Part 4 (2/2)

Strengthening the user in the state of railroad safety appliances

A full cre

Twenty-four foot caboose

Reduction of consecutive hours of employment for electric railroad workers

Obstruction of fixed signals prohibited

Safeguarding of accidents in mines by proper illumination

Extra provision for dependents of men killed in mines

Increased facilities fortoward abandoned mines

Elimination of sweatshop labor

Provision for minimum time pay day

Prohibition of contract labor in workhouses

Provision for ht-hour working day on all public contracts

Codification of child laith establishment of child welfare department

Compulsory provision for mothers' pensions

Verdict by three-fourths jury in civil cases

CHAPTER VII

THE LEADER OF THE STATE IN WAR--VISION IN GOVERNMENT IN PEACE TIME

Theodore Roosevelt said that Governor cox was a the very foremost of war Governors The utterance wasthe fateful period of hostilities Presenting complicated problems at all time it was no less true that in war there were major, not ht take her traditional place as one of the very militant states of the Union That she did achieve such place attests the zeal and ardor of the Governor Ohio presented to the country a complete division, the Thirty-seventh, recruited under the personal supervision of Governor cox It led the nation, by long odds, in sale of war saving staood order and set an exaonisms within its borders by cultivation of such a spirit as erous to the disloyal Withal there was no untoward incident affecting peaceful alien ene, and the tractor can for Ohio farms was adopted and imitated in other states The Governor hi the first State Council of Defense and enlisting volunteer aid at no expense to state and country in quickening all war and related activities Every situation affecting the State's power found hiency When an early frost and severe winter in 1917-18 destroyed much of the seed corn, the Governor uncovered instances of profiteering and iorous action Corn in other districts with siht in and sold at three dollars a bushel

Soldiers of no state were better supplied with all the comforts that could be provided than those of Ohio While the Thirty- seventh was in camp in the far South a Christmas train was sent to it Special funds were raised for entertainment of both the Ohio cailant care and sy the war tih proclamation attention of local authorities was directed to an old law orously

No less in reconstruction than in was activities his energies were tireless The Governor took the lead in securing legislation to correct the defects found in educational laws and one of the statutes placed upon the books at his suggestion provided for an oath of allegiance on the part of teachers

Referring to disclosures in certain cities, he said: ”We have had our bitter experiences and love for our children compels us, in common prudence, to protect them”