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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-12-17
DEMOCRATIC PARTY SURE
TO WIN NEXT ELECTION
President Wilson Says Republicans
Have No Issue,

| Washington, Dec. S.-President
Wilson told members of the Demo-
cratic National Committee at a
luncheon in the state dining room
of the White House to-day that the
Republicans had no issue for the
next campaign except the tariff and
the Democracy was certain to win.
"Our constructive work has start
ed an Irresistible movement which
cannot be stopped" he declared.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is
talking thru his hat"
Mr.. Wilson said nothing to indi-
cate whether he would again be a
candidate for the Presidency.
Thruot his entire talk, which dealt
with subjects ranging from Demo-
cratic chances of victory to features
of the isolated" life of a Chief Ex-
ecutive, the President was informal.
Taking his place at the head of the
table, he thrust his hands into his
trouser pockets, cast aside what he
termed his "dress parade" language
and talked freely and contidentially
Democrats Of all factions greeted
his remarks enthusiastically. They
left the White House in buoyant
spirits, declaring that his optimism
had inspired them with new conf
dence. 1t was the first time, com
mitteemen said, that their body had
been received as a whole in the
White House. They expressed regret
that the text of the Presidents
speech would not be given out as
they regarded it as a vigorous cam
paign argument.
At the outset the President said
he wanted the members to feel that
they were a part of big family of
which he was a member. He asked
whether anyone present could sug
gest any campaign argument other
than the tariff which the Democratic
opposition could advance and the
committeeman all shook their heads.
Nobody knew at this time, he added,
what sort of tariff measure must
be framed to meet changing condi-
tons resulting from the war.
Discussing parties and policies gen
orally the President insisted that the
Democratic view was that the ma
Iority should rule, while that of
heir opponents was that BOARD of
trustees" should act for the people.
Touching upon the Mexican prob
EN- he said this same majority rule
should apply in Mexico as we'll as
his country, without regard to the
wishes of persons residing in other
countries who hold Mexican prop
,rty. He expressed the belief that
n due time peace would come in
Mexico when the people were thor
'ughly tired of raising disturbances.
The President faced a united COM
nittee, leaders declared tonight, ru-
nors of threatened breaks between
riends of Fred B. Lynch, the Min
esota committeeman, and Chairman
William F. McCombs having been
disposed of.
Mr. McCombs and most of the
Their committeeman left for their
ONES tonight. The chairman will
anne the convention Committee on !
arrangements this week and within
month it will hold its first meeting
l St. Louis.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-12-17
ANOTHER WOMAN TELLS
How vinol Made Her Strong

Beallsville, Ohio. --"I wish all ner-
vous, weak, rundown women could have
Vinol. I was SO rundown, weak and
nervous could not sleep. Everything l
ate hurt me, and the medicine had ia
ken did me no good. / decided to try
Vinol, and before long / could eat any
thing wanted and could sleep all night.
Now am we'll and strong, and in bet
ter health than / have been for years:
Mrs. ANNA MILLIsoN, Beallsville, Ohio
We guarantee Vinol for all rundown,
weak and debilitated conditions.
divers Red Cross Drug Store
Union City, Tennessee.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-12-17
NONRESIDENT Notice.
Callie Johnson VS.. Frank Nj. johnson.
Petition for Divorce.

OtlbAOh III a OtFOlC6.
In this cause it appearing from the
bill, which is sworn to, that the de-
PENDANT, Frank M. Johnson, is non
resident of the State of Tennessee, so
that the ordinary process of law cannot
be served upon him, it is therefore or
dered that the said Frank M. johnson
appear before the Circuit Court, to be
held on the first Monday in January,
1916, at the courthouse in Union City.
Tenn, and plead, answer or demur to a
bill filed against him for divorce, or
the same will be taken for confessed
and the cause set for hearing ex-parte.
1t is further ordered that this notice be
printed in the Union City Commercial
for four consecutive weeks.
This November "a, 1915.
H. NJ. GOLDEN, Clerk.
35-4t ByT. L. Lancaster, d. G. 4
Lannom & Stanfeld, Atty's for Compl't.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
First-Get tho Right Wife.

The American Magazine has a depart
nent entitled THE Family's Money It
eeks to tell how to make it go and grow.
4 discerning correspondent offers this
suggestion:
We ave noticed your new department.
Ny wife, who comes from the middle west
md is intensely practical, says this is the
lime to tell you something she Is sure OF.
after long observation. She says:
LET the married folks go; it is too late
% help them. But do tell the young I'M
married men to pick out wives who come
of families Of some m~eansapeople who
Know the value OF money. This idea that
poor girls make thrifty wives is not sound.
The worst spendthrift wives I know came
from poor families. Not knowing the
value Of money-never having seen much
o~efore-they are absolutely reckless with
heir husbands coin. They don't know
where the money, came from. how hard It
came. and they have no idea of using It
Iu~diciously. The young wife who has
,een something Of money. all her life. hav-
ing lived in q family partly composed of
successful men folks, Is more likely to
lave business sense. When she marries a
poor man she will investigate his affairs.
understand them, n be Of some business
use In the household. Two can squeeze
pennies tighter than one.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
and which puts those who are seized by It
into a. state not unlike megalomania.

and which puts those who are seized by It
into a state not unlike megalomania.
There are, OF course, EXCEPTIONS: there
are Americans who are able to appreciate
the progress and achievements Of foreign
nations. but the mass of the people have
an overweening opinion Of themselves. a
fact that has been brought fully to light
by the war. One must, it is true, not for
get that Europe has strengthened the
Americans belief In their likeness to God.
The nations OF the old world nave been
wooing Uncle Sam for the past 10 to is
years. After the war. however, things
will probably be very different. for even
England will then undoubtedly adopt the
standpoint indicated recently by a Cana
dian newspaper in the following words:
Our friends in the United States take
great credit to themselves for having
helped us. That they certainly have done.
with arms and ammunition. We have paid
for this. however. and ave paid a price
double and treble what it ought to have
been. Moreover, the material was. for the
most part, very inferior" A very severe
blow has been dealt Uncle Sam in his self
respect by the attitude of the German
military authorities, who have not been
seduced by the worship of the Star
Spargled Banner. When Uncle Sam be-
gins to settle accounts with Japan he will
find that his Importance in the eyes of
the rest of the world dwindles visibly.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
The Last Straw

Mary James master is a slightly
eccentric bachelor. He has one most
irritating habit. Instead of telling her
he wants done by word of mouth
he leaves on his desk, or on the kitch-
en- table, or anywhere else where she
Is likely to see it, a note CURLY direct
ing her to Dust the dining room" or
Turn out my cupboard" and so on.
The other day he bought some note
paper, with the usual die-sunk ad-
dress imprinted upon it. from the sta
toner, and ordered it to be sent home.
Mary Jane took it in, and the first
thing that caught her eye was a note
attached to the package. She read it
open-eyed.
WELL she said, he's asked me %
do a few things in his blessed notes,
but this is the limit. | won't stand it
no longer!"
For the note read:
Die Inside This Package."-London
Mail.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
SAVED. BY AN UMBRELLA.
Copyright. 1915, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)

tNNOgy AA8nle xOlO, w IuC mcclure NGW0-
paper Syndcate.)
IRA was a little girl who lived In
far-off Australia. Her home was with
IN English family named Winston. but
her real people were. dark skinned ma
tives. who lived in the plains and were
known as bushmen. When a baby IRA
had been very i'll and her mother called
in the white lady to see what the
strange peoples medicine would do.
simply remedy and 1t got well. but
when the mother died a few weeks
later on the bushman father brought
1t to the big house on the plantation,
where the Wfnstons lived. and the
white lady kept the tiny brown baby
till now she was a bright child of II.
One day the bushman father came
to get his child back. but IRA did not
var to go into the plains and live a
wild life In grass huts. But the father
insisted. SO that Mrs. Winston. know
ing she had no claim to hold the child,
sadly told IRA that she would have to
return to her father.
May, the baby of the Winston fam
fly. was but 3 years old, and Ura
seemed devoted to the child.
One bright afternoon IRA, feeling
sad about her having to return to the
bushmen, went with May on a tramp
near the sheep fields. They had a
little basket of lunch. and IRA picked
up a big red umbrella as she walked
through the hall.
That umbrella will only be in your
way. child.8' said Mrs. Winston, as she
put a few more apples and cakes into
the basket and tucked May into the
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
STUNNED BY THE MExicANs
Caves Supposed to Be Possessed by
the Devil" Into Which None
Willingly Enter.

Ancient caves in different parts of
Mexico often contain the skulls and
n Of former inhabitants, whether
prehistoric or Of later times, some
times containing fine fashioned flint
implements.
The natives, as a rule, fear to go
into these places. DO not enter, Sc
nor they will say, as, with Anglo
Saxon lack of superstition you deter
mine to explore them; some evil be-
falls those who NEEDLE with the re-
mains of the dead
And if they are prevailed upon to
assist they cross themselves devoutly
before descending or entering. Weird
tales they unfold afterward of men
who have gone into such places and
found their exit barred by some evil
spirit, they themselves having been
encountered dead and cold upon the
cavern floor when discovered by their
relatives, who had searched for the
missing one,
According , the poems, the scenes
OF murder or wickedness which may
have taken place in such situations are
enacted again to the terrified vision
OF the unhappy witness who haG the
temerity to venture into those places
possessed Of tie devil, for the king
of darkness is an ever-present and
active elemen- of the poor Mexican's
superstitious world"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
From the. New York Annalist.

Wv - IA
Afterward the world will be food-con-
scious as it never was before. A country
that imports Its food, as Great Britain
does. and as any industrial nation tends
TO do, Will have a new sense Of its yul-
n~erability on that account. 1t is clear
that IN modern war. as in wal of print
i've times, a tremendous advantage lies
WIN a people who are self-sustaining, so
that those who fight may be fed for an
irdeterminate time by those who remain
at work. Indeed, conditions are imagi-
nable under which such a state of self
sustaintnent woul weigh very heavily, If
not conclusively, against the gold Of a
country that had to buy food for itself
and Its army. too. Gold is an asset in
war only 80 long as 1t can be exchanged
TOR the goods required to be consumed in
war. II the world were SO upset. or If
labor In such masses had been diverted
from pursuits of production to the field
OF war as greatly to diminish the output
OF essential goods. SO that no people pro-
duced a surplus of food to sell, then the
belligerent country unable to feed itself
would be at O tremendous disadvantage,
though 1t had all the gold In the world.
Or IL a food-importing country lost con-
troll OF the ocean highways, or the right
OF free access thereto, no clairvoyant fac
ulty would be required to forecast it's
fate.
England Must Control Seas.
III the naval positions Of Germany and
Great Britain were reversed the British,
who buy their food, could not persist in
war. Germany, on the contrary. out of
her own resources, or with those Of Aus
tfla-Hungary combined, Is self-sustaining.
she can subsist within an iron ring of
She cannot be starved. And
this is all the more interesting in view of
the fact that Germany was travelling fast
q road which leads to food dependence.
There, as In other modern countries, there
was a drift of population from country
to city life, from agriculture to industry.
The war catches Germany, by chance, at
Just the point of equilibrium. She can
reed herself. do 1t perhaps for years con-
secutively, but 1t requires an intense con-
servation OF all food producing means. At
the and OF another generation It might
have been impossible. Germany in an
other Is years would, in the way she was
tending, almost certainly have become a
food-importing country, Notwithstanding
the fact that German agriculture is bet
ter financed and organized than agricul-
.ure anywhere else in the world. Thanks
10 the rural credit system imposed upon
The people against their understanding a
century and a half ago, capital has been
very cheap md very accessible to the
German agrGulturist.
This country had so long produced an
excess of foodstuffs for sale to Europe
that the possibility of its ceasing to pro
luce a surplus did not suggest itself at
all to any but statistical intelligence until
1 few years ago. 1t was at first lard to
imagine. But once people began to think
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
Mr.. 1ryan's Man Of Straw.
Prom the Houston Posi-,

N3sae. q W. I0u6tOI W1OSI. ..aI
Nj. Bryan's Madison Square peace
Sypeech was interesting. It was delivered
WITH al the oldtime Rryanic fire. and it
vas irrelevant and untimely. =
Tonight I plead against war with Ger
many he exclaimed Should similar cir
Russia 4 would plead just as ardentiv
against war with any OF those countries.S
True enough. but who Is demanding war
NTH Germany? Certainly the president is
gaot demanding such q war. The press il
not deManding9w n SO far as We have
oeeng able to ascertain, no portion Of the
:tieople have been demanding war,
Pleading with whom. Mr.. Bryan?
Wherefore the necessity OF pleading when
there u ntMihere In the country the Slight
.eBt desire tor war with any country
Mr. Bryan. - merely campaigning
sentilment that has nj existence.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22

little wagon. You had best leave it
home"
1T will keep off the sun and we can
play 1t is a tent" replied IRA. 80 1
would like to have it." With a bit of
wire she fixed it over the wagon, and,
taking the pole, started on the trip.
For an hour walked, drawing the
wagon at her heels. and Mrs. Win
ston, standing on her porch. could see
the red umbrella shining brightly far
away against the soft green of the
rolling fields.
Under a big tree the two children
camped and ate their lunch. then IRA
swung May IN a grapevine till the sky
began to darken.
"A storm Is coming up. May" cried
..yIs peglnning to pack UP the plates.
we must start home at once"
So she put the baby in the wagon.
and throwing the umbrella across her
arm. walked rapidly toward the house.
winch stood on a hill at least a mile
2iI. The sky was asst growing darker.
BLACK CLOUD stormed up in the west.
ana out or their inky depths Flashed
we wagon was heavy. Then the wind
rose and blew SO strong that It was
hard Tor her to fight her way.
AS she prodded on against the storm
sne heard strange sounds behind her.
and looking back saw a sight that
made. her stand still with horror-for
tar Oft h could see a thin. dark line
coming cross the plains. like the
waves breaking on the shore. 1t was a
iaTge nerd OF sheep that had become
frightened In their distant grazing
grounds and Were racing, mad with
terror. before the storm.
" course sheep are not very large
thousands and rush over one - y,o,,ia
mean death. "oa0
IRA knew this. If the mass Of wild
Y racing animals reached them thew
would be trampled to death. And iust
then. to make matters worse. Nav he
gan 10 cry. The girl dropped the UNI
brella and took the weeping bahv In
her arms. She would save the i,tt1a
one. ever at the risk of her own life
AS she glanced at the red umbrelI. Nv.
ing on the ground an idea came into
ner frightened brain-perhaps it was
the very thing that would save tham
g she placed May on the ground
home. Then she kept about four .o Wsrda
penlnd the baby. walking backward
herself. When the rushing hard ~
sneep was a short distance or she
opened the umbrella and shut II
quickly: The ~flapping of the big rod
sninE IN their faces surprised and
irlgstened the leaders. but thew comid
not stop-behind were hundrads nf
2t's'r animals coming on at flll snaad
nv they swerved aside, parting to
figAt and left. AS you know. sheen
ss !. follow the leaders. SO as fast
" they caTne up they caught sight of
the red umbrella which Ura kart sh,,t
ing and opening, and they. too, ran to
one side, leaving a clear path. Al last
me nerd swept by and Vanished over
he hill. over
lust then the storm broke. Bu+ ON
a the roar Of the rain IRA heard .
snont and saw the men OF the farm
aurrying to their rescue. So = bannu
pafty Y was that dashed to the house
g 9 hot supper and a dry bed And
when the child settled 10 slean 4t,n.
s1ead. VI ner
.lra" said Mrs. Winston, while her
1oice trembled with unshed tears. you
part with you. As long as We i've The
y your home here with US" 4
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
Scythe SOM.

Mowers. weary and brown and blIthe,
What Is the word nlethinks You know.
Endless overword that the .scythe.
Sings to tho. blade of grass below
Scythes that sing in the grass and clover.
Something. stlll that tney say as they
pass;
What IS the word that. over and over.
Sings the seythe to the flowers and
grass
Hush. ah hush, the scythes are saving.
Hush. and heed not, and fail aslaep,
Hush. they say, TO the grasses swaying.
.Hush, they sinS.to the cover deep!
Hush, and heed not. for all things mass.
Hush. ah hush! and the scgs.ies are
swinging
ovesgthe clover. over the grass.
SsGfeSs Eang.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
Some Refreshment.

An admiral, during the e
at Newport, told a story at a gar
den party.
The navy is as abstemious from
ethical reasons" he began, las old
Stingee was from miserliness.
old Stingee was entertaining a boy
hood friend one evening at his shore
cottage. After a couple of hours of
dry talk the old fellow said, genially:
would you like some refreshment
"a cooling draft, say-George"
why, yes, l don't care if l do
said George, and he passed his hand
across his mouth and frightened up
wonderfully.
"'Good!' said Old Stingee. III just
open this window. There's a fine sea
breeze blowing"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
Raise DUN Foodstuffs or
Maintain Control Of Seas

ABOUT 1T seriously. 1T was obvious that In a
comparatively short time the United
states would not only cease to sell food.
put would have to produce it more eff
gently In order to supply it's own needs.
men imaginative economists proved, by
projecting the rate of the populations In
crease IN contrast with a diminishing rate
or food-producing potentiality in reserve.
mat In a few years the United States not
only would cease to be a seller of food.
put would, In spite Of anything it might
DO to postpone the inevitable, become In
tlme an Importer. And this" they were
wont to say, will not be the calamity it
SOUNDS. 1t Will mean only that we shall
De exporting things of greater value than
food. AS our agricultural exports fall our
exports of manufactures will rise. We
snail nave to buy our food. but g. nation
that can afford to buy Its food Is a pros
porous nation. indeed. Consider Great
Britain. She exports skilled labor In the
form of highly fabricated goods and i'm
ports raw food. 1t is a profitable ex-
change" And with that consolation the
uneasiness produced In many minds by
the rapid drift OF population away from
the farms and to the cities was somewhat
relieved.
E%naIand's Fate a Warming.
But while 1T is possible to contempi.
WIN CSoiloiiilS SolIlpldCcllCy u COUulliCt'
food dependency even for a country
this, 1t is not possible from any OF
point of view to see it in a comfort:
light. The vital Importance to GermaI
of the power of ~self-sustenance and the
latent peril to Great Britain In her food
dependence, will not be easily forgotten.
Great Britain. Of course. is long past the
point of choice. Her land is unable to sus-
tain her population. She could never be
selfesustaining. Her future existence de-
Ponds upon her ability to command access
to the worlds surplus Of foodstuffs. and
1t is a commodity that is continually
shifting. But Germany may yet choose.
and who can doubt that a country in her
position. that any country, indeed, would,
on taking thought, choose to produce it's
own food?
To hold it's own with industry In the
world. agriculture will W. to be better
financed and more esteemed. That Is to
say. just to keep pace from now on with
the rate at which the non-food-producing
population increases, agriculture must find
new standards. The countries that have
produced the cheap food of the last CEN
fury have practiced not agriculture so
much as soil mining. The old soil of Eu-
rope could not have sustained the great
increase In population without the grain
mined out of the virgin soil Of North and
South America. Now that Is at an end in
this country. 1t will soon be at an end in
anada The great era of cheap food Is
forever gone. So. if the worlds population
goes on increasing, the food supply in the
next generation and beyond will be a prob.
lem to reflect upon. And the lessons of
this war will quicken thought in that di-
rection.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
Divided Ownership.

A gentleman while taking a morn
ing walk down a country lane met a
boy driving some pigs to market.
"Who do these fine pigs belong to-"
asked the gentleman.
"Well,' said the boy, they belong
to thad theer big SOW"
No, my boy" said the old gentle
man; 81 mean who is the master of
them?'
WELL" replied the boy, "thad theer
little un; 'es a beggar fer fighting"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
pisau.tad

4 the Philadelphia Pubic ledger.
0neasday.awhile her grandfather was
sDayin& assxisit To Florence's home. the
little irl said TO him
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. talk about persever-
qEoWtnutng Il alISnonsense.s
@MAsfMe Mealss child. cried the grand,
Wshys@doHyon ray that z.
ssasssgtrth y.,sssS afd the little girl, rye
asWoEkeds all the AFTERNOON blowing soap
S6s1bbtes and trying to pin them on
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
Louical,

why are you so violently opposed
to woman s%uffrage?"
women haven't got the intellect to
grapple with problems of state. Why,
even we men don't know what we's
talking about half the time when we's
discussing politics."
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22

A man dropped into a cafe one aft
ernoon and a his Scotch friend
Sandy standing at the bar i%ndulging in
"a lone one" He walked up to the
bar and greeted Sandy.
will you have another one with
me?"
mo, thank you" said Sandy, but
you car pay for this one if you will"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
Loves Dilemma.

They are both in love with you,
Famine. Which II do you prefer?"
Il can't decide to save my life" said
the summer girl. Zone has a gorgeous
roadster and the other has a stunning
motorboat."
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-22
Would Hurt Business.

Are you still selling those illumfna-
ted signs reading, Nix on war talk -"
No. Il got discouraged and quit"
What %happened?"
4 tried to sell one to a saloon