The Cedarville Herald, Volume 59, Numbers 1-26

0KDARV1LLE HERALD , FR ID AY , J A N U A R Y 3, 1938 KARLH BULL — ----------EDITOR AND PUBLISHER I—N.ttoiul BtlHorUI A hoc . j Ohio KOHspapw Auoc.l Miami Valley t'reasi A hsci - s Entered at the Post Office, CedarviUe, Ohio, October SI, 1887, ju» second claaa matter. ~ ~ ” . FRIDAY, JANUARY , 3, 1936 NEW DEAL FIGHTS TOWNSEND PLAN Regardless of the fact that New Dealers ridicule the Town­ send plan of ?200 a month pensions for all over 60 years of age, the movement continues to grow. Nothing mor,e foolish comes from the New Deal than argument that the nation cannot af­ ford such pensions in face of billion dollar expenditures now going on in Washington with the present administration. The same claims were made against the bonus payment as are now made against the pension plan, yet we are reasonably certain that the New Deal plans to pass a bonus measure this coming session to purchase the veteran vote. The only difference between what Roosevelt advocates a- long the line social security and the $200 a month pension plan, is the amount. One is just as reasonable and possible from an economic standpoint as the other. From an inside view we would say that Dr. Townsend is absolutely sincere in what he advocates. He is honest \yith the people that might benefit 'by such legislation and hps no ulterior purpose to bring him per­ sonal financial or political gain. This cannot be said of Roose­ velt whose every step since entering the Whitehouse h^s been from a political viewpoint. Having been reared under the “silver spoon” in a family of which the parental head was never known as anything else than a “rugged individualist,” his pleadings and continued utterances for the under-privileged have a^hollow ring of insincerity. When he attempts to ridicule those who have made a success by individual initiative he at­ tacks the" successful plan used through the life of his own father. ' The Roosevelt promise has reached the stage where it certainly has little value. Any executive that was elected on an open promise that he would reduce the governmental ex­ penditures twenty-five per cent and then force the government debt to billions never heard of. before cannot warrant the con­ fidence of the average citizen. Again from a political stand­ point he has repudiated his own party platform and substituted instead twelve planks contained in the Socialistic national plat­ form. W e should not be surprised at this as we read the list of foreign born Socialistic-Communist advisors on the adminis­ tration payroll.. Any executive, regardless of what party he represents, that makes a gesture at economy and by the stroke of a pen reduces the monthly pensions of aged Civil W a r as well as World W a r Veterans, and at the same time placed more than 100,000 politi cal appointees on the federal payroll that was already over crowded, is not worthy of much serious consideration. The Roosevelt administration criticism 'against the Town­ send pension plan is as hollow mockery of a first class dern agogue, in the light of all we have witnessed the past three or more years. . PROFESSIONAL POLITICAL MOURNERS FINALLY OUT With the death of the Blue Eagle following the decision of the Supreme Court, thfere have been several thousand Demo­ cratic mourners on the pay roll until Wednesday. The emblem better known as a buzzard, than the Blue Eagle, is no more but there still lurks in the mind of the Dictator that we must yet have some other organization under another title to prey on business, that big business can dominate small business apd override the Sherman anti-trust act. Roosevelt never played a more perfect Jekle-Hyde act than his plea of sympathy for small business while big business executives put thumbs down on all competition, restricting production and plundering the consuifthr with robbery prices on the very essentials of life. For months more than 3,000 Democratic office holders have drawn princely salaries doing nothing from the average indi­ vidual viewpoint. W e just learn this,week that the Blue Bird gang has spent months trying to unfathom the why and where fore of the origin of milk from the cow. While these 3,000 diagnosed the< cow, they also milked the public teat, -which should at least [guarantee that some number of Democratic votes. ; LINDBERGH ON ANOTHER KIND OF FLIGHT The hasty exit of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, wife and son, Jon, by freight boat to England, has caused as much favorable and adverse comment as could be credited to any one family in public life in this country. O f all the various reasons given for this hasty trip, few have met the rational views of most citizens, yet all sympathize with them over developments that probably caused the unusual trip. Having experienced a trying ordeal over the kidnapping of one son, was no doubt all the chance they cared to take with a second son; The nation must plead guilty to several things iri connec tion with the Hauptmann trial that'was a mockery of honest procedure, regardless of the fact a guilty verdict was returned. That such a case could hang in the courts for two or three years is beyond all reason ,and stands as an indictment of criminal procedure as we have it practiced in this country today. The trial Was a cheap theatrical setup for sensational attorneys. Anv judge that would permit the broadcasting of the testimony should be removed from office. Constant bickering between state and local officials seeking financial reward and notoriety in the press, no doubt was responsible for delay in bringing the guilty into court sooner. ■ ■ , , ,, . . . , Regardless of whether the Lindberghs took the right step last week or not, the whole mess should stand as a warning to America that we should clean house and not have it said that our foremost citizens must seek security from the mob elsewhere. COLUMBUS C IV IC CONCERTS PRESENTS , GLADYS SW AR THOU T FAMOUS PRIMA DONNA OF M E TRO PO L ITAN OPERA HOUSE CONCERT STAGE, RADIO and SCREEN MEMOR IAL H A L L Columbus, O. S Tuesday Evening, January 7, 1936 at 8i30 P. M. PRICES: $2.75 - $2.20 - $1.65 - $1.10 (T AX IN C L U D E D ) NOW ON SALE AT HEATON'S. MUSIC STORE 78 N . High St., Columbus, 6 . ’ A1 Smith, war-horse of Democracy, open foe of the Roosevelt-Com­ munistic administration, declines an invitation to spend a night at the White House when he addresses the nation on January 26 and at which time he w ill open gunfire on the N ew Deal. A statement from the White- house is that Smith has been invited frequently to spend a night or week­ end. The "O ld Warrior” retorts that such is not the case fo r he has not been in Washington hut once,since Roosevelt took his seat and at that time he made' a "friendly” call. In a recent interview Smith stated so fa r as he could understand even the Republicans now can support most of the 1932 Democratic platform that has been repected by Roosevelt fo r a program of Communism, as practiced by Stalin in Russia. W e await anxi­ ously the Smith speech oh the 27th. Joseph Burns, speaker of the House,, in a radio address Monday night, repeated the claim so often made in Democratic circles that “re­ covery is no longer expected fo r it is here now.” In the same talk Burns reviewed the necessity fo r large sums for relief and unemployment. One outstanding feature of the adminis­ tration is that the more prosperity we are told about the more money the government must appropriate fo r the unemployed. It is a peculiar thing that with so-called employment in­ creasing by millions that the unem­ ployment list also grows when it comes to providing federal money. The Burns’ claim is much like that of Postmaster General Farley, who boasted o f the big profit of the post office fo r 1935, Later he asks for a latrger appropriation from congress to operate the department and opposed a suggestion that with department profit the three cent postage irate could be reduced to two cents. Its time for the New Dealers to get the college professors of foreign birth to untangle conflicting statements and claims of both Bums and Farley. The question of employment is easily answered when Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, personally visited the Treasury Department in Washington last week and was in­ formed that there yet remain unex­ pended the sum of three billion eight hundred million dollars from the four billion.eight hundred million. In ad­ dition there is yet nearly three bil­ lion unexpended in other N ew Deal funds and .yet Roosevelt is to ask Congress this month fo r at least five hundred million more fo r unemploy­ ment relief, all of which will be avail­ able for campaign purposes this year. The facts are the government has not now nor over has had the number of men employed as reported. It so there would be ’ no such sums unexpend­ ed. Col Knox has the statement from the Treasury Department under Roosevelt’s control. hoys down In the ranks that are a hit * closer to the average voter and knows what he is thinking about. The Democratic Jackson dinners suggested at $50 a plate should find ] ready response and a grand rush ! when that feast is spread. For years I it made’ no difference what party w a s ■ in power, it waa always a different method o f collecting sheckles for the campaign w a r chest. However Farley has a new suggestion when appointees can at least go through the part of eating a > hearty meal. Republican office holders, have never been bo fortunate as to even get a meal on their contribution. N ow that the Whitehouse has endorsed the employ­ ment of the Fan Dancer No. 1 to wiggle fo r the CCO boys, there should ! be a grand rush fo r fifty dollar tickets if all Jackson dinners could have a aide attraction of fan dancers m nude. This would set a new prece­ dent fo r the Republicans. In Ohio a prominent Republican lobbyist, who usually appears in a striking “stud­ horse” suit, books the Can-Can dancers at Columbus, but always be­ hind closed doors fo r the amusement’ of legislators. W e give the Roosevelt administration credit fo r putting wiggle dancers in the artistic class. No longer should our Seventh District lobbyist stage his shows behind’closed doors. - ■ - ------ Signers o f Wheat Contracts Fewer _ A decline of 195 in the number o f applications fo r contracts under the 'new four-year wheat program in- *dicates a decline in interest from last year in Greene co. The allotment committee has de­ termined that 425 farmers have, ap­ plied for contracts compared with 610 signers of the previous program. The percentage of participation, it is said, is greater than in most other counties in this section. J. B. Mason, secretary of the con­ trol association, says the hew con­ tracts will represent base wheat acre­ age o f approximately 17,000 acres in If toe v.nie could not carry the lca .1 When this relief b;*iiiess was on Us way from the county to , Washington, than how can the state do more on the return, trip than to cushion the fall. The problems of poor relief are vastly different in most counties, Some counties have a large relief load and in other counties the re­ lief requirements are small. ■Then should each county take care of its own,.as they always have and ara constituted so to do, or should the ,thrifty strong counties help take care of the extravagant weak! What about taxation without rep­ resentation? Taxpayers do not havg the privilege of voting for or against administrative officials of another county. Thera has been levied in Ohio, a special additional excise tax on public 'itilities, for poor relief pur­ poses., each county receiving the amounts collected therein. Against this revenue there may be issued bonds to provide cash for imme­ diate use, therefore, a minimum guarantee is now being provided for local poor relief requirements, the same as Is being provided for , schools and other functions of local government. So— the q u e s t i o n arises again— should the state levy more taxes and provide more poor relief money for local adminitUra- , tions without a vote of the local people? Should this function of local government be provided for , by the state any different than * schools, police and firemen, or anv ' other function of local government? ' Centralized bureauacry is full of red tape, overlapping overhead and many times inhuman, by the very nature of things. Local govern­ ment is sympathetic and only as costly as local voters make it. Cen­ tralized burenuncy is too for re­ moved from the intimate, every day life of the p '_ple and exceed­ ingly costly for the same reason. Ce’-'-rjJiaed bureauacry places too m-.i’i authority in the hands of • ' ’li-strators not elected by the p ; p!;v and many, many times only 1 vaguely responsiole to any electee “official. MAKE OUR MARKET YOUR MARKET Sajg Every Monday SPRINGFIELD LIVE STOCK SALES CO. Sherman Are. SPR INGF IELD , OHIO Mato M I * £ WE WANT 1000 TONS . T‘r- SCRAP IRON All Other Grades of Junlr Highest Prices Paid. XeniaIron & MetalGo. 17 Cincinnati Ave. Xenia, Ohio GOVERNMENT CQNTROL OF RAD IO IS A PO L IT ICAL CLUB ■V ' - . 1 One of the worst things that radio * communication faces is radio control .contrast to 24,000 in last year’s pro- , , gram! The decline is blamed on la ck !** a government commiss.on. You of interest among farmers with small 1 ^ 7 “ ? a hav<\ ^ " m e n t ; Wheat bases while growers with large i contr« 1 pref wand ch« k f ” e wheat bases are still adhering to the apeeck 88 kavre a rad*°- program. This county harvested 33,- 015 acres of wheat in 1934. “ I Don’t Like To Pay Taxes” ; •'•Senator Paul P. Yoder EDITORS NOTE—In ttiU mid* 4ttl ing' with u t fi and taxation in the iu tt o! Ohio Senator Yoder discusses the problem of poor relief. He states the Legislature ' !* to “ have to do' something about it." Three different plana or methods era suggested for adoption,- fact that the Roosevelt administration wants to start the campaign this Fri­ day evening with Roosevelt’s mes- jsage, both national radio chains drop .their advertising programs "rather than anger the New Dealers. The Re- ]publicans demand equal time and the chains must grant it.. PLUMBING Bath Room Outfits Electric Water Pumps We are prepared to install Kohler or Standard bath room outfits and necessary bathroom plumbing. W e are also agents for the Guru Electric Water Pumps, ’i HOT WATER HEATING PLANTS f I f you are considering a hot water heating plant let us give you estimates on the American Ideal system installed. W e can give you reference of our plants giving satisfaction in this community. F. E. HARPER Phone 130 Cedarville, Ohio The .Minneapolis Journal exposes the hypocracy of the New Deal that had to deal with moral entertainment iq CCC camps in that state. A pro­ fessional dancer, with two ftpis, in her birthday clothes, did the fan-fan dance fo r the boys ' in camp. The young miss that had a police record and figured in a raid on a night club in a questionable part of that city was on the “unemployed” payroll. Judg- m g ’from other standards in Wash­ ington the,fan dancer would get a warm reception either at the White- house or before Congress. The New Deal prosperity we hear so much abou£ is best explained when the government gives the sity of S t Louis 30 million dollars to build a cement wall along the Mississippi river fo r several miles. Some town out in the sticks to get a few dollars for the unemployed is forced to fu r nish all material either by public sub­ scription or funds from a bond issue. Chicago received several million dol­ lars outright to pave thirty miles of streets. Chicago knows how to vote for printed cards were distributed to all homes where relief was granted stating that if a Republican was elected at the last election all relief would be cut off. Roosevelt says there is no politics in Telief, He had said many other things that a large percent of people have learned not to believe or at least discount. It will be N ew Deal prosperity on the St, Louis job, the Democratic boss of Mis­ souri was fortunate in securing the contract to furnish the cement. The public would like to know the date the boss engaged irt the cement busi­ ness ■ . < Announcement was made Monday .that Sen. Borah would file in Ohio for jdelegates on the Republican ticket to the national convention next June in Cleveland. This Jobks like the Schorr- Pemberton “for sale or trade” unin­ structed favorite son plan might go into discard. W ith Borah in the field Republicans had 'better have a little more harmony in party management, less dictation by selfish bosses that operate for private gain, and heed some of the suggestions from the Very soon— the Ohio legislature will have t o .do something about pior relief. Whatever is done, can «’ ther be temporary or permanent. We may as well face the facts and find a permanent solution. It will pot find its Own solution. It will not find its own way out. The federal government found it too big a load with which to maintain a balanced budget, so Washington is passing it back to the states, t.;is month. The legislature as tha tax payer, will have three alterna­ tives from which to choose— (1 ) Amend the constitution of Ohio to permit h' rrowing and bonding— cither state or local, or both. ( 2 ) Create a state relief com­ mission, levy taxes or finance it, redistribute the funds to the coun­ ties according to their "needs.” (3 ) Invoke the policy of local self government. As to the first mentioned alter­ native— it would require (using tha estimates of the present relief ad­ ministrators) at last 20 miiliona of dollars per year. Thus at the end of the second year we would be just where we started from, plus a 40 million dollar debt and a • more permanent “ghostly" com­ monwealth, As to the second mentioned al­ ternative— if a state relief commis­ sion were set up and general taxa­ tion lev<ed to support it, it would just naturally become a centralized - bureauacy and the truly unufortu- nate could easily be used as bait to further^he continuance thereof, as well as, a continuance of this “ghostly” , commonwealth. ‘ How long could property owners, busi­ ness, or farmers stand 20 millions o f dollars additional .taxation? W s must always remember that the power to tax is also the power to destroy. As to the third alternative— since the beginning of our state, we have had and still have (though some­ times inadequate or dormant) our city, Village, county and township relief funds and agencies in many forms. Along came the depres­ sion and added many thousands, who honestly could not get work, to the point that the county could ho longer carry the load, so the state stepped in and helped. Many friends and families with­ drew their support to their unfor­ tunate relatives, friends and neigh­ bors in favor of relief rolls. Why, they asked, should they help when apparently there was a mythical mint some where connected with government that seemingly had no limits? Soon the state could no longer carry the load and the fed­ eral government stepped jn and helped. Times improved but the relief load did not decrease. Now t'>c federal government i* stepping out again, Gun Neither do the farmers of this county haul grain to the elevator in thjeir little boy’s express wagon. Both a pqp gun and an express 'wagon are fine things for children to play with. But when Dad and Uncle John start up to northern Michigan after some venison they get out their high-powered rifles. Occasionally there is a business concern which tries to get business with two or three hundred handbills— advertising pop guns. About all tbey'Succeed in doing is to disgust the housewives of the town by littering up their front porches. You can’t get a woman’s trade by making her angry and disgusted. • Also, accasionally there comes along someone who says a farm auction can be well advertised with handbills. ^ Everyone knows that a successful auction sale depends upon the number of bidders. Xn these days of good Toads and automobiles men often drive 20 jto 30 miles to an auction sale they hav'h seen advertised in their newspaper. Handbills can be distributed over a limited territory and in public places. Few. stop to read them. Many forget the location and date o f the sale before they reach home. - TH E H ERA LD goes into a great majority of the homes o f Cedarville fownship. In the evening after the chores are done, the farmer sits down and carefully reads every item in your sale. I f he forgete the date or location, he refers to his newspaper again the next day— or any follow­ ing day— or cuts it out and places it ip his pocket. TH IS IS ADVERT IS ING— the cheapest and best way to 'reach thousands of buyers. Farmers subscribe to TH E H ERALD and pay fo r it in order to get' the news and keep track of the business bargains and the auction Bales. ? * It YonHoveAnythingtoSell . . . — A wheelbarrow, your entire list of livestock and implements— N— Or if you are q. merchant witji a stock of merchandise—- TH E HERALD is the BEST medium to reach the people in this section who have the money to pay Tor what they buy. Loca Mr. D, out after a with naurii shoulder. D r. and ES pens, John mas in Ciut Mai ■ d S3 cox. M r. Jann berg, Pa., week with Kerr, who ) A son w Gordin in ttn town, Satu? fine hoy ] Lackey. The Wilt their home spending tl parents, the j i For Sale- i gilts. W ill Pringle fa Watson. ! » • i Miss Mart - Tuesday fr . where she sj. o f Mr. and i < Mr. and A* hlestown, O Mr. and Mrs Mrs, McMil sisters. Rev, A . 1 brother of J enia - place^Jiasb fo r several f r malignant t; • ath r Mr. Carte are ^ dent o f Ohi ’ visited this Callistez*. IV • 1 Journalism nt le ployment oi insta fo r practice isfa<| Misses M ■■ Oxley of Wi of Prof. C. ’ 1 schools here ' t •villi] friends here I Friday evening: ■ m derson, ente ‘ ■ffssa party at tl: — Knott, honor iim Oxley. Mr. C. H. 1 ' arrived here I who is visitinz Mri and Mrs. ( celebrated tl versary at t Monday. *■• Mrs. J. E. 1 Reser •Mrs. J. E hers of the invited gues, the regular club. The * Bideration Miss Knf, Who visited years ago g o f scenes al< historical fe The musii was feature Mrs. Margai nor Bull. I licious refrt a social hoi was assiste: in-law, Mrs PLRCH, Leonard acre tract c of town to | evato lildlrej afte| isines of tin Oman' »uctio on th mobile — 'b sec publii id dat darvill . wn aiJ date d follovl » rea« .* to gli >n sale NOTF Ada Bun reached thii W , R. W a 1 Stic was tl that made races. She David Tor) kiiown by AUTO IN f The auu was passer weeks ago junction oi the case hi. The State aaked for of unfaim into the si $25 inspec Way patro could he u. . the purclu the state Sales tax. «d to chan ih , . ~ l upset sto< Ig jg j jPtdpated Eegalattir titetfgh eft Rr*wn, D .*Opl ey I i.