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FOUND IN
PROPULSION
Are Errors Of Omission And
Commission
Of Recent Session of the
Willis Legislature
And Attorney General Will
Be Kept Busy
In Effort To Straighten Out
The Muss
Notable Ones Bring Civil
Service And Highway
And Attorney General Will
Be Kept Busy
In Effort To Straighten Out
The Muss
Notable Ones Bring Civil
Service And Highway

Columbus, O., July 6-As result
of errors of omission and commission
by the Willis legislature Attorney Gen.
eral Edward G. Turner is going to be
kept pretty busy. After putting up to
him for an opinion the irregularly
passed civil service ripper and an in
validated bond section of the Cass
highway bill, other troubles with en-
actments are being found in profusion.
Most serious however is the highway
bill which is SO badly constructed and
misfit as to seriously jeopardize future
highway work until the meeting of an
other legislature. Added to the fact
that blunders in the law are numer-
ous, is the present condition in which
the highway commissioner openly vio-
lates the law providing for bi-parti-
san commission, and the connection
with certain road building concerns
through Peter Durr, of Hamilton coun-
ty, which makes the next two years of
road building in Ohio questionable
quantity.
Governor Willis burned his fingers in
the Goals of the corncob pipe that
Captain Ru Hastings smokes. And
that's about all that came of the loudly
heralded Lancaster investigation. And
to think that Willis grandstanded
about this as an excuse for postponing
his San Francisco trip.
Failure to pass a valid civil service
ripper which would bring into the
promised land the horde Of Republican
office seekers and the little band of
Gluies will probably lose Willis the
support of the latter. The support of
traitors is always of questionable char
acter but doubly so when the promised
pay is not forthcoming. This trouble
is purely a family affair in the state
administration but not so with the ap-
parent recession of Ohio into the mud
through the Juggling of the state high
way department and the manipulation
of the law which cripples if not alto
gether destroys it. Even so these may
be the least of the errors expected of
an administration which grew out of
deceit by which that administration
came into power.
New Lyme, Ohio, residents and the
farmers of that vicinity are irrecon-
cilable at the action Of the governor in
cutting off the $11, 900 appropriation to
make that school an agricultural insti-
tute. President Thompson of the Ohio
State University is as busy apologize
ing for the resulting condition, as the
governors friends were explaining the
removal of Dean Price at Ohio State.
No wonder the farmers might we'll
plead guilty of an attempt to grab the
state legislature.
Developments of the week indicate
that the charge made at the last State
Grange meeting that certain members
of the executive committee were en-
deavoring to play politics through the
organization were true. Referring to
these certain members as the "all for
one and one for all coterie" James w.
Faulkner, tabulating the list, shows
that Renick w. Dunlap has been en-
dorsed for secretary of the new board
of agriculture: 7. c. Laylin for mem
ber of the board of control of the Ohio
Experiment Station and George F
Scott for head of the dairy and food
department. Mr.. Faulkner calls at
tention to the fact that the Joan OF
Arc of the movement, Hon. Mary e
Lee" is yet unattached and awaiting
engagement, and that she is the last
of the Republican Executive Commit
tee state without a job.
Notwithstanding the fact that Ger
tain of the districts out OF the ~ o
the state so generously left to thu
Democrats in the Willis gerrymandel
make those five more Democratic, |
does not appear likely that there will
be lack of support for referendum ev
en- there. Democratic congressmel
who selfishly view the situation an
endeavor to profit themselves at tn
expense of the support of a presiden
like Wilson will probably involve then
selves in suspicion that may defea
the ends they seek, Republican voter