The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-24
Wood Heads Ohio Army Division.


gade; Brig Gen. John c. Speaks, com
manding second brigade; Brig. Gen.
Charles X. Zimerman, commanding
third brigade.
This is the personnel of officers who
will command the new first division
of Ohio National Guard which is ex-
pecting call for service in France
soon.
The appointment OF Adjt. Gen. Geo.
H. Wood as major general by Gov.
Cox to command the newly organized
division of Ohio National Guard was
announced at the governors office.
Along with the announcement OF
the appointment of Wood came the
announcement Of the appointment OF
Col Charles x. Zimerman, OF the 9Th
regiment, as brigadier general in com
mand of the newly organized third
brigade composed of the 1st regiment,
Cincinnati; 7th regiment, Marietta.
and the new 10th regiment, in eastern
Ohio.
| Woods appointment to the highest
command in the Ohio National Guard,
according to a statement issued at the
governors office, was based upon his
splendid executive and administra-
tive work" as adjutant general for two
years and his service during the 1913
flood while in command of the mill
tary district about Dayton.
He was promoted from the rank OF
major to brigadier general Jan. 1S,
1913, on assuming office as adjutant
general under the first administration
Of Gov. Cox
Low Wages for Workers.
The Central Philanthropic council
in its regular meeting made recon-
mendations to school authorities
which will carry interesting facts,
especially information about the
wages of city workers. which appear
in the paragraphs in which vocational
training in common schools is force
fully advocated.
or $4,000 men wage earners in
Franklin county, more than half re-
ceive less than SIS per week, which
28 per cent receive under $12 per
week. Less than q per cent Of the
men wage earners receive as Iluch as
. $18 per week. OF 5,400 women who
are classed as wage earners, 1t is
. found that nearly three-ffths receive
leses than So per week, which might
, be called living wage, and more
than three-fifths receive less than 81
per week.
I Quite as surprising as the general
+. low level of wages is the variation in
!. in wages between different industries
and between different classes of work
). ers in the same industry. While there
V are groups of wOrkmen who receive
!. very good wages, as in the printing
o trades and construction work and GER
q tain types of labor in rolling mills
v and glass factories, there are groups
. of men and women whose wages are
deplorably low. For instance, in the
O glass industry, which is one of the
q largest, fourth of the men receive
n less than So week. In the manufac-
, ture of fertilizers two-fifths of the
!. men receive less than $40 week.
= Newspaperman Gets State Job.
q A. E. Mckee, well known Ohio
newspaperman, and Price Russell, ex-
% ecutive clerk in the governors Office.
6 will be appointed by Gov. Cox as
" members of the new state board OF
"A clemency, created by the last gen.
q eral assembly. This was announced
10 unoff1Cially,
70 Mckee is named for a four-year
~ term and Russell for two years. The
II act takes effect July l. After that date
y the board of two will have charge of
,s all parole and pardon affairs of the
y reform institutions of Ohio, work now
y handled by the state board of admin
- istration and state board of pardOns.
3S Cox for Woman Suffrage.
il Inscribing the announcement in
50 OhiO's history on Mothers Day, Gov.
20 J. M. Cox declared that if American
49 mothers are to give their sons as sol
"a diers to the government in a war for
oc world democracy, they are entitled to
81 participate in the deliberations OF
3S government itself
~ He pledged to the sufrragists OF
90 90 Ohio that he will set his strength
Is against the proposed antisuffrage
43 referendum on the Reynolds presi-
81 . Dental suffrage law, to help defeat the
e. referendum and sustain the law.
2S Women and men, gathered in Me,
81 mortal hall for the Mothers Day ses'
- - sion of the Mississippi Valley Suffrage
"a conference punctuated with outbursts
7S Of applause the address of the gov.
90 90 ernor. He said in a time like this the
"A issue cannot be obscured, and stated
SO this clearly:
50 whether the mothers of this land
90 90 giving their all, shall have anything
$50 to say in the conduct of government
Official Makes Suggestion.
lie State health department officials
re have frowned upon the suggestion
IL that every family keep pig in its
ne back yard, pointing out that such 9
X practice would create nuisance II
almost every case. The department
IA has received many inquiries concern
as ing the suggestion from local health
wv officers and mayors, and in reply tt
be them J. E. Bauman, secretary of the
,e- state board of health, suggests tha
to instead Of every family keeping pig
" communities go together and secure
n small tract of ground in the out
skirts of the town or village.
Suffs Urge white Zones
in The Mississippi valley victory con
XII ference of suffragists here at the clos
Mt ing session adopted resolutions urging
er war measures for the establishment
IT. of white zones" about military camps
m from which liquor shall be barred an(