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SALINE'S
HOME NEWSPAPER
FOR 51 YEARS
DEVOTED TO THE
BEST INTERESTS OF
THIS SECTION
VOLUME 52'
SALINE. WASHTENAW COUNTY, .TMICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933
7NU7M7BER 40
The Saline Savings Bank
The One Story Bank on the Corner
Saline, Michigan
Cleco FI)r Spray In Bulk
LARRO DAIRY FEED BEET PULP
BINDER TWINE, SALT, ETC.
We also grind all kinds of hay and grain as you like it
Why trade 140 lbs., shelled corn for 100 lbs.
cracked corn when you can get 140
.-'-'■■■' lbs. cracked for 10 cents?
COLE'S FEED STORE
PHONE 47 SALINE, MICH.
AN OLD FIRM
s ■ at the
OLD PLACE
> to serve you
QUALITY
HOME DRESSED MEATS
Choice, tender Steaks, Chops, Roasts
Home smoked Hams and Bacon
Home-made Bologna
Baked Ham and Meat Loaves
—SATURDAY—
With every purchase of'50c or over, three pounds of
our best home-rendered Lard for 18c.
PHONE 38 \
Scbmid's Sanitary Meat Market
"WE SELL WHAT WE ADVERTISE"
Open 6 A. M. to 9 every evening
»o-^o-wi£«
Carefully planned advertising and
copy changed regularly will swell your
Saturday night crowds, and keep them
coming throughout the week—that is
if you use Observer space.
CONFIDENTIAL—AH wedding invitation and an,
nouncement orders given The Observer are considered
confidential. Fine line to select from. The satisfied customers will tell you this is true. We have all the latest
styles of type and paper stock.
Shocking Record
Written By The
1933 Legislature
Future Generations Will Be Astounded By Revelations of 1933
Legislative Sessions.
Briber}' Chalrg-es Added to Lobbying
and Political Patronge Disgraced
the State of Michigan; Citizens
Disgusted By Lansing Disclosures.
By V. J. Brown
Last week the discussion was upon the subject of lobbying as it is
carried on at the state capitol. Fortunate indeed! that the chapter devoted to this subject was written before the final adjournment .of the
legislature was taken, or rather it
•might be more accurate to say that
it is fortunate the chapter was
written before the events of Monday and Tuesday which preceded the
final adjournment. Otherwise there
might have crept into the text some
of the bitterness (which marked' those
closing hours' and some of the
charges and counter charges' iwhich
the journals of the house and senate
of those two days contain.
Recently there fell into the hands
of this writer a volume containing
the public documents of the state
senate of Michigan for the year 1838
No reader of that volume - can fail
to be imp>ressed with the importance
of the matters then under consideration and the degree of serious deliberation given those matters by the
various committees and eomimissions
entrusted with their solution.
The reader of the record of the
stats legislature of 1933, 25 years
hence, a half-century hence or a
hundred years in the future will
stand aghast at what that record
discloses. .-
Committtee Frank
The report of the house committee
appointed to investigate open
•charges of lobbying, discusses the
question with frankness. That record
will show that open offers of money
for Votes for and aginst pending legislation were more common than decent citizens care to admit. The
very fact that this record shows that
certain senators and representatives
were openly offered cash which was
promptly refused naturally leads one
to suspect that these -money-passing
lobbyists must have found some takers somewhere, else they would not
have become so' bold. That- the very
legislation thus openly opposed iwith
offers of money- eventually failed of
pssage over the veto of the governor
is certainly■',disturbing' in its" "sinisr
ter setting.
Then, too,.. there is -that "matter
concerning the activity of one Isaiah
TLeebove. "He is referred to in the
report as: one whose "desires are
evil, and whose -purposes are malevolent.'' This report, lobby and TLeebove subjects alike, are rnade'a part
of the official journal of the house of
.representatives of the great state of
Michigan in the year of oui- Lord,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-
three.
The report, as it appears in the
official journal for future generations
to read, states, "Ths' governor • saw
fit to present himself before the committee in .defense Of , Mr. Leebove."
Testimony of the governor, quoted
in the report and the - journal, has
the ' governor confessing that "He
(Leebove), is. a friend of mine." A
student of state history a century
from now will also learn that the
same Isaiah Leebove was a generous
contributor to the campaign funds
of Williaim A. Comstock in at least
two of his pre-election candidacies
and that following his election in
1932 William A. Comstock persistently refused! to .make a disclosure
of the sources of., such campaign
contributions or the purposes for
iwhich the .money -was spent, as required by. law.
Contradictory Report
After quoting what the governor
testified to under oath, the report
uses the word! "however" in a significant way and proceeds to disclose
other testimony of a contradictory
character.
Earlier in the session the governor
in addressing a body made the statement that the "new deal'' administration was making history. It was
and is. But what a history!
One may quote freely from this
historic report because it so happens that the resolution which led
to the appointment of the lobby investigating committee was offered
by a" democratic .member of the
house. Its chairman Is a democrat
and a (majority of its members are
democrats. The issue is not and
never has been, one of political play.
Rather it grew out of anoutraged
decency still existing among the
vast majority of the membership of
the legislature.
This chanter on lobbying is assuming a -length never intended, and yet
there is more that ought to be said.
TEc-noray Measures Passed
So-called economy measures introduced on the first day of the session
as the result of a commission appointed bv act of the 1933 special session,
numbered 98. Of this number 63
.passed both houses and eight were
supplanted by- other bills which passed or their purpose was accomplished by other means. Two iwere vary-
properly vetoed by the govenor because in the course of their passage
the-"- bp-'.aime loaded with amend-
imtents of an entirely different character. This makes a net of 69 out
of a possible 98, a batting average
of 704- iwhich is srood in any.league.
What ."happened! to the remainder?
Well about an even half-dozen -had
to do with removing statutory salaries for judicial arid quasi-judicial
countv and. district officials and in'
reducing statutory salaries for circuit
and supreme court judges. Most of
(Concluded on page four)
BY N07CO7D7E7M7IJS
And now around the town is gossip, (as usual) but this tiime the
topic is not local. What is this latest uproar that is causing so much
talk ? You've talked7- it and heard it.
Why, it's our new governor. For
some reason he's failed to meet the
citizens' approval and. now "recall"
is all the ga-ga. . Just jwhat about
our governor do you know to. be a
fact ? The most you've heard about
him has been newspaper gossip and
talk. I'm, not hurrahing for 'Corn-
stock or boosting politics. To me
there is only one "thing "crookeder"
than a political election and that's
two political elections. We put Governor Comstock in. office and ' we
ought to stick by him.* "Why," you
say, "we found out things that turn=
ed oiir minds against him." All the
things you do and say about our governor you should have done and said
before election. You, as well as the
r§st of the country, .went Democrat
mad. Anyone that wasn't a Republican was O. K. You; did not need
history to vote; all you needed iwas a
D-E-M-O, and the party was fine.
He's your choice, your model, your
prize. You put him in yourself.
What he does is your doing. Take
it .and smile. -If The by -chance isn't
the man he should be for governor,
sirnlle it off. . But learn a lesson.
Don't Vote party, vote man. This
party business is all the bunk. What
party sticks to their codes and laws ?
CodeSj promises, laws, etc., are fine
before election, but afterwards they
are just by-gones.. - 7Cf-.it comes to a
re-election (what Tfoois "we'll be in the
eyes of our 47 brother states. Michigan, the automobile ^center of the
•world, so young and .childlike she let
politics get the best of her. Free
government, free people and free
air, both hot and cold. Hot air gossip and cold air £ or* tires, but now
where does the free government
come in? TEf this isja free country,
why on earth do we {have forty and
one laws that-we can't understand,
and taxes that we can't pay?
What a mechanical center and
world of progress our United States
are. The Century of Progress 1933.
Applesauce! We have" a fair. We
have a car. but where's our home?
•Yes, we too have a home. A bungalow, with a beautiful7 yard encircling. The grass seed's ' taxed, the
mower to cut it is taxed; the lumber
in the house is taxed, the roofing is
taxed and little Billy, .the family dog,
has a tax aro'-nd his heck. It's silly
but true, folks, and [every inch oi
-water1 -spouting frgm,{'papa's pride,=
the new $3 spray, is "taxed*: *. Take it*
from, me, brother slave,1 ^consume all
the air possible. - ■ It's.-stillL free.- God
gave us air and as ye± we'aie permitted to use,it freely. God als"o*g*ave
us our beautiful trees.': from; which:
our hemes are constructed'.' Just try'
to get some free! Day by'day- it
costs us more to: live.'-Each hour-'of
the day we pay more'money for. better • times. The farther-We--go the
nearer we -get to a perfect 'nothing.
No work, no home, no (money and: no
food. One grand perfect nothing.
Just a plain round O.' Our end of
perfect happiness.
Many times I've heard the question, "What is heaven?" Well, I
have a perfect answer*- for that.
Heaven is a place where there are
no taxes. Can you imagine anything
more wonderful ? Now' our "political
friends are leaving us -out. But at
the end when we're all together on
that golden trail to*-God's- Golden
Gates our political leaders will stop
to argue who should leadj.-.a,'Democrat or a Republican,-'jand while the
argument is raging hot-with a neiw-
ly arrived Socialist we iwill say- our
last goodrbye as those beautiful
gates close on crooked faces.
To ane there's .only one sane, free
place, and that's, the insane asylum.
Is- that a bit far-fetched*?' In such
a place the inhabitants think they're
everything from Adam-and Eve to
King Ben, but they're7 happy and
never heard of politics or taxes. We
are- just a step behind: them. When
iwe catch up we'll dump all politics
overboard.
Now iwith political jeoohomy sink
ing with our setting sun .we'll go to
rest between taxed sheets on a taxed
bed' to be wakened at 9 a. irk by a
taxed clock to eat a taxed breakfast
and take our .morning stroll in a, new-
pair, of .white, duck . taxed -trousers.
Now say-adieu, penning the last line*
with a-15to bottle of_taxed ink.. The
pen- by good fortune, was handed
down by my father's father'si brother and as yet is under no tax obligation.
Band Concert Next
Thursday Evening
■Two Overtime Games
In Twilight League
TFirst of Series of Extra Attractions
to Be. Supplied Through Liberality of Business Men.
Always on the alert to give more
for the money than anyone else, the
merchants of 'Saline will add to their
programs for <the free show on the
streets fromi time to time. Next
week it iwill be a short concert by the
High School band:—which will, inci-
denally, be just a year Old then:—
which will be added to the free movie show. The band, under their able
director, Clare Camburn of Macon,
has worked hard for a. year, they
have struggled hard to overcome the
natural greenness of <a beginner's
band, and they will play three or
four or more selections before "the
movies next Thursday evening, August 3.
Gross Wins Fr-oni Cook, 7 to 6.
TEight Innings; Haarer Loses
in Ninth, 13 to 11.
Last Thursday evening Gross
Harware defeated Cook Garage in an
overtime game, 7 to* 6. The struggle lasted eight innings. Errors
were quite the popular thing iwith
both sides maiking plenty. Cook,'
however, doubled up on- the hits, getting 14 to 7 for the winners. Bowen
and Gordon were the hitting stars
with three in (four trips to the plate.
Ormsby garnered '2 hits in three official trips to the well-known platter.
- The box score;
GROSS HARDWARE
AB
THE OBSERVER LINERS
Classified Advertising
»ILV7E\IU3I CH.1SGE. 25 CENTS
Oc per line first insertion, 4c per Sine*
each subsequent insertion.
Best CarhTartt overalls S1.25 at
Parsons'.
For Sale-—Six pigs two months old..
Mrs. C. Hass. 40
For Sale—Breeding and meat rab-
. bits. TInquire at this office.
All sales cash. No credit. Saline.
j Mercantile Company.
Onmsby, Is
Volz, lb
E. Westphal, c 4
Fuoss, p
E. Schmid, If
'A. Burkhardt,
Holmes, rs ....
rf'
People of the vicinity will rarnem . R
ber their playing at the high school: ^°f:ier%i "' 9
in short concerts diiring the winter, j ^°b^'^° -*--**- - ;
also at the annual high school com- i £*reaernitz, zd ^
mencement this year. Crippled a bit 7 . a™°'a' „,_
by the absence of some of their
members, they have yet added to their
instrumentation, they may be reinforced by the addition of a few recruits, and they will piay a- -few numbers next week as .a prelude to the
free movies.
This band is ripe for recruits and
the present is the best time to start
new youngsters in. The trumpet
and clarinet sections are already full,
and no more will be added. There is
a fine opening for a baritone, for altos, and another trombone may be
added. There will be no more saxophones added unless it is a baritone
or bass sax, but these can be used;
also another tenor sax. We now have
altogether too. many alto saxophones
and no mors, will be added at present.
Turn out. to the free show next
week," see* the rnovies-^extra' good
ones have been ordered—.and hear
your own high school band. An effort is being made to bring another
band here for an evening concert in
the near future, also, so be sure to
hear your own band first, then compare it iwith the other fellow's band.
Remember the date, Thursday, August 3. Concert at 8 p. m.
A. Gross, 2b
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COOK'S GARAGE
AB
.C. Gordon, lf 4
Tanner, 3b — 4
Fairbanks, o .... .!..... 3L
Cook, lb .*. 4
Fritz, rf — 4.
-A.sli rs* — -• - . ---- ^t
A. Westphal, <2b "!!" 4
Henderson, ls 3
•Hunt, Is 1
Bowen, p" 4
Shurtz, of , .: : 4
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. Choice Farm Seed for sale. Saline'
Mercantile Company.
For Sale—-2.0 .yearling fine wool
ewes. C. R. Parsons. -
12 Sidles Wolverine Work Shoes to
select from, at Parsons'.
Wanted—Livestock, of all kinds-
John Probyn, phone 251.
j Fly Spray in bulk, 75c per gallon.
r. Edward J. Muir.
I Rabbit feed and other supplies on
; sale at The Observer office.
Dr. Hess' Stock and TPoultry Tonic
now on sale by Saline Mercantile Co
Commencing July 1st, all sales of
coal strictly cash. Edward J. Muir.
Chevrolet Coupe. Good finish, good
I tires, 1933 license. Only ?65.00.
Wiedman Auto Company;
39 14 6
Gross 1 0. 0 2 0. 1 2 1—7
Cook 10 0 0 13 1 0—6
Don'it wait another day if you need
Dental work. Dr. R. G. Sigler, Den-
I ti.st, over Gross' -Hardware.
Note—Just as we go to press it
has been decided to hold: the movies
on Wednesday night, as usual; and
the band concert on Thursday night.
SALINE LOSES TO
WHITMORE LAKE
Game Proves COstly for Locals,
Hoeft Out fOr Several Weeks '
Due to Torn Finger.
Saline lost a close game to Whit-
more Lake Sunday by the score of 4
to 2. The contest proved a costly affair for the Independents, as Hoeft
lost a finger nail, torn off pulling
down a line drive with his -meat
hand. ,In the seventh, inning Jones
hit a terrific drive right back at
Hoeft, who stuck out his hand,
knocked it down, picked it up and
.threw him out at first before he noticed the injured member. Lambarth
•finished the game and was nicked for
onfe run. ■
Saline also suffered cfromrthe 'loss
of .two of its star players. George
Austin was out of the game with
poison ivy and Estermyer was given
a tryout with Ypsilanti in the M-O
league. We hate to see "Este" go,
but are glad to* see him get the
chance he so much deserves.
" The box score follows;
WHITMORE LAKE
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W. Spencer, lb 4 0
H7 Ehrenberg, 2b 4 1
H. Jones, p _ 3
Tuesday Cook dsifeated! Haarer in
two extra innings, the score being
12 to 11. The meat cutters went into
the last of the 7th with a two run
lead but two singles and a triple tied
the score. Both teams counted in
the eighth and the winning run was
pushed: across in the ninth when
Westphal romped home fromi third
after Ash had! flied to deep left field.
Both teams collected 17 hits. ,
The box score;
HAARER'S MARKET
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Bernard, If 5
E. Armbruster, cf 5
L. Armbruster, c .—77.;. 5
Westrick, 3b 5
Haarer, 2b 5
Brown,;p .-. 4
Gross, Is 4
Anthony, lb 4
Wheeler, rf 4
Moehn, J rs 2
Jedele, rs 1
*TM7cTaggart ;. 1
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1928 Chevrolet Sedan. Good finish.
$65.00: cash will buy this -car. Wiedman Auto Company.
Use Avicol Tablets for White "Diarrhoea and Cholera and keep those-
chicks healthy. Saline Mercantile Co.
For Sale—3,0i Guernsey and Jersey
cows, some fresh and nearby springers. Ed. Heininger, phone 33. 41
USE NO-DUS SOLUTION
To treat your coal.
Saline Mercantile Company.
Don't miss my display of new a'
| ficial plate-designs. Dr. R.-G.. Sig7.
' Dentist, over Gross' hardware.
R. Spencer,
C. Goff, ss
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H7 Slabaugh, of .77.... 4
Clinansmitt, 3b .7 4
T. Slabaugh, rf 4
H. Paul, c ...- 3
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SALINE
Ab R H E
Bernard, .If 4 00 0
H. Austin, c 4 110
Gross, 3b 4112
Hoeft, p 3 0 2 0
G. "Crittenden; 2b 1 O 0 0
Schmid, cf 4 0 .0 0.
Armbruster, ss -4 0 0 2
L. Crittenden, rf 4 O 1 0
Keubler, lb 3 0 0 0
Lambarth, 2b-p 3 0 0 0
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COOK'S GARAGE
AB H R
C. Gordon, If 5 2 2
Tanner, 3b 5 3 3
A.: Westphal, 2b 5 2 3
Henderson, ls 4 2.1
Ash,'rs 42 0
Cook, lb *. : 4 71 0
Fairbanks, c 4 0 0
Bowen, p 4 10
Shurtz, rf 4 2 1
Schmid, cf 4 2 2
45 17 12
*McTaggart batted for Jedele in
eighth. *
Haarer .7.7. G 1 3 5 1 0 Q; 1 0-—11
Cook 2 110 4 0 2 1 1—12
HOW THEY STAND
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Cook 4
Gross 2
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SALINE LADIES
ARE CHALLENGED
Gentler Sex of Barnegat Are Issuers;
Game Scheduled for Monday;
Good Battle' Promised.
Wolverine Horsehide Work Shoes
wear and stay soft. The most comfortable shoe made. Sold at Parsons'.
Lost—Beagle hound, answers to
name of Bead'. Black and white w.ith
brown foreheadi. Reward. Return
to O. C. Wheeler. . 41
• Stray Heifer*'— Person owning
stray heifer can have same by paying for this ad and: amount of pasture used. Herman Wackehhut.
Expert body and fender work, up-,
bolstering, spray painting, and service on all cars. West Side Garage-,
John E: Dicks, Prop.
Threshing Machines. Xwo re-possessed Wood Brothers Threshers
which must be sold. Priced right!
Wiedman Auto Company.
Used Tractors, priced from, §50.00
up. Fine line to choose from. Also
used Spreader, loaders and harrows.-
Wiedman Auto' Company. *_,-
Some iwondenful bargains in personal stationery,- greeting and bridge
cards, etc, at The Observer office.
See pur window display. -
Labor (.prices reduced. Let us repair your car Sow at a saving.
GEO. V COOK & SON,
Authorized Chevrolet Dealers
Celebrated Fiftieth
Wedding Anniversary
Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Boettger Observed the Event at West
Henry Street Home.
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Saline .'...„. 10 0 0000 1 0—-2
Whitmore L..'... 0 0 10 2 0 0 1 *—4
MRS. D0ROTH3T WTEDTEMEYERi
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Boettger,
West Henry street, quietly observed
the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage on Saturday- Mr. Boettger retired • from the farm, a number of
yeas ago and is 72 years of age'. His George Karcher. She was a member ;
good wife was born in Brooklyn, N. of the Benton church and the TLadies' •
Mrs. Dorothy Wedemeyer, aged 82,
widow of the late Peter Wedemeyer,
Passed away last Thursday at a Saline hospital.
She was born* in Lodi township
on June 17, 1851, and was married
to Mr. Wedemeyer in 1872. She was
the daughter of Lydia and John
Y., and confesses to being 72, also.
Seven of the- eight children that
blessed their union are living, TMrs.
Ella Zimmerman .passing away a
couple of years ago. -Those remaining are Walter of Ann Arbor, Mrs.
The ladies, really looked good in
their game on Monday—so good in
fact that the ladies of Barnegat have
challenged them, to play next Monday". It is, rumored that the, populace of the village across'the river
;have wagered their crops, etc., for
years to come on this tilt and it
should be a thriller.
Monday's game was also- a nerve
tester, home runs galore and—but]
then I: think we .won't say anything'!
about the errors. Anyway, the final'
score was Tigers 19, Bear Cats 11.-'
That shows that the weaker sex is"
not so weak when it comes to sock-'
ing that ball. i
The box: score;
TIGERS
AB
E. Burkhart, c
Hunt, p
Mrs. A. Burkhardt, rs
Fosdick, 2b
Brown, 3b
Armbruster, lb 4
L. Burkhardt, ls 3
Howard, rf 4
THelzenman, cf - 3
M. Karn, If :...,......:....„ 4
Oliver Farm Implements and Repairs
Wft are local dealers and will bo
pleased to supply your requirements
promptly. Wiedman Auto Company.
Tlie New Chevrolet Standard Six
NOW ON DISPLA7Y
Geo.*- V. Cook & Son,
Authorized Chevrolet Uealers
For Sale-^Registered Jersey cow,
several good used plows, Oliver sulky plow, good used 9-ft. cultipacker.
Fordsoh tractor S45. Herman Heininger, phone 33.
Aid Society of the church.
Funeral services were held; Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
late residence and at 2:30 at the
Benton church, Rev. Otto Papsdorf
0 _._ . __ _ officiating. Interment was in Ben-
Reuben Gauss and Karl! of TDexter,- ton cemetery.
Bernard, Saline, Mrs. Laura. Long- ■" Deceased is survived, by a sister,
fellow, Ann Arbor, Paul, Detroit and Mrs. George Paul', Freedom; four ' Hollis, lb-p , ,-. 4
Ernest of Wayne. -• sons, William of Saline, John of Sa- S. "Rogers, 72b 4
Their host of friends are wishing line • township, Aaron of Saline "and E.sAlber, 3b 4-
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Ice cream, social at Gottlob Gir-
bach's, on town line roadi, Friday,
Aug. 4, given by St. Paul's League.
Plenty cake. Come and bring your
friends. Price 10c. 41
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BEAR CATS
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Shurtz, c .:.: .7 5,
D.** Westphal, p-lb 5
them, many more anniversaries.
Alfred of Lodi; two daughters, Mrs.
JjErnest 'Lamparter, Lodi, and Mrs.
fAlfred Bauer, Boyne City. 23 grand-
CAR7D OF THANKS
I wish* to thank the many friends Children and five great-grandchild
who called on me and brought me ren.
flowers during my stay in the Gen-J
erai hospital. i The fellow pulling on the oars has j Tigers ........ 4 4
Clark Carter. no time to rock the boat. J Bear Cats.... 2 '2
C,'Stewart, rs .-. 4
Milhan, If —i. 4
V. Stewart, cf 4
O. Lambarth, Is 4
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New Idea Farm Implements. We
have been appointed local dealers and
will be pleased to supply your requirements in implements and repairs. Wiedman Auto Company.
ATTENTION, FARMERS
We're pleased). to announce, that
we're, now prepared to fill your orders for fuel oil and can promise
promnt delivery: Orders also taken
for oil burners. Maurice Henderson,
phone 272.
HI-GRA7DE COAL AND COKE
AT RIGHT PRICES **
Stand'aird Petroleum Coke.
White Star "Petroleum Coke.
• Koppers Miami Coke.
Koppers Pocahontas.
Koppers_ Elkhonn.
Dundon'Red Ash.
7D., L. & W. Coal.
Phones: Res.. 3-R 105 Office, 2-R
EDW. J. MUIR
Object Description
| Title | 1933-07-27; Saline Observer |
| Date | 1933-07-27 |
| Publisher | LeBaron & Nissly |
| Description | An issue of the Saline, Michigan newspaper. Published weekly. Began publication in 1880. No longer published. |
| Subject/Keywords | Saline (Mich.) - Newspapers; Washtenaw County (Mich.) - Newspapers; |
| Copyright Permission | This material is in the public domain. |
| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
Description
| Title | 1933-07-27; Saline Observer |
| Date | 1933-07-27 |
| Publisher | LeBaron & Nissly |
| Description | An issue of the Saline, Michigan newspaper. Published weekly. Began publication in 1880. No longer published. |
| Subject/Keywords | Saline (Mich.) - Newspapers; Washtenaw County (Mich.) - Newspapers; |
| Copyright Permission | This material is in the public domain. |
| Type | Newspaper |
| Format | JPG/JPEG |
| Language | English |
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' 'A ' *K?e~esz-«i-,'y._ t.* f I _, SALINE'S HOME NEWSPAPER FOR 51 YEARS DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THIS SECTION VOLUME 52' SALINE. WASHTENAW COUNTY, .TMICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933 7NU7M7BER 40 The Saline Savings Bank The One Story Bank on the Corner Saline, Michigan Cleco FI)r Spray In Bulk LARRO DAIRY FEED BEET PULP BINDER TWINE, SALT, ETC. We also grind all kinds of hay and grain as you like it Why trade 140 lbs., shelled corn for 100 lbs. cracked corn when you can get 140 .-'-'■■■' lbs. cracked for 10 cents? COLE'S FEED STORE PHONE 47 SALINE, MICH. AN OLD FIRM s ■ at the OLD PLACE > to serve you QUALITY HOME DRESSED MEATS Choice, tender Steaks, Chops, Roasts Home smoked Hams and Bacon Home-made Bologna Baked Ham and Meat Loaves —SATURDAY— With every purchase of'50c or over, three pounds of our best home-rendered Lard for 18c. PHONE 38 \ Scbmid's Sanitary Meat Market "WE SELL WHAT WE ADVERTISE" Open 6 A. M. to 9 every evening »o-^o-wi£« Carefully planned advertising and copy changed regularly will swell your Saturday night crowds, and keep them coming throughout the week—that is if you use Observer space. CONFIDENTIAL—AH wedding invitation and an, nouncement orders given The Observer are considered confidential. Fine line to select from. The satisfied customers will tell you this is true. We have all the latest styles of type and paper stock. Shocking Record Written By The 1933 Legislature Future Generations Will Be Astounded By Revelations of 1933 Legislative Sessions. Briber}' Chalrg-es Added to Lobbying and Political Patronge Disgraced the State of Michigan; Citizens Disgusted By Lansing Disclosures. By V. J. Brown Last week the discussion was upon the subject of lobbying as it is carried on at the state capitol. Fortunate indeed! that the chapter devoted to this subject was written before the final adjournment .of the legislature was taken, or rather it •might be more accurate to say that it is fortunate the chapter was written before the events of Monday and Tuesday which preceded the final adjournment. Otherwise there might have crept into the text some of the bitterness (which marked' those closing hours' and some of the charges and counter charges' iwhich the journals of the house and senate of those two days contain. Recently there fell into the hands of this writer a volume containing the public documents of the state senate of Michigan for the year 1838 No reader of that volume - can fail to be imp>ressed with the importance of the matters then under consideration and the degree of serious deliberation given those matters by the various committees and eomimissions entrusted with their solution. The reader of the record of the stats legislature of 1933, 25 years hence, a half-century hence or a hundred years in the future will stand aghast at what that record discloses. .- Committtee Frank The report of the house committee appointed to investigate open •charges of lobbying, discusses the question with frankness. That record will show that open offers of money for Votes for and aginst pending legislation were more common than decent citizens care to admit. The very fact that this record shows that certain senators and representatives were openly offered cash which was promptly refused naturally leads one to suspect that these -money-passing lobbyists must have found some takers somewhere, else they would not have become so' bold. That- the very legislation thus openly opposed iwith offers of money- eventually failed of pssage over the veto of the governor is certainly■',disturbing' in its" "sinisr ter setting. Then, too,.. there is -that "matter concerning the activity of one Isaiah TLeebove. "He is referred to in the report as: one whose "desires are evil, and whose -purposes are malevolent.'' This report, lobby and TLeebove subjects alike, are rnade'a part of the official journal of the house of .representatives of the great state of Michigan in the year of oui- Lord, one thousand nine hundred thirty- three. The report, as it appears in the official journal for future generations to read, states, "Ths' governor • saw fit to present himself before the committee in .defense Of , Mr. Leebove." Testimony of the governor, quoted in the report and the - journal, has the ' governor confessing that "He (Leebove), is. a friend of mine." A student of state history a century from now will also learn that the same Isaiah Leebove was a generous contributor to the campaign funds of Williaim A. Comstock in at least two of his pre-election candidacies and that following his election in 1932 William A. Comstock persistently refused! to .make a disclosure of the sources of., such campaign contributions or the purposes for iwhich the .money -was spent, as required by. law. Contradictory Report After quoting what the governor testified to under oath, the report uses the word! "however" in a significant way and proceeds to disclose other testimony of a contradictory character. Earlier in the session the governor in addressing a body made the statement that the "new deal'' administration was making history. It was and is. But what a history! One may quote freely from this historic report because it so happens that the resolution which led to the appointment of the lobby investigating committee was offered by a" democratic .member of the house. Its chairman Is a democrat and a (majority of its members are democrats. The issue is not and never has been, one of political play. Rather it grew out of anoutraged decency still existing among the vast majority of the membership of the legislature. This chanter on lobbying is assuming a -length never intended, and yet there is more that ought to be said. TEc-noray Measures Passed So-called economy measures introduced on the first day of the session as the result of a commission appointed bv act of the 1933 special session, numbered 98. Of this number 63 .passed both houses and eight were supplanted by- other bills which passed or their purpose was accomplished by other means. Two iwere vary- properly vetoed by the govenor because in the course of their passage the-"- bp-'.aime loaded with amend- imtents of an entirely different character. This makes a net of 69 out of a possible 98, a batting average of 704- iwhich is srood in any.league. What ."happened! to the remainder? Well about an even half-dozen -had to do with removing statutory salaries for judicial arid quasi-judicial countv and. district officials and in' reducing statutory salaries for circuit and supreme court judges. Most of (Concluded on page four) BY N07CO7D7E7M7IJS And now around the town is gossip, (as usual) but this tiime the topic is not local. What is this latest uproar that is causing so much talk ? You've talked7- it and heard it. Why, it's our new governor. For some reason he's failed to meet the citizens' approval and. now "recall" is all the ga-ga. . Just jwhat about our governor do you know to. be a fact ? The most you've heard about him has been newspaper gossip and talk. I'm, not hurrahing for 'Corn- stock or boosting politics. To me there is only one "thing "crookeder" than a political election and that's two political elections. We put Governor Comstock in. office and ' we ought to stick by him.* "Why" you say, "we found out things that turn= ed oiir minds against him." All the things you do and say about our governor you should have done and said before election. You, as well as the r§st of the country, .went Democrat mad. Anyone that wasn't a Republican was O. K. You; did not need history to vote; all you needed iwas a D-E-M-O, and the party was fine. He's your choice, your model, your prize. You put him in yourself. What he does is your doing. Take it .and smile. -If The by -chance isn't the man he should be for governor, sirnlle it off. . But learn a lesson. Don't Vote party, vote man. This party business is all the bunk. What party sticks to their codes and laws ? CodeSj promises, laws, etc., are fine before election, but afterwards they are just by-gones.. - 7Cf-.it comes to a re-election (what Tfoois "we'll be in the eyes of our 47 brother states. Michigan, the automobile ^center of the •world, so young and .childlike she let politics get the best of her. Free government, free people and free air, both hot and cold. Hot air gossip and cold air £ or* tires, but now where does the free government come in? TEf this isja free country, why on earth do we {have forty and one laws that-we can't understand, and taxes that we can't pay? What a mechanical center and world of progress our United States are. The Century of Progress 1933. Applesauce! We have" a fair. We have a car. but where's our home? •Yes, we too have a home. A bungalow, with a beautiful7 yard encircling. The grass seed's ' taxed, the mower to cut it is taxed; the lumber in the house is taxed, the roofing is taxed and little Billy, .the family dog, has a tax aro'-nd his heck. It's silly but true, folks, and [every inch oi -water1 -spouting frgm,{'papa's pride,= the new $3 spray, is "taxed*: *. Take it* from, me, brother slave,1 ^consume all the air possible. - ■ It's.-stillL free.- God gave us air and as ye± we'aie permitted to use,it freely. God als"o*g*ave us our beautiful trees.': from; which: our hemes are constructed'.' Just try' to get some free! Day by'day- it costs us more to: live.'-Each hour-'of the day we pay more'money for. better • times. The farther-We--go the nearer we -get to a perfect 'nothing. No work, no home, no (money and: no food. One grand perfect nothing. Just a plain round O.' Our end of perfect happiness. Many times I've heard the question, "What is heaven?" Well, I have a perfect answer*- for that. Heaven is a place where there are no taxes. Can you imagine anything more wonderful ? Now' our "political friends are leaving us -out. But at the end when we're all together on that golden trail to*-God's- Golden Gates our political leaders will stop to argue who should leadj.-.a,'Democrat or a Republican,-'jand while the argument is raging hot-with a neiw- ly arrived Socialist we iwill say- our last goodrbye as those beautiful gates close on crooked faces. To ane there's .only one sane, free place, and that's, the insane asylum. Is- that a bit far-fetched*?' In such a place the inhabitants think they're everything from Adam-and Eve to King Ben, but they're7 happy and never heard of politics or taxes. We are- just a step behind: them. When iwe catch up we'll dump all politics overboard. Now iwith political jeoohomy sink ing with our setting sun .we'll go to rest between taxed sheets on a taxed bed' to be wakened at 9 a. irk by a taxed clock to eat a taxed breakfast and take our .morning stroll in a, new- pair, of .white, duck . taxed -trousers. Now say-adieu, penning the last line* with a-15to bottle of_taxed ink.. The pen- by good fortune, was handed down by my father's father'si brother and as yet is under no tax obligation. Band Concert Next Thursday Evening ■Two Overtime Games In Twilight League TFirst of Series of Extra Attractions to Be. Supplied Through Liberality of Business Men. Always on the alert to give more for the money than anyone else, the merchants of 'Saline will add to their programs for |
