The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-10-01
NEWS CULLED
in THE CAPITAL
WHAT LEGISLATORS ARE Do
ING AND OTHER HAPPENINGS
o. A. DONOVAN.

N gle going on in the eastern coal
~ fields of Ohio, where for more
than six months miners have been
out of work because Of the dead
lock between the miners and operators
over a wage scale, is now being told by
the appeals that are being sent broad
cast asking aid for the families of the
workers. 1t is estimated that fully
| 1000 families of miners are facing star
vation, for they have been continuous
ly for half a year without income.
Stores which have been giving the un-
employed men credit for provisions
and clothing are said in many cases
to be themselves confronted by disas-
ter. Children are said especially to
be suffering, for hundreds have been
unable to attend school thus far owing
to lack of food and clothing. Frank
w. Miller, state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, is arranging a plan to
ask the school children of the rest
of the state to aid the child victims
of the strike. The secretary of the
miners, G. w. Savage, has sent out an
appeal to the public for funds. The
state mining officials are lending their
aid to the movement to appeal for
public aid. Meantime, even in the
face of the seeming crisis and in the
very teeth Of the approaching winter
with its promised hardships, the fight
goes desperately on. Miners officials
declare that they will not settle on
any wage scale less than. that which
has been used as the basis for the
peace terms agreed upon with other
sections of the state. On their side
the operators insist that they will
not make any concession further than
that represented by their recent offer
of the Pittsburgh scale. This, however,
is something more than two cents per
ton less than the scale which operators
in other parts of the state are paying.
Thus the end of the conflict is not in
sight.
Health Officers to Meet.
Health officers from the southern
part of the state will meet the state
board of health at Cincinnati, Oct. 22
and %, to confer upon questions of
rural health administration. Especial
interest attaches to this meeting on
account of the proposed changes in ex'
isting health laws, looking to more
efficient administration of public
matters in rural districts. The object
of the conference is to acquaint health
officials with the most approved
methods of conducting their work and
to bring them into closer touch with
the state board. Officials from 45
counties will take part.
Who viii House Cripple?
Who will offer home to bright
lively boy of six who suffered the loss
of his legs below the knees while
hopping freights? The children's vel
fare bureau of the board of state chari
ties wants some philanthropical per
son to take permanent charge of a
lad who is thus physically handi
capped. He is at the children's home
in Youngstown, where he has beer
fitted out with artificial limbs which
enable him to skip around almost as
agilely as other youngsters of his owr
age who have no such infirmity. He
has been given the name of Frank
Schubert, although his real name I:
not known.
Teddy's First Speech in Ohio.
Col. Roosevelt will make his frs
campaign address in Ohio next Mon
day evening, when he will speak in Co
lumbus. Saturday evening he speaks
at Indianapolis, and from there he will
go to Mentor, Lake county. to spenC
Sunday at the home of James R. Gar
field, Progressive candidate for gov
ernor, who was a member of Mr.
Roosevelt's cabinet when he was presi
dent. He will reach Columbus Monda!
afternoon and before his night address
will receive the Progressive editor
and prominent members of that part,
at dinner which will be given at tn,
Neil House.
Appeal for Red Cross Funds.
A statewide appeal for Red Cros
funds has been made by Gov. Cox
who is ex-officio president of the Obi
branch of the organization. Thes
funds will be used for the relief o
European war sufferers. In Columbu
citizens committee has been al
pointed to canvass for funds. A
funds should be sent to Jacob SchmiC
} lapp of Cincinnati, treasurer of the Of
ganiZation.
} Ohio Corn Boys Special.
The Ohio corn boys special vii
start for Washington Monday morr
ing, Nov. 80. The date has just bee
, fixed. In the party will be 1900 boy
| and girls of the Buckeye state VIII
| have won the right to go on this tri
in corn raising, baking and SEWN
contests. They will also visit Phil;
, delphia and New York, returnin
home Dec. 5.
May Appeal to Assembly.
1t may be necessary for the stat
: agricultural commission to ask tn
legislature to enact law for authorit
to establish game preserves in tn
, state. The attorney generals depar
ment has been asked to give an opil
ion as to whether the commission no
is clothed with power to create sue
reservations, and its members will ne
be surprised if the holding is that th
commission does not have such al
thority. If this turns out to be tn
case, recourse will be made to tn
legislature next winter for the al
thority to carry out the plan for gam
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One of Hardest State Problems.
One of the hardest state problems
I that of preventing the overlapping
t official duties, state officials say. 1t
a commnn nractice for the represent;