The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-14
STUDENTS Make comrlalnt.

which barred students from voting eX-
cept in their home communities unless
they made affirmation that they in
tended to make their permanent resi-
dence where they attended school or
college. Ohio State university stu
dents complain that precinct officials
in Columbus refused to allow them to
register for the coming election, and
they have complained to Secretary of
State Hildebrant and Attorney Gen.
eral Turner about this. They have
been instructed to get the necessary
evidence of the alleged dereliction
and after this is done the necessary
steps will be taken to secure to the
students the rights given them by the
Fleming law.
Heavy Birth Rate.
Ohio's birth rate is heavier than its
death rate. This is shown by a report
prepared by DR.. Morton w. Bland,
state registrar Of vital statistics. The
birth rate in 1914 was 1876 per 1000 OF
population, while the death rate was
1894. The total number of births for
the year was 96,761. The males out
number the females by a little more
than 1000. Five Japanese, two Chi
nese and two Indians were born dur
ing the year. There were 1929 colored
births. The Japanese were born in
East Liverpool, Columbus, Hamilton
township, Franklin county, and Day
ton. The Indians were born in Colum-
bus and Eden township, Williams
county. The Chinese were born in
Lima and Columbus. Perry county re-
ported the same number of male and
female births, 369 of each. Williams
county had SO more female births than
male births.
Quite Difference.
Ohio pays her governors more now
than she did when she was in her
swaddling clothes. DR.. Edward Tiffin
of Chillicothe, who was Ohio's first
governor, was paid less for his services
than the average clerk in a state de-
partment gets now. His salary was
5000 year. The job is worth more
now. The governor is paid $4,000 a
year whether he is on or off the job. If
he goes away on trip of month or
more, his salary goes on. In 1922 the
governors salary was raised to 81 900.
Later it was boosted $500. In 1852 it
was made $780, in 1865 it was made
$4,000 and in 1887 $4,000. In 1906 it
was boosted to $4,000.
Columbus Reloices.
Columbus is rejoicing because its
tax rate for next year will only be a
trifle higher than it is this year By
pairing down the estimates, the budget
commission has kept the tax rate
down to $1,36 on each $1OO of valua,
ton. During the past year the rate
has been $1.35. Had the requests Of
the county officials been allowed Co.
lumbus would have had one of the
most burdensome tax rates in many
years. Within short time the people
in each county in the state will know
whether or not the taxes they will
be called upon to pay next year will
be higher than for the year now end
ing.
Will Bring Suit.
Domestic corporations which failed
to settle with the state for their Will
lis law tax will be notified soon that
if they do not remit both the amount
due and with Is per cent penalty
added that they will be sued by the at.
torney general. The WHY'S Overland
Automobile Co. of Toledo is the big
gest Willis law taxpayer. 1t paid
$SS,500 on a capital stock of $4,000,
900. The Youngstown Sheet G. Tube
Co. is the second heaviest taxpayer
it's share Of the tax being $38,057.
Try for Rhodes Scholarship.
Six students have taken the exami
nation at the Ohio State university
for the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford
university, England. They are: Will
liam H. Gysan, Columbus; Minor S
Bates, Hiram college; Raymond K
Goshring and Paul H. Langdon, Ober
lin college; Adlai c. Saunders, Uni
yersity of Cincinnati, and John Nc
Sweeney, Jr., of Wooster college. The
man to be chosen will enter Oxford
in September, 1915. The scholarship
calls for an allowance of $1,50O.
Wilson to Speak in Columbus.
1t is expected that President Wilson
will come to Columbus in December tt
attend the big meeting of the FEEDER
alton of Churches of the United States
The meeting will be held at time tt
suit the convenience of the chief ex
ecutive The president has indicated
his willingness to be present and de
liver an address.
To Act as Dean of College.
Prof. Clair A. Dye, secretary of the
college of pharmacy at the Ohio State
university, will act as dean of that col
lege during the absence of Dear
George B. Kaufman, who will be away
from that office for year.
Strengthened Out TaneIe.
Alva Anderson, a Westerville farm
er, was divorced from his first wife
and married to his present wife a sec
ond time Thursday. This procedure
was necessary to enable him tt
straighten out a matrimonial tangle
He was married to Cora Anderson, his
first wife, in 1907. She left him anC
later her parents showed him a grave
which they 81 id was Cora's. Anderson
then married Sylvia Mann of Wester
vile. Later he found that the story
of his first wife's death was untrue
He at once filed suit for divorce from
her.
Parole Woman Broker.
The state board of administration
has paroled Mrs. Carlctta Thompson
Brown, the Cincinnati woman broker
who was sent to the penitentiary fol
alleged embezzlement of some $4,000
of funds of a client. Friends who OBJ
tanned her release declared that the