The Cedarville Herald, Volume 60, Numbers 1-26

4 >- T H E C E D A R V I L L E H E R A L D J u S l S BULL — --------- iw TO J t AND PUBLISHER ~ JMMwM taw ; W * Nw iN ta Am *.; aitanl Vans? 1•tm Am t. Bat in I attba Feat Office, Cedarville, Ohio, October 81,1887, H i MMMMMl ollHMI tftWttft*. -,TJ1IL ~ ~ ~ ...... j ^ a y , ^ ............. * ORBITINGS r o t THE NEW YEAR With this iseua the "Herald” extend* "Greetings end Best Wiafca* for e Happy end Froeperoue New Year” to ell our reedtm end petrosa. While we greet the New Year with hopes end expectations that e ll may prosper end enjoy happiness, it meiters not whet we may encounter, courage is required to carry on. As we enter a new calender year the "Herald” had a birth­ day on December 4th* when it entered its sixtieth year. On April 8, 1987, the "Herald” will have been under the *present management thirty-eight years, the longest tenure o f any of the owners since the first issue back in 1877. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OPPOSES SECURITY ACT The American Medical Association has gone on record as opposing the New Deal Social Security .legislation that is going to force the cost o f living sky-ward while only a com­ paratively few, mostly labor union members, will profit financially by it, The association has made a wide investigation o f the pro­ posed plan and finds that it has failed in every country that has tried it. It was proposed mainly in this country to hold the organized labor Vote in line for Roosevelt, catch Socialist and Communistic voters, and also break into the ranks o f the Townsend 8200 a month plan. It is frequently hinted in many quarters that Roosevelt would welcome at this date one of the five to four decisions o f the U. S. Supreme court on this a c t ; ' ' "Sickness insurance increases illness among the poor, fails to reduce the cost o f treatment and tends to build up a bureau- . cracy that could stifte the advance o f medical science” says the Association, “ Prepayment fo r medical care, especially over a long period, creates a desire to 'get something back’ in the form o f such care ., It is charged that every country that has such a system, the administration o f such has resulted on developing a powerful .political machine.” The bulletin concluded with, "It seems foolish to abandon the application o f these methods in favor o f a panacea that has failed elsewhere to produce the results that have been pro­ mised.” There probably will be suits filed testing the social security program but industry and business seems content to ride along and let the consumer pay the bill. It is going to do more to increase the cost- o f living than anything that was ever pro­ posed. The unfortunate citizen with a fixed income and the common laborer not included in the program will feel the in­ creased cost o f living the greatest. THE LEGISLATIVE MILEAGE SUIT An unusual suit has been brought, in the Franklin county courts to stop payment to members o f the legislature o f mile­ age charges.trips made weekly between homes o f the mem­ bers and Columbus. Such payments have been made to mem­ bers fo r years and never questioned until last week when a West Jefferson citizen brought the suit. The court enjoins payment and the case may go to higher court for test o f the lower court decision. One feature is that members of the Senate have already drawn their mileage expense; while the House members had not up to the time o f the suit being filed. Ordinarily such a suit should be supported but in the light o f the test members o f the legislature have been placed the past two years, with both Houses in session 21 months out o f the full term o f two years, or twenty-four months, at an annual salary o f 81,000, we believe the members are entitled to their mileage expense as a matter o f justice. We also believe that it has not always been the fault o f the legislature as a body that business was not completed in a shorter space of "time.,, v,,": The law makers were called together frequently by Gov. Davey, just as former Governor George White did and urged to pass some crack-pot legislation to suit the brain-trusters down in Washington. Time after time the question o f a per- menant tax program was up but at no time did either White or Davey have a program, leaving that to the legislature, a body largely under control o f Democratic administrations, that could not be governed from the Executive office. It was never the intention o f framers o f the constitution that members o f the legislature would be required to reside in Columbus six or ten months at a time and at the same time maintain households in their respective counties. The salary o f 81,000 a year does not go fa r toward meeting expenses even for one six month’s session, to say nothing o f what it costs to travel* Other state legislatures draw mileage expense we are in formed and we know that all congressmen run back and forth between Washington and their home when ever they feel like it and they get 10 cents a mile. As we See It the suit just brought is unfair to the law­ makers irrespective o f what the law might be. We pay a gov­ ernor a salary and then-maintain a private residence with help on the state pay roll. We pay for almost the entire living for the presidents o f our state universities in addition to the salary. I f state officials travel about the state on state business we pay mileage and all other expenses* The state furnishes 810,000 automobiles fo r her governors, with gasoline and oil free and a chauffeur thrown in* We have boards and commissions by the score that draw princely salaries and mileage is never question­ ed. A fair sample is the State Tax Commission that draws big salaries and is also given more than three million dollars to hire help for the office force. When we take all this into consideration we see no reason Why members o f the legislature should not be entitled to mile­ age, It can not be denied but that the state, counties and even municipalities are not conforming to the strict letter o f the law in hundreds o f cases where government money is being supplied on certain relief projects* I f paying lawmakers is thr6wing money away what must we say about most o f the Public Work program? One attorney connected with the suit in question is Gilbert Bettman, formerly attorney general in this state and a well known barrister. We are fully aware o f being attorney general to interpret the law for the state is entirely different from being legal advisor for some plaintiff, in this case defend­ ing the suit against the state. We wonder if Mr. Bettman does not recall that during his two terms as attorney genera), members o f the legislature drew mileage expense from the state* I f it Is illegal now where was the attorney general in those days and why was not the state treasury guarded as demanded in the present suit? I f there was an honest to goodness plan worked out to not only protect the taxpayer's dollar but to save.it, we would endorse the present suit one hundred per cent. We question the honest intentions o f this suit and will continue to do so until We have more proof that the strings be tightened in other quarters, duplication o f work in scores o f state offices and boards and especially where state examiners are paid flO to 890 a day, and expenses to examine officials "out In the sticks” that draw as little as $S5 a year salary and no expense money* This is not an argument against any individual drawing statemoney, nor froma personal standpoint of members of the legislature* Ourpoint is that somewhere there should be some good old fashioned hetss'*tns# exercised and the same rule forced onall stateofficialsthatthosesponsoringthissuitwould haft forced on the legislator*. With pr—ytyU g#*ct that labor •trikes wHI close down every major nutomoMk plant in thw eoutwtry, the General Electric Company, that has many different plants Aar manufacture of different electrical equipment, has brought a peculiar kind of a suit in Nfew York Federal Courts, which places responsibility for damages on unions and labor leaders. We were much surprised to learn o f such a suit coming from a company that is head­ ed by one o f the nation’s leading Dem­ ocrats, one who haa always found the White House door . open, Owen D. Young, From another angle this suit means something else for the Roose­ velt family owna General Electric stock that ia valned at more than half a million dollars. With Roosevelt playing to the unipna at election time, what role can he take now that his1 companybrings a suit to tie the hands of labor leaders? Can it be that Roosevelt is to take a middle of the road course from now on, or will he sit back and let the unions close down other factories with strikes, while hie own company is protected by court suits? With “Old Dobbin” returning to his former place in the. sun as a means of motive power on the farm, we learrt that the harness shop and blacksmith shop are once more needed institu­ tions, The demand for harness and repair has caused a dealer in London to get QUt his famous dun-colored papier-mache display horse that has been in retirement for some years. The make-believe animal bad been used for years to display harness for farm use but after we entered the gasoline age of automobiles and trucks, it was a case of storage for the image. Just so with blacksmiths who were given a back neat,; they now are In demand in most every com­ munity* ’ Cedarville once could boast of'thr< *, such shops where contractors mechanic or farmer 'could get most anything mended or made that he might need. It has been several yfears since we bad such institutions as knownwhen they were operated by J, H, Wolford, W. H. Owens and George Irvin. There ia an opening in this community for a blacksmith, ex­ perienced in horse-shoeing. ago carried « two-page spiead of 870 pictunw persons, young and old, that had died during the year as the it suit of ante accidents on Chicago limits Bat tai. « « nut *11 «# tk,n, for there war* TM deaths hut not all the pictures o f the unfortunate could be secured. More than 20,000 persons wtre injured in motor car accidents ' in the city during the year. You may . not have stopped to think but thsre | wore more deaths Christmas day from motor cars in this country than there were reported as the result o f the civil war in Spain on the same day. ' The one big problem this country feces this Hew Year is highway safe­ ty. If human life is to have a value it is going to be up to every division of government, federal, state, count; and municipality, to demand mor highway protection.' Speed comet, first as the major cause, wrecklcs' driving, probably second, and tbe in­ toxicated driver, third.' If we had a fairer report on city motor car ac­ cidents, the intoxicated driver might crowd out the other two for first honors in claiming victims. The cities have the greatest harvest of deaths yet it is peculiar how effort is made to smother reports that such acci­ dents were caused by intoxicated drivers. While wp hear ,much about world peace and the part this country will play in the non-war game, regardless of the Roosevelt peace-trip to South America. Yet on ‘Monday came the announcement that war planes valued at more than three million dollars would he shipped to the rebel forces in Spain. The permit for such n shipment came from the Department of State that has been writing the various Roosevelt peace treaties. It now developes (hat war in Spain ia not' war under the peace treaty terms but in the turmoil of civil war. With Russia and Germany aiding the forces in Spain and a shipment of planes for this country it would look like the Roosevelt peace trip south was but a government junket trip which cost the nation more than *12,000 a day to operate government war boats on the! trip. Riding a war vessel to a peace, meetingis like marching into an un-' armed home with a drawn gun and demanding “peace/’ f Making prosperity at the expense of the government is a popular move today. Few people give any concern where public money is to come from that is being used for all this lavish spending on public works. Some of the public work program is wise, need­ ed, and will be useful in the yean to come but much of it is nothing more than following a plan of wreckless spending. Down in Cincinnati the government is demolishing a federal building that^housed the postoffice, and various government departments. It was built fifty years ago of great blocks of cut atone that are as solid today as the day they came from the quarry. The building cost about two million back in the days when labor and material was cheap and from plans where architectural ideas fol­ lowed established modes o f the cen­ turies that had past; The new build­ ing will be of the New Deal idea of: architecture, whatever that is—how­ ever it will not conform to any stand­ ard established years ago. The wreck­ ing company is having trouble tearing down this building and reports are that the firm will loose plenty o f money on the contract* The building, is just so good that even the. Hew Dealers will erect a five or six million dollar building on the old foundation. Wrecking a building that covers near­ ly half a city square just to spend several million dollars, to “create work” is tlonsensO. It ia not only an economic waste be* sets a bad stand­ ard for the hope jef future prosperity. The Chicago Tribune a few days RAW FURS BEEF HIDES HIGHEST PRICES PAID Dealer Lots Bought BENNIE SPARROW Elm Street Cedarville, O- PHONE—189 PUBLIC SALE We will offer at Public Auction on the Edwin Dean farm, on the Kyle Road, 2Vt miles N* E. of Cedarrille, % mile N. of Route 42, on MONDAY, JANUARY 4,1937 Commencing at 11:30 O’clock, the following: 35 -H e a d o l H orsea -35 Consisting of pair of Sorrell Mares, sound, 7 years old, wt. 3300 lbs., and heavy in foal. These mares are half sisters, are well mated, raised on the farm, and as good a pair as you will find anywhere, 1 pnir of Sorrell Mares, sound, 5 and 7 yeslrs old, wt. 3200 lbs., heavy in foal. Another good broke pair. * 1 pair of Red Roan Mares, well broke, 8 and 11 years old, wt* 1500 lbs., in foal, 1 pair Red Roan Mares, sound, coming 3 years old, wt, 2800 lbs., bred, 1 Sorrell Mare, 11 years old, in foal, wt. 1600 lbs., a single line marc. 1 pair of Weanling Horse Colts, 5 months old, out of above mares, a real pair, 1 Sorrell Gelding, coming 4 years old, sound, with light mane and tail, an extra good colt, wt, 1500 lbs., well broke, out of atove mare. 1 Sorrell Filly com.„g 3 years old, bred, sound wt. 1400 lbs., out of above marc. nice pain . / o f Brown Geldings, coming 3 years old, sound, well . broke. A oig pair of draft colts. 10 head of Sound Draft Colts, 2 and 3 years old. 6 head of Soutid Work Mares and Horses. l 5 ,* an *xh’f *00<) offering of mated teams and colts, nearly all have been raised on the farms. BELGIAN STALLION 1 Belgian Stallion, Red Sorrell, with light ttane and tail, sound, coming 4 years old, well broke, a good individual with thebest of color! bone and action, This colt has been on the Farm since a yearling, breeder* two soasons» *ntI proving to be a good safe 10— HEAD OF DAIRY COWS— 10 Consulting of Jersey cows, either with calf by side or to be fresh soon. All with sound udders, T. B. jmd Bag Tested. • Terms of Sale-CASH AD.HannaandEdwin Dean COLS. WBIKBRT AND GORDON, Anetkmeers. lunch served on grounds SCHOOL DAYS Sjhper % m D*>*t <* t*M«NOT| W> y*m. ftmtu **** cat "jtettffi s e p te tte * a t g m , , AT h W **' * ort * J ? am > i m p m * a e t c * * * , R * w e * o p * * jyiaeNT tfeWi ** NO V6u -KNOW He CM&tiTl NW* iAim MR. ffiCK----- , Tt**r i r o n Pom s x o e s l ate* -are By DWK$ DWK M, t sm N« t m mm n m m H w » i smfcf m m ft 9 m . Vw CM WWA m * ^ 2 5 5 ^ h * * * * * . tew su es , * * * * kH Mfmi. H* e * * . * ^ 1.j mm Miss Ru *• »*• « f t * her parer.1 MWJIL M ,a a Wftfpfcj LulMg lutur’t Mr. andg 80 sob , John, *> 80* tivee in Cl, „ _ ’ )4HH 0* Mr, Gee ^ K|^ Ind., spent the home (] Mr, and tainsd a n ner Christi BOUT RA1 HARO: "W IL D t Dr, H. N. Williams i DENTIST » X-RAY EQUIPMENT Yellow Springs, Qhio [They needed money anddot i t / Many local families boxxowed from The City Loan during the past year. And,6 out of 7 who applied fox a loaa got themoney...theodds are 6V1 myourfavor, . . . . . . Y ou , too, can look to The City Loan for ft* nancingyourneeds... whatever they may be... on terms more favorable than even you yourself would expect.. iteQnrt— r J. Marla Furman, M g, 24 E. Main St Springfield H?* 'UP f 1' Mr *r i iAS NOTICETO006OWNERS FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1937 DOG TAGS FOR SALE AT THE FOLLOWING PLACES— CEDARVILLE — — James Bailey BELLBROOK —* — Mrs. Minnie Wetzel JAMESTOWN — — R. G. George SPRING VALLEY---------Harold Van Pelt YELLOW SPRINGS— - Harold Hackett BOWERSVILLE---------Claude H. Chitty OSBORN — — Mrs. Ira Kneialey licensesforMales . . . . . . . . . . . $L 25 Spayed Females.. . . . . . . . . ; ; $L 25 Females . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3*75 Kenel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 12.50 Under a ruling by John W . Bricker, Attorney General o f Ohio the $1.00 penalty must be col­ lected from those who fail to obtain their ■. licenses* ■ The General Code provides that If the fee is not paid on or before January 20, the County Auditor shall assess a penalty of One Dollar. It specifically forbids an Auditor reducing, abating or remitting any penalty required by law to be collected by him* .■v■ * If not paid then the Auditor and his bonds-nuvn, are liable, according to the Attorney General’s ruling* The County Auditor has no alternative, but to enforce this ruling, JAMESJ. CURLETT County Auditor SUNDA JEAN AR “AI ENCE ; ale CES— IN M ■mwprnwBailey THURSDie Wetzel George R1 Van Pelt (t I Hackett i* Chitty INVI eisley Reunion, Th Broadcast ol l . . . . . $ ] .... $3 . ■ • . $ 1 2 er, Attorn* must he co obtain the f the fee the Count1 .Ine Dollar. «■ reducing required b : bonds-mai sy General*! i alternativi OUT Phone •Auditor Be Your Own Santa SALE * ♦ Buy yourself that gift you wanted but didn’t get - at tremendous sav­ ings. All gifts must go at cost or lessto make room for other merchandise. Also a few articles which wars slightly damagad or shopworn atyour own price. Only 3 More Days of These REAL BARGAINS COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF BROWN'S DRUGS nti ante i s sat esst winidlse. yon <jhUy rice. £ Corn’ durir 1 t