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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
Such Are the Figures From the State Industrial
Commissions Official Report

employees in 1914. This part of the re-
port causes comment, for it was not
imagined that there we're so many diff
ferent industries that disbursed such
large sums in wages.
The Statistical Department of the
State Industrial Commission includes
in the five to seven million dollar pay
roll class these different industries !:
Liquors, glass, stoves and furnaces,
furniture and refrigerators, copper,
tin and sheet iron products, tobacco,
electrical machinery and apparatus,
mems clothing and brick and tile.
Only eight industries paid more
wages than the liquor business and
the others in the five million to seven
million dollar class.
Foundries and machine shops paid
the largest sum when they disbursed
S47,000,000. Steel works and rolling
mills came next with $4O,000,O00. The
third largest payroll was that of au.
tomobile manufacturers, including
bodies and parts, with rubber goods a
close fourth, each industry paying
workmen $1S,OOO,OOO. Printing and
publishing paid $14,OOO,OOO in wages
and pottery, terra Gotta and fireclay
products, $10,000,OOO.
Next on the list are boots and shoes
and lumber and planning mills products,
each of which paid workmen a little
more than $7,0O0,00O.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
LIQUOR AND EMPLOYMENT
More Men Lose Jobs Because of Sa
le -.

More Men Lose Jobs Because of Sa.
looms Than If Saloons Were Closed.
Ohio liquor papers say tnat if the
state is voted dry, 100000 men will be
thrown out OF, employment. There are
not one-third of 100000 men employed
in the manufacture and sale of liquor
ir Ohio. Liquor is poor employer.
Uncle Sam counted the wage earners
in Ohio breweries, distilleries and
wineries in 1910 and found there were
fewer than 5000, all told. Add to
these the employees of wholesalers and
retailers, even counting the fellows
who wash the spitoons for the drinks.
and the number will not reach 10000.
These men will not be thrown out Of
work, but their work will be changed
to honorable and helpful employment,
and they will nave fifteen months in
which to make the change, should the
state vote dry in November.
How many thousands of men lose
their positions each year in Ohio be-
cause of the saloons and drink? Is it
hot true that these victims of drink
can not get other jobs because EN-.
ployers will not have them? Few men
who lose out through drink "comp
lack,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
BIG DECREASE IN
- LIQUOR REVENUES
Uncle Sans Figures Give L.
Qu0f Men the ShIVers.

Cincinnati, O.-(Special) )-The vari,
Gus state liquor organizations with
headquarters in this city are mucn
disturbed over the preliminary report
Of United States Internal Revenue
Commissioner Osborne This report
is made to the secretary of treasury
and is for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1915.
The report shows that collections
from distilled and fermented liquors
were $23, $3.50, ,4O9.O8 less in 1915 than
IN 1914.
The report shows there were 1926
fewer retail liquor dealers doing bust
ness in the country in 1915 than in
1914, and that for wholesalers and re-
tailers the slump was 1920.
This shows that every 2S minutes
cf every working day last year a IL
quor joint shut up shop for good.
The decrease in liquor consumed in
1915 compared with 1914 equals 2.l5
gallons for each man. woman and
child in the country.
The liquor men are at last com.
PEELED to admit that prohibition does
prohibit. The report is most encour-
aging to the drys and they claim it
will aid them in this years Ohio earn
faign
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
MANSFIELD MINISTER QUITS MIN
IsTERlAL ASSOCIATION BE,
CAUSE OF ATTITUDE ON PRO
HlBITION.

(By A. v. Abernethy, Columbus, o.
Columbus, O.I(Special Correspond
ence)-Employers and employees of
Ohio were surprised when they learn
ed through the first annual report of
the State Industrial Commission that
the immense sum of $440, 100000 was
paid for labor in this state in 1914.
This is the first time the state has
undertaken statistical work of this
kind and the report proves the efforts
of the statistical bureau to be worth
while. Until this compilation of fig
ures was made it was impossible to
get authoritative statistics concerning
the various lines of Ohio business.
1t is of particular interest right now
to have the statistics covering the pay
roll of the liquor industry of the state
because the prohibition question is to
be voted on at the polls this fall The
report shows that the beer manufac-
turing industry alone (not including
the wine and distilling business) paid
in wages in 1914 the sum Of 5,464,S99,
and that that industry is of equal wage
importance with the manufacture of
glass, stoves and furnaces, electrical
machinery, brick and tile, clothing,
ETC., etc.
The magnitude of the liquor indus
try in Ohio may be better appreciated
by comparing its payroll with that Of
other big industries which do not be-
gin to disburse as much money to en-
ployes.
For instance, the liquor industry
pays more in wages than the bread
and baking industry of the state; more
than the Touring mill industry; more
than the confectionery manufacturers;
more than the manufacturers of jew
elry, lime, leather, ships and boats,
paint and varnish, musical instruments
and dozens and dozens of other indus
tries that make up the real big bust
ness of Ohio.
Nine different industries paid be-
tween 100000 and $7,OOO,OOO to their
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
SPEND MONEY FOR
The NECESSITIES.
Divert OhlO'S Liquor Bill Into
Other Channels.
GREAT THINGS COULD Be DONE

What the States Drink Bill Would
Do In the Way of Buying Homes,
Automobiles and Bread and In Build.
ing Good Roads.
Columbus. Ohio.-(Special. 1T is
quite generally agreed by both vets
and drys that Ohio's drink bill reaches
the huge sum Of $l10,000,O0O each
year. This amount is SO large that it
is difficult to comprehend it, Some
person who likes to figure has pro-
duoed some interesting results show.
ing what this money would do if spent
in other ways instead of being wasted
on drink.
This $ll0,OOO,OOO would buy 50 900
homes costing $1,000 each, allowing Il
torty-foot frontage to each home Il
would make line of sucn homes 4I6
miles long, or placing them on both
sides of street, it would make
highway lined with homes stretching
across the state from Toledo to Gin.
Cinnati
The price of such a street of homes
il swallowed up every year by the
drinkers of Ohio.
Good roads experts say you can
build mile OF brick highway sixteen
feet wide for $4,000. Ohio's annual
drink bill would construct 1880 miles
OF such highway, or thirty-cour of
these improved thoroughfares from
Lake Erie TO the Ohio river.
Now you get an idea of what Ohio
worse than wastes every year for
booze.
Here is another example. The S110,-
100000 which Ohio spends FOR liquor
every year would buy 100000 900 s.
cent loaves of bread. This would give
d loaf to each man, woman and child
N the state every day in the year and
there would be more than $18.OO0,00O
of balance.
And yet in Ohio thousands are de-
pendent upon charity for bread, while
the money flows out for booze.
One more comparison. A splendid
automobile may be purchased for ST.
900. II the S110000,000 which Ohio
spends each year for liquor were in
vested in $1,000 cars, it would buy
10000 of them, and allowing twenty
feet to each car. it would make a line
of automobiles 416 miles long.
When such comparisons are made
the voter can better realize the tre-
n endous purchasing power of the
money now spent for drink each year
right here in Ohio. He can also get
an idea of how business would be
boosted were this big sum to lie
spent with legitimate tradesmen.
And yet this $1100O0,000 which
Ohio spends for drink each year is
only the first cost of the traffic. Add
to the sum the amount it costs the
taxpayers each year to take care of
the product Of the Saloon-to provide
for the paupers, insane and imbeciles,
to protect and care for the criminals,
to build and maintain prisons. asy.
lums and almshouses, and pay the
costs Of courts-when all this cost IL
added to the booze bill. the voter will
realize he is paying dearly for the few
dollars which come back from the sa-
loon victims in the way of license
money.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
LOSS OF SIX MILLION DOLLARS IN WAGES
If PROHIBITION SHOULD CARRY
In THE STATE OF OHIO

planning his action in breaking with
the local organization of ministers.
Rev. Mr.. Kienles revolt has caused
considerable comment in his section
of the state.
Believes In Temperance.
81 believe in temperance" said Rev.
Mr.. Kienle. "The church should ad.
vocate temperance and l propose to
do so with all the power at my com.
mand. Temperance means not only
moderation and sanity in what we eat
and drink, but also in what we say and
do. So when a resolution was offered
indorsing the proposed prohibition
amendment to the constitution, l re.
garded that as an intemperate action,
one that | could not approve, so
withdrew from the association"
Sometimes persons go to extremes
in action and conduct that can not be
equalled by drinkers and eaters
For that reason l say that the prohi.
bitionist is the most intemperate man
we have.
Il also resigned from the Minister.
ial Association because | could not &C
to the polls and vote for prohibition,
thereby confiscating, or at least help
ing to do so, millions of dollars. worth
of property, depriving men of means
of livelihood and still feel that had
done an act of justice. -,
Estate Admits It's Wrong"
''The state of Ohio admitted that II
is wrong to confscate property that
is a menace when it granted remu.
neration to farmers for tubercular
cattle slaughtered, and Wayne B
Wheeler admitted to the Methodist
ministers in Columbus recently that
1t is wrong to close up the liquor in,
dustry without reimbursing property
owners. The prohibitiOnists would gain
many converts If they would first get
the law making provisions for com.
pensation and then submit prohibi.
ton"
A congregation of 1,027 persons, one
Of the largest in the city, stands back
of Rev. Mr.. Kienle and indorses his
position against prohibition, according
to the minister
Rev. Mr.. Kienle stands so we'll with
the Ministerial Association that the
members voted not to accept his res.
ignation. Rev. 8. P. Long, Rev. Mr.
Harris and others could not see the
necessity of the Association adopting
a prohibition resolution.-Advertise
ment.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
Leaders Warn the Voters

That the wet amendment initiated
by the so-called Stability league is de.
signed to prevent the proper use OF
the initiative and referendum instead
of correcting its abuse. is the iude.
ment of Mayor Baker OF Cleveland, L.
Taber, master Of the Ohio State
grange, and Percy Tetlow, organizer
of the miners union. These leaders
represent greatly divergent interests.
but they agree that this amendment
should be defeated not bcause it was
initiated by the vets, but because It
ls a dangerous encroachment lpcn
the rights Of the people.
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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
MINISTER OPPOSES PROHIBITION.

Rev. G. A. Kienle, pastor of st.
Johns Lutheran Church, Mansfield,
resigned from the Mansfield Minister
ial Association because that body en-
dorsed prohibition.
"The most intemperate man we
have with us today is the prohibition
ist. My ideas of temperance would
not permit me to indorse the intem-
perate action of prohibition, and that
is the reason why l, a minister of the
gospel, resigned as member of the
Mansfield Ministerial Association when
that body adopted a resolution declar-
ing in favor of that principle" said
Rev. G. A. Kienle, pastor of St. Johns
Evangelical Lutheran Church, in ex-
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
TAXQUESTION AND.
OHIO'S DRINK BILL
What the People Get for What
They Give.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES
While the State Spends s22 Per Capita
For Liquor Zach Year II Receives
In Return but $1.2o Per Capita in
the Way of License Money.

the Way of License Money.
Columbus. o. (Special)-Last Iail
when the statewide campaign was on
the department Of the auditor of state
save out statement to the effect that
it Ohio should vote dry and if the tax
layers would have to make up every
dollar now paid to the state in LIQUOR
license fees, the man who pays taxes
On $1,000 of valuation would pay u
cents year more by reason of tle
loss Of liquor revenue.
But the vets argue that the state
receives only three-ffths of the Il.
Cense money and therefore the state
auditors claim holds good only so far
as state taxes are concerned.
A conservative estimate places the
money spent for drink in Ohio eac1
year at $1lO,OOO,O00. There are 5,00O,.
600 men, women and clildren living
in Ohio. The drink bill of the state
therefore amounts to $22 year for
each man, woman and child.
The total amount of money paid in
license fees by liquor dealers is So
100000 a year in round numbers,
This is the sum paid not only to the
state, but to the counties and munich
palities as well. This is an average
of SLED a year for each of the 5,000,-
900 men, women and children.
The liquor traffic receives $22 per
capita from the people of Ohio each
year and pays back in license money
only $1.2o per capita per year.
The $G,000000 paid by the liquor
dealers in license fees comes from the
part from those least able to pay. Tie
traffic collects each year for booze
$110,O00,0G0 from the people Of Ohio
and pays back in license fees only
$6,,00O0O0.
This $110,0O0,000 which Ohio spends
for drinks is taken from legiti,
mate business. Nothing of value is
given in return. That much wealth
is destroyed. The only salvage is the
petty S6000,000 which is returned in
license fees.
II that $11O,OOO,000 now wasted
were actually added to the wealth Of
the state and this new wealth would
pay its share Of the taxes, the state
would be far better off than under
present conditions.
Not only is there the first cost of
$110,0O0,000 yearly, but also the cost
of millions more in caring for drink
victims, and for it ali only $6,OOO,0OO
comes back in the way of license fees
If saloons are necessary as revenue
producers, why are 600 of Ohio's 500
cities and towns dry and why do the
voters in these 600 towns refuse to
permit saloons to return?
If the people must have saloons to
help pay taxes, why have eighteen
states banisned grog shops and why
do these states refuse to go back into
the wet column?
If state needs liquor revenue to
keep her taxes low, why is it that pro-
hibition Kansas, which has not had
dollar in saloon revenue for more
than 80 years has bonded indebted
ness of less than 10 cents per capita,
while Cincinnati, which in the past 80
years has had So oon revenue aggre-
eating many millions. has a bonded
Indebtedness of more than $165 per
capita?
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-30
Fortified like A CHINESE WALL,
GERMANS FIGHT FORMIDABLE FOE
VEDRINES WINS
in AIR BATTLE
Noted Aviator Bests German Aft
er Courageous Fight--French
Birdmanand a General Cap
tured by KaiSer's Army

FROM THE BATTLE FRONT, Via Psri. Sept. 20
1As d The allied armies remained Today in snSh''
Sssias whls thsk artillery exchanged fuIOo, saAAsaSd'
viii The strongly placed Gsrman batteries.
Some brilliant feat. q, s,m' were psrfo'nsA vurOu
oin on the nss extending along the ose, the Aans and
WosWs. The seasoned Algerian troops made gallant cap
sBs Of another German aag.
Juls, VsdTinss the noted French SVslOr is usdiist
Gsih courageous fight in mdAir wths German AViAtOE
whom he brought to earth The German dIrngy recon
nOitsne the position Of The allies when Vsdns' SSSsndsd
Moving swiftly upward until he above the German We'd
nss gave chase and he skinned along fuIadsd the al
ut viii hin su,Om.lie gun.
Ths German machine iddlsd and The sv1'o' killed
! aO.p'iAs Ia u, .gaaR Si'bia tf'ssn #"ui'' i'OH
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The voter who actually believes in
tne initiative and referendum must
cast his ballot against its destruction
Ly the amendment initiated by the
vets under cover of the Constitutional
Stability league.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-27
Pro War Group of
 English Socialists
 Tn Defence League

! London May 27.-The Socialist National Defense League has been or ganized by a pro-war group of So- cialists including John Hodge. M. P.. Robert Blatchford, the writer, A. S.. Headingly one of the leaders of the Social Democratics Party, George H. Roberts, M. P., Charles Duncan, M P. and H. G. Wells, the novelist, to combat the Keir Hardie and Ramsey Macdonald anti-war group.
 In this hour of national peril, " says the manifesto prepared by the league, when the Independence of peoples is bruta1ly menaced and the established public law and liberties of Europe are ruthlessly violated, 9 handful of psuedo-socia1ists in this country are breaking the, national solidarity and weakening the national effort in the face of the enemy. It has become a duty for true British Socialists to expose and repudiate the errors of these drearners. All of them are, consciously or unconscious ly, the agents of German kaiserdon and traitors to the imperishab1e ideals of liberty and democracy which have united free Britain, independent Bel gium and Republican France in an Iindfssoluble and glorious alliance"
 In the manifesto the following at tack is made on German Socialism
 What is the German claim? Put briefly, it1may be summed up in the
 
 assertion that because an unwilling Serb-Austrian subject killed an Aus trfan prince, Austria had the right to ravage the Serbs; and because Rus sia intervened to prevent Serbian an- initiation, Germany was Justified in externin ating the, national indepen- dence of Belgium.
 ACivic freedom and national inde- pend dence are elementary principles of socialism. We cannot treat with Sl for these as the Socialists of Russia have declared Socialism expressed itself internationally It cannot de- ve1op anti-natfona1ly.
 .sGerman Socialism has always been limited by political immaturity and bureaucratic ideals. The present war l is choice between organized liberty and mere organizatfon.''
 British pro-war Socialists have made much of Lebknecht, the Ger
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-27
How Russia Deals
 With Corporations
 Owned By Enemies

Esetrograds May 27.-The new Rus Sian laws, directed against enemy corporations operating in Russia, are &llus officially summarized:
 The measures authorize the coun- tcil of ministers to close stock compa- n1es operating under statutes sane ftoned within the empire, with the Appointmentz of a special board for the liquidation, of the business in those cases where the actual manage unenS is in the hands of subjects, com pan1es or institutions of countries which are at war with Russia and whose operations appear to be harm fuI or dangerous to the state It is provided, however, that the rights of creditors are not to be infringed, and that the interests of stock holders are to be observed as far possfbles
 ssAs an alternative, the council may appoint special board of manage naent for the business of such alien companies. without closing them or taking them over.
 ssThe same regulations are to be applied also to fpartnerships if any of the fuli partners are subjects of enemy countries. if it is found that the work of these partnerships is harmful or dangerous to the interests of the state 7
 The codifying of these special measures against ssenemy' compa- nles and partnerships Is pr esumably done in an effort to restrict illicit trade with Gerraany and Austria, (which has been going on to a certain extent through. Scandinavia. since the beginning of the war.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-27
MINISTRY OF
 COMMERCE FOR ENGLAND

London, May 2T-At the annual meeting of the Association of Trade Protection societies a resolution was passed urging the establishment of a Ministry of Commerce and expr essing the belief that such Ministry would have prevented many of the difficult ties which have arisen during the re- cent months.
 The matter has been taken up by several newspapers and although the question of cost is considerable it is argued that the work now being done partly by the Foreign Office, the Board of Trade and the Colonial Of flee would if co-ordinated and con solidated in 8 single branch, greatly assist in the extension of British trade and at the same time smooth the contraband difficulties which traders in almost every branch of commerce are suffering at the present time, Y
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-27
New National Body
 Will Protect Tots
 Orphaned By War

Paris, May 27.-one outgrowth of the movement, called Orphans of the War is a national French Association for "Proteetion of Families of Those Who Have Died for Their Country. One section of this association is call ed sProtection of the Preside" and in this section another association has developed under the name of 'The Fraternal Union of Children of the Great War;
 This association invites every child in France belonging to a family in easy circumstances to adopt as brother or sister a little boy or girl of the same age, and if possible hav- ing the same Christian name, whose father has been killed in face of the enemy. The object of this adoption is not to separate the child from it's mother, but to provide means to aid the mother in the proper bringing up and education of the child. while at the same time surrounding it with all the security and comfort of family life.
 This patriotic movement is under the direction of Monsieur F1eurens, former minister of foreign affairs.