The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-02-27
Two Important BIlls.

SemDly this week. T1e HaDllty IN
surance comp, ales will be driven out
of business IL the Green Workmen's
Compensation measure passes, and
the same thing will happen to the
abstractors Of titles IL the Torrens
bill for registering land titles goes
through. The compensation bill
places Industrial insurance wholly in
the hands of the state and thus leaves
nothing for the private liability peo
pie. The Torrens bill does away with
the necessity of abstracting land
titles and substitutes a system where.
in the county recorder gives the pur.
chaser of land a certificate Of title
It would place every recorder under
heavy bond.
Medical inspection 81 Schools.
Medical and dental inspection in all
the schools of Ohio is now being
warmly sponsored by the state board
of health and the Ohio Medical asso
citation. Bills are pe4dfng in the as.
sembly seeking to compel the ap.
pointment of a medical inspector and
dental inspector in every school dis
trict at the ratio of not to- exceed
one inspector of each kind for each
1000 children This, it is estimated,
would completely insure the careful
supervision of the bodily condition
and the condition of the teeth oi
every school child in Ohio.
Hunters License Law.
In the expectation that the house
will concur in the action of the SEN
ate in passing the Hunters License
law, the state fish and game commits.
sion is preparing for a new era OF
activity. The bill provides that every
hunter shall pay fee of 81 annually
the funds to go to the fish and game
commission for the carrying on of its
work. A provision in the bill gives
the commission the right to set apart
huge game preserves for the protec
ton of propagation Of game. 1t is ex
pected that at least $4,000 yearly
will result from the proposed license
fees. Under present law resident
hunters pay no Incense.
Proposed Prison Changes.
Seven recommendations of changes
in present methods of prison manage
ment and prison industry for Ohio
are made in the report of the prison
reform commission Just submitted tC
Gov. James M. Cox.
Recommendations made follow q
three-week survey of conditions as
they exist at present, both in the pen
itentiary at Columbus and the reform
atory at Mansfield. Aside from the
recommendation that the state i'm
mediately take steps to buy about
| 1000 acres of farm land located il
the central part of the state for the
| future building of a new state peni
tentiary, the next most important
recommendation concerns the making
of an allowance in money to peniten
| tiary convicts. Says the commission
in it's report:
"We recommend that; in connection
with the state-use system of employ
ing convict labor, opportunity be &C
corded the prisoner to earn a mod
crate allowance in money, under prop
er rules and conditions, as an en-
enlargement and reward for faithful
industry and good conduct, this al
| lowance to go toward the support o
! the prisoners family dependent upor
him, or be put to his credit, subjec
to proper conditions, when there il
no one dependent upon him.
/ Another recommendation is that the
legislature enact law providing ;
life sentence in the penitentiary fol
habitual and confirmed criminals
Ohio had such law, but it was re
pealed ten years ago.
THE greatest care should be eXer
cised to obtain the services o. men o
the highest character and specia
qualifications as prison manager ant
officers" says the commission il
urging the absolute divorce of prisol
management from political affairs
'In the selection of such officers ant
employees, character and special quail
| ifications for the work should be tht
only things considered"
In a general discussion Of the peni
tentiary, the commission, says tina
Improvements which have been mad
in the present state prison hav,
greatly improved conditions, and tina
| it will meet all requirements for tht
next 10 OF IL years. But it recon
mends that prison commission b,
created by the legislature to condemn
and buy for the state above 200
acres upon which to build new pen
| itentiary, by easy stages, by convic
labor and from stone taken from tn
states quarry.
| Increase in number of the peniten
tiary industries is strongly urged b,
the board to provide employment TO
the 600 or 800 idle men now in tina
institution. Quarrying stone, making
bricks, tile and sewer pipe, WOO
working, structural iron work, making
of mats and mating, knitting mills
soap making, printing and book bind
ing are among the list Of occupation
urged as practicable for prison labor
Over half of the list enumerated al
ready are ia operation, either at tn
penitentiary or the reformatory.
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