The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-01-22

getting better care, more comfort and
more amusement than nine-tenths OF
them ever enjoyed on the outside oi
the prison.
Gov. Cox Gets Medal.
Gov. Cox has just received a letter
from President Wilson announcing a
gold medal OF merit" has been sent
him by the Red Cross and congratulate,
ing him on work done during the mood
The president wrote: 1T was large.
ly due to your prompt, energetic and
wise measures for emergency relief,
to your confidence in Red Cross and
to your hearty cooperation in its ef.
forts to mitigate the suffering of the
victims of the serious floods that the
society was able to cope successfully
with so great catastrophe"
Conservation of Coal.
The recommendations of the Ohio
mining commission that the state pro-
ceed at once to compel q greater con-
servation of the coal supply is not
favored by John Moore, the president
of the Ohio Miners. At the opening
session of the miners annual conven-
tion here Mr.. Moore said that al
though he favored conservation as a
matter of principle, he believed it was
too wide in scope to be undertaken by
a single state. He believed it should
be encouraged as a national policy.
Demand for Clerical Aid.
So urgent is the demand for clerical
aid in the offices OF the various county
tax assessors that civil service rules
are to be sweepingly suspended in the
employment of tax assistants for the
time being at least 1t is estimated
that before Feb. l real estate cards in
the number of 100000 will have to be
filled out and the call issued from SS
counties for clerks finds the state civil
service commission with almost no
eligible list. So the commission is
taking the bull by the horns and is per.
mitting hundreds of clerks to be EN-.
ployed in the various counties "pro-
visionally." Clerks so employed need
only fill out blanks showing some ex.
perience in similar work. Some time
later they will be asked to take the
civil service tests.
Fires First Shot.
The state liquor license commission
has fired the first shot in it's campaign
to eliminate bootleggers and the cam.
paign is now to be prosecuted pertina.
ciously all over the state. The first
shot fired by the commission in Co
lumbus has brought down "Shokey"
Hobbs, king of the Bad Lands" who
was caught red handed by Columbus
police and liquor license inspectors
ioing land office liquor business on
The third floor of a rickety building
without even the semblance of H.
'ense. The police only partly cleaned
)ut the Hobbs place and got enough
Deer and whisky to fill patrol wagon.
For GermIess Ice Cream.
Let the ice cream be pure and |
5ermless,' is the slogan of the food |
department of the state agricultural
and the officers of the
Ohio Association Of Ice Cream Manu-.
aCturers have promised to fall into |
inc. There is going to be rigid en-
orcement of pure food regulations |
lgainst INSCRIPTIONS ice cream max
RS as the result of the newest cru
ade. State food inspectors have
ound conditions in many ice cream
actOries, from the sanitary viewpoint,
appalling.
Begin Fight for Prohibition.
First actual plans have been made
or the statewide prohibition fight in
)hio in 1915.
The state officials of the Anti-Saloon
eague say that the smaller counties
.lready are being organized for the
Onfiict and that the work having been
egun, there will be not the slightest
cessation until the vote takes place
'he statewide fight is distinct from
he national prohibition fight being
'""od by the Anti-Saloon league
orces, but insofar as the working or
of the temperance people
re concerned the two conflicts will be
ssentially the same. In other words,
he workers will labor for prohibition
n both state and nation at the same
Ime. From present outlook here the
fight, from the state view.
oint alone, will be stupendous 1t
ill constitute easily the biggest wet.
nd-dry battle that Ohio has ever
cen. The drys are relying on what
hey declare is a constantly growing
ointment in behalf of temperance
nd prohibition. The vets are depend.
lg largely on the new license system
Or saloons as a buffer and counter
Giant. The vets are denying that
acre is growing sentiment toward
and many of the wet lead.
RS insist that the sentiment is the
ther way. 1t is significant, however, '
nat neither side is leaving anything 8
luck or chance. The vets are ,
leeting the dry plans with big array
defensive preparations, and within I
few months each side will have a .
)rmidable army of workers. Large ,
lms of money will be spent in the ,
onduct of the fight, and owing to the 8
nportant strategic position occupied $
y Ohio each side will send many of Z
S national resources into the 1915 :
ght here.
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