An actual census
in all the varied public office activities in Ohio would
disclose that although the Democratic party has been in
possession of the Government for nearly all of the past twelve
years, the number of members of the Republican party on the
public rolls is almost as great as that of the victors. The
Governor has found that men in the world of business employ, at
larger compensation than the state has afforded, the type of men
he has most often selected for responsible posts. It is one of
the curious effects of progress in government that it has
touched and awakened progress in business and in civic life.
In social service there has been evolved the cold storage act
which has served as a model for proposed national legislation.
under its provisions a strict limitation of time is placed upon
the storing of food. With this has gone strict legislation
against adulteration of food and honest enforcement of the laws.
Other states have accepted as a model the social agency
committee now working in effective co-operation with state
departments and bringing into mutual operation all recognized
social agencies. One of the greatest steps forward was the
establishment of a bureau of juvenile research with Dr. L. H.
Goddard at its head.
Second to no other reform has been that effected in handling of
the prison problem. Prisoners now earn their freedom through
work in the healthful out-of-doors on highways, in plants for
making road material, and on farms.
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