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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14
NATIONAL
PROHIBITION
Views of the Three Can.
didateS for the United
States SenatOrship

The following letter was sent by j
d. McAlister, Superintendent for
Headquarters Committee, Tennessee
Anti Saloon League, to the different
candidates in Tennessee. Below we
print the letter and the answers to it
from the several candidates:
''In view of the fact that the oues-
tion of the prohibition of the liquor
traffic has outgrowu community, ooun-
ty ,and state proportions and has be-
o nation wide issue, it is all i'm
portant that the voters of the several
states be assured of the attitude of all
candidates for both Houses of Congress-
on this question. You have announc-
cd yourself candidate for the United
States senatorship. in a Democratic
primary to be held November 90, 1915.
The Tennessee Anti-Saloon League,
constituent part of the Anti. Saloon
League of America. whose sole aim is
the destruction of the intoxicating
liquor traffic, both State and Nation
al, counts it solemn duty and obli-
cation to the voters Of the State to de-
termine what position the various
candidates now before the people will
take on several measures which the
Anti-Saloon League forces have agreed
to introduce into Congress in the near
future.
At the National Convention of the
Anti Saloon League of America, held
at Atlantic City, July 60, 1915, it
was agreed to urge upon Congress the
passage of the following measures:
~ A Joint resolution submitting
prohibitory constitutional amend
ment to the legislatures of the several
states.
(2) A law prohibiting the liquor
traffic in the District Of Columbia.
(3) A law to bar all intoxicating
beverages from Interstate commerce,
without regard to whether the terrific
ry is wet or dry.
(4) A law to prohibit the use of
the United States mails, mot only in
transporting intoxicating liquors, but
also in carrying liquor advertisements
and periodicals containing such adver-
tisements into prohibition territory in
violation of State laws.
(5) A law to require all applicants
for Federal liquor tax receipts to state
in their application that it is not un
lawful to sell intoxicating liquors as a
beverage at the place named in their
application.
We are sending this communication
to all the announced candidates, and
are furnishing copy to the press of
the State. 1t is our purpose when the
answers have been received to publish
them simultaneously in order that no
partiality may be shown to any candi-
date. We shall be pleased, therefore,
to have you Indicate to us at your ear
lest convenience your attitude in
these measures.
j. d. McAlister,
superintendent Headquarters Commit.
tee Tennessee Anti Saloon Leag
ne.
The following is the answer of Sen
stor Lea to the foregoing letter.
Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 30, 1915
Dear DIR. McAlister:
Replying to your letter of the 14th
instant, favor each Of the five meas |
ures which the Anti Saloon League is
urging Congress to enact, as favor
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

DIR. J. II. Latimer, councilman of
Waycross, Ga, few days ago has
shot that he had carried eighteen
years, removed from his hand.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

any measure that would destroy, or
tend to destroy, the liquor trade in this
country.
"Thankin g you for this opportunity
of expressing my views, ! am,
Every truly yours,
LUKE LEA" "
M. R. Patterson made the following
reply:
''My dear DR.:
Your letter of the t4th instant was
sent to Nashville, and fiom there for
warded to Memphis, which will ex-
plain the delay in replying.
"In response to your inquiry as to
my attitude on the five measures
which have been proposed by the Ma
tional Convention of the Anti saloon
League at Atlantic City, for action by
Congress, l reply that l am in favor
of all the propositions, and will give
them my cordial support should l be
elected to the United States Senate.
"With kind regards and very best
wishes, / am,
Every sincerely.
M R. PATTERSON.
X, D. McKellar answered as fol-
lows:
my dear Sir:
"In reply to your letter of Sept. 25th
enclosing copy of letter dated Sept.
IA, which first letter / did not receive,
and in which is incorporated a prom
ise to publish simultaneously the an
swers Of the three candidates for the
United States Senate, i beg to say
that availing myself Of this, my first
opportunity to reply.
81 wish emphatically to declare
that l am now, and have always been.
a temperance man, both in personal
and official life. l believe that am
the only one of the candidates whose
personal and official record bears out
such a contention. have always
lived an absolutely sober life. always
expect to do 80, and to support person
ally and officially all moral and tenn
pei ance measures.
"Your first proposal has already re-
ceived my approval and vote, and, Of
course, I will do 80 again. My two
competitors have much to say about
this Nation Wide Amendment, but
neither of them, though both have
served in Congress longer than /, has
ever voted for it. Theirs is promise
and mine is performance.
"Your second and fifth proposals,
when properly drawn, have my ap-
proval and will receive my support,
"Your third and fourth proposals
involve serious constitutional ques-
tion. This question is now. so am
informed, before the Supreme Court Of
the Unite States, and cannot prom
ise to vote for your third and fourth |
proposals, until decision is handed |
down up holding its constitutionality. |
or until the passage of the Nation
Wide Amendment removes the object
ion.
"One of my opponents offers you
promises of a similar nature to those
given by him to the temperance peo-
pie in 1905 when he was candidate
for high Office. He failed to fulfil a
single one of those promises. My 9TH
er opponent offers you the all things
to all men attitude. offer you the
record of a consistent sober life, and
record of official performance on this
subject, aud l believe am entitled to
the vote of all true temperance men
In the state.
Every truly yours,
*. d. MCCLELLAN"
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

The number of individual pack
ages, bales, crates and boxes handled
at the Panama-Pacif exposition
runs far over 100000.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

Using a new chemical process, a
Moscow engineer claims to have pro-
duced finer linen yarn than the fin
est spun, at low cost.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

A three.inch steel cable made for
use in Cuban mine withstood pull
ing test of 75l, 900 pounds, which is
said to be the record.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

For carrying watermelons Penn
sylvanian has invented straps term
mating in pronged wires that grip
the wire firmly.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

The first Porto Rican to be grad
uated from West Point received his
diploma the other day. His name is
Luis Raoul Esteves.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

Los Angeles doctors have been
warned by the prosecuting attorney
against abreviating names of drugs
In prescriptions.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14
ARE YOU, TOO, GROWING OLD?
-
. s~xoTo9s .
Rs ]. WELLS.

A little more tired at close OF day,
A little less anxious to have our way;
A little less ready to scOld and blame,
A little more care for brothers name;
And so we are nearing the journeys eud,
Where time and eternity meet and blend"
A little less care for bonds and gold,
little more Zest in the days OF Old;
broader view and saner mind,
And little more love for all mankind;
And so we are faring adOwn the way
That leads to the gates of a better day.
A little more love for the friends of youth,
little less zeal for established truth;
A little more charity in our views,
little less thirst for the daily news;
And so we are folding our tents away,
And passing in silence at close of day.
little more leisure to sit and dream,
A little more real the things unseen;
A little nearer to those ahead,
With visions of those long-lOved and dead;
And so we are going where all must go
To the place the living may never know.
A little more laughter, few more tears,
And we shall have told increasing years:
The book is closed, and the prayers are said,
And we are part of the countless dead
Thrice happy, if then some soul can say,
81 live because he has passed my way"
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

Strong tea will remove many kinds
of fruit stains from a PERSONS
b ands.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

The News, McCall's Magazine land
one Free Dress Patteln), Home Life
and Peoples Popular Monthly, all
one year, each, for 9Oc.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

The travelling range of the fly
does not exceed 700 yards.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-10-14

Iron rings were used as money by
the ancient Britous.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22

tai attitude Of the average soldier
towards the cause for which he is
supposed to be fighting. The great
percentage Of the rank and file do not
know what they are fighting for. This
is the case in every army. Old vet
Grams tell us that they did not have
a very clear conception of the ques-
tions involved in the struggle between
the North and the South. A very dis
tinguished veteran of the Confederate
army told this writer some years ago
that he had only very vague idea
of the ms and outs of the controver-
sizes which brought on the war, and
that he believed he knew as much
about it as the vast majority of his
comrades. In our opinion he probably
knew considerably more. He was far
above the average in point of educa-
ton and general intelligence.
If every soldier now in the field in
Europe who does not know why he
is being called upon to shed his blood
were to be allowed to go home,
scarcely enough would be left to form
opoSing footballelevens.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
Had All Been Going Some.

A city man recently visited his
Country cousin" The man from the
city, wishing to explain the mctropol-
itan life, said: owe have certainly
been having some fun the last few
days. Thursday we autoed to the
Country Club, golfed until dark, then
strolled back to town and danced I'M
til morning" The country cousin
was not to be stumped in the least,
so he began telling some of the pleas
ures of the simple life: 1--WE have
had pretty good times here, too. One
day we buggied out to Uncle
Ned's and went out to the back lot,
where we basebalcd all afternoon;
in the evening we sneaked up into
the attic and pokered until morning"
A sturdy old farmer, who was lis
tening, not to be outdone, took up the
conversation at this point, and said :
81 was having some fun about this
time myself. muled to the corn
field and gehawed until shutdown.
Then | suppered until dark and piped
until 8 o'clock, after which | bed
steaded until it was time to go muling
again."-Cass County, (Mo) Leader.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
Frugal.

Robbie met neighbor who was
smoking some fine, fragrant tobacco
sent by his son in America. He took
out his own pipe ostentatiously.
Hae you match, Sandy?" he
The match was Forthcoming, but
81 do believe" said Robbie, 81 haze
left me tobacco at home"
Them" said Sandy, after Il silence,
"ye might gle me back ma match"
During his last illness, Carran, the
great Irish wit, was one day told by
his medical attendant that he seemed
to cough with more difficulty than he
had done the preceding day.
That's odd enough" replied the
famous Irishman, because I've been
practicing all night" - Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
Filling the Egg Basket.

The Missouri College of Agricul-
ture, gives the following prescription
for hen-happiness and a full egg bas-
ket:
:, Allow each hen four square feet of
floor space.
Provide one square foot of glass to
every fifteen feet square Of floor
space.
Locate the woindows on the south
side and place the tops not quite half
as high as the house is wide.
Ventilatc by placing one square
foot OF muslin to every fifteen square
feet Of floor space, or by making a
Stat front similar to the cupalos in
barns. Be sure that there are no
openings for drafts on the back, ends
and roof.
Build floor eight inches higher
than the. surrounding ground. Fill
in four inches of coarse stone, then
dirt. This will make dry floor.
Provide eight to ten inches of roost
ing space and one nest to every six
hens.
Cover the floor with foot or
eighteen inches of straw. Feed the
grain in the straw so as to encourage
exercise.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
DIVORCE NOTICE.

In the Clerks Office of the Circuit
Court of Tazewell county, on the
oath day of December. 1914.
Harvey w. Brightbill,. Plaintiff
VS..
Ella Brightbill,. go. ... Defendant
The object of this suit is 10 obtain
an absolute divorce upon the grounds
of desertion.
And an affidavit having been made
and filed that the defendant, Ella,
Brightbill, is not a resident of the
State of Virginia, it is ordered that
she do appear here within Is days
after due publication hereof and do
what may be necessary to protect her
interest in this suit. And it is fur.
Their ordered that copy hereof be
published once week for four sue
cessive weeks in the Clinch Valley
News, a newspaper published in the
county of TaZewell, and that a copv
be posted in front of the court house
OF this county on or before the next
succeeding sale day from the date
hereof.
A Copy-Tetse:
C. w. GREEVER, Clerk.
Minter G. Minter, p. q. 1874
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
Roads Worked in Ninety Coun-
ties of Virginia.

An interesting resume of work ac-
complished by his department during
the past twelve months has been pre-
pared by George p. Coleman, State
Highway Commissioner, which reads,
in part as follows:
During the twelve months from
October l, 1913 to October /, 1914, the
State Highway department worked in
ninety-six of the one hundred coun-
ties of the State, working on 403 diff
erent pieces of road, and ninety bridg-
es, constructing during that time S55
miles of road, at cost Of $1,767, 010.
OF this amount, the State contributed
Sl85,000 direct appropriation and
$4,000 derived from the automobile
tax, these two funds being known as
State money aid. In addition to this,
the State appropriated $145,000 for
the maintenance and support of the
convict road force. The remainder
was raised by the counties by direct
levies or magisterial district or coun-
ty bond issues.
"The State is at the present time
maintaining convict camps in thirty
counties, and is working in these
camps approximately LOO convicts
from the state penitcntiary and be-
tween 500 and 600 prisoners from the
county jails, making total from all
sources of from / 500 to LOO prison.
ers who are now employed by the
State in road work. The cost of this
convict labor to the State per ten
hour working day for the State last
year was approximately 80 per cent
n small advance over last year.
81 would like to call to the partic-
ular attention of the citizens of the
State the fact that during the last
eight years approximately 100000
has been expended by the State and
counties in road work, building about
1900 miles of road and several hun
dred bridges, but that no provision
has been made for the maintenance
and care of the roads and bridges af-
ter their construction, as has been rec
commended by this department.
1T has been exceedingly difficult
to impress on the local road author
tiles the necessity for the maintenance
of the roads after they have been con-
structed. | cannot urge too strongly
the Importance of immediate legisla-
ton requiring counties or districts to
NAL Ike provision for the upkeep of
their roads, for it is certainly very
short-sighted and very poor business
policy to expend large amounts of
money in the Improvement and general
betterment of the roads and then al
low them to yo to pieces from lack of
proper care.
81 would urge that the matter of the
necessary road maintenance legisla-
ton be agitated by the citizens of the
various counties of the State, and that
the members of the new assembly be
fully advised of this necessity"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
Billy Sunday-Grams.

philadelphia North American.)
The Church of Jesus Christ hasn't
smelt gun powedr for $50 years. 1t
would do her good to have a little
persecution, to scrape off some of the
barnacles.
Some Of you who are so proud that
when you go down to the street YOU
imagine the world tips up and runs
The sewage the other way.
If you took no more care of YOUR
physical makeup than you do your
spiritual, you'd be a dried up old
mummy.
Nineteen-twentieths of all the
wealth of the United States is in the
hands of protesting Christians. That
ought to mean it is in Gods hands:
but it doesn't by long shot.
You've got to work in harmony with
God even to plant a potato. Go out
and plant now, and see what hap
pens.
Half the people are dippy when it
comes to Gods truth and horse-sense
religion.
Many church today is dying of
Try rot simply because they don't use
The means God provides. They sit
around until they mildew.
Judgment must begin not at the
brewery, not at the grog shop, btu at
the house of God, and that's where
I'm training my batteries.
We all get run down at the heel
morally, and we need something like
revival TO tone us up.
You stop living the way you do and
III stop preaching the way do Some
OF you are scared because you think
| preach too plain. / preach just like
you live.
Must Be.
Detroit Free Press: A Boston
professor says that man is at his
best on January is. That must be
pay day with him.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
WHAT is "SEGREGATION?"

One of our readers asks what is
meant by the segregation of taxes?"
Segregate means to separate, di-
vide, set apart. By segregation of
taxes simply is meant to turn over to
the State certain property for taxa
ton, and leave the rest to be taxed
by the counties for the exclusive use of
the counties in the payment of their
expenses.
Captain Donahue, who prepared the
plan as presented to the Tax Commits
sion, explains as follows:
Briefly stated, the segregation plan
releases to the counties and cities the
tax of thirty-five cents on the $500
valuation of real estate and tangible
personal property which has hereto
fore been paid to the State, and also
the tax now derived by the State from
the physical properties of public SER
vice corporations other than the roll
ing stock of railroads. 1t segregates
for State expenses the rolling stock
OF railroads, (Which has long been and
is now, a subject of contention be-
tween the cities and counties. hut
which should properly go to the STATED
the insurance tax and the tax on in
tangible property. These subjects. to-
gether with those sources from which
the State has previously derived a
large amount of revenue, will yield
annually something like $6,4O0,OOO,
leaving a balance of some 5000, 900 or
100000 to complete the States ne
eessary income, and which would be
raised by an assessment upon the cit
les and counties as units, according to
their taxable values as ascertained nv
an ex-ofticio mon salaried) State
Board of Taxation, composed of the
Governor, the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts and the Chairman of the State
Corporation commission"
The segregation plan, which will be
brought before the Legislature, if
adopted, will give the counties great
er freedom. The rate of taxation can
be governed by the assessment valua-
lions of property. There are seventy
counties in the State, somebody SAYS.
that draw more out of the State Treas
ury than they pay into it. They are
known as "pauper counties" Why
Should not each county take care of
Itself? The segregation plan, as we
see it now, ctmpels every county to
hoe its own row and every man to
tote his own skillet"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
CONCERNING
CT e A N LIVING
Modern Sanitation Is a Grow
ING Good.

No man or woman can perform full
duty to themselves or to others I'M
less they keep themselves clean with
in.
An upset liver or sluggish kidneys
will spoil your work and worth.
Regularly take CARSWELL'S
LIVER-AID and you will be a new
being in this climate for it will
cleanse your system as soap will
clense your hands.
CARSWELL'S LIVER-AID takes
the place of calomel-takes its place
excepting the AFTER effects.
1t generally acts RIGHT NOW on
the liver and kidneys and eliminates
the posions and accumulations.
Results-internal cleanliness and
by means of pure VEGETABLE
compound.
No danger, no discomfort.
On sale at John E. Jackson's in so
cent bottles. Purchase price refund
ed in full if you wish it. But you
won't. when you try this scientific
remedy.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
A New Years Resolve.

Conscious of my responsibility to
God for every thought and word and
deed, and in duty bound to render
to my fellow men the largest posi-
bic srvice as the best evidence of my
love for my Heavenly father, / re-
solve to strive during the remainder
of my life to increase my capacity for
usefulness. To this end will give
up any course of conduct that tends
to weaken my body, impair the
strength Of my mind, or lower nv
moral purpose, and | will not only
endeavor to cultivate habits of indus
try in both body and mind, but will
seek worthy ideals.-W. ]. Bryan in
the Commoner.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-01-22
SEVERE PUNISHMENT
OF Mrs. ChappeIl, of Five Years.
Standing, Relieved by Cardui.

Mt. Airy, N. C.-Mrs. Sarah M. Chap
pell OF this town, says: 81 suffered for
five years with womanly troubles, also
stomach troubles, and my punishment
was more than any one could tell.
tried most every kind of medicine,
but none did me any good.
read one day about Cardui, the wo-
mans tonic, and decided TO try it. |
had not taken but about six bottles until
| was almost cured. II did me more
good than all the other medicines / had
tried, put together.
My friends began asking me why
looked so well, and told them about
Cardui. Several are now taking it,"
DO you, lady reader, suffer from any
OF The ailments due 10 womanly trouble,
such as headache, backache, sideache,
sleeplessness, and that everlastingly tired
feeling?
If so, LET us urge you 10 give Cardui a
trial. We feel confident it will help you,
Just as it has a million other women in
The past half century.
Begin taking Cardui to-day. You
won't regret it. All druggists.
Write To-: Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Ladies'
Advisory Dept. Chattanooga, Tenn. for Sfeeial
LrffyHefiorI on your case and 81 page book. Home
Treatment for Women" in plain wrapper. NC. l2s