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THE MEDINA SENTINEL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, M14.
THE MEDINA - SENTINEL
The only Democrktic newspaper in Medina County and tfie -official organ
ot the county Democracy. .
Entered at the postofflce at Medina, Ohio, as second-class matt matter.
Oct. 13 .1888. ;'T--
MHa. MART K. LONG . . . .
GEORGE M. DENTON. . ..
.Owner and Publlshei
,. ..... Editor .and -Manager
Subscription price: Per year. 11.00; six mos.. 60c; three mos..25c; Single
copy, 5c; all subscriptions to be paid in advance. '
WILL THE PEOPLE STAND FOR IT?
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
For Governor
JAMES M.' COX
IIILK knowing where Warren G. Harding,-Republican
candidate for senator, stood in matters of progress, it
was scarce expected that he would make the frank dec
laration he did the other day. He represents the old order.
Nor does he deny it, when before the Republican state conven
tion, while the platform committee was preparing the straddle
plank, he said :
J I want the Republican party In Ohio, under the leader-
ship of Frank B. Willis, to come back and make us what (
we were berore.
Lest it be forgotten what it was before the six years of J
honesty, efficiency, economy and humanity in Qhio under the J
Democratic administrations, let us review briefly.
To go back is to put the grafters back in the state treasury, J
where public funds were used for private ends ; where interest
from favored banks, one of them recommended by Warren G.
Harding, was paid into private pockets; where irregularity
and dishonesty prevailed until Judson Harmon cleaned out
the stato house, and made it possible for the state to secure ,
more than a million dollars in interest" under Pemocratic ad-
ministrations. 1 i : jt.'
To go back, we suppose, to the days when the ricli tar.j
dodger escaped, and the poor man paid the taxes. .'
To go back to the time when liability companies suckea
the life blood of industrial concerns, and robbed the bleeding,
crippled workman, the widowed, destitute wife, and the or-
i phaned. helpless and innocent children.
I T ro back to the davs of "honor and deference," to
George B. Cox, quoting Mr. Harding's own words. . v jf
Tp go back to the daysiwhen the most corrupt lobby' in
the world infested the state house, and when they had so fast
ened their tentacles that it took five years to eradicate them
utterly. ... . .
To go back to an unbroken record of inefficiency and graft,
and an unbroken record of broken promises, the Republican
heritage in the state. v
This is what Warren G. Harding would have the people
. of Ohio do. and yet he comes before the people as a candidate
has forgotten what the people of Ohio did to him in 1908 as"
a candidate for governor because then he wanted to make the
Republican party what it was before. ' r .
But if the remnant of the oncef powerful' Republican party
will stand for this reactionarv Drooram. the nrocressive ele-:
i ment will not, and the great mass of the people of the "state,
will not permit the going back. : M v , ,.
$ It is a hopeful sign that Timothy S. ITogah, the Demor'.
j cratic senatorial candidate, is progressive in every fibre of Mi
uuuy. aii lemuntauie cumrnsi, w reaction is ins statement :
. 4 In the Improvement or her highways, her schools, her
farms, her homes, Ohio' hat advanced in the past two years
more than any other state in the Union. There is no turn
. ing backward. Jet us keep our eyes on the rising sun, shoul
der to shoulder, onward march, and the government of this i .
state will be retained In the hands of that great party that , ; '
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m nas Deen enirusiea wiia me commence oi me peopie ui u;no
for the past five years because it has governed well and
. governed honestly. . .,; ( . , ' .
? As it has been said before, the contest this vear is one of
progress against reaction. .Repudiation of the democratic pro-,
- 1 i. -Oi' 1 :W
gram or nonesty, emuency, economy ana n,umanuy, wiu mean :
that Ohio will lapse fifty years m progress. Ohio, the leader ,"
J of all states, can riot afford to take one step backward.
Lieutenant Governor (
W. A, GREENLUNP
Secretary of State
J. H. SECREST '
Treasurer of State
JOHN P. BRENNAN
Attorney General
JOSEPH McGHEE
Clerk of Supreme Court
FRANK E. McKEAN
U. S. Senator
TIMOTHY S. HOGAN
Chief Justice Supreme Court
HUGH L. NICHOLS
Judges of Supreme Court
PHIL M. CROW
J. FOSTER WILKIN
Judge Court of Appeals
LEWIS B. HOUCK .
Representative to Congress '
ELLSWORTH R. BATHRICK
State Senator ,
JAMES P. SEWARD
' ... !
Representative
DANA F.' REYNOLDS
Clerk of Courts
L. J. FLICKINGER
The council met to regular sea- f
in
sion Tuesday night '' 1 " -
Bob Oakley is visiting friends
Medina thh week. .1 : "
Mark . Reed of .Orrville. visited
friends in town Thursdays; i
Ivlra. Anna McDowell and Mrs. 0.
D. Chapin will spend the week-ena in
Cleveland.
Mrs. Ralph Randall entertained
the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the
Congregatoinal church at her. home
on North Elmwood street last Friday
evening.
R.
.Sheriff
L. GEHMAN
Auditor
GEORGE C. NEAL
Commissioners ,
GEO. STARR ,
B. J. VANDEMARK
. D. L. TOWSLEE?
Treasurer
CHARLES FRANK
Recorder
M. F. BAILEY
Surveyor
L. B. GANYARD
Prosecuting Attorney
ALDRICH UNDERWOOD
Ohio Convicts
Would Vote
Dry
.The Mexicans claim to be civilized, although they are 300 years, behind
Europe in ability to kill each other off.
It is suspected that some of the' advances in food prices are not due so
luuch to the. war as to the desire of dealers to acquire a 1915 automobile.
It is atonishing what a good article an editor can write on the advan
tages of a cheap vegetable diet, after he has had a good square meal of
roast beef. 1
Congressman Whitacre has announced that he will take the stump In
Ohio for Willis this fall. If his speeches are like those of the primary
' campaign it will be pretty tough for Willis. Akron Times.
The progress of cities is measured by the public spirit of their inhabi
tants. Men whose only interest is in the success of their individual busi
ness may make money for themselves ,but they cannot build successful
cities any more than a pile of stones can furnish sustenance for growing
plants.
If you can think of anything that can be done to beautify or build up
our town, go to it Keep your capital at home; patronize home, industries;
help your merchants so they can sell cheaper; always get your work' done
in your own town if possible; subscribe and pay for the home papers, don't
eteal or borrow the reading of them. If you follow these suggestions and
your town does not improve and build tp it will not be your fault Try it
We are hot given to boasting but we are proud of the farmer boys of
this vicinity. They are, with rare exceptions, a healthy, intelligent and
happy class of young men. We feel like taking our hat clear off when we
. meet them upon the streets ,and no class is more welcomed to our office.
Too many boys leave the farm where they would have made substantial
and good citizens, and go to the city where only one in a thousand succeed in
life's battle. There are farmers who fairly drive their boys away. There
is no excuse for tfiis. The farmer boy is entitled to his vacations, to several
relaxations, his visits to the city, good books, magazines and his home
, paper. To the observing one it is plain to be seen. that the old. farm is tye
bcs place in the world for the average young man and never fails to bring
a happier and more useful life than the city. ' Young man, yotf who till
the soil and earn your bread by the sweat of your brow, we are proud of
ypvyexxt latchstring Iralwoys out to you and you will always have a friend
in this paper. Come and see tu and give us the new from your neighbor-;
hood. .M,"i- . , - 'k':-';.:i '! ' H-'---,t';i''t
Co!umbus. O. The chaplain's office
of the Ohio penitentiary has taken a
straw vote of the convicts on stata
prohibition. The day the vote wi
taken there were l,3f0 male inmates
:yplri.yrvn ,239
outside the prison at the' time,' so
their yoies were not recorded. Ot the
1,350 Inside the walls,. 887 voted for
prohibition., The remaining 465 did.
not vote against' prohibition,, but re
fused to give their preference.
'' The chaplain's, office , also gave out
the "statement ' that of the" 1,630 con
victs in, the penitentiary, 1,458 claim
ed that drink caused their downfall,
This is In excess of 89 per cent.
Warden Botkin of the Kansas pent
tentlarv says abont 8 per cent of the
men in ' that' institution 'are there be
cause of drink and dope.. -As Kansas
has had prohibition-for a-third of a
cntury, these figures . indicate to
what extent liquor la connected with
crime.
Chaplain Reed of the Ohio peniten
tlary says there are confined (a tba
prison fifty-seven men charged, with
non-support, and fifty-four of these at
tribute their downfan to drink He
also says 177 children ot these men
are on the mercy of the charitably
Inclined of the state.
Students of sociology regard thtse
figures coming from the penitentiary
as most remarkable, while taxpayers
and others who have been studying
the relation of crime to drink see in
them the Justification of the claim
that it is drink which causes and In
creases the burdens of the taxpayers.
It Is considered a matter of unusual
Interest that so many of the Inmates
express themselves, as' favoring the
abolition of liquor. Many of these
men have been behind prison walls
for a long time, and have reflected
on what agency. got them into diffl
culty, and quite naturally they have a
resentment for the traffic. Supporters
of state-wide prohibition argue that
if these men who are suffering from
the effects of' drink, would vote to
abolish It, those who are net Its vic
tims should vote to help others keep
out of prison, . instead of voting to
help, them in.
Education For
Rural Pupils
ADDITIONAL PAWNEE
' ' CORRESPONDENTS
Miss Cora and Hazel Plow of
Elyria, spent Saturday and Sunday at
the Briggs home.
Ford agents are thick.
J. Hein and company attended a
surprise party at Alvin Stahle's In
Litchfield Sunday.
' Paul Koons say: Oh, gee, it isn
much fun to go to sleep on the way
home from Lodi for there are others
out too." , t- ' ;'
.Miss Flora Grill ' entertained) her
cousins, fttK-ancrflira, ueorge Haas
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Local school officials in every sub
division of the state are beginning to
realize what the " new school code
means to the pupils' of Ohio. De
signed to give the boy and the girl in
the country the same advantages as
the boy and the girl in the city, it is
working out beautifully. Not only
does it eliminate the old injustice
possible under the Boxwell and Pat
terson laws, but it shows an actual
saving in cost per pupil of the state.
One of the clearest explanations of
the work of the law was printed re
cently in the Caldwell Press. What
applies in Noble is true in every coun
ty of the state. The press says;
Better Educational Advantages.
"Statisticians tell us that out of every
hundred pupils that enter our schools,
the country over, but seven (it them ever
grot into the high school. And further,
that of this seven but three ever get to
college. Astounding . statement! But a
fact.' It then follows that whatever ed
ucation we are going to (rive the great
masses of our people the 93 per cent of
our rising generation must be given
them in some manner other than our
present school system. If the pupils can
not get to the high sch'l, then we must
take the hurh school to the pupils. That's
ifectjW what the new School law la de
signed to do. The education one yets in
the elementary grade is not nrticint
to equip Americans for the battle Of life
lit" this strenuous age. It therefore be
comes Imperative that we get better ed
uoatfonal advantages to thq pupil instead
of trying to get the pupil to the better
educational advantages. Can it be done?
T.es, there is no doubt in mat. Will It
cost more? No. It will cost less. The
proof of that lies In the fact that towns
and cities give their children. the advan
tage of a first grade high school educa
tion at less cost per scholar than it coats
In the country schools. '
"There Is no room for difference of
opinion on this question. It can be, and
has been figured out to a mathematical
certainty. If It can be done In towns and
cities It can be done lu the country just
8.9 WOll. '
; "How will it work out In, Noble?. Just
exactly the way the people of Noble want
It to work out. Get that. Cost of super
intendents figured In, too? Tes. i Here's
how: Our county superintendent gets .$1,
JBOU. The four district superintendents
get $1,300, $1,200, $1,000, $1,200, or $4,700.
Add $1,800 and we have $6,500, of which
the state pays half, leaving $3,250: to pay
ffw -superintending; Divide that bt fif
teen townships and the share of this ex
'pnse to each would be about $216,14. y-
"For every school district abandoned,
on account of too small an average daily
attendance, or from any other cause, aft
er providing for transportation of chil
dren residing too far away and paying!
the township's share of supervision ex
penBos, you can figure a net saving, per
school abandoned, of about $250. So that
the new school law is not only, going to
take a first grade school to the pupil, but
Is going to do it for less money than the
present school coats. Do a little figuring
on this data. '
, "Wayne township has abandoned three
districts and so arranged it that not a
child has to be transported to school.
Seneca haa abandoned two, Buffalo one,
Jefferson one, Beaver one, up to date. It
is safe to say that they will average ono
school abandoned to each township, at a
net gain in cost of at least ' $250 per
school, or $3,750 net saving, after paying
for superintendents.
"The office of clerk of the county boar!
'bf examiners is done away with and the
County superintendent does that work at
.' further saving of $350. :
r'Tho county superintendent and. dis
trict superintendents are required to
,teach in the summer training school for
teachers free, and teachers can lattend
that school tuition free.
"So the new school -law stands to save
Noble bounty at least $4,000 and give us
Immeasurably better schools,"
Consolidated 8chools.
A pertinent editorial on the sub
ject of "The Rural School" appeared
recently in the Saturday Evening
Post. This editorial said:
' "Among many reasons Tor leaving the
farm education is by no means the least
There may be a romantlo suggestion In
the little red or white schoolhouse beside
the country road. Formerly we used to
boast of tNose little schoolhouscs, and
consider that community in which they
were most numerous as the most ad
vanced educationally. But to those who
know, the little country schoolhou-e now
adays Is a sign that the community is
backward. These little ungraded country
schools are on the whole our most lnaffl
clent institutions for teaching,. Progress
Is in the direction tif the - consolidated
school which means a 'school building as
well equipped and as well manned ' as
that to be found In. town, with convey
ances to fetch the children thither In the
morning and carry them home again In
the afternoon. There are over two thou
sand of these consolidated rural schools
in the United States, and the number
grows. In any well settled state they
are a' matter merely ' of some gumption
and paaaable road"-' The whole, Idea Is
that In a rural district, say six miles
square, one efficient school is much better
than six Inefficient ones. Experience
shows that' the cost Is usually not much
greater and often less.
"Schooling for bis children that la at
least up to the town standard la some
thing every farmer mlfcht reasonably de
mand, end something he can have In
every well settled region If he will only
Insist upon It. Inertia and stinginess are
the only excuses for .the little ungraded
country echool."
It will be noted, that an authority
so eminent as the editor of the Sat
urday Evening Pdst puts good schools
end good roads In -the same list. That
Is Just what has been done in Ohio
and Just what will be maintained un
der -the present order. : A slap at thu
state highway department is also
slap at good schools.1 Neither the' (
schools nor .ty&d. should ;b allowed
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