The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-29
Picked Up in Capital
of the Buckeye State

Columbus.-(Special.)- Gov. James
M. Cox declared a railroad congestion
exists in Ohio which interferes with
the efficiency of fits industries, called
for remedies and announced plans for
a transportation survey.
The program was embodied in let
ter to John c. Stubbs of Ashland, re.
tired traffic manager of the Hartman
vailroad lines, in which the governor
formally asks Stubbs to come to Co
lumbus, utilize the public utilities
commission or any other agency re-
quired, and make an expert analysis
of Ohio traffic conditions.
Reached by telephone at his Ash
land home, Mr.. Stubbs' first assertion
was:
81 want to help in every way pos
sible."
He added, however, that he would
have to be in receipt of the governors
letter and learn the exact scope of
what was expected before saying
whether he felt he could serve.
Gov. Cox says in his letter to
Stubbs:
I'VE are very much concerned
about the conditions of the railroads
in this state. Conditions geographic
economic and otherwise bear heavily
upon our transportation facilities. In
a considerable part we are the COM
mercial throat of the nation. Troop
trains, goods intended for export, and
commercial necessities for the east, in
goodly portion pass across our soil.
I'VE want an analysis made by a
practical and unprejudiced eye. In
measuring both the emergency and
the kind Of man which it calls for we
turn to you, and l am asking, in be-
half of the state, that you come here
and make use of the public utilities
commission and any other instrument
tality Of government which we pos
sess or which we can create for the
purpose of giving us diagnosis. We
want to know, in the concrete, what
the situation is, and we want someone
who knows to suggest a remedy"
Drys Considering New Plan.
Ohio drys are turning to a proposal
to have the sale of liquor end in the
state with the expiration of saloon
licenses the fourth Monday in May of
1919.
At mass meeting Of dry forces
from all over the state to be held in
Columbus Nov. % at the call of the
campaign committee of the Ohio Dry
Federation, which was in session here,
it will be determined whether a pro-
hibition amendment shall be submit
ted again next year.
1t seems settled that if the drys do
decide on another fight they will de-
termine not to provide for the taking
effect of the amendment a year and
three months after election, as was
written in the amendment just lost
by handful of votes in the November
election.
The whole trend Of dry feeling
seems against schedule which would
permit time enough to elapse after
adoption, II adopted, for the vets to
try to prevent it's ever taking effect by
repeating it at the succeeding elec-
tion, before time for it's becoming
operative.
The suggestion now gaining favor is
that the drys submit another amend
ment next year, to take effect, if car
ried, June 1, 1919, at the time of the
expiration of licenses.
Says Screen Open Fire.
The state war board says: Many
Ohio women and children are being
burned to death as result of the
open crate or fire.
Human life is too valuable an asset
to be carelessly expended. Every
pair of hands is needed in some de-
partment of our national economics.
Screen the open fire.
Ban the flexible rubber tube connec-
tion. Explosion, fire and death lurk
In it's use.
Watch the kitchen range! Grease
on a stove makes for fire and waste.
Every drop Of grease is war asset.
Watch your gas pressure. A low
turned fire may, through loose key,
turn into raging, dangerous blast
while you sleep the soundest.
Official Vote Figures.
Complete official figures from every
county received by the secretary Of,
state show that the vets won the re-
cent state wide prohibition election in
Ohio by a majority of 1887 votes. The
total vote for the prohibition amend
ment was 522,590, and the total vote
against it was 523,727. In 1915, the
last time the issue was voted on, the
vets won by majority of approx
mately $4,000 votes.
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