The Cedarvile Herald, Volume 57, Numbers 1-26

tiLo 'a 1 CEDARVILLE HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY », 1234 THE CE DARV I L L E HERALD KABUH BULL — — — EDITOR AND PUBLISHER U m n t - K i U o u l JMitoiltl JUwoc.; Ohio New»p»pcr Assoc.; UUmi Valley Press Assoc. ’Entered at the Post Office, Cedarville, Ohio, October 31, 1887, as second class matter, ~~ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, <1934 ” MONEY Money is one of the dozen most useful inventions mankind has ever made. It ranks in importance with the wheel, the mariner's compass, the art of smelting iron, the concept of zero, the microscope, the steam engine, and the electric motor. With­ out money (and its offspring, credit) our highly complex and immensely productive economic organization could not have been developed and could not be maintained. In our world, with a few unimportant exceptions, every transfer of goods from maker to consumer requires the use of money. In reality we exchange goods or services for goods or sex-vices, but in' making the exchange we must have money. It is the common denominator of all transactions. A workman employed in an automobile factory making $500 automobiles earns in fact a tenth of an automobile a week, but he gets $50. If he were paid in automobiles he would receive one every ten weeks. He might well have to spend the next ten months trading his automobile as best he could in a moneyless world for food, clothes, shelter, and amusements. If every one had to go through this elaborate process of barter an industrial civilization with its high degree, of specialization could not be maintained. Without some kind of a medium of exchange we would quickly revert to savagery. Idoney also provides a means of storing up purchasing power for future use. The dollar received today need not be exchanged for goods at the moment of its receipt. It can buy goods tomorrow, next week or next year. Here again its serv­ ices are of incalculable value to mankind. Among other bene­ fits, it permits the individual within the limit of his means to regulate his consumption to fit his peculiar tastes and require­ ments. ' * Money is so useful and so much a part of our lives that we have come to think of it almost as a product of nature, like air, water and sunlight. Money is, of course, nothing of the sort. It is purely an artifact. Like, every other artifact, it can be destroyed by abuse, but once a money has come to be accepted as good it takes a considerable amount of abuse to undermine its value. Our society cannot function without money, and it will therefore tolerate debasement of its money long after pru­ dence might dictate universal distrust. That is the background against which the present manip­ ulations of the dollar should be viewed. Deliberate efforts have been made to decrease the value of the dollar, now and in the future. Some experiments, of which the gold purchase policy is the most notable, have been undertaken which have never been tried before anywhere and are therefore calculated to disturb confidence in our money because the results of the policy are not money because the results of the policy are not clearly predictable. Formal devaluation by act of congress goes farther in the same direction. We have become accustomed to having a certain gold backing for our money, and the gold in question has been held by the reserve, banks which issued the money. Now the gold has been taken away from the reserve banks and intrusted to the secretary of the treasury alone, who may re­ deem money pretty much at his own discretion. The gold re­ serve is to be used at the discretion of an officeholder precisely at the moment when the federal government's deficit is of un­ precedented size, the government’s debt is on the way to reach­ ing its peak for all time, and the borrowing power of the gov­ ernment as registered in the interest rates it must piay is grad­ ually waning. To intrust the gold reserve, which to many Winds is the chief source of value in our money, to an office­ holder who will be under great temptation to use the gold in some fashion to meet the government’s mounting deficits is certainly not calculated to increase confidence in our money. Forty cents has already beeh knocked off the dollar, and in spite of that fact there has been no marked loss of con­ fidence in our money. That is a remarkable evidence both of the dependence of our society upon money and of the emotional stability of the nation. There has been a flight from the dollar, to be.sure, but is has been confined for the most part to financiers and others who regard money as a commodity rather than as a medium of exchange: The great bulk of the popula­ tion has not come to doubt that the dollar received today will buy about as much tomorrow and next year as it will today. Forty cents has already been knocked off, and the Presi­ dent is empowered to knock off another dime at his discretion. At the same time the gold backing is being rendered one de­ gree more remote. The people have accepted all these pro­ posals, but how much more will they stand ? No one is com­ petent to state the limit precisely, but that there is a limjt can­ not be denied. There might be no great cause for anxiety were it not for the appaling condition of the federal -budget. It is six billion dollars out of balance. If the six billions cannot be found in any other way the government will have to resort, in one fashion or another, to the printing press to. make the money it must f i l m was facing a stone wall and retreated like a whipped army. Directors were chosen by the stockholders and the in- FROM FRANK CRB8WELL Farmers who have shipped hogs^ CALL NUMBER 3 Local anc stitution was saved, for Springfield residents. through the Farm Bureau cooperative1 association and must have data for the hog-corn program can get same IF YOU WANT [ Miss Doris Ha the Y. W. C, A. t Baseball fans have something new to discuss this weak, in the sale of the Cincinnati Reds to Paul Crosley, radio manufacturer, and other associates. The team has been held as trading stock for some years and a Cincin­ nati bank as backer of a former own­ er and manager had to take over the club on a debt. The owner recently took bankruptcy. It is hoped among the fans that Crosley will start at once to reconstruct the Cincinnati Reds where they will land somewhere near the top at the end of the season. The team has always had loyal sup­ port with liberal patronage until last year. oeratic administration in Columbus Interest among milk producers is watching what the result of the new federal regulations Jn the Chicago district will be. The government stepped in following the recent pro­ ducers strike which resulted from fix­ ing the price of milk to consumers and letting distributors pay producers what they wished. The new plan is to fix the milk price at $1.75 per. hundred to producers and take off the government retail fixed price; " This leaves the retail price to distributors with competition to regulate the price The whole plan will be scrapped the U. S. Supreme Court should hold the New York •law unconstitutional. A"decision on a suit against that law is expected soon. The Ohio milk law is similar to the New York law. Hog raisers may think they have been given the worst of the deal with packers bidding low on hogs to over come the. processing tax which afterwards added, this giving them neat profit that has added millions to. the packing companies. Most of the companies showed enormous losses until the NRA and processing tax appeared. You should read the financial statements of these com panies today. We started, out to show hog raisers they have not .been the only interest that has suffered by the processing tax. Tobacco is included in the reduction production program but if we read the Franklin Chronicle correctly tobacco farmers in Warren county have not yet been benefitted. Warren county farmers are holding their ’32 and ’33 crops but the buyers are offering but three cents a porind which ia' but one-third the cost of pro duction. The total value of Warren county tobacco ,in storage on the basis ofinine ifcents a polind is placed at $800,00(fc Manufacturers of tobacco arc said to be compelled to pay as high as 21 cents a pound for the three cent tobacco held by growers. South­ ern Ohio growers held out and re fused to*sell through the tobacco auc tion market. Tobacco grown in Southern states is selling at 17 cents and Kentucky Burley a t 12 cents. The way the processing tax is being used is much like the NBA, both may be correct in principal but are used by sefish interests to take unjust pro fits. Either way you take it the con' sunter must pay more and the grower take less than cost of production. The* Democratic primary campaign promises to be a three cornered fight with plenty of contest as a result of three outstanding candidates, Wm Pickrel, Dayton, announced some weeks ago; Lieut. Governor .Charles Sawyer, Cincinnati, next and this —.—-__ — ----- r - ---------. . .Week Martin Davey, Kent, casta his have to pay its bills. There is no reason to inirrictfiaythe^&fflert-^ in the ring. Pickrel has serve< can people will continue to trust their money if it is subjected [one term as lieutenant governor, to to printing press dilution in addition to the devaluation which has already taken place. It follows that the greatest menace to the American people today is the government’s unprecedent­ ed extravagances.-—Chicago Tribune. ’ UTILITY CONCERNS MUST REDUCE ADVERTISING There are a lot of radical things in the >world today be­ sides inflation. About the most unusual thing is that the Wash­ ington State Department of Public Works, has ordered the public service corporations in that state to reduce their adver­ tising appropriations drastically, and has ordered book ac­ counts of such companies opened for examination for some inspector that is of course paid by the taxpayers. Nowadays each new movement must carry with it the placing of one or more politicians on the pay roll. The politicians like all such suggestions and the demogogue that might be trying to explode dynamite under some corporation usually thinks he might be pleased if he can have his feet under a public desk. Why a telephone company, electric light or gas concern, railroad, truck or bus company should not be permitted to ad­ vertise we do not quite understand. Certainly in most cases it cannot be said that utility advertising has any bearing on the editorial policy of newspapers for the reason advertising of such companies is still used while the publication may be op­ posing the present rate schedule or pointing out the kind of service rendered, hoping for improvement. If publications are not to take utility advertising then the merchant should not be permitted to sell such companies mer- chandies. Department stores have their problems and the element of price to the public always enters, but who, would think of insisting on department stores not being permitted to advertise? Even though utility concerns •might be denied the Tight to advertise we still Would have newspapers. Many firms do not advertise but the live-wire leaders do and it is a matter of public record that the largest per cent of business firms that go into receivership or bankruptcy are the ones who have not been advertisers. Publications do not live and could not exist1 alone on public utility advertising, for that reason we think the authorities In the Western state have, outstepped the bounds of reason in forcing a reduction in advertising expenditures on the part of utility concerns. The depression has had no depressing effect on candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor in Ohio. The Re­ publicans must clean house before bothering about the depres- •ion. be followed by Lieut Gov. Sawyer, Davey has been prominent in state politics and was a candidate in 1928 against Myers Y. Cooper, who won the honor. Since the Democrats have con­ trol of both houses of the legislature, they must assume all responsibility for what has been or has not been done. Democratic leaders are facing a -solution of the tax situation with some hesistancy knowing that Ohio voters have some idea about tax mat­ ters. How to please the public salary list and the tax paying public is no small task with either inflated or de­ flated dollars. We had a pleasant chat Tuesday with a former Greene county minister that has been a resident of Dayton for a number of years. He has had a prominent part in civic and religious affairs in that city and a t present is head of a depositor’s committee of a building and loan that is being liqui­ dated in that city. He has many in­ teresting things to tell of what takes place when the state takes over a financial institution, most of which are not always for the heijt interest of the dep9sitors. The Dayton situation re­ minds u& of what .took place but : a few months ago whew the* state tried to place'the wrecking crew ^n charge of a Springfield building and loan. A brilliant mind picked out a number of Springfield citizens , as directors for the loan and gave the news to the press, consulted and It was interesting to read a dispatch this week from 'Washington where Senator Capper, Kansas, in a speech said he felt in the NRA that small in­ dustries and small business were the “forgotten people of the new deal.” He asserted that some NRA codes appeared to have been written “in the interest of big business and against the interest of little business.” “Evi­ dently congress made a terrible mis­ take that amounts to an economic crime in administering the codes, “was his parting shot. What the Senator should next propose would be a sweep­ ing investigation of the part that Ad­ ministrator Johnson is playing in the enforcement of the various codes. There fe some merit in the idea of the code arid no doubt it was proposed to correct certain evils that have existed iii business for many years. As most of the. Codes are written, and especial: ly the ,way they are enforced'under General Johnson, small business is penalized by burdensome costs, while big business takes advantage of minimum wage schedules. The most the NRA has done has been to in­ crease the price of most all products except those of the farm- The in­ crease in retail prices will probably be many times what ever increase the farmer may get for his crops. Big business is solid for the NRA, even wealthy Republican political leaders that lean on big business one way and another. Senator Capper, Kansas, has intro­ duced va bill in Congress which if passed will eventually do away with government tax on gasoline. The first reduction will be one-half cent, a gal­ lon. Such a bill would save motor­ ists in this country $180,000,000 a year* He claims that the government has no right to collect gasoline tax when s ta te s. are using that method providing road repairs and new con­ struction. Gov. White is considering asking the legislature for an appropriation to double the highway police that has been in force brit three months. The cost is paid by gasoline taxes. The whole force was used some weeks ago to run down a half wit that escaped from the Lima prison for insane criminals. If half a force could not find a weak minded criminal that dodged from town to town keeping out of the’ clutches of the highway force, the Gov. is low on his' estimate of how many it will take to catch a crim­ inal of sound mind. . 1 - While the cover is being taken from Postmaster General Brown’s acts under the . Hoover administration, which smacks of the Tea Pot Dome method of handling government busi­ ness, the Roosevelt administration faces just as important step, towards house cleaning Under the CWA, We have been informed that conditions in a certain nearby county were so. bad that a t least one citizen Wrote a letter of protest to Columbus authorities; based, on information he had gathered. After waiting several days and no reply, a letter was iriaiied direct to President Roosevelt, who replied ac­ knowledging the information. Two days later a federal officer arrived in a certain county seat and it- was not long until he discovered that the names of twenty men were down, for CWA wages and had never worked a day. The officer in charge was pad­ ding the pay roll, according to our informant. FARMERS CAN GET RECORDS j by calling in person on Frank Cres- welt, local manager. The information can only be given by calling a t his home. DESIRE TO CLOSE CORN AND HOG SIGN-UP FEB. 22 Chairman O. C. Bradfute states that the Corn-Hog Sign-up Commit­ tee, is meeting daily a t the Town­ ship Clerk’s office from, nine until four each day. Evenings by appoint­ ment only. The committee expects to have the work completed by Feb. 22 and farmers are urged to report early and not have to wait to make out their papers. The United States Supreme Court las rendered a decision tha t will stop the prosecution of 13,000 defendants in this country charged with different 'violations of the liquor laws. The court held that with the repeal of the') Deputy Director of Highways. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS •m m i 1 Columbus, Ohio, February 5, 1934. UNIT PRICE CONTRACT United States Public Works Na­ tional Recovery Municipal Project No. 655-G. Sealed proposals will, he received at the office of the State Highway Di­ rector of Ohio, at Columbus, Ohio, until two o’clock P. M., Eastern Standard Time, Friday, February 23, 1934, for improvement in: Greene County, Ohio, on Section Xenia (Bridge) of the Wilmington- Xenia Road, S. H. No. 248, U. S. Route No. 68, in the City of Xenia, by constructing a concrete slab bridge (spans two at 18 ft. roadway 36 ft. plus two 5 ft. sidewalks) Br. No, GR-68-91 over Shawnee Creek,. in southeast edge of Xenia; Estimated cost of ‘ construction, $11,219.44. Date set for completion, July 15, 1934. Funds have been programmed for the construction of this project in the amount of. $11,000.00. In the event contract unit price indicate a total cost of the project as planned in ex­ cess of the amount of funds program­ med for the project the length of the project will be shortened if necessary to keep the cost of the W<?rk within the funds allotted thereto. The National Reemployment Serv­ ice, C. K. Horen, Local Office Man­ aged, Court House, Xenia, Ohio, will furnish the successful bidder an em­ ployment list from which all labor shall be selected for this project. The minimum wage paid to all Group 1 skilled workers employed on his contract shall be $1.20 per hour. The minimum wage paid to al) Group 2 semi-skilled workers employ­ ed on this contract shall be $1.00 per hour. The minimum wage paid to all Group 3 semi-skilled workers employ­ ed on this contract shall be 80 cents per hour. The minimum wage paid t o . all Group 4 semi-skilled workers employ- rid on this contract shall be 65 cents per hour. The minimum wage paid to all Group 5 common labor employed on this contract shall be 50 cents per hour. , The attention of bidders is directed to' the Special Provisions covering subletting or assigning the contract, to the use of domestic materials, selection of labor, wages, hours of em­ ployment, and conditions of employ­ ment, and hand labor methods. The bidder must submit with his bid a certified check in an amount equal to five per cent (5%) of the estimated cost, but in no event more than Ten Thousand ($10,009.00) Dol­ lars. Plans and specifications are on file . in the office of the State Highway Di- j rector and the Resident District* G o o d C o a l Pocahontas Lump and Egg Mixed, best for furnaces.. Yellow Jacket, fine for cook stoves. Dana Block, best on market for every purpose. W. Va. Splint, good for furnaces with strong draft. Ken­ tucky Block, a good general purpose coal.. Feed of All Kinds; also Wheat, Oats and Ear Corn GRASS SEED OF ALL KINDS When in Market Call C.L.McGuinii CASH STORE TELEPHONE—-3 South Miller St. Cedarville, O. ininnnuiiinnnininHuiiH^'.’Kinnfinininuiint SEND US YOUR LIVE STOCK We have been having lively sales on Hogs, Cattle, Calve* and Lambs. Sales Every Monday. Do You Want Feeder Cattle? If so, see us. We have been appointed local sales agents for a large western cattle company. We can help you . obtain financing. KV* 1 ; Springfield Live Stock Sales Co. Sherman Ave. Phone Center 796 Springfield, Ohio E. D. HAINES Xenia, Ohio, R. R. 1 Phone: 74-F-5 O. A. DOBBINS . Cedarville, Ohio Phone: 5-112 MIAMI VALLEY FARM SERVICE FARM MANAGEMENT OUR BUSINESS LET US HELP you MAKE THAT FARM PAY mir,'. J* . - ' , —* ■'—T *"■ ; ISO OtUtidt Room* With Bath flrmlsttog lee Water— Tiled Showers for cl—n, comfortable homo r thriftytravelers.Modern eighteenth amendment all prosecu­ tions would end. The court did not pass on prisoners confined that had been found guilty previous to the adoption of repeal as that issue was not before the court Another de­ cision of importance and one that will reach every hamlet is that selling candy with a chance, the price to be determined by the number drawn is gambling and illegal. All prizes so offered where there is a drawing is placed in that class. The Director reserves the right to lreject any and all bids. O. W. MERRELL, State Highway Director. and metropolitan, but not ostantatlou*. The ideal hotel for transient and rmident guaata. VINI BETWEEN 4 t h W 5 th STREETS RATE* $ 2.00 TO $2.50 LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on the 1st day of February 1934, the Town­ ship Trustees of Cedarville Township, Greene County, Ohio, filed ip the Com­ mon Pleas Court of Greene "County, Ohio, their petition praying that there he transferred from the Gaso­ line Tax Fund to the General Fund the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.99) Dollars. That said transfer' is neces­ sary in order to meet -expenditures for relief of the poor and unemployed; and other expenditures as in the petition set forth. Said cause will be for heating op the 10th day of Pebrtjary, 1934, at . . . , , |® , o’clock, A. M., or as soon tliere- Thc stockholders were not alter as the same may be heard by ' ....I not a one of tho pro- j the court, „ * posed new directors picked owned dollar’s worth of stock. Directors and 1 some stockholders knew how to up­ set the plans of the wreckers. Prom­ inent Democratic lawyers were en­ gaged to check the political onslaught of Columbus politicians. The trick worked like magic for the Dem- a j Objections to the transfer must be \ filed before that date, TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES, of Cedarville Township, Greene County, Ohio. By A, R, McFarland, Clerk Marcus McCalllster; Prosecuting Attorney. Week-End Specials BROWN’S DRUG STORE A New Complete Line of Merchandise -large size - - - - - 10c $1.25 Wright’s Liquid Smoke - - 89c Condensed Smoke of Real Hickory Wood 35c Vick’s Salve, Special at - - 20c 35c Bayer’s Aspirin, 2 doz. - - 27c CLEAN-UP SALE OF FACE POWDERS 50c Narcissus - - - - - - 19c 50c Georgia Rose - - - - - 19c $1.00 Duska - - - - - - 39c $1.00 June Eve - - - - - 39c $1.00 Krasity (Luxor Company) - 39c Brown'a-Drugs. “Yumpjng Yim El Brendel in “01 Opera House, Febr Mr. Billy Gilbert jf; Main spent the w Falls, Pa., visitir.f. 'U bert Main. d Mr. and Mrs. J. spending a few d Chicago. Announcements 1 here of the arrival uary 29, to Mr. an Nixon, nee, Ruth T. L- »e Give your famil ’em to see “Olsen’s El Brendel, Opera 15. A charity benef Mr. W- W* Gallov ill for several days, in Miami Valley H ported to be somew' I Prof. O. W, Kuel on jUhe sick li*t s* week. Sheep For Sale:— 3 to 5 years, BredOH::!;! Write or Phone Kt—— » port, Ohio. — . 35c Vick’ Special Week End Special ; es 'One'dollar now wi) paper than it will T3U -----------1 “Ay tank ay go night he’s had he ) and he’ll send you(.o El Brendel in “Ilse i^^ Opera House, Febnr A delegation of attended the Gersh musicale a t Memor^g ton, Monday eveninf. a noted composer hl° tenor vocalist., Tb 2 were. Misses Carr Lou McLaughlin, B< Bradley and. Eleano Rev. . Georrge K who recently return where he spent a y been the guest of Neel, pastor of tb' terian church. Re! Sabbath evening, f congregation. Mrs. H. M. Jacks; has issried jjnvitatic and linen shower h<‘ bert Main, nee Luc'^^_ given a t the homt Mrs. Nancy Ogl—~~ February 10th. t Dr- W. R.. M cG ltjT Gordon,. £he lattcij^H were speakers be: creek Township FgSN this week. A surprise pa Margaret Frame T her home by the Sabbath School clasj J. E. Kyle and Rev. i were guests. TM class, Genevieve Ja Margaret with a the class and expl that she was leaviif Delightful refreshii CLEAN UI FACE P | 50c Narcissus 50c Georgia Rose J $1.00' D uska__ $1.00 June Eve $1.00 Krosny (LuxJ Week End Specia. CEDRINE CLl’II Rev, Dwight W.i the First Presb; Cedarville, enterta Cedrine Club and teresting talk on ner meeting a t the Mrs. S. C. Wr Thursday evening A vivid descrip its people, chu customs was p Guthrie, who stu ity of Edinburg number of article The (young w Cedarville Colic; of Mngs, aceom by the director, J son Work. Mem are Misses Ann riett Rilebour, and Georgia Skit were “Sing Mo of Richmond Hil on the Wing” i Rang.” Mrs. E< dent, presided a in charge of Mrp Guthrie was ii Wright. Preceding the here and guests ed a t quartet i was assisted by f