The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-03

up" posters carrying to citizens the
call to home service" in winning the
war.
THAT the state as a whole does
not realize the country is at war is in
dicated by reports of county war food
agents coming in now" said Clark S.
Wheeler, executive secretary of the
state council Of defense.
Posters, worded as follows, will be
sent through. the state:
AS a nation at war, it is our
object to aid our allies and defeat
the enemy.
The greatest assistance we can
give at this time is to send food to
England.
Self-preservation will compel US
to keep enough food at home to
feed ourselves.
The surplus is all we can send
away, and this extra supply is now
very small.
Every additional bushel of grain
or pound Of meat produced will
help.
Nothing should be done to him
der Ohio farmers. Everything
should be done to help them.
Wheeler said the state bankers and
the grain dealers associations already
have promised to help distribute the
posters.
Sixty-five acres of fine meadow land
well adapted to corn or potatoes has
been offered the state council Of de-
tense by Samuel A. HOskins.
Bomb Proves to Be Beans.
Nerves of Columbus citizens have
Utmost qWeted and they can now pass
cans of bean soup with hardly shud
der. But for a time things looked Sc
rious. A mysterious looking black
bag was found inside the rotunda OF
The Capitol in the morning. Inside
the bag was can and inside the can
bean soup. There was also loaf OF
bread. This was found outside the
can of bean soup. A bomb plot was
suspected. The bean soup was hur.
ried through chemical analysis and
found to contain bean or two. Then
an empty cartridge tied to stick by
a piece of wire was found on the lawn
outside. Central army headquarters
in Chicago was hurriedly notified OF
the find. Then somebody laughed
Citizens began to recall how when
they were youngsters they had tied
empty cartridges to sticks and
whirled them about to make them &c
Zzz-zZ-zZ-Zz.
Interested In Bond Issue.
Much interest is being shown in
financial circles of Ohio in regard tC
the issuing of the government bonds
which are to be issued to take care Of
the war appropriation. Not only will
banks and other financial institutions
takepart in the selling of these bonds
but the Columbus Citizen, through its
managing editor, E. E. Cook, has of
fered to turn over it's office force tc
the work and to attend to the cler
ical end of the issue in Columbus anC
vicinity without pay.
BETTING Memorial Day Exercises.
Invitations to join in a nationwide
observation of Memorial Day in g
manner peculiarly betitting to the
present national crisis, will go forward
from the Ohio State university to al
the 46 land grant colleges of the
United States within a day or two
over the signature of George Smart
president of the Ohio State University
Alumni association. The letter, con
cretely, suggests that the colleges use
their influence to prevent desecratior
of Memorial Day and definitely rec
ommends that all athletic games anc
contests set for that date be can
celed. 1t is also usged that every uni
versity use its influence to secure the
passage of the selective draft bill. Mr.
Smart states that he has written t
each of the ia local associations O
the o. S. u, asking them to write
their congressman endorsing this
measure. In his letter to the lane
grant colleges of the country, Mr.
Smart asks for suggestions for {
proper patriotic program for the da!
and says that the time is at hant
when schools, established by the fed
eral government, must cooperate il
order that "the world may be safe TO-
democracy"
Gives Ajvice to Teachers.
Advising all teachers in Ohio to cul
tivate a tract of land this year AM
help by prece pit and example in tn
campaign for more food, State Supt
Of Schools Frank B. Pearson is plant
ing and will grow field of gardel
stuff. On his farm of AZ acres nea
Rome he and IA other teachers hav
laid out tracts of land for cultivation
The acres have been plowed and ar
in shape for immediate planting, eacl
portion being staked out evenly so n
soil advantage may be had. They ar
growing potatoes principally, but vii
raise ample stores of garden foods.
War Time Styles in Vogue.
Far be it from mere man CORE
spondent to write on styles, but eve
the styles are taking on a militaI
"tinge"-if that is good word. TIL
women are to have embroidered sill
flags on their white silk stockings an
on their white silk gloves. The me
are to wear silk flags in their hanC
kerchief pockets and the smaIle
young men and girls are to wea
Buster Brown" ties of silk with th
colors of the flag predominatinl
These have all made their appearance
on the streets of the Capitol City an
in the store windows,