The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-05-15

Representative Kramer Of RIchIand
county 10 the "show me" Democrat Of the
house. He voted several times against
the administration when skeptIeal Of Its
program.
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has been that industry should De
made to bear the full burden of the
cost of compensation.
These points of difference are
claimed to be met in the bill that has
been drawn for initiation as a SUBJ
stitute for the Green law.
Not Self Executing.
The decision of the supreme court
to the effect that the home rule for
cities amendment to the constitution
is not self executing and that it re-
quires new city charter or some
sort of enabling legislation by the
legislature to become operative, Will
cause set back to the plans of
scores of municipalities. Many cities
have believed themselves clothed with
sweeping home rule powers since the
amendment became effective. But the
supreme court says that this Is not SO
and that home rule is more or less a
myth until cities adopt charters of
their own or until the legislature
! passed enabling legislation.
Can't Secure Fee.
| A decision of the supreme court in
the case of George c. Deckenbach, for
mer tax inquisitor of Hamilton coun-
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forts to secure fee of $1S,592 from
the county. The supreme court re-
verses the findings of the superior
and circuit courts of Hamilton coun-
| ty. In 1887 Deckenbach made a con.
tract with the Hamilton county COM
missioners to ferret out tax dodgers
and the next year he discovered prop
erty along the Ohio river leased to
coal companies by the city of Cincin-
natl. The auditor placed the property
on the tax duplicate in the name of
the companies, but they enjoined him
and the name of the city was substi
tuted. 1t ultimately paid taxes of
$4,000 into the treasury. The tax
inquisitor sued for 25 per cent of the
amount paid. The supreme court
holds he is entitled to nothing.
viii Instruct the Rank and Fie.
Ohio State, University is to be an
enormous dispenser of information,
owing to provisions of the university
extension bill enacted by the legisla-
ture and designed to permit the state
university to enter the general extern
sion field of work. The aim of the
measure is to carry instructions to
the people and permit the general
public to be benefited by the knowl
| edge and facilities which the college
of the state has in store. The policy
is brand new one in Ohio and seeks
to emulate the system of Wisconsin.
Its theory is to have the state uni.
versity act as instructor for the rank
and file Of the people of the state
instead of merely for the few that
are able to come to Columbus and en-.
roll as students. The plan of dis.
seminating knowledge through the
state is by the plan mainly of send
ing teachers and lecturers wherever
| asked for or needed. 1t is the pur-
! pose of the new law to have all of
the departments of the state univer-
| sity do the same work for all the peo-
pie as the university department of
agriculture now does for the farmers.
Since by another new law Ohio State
university is to have departments of
| dentistry, medicine and pharmacy
next year, it may not be long before
elemental knowledge along such lines
will be carried to the people through
out Ohio in much the same manner
as information about farming now is
being disseminated among the farm
ers. In its extension work the uni
versity will give the people the ad-
vantage of its various engineering
equipment, its store of library books,
it's past research work, and the COM
bined knowledge Of it's big faculty.
The new departure marks big new
era in the history of the state uni
versity. With its new medical, den
tai and pharmacal departments 1t will
become the rival of any educational
institution in the United States in
point of completeness of equipment.
For its medical and dental depart
ments it will take over the buildings
and faculties of Ohio-Starling Med
! ical university of Columbus.