The Cedarville Herald, Volume 72, Numbers 1-26

’The Cgdarville, O- Herald The Cedarville Herald A Republican Newspaper Published Every Friday by THURMAN MILLER. JR. Entered as second class matter October 31, 1887 at the' Postof­ fice a t Cedarville, Ohio, under Member—National Editorial Aa- Act o f Congress o f March 1879. sedation; Ohio Newspaper Asso­ ciation; Miami Valiev Press As­ sociation. Editorial INTERESTING SERMONS Rev. Paul Neal, inspirational pastor o f the Church o f Christ in Bowersville, has announced a series o f sermons beginning soon. Adding to the interest the con­ gregation will take in the series is the fact that the people are invited to select the subjects. To those " ’hose subjects are select­ ed by the minister as suitable themes fo r sermons he will pre­ sent a handsome New Testament. A Bible or a family Bible will be awarded to a person whose suggestions are considered the most helpful. It all sounds like an excellent plan o f inspiring interests in the most-worth-while matter in the world. A WORKING GRANGE A good many o f our well- known farmers’ names appear on the list o f officers o f the Pomona Grange. County-vide in its organization and world-wide in its good purposes, this insti­ tution Is in a position to take a position o f leadership in civic as well as fraternal phases of community life. There is nothing experimental about the Grange. As always it will do very effec­ tive work in Greene county. SCHOOL LUNCHES ‘Way back yonder when boys and girls trudged across the Helds to school often from a mile to three miles away, a necessary part o f the journey was the din­ ner bucket. Of the old-time school populace there was but a low percentage who went home fo r dinner. A ll the rest carried their dinner to school with them. Talk with older felks you know and they’ll tell you, a bit uroudly too, o f the days they spent in school, when the dinner bucket was a big item. Read today’s statistics and you’ll find that all o f that is a thing o f the past. Over 1,200 schools in Ohio serve meals to pupils at the school. THE BUDGET The president’s proposed bud­ get will be out o f balance worse than any budget the country has ever known. Even war-time tre­ mendous expenditures had every resource o f the country, public and private, behind them. Peace­ time projects must o f necessity be carried oqt by private enter­ prise. There is no way o f meet­ ing a budget like Truman offers except by a production era that equals It, but the proposals will make production as impossible as the figures o f the budget are. A LABOR LAW I f a new labor law is enacted in congress it will have to in­ clude many o f the provisions o f the Taft-Hartley act or labor will not accept it. A national magazine some months a g o quiried labor leaders and working men, asking provisions they would insist on having in a la­ bor law. Indicating very plainly that they didn’t know the Taft- Hartley law, they demanded many o f its provisions as as ac­ ceptable law. Unless a new law is rammed down the throats of the rank and file o f la> ,r like so many things are. whatever is enacted as a substitute fo r the T-H act will resemble it closely. NOT MORE, BUT LESS By the very ambiguity of its proposals, spending and taxing, President Truman’s program for the people, offering them as he does everything at government expense but the moon and all the green cheese in it. the people are going to get not more, but Ies3, MORE BABIES BORN Greene county is doing its . share in populating the earth. Throughout the .country births are more numerous than In any decade since World War I. All o f this means more homes, more school -houses, more churches, we hope, and a busier^ better world. HE WAS SO RIGHT The old-time horse shied at the_car And jumped a paling fence, This looking in the future far Is what we call horse sense; INCOMES DOWN Net income to Ohio farmers f o r 1948 were high—higher than is predicted for 1949. And 1949 is being estimated as higher than any year in history prior to 1946. Therg is nothing in the offing, observers seem certain, that in­ dicates a slump o r anything like a sudden decline in farmers' in­ comes. That pleases us all in Greene county, where even if wg a re not in the farming busi­ ness, we depend upon farming fo r our livelihood. FATHER „GOOSE Peter, Peter, spy, deceiver; Had a secret, couldn’t tell; So he hid it in a punkin’ shell, And there he kept it very well. Using pumkins to file papers in ought to help the steel short­ age considerably. There are 136 new faces in "Washington—News item. None o f which helps the picture any too much. Truman Has the "Whip Hand. eadHne, But the good driver ♦ • ‘ JVFday, January 2T,- T949 \ always walks with his horses or oxen; the better the driver the less whipping. The Hungarian priest who said o f bis enemies, A ll they can take from me is my life. There is no way to conquer a spirit like that. The world found out that truth 2,000 years ago. - m InterMbcnal Lrwlorm SundaySetae? tnaawa SCRIPTURE; Matthew 3 ; Luke 3:1- 23a: 7:18-35; John 1:19-34. DEVOTIONAL READING; Luke l:s9 - 67. 73-30. No Greater Prophet Lesson for January 23, 1949 Br. Foreman AT,T‘ the characters in his- tory, which one do you ad­ mire most?” We know how Jesus answered that interesting question. He had a great ar­ ray of personages f r o m w h o m t o make his selection. But he took as the Great Man of all time, up to fais own generation, no he­ roic figure from the past, no king, general, scholar or prophet The'great­ est man. for Jesus —or at least, one so great that he could think of none greater—was one of his own contemporaries, a cousin of his who was in jail at the time when Jesus said of him. “Among these born of women none is greater than John.” Known to us as John the Eat.tist. that is, John the Baptizer, we seldom realize either his greatness or the close connection between his life and that of Jesus. • • • John i f the Jordan T X 7 E DO not know how much * ' Jesus himself owed to John. We do know that John was the man who first called the public’s atten­ tion to Jesus. John it was who gave some of Jesus’ most important dis­ ciples their first training; John who introduced to Jesus, and turned over to him, some of his own fol­ lowers. It may be significant too that Jesus’ first preaching was iden­ tical with that of John (compare Matthew 3:2 and 4:17). Some Christian scholars have gone so far as to suppose that it was John’s preaching that stirred the young carpenter from Nazareth to leave his shop and begin his great work as teacher. Whether this is so or not, we do know that it was the baptizing by John which led to the baptism of Jesus, and that Jesus* baptism was the turning-point between Jesus’ private life and his short and stormy public career. It is quite clear that if there had been no John the Baptizer, the story of Jesus would have been very differ­ ent from what it actually was. *. • • Only a Voice J OHN’S own picture of himself is not a picture at all. When they asked him to say what he was, and half-expected him to declare that he was the Messiah, the long- looked for King, John said only, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.” John, so far as we know, never accepted dinner invita­ tions, he was never under the roof of any friend, and he had no roof of his own. People even called him demon-possessed, he was so far removed from ordi­ nary life. . . But Jesus was always in people's homes. That is one reason why the greatness of John fades before the greatness of Jesus, for a Voice makes a poor companion. Jesus had the human sympathy that John lacked, and John well knew this. “He must increase, but I mu3t de­ crease," he said. * * © Repentance; Seed and Fruit "VTEVERTHELESS the Voice ■LX spoke truth. John must have been a powerful preacher, for his meetings were held miles from the nearest town, so that to reach him from Jerusalem one would have to travel through wild country In­ fested with bandits. Few modem preachers, without benefit of ad­ vertising, music or choir, without even a tent, would dare to start a revival meeting 15 rough miles out of town. But John did—and the people came in crowds. We do not have the full report of his preach­ ing that we have o f the preaching of Jesus, but we do know that he broke the hard crust o f his listen­ ers’ conscience. Be made them see how unfit they were for the Kingdom of God for which they prayed; he . broke down their pride till they west down to. the Jordan and were baptized under the open sky, In public confession of their sins. When men asked him, What shall we do? John did not have the full­ er, higher message that Jesus later bad. But he did make plain two things about the good life, the life that pleases: God: it cannot even begin without repentance and con­ fession of sis, but it does not end there. Repentance is not a simple granite milestone on life’s way; it is a seed which if it Is real will bear fruit. deacmiutfoM, XriMWrf b j CLARENCE J. BROWN Writes With a Buckeye In Congress Thursday o f this week Jan. 20 is the big day when Harry S. Truman will be inaugurated, in his own right, to succeed himself as president o f the United States; and Alben Barkley o f Kentucky, will stepout o f his role as sena­ tor to become vice president and presiding officer o f the body in which he has served so long. The inaugural ceremonies, which will take place in front o f the capitol at high noon, are to be followed by a huge parade scheduled to take two hours to pass the re- * viewing stand. Many Ohio De­ mocrats are expected to attend the inaugural. Secretary o f the Array Royall has annuonced no men will be called up fo r induction under selective service during the months o f February and March, and only about half the number originally contemplated will he drafted in January. The reasons —that volunteer enlistments are running at the rate o f more than 35,000 men per month, and the president’s refusal to give bud­ get approval fo r all the funds requested fo r expansion o f the armed forces. Last week President Truman submitted to congress the larg­ est peace-time federal budget in the nation’s history, containing requests fo r appropriations to run the government during the coming fiscal year, totalling 41 billion, 857 million, 777 thousand, 869 American dollars. In addition to this amount the president in­ dicated he will ask congress for additional funds to re-arm wes­ tern Europe, and to meet in­ creased social benefit payments. His budget request o f a year ago totalled 39 billion, 580 million dollars, with actual expenditures this year estimated at 40 billion 984 million. In order to balance the budget and pay fo r the heavier govern­ ment spending he has proposed, President Truman is asking for an over-all increase in federal taxes o f 5 billion 960 million dol­ lars. Other additional taxes will be needed if the new spending program o f the administration, as outlined in the president’s mes­ sage on the state o f the union, is put into effect. While Mr. Tru­ man suggests the maior part o f these new taxes be obtained through increasing corporation levies, some 2 billion dollars per* year would come from heavier payroll taxes on both the work­ ers and their employers. Out o f each dollar included in the record breaking 41.8 billion dollar Truman budget, 34 cents would go for national defense; 16 cents would be spent abroad, mostly fo r foreign aid; 13 cents to the veterans o f the nation; 13 cents to pay interest charges on the national debt; six cents for puclie health and social security; 5 cents on our natural resources, dams, irrigation and etc., and 13 cents for all other onerations o f the Government, including the legislative, judicial and execu­ tive branches. Forty-three cents o f each dollar in the Truman bud­ get would be rasied through tax­ es cn individual incomes; 28 cents through direct taxes on corpor­ ations; 19 cents through excise taxes, such as those on cosmetics, furs, luggage, transportation and etc.; 8 cents through customs, import and similar taxes, and 2 cent$ from new taxes yet to be imposed. In addition Mr. Tru­ man proposes to meet the cost o f increased social security benefit payments, not included in his budget, by increasing pay-roll taxes by at least 50 to 75 per cent on both workers and em­ ployers. The house of representatives is expected to give favorable, con­ sideration gaily this week to a senate bill to increase the presi­ dent’s salary from §75,000.00 to 8100,000.00 - annually, with a House expense account of vo0,000.00 per year. The bill would also increase the salaries o f the vice-president ahd speaker o f the house from §20,000.00 per year to §30,000.00 each, with ex­ pense allowances o f §10,000.00 annually. Provisions in the origi­ nal bill to boost the pay o f cabi­ net members and some 200 other top government officials were stricken out in the senate. I f the salary raise bill completes its way through congress and is signed by the president before noon o f Jan. 20, the new pay scale ivill apply to Mr. Truman and Mr. Barkley daring the next four years; otherwise it will not become effective until 1953. Labor leaders are storming capitol hill insisting the new con­ gress proceed to immediately re­ peal the Taft-IIattley labor act, as promised, in return fo r their support o f Democratic candi­ dates at the polls last November. Some o f them have indicated strong disapproval o f the presi­ dent s request for the re-actment o f many provisions o f the Taft- Hartley act, and o f the seeming intent o f Democratic legislative leaders to wrap all new labor legislation up into a one-package bill. I f any American worker be­ lieves the proposed new enlarge­ ment o f social security benefits and payments won’t cost him anything we point out that ad­ ministration leaders are suggest­ ing that not only should social security tax rates be increased, but that wages up to §4,800.00 per annum, instead o f the first §3,000.00 should’ be taxed; As a result each individual worker, as well as his employer, may be taxed as much as §156.00 per year in so-called social security levies alone. Your humble reporter has been re-named a member o f the house rules committee fo r the new con­ gress—one o f four Republicans on the committee which must clear all legislation, fo r floor action—as well as to serve on the Republican steering commit­ tee. President Truman spent 16 hours at his inauguration greet­ ing and ‘ shaking hands with guests. Congressmen in WDG have the same trouble finding places to live that ordinary people have. Iowa has voted bonus to%vet­ erans o f 85 million dollars. Let's Hurry 'Soli Surgeon' Says Seedbed-MakingBoon Performs Multiple Work, Cuts Time in Hall A'-new, efficient device for pro- •ducing finer, smoother seedbeds is the “ Soil Surgeon” now on the mar­ ket. Designed for use in a plowed field only, the device does the com­ bined work of a doublodisc, spiked toothed harrow and a float—and manufacturers declare it gives the farmer a finer, smoother seedbed in half the ordinary time. The exclusive ,.se of the soil sur­ geon after plowing does not turn up dormant weed seeds or plowed- under vegetation, thus giving a cleaner growing crop and richer soil. It levels the ground, fills all air pockets, and seals the moisture I HOPE THE PUBLIC apprec iates OUR EFFORtS ■/ (ConrrUm. IV. N. U.) English Built Fords on Sale In order to help relieve a crit­ ical transportation problem, Stengers-Ford has just''announc­ ed that more than 100 English- Built Fords have arrived in Day-, ton. According to Stengers, the cars will sell for less than American cars and they will be available for immediate delivery. The English car has a short­ er wheelbase than the regular American car. It is also report­ ed that 30-35 miles per gallon of gas is possible. The Ford ^lotor Company has appointed Stenghrs-Ford in Day- ton as Southern Ohio distributor for the Englisli-iliade automobile. Renting space in a balcony a- long Pennsylvania avenue in WD- 0 during the inaugural parade was punishable by a fine of §100, ♦ Over 40{7 of the money col* lected in taxes in Colorado goes to about 4G of its people in pensions. There are 136 Slew members oi congress. Tliis “ soil surgeon” is designed for use in a plowed field only. It does the work of a double-disc, a spike-toothed harrow and a float —and is said to give you a finer, smoother seedbed in half the time. in the soil, thereby making for "quicker germination and a higher yield. Sturdy and simple, the soil sur­ geon consists of two heavy steel pans with raised sides, to permit loading with dirt for added weight. These may be used smgly or bolted together, depending on the desired width to he covered. To the bottom of each pan are bolted 20 double-edged cultivator knives, each provided with a bear­ ing to_ permit it to follow easily and automatically the tractor’ s line of travel. These heavy-duty knives slice the four and one-half inches of soil into one-inch strips, while the action of the pan pulverizes, smooths and levels the sliced soil in a .way not approached by any other instrument currently in use on the farm. The field should first be worked in the direction of plowing, ’ vising as many sections side by sice as the tractor can puS with -weight adjusted. The final finish is ob­ tained by pulling the soil surgeon across the line of furrows. The soil surgeon should also be used as a crust breaker for all oncoming crops to* mulch and kill small weeds. Pacific island Farm “ Pigs is pigs,” no matter where you find them—even on the Pa­ cific island of Guam in the Mari­ anas. On farms established by the U. S. naval government on Guam, American sailors instruct natives in modem agricultural methods. Produce from the farms is used for naval personnel {who are fond of food anyway) and for the re­ habilitation of the natives. In the photo an American seaman is driving some of the pigs to feed. Proper Carburetor Use Cuts Farm Fuel Costs A heavy tractor operating under a load with the carburetor slightly ' out o f adjustment may burn a half- galloa more fuel per hour, in the average 50 days a year that farm tractors operate, the tractor may bum 250 gallons more fuel annuallv than it should. Proper carburetor adjustment would save 10 per cent of the total fuel burned in farm tractors an- ■pially. LOWELL FESS Writes With the State Legislature Some time ago you suggested that I send you from time to time comments on the happenings in the legislature. I f I can write you anything that would be of interest to your readers, I will be very glad to do so. The first week was taken up with routine organization and preparation for the session which should be completed in three months but will probably last five or six months. However, the public should not be impatient if the session seems long because good legislation requires careful study and deliberation. Both houses of the legislature and the executive department are Democratic this term. 66 Repub­ licans and 69 Democrats were elected to the house but one Re­ publican has already died, leav­ ing 65. It will require 68 votes to enact any bill into law or 90 votes for an emergency measure. The majority of the majority party are urban members. Con­ sequently, they nominated an urban member for speaker and he was elected. For the past 10 years we have always elected a Speaker from a rural county. This is important because the speaker can name committees that will names the chairmen. The speaker appoints the committees and favor cities or, on the other hand, protect the rural counties in. leg­ islation. they pass out for enact­ ment. The speaker of the house, in fairness, should be from a rural county since because of its con­ stitutional setup t h / senate al­ ways has a majority of urban members with a leader from a city. If one house is rural and the other urban, both classes in, the state are protected. .. Two bills were introduced the first week. The partial appro­ priation bill provides fo r opera­ ting -the state for the first half o f this year. The secretary of staf i filed the controversial olfeo bib This bill was initiated by thi oleo manufacturers who cir­ culated petitions for a law to permit making- and selling color­ ed oleo. If it is not passed by this legislature, they will have it placed on the ballot next Nov­ ember. Dairymen oppose the leg­ islation. It is what we legisla­ tors call a hot potato because about 50 per cent of the people are for it and 50 per cent are against it. This week committee’'assign­ ments were made. Your repre­ sentative was assigned to the powerful finance committee, edu­ cational section, and the commit­ tee on health. The house convened on Mon­ day for its second week of work, hut the emphasis was on the change in executive managers for the state’s business from Her­ bert to Lausche. .Tuesday witnessed the intro­ duction of a resolution to provide for the election of all state offi­ cials for a four year term. Another one provides fo r ex­ empting the taxing of homes up to a value of §5,000 in assessed, value. These require majority vote at next November’s election if they ‘get approval irf the house and senate. v Wednesday’s session provided the fireworks and was occasioned by the debate on accepting rales of procedure for this general as­ sembly. Your readers have doubtless read in the recent past statements that the new officers of the as­ sembly were asking for .joint meetings of the senate and house in 'order to expedite legislative procedure. My personal reaction to these trial balloons has been that the proposal was a beauti­ ful theory but just would not work, but, if it were accepted, would be the first step toward a unicameral legislation in which the interests of around eighty rural counties would be at the mercy of the eight urban ones. Howerver, it soon* developed, after the members gave the mat­ ter careful consideration, that even the Democrats shied away from it with the result that practically the same rules in ef­ fect for years will prevail with this one valuable correction pro­ posed by a Republican and sup­ ported by a sufficient number of Democrats to pass it, namely, that amendments passed in com­ mittee should bear the name of the sponsor and be printed in the Journal. This will be valuable to the public on any bill that passes out of committee. The debate on the adoption of the rules resulted in real politi­ cal oratory, the salient features of which were that in the opinion of Republicans, the speaker in his appointment of members to the different committees had taken as a mandate that urban members should - dominate the committees. This situation is dangerous to the interests of rur­ al Ohio. But since several Demo­ crats joined the Republicans in a test vote, the danger is some­ what lessened by certain correc­ tions. Four of the 88 counties have 14 of the chairmanships of the house which is far more than half. Five counties have 17 of the chairmanships of the house which is approximately tliree-fourths. The remaining 83 counties, repre- i senting all of northwest, south­ west, southeast and centra! Ohio, must content themselves with six chairmanships. One county with oply four members, one of whom is in his first term, has the chairmanship the most powerful .committee in of the rales committee which is the house; chairmanship of the reference committee which is the second most powerful committee in the house; the vice chairman- shin of the finance committee which is the most important com­ mittee in the house; and 40 per­ cent of the majority member­ ship on the rales committee of the house; and, in addition to this, this same county has the speakership of the house and; membership on nine differen* committees, more than 40 per­ cent o f the total. In addition to all this, this seme county has the chairman­ ship o f the finance committee o the senate and the chairmanship of the taxation committee o f the senate. It remains to be seen what the outcome of this usurpation of power will he. 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