The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-07-19
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IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS - OTHER HAPPENINGS
Governor to Wed Chicago Girl.

Governor to Wed Chicago Girl.
Honor falls to one of the younger
society leaders of Chicago when Miss
Margaretta P. Blair becomes the first
lady of Ohio through her marriage to
Gov. James M. Cox late in September.
The report of the engagement came
circumstantially from Dayton and was
later confirmed by the prospective
brides father.
So far the engagement has been
secret except to a few Of the intimate
friends Of the bride-to-be, who has
been actively engaged as a volunteer
Red Cross worker since the early days
of the European war.
Miss Blair, who is young and one OF
the handsomest girls in Chicago, Is the
daughter of Thomas s. Blair, jr., presi-
dent of the Blair Engineering Co. She
and her father are now in New York
to say good-by to the son and brother,
Thomas s. Blair III. who recently en-
listed in the navy and is about to join
his ship.
Charles E. Morris, secretary to Gov.
Cox, later confirmed the reports rela-
tive to the governors forthcoming
marriage to Miss Blair. Mr.. Morris
says the marriage will take place in
Chicago during the early fall. He says
the affair will be a simple one and
that there will be no honeymoon.
Friends of the governor 1irst became
suspicious that he would wed when he
began to build a fine new home on his
country estate near Dayton, overlook
ing the Great Miami valley.
Denounces Militant Tactics.
Militant tactics by suffrage pickets
at Washington are branded as little
short of treason" by Mrs. Harriet Tay-
lor Upton, Warren, president of the
Ohio Suffrage Association, in letter
to President Wilson.
Members of the Ohio Suffrage AS
sociation deplore the action of the
women who, through the past months
of national anxiety, have picketed
the White House and Capitol, thereby
attempting to convey the idea that you
are our enemy instead of our friend.
Militant methods generally are not
approved by us and, when used in
times Of war, they appear as little
short of treason. All reforms, as they
near completion, however, develop
their lunatic fringes' and ours ap
parently is no exception to this rule
eve are loyal, law-abiding citizens
helping this government in every way
in its present hour of need and we dc
not wish to be confused with nor held
responsible for the acts of few mis-
guided, oVerzealous women who harm
the cause of woman suffrage and give
q wrong impression of our nationa
democracy to the countries of the ole
world
II realize that you know the differ
ence between the Woman's Party anC
the National Suffrage Association
but l am importuned by our member!
throughout the state to express to yol
our dsapproval of the militant tactics
OF Washington group and to assure
you that we have no sympathy will
them. Nine out of 10 letters receives
each day at our state headquarterI
call upon me to publicly express
Ohio's disapproval. 1t is to satisfy thi
demand that l write
Negro influx Is Discussed.
Ohio on July ~ became the pionee
= among the northern states in under
taking to point the way to meeting tn
: problems created by the great negr
exodus from the southland to tn
north.
Says Don't Lower Standard.
Delivering his address, the featur
| of the opening session of the Obi
State Bar Associations annual meet
, ing at Cedar Point, Judge Edmund f
? King Of Sandusky, president, urged tn
legal fraternity to discourage in ever
way the pleading by attorneys of e.
| emption cases instituted by youn
= men drafted for military service.
, "Such employment will have tel
dency to lower the standard of tn
legal profession" said Judge KIM
who voiced what is said to be gel
! eral readiness on the part of the We
=. eran lawyers of the association to TAX
> care of the business of the younge
| members who enter the service an
: turn over when the war is ended tn
3 financial returns less actual expense
. incurred and, if agreeable to the so
/ dier-lawyer, very small percentag
by way of remuneration.
= Judge King said the Ohio suprem
+ court is mot kept busy enough" b
9 said the court had been confronted b
8 only 40 cases last year, whereas
New York, Massachusetts, and SON
other states in Ohios class the ave
age number was 325 cases.
Cox Speaks at Training Camp.
e American birdmen will bring peat
S to Europe, Gov. Cox predicted, spea
S ing at Ft. Benjamin Harrison.
l. American airmen, carrying tor
+ and tons of dynamite past the trench'
e Of the enemy, will reach Essen ar
n Kiel, destroying not only the navy
n Germany, but every institution whiC
l. continues the menace of Prussian il
e perialism," said Cox.
# Discussing secret Inventions whiC
J. he said have been perfected, Cox pr