The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-21
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
WHAT LEGISLATORS ARE DO
ING AND OTHER HAPPENINGS
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School Teachers Form Union.

0CnOOi teachers FOTtn Union.
The formation by the school teach
ers of Ohio of a union to increase
their wages places in prominence a
question that has become pertinent in
all parts Of the state. The new state
school code has done something in the
way of increased emolument for the
country and the village teachers. 1t
has made somewhat higher minimum
for the country and village teachers
salary, although the net increase does
not amount to very much. However,
in the cities and in the larger towns
little, If anything, has been done for
the teachers for many years. The cost
Of living has arisen, but the salaries
of the teaching forces have remained
the same. The result is an acute
spirit of unrest which is bound to
grow to such dimensions that it will
demand attention. In Columbus and
many other cities the school board
freely admit that the salaries OF teach
ers is unjustly low, but plead lack of
| funds to remedy the conditions, owing
to the operation of the Smith / per
cent law. Even now a commission is
investigating city finances to see il
more money cannot be made avail
able.
Grewsome Scheme to Get Money.
| Joseph L. Reibstein, who ended
two-year term in the Ohio penitentiary
| hts In hn fnly Dol
more, there to answer more charges
against him, has had a grewsome
scheme to get money, according to the
accusations against him. Reibstein,
who is known also as Harry Solomon,
apparently finds 1t profitable to vic
timize monument dealers. His prac.
tice has been, it is said, to ind newly
made graves in cemeteries and then to
invite monument men to the scene.
His plan then has been to tell the
dealers that close relative has just
died and to arrange for a suitable
headstone, usually at price of about
$50. He would always tender a worth.
less check for the headstone, ordi.
narily for an amount $40 or $40 in eX.
cess of the price and would pocket the
change given him. For such an Of
Tense he was sent to the penitentiary
from Cleveland
Has Artistic temperament.
The artistic temperament OF a Co,
lumbus tax assessor has resulted in
an interesting dispute in which prom
inent Columbus artist, A. F. Lundberg,
is involved. Mr.. Lundberg happens to
be painter and his walls at home are
adorned with some of his best works
of art. When the tax assessor espied
the paintings his artistic sense was
thoroughly aroused. He admired what
he termed masterpieces. The artist
was happy to find such true apprecia.
tiCn of his work, but the subtle praise
of his work became too painfully ma
terialistlc when he found that his
works of art had been appraised by
the assessor at $4,000. Now the inter.
esting spectacle is being presented at
the capital Of an artist actually dis.
paraging his own work Mr.. Lundberg
whereby he can effect reduction of
the appraisement. So he is telling the
district tax commissioners that he is
not such wonderful artist after all
and that the paintings which line his
walls are not worth such fabulous
sums.
Swndes Doctors.
The state insurance department
is confident that E. S. Hail. un.
der arrest in Cincinnati for OBJ.
tanning money under false pretense,
is the same smooth individual who
has been swindling physicians in diff
ferent parts Of the state and on whose
trail the department has been for two
months.
Warden f. J. Fogarty Of the Indi.
ana state prison at Michigan City,
Ind, has advised the department that
the records of the prison show that
Hall is paroled convict, and that he
was sent up from Wayne county, that
state, in 1909 for from 2 to IA years
for embezzlement The record says
that he was arrested at Dayton three
times, and that he was in Jail there 13
months for having counterfeit money
in his possession.
In March complaints began to pour
in on the department from physicians
in Columbus, Portsmouth, Cincinnati
and other cities that a glib-tongued
stranger had induced them to part
with money for insurance policies by
representing to them that he was au.
thorized to appoint them medical ex.
aminers for some well-known insur.
ance company Expecting to get we'll
paid for their services, the doctors
would comply with his suggestion
that they take out a policy. He would
collect the premium from them. They
would never see him again. When the
policy failed to come, the duped physi.
clan would realize he had been vic.
timiZed.
New Question for Lluor Board.
Can a saloonkeeper employ his
minor son or daughter in his place of
business? is the newest question to
confront the state liquor license board
A case Is recited in which a father
who keeps saloon often employs his
1S-year-old daughter to dispense liquor
when he happens to be busy. The new
state liquor laws prohibit minors from
being employed in or about saloons.
Do the laws cover the case in point?
the state commission is being asked.