The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-01
ErpendIture Not Limited.

The only limitation upon the ex-
penCiturs of this fund is that it shall
be used for repair and maintenance.
and that one-half shall be spent upon
intercounty highways and one-haf
upon main market roads.
In repairing" road under pres
ent laws the highway commissioner
is limited to the use Of the materials
with which such roads origi ially were
quired by law.
Cox Would Appoint.
The effect of the above section OF
the Bliss bill. therefore, is to subject
abutting property to practically an
unlimited assessment in the case Of
the use of construction funds, but to
permit a free use OF funds derived
from the registration of automobiles
| by the chief engineer, who is ap-
pointed by Cox wherever it pleases
him and without cost to the favored
persons in front of whose property
such funds are to be expended, Re-
publicans point out.
| Auto registration fees now exceed
| $1,oO0,000 year, so the opportunities
| presented Democrats by the above
section have caused Republicans some
| concern.
Worry About a Million.
For example, if the chief engineer
so desires, he is authorized, under the
Bliss bill, to build, construct or re.
! construct new, expensive road, OF
any type, under the guise of repair
ing, where there exists an inexpensive
type in need of repair, without eX.
pense or cost to county, township or
adjoining property.
Such practice would lead to well.
founded dissatisfaction among every,
body interested in a fair distribution
of auto funds.
Ant-Suffragists Will Fight.
The state organization of women
opposed to suffrage having author
lied Mrs Harry E. Talbot of Dayton
its president, to proceed to initiate
a petition for referendum on the
Reynolds bill, which would give WON
en- the right to vote for presidential
electors, she makes the following
lucid statement:
while we were, of course, sorry
to have had the measure pass anC
resent very much the necessity O
again referring the matter to the peo
pie, since they have so decidedly repu
dated the suffrage question at twt
successive eleCtions-1912 by $1,000
majority and in 1914 by 1872 ,000-stil
it has constituted a great argumen
against votes for women.
IF few attractive, aggressive, pc
litically busy women can walk int,
the state house in Columbus and eX
ert enough influence to succeed il
making a couple of hundred legisla
tors misrepresent their entire con
stituenCies and vote yes on meas
ures upon which they are in homo
bound by their duty to their constitu
encies to vote mo-, what might no
women do, as nonpartisan citizens il
good work along Legislative lines?
why should a million or two won
en- bother to go to the polls and VOTE
or be otherwise drawn into politiCs
, activities if few other women ar
able and willing to go to COlumbu
and say to the Legislators, Don
bother about the way the people votet
you are to do as we say?
The Peoples Right to Rule.
The question which forces itseI
upon our minds is, what has becom
, of all the suffrage arguments whic
we heard short time ago. which col
tends that there can be no true demo-
, racy unless the people rule, and no.
we are given startling evidence Of tn
:, fact that the will of the people seem
of no consequence unless it coincide
: otherwise it is to be ignored in thi
nationwide suffrage drive, wherei
every possible force at their con
mand is being used in an attempt
influence legislators to misrepreser
the people, thereby opposing tn
basic principles upon which OF
democracy rests--namely, the right I
!. the people to rule"
Audit Workmen's Compensation Fun
State Insurance Commissions
Frank Taggart scouts the claim I
industrial commissioners that ou
side of insurance companies there al
no auditors competent to examine II
books of the state workmen's col
pensation fund.
Democratic industrial CommiSsio
ers and Democratic legislators mai
g tain that the fund is solvent al
, above suspicion, yet are making {
|, forts to head off an independent e
n animation. A bill by Representati7
= Frank Reighard, Republican flo
e leader, calls for an audit.
6 "Within 48 hours ! can produce
e men who are thoroughly competent
d make an impartial investigation
the compensation fund.-" declare
IS Taggart. Not only are there unprej
It diced accountants available, but az
l. uaries from New York, Wisconsi
T. Pennsylvania and other states whe
the compensation idea has been
j. existence for years. could be procure
d Not a Gigantic Task.
s Records of every insurance CO.
n pany doing business in Ohio are {
S amined thoroughly. 1t it no sigant
or unusual task to audit the compe
sation funds books. The industri
is commission should be checked up
:: every other state board is. Ohio wor
IS men have a right to know just he