The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-02
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D. A. DONOVAN,
Special Columbus Correspondent.
Coluuhua Ohio

Columbus, Ohio.
r IBERAL and temperance forces in
Ohio are prepared to make Ohio
N tremble under the impact Of
their clash of strength in the
very near future. From the national
headquarters of the American An
ti-Saloon league at Westerville, o.,
the intimation has gone forth that
Ohio is to be the crucial battle ground
or the great nationwide temperance
light into which every ounce of
strength win be thrown from either
side. From Washington, Chicago and
Cincinnati, where leaders of the lib
eral forces are comforting, the word
has come that the greatest defensive
fight in the history of the American
saloon is being planned On their
side, the drys will have a daily paper
after next December. 1t will be print
ed In Washington and probably will be
first used as weapon in the Ohio pro-
hibition fight next year. The vets
probably will not resort to a daily
paper, but they will have plenty of
funds for circularizing and news
paper advertising campaign. Hundreds
OF thousands of dollars will be spent
by both sides in the Ohio campaign,
and millions of dollars before the ma
tion.wide fight shall have been settled.
AS matter of fact the Ohio fight al
ready has begun. Each side is groom
ing candidates for congress on the wet
and dry issue, for the reason that the
next congress will be asked to submit
a nationwide prohibition amendment
to the states. Thus the prime issue in
the election of congressman this fall
will be temperance. 1t will continue
to be vital issue in the next Ohio
general assembly, for the vets are
threatening to petition the assembly
for repeal of the Rose county option
la wunder the initiative and referen-
dunn. Then on the heels of the legis-
lature will come the actual opening Of
the Ohio prohibition fight, one upon
which the whole nation fight will
largely hinge, If the plans of the drys
materialize.
Fates Deal HarshIy.
The fates, if such there be, have
dealt harshly with Mrs. Lawrence F..
Conway, widow of the Toledo repre-
sentative who died last year. When
the legislature voted to Mrs. Conway
early in 1918 the $1,000 salary that
would have been her husbands, she
concluded to hold the warrant for a
time instead of presenting it for pay
ment to the state treasurer. Just a
flew days ago she deposited the war
rant in Liberty Center bank and
two days afterward the bank failed.
When Mrs. Conway heard the bad
news she wired to the state treasurer
to stop payment. But the warrant
had been cashed and now the real
payee will have to take her chances
with other depositors of the defunct
institution.
New Methods Are Not New.
After all, the new humanitarian
methods employed at the Ohio peni-
tentiary are not new. Somebody has
been digging into early prison records
and has found that way back in the
pioneer days the prisoners used to be
permitted to play baseball. That was
as early as 1919 and 1920. The one
| trouble experienced at that time with
the baseball pastime was that every
now and then the ball would be
| knocked over the walls of the then
small enclosure. All of the prisoners,
OF course, would have been willing to
go after it, but the warden was
| careful man. Also he was an in
genlous man, for he solved the diff
Guilty by training the pet prison canine
to slip out of the prison gates and
rescue the ball whenever it went over
the walls. In those days baseballs
weren't as plentiful or as cheap as
they are now, and whenever the prison
dogs search for the pill" was in
effectual the game would have to be
abandoned for days at time.
Custer Action Against Standard.
Proceedings having for their ulti.
mate purpose an custer of the Stand
ard Oil Co., the Ohio Oil Co., the Solar
Refining Co. and the Buckeye Pipe
Line Co., all subsidiaries of the Stand
ard Oil Co., have just been filed with
Judge e. B. Dillon and the county
courts by George H. Phelps of Findlay,
in a suit to compel Attorney General
Hogan to file custer proceedings
against these Ohio concerns and the
Imperial OIL Co. of Canada, also sub
sidiary company. In January Of last
year, he alleges, the Imperial Oil Co.
OF Canada, which had increased it's
capital stock of $4,000, 900, built pipe
line through Michigan and Ohio and
connected with the pipe lines of the
Buckeye Pipe Line Co., a subsidiary
of the Standard company, at Cygnet,
Wood county, and SO established a
physical connection between the
Standard subsidiaries of Canada and
those OF the United States.
Good Roads Fund Big.
Ohio has $941, ,7O2.66 in the good
roads fund, which has been turned in
by counties from the half-mill levy
under the Hite law, State Auditor
Donahey said.
Many Of the large counties have
not yet certified their amounts, so
that the total, the auditor stated. /,
will reach about $1,5OO,OOO. This is
only the first settlement. The second
will bring a much larger B
amount into the state road fund. The
;otal in the general revenue fund at {
he close Of the weeks business was
y, 100 0,284S0. h
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