The Cedarvile Herald, Volume 57, Numbers 1-26

CEDARVILIJi HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1934 THE CEDARVI LLE HERALD KARLH BULL — — — EDITOR ANI) PUBLISHER MMBEK - XftUooAl Editorial Auoc.; Ohio Newspaper Assoo.: Miami Valley Tress Assoc. Entered at the Post Office, CedarvilJe, Ohio, October 31, 1887, as second class matter, _ _ _ FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1934 COURT DECISION HAS STRINGS TIED TO IT The United States Supreme Court recently handed down a decision upholding th|e validity of the Minnesota law that was passed to extend the times of notes held against mort­ gaged property, thus staving off foreclosure. Two points stand, out in bold relief. One is that Chief Justice Hughes has al­ ways been considered a lean back conservative and his vote for this bill was a surprise to both conservatives and liberals. In the decision the Chief Justice recognizes an emergency exists that calls for the extending of contracts under certain condi­ tions. Deliberate attempt to escape payments does not get endorsement by the decision and proof must be offered that payment was impossible. Moreover foreclosure is not to be withheld ii loss is evident to the mortgagee, The, effect of the decision is that the right of contract still has a legal standing and under certain conditions due to an emergency can be de­ ferred but not to the financial loss of the holder of the note. WOULD SELL YOUR PROPERTY IN ONE YEAR Over in Columbus there is much confusion among leaders o f the administration in power, business interests, school in­ terests and politicians generally over the alarming amount of delinquent taxes in Ohio. These same forces are worrying themselves sick over how much new taxes should be collected and upon whom should the load fall? It has. been suggested that a law be passed providing for receiver’s for business property, residences and farms, that are rented and upon which taxes might be delinquent. The sug­ gestion in political quarters pleases the .ward-healer that sees an opportunity to collect handsome fees working for the state. A prominent business man in Columbus at a recent meet­ ing of a committee considering the tax situation made the sug­ gestion that the state law be changed and force the sale of all delinquent property where taxes are back one year or more. The present law provides for sale after four years delinquency. The law provides a way. for publicity ,of delinquent taxes which has been used for years back and has been very effective where it has been continued. Most people’ no doubt do their best to pay taxes on property in the delinquent, tax list. Most all pay as a patriotic duty but in counties where the delinquent list has not been published, the collection has dropped back. , The law says the delinquent tax list shall be published but a kind and sympathetic Supreme Court in Ohio says such list need not be published, assuming that “ shall” is not mandatory. Thousands no doubt have taken advantage of the absence of publicity of delinquent lists and have purposely neglected to pay taxes, easing his or her own conscience on the ground that “ Jim-Dan-Bill-Tom” do not pay taxes. Let the legislature correct the Supreme Court and sub­ stitute the mandatory provision and see if tax collections do not improve. As proof scan the list of Ohio counties that use the delinquent list and compare with the counties that have ignored the “ shall” provision in the law. THE MONETARY PROBLEM BETTER UNDERSTOOD The new monetary problem now confronting Congress be­ comes clearer as the days pass and more, merit can be seen in it than 'when it was first proposed. It is of course a method of inflation but it probably is the best of the various plans pro­ posed along the lines of inflation. It is many steps from print­ ing press money and as long as one of the new currency dollars will be exchanged for ten dimes, four quarters or two halves, no, one will be much the worse off except those who have not turned in their gold and gold certificates., The best explanation we have heard made and what can ■be expected under the new plan was from a speech last Satur­ day over the radio by one of the national Grange officers. Our situation was likened to Australia which felt the pinch of the depression as early as 1927 and after trying one or more suggestions, finally adopted a plan similar to what President Roosevelt has suggested. According to the speaker Australia now has nearer normal business conditions than any other nation and he urged support, of the plan proposed in this country. We are to have an equalization fund much like what England is putting in force to hold the balance on money values near equal. We are not endorsing the plan now before congress but it is certain that we cannot continue to drift as we have the past four or five years, and some remedy must be given a trial. It will be recalled that the nation during the Cleveland ad­ ministration backed the bond issue at that time and it was issued much against the opinion of President Cleveland. It gave aid for a time and confidence was somewhat restored but in those days New York bankers held a tight hand on the nation’s finances. With the Federal Reserve out of the hands of Wall Street, what ever plan is adopted now, will have a chance at a fair trial. For some years the nation has been content to have the money power of the greatest nation on earth centered in Wall Street where powerful individuals and corporations have profited at the expense of small business and the in­ dividual citizen. If-the new plan returns the money center to the seat of government in Washington, where Alexander Ham­ ilton and leaders of his day intended that it should be kept, it will be to the advantage of all. The betrayal of the people by financial leaders of great power lends much support at this time to the withdrawal of gold from circulation and holding it in the treasury in Washington. •The inflation issue seems foremost in the minds of far to many people to be pushed aside. It is no longer a political issue. Those heavily in debt feel such a plan must be accepted, what ever the cost may be to the citizen not in debt. To stand off the radical inflationist who insists on printing press money you have today inflation in each loan the government makes on farms, homes, wheat, corn, hogs, the CWA and PWA ex­ penditures. Try as the government no doubt will as these obligations come due, it stands to take a loss that will reach into the billions. What the nation will face in the distant future no man can predict at this time, ■Moreover the average citizen as well as most business has become content to live from day to day meeting issues and conditions as they arise. The problem facing the nation from an economic stand­ point is complicated. Few understand the seriousness of it for we evidently cannot measure the distance into the future with the measuring stick of the past. As Attorney Harry I). Smith remarked Tuesday, the new monetary plan now before congress is not altogether an experiment, having been given a successful trial in Australia and it has merit enough to be given consideration here. In addition by deflating the gold dollar, the profit goes into the United States treasury, and not to Wall Street bankers, who had given the new. plan support until they discovered where the profit was to go. the compulsory feature. SI Northfield, Mian., merchants have taken a most unusual method to ad­ vance the sale o f dairy products to aid farmers engaged in that branch of agriculture. Northfield is a pro­ gressive college town and county seat and the whole country will watch the experiment. The" mer­ chants have banded together' and agree not to sell oleo in any form and thus force the sale o f butter. If merchants have that much interest in dairy farming, the farmers themselves should not sell milk and cream and then purchase the substitute or im­ itation butter. The situation in the dairy field has been much like the cattle feeder that complained o f the low price o f cattle and served horse meat on his table. , While a lot of things are finding a new level certain stocks are going through the wringer squeezing out the water. During the long legislative session the opposition to a sales tax came largely from business interests as well as property owners who were in­ terested first in how the ten mill limitation would be accepted by the voters. This being adopted real estate is to receieve relief after this year. The problem o f new taxes to replace the loss on real eestate now confronts the lawmakers. Where and how to force more eeonbmy. Our suggestion is first begin with the state, a half million is being spent for salaries in the State Tax Commis­ sion; and other state departments can stand heavy cuts including over­ head in what a legislative session costs. The State Highway Depart­ ment, could be cut several million and not touch a. single cent being paid the. men that do the actual work on the .roads. There can be cuts made in of the compulsory features o f the school code. Reductions in some places in county and municipal gov­ ernment. The public is willing to lay away some o f our present public serv­ ice until economic conditions are im­ proved. The legislature can cut the cost of primary and regular elections one half and save the taxing districts a half million dollars each year. As matters how stand it looks like a general sales tax would be the fair­ est in view o f the jrelief granted real estate. There must be U ves provid­ ed to pay interest and retire the bond­ ed debt o f the political sub-divisions. Gov. George White announced at a banquet o f political followers at Lima last Saturday night that he would be a candidate for his party nomination for United States Senator. This was the third time Gov. White announced for public office in that city. In his speech we notice he has taken a different attitude on the tax question. When down in Florida basking in the sunshine the Governor let it be known that some one or probably.a half dozen new kinds o f taxes .must be provided by the legis­ lature which is to meet January 30, The Governor just managed to get in on the ten mill limitation but waited until it ,looked certain in everey quarter that the plan was to be en­ dorsed. In his Lima speech he says he will not urge the adoption o f any certain brand o f nevv taxes, leaving that problem up to the legislature. A few months ago he was fighting for a sales tax but could not hold the legislature. He is a candidate now and must tread softly. A £[£. Louis newspaper has delved into the discussion and even goes to the records in Washington governing land grant colleges in this country. It cannot find, any authority fo r the attitude o f the Ohio State Board o f Trustees in insisting compulsory military training is demanded o f land grant colleges. The newspaper says it is optional and must be offered but not demanded. This leaves Ohio State in rather a bad light which will add nothing to the standing o f the in­ stitution at home or elsewhere. , The South Charleston Sentinel last week publishes a column o f short in­ terviews with leading citizens in answer to the following; “Iq your opinion, should the law o f the state o f Ohio requiring compulsory military training at Ohio State University be amended so as to make this training optional?” Out o f fifteen or twenty persons interviewed, only one declar­ ed in favor o f the present rule. A few declined to make a statement for publication. SCHOOL NEWS Rev.'Charles Ryan Adams, D. D., pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, Springfield, heatedly attack­ ed the compulsory military training at Ohio State as “ unpatriotic and un­ christian." Four other reasons were given for opposing the present sys­ tem he termed: “ unreasonable, in­ efficient, unpedagogical and un­ ethical.” Dr. Adams likened the com­ pulsory feature for military training to a rule that would be as much out of place as if the board should require each boy on the campus to take a course in law whether he wanted to be a lawyer or not. Investigation in Washington as to mail contracts let by former Post­ master General Walter Brown with airplane companies continues to in­ terest the public. Even steamship companies continues to interest the public. Some steamship contracts have been attacked, one company be­ ing. given a contract that did not own? ship, A son of former President Hoover figures in a contract let to an airplane company. There were more popular officials at the head o f the postal department in the past than Mr. Brown who had few friends at court among the publishers o f the country. About the best that could ever be said in his behalf as head o f the postal department was that he left the largest deficit ever known in the history o f the country after in­ creasing the cost o f postage to all j users o f the mails. The recent cut in the CWA pro­ gram by the government whereby thousands were cut off the pay roll last week and about a half million are to be dropped each week for a time, indicates that the whole pro­ gram may end by the time set ori­ ginally, February 15th. Wholesale spending, charges o f graft, exend- iture o f great sums for unworthy pro­ jects, padding]pay rolls, all haye had much to do with calling a halt so suddenly. While the CWA program had the united support o f all business, and there is no question but that re­ tail business was stimulated, there is now arising on the surface a demand that Congress provide additional funds to continue until the first of May. The average citizen was some­ what stunned when the program Was announced on so large a scale with no organization to keep check on expend­ itures running into millions each day. Thousands o f unemployed were taken from charity lists and placed on the public payroll and this was acceptable to a large majority o f our people. The question o f getting value received soon.gaye much concern to all except probably those that received govern­ ment checks each week. Should con­ gress continue the CWA program it is likely that more rigid requirements, will be attached as- to what is ex­ pected. One o f the weak places in the first plan was that those re­ sponsible did not'have the authority to displace those not physically fit and those who made no effort to give a reasonable day's work for a wage far more than the average laborer could get in normal times. (Continued from page 1) Martha Kennon, Betty Jean Cotton, Mary Jean Hill, Ruth Ramsey, Janet Jones, Norma Dean, Paul Watkins, GRADE 4 Eugene Kennon, George Martindale, Lois Brown, Doris Jean Conley, Mar- ceil Detty, Susanne Elgin, Frances Jolley, Margaret Stormont, Doris Townsley, Jeanne Wright. GRADE 5 Louise Miller, Wilma Jean Fergu­ son, Keith Wright, Carl Watkins, Jack Huffman, Alice Hanna, Almeda Harp­ er, Junior Judy, Martha Kreitzer, Wanda Hughes, Wayne Corry, GRADE 6 Vera Mae Fields, Bernice Frame, Emma Kennon, Eleanor Luttrell, Frances Patton, Dorothy Jane Rick- enbach, Pansy Rose, Betty Truesdalei Wallace Collins, Paul Dobbins, Billy Ferguson. GRADE 7 Helen Andrews, Harold Cooley, Ruth Copeland, Kathleen Elgin, How­ ard Hanna, Doris Hill, Jane Jolley, Marcella Martindale, Beatrice O’Bry­ ant, Bertha Powers, David Ramsey, Ann Smith, Maude Turner. GRADE 8 Catherine Ferguson, Donald Fields, Dorothy Galloway, Neil Hartman, Mary Alice Whittington. GRADE 9 Elizabeth Anderson, Opal Foster, Juanita Harper, Alice Puffin, Doris Ramsey, Betty Rowe, Leroy Shaw, Virginia Swaney, Betty *Swango, Dorothy Stover, Edwin Wiggington, Charlotte Turner. GRADE 10 Harold Benedict, Geneva Clemans, Jean Dunevant, Margaret Frame, Florence Ferguson, Pauline Ferguson, Rebecca Galloway, Elmeda Harris, Ferne Rose, Evelyn Sparrow, Charles Whittington. GRADE 11 Mary Coulter, Jane'Frame, Justin Hartman, Elinor Hughes, Eilien John­ ston, Frances' Kimble,.. Paul Stickel, Betty Tobias. GRADE 12 . James Anderson, Martha. Bryant, Rachel Creswell, Janice Dunevant, Christina Jones, Pierre McCorkell, Hazel Nelson, Windell Murphy, Her­ bert Powers, Edna Sipe, Mildred Swaney, Frances Taylor, Eloise Ran­ dall, ! SIGHT SAVING ROOM Betty Cash, Betty Smith, Grace Deck, Reginald Vaughn. One thing is certain if all reports are true that we get, the sale o f hard liquor has not gone over with a bang that most wets anticipated following repeal, We are informed that drugstores have not had a rush­ ing business, many patrons being afraid o f the quality following analysis which showed the quality poor and in some cases dangerous for use. Drug stores that loaded up for the big rush now find it hard to get rid o f and in but few cases have they been able to get Wholesalers to take it back. A dispatch stated Tuesday that Ohio had asked the federal government to lift .restrictions and allow the state to import 150,000 galr Ions from France and Scotland. State liquor stores are to open March 15th and it is said few distillers are able to meet the standard set by the Ohio law. Hard liquor must be aged at least four years in wood to meet requirements. The government has not yet approved the request o f the Ohio Liquor Commission. Uncle Sam has an agreement with several foreign nations that there must be an exchange o f our farm products for all liquor imported. This may be a handicap and make it hard for Ohio to get foreign liquor. Auto Turned Over In Ditch Monday Mr. W. L, Wilson, while returning from his brother, Harry's home, Mon­ day evening, where a company had gathered for a birthday party, met with an accident when his car left the road and overturned in a small branch on the Yellow Springs pike near the Ganoe farm. Mr. Wilson received slight injury and escaped from a bad wreck. The car was bad­ ly damaged and landed in the stream upside down. For Sale or Rent—House on Wal­ nut street. Inquire at this office or 1 o f Miss Fannie McNeill. Now that Congress is to provide a lot of new war craft we can expect better business in the future. But where does the Kellog treaty come in with all the talk for peace? A sample of what took place in the stock market is best shown When one investor testified be invested $40 in certain airplane stock. With a fat contract with the government this stock was watered time after time until the original $40 invest­ ment reached $3,000,000. That was one reason why you were called upon to pay three cent postage to reduce the depart­ ment deficit. As wc scan newspapers the past week the main subject seems to be j comment on the subject o f compul­ sory military training at Ohio State . University, Certainly the university \ authorities can find no comfort in the comment which, is almost solid against the stand taken. The commentators seem to be fair to the institution, in ’ that no objection is made to military training but demand the dropping o f • State Senator Daniel J. Gunsett has been a thorn in the side o f the White administration. He is an able leader that has been recognized for his ability and determination to carry out some o f his ideas. He must have convincing power for he has been able to stand his ground against a Dem­ ocratic state administration o f which he was supposed to be a part. The Senator says the people in Ohio knew what they wanted when they adopted the ten mill limitation. They wanted not only lower taxes but a reduction in the cost o f government and never had any idea of opening the way for millions more in new taxes. He says he will offer a bill to take 12 million o f the gasoline taxes a year, allocate 6 million o f it direct to counties for road maintenance and repair, and the other 6 milliofn jto be turned over to local government for bond debt retirement. This is a pretty big order for suggesting a change in di­ vision o f gas tax funds is certain to draw fire from any quarters. How­ ever lie is right in providing funds to meet bonded debt requirements in the various taxing districts, Here is where Gov. White has fallen down the past two years. He can recommend scores o f new taxes but never can suggest certain methods o f paying standing debts. Ohio once held the reputation o f having bonds from tax­ ing districts listed nearly on par with Liberty issues. Classification sent Ohio bonds down the list quite a way and failure to meet bond requirements sent them still lower, ROOSEVELT DANCE AT XENIA MASONIC TEMPLE . The Roosevelt birthday dance in county will be held Tuesday, January 30th in the Masonic Temple, Xenia? It is expected that 5,000 such events will be held in the country that same date, the proceeds to go to the Warm Springs Foundation, Georgia, as an endowment for the institution that is noted for the cure o f infantile para­ lysis. President Roosevelt at one time was afflicted with the same disease- and regained his health there. Tickets can be had at Richards Drug Store or o f Dallas Marshall, the local' chairman. They are $1.50 a couple, the dollar going to the Roosevelt fund for the southern institution, which is open to all afflicted with infantile paralysis. Subscribe fo r The Herald ■mrnmmmmm I [ I i nn mm IIMMHIlHIIIUIIIIIIIIMItlMHlItlllMIMtlllllMlilMliil j Frank L. Johnson j | desires to announce that he is p?r- | | mittod to practice law, while hold- | £ | | ing the office o f Municipal Judge o f § | Xenia, in all Courts except his own, § I and will still maintain his law f | offices in the Steele Bldg., Xenia, O. § H. S. 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