The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-11-01
Picked Up in Capital
of the Buckeye State

an attempt to burn a food repository
grain elevator or grocery storage place
in Ohio will be turned over TO the mill
tary authorities at Camp Sherman.
II is understood this decision has
been privately reached in the Office OF
the state fire marshal, the determine
ton being that IL it is in any way pos
sible, the next offender, instead of be-
ing tried for arson, will be placed un-
der such charges as will bring him
face to face with the chance of pay.
ing the extreme penalty for treason.
The fire marshal's Office is in dead
ly earnest, for the thing it feels it is
facing in unsuspecting communities
throughout Ohio it regards as deadly
menace.
There has been general talk of the
fire marshal linking recent bad fires
that destroyed stored foodstuffs with
German intrigue, but reluctance In
some few instances on the part Of pro-
prietors to comply with orders for in
creased fire prevention and the neces-
sity for day and night guarding indi'
cate there is not yet sufficient realiza-
ton Of the widespread nature OF the
danger.
1t should not be without signiti-
cance to the public that in the two
months just past, August and Septem-
Der, State Fire Marshal 7. Alfred
Fleming's department made more ar
rests than had been made in any en-
tire year in the previous history of the
department with the exception of two
years ago, the year of the Youngstown
riots.
A number of men arrested and con-
victed have been Germans, and have
borne in their home communities the
name of being radically proGerman in
their sympathies. Only last week the
department obtained the conviction of
such man, and he was sent to the
reformatory at Mansfield.
The fire marshals Office has sus-
pected persons under surveillance, in
connection with its crusade, and 10
issuing constant warnings to the pub
lie and food storage prOprietors.
Corn Boys Free Trip.
The annual Buckeye corn boys spe-
cial is to be one of the few, if not the
only excursion, to be run to Washing
ton this fall, according to railroad Of
ficials While long excursions have
generally been abandoned and regu-
lar passenger service has been re-
duced the specials bearing the 500
prize-winning lads and lassies and an
equal number of their friends and
parents, has been positively assured.
Six locomotives and enough Pullman
equipment for 1000 persons will be
lsed on the trip The special trains
will leave Ohio on Dec. and stops
will be made at Pittsburg, Washing
ton and New York.
The corn and other contests in
which the free trips to the east are of.
fered are conducted by the College OF
Agriculture extension service of the
Ohio State university.
To Study Food Conservation.
Prospective school teachers of the
state, in attendance at 40 of the county
normal schools, are to be taught how
to conserve food. This will be part OF
their general training which the Col
lege of Agriculture extersion service
offers each year at these schools.
The work in home economics will
also include a study of cooking. tex
tiles and dress, and school lunches. In
struction in general agriculture will
also be offered.
Alfalfa Scores Again.
Alfalfa has solved the problem oi
washing on a steep sidehill some
where" in Portage county, according
to C. r. Shumway, the agricultural
agent in that county. Cultivated crops
washed so that their profitable grow
ing was almost out of the question
Finally in desperation in 1910, it was
decided to put in alfalfa. A crop OF
oats was removed. The land was
plowed 1t was lined, dragged, worked
and put into a soft, mellow condition
Some soil from a sweet clover patch
was put on. Then the seed was sOwL
the last of July.
The owner figures that the crops
gathered have been worth not less
than $40 per acre for the six seasons
it has been cut.
Restaurants Help Win War.
The organization for war time
food conservation in public eating
places in the state was completed
when J. o. Mills, Columbus and Gin
cinnati restaurant man, was appoint
ed on the staff of State Food Admin
istrator Fred c. Croxton.
Mills will at once begin the enlist
ment of 1900 or more restaurants il
the state in the federal administra
ton campaign to help win the war b!
food conservation.
To Pension Aged Ministers.
An annuity plan providing for S.
100000 Pilgrim Memorial Fund" 70
aged and disabled ministers of tn
Congregational church and their de
pendents was adopted by the Nationa
Council of Congregational Churches.
: Liquor Dealers Denounced.
: Liquor dealers who, for financia
gain, undermine the efficiency of tn
United States army and navy by sell
ing intoxicants to soldiers and sailors
were branded as traitors in a speecl
here by William Jennings Bryan, VIII
: is touring Ohio.
The former secretary of state de
clared that the liquor dealers woul
be more than glad to undermine tn
efficiency of American armed force
: by selling them liquor and, for tn
profits on the sales, places the safet
of the country in jeopardy at the tim