feature among counties in classification. Kentucky has tried out classification and is now millions in debt and no way to pay and the people demanding th a t they return to the old form. The cost of collection suits no one but the politicians. If you want to know how people feel over classification mention it to one who was recently called before representatives of the St&e Tax Com­ mission in Xenia to pay a four pr six cent tax on a stock certificate in some farm co-operative organization.. It is aot pleasant to think of some of the expressions these farmers have Jit­ tered against classification and . how it works. Losing a days work a t this season of the year fo r a four cent tax to be turned oyer to high salaried pol­ iticians, brings the situation, righ t to che farmer's dour. I t is a good ex­ perience for. farmers fo r they are but getting a ’taste of what business men and manufacturers must p.ut up with year in and year- out. The Columbus ax collectors represented the State Tax Commission,, not Greene county ffe doubt if Greene county has right -o provide them office space in -the courthouse. I t will be more interest­ ing to the public to know that these 3ame tax collectors or others will be back in a short, time. There is other work t o be completed. All you .will have to do is to quit your daily task and march to Xenia when you get the summons. You may owe the state as much as four or six cents. There has been some little comment on the failure of the Republican Na­ tional convention in Chicago this week to pay at least a compliment to the preceeding Republican administration, a custom as oldj as the party. No one took the trouble to put out any special praise for the Coolidge administra­ tion. There is no doubt a reason for this. The former president has never approved the Hoover moratorium on foreign debts. He has opposed the foreign loans. He has opposed the spending of hundreds of millions more than the nation’s income. The Cool­ idge budget was balanced and the na­ tion lived within its income and under Budget Commissioner Lord, millions of our war debt was paid. Under the present administration ho effort has ever been made to balance the budget until the deficit became so great that the value of the gold dollar was a t stake. To pay the deficit and balance the budget congress was forced to put the heaviest peace-time tax the nation ever experienced on all business and all classes of people. The convention being in the hands of Hoover appoint­ ees of course could find. no,time in placing a compliment,on Caivjp Cool­ idge. Much of the prohibition squab­ ble has been to keep the public mind off the real condition o f the country apd economic affairsv ^ —' LAND PLASTER to be UBed in­ stead of lime on melons, potatoes, etc. Will not burn the plants and acts as a}fertilizer and carrier of poisons, Stiles Company, S. 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They arc sold without iilo guarantee or rdsnoiiR'.itiliiv for sen ice. .Every Firratono Tire t>«trs the Fire.«,.tO’’- nvmv i ’u- r.nnMtV excel * "«.■ '*• ' .•* • ov^e- t«r. . 1 ,t I t r j lu ..4 v l V-n • S S N tlN E L T Y P t S ue Oar Cat!)Prica Each *.40-31.... 4.30-21.... 4.74*1*..... s.o*.t*.... R.SR-Sl. 93*59 3.95 4*63 4.95 5*49 •Smehl Bund Miil OrtW Tlra Ptl/» Paeh $3.59 3.95 4.63 4.85 5.98 Ou? CiUfiuf PofP«H S9.99 7.66 9.66 9.44 11,64 •Orkef SI m U Pre/n/nktitildy Let# RALPH WOLFORD Phone 2 on 28, Cedarvillr, Ohio Listen to the “Voice of Firestone” over WSA1 «t 7i30 every Monday Night. Q '■’mm