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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25
WHAT A PREDICAMENT?

When District Attorney Dewey threw his
sombrero into the presidential ring he said: "The
Republican party has always stood for good gov
ernment." Might Democrat be permitted to
ask whether he had in mind the Harding admin
istration with its Ohio gang, and the Falls-Tea-
pot dome scandal, not to mention the traffic in
liquor permits that was the nearest equivalent to
business revival? Or did Mr.. Dewey have in
mind the Hoover administration whose high
lights the Smoot-Hawley tariff which is said
to have been the chief of practically the col
lapse of entire financial structure which blew
Mr.. Hoover from the White House-when thou
sands of banks had closed-thousands of business
concerns had collapsed when the farmer was
getting &c per pound for his wool, and the price
of other products equally low
Mr.. Dewey is full of confidence in his party.
which, he says "is to give hope and courage to
nation which is in despair as a result of in
competent government and unstable business -
Sounds like he's got something there, but con-
slider just minute: The government has been so
incompetent" that the citizen of the United
States is today the envy of all other nations Peo-
pie of every country of the Old World are trying
to get in here. Do dividends spell despair? The
same papers that carried Mr. Dewey's statement
about business instability, and the declaration
of his candidacy, also carried in their financial
pages such headlines as "Jobs and incomes up .
best holiday business since 1922" "dividends
voted by many corporations" Even the New
York Herald, Qarge portions of which are print
ed locally) the most raucous among the scoders
of the present administration, notes the big
Chrysler DIVIDEND and mentions that that cor
poration's net profit for nine months aggregated
S3O0O00O Another New York paper incidental
ly recorded recently that profits of 22O companies
for the year just ended showed 55 percent in
crease Even statistics agriculture records show
that the farmers income for last year amounted
to approximately eight billion dollars It was
four and half billion dollars in 1882 when the last
Republican administration was demonstrating
what Mr.. Dewey refers to as its stand for good
government and stable business"
Even the anti-administration press is getting
weary OF the sort of stuff Dewey and Taft and
other candidates presenting about the terrible
predcament" in. The Kansas CITY Star
and Journal for example says "The Thoughtful
voters out this way are heartily sick of the 'eter-
nal viewing with alarm by the Republican lea
derShin"
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25

Deal, Cordell Hull and the recipro-
capturing a little more of those lost
foreign markets And farm prices
rising to a point where-while still
not up to parity-they are attrac-
tive enough to have caused farm
imports to rise from trickle to a
small stream. OF course most Of
our so-called farm imports consist
of such products as bananas, rub
Der, coffee, tea, raw silk, cocoa
beans and Babassu nuts-but you
can't expect politicians to mention
that, at least not in an election
year They will talk about the To-
million acres which could be culti-
waited replacing the imports. They
won't mention the 40 million acres
that would be put out of production
if we lost our exports.
Once again the farmers of farm
ers. who pitch their medicine tents
in the lobbies of Washington, are
crying out the old quack cure. They
want TO abolish the Hull reciprocal
trade treatment and persuade the
patient to take suck out Of the
same old protective tariff bottle. Is
there farmer in the audience who,
having taken that ''cure" twice,
still has enough strength to step
forward and give testimonial?-.
Columbus Citizen.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25
WILLIAM E. BORAH

r. ho,a on1v one elective office, but he filled
4h,+ one 60 long and with such distinction that
the American people will find it difficult to tnnK
of the Senate without Borah OF ldaho. ~,
When he first appeared in Washington Nel-
CO.., A1drich looked up his record as corpora
tion LAWYER and prosecutor OF labor agltators
d 1;s+ed hin, as safe conservative Many
others. in the 80 years since, tried to place
Borah and went as wrong as Senator Alor'on'
For he dehed placing" He Travelled alone;
r was impossible for Borah to be follower
and he had peculiar distaste for affirmative
leadership. One crusade he did lead successfully
TO keep America out of the League OF Nations
and he considered that the most important
achievement of his career. The great question'
which must remain unanswered, is whether hope
of na.ce for other nations and our own might not
have been greater today if Borah's fight had tail
ed.
He was perennial rebel against conserva-
tive control of the Republican party; but, lrregu
lar at all other times, he was always regular on
election dav. Other progressves bolted the par
+v IN 1919 in 1924 in 1882. in 1886 Borah never
did
And so critics called him the great begin
ner." implying that he lacked capacity to follow
through They said he had no constructive, con-
secutive program And they found in his record
manv inconsistencies and many contradictions
He believed in national prohibition, but opposed
a national anti-lynching bill and federal amend
ment to outlaw child labor. He voted tor MANY
New Deal laws, but was the most emphatic critic
of others.
The truth we think, is that Senator Borah
was too completely independent to be bound by
consistency. He perhaps more than any other
great public figure of times, was entirely his
own man. That why even those who dis
agreed with him had instructive faith in his in
tegrity his courage, his patriotism 1t was sgmf1-
cant that Woodrow Wilson referred to Borah as
"the only man fighting the League of Nations
from sincere conviction and with personal ami
mostly.
It NAV have been his misfortune that his
greatest effectiveness intellectual goad
an adversary-that positive accomplishments was
not his forte. Perhaps he might have done
more. But his opposition to concentration OF
power whether in business monopolies or in
Government, and his defense of the Constitution
as a charter of human liberties earned for him the
lasting gratitude of his country.
The Lion of Idaho" is gone from the Sen
ate. The orators voice will be heard more.
His inconsistencies will be forgotten. His con-
sistent record as a believer in and champion OF
our democratic form of Government will live
Columbus Citizen.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25

way of itfiinking) is more of day in and day out
routine affair than is farming 1t is true that the
various seasons of the year call for different sort
of work-some of which is pleasant and delight
full to PERFORM but with it all there is the daily
routine that the farmer must follow: Every day
both morning and evening, he has his stock to
look after, his feeding to do; cows to milk, etc..
He can't lock up his barn. forget his stock, and
the chores, and say am going away for few
days. If he does go trip, he must see to 1t
that somebody is to do his work, and to always
find some suitable one is not always easy task
Feed for stock doesn't just produce itself on
the farm; livestock doesn't just grow; turkeys
and chickens do not come into existence and pro-
duce an income for the farmer without any effort
his part; livestock don't have cafeteria, that
just sprang into existence without any effort on
the part of the farmer where farm animals can
go and get their feed. Livestock, in winter when
the streams are frozen or in summer when there
is no water in the streams, and cisterns dry,
can't go to the water faucet and get drink.
pasture they don't always choose nice pleasant
week day when most convenient for the farmer
neither do rains always descend and flood comes
when the crops are all matured and safely stored
| away-stables cannot be cleaned with an electric
| sweeper.
While the farmer en- joys many convenience
not had some years ago such free mail deliv
cry telephone service, electricity in many places
good roads, automobiles, radios and attends
more social gatherings, yet we fail to see whers
farming which is so necessary to our existence
is pink tea affair.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25
Not Dominating

Great changes have taken place
in the present generation regarding
the initiative in the children's lives.
In the preceding generations, par
ents dominated the children; they
were told to act without asking
questions. The present generation
finds the children living more apart
from parents and home, thus taking
liberties to conduct their lives
themselves. They are rather indif-
ferent to parents counsels much to
their own detriment.
AS one boy put it: ''The trouble
with my dad is that he is always
saying what he thinks, without
thinking what he says. He's one of
those hot-headed chaps, fine as4gold
when he isn't clustering, who, lac-
cording to him, just couldn't be
wrong" ,4.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25
HOW BRICKER BALANCES
THE BUDGET

A special correspondent in Cleve-
land Of the Hoosier Sentinel OF IN
dianapolis sends his paper an ac-
count of the relief situation in the
Ohio city and explains the method
of the Republican state government
in budget balancing at the ex-
pense of the hungry and unemploy-
ed in the cities.
The dispatch was from Cleveland
under date of December Is. Condl-
tions in Cleveland have temporarily
improved since the writing because
the city through a legal loophole
found a way to borrow little more
money. But conditions in other cit
les like Toledo remain distressing
and the economy procedure of Gov
ernor John w. Bricker remains un-
changed.
The Hoosier Sentinel's account
follows:
Cleveland, Dec. 15.-The Repub-
licans in this state play the New
Deal for a sucker. They chop relief
off in the big cities, which saves
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25
GUARANTEED TO CURE OR KILL

OF all the fake political nostrums
ever peddled the American farmer
the protective tariff is doubtless the
phoniest.
After that last big war, the farm
the-farmer lobbyist and politicians
sold the Fordney~ ~McCumber tariff
as the sure cure for all rural aches
and pains The result was that
foreign countries which had been
buying our cotton, wheat, corn,
hogs, cattle etc, started growing
their own and buying elsewhere,
They had to, because, their sales in
our markets having been restricted
by the higher tariff rates, they
couldn't get the dollars TO buy as
many American farm products And
incidentally, they couldn't get
enough dollars to pay the debts they
owed 10 and in the United States.
An effort was made to remedy
that by lending more dollar
abroad, which was a good racket
while it lasted. The twenties
doomed along. farmers sold more 10
borrower customers abroad, AMI
farm prices here rose to a poinr
while by no means on
Tarity with Industrial prices-they
were at least attractive enough to
induce foreign farm products to
start scaling our tariff walls. In
1929. about 10 percent of the farm
products sold in this country were
imported
SO the lobbyists and politicians
started their medicine show again.
Thor rev concoction bore the label
OF Smoot- -Hawley, and was guaran-
tccd TO c"re the tuberculosis, can
Ger Irnbag0 and gout of the farm
belt, and give American farmers a
moncr0ly on the American market
II almost made good on that latter
claim but in so doing it knocked ia
the head the farmers foreign mar
kets, far more important to him
than a domestic monopoly. Though
by 1882 there was scarcely trickie
of farm imports, that fact did little
good for our farmers who got five
cents for their cotton, 10 cents for
corn and two bits for wheat.
Came then FDR and the New
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25

money and enables Gov. John w
Bricker to become an economy
candidate for president. Then they
run to Washington and demand more
WPA Jobs to "take care of human
suffering" The ADMINISTRATOR
comes through. This increases New
Deal expenses, and gives Mr.. Brick,
er a chance to point out that Wash
ington is spending entirely too much
money.
This game is played quite cynical
ly and callously and with low cum
ming. Thus in Cleveland, where
10000 human beings are hungry
this minute, there are only 12,OOC
home relief cases and 30,273 on the
WPA rolls. Those proportions are
way out of line with the rest of the
country. New York City, for ex
ample, has 100000 cases on home
relief, only about 100000 on WPA
SO it is rock-ribbed Republican Ohio
which has stuck it's snout deepest
into the federal feed basket. Il
comes up for air only long enough
to denounce Mr.. Roosevelt's 'eX
travagance.
Because 10000 Clevelanders are
starving (while a $6,000,000 sur
plus dozes in the state treasury
another hurried trip to Washington
has just been made by the Ohio
politicos. The humanitarian execu-
tives in the National Capital have
come through with a promise 81
1900 more WPA jobs for Cleve-
land. This would give Cleveland
10000 home relief cases as against
41,273 on WPA. The more Ohio
saves, the more the New Deal has
to spend. and the more virtuously
economical" is Governor Bricker
He sends his grandma and his kids
to the federal poorhoase, then
boasts how small his bills are.
When the New Deal isn't busy
providing WPA jobs for this hungry
town on the shore of Lake Erie, il
sends food Sometimes 100 carloads
a month of so-called surplus foods
are dispatched to the broken little
people in the broken little houses
off Superior avenue This also in
creases New Deal expenses, and
gives Governor Bricker and that
other Ohio aspirant, Senator Rober1
A. Taft, more talking points abou
New Deal extravaganza Washing
ton extends the helping hand ant
both gentlemen bite it.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25
CHAPTER XVI

We can't remember how much we
have told you during our 80 years
of scribbling for the Morgan Coun-
ty Democrat, about the man who
during many of those years helped
us-in fact furnished the material
to a large extent of what we wrote:
George +. Roberts
Born in Tallytown Feb. IL, 1S47,
if we are not mistaken, and we find
after calling Lucy, his widow, that
we are not-for wonder. He was
born in the Bristol section of that
village which yielded changing con-
ditions. His parents We're Ephraim
and Betty Roberts. The father was
a farmer and coffin maker-perhaps
we should say cabinet maker-as he
not only made coffins for the dead,
but furniture for the living. When
George was still young they pur-
chased the farm on Bear Run,
where he spent the remainder of his
life, and where his death occurred
March 3, 1884, aged IS years, one
the country schools until he passed
the teachers examination and was
granted a teachers certificate. He
spent several years teaching in the
schools of the township. Later he
graduated from GAINESVILLE busi-
ness college. In politics he was a
Democrat; as to his religion, we feel
the following will explain what we
feel was his religion: At the time
of our story there was house IN
the VIM. Yauger farm, in the field
to the right Of the lane. Perhaps
we should tell you we are telling
about the former Web Lawrence
farm. In this house lived an old
couple-we forget their names, and
am glad. The said couple were very
poor. Our friend George was teach
ing at Meigs Greek. 1t was then
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25

ITO he continued)
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25
Saltwater

Mr. and Mrs Ronald Bankes
spent Sunday at Harry Reeds.
Jean and Joan Matheney are
spending few days at Lenna VIII.
Iiams'.
Doris Williams spent the week
end with Lola Matheney, of Malta.
Herman and Bessie DALEY were
Sunday visitors at John Dailey's.
Dale Roberts and family were
callers Sunday afternoon at Dwight
Roberts.
Homer Buchanan spent Monday
in GAINESVILLE.
Wayne Williams and family and
III. f. Williams and family spent
Sunday in McConnelsville.
Mrs. f. w. Richardson has been
on the sick list this week.
Jerry Masterson of McConnels-
vile spent last week with his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs T. J. Master
son.
Several from this community at
tended the soil conservation insti-
tute, Monday.
Jimmie and Kenneth Daley spent
Sunday evening at E. C. Roberts
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25

The answer to this statement NAV
be found in the father trying to get
the boys point of view and then
working out with the boy the best
course, the best program, the prop
er associations, the enriching ac-
tivities, the ideals and goals to be
attained. The guidance should be
from the rear and not as one that
dominates, stimulating right en-
deavor and keeping the proper in
terests at white heat.-D. Carl Yo-
der
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25

We hear quite little about the independ-
ence of the farmer, his freedom, ETC. In way he
is independent-that is, he is his own boss: does
his thinking, and say what he pleases
without having to count the cost and all of that
But saying farmers life is an independent one
meaning that he go when and where he
pleases without interfering with his farming is a
wrong sort of statement No profession-(and
farming comes under that term according to our
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25
OUTLOOK OF THE PRESS

/ am asked, as we stand on the
threshold of new decade, to say q
few words on "The Outlook for
Journalism and a Free Press in the
United States" Prediction is always
dangerous. 1t iss unusually so al
this moment. But we can assert
with some confidence that as lone
as the United States retains it's ira
ditional ideals the newspapers OF
this country will be doing their
part.
No American newspaper is per-
feet. All are conducted by fallible
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-25

EDITORS the United States and Canada have cast their
IN
the
Benny O head of humo
best the air. the
Allen t2 with Charlie Mccarthy
division In the nine annual polls Kate has
second other Among the
Wilson az defeated Harry Ze for the fst place
Alec Tempeon voted the years outstanding new
90 the Aldch Family In second position
in classification.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Playground Addition
For School Is Asked

Purchase Of vacant property at
2511 and 2513 Seventeenth street
NV. for use as addition to play
ground for the H. D. Cooke School
was urged last night by the Kalo-
rama Citizens Association. Acqui-
sition of triangular plot bounded
by Nineteenth street, Kalorama road
and Columbia road NV, by the
National Capital Parks and Planning
Commission for development into
. public park also was favored.
Elimination of a street car stop
safety zone at the intersection of
California street and Columbia road
NV. was asked. Another proposal
asked for a traffic light at the
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Fort Dupont Park Shelter
Asked by HiIIcrest Citizens

The Hillcrest Citizens Association
last night Endorsed Harry s. Wender
for Police Court Judge, opposed horse
racing and pari-mutuel betting in
the District and made an appeal for
the construction Of a shelter house
In Fort Dupont Park.
Rudolph Malth announced that
the Public Utilities Commission
would hold hearing on the request
of citizens of the Southeast section
for bus to connect the Fort Dupont
area with Anacostia, and said that
association members should appear
before the commission in a group.
Changing of stop signs from
Branch avenue Sc. to Alabama
Evening star., 1940-04-09
PIT. A. to Hold Open House

The faculty and Parent Teacher
Association Of Mckinley High School
will hold "open house" tonight.
Supper will be served in the school
cafeteria from $50 to 7pm. Shops
and laboratories will be demon
strated by students from 6 to
o'clock; the physical education de-
partment will show its work In the
gymnasium from $40 to 9 O'Clock
and the Glee Club, orchestra and
soloists will give a musical program
IN the auditorium from 9 to 10 pm
Evening star., 1940-04-09

avenue Sc. at the the intersection
was protested, with q request that
the signs be shifted back.
The association met in the East
Washington Heights Baptist Church.
Election Of officers was postponed
until the next meeting. John w.
Martin, president, presided.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
Dinner Dance Slated

Members of the Pattern Makers
Association Of Washington will hold
their annual dinner and dance at
the Carlton Hotel, Saturday at pm.
Guests will include George Q.
Lynch. president Of the Pattern
Makers League Of North America
Rear Admiral George Pettengill,
Capt. Walter E. Brown, 1t. Comdr.
A. G. Murdaugh Of the Washington
Navy Yard and others.
Evening star., 1940-04-09
intersection Of Florida avenue and
Nineteenth street NV,

intersection Of Florida avenue and
Nineteenth street NV.
Harry s. Wender, hrst vice presi-
dent Of the Federation Of Citizens
Associations, was Endorsed for the
Police Court bench, and the re-
appointment Of Justice Fay Bentley
to the Juvenile Court asked.
Members expressed their approval
of the recent appointment Of John
Russell Young as District Commis-
sioner.
Letters from the Community
Chest, the Washington tuberculosis
Association and the Metropolitan
Police Boys Club asking time at a
subsequent meeting to show educa-
tion slides and motion pictures and
to present speakers brought forth
the suggestion that the association
hold a Joint meeting with the
Evening star., 1940-04-09
THE EVENING WASHINGTON G, TUESDAY APRIL O. 1e4o

John Quincy Adams School Parent
Teacher Association.
The meeting was held 1T the John
Quincy Adams School.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-09-05
Miss WoOdfield Given
Surprise Party At BOyds

Many attractive and useful gifts
were received by Miss Laura E.
Woodfeld at a surprise shower
given her by Mrs. Bernard L. Of
futt and Miss Bernice Kingsbury,
Sunday, September 1.
Held at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ambrose C. Kingsbury, Boyd,
Miss Woodfeld, whose marriage to
w. Jerome Offutt, Poolesville, will
be solemnized Wednesday morning,
September IL. at St. Mary's Catho-
lie Church, GAINESVILLE, occupied a
large green and white decorated
throne while receiving and open
ing her gifts.
Guests attending the prenatal
event were Mrs. Alice Reid and
Miss Bernadine Reid, Philadelphia;
Miss Alice Kingsbury, Washing
ton; Mrs. Linwood 7. Jones and
daughter, Frances, Clarksburg;
Miss Eula Reid, Miss Frances Car
lin, Miss Bernice Kingsbury, Mrs.
Ambrose Kingsbury, Boyds; Mrs.
J. Waters Woodfield, Germantown;
Mrs. John B. Offutt, Mrs. Clarence
C. Offutt, Jr., and daughter Kitty,
Mrs. Bernard L. Offutt and daugh-
ter Marie, Miss Mary R. Offutt,
Miss Marguerite L. Offutt, Miss
Roselie C. Offutt, Miss Mary v.
Offutt, Poolesville; Ambrose c.
Kingsbury, John Reid, Gilbert
Reid, Gerald Kingsbury, Roland
Kingsbury, Boyds; John B. Offutt,
Bernard L. Offutt, Poolesville, and
w. Jerome Offutt, Frederick.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1940-09-05
-Four Sons" Due
On Milo Screen

Portentous in it's timeliness
"Four Sons" comes to the Milo
Theatre on Thursday and Friday,
September IL and 10. The goth
Century Fox picture features Don
Ameche, Eugene Leontovich, Mary
Beth Hughes, Alan Curtis and
many others, and has been called
one of the most stirring pictures
of recent years.
Simplicity is the keynote of
"Four Sons" and the cast plays
each part with deep and moving
conviction. The compelling force
of the drama and the power of it's
emotional outcry have caused pre-
viewers to label it a picture that
should be on every must see" list.
Others featured in the cast are
George Ernest, Robert Lowery,
Lionel Royce and Sig Rumann.
Producer Daryl F. Zanuck as
signed the direction of the picture
to Archie Mayo, who worked from
an original screen play by John
Howard Lawson, which was sug-
gested by a story by I. A. R.
Wylie. Harry Joe Brown was as
sociate producer.