The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-11-02
To Improve Service.

announcement by the advisory COM
mittee of the state civil service COM
mission. A complete survey to ascer-
tain the needs of state employees in
the way of education will be made.
President w. o. Thompson of Ohio
State university has assured the COM
mission that the university will offer
every possible assistance and will take
| steps at once to ascertain what can be
done to further the movement. The
, Ohio College association will be asked
to cooperate. Glasses have already
been started in Cincinnati and Akron
and public employees have responded
enthusiastically. Members of the ad-
vistory committee attending the con-
ference at which the new program
was decided upon included President
Thompson, President Dabney of the
University of Cincinnati, Or. P. r.
Kolbe of the Akron Municipal univer-
sity, Prof. A. r. Hatton Of Western
Reserve university and Prof. ]. G.
Cooke, assistant superintendent Of
public instruction.
Threaten to Shoot.
They have a very effective way of
stopping automobile drivers for fast
driving in the rural districts Of
Franklin county, so State Examiner
John A. Bliss has discovered. Con-
stables threaten to shoot holes into
the tires of the machines if the
drivers do not stop and allow them
selves to be placed under arrest and
haled before some justice of the peace,
there to be given a heavy fine. The
state examiner denounces this method
Of enforcing the speed law. He
scored the constables who believe that
a good way to stop an alleged violator
is to shoot his tires full of holes, and
told them that this was a good way
to wreck machines and kill the occu-
pants. Bliss ordered Justice of the
Peace Demorest of Jackson township
to pay back fees he illegally col
lected and also to return fees he paid
the constables.
Convention Ends.
The annual convention of the Wom-
ans Home Missionary society, which
was attended by religious workers
from all parts Of the United States
and the insular possessions, has
closed One of the features of the
convention was a scathing attack upon
MormonIsm by former Senator Frank
, ]. Cannon, who asked the convention
to demand that the United States SEN
, ate reopen the case against Senator
o Reed Smoot and to oust that legis-
! lator. Three resolutions were consid-
cred by the convention on the final
. day, one of which concerned Senator
Cannon's request that the senate take
further action in the Smoot case. The
others dealt with suffrage and the in
dorsement of the presidents attitude
on peace.
! Holds Heredity Responsible.
r DR.. Thomas H. Haines of the state
2 juvenile bureau of research, formerly
of the department of psychology at
Ohio State University, read an inter
! esting paper before the students and
faculty of the university, recently,
, written by DR.. A. j. Rosanoff of
, Kings Park hospital, New York. Dr..
Rosanoff was to have delivered the ad-
dress in person, but because of Sc
, we're cold that affected his throat was
, forced to sit in the audience and hear
r his address read by another. DR.. Ro-
sanoff is Of the opinion that heredity,
alcoholism and disease are the most
: important causes of mental ills, but
, holds that heredity is indirectly re-
sponsible for most cases of alcohol
+ ism and disease.
r Lookout for VioIators of Law.
Now that the cranberry selling sea-
r son is on the state dairy and food de-
) partment is out with q warning to
! dealers to refrain from violating the
8 law which requires such berries to be
a sold by the dry quart and not by the
= liquid measure. The penalty for pay.
v ing no attention to the law is a fine
q of from $40 to $50. "The liquid meas
:, ure is not as large as the dry meas
:, ure, and if you were buying 100 quarts
of cranberries and were given the
liquid measure you would only receive
y Sc quarts" said Samuel Lindsay, chief
: inspector of the bureau Of weights and
b measures. The deputies of the depart
t ment have been directed to keep q
Q sharp lookout for violations Of the
l. law.
Il Will Hear Appeal.
d On Nov. 10 the state civil service
i commission will hear the appeal oi
It two nurses, Mrs Elizabeth King and
8 Marie Mills, discharged from the Co
It lumbus state hospital by DR.. W. H
Q Pritchard, the superintendent, for al
legged neglect of duty.
Dedicate Monument.
o Central Ohio citizens, including At
d descendants of Capt. Michael Cresap
f revolutionary hero, dedicated a boul
4 der monument to the memory oi
e Capt Cresap at Circleville. The
S memorial was unveiled by Willis Gre
t sap, eighth descendant in line of the
e revolutionary ancestor.
d Test Speed Ordinance.
Y The right of municipality to enact
t speed ordinance. is involved in q
n suit taken to the supreme court in
3 which Charles Keating was convicted
S of violating such an ordinance in Ere
mont.
Brings 100000 to State.
d Most of the Ohio civil war widows
Il entitled to pension of $40 month
s under the new Ashbrook federal Law
e have sent in their applications for this
9 money. For time In the neighbor
6 hood of 1000 applications day were
e received by Judge J. w. O'Neall, state
n commissioner of soldiers claims, but
0 this number has dwindled to about AZ
or so a day. This law will bring up
e wards of $1,O0O,0O0 to Ohio annually
T so L is declared. Scores Of Ohio WON