The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-11
Draft Men Kept Busy.

of touches of real war.
In the first place, Maj. w. B. Pee
bles, instructor in aviation at Wilbur
Wright school, Fairfield, near Day
ton, dropped in for a friendly call the
other morning. He did a few dips
and dives and loop-the-loops, looked
around, shook hands, paid his re-
spects, saw that his mechanician was
ready to go back to Dayton-and was
OF.
1t was the first visit to Camp Sher-
man by birdman, but it will not be
the last. Maj. PEBBLES promised that.
with a good landing field laid out
north Of the camp, regular flights for
practice may be scheduled this fall.
! The other touches of war were to
| be found anywhere around the camp.
1t may have been due to the showing
! the per cent men and the 40 per
cent men want to make by the time
the 80 per cent quota from Ohio re-
ports for soldering. Whatever the
cause, there were bugle calls, bands
practicing, men drilling by signals
from arm and whistle and more real
! life in evidence than at any time
since the draftees got here.
In the artillery sections, the rockies
! have advanced so rapidly that they
are now practicing the formations
about dummy field rifles, most Of
these constructed from stove pipe,
telephone and anything else that can
be made to look like cannon.
In other sections where infantry
men are quartered, companies were
out for hikes or for drilling with
! signs instead of the customary vocal
orders, playing the prescribed games
| for warriors and going through set
/ ting up exercises. Here and there
company was out building roadway
in front of barrack building or doing
some fatigue service.
| State in Stacker Hunt.
Ohio was asked by Provost Marshal
General Crowder to join in a nation
wide roundup of men who are delin-
quent in reporting for military serv-
ice, and reward of $50 for every
( skulker is offered.
In telegram to the state, General
Crowder says: "A reward of $50 is
payable for the delivery at the nearest
army camp or post of deserter. This
reward is in full satisfaction of all
expenses incurred in said delivery. A
person who fails to report to his local
board for military service at the time
| specified in his order to report is a
deserter. A person who fails to re-
port for military service to the adju-
tant general of the state by the date
specified in the order of the adjutant
general to said persons is a deserter.
1t is highly desirable from every
standpoint that an effort now be made
to round up all persons who are de-
linquent in reporting for military
service.
Governor Seizes Coal.
Ohio announced previously a pro-
gram of drastic and direct action to
assure coal for emergency use for do
mestic consumers. Gov. James NJ.
Cox set the pace by virtually seiZing
train load of 1000 tons of coal and
directing it's shipment from Cam
bridge, where it was found, to Dayton.
where it was needed.
The gov ernor telegraphed Harry A.
Garfield, federal fuel administrator,
asserting that, in view of the federal
priority order that coal shall be as
signed to utilities and to lake ports,
situation had developed in Ohio
promising serious consequences. The
governor set forth results of the sur.
vey of the coal supply in Ohio cities,
gathered in replies to messages sent
mayors of 80 Ohio cities and towns.
This survey showed that many cities
are practically without coal for do
mestic consumption, and that very
few cities have on hand anything like
an adequate supply to carry their
householders through the winter.
Suffraeists' Plea Denied.
The Ohio supreme court denied to
suffragists an injunction to stop the
referendum asked by anti-suffragists
on the Reynolds presidential suffrage
Constitutionality of the existing refer.
endum law.
This means the final determination
of whether the suffrage law will be
submitted to vote of the people Nov.
6 hinges on the outcome of a legal
contest over the constitutionality of
the referendum act.
The supreme court dismissed one
suit of the suffragists, in which they
sought directly to go into the question
Of the validity of the referendum pc
titions themselves. Dismissal was on
tion, the suit having been appealed
; when part of it was still hanging fire
in common pleas court.
Plan Community Hotel.
Plans for a community hotel, in
which women visitors of drafted men
: can be housed, have been passed upon
| by division headquarters at Chilli
| cothe and a contract will be let short
/ ly. The hotel will be operated under
= the auspices of the national Red Cross
! and the charge, if any, will be very
; low. If sufficient funds are raised to
f maintain the hotel, no charge will be
: made. 1t has not been determined
: whether the building will be large
, enough to accommodate 100 or 200
, visitors. A small building probably
will be constructed first.
Woman Picked as Food Aid.
Miss Belle Sherwin, chairman Of
f the Cleveland women's committee of
) the Council of National Defense, was
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