Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-01-07

towns. Forty two rate schedules
sought by the company are primarily
involved in the investigation. Be-
sides these, rates in every city and
village in which the Ohio Bell Com
pany operates finally will be consid-
cred and passed upon, though the
rates in many of those cities and
villages are not now subject to dis
pute between the company and the
municipality. The purpose of the
commission to decide first the rates
in those cities where new schedules
have been filed, and have been for
mally protested before the commits
sion.
Penal Institutions Crowded
With winter terms of court now
in session throughout the state the
population of the penal institutions
is expected to show its usual winter
growth and crowded conditions seem
certain. Prisoners will soon again
be sleeping in halls and corridors as
we'll as doubling up in the small
cells at the penitentiary, while the
Mansfield reformatory will be sure
to show substantial gain. Each
winter the condition grows worse,
and each summer relief is promised.
But its the same old story and until
personal political ambitions are laid
aside and business investments for
gotten, no substantial relief may be
expected. The idle house at the pen
itentiary, one of the real curses of
the state, will soon be filled with
able bodied men who want work.
They will be willing and anxious to
do anything, and all due credit must
be given the executive officers of
Ohio for wanting to give them this
work. But when a board of control
repudiates the action of its own po-
/ litical leaders in the general assem-
bly,, and refuses to help rid Ohio of
the idle house, where can one look
/ for relief? For three years now
Governor Donahey has tried his best
to put these idle prisoners into
! profitable fields of employment, but
each time he is blocked either by the
I
pointed by that Legislature, which
for no reason than except that ii is
not of the political faith of Donahey
it refuses to help relieve the crowd
ed penal institutions, the idle house
and incidentally be given productive
work that will eventually help lower
the taxes of every taxpayer in Ohio.
AARs
The canning industry in Ohio,
realizing the great damage being
done by stream pollution, have sub
scribed $4,000 to fund to fight
better methods OF treating waste
products from canneries. DR.. John
E. Monger, state health director,
who first started the agitation for
prevention of water pollution said in
commenting upon the action OF the
Gamers that the step was in line
with the policy of the state health
department in organizing each in
dividual industry to develop ade-
quate means of caring for its waste
problem. Other groups he said are
working toward a solution of their
individual problems. Ohio is can
ming approximately 100000 cases
of food products annually, and the
growing Importance and extent of
their industry renders their deter
mination to solve their waste prob
lem an important factor in cleaning
up Ohio streams -" - -. -
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| New Method For Road Contracts
The uniqus method Of the COVER
nor OF the state voting on the award
ing OF highway contracts has been
adopted, by Vic Donahey and instead
of individual responsibility for
contracts, the state highway de-
partment engineers, as well as
the director, himself and the COVER
nor. vote when bids are awarded
When contracts are received they
are frat opened in public and then
ltabulated. The tabulation is then