The Cedarville Herald, Volume 62, Numbers 27-52

CEDARVILLE,HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE SO, 1989 Mummmm mm THE CEDARV I LLE HERALD KARLH BULL — — —- — EDITOR AND PUBLISHER » HMW-KatUaal XdltorUl Auwti OWo Nnwjwper Asaoc.; Miami valley Vine* Assam ib^ored «,t the Post Office, Cedarville, Ohio, October 31,1887, MjMeond class matter _ _____. ______________ _________ _ FRIDAY, "JUNE 30, 1939 __________ ROOSEVELT AND HIS COMMUNIST FRIENDS Washington was never given a more severe shock in the Way of surprise political appointments than when Roosevelt once more came to the front and named one of his Communist supporters to a prominent federal post, librarian. The appoint­ ment shocked the average Democratic senator a n d congressman but they had to take it and like it and more than that, say nothing or be cut off from WPA funds for their state. The • librarian knows nothing about a library or it workings. He has never had the higher academic training but appointed he was and.there are not enough Democrats with backbone in congress to dare challenge the appointment. Much has been'said at times ab.out the many Communists Roosevelt has named on the Supreme Court bench, district courts, in fact almost every branch of the federal-government. His closest advisors are not Democrats but Communists and yet party leaders with sealed lips groan to and among them­ selves but never utter public protest. That Roosevelt is more of a Communist than a Democrat, and Mrs. Roosevelt not even branded -a Democrat, it is well to read and think of what the Communists think of the American King. In a recent issue of the Columbus Dispatch, one John Williamson, Ohio State Secretary of the Cohimunist party, over bis own signature tells why the Communists want Roosevelt for a third term. Why they prefer his re-election— because they cannot elect a nominee on their own ticket. The Communists want government controlled schools, the pulpit and the press. No demand is made for control of the radio for they know the radio is now completely under Roose- yelt’s dictation. The Communist wants labor union control of the stores, factories, banks, even the private farms. To all this Roosevelt subscribes and during the past six years has made every effort to. fill the Communist program in preference to the Democratic platform or party pledges. We reprint the Williamson letter to the Dispatch believing there are many that have not been convinced that between the political parties Roosevelt in thought, word and action is whole heartily for the Communist cause. In recent weeks, there have been various-letters, news items and even editorials which purported to tell the American people that the Communists came out for a third term for .President Roosevelt. To clear up the atmosphere, I would like to state briefly the position of ! the Communist party on the 1940 elections: 1. The Communist party will be committed to no candidate except its own, although there is no prospect of his being elected. 2. We share with the majority of the population the urgent > desire to maintain and strengthen the unity of the majority, which is supporting Presidet Roosevelt and the New Deal, against its re­ actionary enemies who are in a minority, but who hope to return to . power by splitting the majority. 3. One of the most difficult problems is to obtain sueh .a can­ didate that will be acceptable to the main groups composing the'pro- gressive majority. The ideal candidate, “Me Unity,” is not likely "to be-fully- satisfactory to either the conservative progressive, but must be a middle-of-the-road figure of the type of Roosevelt, acceptable to both groups. i 4. A-prime condition for consolidation of the majority coaltion \ is a militant fight for a recovery program in which governmental intervention at. key points is exercised to stimulate shrinking private enterprise. 6. The farmers’ problems, which have become more difficult, .must receive -major consideration from the progressive coalition, in . measures which will immediately restore agricultural production, in the first place o f the family-operated farm, to solvency, that is to guarantee at least- cost o f production. - 6. It is necessary to expose thd false, promises o f the. reaction- ‘ aries, and to defeat the Hitlerite strategy of the “ red-hunt” which is designed chiefly ,to paralyze and split the-progressive majority. 7. Unity of the labor movement, above all unity'between the . AFL and the CIO is the first consideration for winning the 1940 • elections for the camp o f -progress and democracy. 8. The Communists can make their greatest contribution to the progressive mass movement by explaining, problems, clarifying the relations and alignments of various groups and leaders, by seeing further ahead than .others and transmitting that foresight to the entire mass movement, thereby arming it for quick and correct decisions when the maturing struggle^demands! it. Since the Communist party will be committed to no otlur can- • didate except its own in 1940, we give our opinion on the third term question, only insofar as certain people like to know the considered opinion o f the Communist party on such questions. We declare, that front the viewpoint of the New Deal majority coalition, it would seem • that if tio candidate of the Roosevelt type appears on the scene soon* it would be an apti-democratic stupidity to all of the tradition, how­ ever sanctified by age and progressive origin, to deny democracy its chosen leader necessary to victory iii the most critical moment of national and world history. ROOSEVELT GETS SET BACK W ITH NEW DEAL When the Senate ripped open the monetary bill this week the New Deal and FDR received a gentle slapping and a sit- 'down, that must be unusual when we consider the past six years and the dictatorial powers the White House has exercised over the lawmaking, body. No doubt the Senate itself was surprised that so many Democrats and New Dealers dared a challenge of the Chief Executive. The Senate also voted to prohibit the purchase of foreign silver and voted to pay 77.57 cents and ounce when the world market price is only 64.64 cents and ounce. Senators from the silver producing states in the west threatened a filibuster if the FDR plan was not dropped and theirs approved. No doubt many yoted to back the western senators knowing it would lead to something yet more important, removal of the power of the White House to devalue the dollar atjvill. And that is just what happened. The Bill will now go to conference between the two houses. Gradually the Democratic members of this congress are being convinced that it is necessary to listen to the home folks and forget the rattle-brained Communists that have been and are yet Roosevelt’s closest advisprs. Election time is nearing and the voters having gotten hardened to the New Deal bribery methods do not fear threats as they did at previous elections. (This causes the national lawmakers to listen a bit more to what is being discussed among the home folks. Placing the control of monetary matters back in the hands of congress where it has been for a century until the New Deal was born, will go a long way to building up confidence among ithe people. An irresponsible bian, without the experience of even private monetary affairs, should never be trusted with one- man control. . * .............. . . . . iia a eK-g HIGHEST CASH PRICES Paid For HORSES AND COWS (O f size and condition) HOGS, CALVES AND SHEEP REMOVED PROMPTLY Telephone* Xenia* 454 XKNIA FERTILIZER (S TANKAGE CO. GBEENE COO NW 8 ONLY RENDERING PLANT The main topic in the central states the past week, was the great Town­ send $200 a month pension conven- ention in Indianapolis with more than 11,000 delegates from every state in' the union. The crowd surpassed what would he expected o f either o f the major political parties at nomination conventions. Several thousand follow­ ers fro mnumerous states were also present to swell the crowd. It makes no difference what in­ dividuals think o f the $200 a month pension plan and the manner in col­ lecting the tax to pay the cost the movement has momentum that will not be stopped .easily. It is an issue that will bother both o f the major political parties. The recent bill de­ feated in the lower ,branch o f con­ gress has fired the followers to great­ er effort, yet the defeated bill was not the bill offered and sponsored by the Townsend crowd. Congressional lead­ ers tried to put across a makeshift measure to put the Republicans in the hole. Many Republicans voted against the bill because it was not a Townsend measure. The New Deal ordered all Democratic members to vote against the measure and the Democrats fol­ lowed orders to save the face o f the Social Security taxes, a laboring man's income tax. The Democrats only wanted to divorce all Republicans from the Townsend movement. The surprising thing about the crowd at the convention as we viewed froitr the surface was the extremely large number o f less than middle aged persons, men and women as dele­ gates. We were impressed by the statement of a married man and wife between forty-five and fifty that they did not intend to swallow Social Se­ curity taxes to pay some one 65 or more a pension that would contribute little, to the plan. Of course that is what Social Security does, it makes the young laborer, man or woman, the haft horse to provide fuhds:for those above 65 years. Laboring people are also finally convinced that the . New Deal is. not holding the percentage myd in by business-interests but using it for-payment o f New Deal WPA, ,’ WA, AAA, and other projects. Some rf it will go into battleships and when ..he time comes, after Roosevelt re- ■ires, some administration .will be breed to raise funds by taxation' to make lip for what the, New Deal is spending in various ways instead of leaping the tax fund to pay labor in full. If anyone thinks Dr. Townsend, the author of'the pension plan, first call'd the ham and egg pension plan in lalifbrnih, is not popular with the nksses, you should- be about such a tension plan convention, His name Iraws clieers. There was dead silence vhen Roosevelt’s name was first men- ioned, one shouter remarking, “ Let is haVe reverence for the dead." lisses greeted the mention o f social .ecurity plans and the New Deal and 'barges were made on the .floor that he RFD force had some 1,000 gov rnment agents milling through the lelegates to put their foot on the Townsend plan. It was also openly •barged that-the rump convention idea was backed with $i0,000-Democratic campaign funds. It was proposed to hold a rump convention, in New Deal Cleveland. The Ohio delegation arose and repudiated the rump leaders. When appeal was made fo r a fund to raiso one million for a broadcasting campaign, hats and boxes were pass ed and ip less than thirty minutes more than $4,000 was contributed. The Townsend forces will invade the south with an appeal to the poor whites and blacks that are not permitted to vote anything but the Democratic ticket, Now that the Supreme Court has forced Democrats to count negro votes in the south in spite of two different ballot boxes, ithe Townsend forces hope to force Democratic congressmen to fall in line. The south pays little or no old age pension; less in the way of relief unless it is some side meat and corn meal; little in the way of clothing and no gasoline for the auto­ mobile ns in the city of Cleveland or free tickets to the picture shows. This Townsend fodower, an organizer, says they will invade the south with, the $200 a month pension appeal to white ahd black over sixty-five and also include a message to the boys and girls o f these families who would have the benefit o f newly found wealth and the golden opportunity of helping “ Pappie and Mammy” spend the- $400 the pair would receive each month. The organizer made- it plain that even the young folks would benefit as well ns their parents. Who is there and wlmt can be said to offset such an appeal? Moreover if such a plan goes into effect who is going to do the work to help erisate wealth and provide the necessities o f life? Crops will not attend themselves; manufacturing plants will not produce goods with­ out labor and with the old folks at ease there is nothing else that the nation can look to but the younger generations. .Helping thfc parents spend their money may take many of these out o f the picture as. future pro­ ducers o f any line. There are many that have a well grounded idea that the Townsend plan is far more economical and would be easier to adopt than the New Deal social security taxes. The writer has often expressed this view, partially convinced that such would be the case due to the cost o f administering the social security plan. It is claim­ ed that nearly a million office holders, state and federal, are now being paid salaries under this law and the law is not in full force and will not be for another three years at least, dur­ ing which time more people will be placed on* the salary list. The poli­ ticians, especially the Democratic fol­ lowers are all fo r the plan just like one branch o f the farm element is mostly for the AAA. It is not the personnel that can be objected to in these movements, one is as much en­ titled to the job as another, but is it sound business practice for any group to saddle sUch a salary list on the public at so great accost? The Town­ send plan o f a transaction tax is nothing more than a sales tax. We do not like that feature. If such’ a tax is levied let it be an excise tax on all lines of business on the dollar value basis. This is fair to both large and small business. We have been told that the presi­ dent of one o f the largest copper min­ ing companies in the world drawing a salary of $150,000. a year, is giving moral and financial support to the Townsend- movement. He has it figured out that with the Townsend plan there would be no WPA, PWA, CCC, AAA, relief, etc. That the plan is more sound economically than any­ thing yet offered under the New Deal. More people will profit by this spend­ ing and with the tax proposed every­ one, including pensioners will help pay it. Values will increase, prices will ascend for everything on the market. one news editor explained, One time when ready for a “shot” Jimmy Roose­ velt jumped out in front o f the camera to be with the guests, papa and mam­ ma. One would not want to meet a finer or more pleasing gentleman than President Smith o f the Louisiana Uni­ versity, that has resigned following disclosure o f certain illegal trans­ actions. It was our pleasure to meet him a few years ago when a delega­ tion o f newspaper men were entertain­ ed at that institution in Baton Rouge. Press reports indicate a shortage in university- funds. • Other reports re­ flect that someone has been playing in the stock market and been caught short. Jt is reported at this writing that the President is misBing and has been for several days. The Univers­ ity was the pride o f tHe late Senator Huey Long on the most attractive campus we have seen and every build­ ing new and modern, Recent exposures in the manner in which profit-sharing cemeteries In Ohio have operated proves that our blue-sky laws do not give citizens the protection necessary. Most o f these cemeteries incorporated where lots could be sold or traded as live stock. We do not believe it was ever intended that space set aside for burial purposes should be used for com­ mercial purpdsesj Unreasonable values were placed on these cemetery burial spaces, "some times represent­ ed as lots. In fact a burial space is but a single grave, not a lot o f eight or ten graves. That sounds to us like a fairy tale. It will be recalled that Roosevelt with iris lending-spending plan was going to do the same thing but it has failed and we have.more unemployed than the day he entered the White House. We have more o f everything else from nanufactured goods to farm products out no buyers. The one big thing we ■an boast of and that is the" greatest national and private, debt o f any ‘ountry on the globe. The. New Deal mys the Townsend plan is unlimited, inflation. Roosevelt says his is con- .rolled inflation. It sounds as if they -vere cousins and we are still open for conviction, but as we near the age pension list and in a receptiv emood tvo will not turn a deaf ear to-a free ticket to the dawn o f the golden age -vhere manna comes from heaven, on earth or elsewhere. Did you ever stop to consider what vould be required to feed 5,000 people lucli as gather at a convention o f any :ind. Here is what the contract call­ ed for to feed the Townsend delegates *hut enjoyed a banquet dinner in the big manufacturer’s building on the Indiana Fair grounds lost Saturday, light. First the tables required for hut many people measured two miles long placed end to end and 5,500 yards of table cloth to cover the tables; 250 gallons o f fruit cocktail; 1,500 stalks if celery; 30 gallons o f olives; 10,000 radishes; 2,500 chickens (broilers); 1 ton potatoes; 250 gallons o f fresh peas; 1,500 heads lettuce; 60 gallons French dressing; 150 gallons ice cream; 10,000 cookies; 150 pounds coffee; 50 gallons coffee cream; 15 pounds pepper; 30 pounds salt; 300 pounds butter; 10,000 roils; 1,200 pounds bread; 300 pounds crackers; 75 bushels ice cubes and 5,000 pounds of cake ice, It took 30,000 pieces of silver, 36,000 pieces of chinaware, all matched; 15,000 pieces glassware and 750 salt and pepper sets* There were 175 waiters; 32 Cooks and thirty dish­ washers, It would .take these 24 hours to wash the dishes after tho dinner. Flowers for table decorations cost $1,000. The speaker’s table was 160 feet long.' The cost o f the dinner was $1,20 a plate, *. Indiana has a new speed law for motorists. Every car must be operat­ ed at a speed considered reasonable and prudent, “ having regard to the actual and potential hazards then ex­ isting,” The highway department is to fix speed limits and mark same in both rural and urban territory. No bus can be driven more than 50 miles an hour. Trucks with 5,000 weight limited to 45 miles, In cities and towns the maximum speed is 30 miles residential and 20 miles in business district, with the right o f councils to lower the 20 mile Bpeed, Motorists thnt drive unreasonably slow to retard traffic arc subject to arrest, One of the features o f the recent visit o f the King and Queen o f Eng­ land was experienced by the photo­ graphers for the newspapers and dif­ ferent news gathering agencies. The average citizen probably never paid much attention to the pictures other than the Roosevelt family, all or part, usually ’was in every picture. 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The field for such;opera­ tion was among women, aged men and those usually not well informed on the value of such holdings. A few yenrs ago two smartly dress­ ed Clevelanders, with high ' pressure salesmanship called on several local people to sell lots in a stock cemetery near Cleveland, on the promise that the lots could be resold at a 100 per. cent profit later. One lady called this office where the representatives were sent and one o f the first things we dis­ covered- was the proposition was not to trade $500 lots for H. & A, stock or building and loan stock in this county, but a single grave space. Later we discovered the ground on which the cemetery was located was under mortgage to a number o f in­ siders that had sold it to the stock company, which they controlled. One o f the smart salesmen was later con- | victcd in Ohio courts and is now doing time in the pen. 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