The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-01-30
Would Keep Festive Pill
Out of Minors Hands.
RAZOR NOT A WEAPON
The Cook Bill to Correct Alleged De-
fsets IN Law Governing Licens-
ing OF Veterinarians Sent
Back to Committee.
BY D. A. DONOVAN,
Special Columbus Correspondent.

clSaret isn't going TO De driven
out of Ohio, not just yet. Sen
ator' Dollison of Hooking county, who
is author of the stringent anti-cigaret
bill now pending in the general as
sembly, has come to the conclusion
that the task of putting the rollers
under the ubiquitous pill" is too tre-
mendous to be accomplished Just now. |
He opines that the time has not come |
completely to eradicate the cigaret |
evil, although he considers that ulti-
mately it must go. He has according |
1y drafted his bill anew and the only |
provision it has left is one that raises
from II to 81 the age limit under |
which it is unlawful to sell to minors. |
One of the most drastic provisions of
the former bill was that which make
st unlawful to manufacture or sell
Cigarets in the state of Ohio. When
the author began to study conditions
in other "anticigaret" states, how
ever, he says he found that the law
against the making of cigarets seemed
to be without deterrent effect. He
concluded that this remedy did not
reach the evil and he consequently
determined to take but one step just
now, namely to keep the festive "pill'
out of the hands of all persons un-
der 21.
Can Carry Razors.
Should razor, carried in the vest
pocket or in ones grip, be regarded
as a concealed weapon and be pro-
hibited by law? To this suggestion
the senate judiciary committee has
given an emphatic mo" The com
mittee has under consideration bill
which would place any carrier of a
concealed weapon behind the bars of
the penitentiary. Senator Broad
stone of Greene county wanted razors
included. He lives in the city Of
Xenia. where the colored population
is especially large, and his argument
was that on the person of an individ-
ual of colered persuasion, q razor was
more dangerous than a gun. But
some member of the committee hap
pened to remember that he himself
was in the habit of carrying his ton
serial equipment to and from his home
every week, and the senators prompt
ly frowned the amendment down.
senate's First Real Scrap.
~ The senate has had it's first real
scrap. 1t came over the Cook bill to
correct certain alleged defects in the
present law governing the licensing of
veterinarians. Trouble started when
Senator Cunningham of Knox county
tried to get in an amendment allow
ing persons who have been practicing
during the last five years, to continue
without license. The amendment
aroused the ire of Senator Cook, who
comes from Cincinnati, and who is
himself veterinarian. He charged
that the amendment was concession
to quacks and that 1t meant going
backward to the time before the pres
ent law was passed 10 years ago.
Bill Back In Committee.
Every year in Ohio there is loss
through diseases among live stock
amounting to between $15,0OO,O00 and
$2O,000,000," he exclaimed. Every
year thousands Of human beings in
this state die from diseases contract
ed from animals in various ways.
The object of the law in the first
place was to prevent quackery and
protect farmers from the operations
of fakirs. Do we want to go back to
the time before veterinarians were
licensed at all?"
Senator Green of Coshocton, Demo
cratic floor leader, got into the fight
at this point and moved that the bill
be referred back to the committee
for some amendment He said he
was in favor of the spirit of the meas
ure, but feared that ultimately the
farmer might suffer on occasions
when he would wish to call some ex-
perienced man, not veterinarian, to
relieve his stock of emergency illness
until a veterinarian could be had.
The bill went back to the committee.
Would Ban Anonymous Notes.
Aroused by the circulation of anony.
nous letters about the halls of the
general assembly, Senator Potting of
Summit county, has offered a resolu-
tion to the senate placing the official
ban of the general assembly on all
letters, circulars or other literature
seen in about the assembly halls.
The measure allows attaches Of the
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Civil Service in Election Boards.
Columbus.-Members Of elections
boards of Ohio counties are back.
ing scheme requiring civil serv
ice examinations for members of
system, the secretary of state has ap-
pointed members upon the petition or
recommendation of county political
committees. Members of the county
election boards who are advocating
the change to civil service believe
that they can thus be retained in Of
fee indefinitely.
State Wards to Equip AssylaH..
Columbus. - Inmates of sle pen
ltentiary and state reformatories,
Oh the order Of Governor Cox. will
make most OF the furnishings for the
million dollar asylum for criminal in
sane at Lima, to be completed In
eight months.
tA Home Burns, Man Dies.
Marietta. Penned in, his home
by flames, Daniel PrestQRn.fQ..r Q..r'' IN
nf ViS.ent, near herr