Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-04
COMPENSATION
FUND INCREASED
eUBSTANTIALLY SINCE JANUARY
1, IN COMPARISON WITH FIG
UREs OF PREVIOUS YEAR.
BURBA IS VERY FORGETFUL
According To His Recent Story Corr
demning the Selection of Columbus
for MobiIization-Donehey is Cor
rected.
BY Claude c. waltermire.


Correspondent of the Ohio Republican
Editorial Association.
Columbus, o. (SpeciaD COM
pensation department of the Industrial
Commission furnishes some interest
ing figures which shows the growing
strength of Workmen's Compensation
under the present state administra-
ton. The increase in premium re-
ceipts for the first six months of 1915
as compared with 1915 is $953,642.07.
The balance in the treasury June 80,
1915, was $2,637,454.82. The balance
June 30 this year was $685. 8,079.14,
making an increase IN the balance for
the year of $1.160.624.32.
The report of Auditor Putnam sub
mitted to the Commission this week
shows that in not single instance
was the disbursement of claims de-
layed more than five days after the
disbursement had been ordered by the
Commission. The net addition to pay
rolls during the month of June this
year amounts to $1,95S,52 These
figures are doubly interesting to those
interested in Workmen's Cempensa-
ton in face of the fact that former
Gov. James M. Cox is charging falsely
that the present administration is at
tempting to cripple the law.
Burba Given Ha, Ha.
Geo. F. Burba, former private secre
tary to Gov. Cox and now employed by
the latter as fault-finding newspaper
writer for Cox's Dayton paper, had a
severe attack of mental cholera NOR
bus recently over the location of Camp
Willis. AS with most everything else
with which Ohio Republican officials
have had anything to do, including the
recent national convention at Chicago
Burba is much displeased over the mi
litia camp. His story in the Daytor
News openly charged graft on the par
of somebody in selecting the camp al
| Columbus, or that Columbus mer
Chants got in early with tremendous
pull"
The interesting part about this arti
Gle of Burba's is his forgetfu1ness
| Camp Willis was selected three year.
ago, when James M. Cox was Governor
of Ohio, by two regular army officers
sent here by the war department fo
such a purpose The two officers, will
! Cox's adjutant general, went over tn,
ground carefully, and with the approx
al of Wood, therefore with the ap
proval of Cox, for he never permittet
he didn't-selected the ground occu
pied now The order for mobilization
sent to Governor Willis was based OF
orders arranged under the Cox re
gime. If there was any graft" or an
pull" therefore, it must have bee
under the Cox administration Burb
has been so bereft of things to hi
lately, and so needful of ammunition
that he simply went If without ba
last" on this story Newspaper me
in Columbus give the cha, ha
proper.
Moreover, if further justification
needed, it might be pointed out tha
the ''sick CALI at Camp Willis has a
along been the smallest of any stat
mobilization camp, and that it is on
of the most accessible from all part
of the state. The expenses of tn
camp will be paid by the federal go
ernment. The fact that Associate
Press dispatches carried a story
the effect that the government woul
send $500 troops from Michigan an
other states to Camp Willis becanE
of its "easy access" further prove
that Mr.. Burba had a''green apple" q
gestion when he found fault.
Some Interesting Figures.
Victor A. Donehey, the watch dos
Of the state treasury, please take n
of his lengthy statements for polite
effect, he said that under the prese1
state administration there was I
check" kept on expenditures. A fe
items cleaned from the reports fro
, state departments for the year endir
| JuuO OU, 4JAO, UAlA60 LAS AOAIOW1uS sd
ings to light:
Attorney Generals Office turn'
back $24,055.61 of the money apr
priated by the legislature for its ope
ating expense; the State Board
! Health turns back $15,902.29; the Pu
lie Utilities Commission has a b;
ance from the amount appropriated
$17,07483, and the Department
Public Instruction turns back for t
4 year $73,123.55.
Budget Commissioner E. M. Fullir
ton said: These are few items on
When they are all in, it will be shoy
that. every department of the state
government has been economical"
l. kimbrough's Appointment o. KID.
l. When Gen. J. S. Kimbrough, a "
p eran of the Civil War, was named
q Gov Willis as the head of the Soldie
1t and Sailors Orphans Home at Ken
If the Coxized press of the state Sc
s, broadcast th,' statement that the F
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