The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-17
Picked Up in Capital
of the Buckeye State


draft boards are flooded with appeals
from soldiers wives who are In want
and who report that their war allot-
ments Of money from their husbands
salaries and the government are not
being sent them.
They want something done to rem
edy the delay at Washington. The
draft boards are forwarding the ap-
peals with which they are besieged to
state draft headquarters.
The volume of appeals from the
soldiers dependents has become 80
large that it is announced the state
draft authorities and Governor James
M. Cox are laying the nature of the
case before Washington in an effort
to haTS the allotments expedited to
relieV9 &he winter needs of the wives,
children and other dependents of
ohio's fighting sons.
1t is understood Ohio is not alone
in being confronted with the allot-
ment tangle, but that the delay is af-
fecting other states equally.
Under the first draft call, local
boards were instructed by Washington
that the government, through the in
surance bureau, would make allotment
arrangements. When private speci-
fed he wanted half his $50 month
sent his wife, the government would
arrange to forward that to the wife d.
rect, holding it out OF the soldiers
pay, and also adding SIS on its own
account, with further federal allot-
ments for children.
On the basis of that arrangement,
some married men with dependents
went into service without claiming
exemption, because they felt a certain
amount of support thus would be pro-
vided their dependents. Local boards
gave consideration to this $50 a month
the wife would receive in estimating
whether a mans going would deprive
his wife Of reasonable support"
Now, according to the appeals from
families, the money is not arriving.
The soldier in the camp can't send it,
because the government holds 1t out
of his pay to forward to the family
irect.
That is the way the situation is de-
scribed at the state draft headquar-
ters, on the basis of information for
warded from local boards in all Sec
tiors of the state.
Beyond the fact that the delay is in
Washington in the war risk bureau,
no explanation of the trouble is vol
unteered here. But Ohio officials have
come to the point where they want
to make sure that the appeals of the
soldiers families are needed at Wash
ington, and so will bring the question
to the attention of the authorities
there.
Ohio Miners Are Loyal.
Miners of Ohio stand squarely with
the United States government in the
prosecution of the war to the limit,
and so pledged themselves formally
by ringing Endorsement of patriotic
resolutions introduced in their anual
While President Wilson, before
congress, was reading the death war
rant of military authority
rant of military autocracy, the state
wide meeting here of men upon whose
labors many of the country's war
activities depend were declaring their
support to the nation until all SEM
blance of militarism is destroyed,
wherever found"
Ohio miners are in accord with the
national program of industrial peace
for the period of the war, their atti-
tude being reflected in the assertion
in their resolutions that they realize
leach and every one must do his
part" The miners promise readiness
to do theirs. Their officers assert the
men will mine coal on holidays and
Sundays If the national emergency
requires and they are furnished with
cars.
The convention recommended to its
membership that loyalty to the Unit
ed States could be displayed in no
more substantial form than by the
purchase Of war savings stamps, and
urged the local unions to cooperate
with other organizations in move
ments to further thrift stamp sales
Ice Makers Conserve Fuel.
With artificial ice plants in several
sections of the state falling in line
with the request of the food and fuel
administrations that as many plants
be eliminated as possible to conserve
fuel and ammonia, the question was
considered at conference of repre-
sentatives of II Columbus companies.
AS result, it is expected number
of Columbus plants will suspend per
cent of their capacities.
H. D. Norvell of Cleveland, direc-
tor in Ohio for the conservation
movement, has closed his Cleveland
plants and is buying from his col
leagues, the food administration here
reports. The movement generally is
under the direction of the division Of
chemicals of the United States food
administration.