Ohio state monitor. (Columbus, Ohio), 1919-01-18

              OHIO -STATE M Vol. 1 COLUMBUS, OHIO, JANUARY 18, 1919 No. 33 M CREATES A DRY COMMISSIONER Prohibition Enforcement H Before Legislature. IDENTICMEASURESPRESENTED BEGINS THIRD TERM Simplicity Marks Inaugural Ceremony in Statehouse. Manufacture of Liquor For Maker's Own Use Prohibited and Ban Placed on Near Beers and Booze Medl cines Holders of Liquor Must File Sworn Statement Bill Backed by Anti-Saloon League. Columbus, Jan. 15. Ohio Antt- Saloon league's statewide prohibition measure has been introduced. Iden tlcal bills were offered In senate and house at the same time by Senator Miller of Dresden and Representative Crabbe of Madison county. The bills propose establishment of a state department of prohibition en- forcement, to be headed by a prohibition commissioner appointed by the governor for a two-year term at $5,000 a year. Four to six deputy commissioners at $3,600 a year each are proposed. Twenty-eight regular inspectors at 1,500 to $2,000 a year each, and special Inspectors as they arc needed, are provided. The bills propose establishment of tfour enforcement districts, with head-" Quarters at Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo and Cincinnati. A deputy commissioner is to be in charge of each district, armed with same powers as sheriffs. Present state, county or city officials are not relieved from obligation to enforce the prohibition law under the terms of the bills. Manufacturers of alcohol or wine for medical, pharmaceutical, sacra-; mental or other non-beverage pur- j poses, and manufacturers using alco-1 hoi in extracts and toilet preparations must get licenses from the prohibition commissioner. Druggists must get permits to sell intoxicants. Sales may be made only on doctors' pre scriptions or on affidavits of the purchasers that the liquors are not to be used as beverages. ' Manufacture of liquor for the maker's own use is prohibited. There is no provision, however, to prevent persons from stocking up. All persons having liquor on hand May 27, when prohibition becomes effective, however, must file with the state prohibition commissioner a sworn statement, setting forth the amount in full. Manufacture of cider vinegar and , tion of Harvey C. Smith, Zanesville: sale of nonintoxicating cider is per-1 was valid. mitted. Sale of tablets or compounds The governor in his message to the from which intoxicating beverages legislature recommended financial re-can be made is forbidden. "Distilled, ' lief for cities and other local subdl- malt, 'spirituous, vinous, fermented visions, at the same time adhering to or alcoholic liquors or compounds" principles of the Smith 1 per cent are put under the ban. Included will law; enactment of rigid laws for the BUCKEYE JEWS NOTES MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST TO RESIDENTS OF OHIO. Horses and Mules Bring Good Prices. Camp Sherman, O., Jan. 15. Seven thousand persons from almost all parts of the United States attended the biggest sale of horses and mules ever held in Ohio. Generally the prices pa'id for the horses and mules were exceptionally good. Wheel mule;) brought from $350 to $450 a span and single pack mules brought about $130 as an average. Horses brought from $140 to $150 apiece. Charge Against Girl, Washington C. H., O., Jan. 15. Bertha Wolfe Price, 18, is in Jail here awaiting removal to Dayton, where, it is said, she will face charges of bigamy. Authorities say she mar ried Tom Sword of this city Nov. 26 last and that later sha married Roy Barton, a farmer, now in military service. Montgomery county officials claim the girl, on Dec. 28, married Howard Price, formerly of this city. 4f HO GUARDS THAT A STREAM DIVINE?" It Makes a Difference in the Singing of a Certain Celebrated Song. Oppose Military Training. Sandusky, O., Jan. 14. More than 100 of the 225 Sandusky high school boys left their classes in protest to the recently issued compulsory mill tary training order. The strike has demoralized high school athletics Superintendent Edmonds said the or der will not be rescinded and intimates that the law will be Invoked if necessary. Columbus, Jan. 13. A simple in auguration ceremony marked the beginning of the third term of Governor Cox, who took the oath today at noon in the chamber of the house of representatives before a joint session of the general assembly. C. J. Brown, who took the oath as lieutenant governor shortly before, presided. Chief Justice Nichols of the supreme court administered the oath to Cox. In the governor's party were Mrs, Cox and former Governors Campbell and Harmon, The Columbus chamber of com merce will give an inaugural ban quet at 6 p. m. at the Elks' home to members of the legislature and in-coming and retiring state officials. Other state officers inaugurated today were John G. Price, Columbus, attorney general, and R. W. Archer, state treasurer. There will not be an inauguration of a secretary of state bscause of the euit pending in su preme court to determine if the elec- Heavy Robbery. Cleveland, Jan. 13. Taunting the fireman and watchman, whom they had bound in a room less than 20 feet away, six or seven robbers blew the safe in the General Baking com pany here and escaped with $5,000 cash and some liberty bonds. The telephone wires were cut and rugs were piled on the safe to stifle the explosion's sound. Included will be patent medicines capable of use as beverages and near-beers and beer substitutes. Advertising of intoxicating liquors is prohibited. Penalties are provided as follows: For the first offense is a fine of $200 to $1,000; second offense, fine of $500 to $2,000 and imprisonment for not less than 90 days; third offense, fine of not lees than $1,000 and Imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one year. In both houses the bills were given second reeding and referred to the temperance committees, SPARTACANS DEFIANT Spurn German Government's Proposal to Arbitrate. London, Jan. 9. A dispatch from Berlin says the Spartacus group has rejected the government's . proposal to arbitrate, on condition that they disarm all their followers except soldiers, evacuate all public buildings and surrender Police President Eich-horn.The revolt has spread to Mannheim, where the Spartacans raided a Social Democrat meeting, smashed the furniture and attempted to wreck the offices. The rioters were dispersed.A Berlin dispatch says the Ebert government has decided to employ "frightruiness" in suppresing the Spartacan revolt. It has resolved to equip the troops with flame throwers. The Spartacans still control the post-office and other government buildings and have frustrated attempts of the government forces to retake the Span-dau arsenal. Advices received at Copenhagen state that several hundred persons have been killed in fighting in Berlin. The government seems, however, provisionally to be master of v aituatio, enforcement of the state prohibition amendment and authority for the governor to dl.-rharge local officials who fall to enforce prohibition laws; correction of defects in the state health machinery; changes in state budget system which would provide for presentation before legislature of two years' budget, together with es-tinute of revenues for corresponding period; additional dormitories at Ohio State university and enlargement of curriculum at Wilberforce university; retention of present laws providing for state militia so that Thirty-seventh division may again become the Ohio National Guard; purging of Ohio statutes of all traces of "Prussian poison," and passage of a resolution urging congress to enact necessary legislation for deportation of aliens who have not been loyal to Anitrica during the war. Heavy Jewel Robbery. f Toledo, Jan. 15. Mrs. M. J. Owens was robbed of diamonds and other gema valued at $30,000 at the Toledo club. The gems were in a small bag which Mrs. Owens had placed on s door knob in one of the dining rooms Included in the loot was a ring set with numerous diamonds and worth $13,000. Busy Cracksmen. Steubenville, O., Jan. 15. Four yeggmen blew the safes in the post- office and Cleveland and Pittsburgh depot, making a getaway with con siderable money and registered mat ter. The yeggmen and a night railroad watchman had a running pistol duel, over a dozen shots being fired. Shea, Loses Fight. Toledo, Jan. 16 After fighting for four years a sentence of six years, John J. Shea, formerly of New York, was taken to Atlanta to begin his sentence. Shea was arrested more than four years ago in a fake wiretapping scheme in which a Michigan farmer lost several thousand dollars. Memorial Proposed. Delaware, O., Jan. 14. A permanent memorial to the sons of Ohio Wesleyan university who made the supreme sacrifice for the cause of democracy will be erected on the campus soon. A column of stone will be erected bearing the names of the 11 men who died. It will cost $500 According to a returned British prisoner whofyas at liberty in Berlin during the revolution there, "Deutsch-land uber Alles," "The Watch on the Rhine" and similar patriotic songs are just now highly unpopular in the German capital. Three English civilians who had celebrated the signing of the armistice were coming along the Unter den Linden singing "The Watch on the Rhine," when they were stopped by German soldiers, who suld they ought to be ashamed of themselves for sing lng such rubbl'-'i. "I've come i.om the Rhine," one of the German soldiers remarked. "You go down there and try to keep watch, and then you won't sing so much about it." "But we are English," one of the civilians replied. "Whatl" exclaimed the astonished BOldier. "Then why sing 'The Watch on the Rhine?' " "Well," grinned the Englishman, "you see we are keeping It now." RACES AS THEY ARE AFFECTED BY THE CLIMATE MARRIES COUSIN OF LATE HUSBAND ""X 'A. v :: i jTweilfrn Newipnpgr bnlon Mrs. Annie M. Mills Archbold, widow of John D. Archbold, who has become the bride of Judge Charles W, Dustln of Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Arch- told, a daughter of the late Major S. M. Mills, inherited more than $12,000,- 000 of the $41,000,000 estate of her late husband, who at the time of his death was president of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. ASKED CHEAP BURIAL Discharged Soldier Held. Marlon, O., Jan. 14. Rodney B, Cordell, 25, discharged soldier, is un der arrest here while police investi gate charges that he had a wife liv ing in Cleveland when he married Mrs. Myrtle Burkhard, 19. here. It is charged he is known in Cleveland as T. J. Tracy. FOR PERSONAL USE Liquor Can Into Not Be Brought Dry States. Washington, Jan. 14. Supreme court reversed the ruling of lower courts that the Reed "bone dry" amendment does not prohibit the interstate transportation of liquor into dry states if it is for personal use. As interpreted by the court, the law nullifies state statutes permitting limited amounts of liquor to be brought in for personal use. The opinion was rendered in pro ceedings brought by the government Alleges a Frameup. Canton, O., Jan. 11. Love letters Introduced as evidence in the $15,000 alienation suit filed by Mrs. Madeline Turner of Cambridge, O., against Mrs. Anna P. Holmes of this city, were branded a "frameup" by counsel for Mrs. Holmes. Five Cent Fare. Dayton, O., Jan. 16. An ordinance passed by the city commission provides for a straight 5-cent fare for adults and a straight 3-cent fare for children. The company wanted a 6-cent fare. Two Burned to Death. Lorain, O., Jan. 14. Robert Bron-walt, 2, and Mrs. J. W. Thomas were burned to death when fire destroyed under the Reed amendment against the two-story Opfer building. Twelve Dan Hill, who was charged with tak- persons were rescued. The loss is ine a auart of liquor into West Vir- estimated at $40,000. ginia, as the state laws permit. The lower court dismissed the indictment, holding that the liquor had not been transported in interstate commerce within the meaning of the law because it was intended for Hill's personal use and not for trade. This decision was reversed and the caseremanded. Robbed of $7,000. Cleveland, Jan. 14. Edward Pey-ska, cashier of the National Biscuit company here, was held up by three bandits and robbed of $7,000 In the down-town section. The robbersescaped. Left a Note Saying He Wanted Red Cross to Share In Savings, Pinned to the shirt of J. H. Shunk, who died of influenza in his room at a hotel at Yakima, Wash., recently, was found a note with $140 in bills. The note asked that he be given the cheapest possible burial In case of death, and that the remainder of the money, after paying his debts, be donated to the Red Cross. Shunk has no relatives In this part of the country, so far as known. The note gave the names and addresses of a brother end sister living in Wisconsin. He had been working in an evaporator here and the money evidently represented his savings. HONOR TO WHITTLESEY Commander of "Lost Battalion" to Have Park Named for Him. As a tribute to the gallant Lieut-Col. Charles W. Whittlesey, command er of the famous "Lost Battalion," who told the Germans to "go to hell," It is proposed to name one of the public parks at Pittsfield, Mass., "Whittlesey Park." The movement to perpetuate the memory of this Pitts-field young man was launched at a meeting of the local council, Knights of Columbus. The matter is now be fore the park commissioners and a fa vorable decision is expected. By Vox. Editor Ohio State Monitor: There appeared in the Columbus Evening Dispatch of January 13 an editorial, under the heading of "The African Question." We quote the following: "Throughout the thousands of years when he was uninterrupted, the African did not improve his condition as other races of people have done. There have been few Africans who became real leaders of men. Neither in Liberia, where, the blacks have been encouraged by the white nations, nor in Hayti or San Domingo where they have had things their own way for a hundred years, have leaders developed to promote the prosperity and happiness of the race." A bare statement of a fact of this kind, however true in itself, may be come misleading unless followed up by true ethnological reasons based upon climatic conditions. Henry Thomas Buckle in his "His tory of Civilization in England" dis cusses this matter very thoroughly and shows that no peoples of any race living in the torrid and frigid zones can hope for such mental, moral and physical development as we find among peoples of all races in the tem perate zone. The African in his na tive habitat has been an unfortunate child of the torrid zone as the Es kimo, who is not of Negro origin, has been equally an unfortunate child of the frigid zone. If the Negro in his native jungle has not advanced in all those years neither has the Eskimo advanced among the icebergs of his frozen region. But as a further proof of Buckle's view, if either the Negro or the Es kimo becomes an inhabitant of the temperate zone he immediately be gins to develop into a full-fledged temperate zone-belt man. There are many men of Negro blood in the temperate zone who would make capable leaders of their race m Africa if climatic conditions did not deter many of them from making the attempt. In my judgment there is no such thing as inherent individual or collective race inferiority. If you were to put 1,000 Africans in the temperate zone and 1,000 Cau-cassians in the torrid zone, the chances are that, after the lapse of generations, the Africans would have become Primus inter pares, while the Caucassians, being the victims of un fortunate climatic conditions, may lapse into a hopeless barbarism. All great battles fought for consti tutional liberty and all assemblies to settle grave questions pertaining to man's highest good have been fought, decided and settled in the temperate zone. It seems that God himself has made the temperate zone our zone to be the abode of all men, regardless of race, who are to exert those benign influences, civil and religious, which must govern the world for all time. This has been true in the past, and there seems to be no good reason why it may not be true in the future. It would be among the impossibili ties for any of us to expect to see either a Hottentot or an Eskimo marshaling armies to settle great ethical or economic questions. COMMUNITY! LEAGUE MEETING The Columbus Community Home Coming League met at Pythian hall last Sunday afternoon. This organization is composed of representatives from the churches, and every secret and civic organization in the city. The purpose of this organized movement is to make the Home Coming of our boys worth while because of the splendid reception it is proposed to tender them on their arrival from overseas, where they have brought fame and glory to themselves and country. So far the movement has received splendid support. The following committees and persons constitute the working force of the League : Mr. J. J. Lee, President; Mr. William Burke, Secretary. Committee on Hall Wm. Lynch, Joseph Bryant, J. B. Johnstone, W. F. Payne, A. C. Jones. Committee on Refreshments Jas. O. Webb, E. H. Ball, Hattie Allen, R. F. Jones, Warren Hawes. Committea on Flags and Decorations Isaac Farley, Henrietta Johnson, C. E. Turner, W. H. Thomas, Julia Weaver. Committee on Escort' J. P. Bowles, J. H. Waldrof, S. F. Ailstorck, A. L. Mayo, John Finch. Committee on Speakers Wm. H. Ferrison, J. Faulkner Lewis, William Terrell, J. H. Taylor, Frank Guthrie. Committee on Music Ray E. Hughes, Adele Reese, E. L. Rockhold, J. B. Ridgeway, Wm. Car penter. Committee on Finance Geo. A. Weaver, Jno. A. Jones, C, H. Robinson, Helen Board, J. L. Smith. Co-operation With Chamber of - Commerce I. D. Ross, Lillie Howard, J. S. Fer rison, W. B. Allen, W. H. Scipio. Committee on Program N. B. Allen, Mary Spencer Lewis, W. Williams. A press committee will no doubt be appointed at the next meeting, which will be held the afternoon of the fourth Sunday this month. ACTION AGAINST FORMER KAISER IS RECOMMENDED British Committee Investigates 100,. 000 Cases of III Treatment of Prisoners. Concerning Running. Said the facetious feller: "Ain't it funny? A man doesn't run after he's caught a street car, but his nose does after he's caught a cold." London, January 10 (via British Wireless Service). Some 100,000 cases of the ill treatment by Germans of war prisoners have already been in vestigated by the committee of inquiry of breaches of the laws of war, instituted by the British government It Is estimated that at least 150,000 other cases remain to be investigated. The committee has divided its range of subjects into various heads, referring them to subcommittees for detailed in vestigation. Various important con clusions have been reached. The subcommittee, which has been investigating legal problems, has come to the unanimous conclusion that it is desirable to take proceedings against the former Kaiser. SOLDIER'S LETTER Nevers, France, December 16, 1918. Rev. J. W. Carter: Dear Sir An idle hour of my time enables me to drop you a few lines to let you know I am in perfect health, out of the hospital and ready to come home. I sincerely hope you are the same. My last letter I wrote was very poorly written. As you know, while in the hospital, a man is somewhat unable to write as well as being around people in perfect health. Mr. Carter, don't you think Mr. Wil son has gone to the height of desperation an the peace conference ? A few words as to the modes and weather in France. As to the weather it is greatly changed since the big guns have ceased. The people of France are reverse to the folks in the states, as the people in the states believe in everything up-to-date, while the French, they believe in antique. The religion still shows greatly in France, as the old buildings we saw have the religious objects inserted in the wall. The mysterious things I have seen in the churches and at the front I shall pay you a personal visit to tell you all about them. The boys have gained commendation from all our allies. The remembrance you gave me I still have. While in a shell hole, under heavy machine gun fire, I thought I had not a friend in the world. And opening my great Comforter I read the last verse of St Matthew, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." After reading the wonderful verse I was inspired with new life and vitality. And was able to go and do my part, knowing I had such great friends in heaven to comfort me. Hoping you have the same comfort, and all your people in the church, I will close, wishing you a healthful and prosperous New Year. Your parishioner, EUGENE HAIRSTON, Nevers, France, A. E. F. t. , 1 X 5 1 1