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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13
Industrial Commission Reports.


OhiO's industrial commission, in its
annual report Just submitted, pro-
poses to carry further the work OF
censoring moving pictures, asking
that the general assembly in its next
session provide for inspectors to visit
theaterS to watch for violations of the
law.
Al present the law provides for a
board of three censors to pass on
films to be exhibited. The industrial
commission urges that a need exists
for inspectors to see that the law. as
interpreted by the censors, is carried
out.
The commission report has other
outstanding features, among them the
following:
In connection with the child labor
laws, the commission states it is ex-
periencing considerable difficulty in
securing the proper cooperation from
the school authorities, especially in
the matter of issuing age and school
ing certificates" The report declares
some school officials seem not to be
in sympathy with the law, and actu-
ally encourage disrespect" for the
law by lax and careless methods" in
making out certificates.
The commission holds that the
courts have been remitting too many
fines in cases of violation of the child
and female labor laws, declaring more
than so per cent of the fines imposed
in the fiscal year ended June 80, 1917,
which is the period covered by the re-
port, were remitted.
The commission lays stress on the
present particular importance OF the
work of the division of mediation and
arbitration, pledging that in this time
OF national emergency. the division
feels it a special duty to avert indus
trial difficulties and industrial loss in
Ohio.
The statistics Of the report show
abnormal industrial activities in the
state because of the war.
Premiums paid into the state insur-
ance fund exceeded the amount paid
In the fiscal year of 1916 by 74.8 per
cent. Disbursements for workmen's
compensation and medical, nursing
and hospital services, increased Els
per cent. The balance in the trnas.
ury to the credit of the state irsur.
ance fund showed an increase of 628
per cent, the number OF claims in.
creased 1876 per cent, and those dis
posed of increased 35.8 per cent.
Premium receipts for this past year
were $6,4S2,3S9.2O, an increase of
$2,774,406.59 over the receipts Of $S,-
7O7,9S2.43 in the fiscal year Of 1916.
Disbursements on claims in 1917 10
tailed $4,34S, ,S69.41. compared with 81
754,S69.92 in 1916.
For 1917 there were 71O death
claims against the state insurance
fund, forty-nine being for the deaths
of public employees, nineteen of whom
were victims of the Cleveland tunnel
disaster. In the preceding year the
death claims numbered 486, of these
twenty-nine being public employees
deaths.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13
stenonranhers Needed.

The United States civil service COM
mission, through the woman's com
mittee, is urging that every woman
who can possibly give her time and
service to stenOgraphic work VIII du
so. There is scarcity of good stenog-
raphers which is holding back the work
Of war IN administrative Offices.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13
licked Up in Capital
OF the Buckeye State

Columbus. - (Special) - The next
session of the Ohio legislature un.
Questionably will be confronted with
the duty of voting upon ratification
Of an amendment to the federal con-
stitution providing for national pro
hibition. Indications now point
strongly that the resolution proposing
this amendment, which was passed by
the national senate at the last ses-
sion, will be passed by the lower
house of congress at this session and
the question of adoption will then be
passed up to the several states.
Troops Leave Soon for Camp.
At least 1000 of the last 5000
drafted men yet to be sent in the first
draft to Camp Sherman. Chillicothe,
will be ordered there soon, it was said
at state selective draft headquarters.
Camp Sherman. according to word
from Mai Gen. f. f. Glenn, is ready
to receive the last 20 per cent quota
and an order for the draftees to re-
port is expected momentarily from
the war department.
w $. Pealer, Ohio state senate
clerk, whose commissioning as a ma
jor in the national army was an
nOunced recently, will not be required
to resign as senate clerk, according
to Atty. Gen. Joseph McGhee. Maj.
Pealer is in charge of state selective
draft headquarters here.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13
PEOPLE BACK HOME To
STAND BEHIND TROOPS

Chillicothe.-The people of Ohio
have had brought home to them an
other example of the real personal
service Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn has
been rendering the soldiers of the
Eighty-third division and all other
Ohio military units and their families.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13
JAPANESE PROFITEERS STUNG

WalIlngfOrds Of the Orient Lose Their
War Fortunes.
Japan's narikin are slipping. The
Wallingfords Of the Orient who stuck
their fingers in the golden pie of world
trade at the beginning of the war are
topping from their speculating
thrones. From q fortune Of $25,000,-
600 to a debt Of 100000 600 is the
most striking example of the collapse
Of a war fortune ade by Aazo Yam
agpshA an Osaka sleculRtor, who cor.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13
ohloans Thankful 70. Coal

Ohios Thanksgiving, from state
standpoint, was one of thankful feel
ing over the prospect for coal relief
with the lifting of the lake priority
order.
The order, imposed by the federal
fuel administration which gave rail-
road and mine priority to shipments
of coal to the lakes for transportation
by water to the northwest, has been
dissolved, according to the promise of
Washington.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13

her corn patch four times and the crop
ranks with that of any man in Sd
wards county, one of the banner coun-
ties of the state.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13
PRESIDENT TELLS
WORLD AMERICAS
AIMS IN THE WAR
Declares PruSSian AutocraCy and
Oppression Must Be Done
Away With.
DEMANDS FULL PREPARATION

No Desire to Interfere With Internal
Affairs Of Central Nations, but
Peace Cannot Be Made With
Germany's Present Rulers
Declaration of War on
Austria-Hungary.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13

Plans for the state of Ohio war COM
mission, which will have a committee
in every large city and village in Ohio,
have been perfected by Gen. Glenn
after a months work
Gen. Glenn realizes that if he is to
have success with his division he
must have every man, woman and
child back home back it to the limit.
To have this civilian backing is a pur-
pose Of the state of Ohio war commits
sion.
Under this scheme the boys will go
to the front knowing that the people
back home stand solidly behind them.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-12-13
Other States Watch Ohio.


Other states are watching to see
what Ohio will do with the problem
of health and old age insurance, their
interest centering in the work of the
states health and old age insurance
commission.
This commission was designated by
Gov. James M. Cox to study the ques-
tion and determine whether Ohio
should enter this field. The commits
sion has organized, established its
headquarters at the state capital and
is well into the preliminary stages OF
its work
Initial activities of the commission
in its investigation indicate that no
hasty conclusions will be reached. and
if recommendations are made to the
general assembly, they will be formu-
lated only after exhaustive study and
determination of real needs and
practical remedies, it is stated in be-
half of the commission.
The commission first has to decide
whether there is actually necessity
for health insurance and old age in
surance. This gets the commission
into the perplexing problems Of i'll
ness, poverty and prevention of both.
Necessarily the scope Of the commits
sion's inquiries must be broad.
Should need for some form of
sickness and old age insurance be es-
tablished, then the commission faces
the problem of planning practical in
surance systems.
Urges WheatIess Suppers.
State Food Administrator Fred c.
Croxton appealed to every Ohio
household to make the evening meal
wheatless every day.
Hotels, restaurants and clubs have
already been asked to make all three
meals on Wednesday wheatless. and
the homes now are asked to carry the
conservation one step further by OBJ
serving seven wheatless meals
week.
In addition to this appeal for one
wheatless meal each day, CroXton
urged the observance of Tuesday as
a strictly meatless dav
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
CHINA PARLIAMENT ASKED
TO STOP FRENCH AGGRESSION

PICKING, Jan. 16.-Showers of petit
tons are reaching parliament concern
ing the action Of the French in foEcibiy
Selling an addition to their concession
in Tien-tsin. Practically all the prov
incial military governors and high Of
fcials throughout China have sent
messages and memorials urging the
parliament, the president and the cab g.
met to resist the French aggression.
The Association for the Protection
of National Territory, Tien-tsin org
anization, says: Of the government
yields to the French demand this time,
the result will be that We shall have
no way to ward off the national insult
and at the same time other foreign
powers will take similar action in this
country. with the result that our terri
tory will soon disappear before the
land-grabbing powers. When this pro-
cess of encroachment begins, the days
of our national existence will be numb
cred. At the outset this case might
have appeared somewhat trivial, but
its final result will have a significant
bearing upon the fate of the country"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
REMARKABLE GROWTH In
MOVING PICTURES IN PARIS

PARIS, Jan. 16.-All the places of
amusement in Paris took in 1900, 900
francs less in 1915 than in 1914 and
about 44,OO0,OOO francs less than in
1913. The legitimate theatres took in
about 100000 francs, which was
only 100000 francs more than the
moving picture shows and only a
quarter of the receipts of 1913.
The situation of the moving picture
houses as compared with theatres is
partly accountd for by the fact that
they were open throughout the year
but there is also remarkable growth
In five years, including two and half
years of war, they have doubled their
receipts Notwithstanding the fact that
the best critics have persistently
maintained that their programs were
becoming more mediocre every month.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
SOCIALIST VOTE Is
GROWING In NORWAY
push -

CHRISTIANA, Norway, Jan. 10
A significant political upheaval is in
dicated by the remarkable Socialist
gain in the municipal elections in
Christiania this month. For the last
sixteen years the Norwegian capital
has been governed by the Conservative
party, but at the elections just conclud-
ed the Socialist won AZ out of the "a
seats on the aldermanic board, leaving
the Conservatives 81 and the Radicals
o. The Redical members are known
TO be irreconcilable to casting their
votes for a Conservative mayor and 1t
is therefore predetermined that the
Socialists will forthwith elect one Of
their representatives for mayor.
The growth of the Socialist vote all
over Norway has been marked in re-
cent years since suffrage was extended
tn every man and woman over twenty
five years of age. In the last state ell
ection, year ago, the Socialists must
cred 40 per cent of the voters. One of
the reasons for the recent gains has
been the high cost of living. and many
Of the middle class people whose
wages have not increased proportion
ately haev gone over to the Socialist
platform, which would have the gov
eminent take charge of trade in the
most necessary articles, such as food
and fuel by means of municipal stores
where everything would be sold at
cost. Something has already been
done along these lines, in the matter
of imports of -four and sugar and the
sale of fuel, potatoes, milk and fish;
but the Socialists scheme would carry
the government help much further.
even to building dwellings for the
poor and middle class workers. who
are suffering for want of houses. or
from the exhorbitant rent now charged
for even the poorest kind Of rooms.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
CUNNINGHAM CAMP is OBJECT
OF MUCH SARCASTIC COMMENT

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, Jan. To-
There has been sarcastic comment IN
the British newspapers about the huge
swimming pool and luxuriously equip
ped gymnasium which the government
proyides for its war prisoners at the
Cunningham Camp. The pool is about
a hundred feet long and is housed IN
an ornate building of gaudy stucco
and the gymnasium is as large ana
as we'll equipped at that at Yale uni
versity.
Cunningham Camp, before 1t was
taken over for prisoners was a sum
mer school and recreation camp FOR
English schoolboys. The swimming
pool and gymnasium were retained
and have naturally proved popular
features with the prisoners. With
few exceptions. every man in the
camp visits the swimming pool at leas'
once a week. The average daily atten'
dance at the gymnasium is well over
a thousand.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
WAYS TO AVOID THE
Watermelon RIOTS

| WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. Iva
! termelon stem rot results in decay
if the melon, at the stem end, which
usually develops during transit te
market. The investigations Of the U
s. Department of Agriculture have
shown that he cause is fungus which
is common in many southern fields on
dead stalks of cotton, corn. and many
weeds, as well as on decaying melons
The spores of this fungus are blown
about by the wind and lodge on the
moist out end of the melon stem after
it is severed from the vine, terminate
and grow into the melon, which often
begins to decay within three days.
The experiments made last summer
on several carloads of melons offer
good hopes that this stem-end rot can
be prevented. The methods recon-
mended by the Department Of Agricnl-
ture as as follows:
% Cut and burn all weeds around
the field and along ditch banks during
the winter.
% From the time that the melons
set on the vines, all Gull fruit should
be hauled out of the field weekly and
fed to hogs, or deeply buried. Wash
the wagons used for hauling culls with
two per cent bluestone solution.
60 Spraying with Bordeaux mix
ture for anthracnose will probably
help control stem-end rot.
(4 Laborers harvesting melons
should never cut or toucn a decayed
melon.
(5) Cut melons with long stems
and load into cars with the least pos
sible delay and with the utmost care
in handling, to avoid bruising. Open
var yentilators.
90 Most important of all, apply a
paste made of common starch with six
per cent bluestone to the freshly cut
stems as the melons are being packed
in the car. 1t has been found that
disinfecting the stems at other times
is less effective. as the paste is rubbed
off by handling.
AS the packer arranges the melons
intiers, have him place the stem ends
outward, while a reliable boy cuts off
a section of the stem and applies a
covering of paste with a small. round
brush.
CD Freight care that have con-
tanned decayed melons or yard refuse
should be washed clean and sprayed
with a two per cent bluestone solu-
ton
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
GOVERNMENT TRIES
PLAN FEEDING MEN

DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, Jan. 10
AS an experiment in communal reed
ing, the British Governments camE
for war prisoners at Knockaloe is the
biggest and most successful thing Of
its kind ever attempted in the British
Isles. Here 1900 prisoners are hous-
ed and fed at figure which averages
only So per man, per week.
The capital cost Of the camp, which
was built on farm land in the north OF
the Isle of Man, was $1250,O0O. This
figure covers the buildings of all the
barracks and administrative offices
kitchens, streets. sewage, water and
electricity plants, telephones, and all
other essentials of modern city. On
a basis of population Of $4,000 the cost
of building this prison camp city tig-
ures out at about $50 for each inhabi-
tant.
The question of food as related to
health has been prime consideration
with the British officials from the start
Our dietary" explained the command
ant, has been constantly observed
and studied scientifically by staff OF
medical men, who from time to time
make such changes as experience die
tates. The cooking Is all done by the
men themselves, and the excellent re-
suits they achieve are not to be Wond-
cred at when it is remembered that
they have among them some of the
finest chefs of the big English hotels
and restaurants At one time their
table was so much superior to that OF
the English officers mess that the Of
ficers discharged their English COOK
and reuuisitioned one of the prisoners,
who has been in charge of their ktch-
en- ever since"
The health of the prisoners bears
testimony to the adequacy of the FOOD
provided. In this improvised town OF
$4,000 inhabitants there have been
only 70 deaths in two years-a yearly
death rate of less than is per thous-
and. This compares with death rate
In all England of 1873 or in the United
States of about AL.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
PEACE NOTES HAVE
NO EFFECT ON THE
ARMIES Of BRITAIN

WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FRANCE, Jan. 16.-Peace converse
lions and peace notes, however much
CT furry they may have caused in
the capitals of the world, have no eff
feet upon the British armies. The work
OF war progresses. and one Of the first
Impressions the visitor gets on tour
behind the British lines in France is
the absolute permanence and thorough
ness of the British war machine. There
is no tlimsy construction anywhere. 1t
is as If the English were preparing to
fight through countless years to come
il necessary.
/ While built primarily for war ef1c-
icncy, the telephone and telegraph
lines, the railways and motor high
ways the English have put into France
will be left here when the war is over
as a permanent legacy. The war rail
roads will in effect be an Offset to the
so-called strategic railways of the
Germans, and will enable France to
develop her northern country far more
rapidly than otherwise would have
been possible. Already the telephone
and telegraph lines are linked up with
the French official systems and repre-
sent a permanent extension of those
facilities.
The telephone has played wonder
full part in the war. When a Canadian
battalion made daylight raid on 400
yards of German trenches a few days
ago, each company commander In the
raid had telephone with him as he
went into action, the signal men in
charge unreeling the wires as they
passed forward. The instruments were
connected with battalion headquar-
ters back in a first line English dug
out and there was not a moment dur
ing the offensive that the contact was
not complete. Through the various
telephone links leading from battalion
headquarters to brigade headquarters,
to division headquarters, corps head
quarters. army headquarters, general
headquarters and thence across the
English Channel, 1t would have been
possible, If so desired, for the company
commanders in the thick of actual
hand to hand lighting to talk direct
from a German trench to the War
Office in London.
The trunk telephone lines erected by
the British along the main highways
to the war represent the latest Inn
provement of equipment. At some
points there are as many as thirty
wires on q single line of poles. with
second line of sixteen wires being
strung. From the peaceful, pastoral
scenes of non-invaded France out to-
ward the battle lines the wires reach
in ever diminishing numbers until at
last only few strans may be laid al
ong the ground-across that stretch of
mid and shell-shattered desolation
representing the gains of some recent
push"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16

RALEIGH, N. c., Jan. 16.-In ex-
aiming the records of Hiram Masonic
Lodge No. 40 of this city. it was re-
Gently found that the regular meeting
of the ledge that was begun on the
right of April IT, 1S65-the night news
was received here that Lincoln was
shot-had never been officially con-
concluded, and last night this formal
ity was varied out with historic GER
emonies.
John Nichols, SO years old, former
representative in Congress, who as
raster opened the memorable session
of the lodge nore than half a century
ago, acted as master again tonight.
Masons were present from many South
ern states, since last nights cere-
mony was preliminary to the opening
here tomorrow of the 18th annual
meeting of the Grand Lodge of North
Carolina
On the night of April II, 1865, the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
Do You Trust Your Druggist as
You Do Your Doctor?

You have confidence in your doctor and are willing
to take any medicine he prescribes. But you don't al
ways know what is ordered how it has been handled
by the druggist You should therefore select regular
druggist who you may trust faithfully you do your
physician Every possible safeguard is placed around
prescription department. You can trust us as to
purity, accuracy and prices.
"No distance too far or order too small for quick
delivery" Remember we carry a complete line of
Garden Seed Brushes, Toilet Articles and everything
pertaining to No. Drug Store
Aliens Drug & Seed Store
Phone 148, Forsyth St
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
PORTRAIT OF AMERICAN
PAINTER SENSATION OF HOUR

DUBLIN, Jan. ia portrait by
Gilbert Stuart, the American painter
ia the sensation of the hour at the
National Gallery of Ireland. Stuart
worked in ireland from 1888 until 1873
ard was constantly employed II
painting portraits of prominent Irish
men and women. The picture which
has lust been hung In the Nationa
Gallery is of Mrs. Webb, who belongs
10 well-known Donegal family.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
EXPORT DUTIES FURNISH
CARRAAzI's CHIEF INCOME

Ell PASO. Tex, Jan. 16.-Export du-
ties on sisal fibre from Yucatan and
on crude oil from Tampico are the
chief sources of income of the Carran-
"a Mexican government, according to
a financier just out of that country.
Owing to the reduced importations the
ordinary customs are minor source,
he explains, while the suspension of
work in the mines and factories and
the non-prosperous condition of the
ranchers has materially reduced the
amount received in taxes,
Mines and factories have suffered in
some ports directly from bandits aE7
rebels, but everywhere from lack II
chemicals and other materials for
which Mexico had formerly depended
on Europe. Currency troubles and
lack of sufficient coin to do business
with, have further had a depressing
effect.
A decree issued by First Chief Car
rama calling on all banks to liquidate
will clean up a number Of insolvents.
AS the banks in Mexico are almost all
run by British and French capital, this
should give the banking interests OF
the United States an opportunity to
get a sfoothold in Mexico when the
government is put on basis capable
Il attracting investors, he declared.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-01-16
Masonic Euent Is Brought
To Light in Tar Heel State

city of Raleigh was occupied by Kill
patricks division Of Sherman's army.
When the union soldiers on the out
skirts of the city learned Of the as
sassination of Lincoln, retalitory
measures were suggested and the Of
ficers had difficulty in holding the
men In check. While the civil pop
ulation of Raleigh was unaware of
the assassination and of the excite
ment among the troops, Hiram Lodge
opened its regular meeting as usual,
but in the midst Of 1t Captain w. c.
Written, of the 9th Maine Regiment,
detailed as provost officer. informed
Master Nichols of the assassination
and requested that the meeting be
dismissed in order that no gathering
should add to the confusion when the
news become generally known. The
members dispersed Immediately
without the formal yhltS e. :. ....
without the Formally of closing the
lodge.