The Cedarvile Herald, Volume 57, Numbers 1-26

CEDARVIU.E HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934 T H E C E D A R V I L L E H E R A L D KAKLH BULL — — mUBSK- Nalloul JMltcrUl A moc . — EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Ohio Newspaper Assoc. ; M iam i Valley I'resa Assoc. Entered at the Post Office, Gedarville, Ohio, October 31, 1887, as second class matter. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1934 TIME FOR STATE AUDITOR TO INVESTIGATE With many taxing districts tax collections have been delin­ quent to the extent that all bonds coming due cannot be paid on time, The situation is critical in many of the more populous counties. Bond holders, and they, comprise not only financial institutions, but individuals in all walks of life, guardians, ad­ ministrators of estates, trust funds and educational institutions, are entitled to coupon interest and the amount of the bond at the time they fall due.' Using delinquent tax collection as an excuse the Herald has discovered that certain officials in the state, subject to examination by the State Bureau of Inspection under control o f the State Auditor, are informing individuals holding bonds that are due that no funds are on hand to pay the bonds. No encouragement is given as to when the bonds will be paid. With individuals many of them are in need of the cash and im­ mediately become discouraged. The holders are directed to certain individuals that might be interested in making a “ Loan” or would purchase the bonds. The net resuit is the purchaser knowing the set-up informs the bond holder that it might be years before such bonds can be paid and for that reason he would not loan or offer to purchase other than on a discount basis of fifty per cent. The holder by this time has lost heart and sells at the low rate not knowing that the purchaser will take the bonds to the proper authority and collect one hundred cents on the dollar with coupon interest due. The Herald has positive information that certain public officials in the state are using this means of discouraging bond owners knowing that most individuals have no means of know­ ing how the interest and sinking fund account of the tax dis­ trict obligated for the bonds stands. These public parasites should be prosecuted if there is any law for such action. If not they should be publically exposed and the attention of the com­ ing legislature called to the need of a law with teeth in it that would hold public officials responsible along with their bonds- men. _ ■ At this time we would call State Auditor Joseph Tracy’s attention to the necessity for an investigation in Montgomery county and, if possible cause a monthly statement to be publish­ ed that certain bonds are due and should be presented to the proper authority for payment. We fear there is too much hid­ ing behind the claim of delinquent taxes not only in Mont­ gomery county but other counties that could be brought to public attention later.' Character was once the basis of credit but how can we maintain credit with no ability to pay. Cong. Jenkins, Ironton, a member o f the Ways and Means Committee in Congress, says his committee finds that it only costs $6.71 a barrel to manufacture bourbon whiskey and yet retailers want nearly that much for a quart. This is indeed enlightening more direct returns have come from the GWA movement than anything the government has inaugurated thus far. How all this cost is to be paid l seems to concern but a few. If it j means a curtailment in building $60,- 000,000 battleships that can be sunk by an airplane in fifteen minutes, we have lost nothing. backed by mortgaged real estate. PUMPS BEING CHANGED STATE AND COUNTY OFFICIALS When A1 Smith publically referred to wonder if he included the Liberty Bell. ‘cracked pots” we Every woman wants to get married but when she wants a divorce she wants it when she wants it. Saturday was the warmest December 23rd in sixty-one years. A paragrapher says: “ The farmer gets his wealth from nature, The rest of the people get theirs away from each other.” . We are wondering what has . become of the proposed federal and state improvement for Route 42 through the village. Representative Handley, Republican, Hamilton county,' says the hold of rural counties in the legislature must be broken. The rural counties reply that Ohio has had enough of city dominition to last a few years. Ohio today is suffering from too much Taft, if we survey the situation correctly. Less than two weeks ago the Ohio legislature passed a liquor control l'aw that did not $uit„the liquor interests. Now we hear the law is t6 be amended so that anything called liquor can be sold. About one more move and Ohio will be back in the dry column. It has been suggested in Washing­ ton that the federal government take over the collection o f all liquor, to­ bacco, income and sales taxes in the for no doubt the congressional com- Jcountry and refund to the various mittee has first and accurate informa- , states in proportion as to the amount tion. He says the government tax i collected. The proposition has some will be about $2 a gallon and then . merit from a business standpoint for the states will follow with a tax. the reason forty-eight sttaes will be With so called good liquor costing otily $6.71 to manufacture and home­ made corn liquor at even a less price it is no wonder we had so many boot­ leggers when they could get from $2 to $5 a quart for the product. The three Murray boys, brothers, who are students in Gedarville Col­ lege and hail from Granitville, Ver., had an unusual experience in return­ ing here, They were caught in the ■heavy snow storm and blizzard that passed over the east last week. Two hundred miles o f the trip was over ice covered roads but the worst was- the mercury much o f the. way was not only below zero but in some places dropped to twenty-eight below. This looks like a hardship but \fhat a sacrifice we all would make to be with the home folks on Christmas. Three o f our council members that have served the village faithfully stepped aside Monday when three hew members took their seats. Messrs. McFarland, Ross and Stormont have done their “ bit” and we are sure they leave their seats in council willing to retire. Mr. McFarland retires after giving twenty-four years service as councilman and vice mayor, serving the unexpired term o f the late J. H. Wolford. Mr. Ross has a record o f twenty-two years and Mr. Stormont much less. Serving for nearly a quarter of century on the village legislative body these two members have had had much to do with most of the improvements that' have been made in that time. They have seen paved sidewalks and gutters install­ ed. A more modern system o f street lighting. Then came our first street paving and the second section only to be followed by' the major improve­ ment of municipal water and sewers. They have given o f their time freely in behalf o f the better things for the village and| no new improvement can be inaugurated without some one questioning the actual need o f it. These improvements have beeh in keeping with the progress o f the times and-there is no one that would want to do without them. Continued service in a public capacity is the tribute of the electorate to which these gentlemen can in the years to come prize most highly. ' Coal! Coal! Best High Grade Coal Sor Every Purpose POCAHONTAS LUMP DANA BLOCK and Kay Jay Car Kentucky Block on track. I will Trade Coal or Feed for Corn Wish to buy 5,000 bushels Good Yellow Corn. Call or See me / C.L.McGuinn CASH STORE TELEPHONE—3 South Miller St. Cedarviile, O. SBniaWWBjlJWIinBaiHIICTiiMCBBIMll We Will Have Buyers For all kinds of livestock at our sale next Monday, and are in a position to serve you better than other conven­ ient markets. Springfield Live Stock Sales Co. ShermanAre, Phone Center 766 Springfield, Ohio The big noise raised by the city banks, mostly on Wall Street, has died down but in its place we do not hear so much complaint since guar­ anteed bank deposits was put in force by law on Tuesday. We read reports where money came out o f safety de posit boxes ^nd as a result in many cities scores 'of new accounts were opened. The fear o f the public as ||j |to the safety o f banks has passed Bankers must look on it favorably for we are told ninety-seven per cent of the deposits o f the country are now under the guaranteed provisions o f the law, As we have stated before now. is,the time for the government to get out o f the banking business and drop the postal savings business that this money can flow back into banks y ! and the natural channels o f trade. Uncle Sam some months ago, after learning the bitter experience bankers had with "runs,” took no chance but j=ij hung up a sign that postal deposit­ ors cannot make a run on postal de­ posits. It is a case o f signing up for withdrawal and waiting your turn. And what a scramble there will be if Uncle should take a real fling at in- , flation with fifty cent dollars. ; Business men have taken heart and are looking on the year ahead with more hope than was dreamed of at this time last year. December in the retail field set a new record for most all lines and from every angle there was more encouragement. The wise . businessman knows that we probably i will not have many months soon that J will surpass the December record but Iwith a good month now and then i optimism is bound to prevail. There Jhas been a natural tendency for im- , provement for some months but busi­ nessmen have felt the affect o f the CWA movement more than even what was promised under the NRA. With some lines the latter is given much credit. The dark spot so far has been in the agricultural sections. Hogs and cattle remain at give-away prices. Grains are not what investment and labor demand for a fair return so it would appear the farm interests are trailing thus far. It has been the opinion o f many that the recovery I relieved o f the cost o f making such collections. The government could use the present income tax division fo r this purpose. Such a plan will not meet the approval o f the state poli- ticions and already one o f the mem­ bers o f the Ohio State Tax Commis­ sion lets out a squak against it. Hun­ dreds o f politicians would be dropped from the state pay roll. Are you a- ware that Ohio appropriates some­ thing like $500,000 to pay the salaries alone to those connected with the State Tax Commission ? Much o f this comes from the adoption o f classifi­ cation o f property for taxation. You remember when you were asked to support the Taft idea you could ever after sit back and sing “ Happy Days Are Here Again.” Lack o f profits have forced such in­ stitutions to reduce interest payments. Even some o f ‘Uncle Sam’s securities are below par, some land bank bonds as low as $85. Industrial securities that sold high are at a low price today and many have paid no dividends. We might mention American Rolling Mill ! that was worth around $19 Tuesday. Many in the county paid $80 and must take a loss if they sold today. Na­ tional Cash Register is now $18 and hundreds bought it at $60. U. S. Steel is $48 and cost many an invest­ or $150. Cities Service at $2 that sold at $60. Pennsylvania Railroad $30 and people fought for it at one time at $100. In the above list taken at random most have paid no dividends, o f it any greatly reduced. We call attention to the farm situa­ tion which has not been much better than the investment in financial in­ stitutions or with those who have in­ vested in what was once regarded first class industrial securities. One o f the faults o f human nature is that each is inclined to think his situation is the worst. Men were not compelled to invest in farms, deposit in financial institutions, or purchase stocks for investment, so each must and will carry his own responsibility. You cannot and no one has taken prof­ its or income without assuming some responsibility or risk. During such times as these we are riding on the dividing line between taking the in­ come or assuming what follows with a risk. , AT STATION THIS WEEK GET SALARY CUT RESTORED The troubles and evils that con­ front the milk industry and will like­ ly do so some years, or as long as the milk trust maintains a hold on Ohio, should cause milk producers to seek some new way o f finding a market for their product. Probably one o f the first answers we would get to the suggestion is that every market for milk and cream now finds close 'competition. What is true with milk is as true in every line today but the far sighted are on the continued out­ look for new markets. Some years ago two young men from Columbus came here and tried to interest farm­ ers in the dairy business and they erected a building and placed ma­ chinery 'f o r the manufacture' o f cheese. ,iThey had the market for cheese biit the field was. so limited for milk and cream it was impossible to operate. Both o f these young men have made good in the business world so their failure here was no fault of their.- ,Since those days more inter­ est has been taken in milk production and nine out o f ten farmers today are equipped to increase production once there is a market. We have noticed in touring through sections where the dairy industry is prosper­ ous that every few miles you find a creamery or cheese factory. Evident­ ly there is production enough here today to support such an institution. Cream is hauled away by the truck load to distant cities and this should not be necessary. The suggestion is open for consideration. One follower o f calendar data calls attention that it will be an even one hundred years before we can do what was possible- last Tuesday. In writ­ ing a letter you could date it thus: 1-2-34. You will not be able to .d o it again until January 2, 2034. By that time we may have adopted the thirteen month and who knows how many Imore things we have not yet conceived. Tho pump placed in the second well By a decision o f the Ohio Supreme at the pumping station has been pull- Court state and county officials that ed and placed at the first well, which took a cut in salaries will have them- has a greater flow o f water, The restored. The court held no increase old pump was placed in the new well or decrease could he made during a and used for emergency. Labor fo r term in office; Some officials had a cut this work is supplied under the CWA. by the legislature while others made -------------------- - voluntary reductions. WILL PREACH SABBATH AT COUNTY HOME FIRST CASE ON FIRST DAY Rev, R. A. Jamieson will preach * Mayor Kenneth Little had his first. Sabbath at the County Home west o f court case following his induction in- Xenia. Music will be furnished by a to office when Clark Baker entered a girls’ quartette from the music de- plea o f guilty to intoxication on Sat- partment o f Cedarviile College' under urday night. The Mayor assessed a the direction o f Mrs. Margaret Work, fine o f $5 and costs. In the notes recently as taken from an edition o f the Herald several years ago mention wak made o f the appear­ ance of the New York Symphony Or­ chestra here. Several have asked how this was possible. It came about by the advance agent getting the names of Cedarviile and Circleville mixed. While a Circleville audience was a- awaiting the appearance of the or­ chestra, a small Cedarviile audience was enjoying the greatest instru­ mental program ever given in the county. And it may be many J-ears before -either the orchestra returns to this county or such a mistake would be duplicated. . We understand one . o f the cream companies has forced a new rule on producers. The company will not take cream unless the producer takes ait least two pounds o f butter a week. The milk industry is suffering as much today from the fact that oleo has supplanted butter on the farmer's table as anything else. This should not he. Butter from animal oil from the fertilizer .plant. The thought of it is enough. ■ Congress met Wednesday for the first time since the adoption o f the twentieth amendment which provides that the third day o f January o f each year is the regular" legal date. The terms o f senators and representatives expire on that date so no member of either house defeated last November can serve as in years past and known as the “ Lame Duck Session.” The next move- will be to do away with thee lectoral college. This institution was all right in its day but we have advanced to a point where our elec- Warrior has not tion machinery is more adequate and accurate and with fast mail by rail and air to carry election returns to say nothing o f wire service and radio. Before many years we will vote di­ rectly for president arid vice presi­ dent just as all states do for gover­ nors. BACK OF YOUR XEN IA NATIONAL BANK BOOK TODAY STANDS The Xenia National Bank has always felt proud, of its sound financial record, Last March, during the bank moratorium when bank depositors lived in terror of hav­ ing their savings swept away, this bank promised security to all and when the moratorium ended ours was one of the first banks in the state to reopen. - * . Whatever skepticisrii could have possibly remained after that will be entirely dispelled by the fact that today the Xenia National Bank Account Is Guaranteed by the United States Government to the extent of $2,500 tempor- porary until June and $10,000 under the permanent plan, so that your money deposited in this bank is as safe as if invested in government bonds. The Xenia National Bank invites your account. Your money when deposited here is not only Absolutely Safe but will aid greatly in the natidnal 'recovery program. Xenia National Bank XENIA, OHIO . One o f the most novel methods o f raising funds fo r endowment o f a health resort is the proposal for the holding o f somee 5000 balls in various towns and. cities in- the county on January 31st honoring President Roosevelt’s birthday. The proceeds are to be turned over to the President who in turn will present it to the Roosevelt Foundation that has de­ veloped a health resort at Wi Springs, Ga., where remarkable cures have taken place for those affli< with infantile paralysis. We under- ; stand the treatment has the endorse- * ment of medical science and is open * to the public and this method is be­ ing used to raise funds for endowing ’ the enterprise. E. D. HAINES O. A. DOBBINS Xenia, Ohio, R. R. 1 Cedarviile, Ohio Phone: 74-F-5 Phone: 5-112 MIAMI VALLEY FARM SERVICE FARM. MANAGEMENT OUR BUSINESS - . - ' - ■ ' ' ■; ' ■ LET US HELP YOU MAKE THAT , FARM PAY When one o f the big hoys in the p o - 1 litical world let their foot slip in an unguarded moment, the statement o f­ ten arises to plague them later. Hoov- ; er never recovered from his "grass on Fifth Avenue” utterance; Senator ‘ Fess by his “ the country is going to hell” is” finding editorial comment bit- ; ing him even in many of his own par- ty papers; A1 Smith slipped when he = made his statement about the big loan from Morgan which Father Coughlin has used against him. Now it devel- opes that A l’s big Empire building has many millions borrowed from the Re­ finance Corporation and the Happy : been chuckling so ’ much in public lately. Right In the centerof theatres and •hope. Bus and car service to all outlying points and suburbs. Excellent Culiine—New Low. Prices 250 Outside Rooms With Bath Circulating tea Water—Tiled Showers A clean, comfortable home for thriftytravelers. Modern and metropolitan, but not ostentatious. The ideal hotel for transient and resident guests. V1NB BtTWEEN 4th and 5th STREETS P I C K ^.HOTEL s. y This is the first issue o f the new year and sometimes it does one good to sit down and reflect o f the past for a few minutes. With economic con­ ditions as they are naturally our in­ vestments give us the most concern whether in a period of prosperity or depression or panic times. If things have* gone well in prosperious times we pencil or profits, paper or actual cash and few there are that have not computed their personal wealth on the basis o f such times, With the same pencil today most everyone figures from a different angle, one' that dis­ turbs the mind and as a result things are not so rosy. Profits and income are hard to find since we have travel­ ed the cycle o f more prosperous days into uncertainty. R makes no difference where you program, while an experiment, could have had your investment you have have prod iced quicker results had the i probably had income reduced if you government acted first in behalf o f have received any at all. Compare agriculture taking over the surplus the farmer that invested in $200 an farm P^ducts fo r publie relief, then acre farin that has brought no return, followed with the NRA or some such Today he has no chance o f selling Idea, coupled with the^work now under even at $100 an acre. You may have way with tho CWA. Without question funds in a building and loan that are Week' 'End Specials BROWN’S DRUG STORE f $1.00 Size Malted Milk * - - 69c $1.00 Wampoles Cod Liver Oil 79c $1.25 S.S.S. Blood Purifier Tonic > 98c $1.00 Miles Nervine - *• - « 69c 5c School Tablets, White or Yellow. 3 for * * * - 10c 25c Charmona Talcum Powder 14b. Size, Highly Perfumed - Brown*S"Drugs. — . , , , OFFIt REST Loc, >hio Si| official ‘ .11 havn W .ok I-: i jn do duv ■ " ml* Lai 1 illJJ'r-l.v other' Allen. ItST IS had hi induct her enj ati.on <i asse Mr. ui'-' Kathryn ;• guetft.-i „f in Column Miff i Hupervi-. • S c h o o ls ri- day, Jauu- spent in • Mr. t formerly < sever.il da; N A ] companied Cony ami r v c a ,short.: Mr.. \\. Pittsburgh, an extern law ami <i;< Lott. I ! roue u» b: Mrs. Ei California. <> daughter, ^ ‘ Xenia, sp, 1 of Mr. and i om Mrs. An confined to maini week suffer it todi ; , by tl Mrs. Joh -tem p c the Fedora n t p ig McClellan ife as she will urn Mr.,alid ,t. Y o , had for tie jy Sa latter’s mot r;ln-| and niece, Cleveland, ( nl Mr., and Bowersville party at- tl: guests inch Hogue, of Mrs. Osea Horace, Ed’ _ ■ Mrs. Claren =5=5=3 o f Springfh msa^S and Mr. St and Mrs. ( lOBBtt Gail and Ii jne, Oil and Mrs. U sonville; Mi and son, L' Dean Chitty of Bowersvi 5-112 [ C E WOMEN The Woi Thursday, .1: of Mrs. Hai street, Xenia DR. W. D. . A»AY Dr. W. I). the United . semhly, and Foreign Mis Presbytery Church, Xei 10th at 2 p. k $1.00 Week End t $1.00 Warn- Week End r-» CEDARVILl] PENN In an imp: at the Fir> Beaver Fa l: son, daughte Cedarviile. t ton High Si riage to Rev Beaver Fall 4 o’clock. Rev. F. V Beaver Falls-lj double ring - nessed by iv families am -; The bridf blue crepe, a correspond carried an a| roses. Misi Cedarviile, t of honor, wt ed crepe wsl Her aceossn also earrn > Paul Ludwi mate of ih f man. Following dinner wa Penn IIol« Mrs. Main : day cvenim days with ! Mrs. Mm ville College sin Univei is teacher n West Can continue In until the Rev, Main i terian ('hul­ ls a gradu and attend Is graduated j Seminary, r Among t* >re Mrs. [ illatfd Bait wor W r