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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-11-30
TRAYED.

One roam work OK with horns,
about z years old. Ear marks:
splitin right, and under crop in
left. Weighed about l, 400 wis n
put on range. Will pay $25 re-
ward for information as TO its
whereabouts and recovery!
E.. r. TATE.
NA6,4tt Comfort, Tenn.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-11-30

Weypropose to have in season Christ
mas Candies, Nuts and Fruits. Get
your supply from us.
WALKER & LASATER, Jasper.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-11-30

John Hawkins. of Jasper, left
Saturday for Middle Tennessee
to visit homefoIks for about ten
days. 1t has been six years since
he saw them last.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-11-30

Harness leather constantly in stock.
Let US fill your needs.
WALKER q LASATER, Jasper.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-11-30

Saddle Girths, extra heavy make,
for sale Mt Walker & Lasater's. Jasper.
Read the News, SOC mos
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-11-30
Grinding Days.

Tuesdays and Fridays are regular
grinding days Bring your corn on
those days
sEQUACHEE GRIsT( MILF
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-11-30

Breeding for double harness at
Walker & Lasater's, Jasper.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-11-30

WAN

Will,pay highest fair market
prices in cash for good, sound
corn, shelled or in ear, for mill.
ing purposes.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
Tammany in the Saddle.

With the final count tabulated, the
control of the Sixty-ffth Congress
appears to remain with the Demo-
cratic party.
Ex-representative NJ Clyde Kelly,
of the Thirtieth Pennsylvania dis
trict, G. E. Campbell in the Thirty
second and William E. Tobias in
the Twenty-frst districts appear to
have nosed out their Republican op-
ponents, aided largely by the votes
from the Guardsmen on the border.
New Jersey recounts indicate that
Representative Scully will be return
ed after the courts have passed on
contested ballots and the Democratic
leaders claim the election of Repre-
sentative Beakes in Michigan and the
triumph of Zeb Weaver in North
Carolina over Representative James ].
Britt, the lone Republican member
from North Carolina.
The results give the Democrats 217
members, with the additional votes
of two Independents of Democratic
tendencies. The Republicans have PA
seats and the votes of three of the
FIVE Independents or a total of 2T6
The Democrats will be able to or
ganize the House, but their majority
will be by very slender margin.
Politically, the results mean that
the Administration leaders who would
like to rebuke the Tammany organi-
zation in New York for a lack of
enthusiasm in the Wilson cause will
have to forego the threatened cam
paign of reprisal.
Standing soIidly, the Tammany
delegation in the House can decide
the fate of every party measure. The
followers of Murphy can view the
situation at Washington with COM
placence. They have every reason to
expect that the next municipal cleo
ton in New York City will be decid-
ed without the interference of the
Administration. There is also good
reason to believe that the next post
master of the Metropolis will not be
numbered among the violent oppo-
nents of the Tiger.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
HITS BELGIAN DEPoRTATIoNs.
Scores Germany for Alleged VIOLA
tton of World Law.


Editor The Washington Herald: The
fatal slip from the point OF view of inter-
national law in the German position with
respect to the Belgian DECORATIONS is
one which we have become accustomed
TO In GeImany's procedure. It can be
described either as faulty logic or as q
method Of reasoning which substitutes
one matter for another on the theory
that they are equivalents In cases where
the substitution of equivalents is not
permissible. The German argument is
that II they take Belgians and send them
into Germany to work. that will flee so
many more German men to fight in Ger
man trenches in Belgium, and they argue
that this is nothing more than increas-
ing the efficiency Of the German invsd-
Ing forces by requiring enforced labor
from the subjugated people.
In this. however. they disregard the
fact that established international law
in regard to the precise question here
involved does not contemplate a substi-
tuition OF equivalents 1t requires that
the exacted assistance shall be, primar-
fly. OF a permitted nature Ut excludes,
for example, giving information as to
their own forces, guiding. etc.; secondly.
shall tend to increase the efficiency on
the spot Of the invading forces 1t does
not contemplate an indirect increase of
general efficiency, nor does il contem-
plate the rendering Of aid other than to
those then locally present as invaders
and at the locality of invasion The ap-
plication of this test will solve all such
questions.
CHARLES STEWART DAWSON.
60 Wall street. New York City.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26

Hiring and firing" all large employ
ers of labor now recognize, forms the
greatest leakage in modern business In
many esta blishuents the men who do
the employing have come to be known as
the fortune-tellcrs." 1t Is the one place
in which everything Is haphazard. Mr.
NIagnus W. Alexander. one of the engi-
neers of the General Electric Company
has demonstrated this great waste math-
ematically Taking the employment sta
tistics of twelve metal factories, located
I'm six States. he has found that these
places employed 1874 persons at the be-
ginning of the year, and 3,91 at the end.
Their normal increase ID employees, there
FORE was 6.697 Had matters worked ef-
ticiently, these factories should have en-
ployed only 6.697 men-or slightly more,
making due allowance for death, sick
ness, and other natural causes of dismis-
sal In reality, these factories had hired
A, 81 new people. We must ponder these
figures carefully to get their full signiti-
canoe In order to obtain 5000 new en-
ployes, these establishments, all repre-
sentative and efficient American con-
Germs, had to employ 5000! Out Of seven
men taken on only one stayed. After
making liberal deductions. Mr.. Alexander
calculates that these twelve factories
employed 24,JO0 men and women whom
they were unable to retain. Each person
represented an expense ranging from $50
to $500. The companies had to keep a
clerical force to hire these people and
place their names or the payroll. They
had to pay foremen AID assistants to in
struct them. They had to stand the ex-
pense of damaged and broken tools due
to inexperience. The reduced rate of
production represented another positive
loss, and then there was the spoiled work
Hyhi han1S'' in sifnh
abundance Nj. Alexander takes the
lowest estimate, $50 per man, as repre-
senting this loss. At this rate, hiring
and firing" caused a waste in these fac
tories of nearly $1,0OOo0O a year. At the
highest estimate. $500. the practice re-
suited in a waste of $1,000 ,OCO-Burton ].
Hendrick in Harper's Magazine.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
URGES SALARY INCREASES.
Says Higher Federal 0mcials Also
should Share I'm Raises.

Editor The Washington Herald: have
been reading with interest and apprecia-
ton the articles appearing in your paper
relative to increasing the salaries of gov
ernment clerks. and agree with practical
ly everything that has been said. I do
not think. however. that you. nor the
Union Of Federal Clerks, go far enough
in this matter. Nowhere have ! seen
mentioned the necessity OF an increase for
the higher-salaried clerks. chiefs of divis-
ions, etc.
Now. the high cost OF living has affected
this class OF employees in the same pro-
portion that It has the lower classes. For
instance. an official who was promoted to
$500 several years ago now finds that
1850 will not go any further than 81. 800
or 5000 went when he got the promotion;
and having entered into contracts on the
basis Of the promotion he received some
years ago, such as paying for a home,
etc, he now finds himself in a position
where II IL impossible for his to keep up
his payments because Of the fact that the
value OF his dollar has decreased. Believe
me when i say that we officials are in the
same boat as the lower salaried en-
ployes. and our salaries should be in
creased In the same ratio. We are up
against 1t good and hard Just the came
as the rest. SUBSCRIBER.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
Today's Events

Lecture. Murder at Two Cent? q P1sos" b.
Clarence True wnsoa. sscstary Of the Nsfhodist
Board q Temperance PoB's Thsst7. IN .. m.
Opening mussum and collection Of histouoal
portraits Of the 0ldest Inhabitsnts' Association q
the District. Union Engine Houss. Ninetssuth and
stTeets northwest. 10 D. m
Annual harTest home service Of the Dxushts1
a America, First Msthodist Protestant Chureh
y. m.
Lecture. The Holy Land" by MrH. q. ". Pat
terson. Y. NJ. C. A.. at vezpsr serTiee.
Lecture The Financial Economic Aftermath in
the United States After the Europsan War" By T.
CushinE Daniel at the Washington Secular Leagus
meeting. Pythihn Temple 80 D m
Sermon by Rev. John A stauntou r. Phripuaps
nsAona1. St. JEmeS Episcopal chmch, uehth
sueet near Massachusetts, sveuus northeast 10
p N.
Lecture, Ths InsptrHtio1 of the Love T Cod ="
oI Nountford MinS of the New Yorf bar. undeT
ausrscas Of the Bshal Assembly, Studio HIn
SIS .. m
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
The Herald's Open Forum

In the recent election, the amendment is
given In full Just as It was worded." The
text Of the amendment Is then given.
It would seem that the necessity Of ex-
planning to voters what they have voted
after they have voted for II is not alone
peculiar to Arizona. at that. In some
of the other States that have adopted
prohibition 1t has been apparent that the
voters have had no accurate idea Of Just
what they were doing. Wouldn't Il be
a good idea for the Anti-Saloon League
Of America to explain Its proposals to
the voters before elections instead Of
after7 Or would that injure the chances
Of prohibition7 T. NJ. GILMORE,
Pretident, National Model License
League
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
Appreciating the Dog.

I've never known a dog TO wag
His tail in glee he did not feel
Nor quit his old-time friend to tag
At some more influential heel
The yellowest cur I ever knew
Was, to the boy who loved him, true.
I've never known a dog to show
Halfway devotion to his friend.
To seek a kinder man to know.
Or richer: but unto the end
The humblest dog l ever knew
Was, to the man that loved him, true.
I've never known a dog to fake
Affection for a present gain,
A false display of love to make
Some little favor TO attain.
I've never known a Prince or Spot
That seemed to be what he was not.
But have known a do,s to fight
With all his strength to shield his
friend.
And whether wrong or whether right,
To stick with him unto the end.
And have known a dog to lick
The hand OF him that men would kick.
And 7 have known a dog to bear
Starvation's panRs from day to day,
With him who had been glad to share
His bread and meat along the way.
No dog. however mean or rude,
Is guilty of ingratitude.
The dog is listed with the dumb,
No voice has he to speak his creed.
His messages to humans come
By faithful conduct and by deed.
He shows, as seldom mortals do,
A high ideal of being true.
Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
CHARGES DISSEMINATION.
Government Clerk Calls Attention
to Alleged InjustIces.

Editor The Washington Herald: One
more government clerk rises to bless The
Washington Herald and says II should
become beloved and found in every home.
You have come to our help to break
beaurocracy. one Of the conditions not
second TO the old slavery before the war,
when slaves were beaten and the stripes
!eft-for the stripes are left now. Men
and women who are claiming States they
have never set foot on. have been in pow
er by some hook or crook for many years,
until they have become invulnerable,
changing and falsIfying ratings OF the
finest clerks when it is so apparent to
all that the one under chastisement is
not attacked on the ground of ineffi-
cheney. The victim is consigned to some
embarrassing work, room, or desk. and
so We are humbly grateful to The Her
aid fog its agitation, and We trust IL may
continue. Already we see the signs OF
anxiety. A READER.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
URGES SALARY INCREASE,
Government Clerk Says Justice De-
mands Horizontal Raise.

Editor The Washington Herald:
AS a government clerk, l desire to COM
mend your insistent plea for the increase
in salary of government clerks. In our
present environments We need II sorely
The clerk without dependents may ge,
along without serious financial involve
ment, but he who must share his salary
with other legally connected dependents
is seriously Handicapped. Such a one
feels more or less like a slave who must
accept the hand-out doled to him without
a murmur.
1t is not necessary that should specify
the reasons for requesting an inc-ea Sc
OF wages. Every one knows them. The
war in Europe appears to be the leading
cause. The demand In those struggling
nations. coupled with the cupidity of those
who handle the necessities of physical
existence in this peaceful but restless
nation, is the circumstantial inspiration
against us who try to be faithful in our
service to Uncle Sam. The cause is
real, not fanciful.
20 per cent horizontal increase in
salaries at less than l.60o a year would
afford practical and gracious illustra-
tion OF the old adage of killing two birds
with one stone Such an increase In pay
would not only provide for the modern
necessities of the clerks. but II would
enaole tne government 10 put INTO enect
the much-needed retirement system. by
deducting at least per cent OF each sal
ary to provide a fund for that purpose.
Such a provision, together with a small
temporary appropriation, would put into
operation Immediately a Just and much
needed horizontal retirement allowa nee
of $500 a year for those of years of faith
full service. The matter of necessary in
crease of salaries and its corallary of
4,.-A
should not be a difficult matter for Con-
gress to adjust.
JOHN R. wEATHERS.
n Iowa Circle
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
HITS PROHIBITION LAWS.
Says Many of Them Are Vague and
UnenfOrceable.


Frequent comment has been made upon
the fact that many thousands of those
who voted for prohibition in States where
the issue has been successful have had
but hazy idea OF what they were in
dorsing. Some have figured prohibition
to mean one thing, some another. and
sometimes there has been a disagree
ment even among prohibition leaders as
to just how their amendment was to be
construed. This was notably so in the
case Of the first Arizona amendment.
some holding 1t to exclude liquor for all
purposes, as the wording seemed to ind;-
cate. and some holding that liquor for
personal use was not excluded. The
courts having, after a long delay and
much agitation. adopted the latter con-
struction, Arizona recently adopted an
amendment to shut out even personal
use liquor.
Yet even now Arizona is uncertain how
far she has gone. it would seem. In the
Bisbee Review of Saturday, November IS.
1916, is an article headed thus: What
the Prohibition Amendment Adopted
Really Says"
The Introduction to the article starts
thus: "On account of the continued dis
cussion as to just what was contained
In the prohibition amendment that was
adopted by large majority of the voters
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
ARMY ORDERS.

The following changes In the stations and duties
Of officers Of the QuartermAsthr Corps are ordered
Col John +. Bellinser relieved from duty IS quar-
termaster. Eastern Department and will proceed
to Philippine Islands fuv duty qusrtermaster. re-
lieVing Col. Moses G. Zalinsh. Col. Zalinski
will proceed 70 the United States. Lieut. Col.
Charles H. Krauthof relieved from duty assistant
to qusrtermaster. Western Department. and will
proceed TO Governors Island. n. Y
Lieut.. Col Richmond McA. SCboield. In ad-
dtion to his duty assistant to the QuarermsstcI.
Western Department, will report 70 commanding
general. Third Division. for duty quartermaster
Of that division.
Leave Of absence for two months granted Maj.
William l. WesterVelt, Ordnance Department.
Resignation Of Capt. George w. ECkert Second
Infantry. Ohio National Guard accepted by
President
Maj. James S. Parker. cavalry. detached officers
list. will join Eighth Cavalry.
Resignation Of First Lieut.. Douglas p. Hsndystde.
cavalry. Ohio National Guard accepted By
President
Resignation Of Maj. Edwin f. Leonard. Third
Infantry. Illinois National Guard accepted by
President
Resignation Of First Lieut.. Clemor D. Miles.
Thirty second Infantry. Michigan National Guard.
accepted by President
Leave Of absence for four months granted Capt
John c. Hotz. Coast ARTILLERY Corps detached
officers list Capt. HoltE will report to com
manding officer. Letterman General Hospital, San
Francisco Cal. for examination by board of medical
officers.
Resignation OF First Lieut. Edgar Mckinney.
First Cavalry. Pennsy Ivania National Guard &C
ceptsd by President.
Leave Of absence for ten days granted Maj.
James 8. Parker, cavalry. detached officers list.
Leave OF sabSence to and including February 7.
granted Second Lieut.. Alexander C. MckeTey.
Quartemaster Corps
Capt. Benjamin +. Miller Thirty,fourth In
tantry, detailed to fill vacancy in Quartemaster
COrpS, vice Can't JOhn = Morris Al n
Corps' relieved from detail in that corps. Capt
Miller will report to commanding general. Southern
Department. for assignment to duty.
Resignation of First Lieut. James NJ Mongoh.
Fourth Infantry. Alabama National Guard ac-
cepted by President.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
ATTACKS LOW WAGE.
Federal Employe Says It's Hard TO
Keep Out of Debt.

Neep Out OF beDt.
Editor The Washington Herald: In be-
half of the small salaried employees OF
the government service, there are q good
many who have been In the service for
ten and fifteen years and more. who re-
ceive the magnificent salary of $3.50 per
annum.
How can q man with q family Of from
four to seven support them?
II an employe, especially Of the lower
grade. owes q few small debts, he IL
threatened with discharge II those debts
are not paid Immediately.
The chief clerks and superintendents OF
some Of the departments almost make
those debts personal between themselves
and our debtors.
Those who receive large salaries are
able to keep out of debt, for they can
buy for cash, and they expect US, who
are lower paid. to do the same. They
can get their necessities cheaper than
we can by from Is to Is per cent
II we should 90 to the office in a shah
by condition the chiefs would want to
know II we could not dress better; we
arc always ready to do their bidding but
how can We dress any better OF the
small pittanoe we receiver
Many Of the lower grade employees. ]
have been told, have pawned those things
sacred to them, such as wedding rings
and presents.
They have also had to keep their chill
dren home from school for the want OF
clothes and shoes to wear, which is an
outrage in this country.
With the increased cost Of living, how
are we lower grade employees to exist ?
II We have the misfortune to be sick.
then we get into debt, and II is very
hard to get square again.
A SMALL sALARTED GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYE.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
SUGGESTS HOLD-UP CURE.
Urges Women to Carry Ammonia
Squirt Guns.

Editor The Washington Herald: Almost
Of daily occurrence are the hold-ups
in the Capital City. the victims as a gen.
eral thing being the weaker sex, ana
negroes the perpetrators.
The bringing to justice of the criminals
seems to be beyond the ability Of the
Police Department. The evil must be
suppressed by all means available. Hav-
ing this IN view. would suggest that
those OF the feminine sex would take the
matter of their protection into their
own hands. with this motto always in
mind, Safety First
l would suggest that the weaker sex
arm themselves with the little ammonia
guns. such as used by bicycle riders. who
stamped out the evil to some extend by
their use in the suburbs and on country
roads against the dogs that contested
their right to motor in safety. The
negro hold-up man is more the criminal
than the mongrel pup. and one squirt
from the little ammonia gun in his face
may lead to his capture. @. T.
The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
MIR. Nolan's Stand.

There is one man in Congress who
has reached determination to wage
the hardest fight of his career in
the cause of that class of government
employees which has undergone the
most suffering from the combination
of stationary salaries and higher
living costs-the class of men and
women workers who are paid less
than S. a day by Uncle Sam for
their toll.
The man who is to wage this fight
is Representative Nolan of Califor-
MIA, who won fame and gratitude in
all parts of this country during the
first session of the Sixty-fourth
Congress by his tireless efforts to
procure the enactment Of a law pro-
viding So as the minimum wage for
all employees of the United States
government.
The Nolan bill was caught in the
meshes of a legislative tangle and
failed of passage, but its failure seems
to have spurred Mr.. Nolan to great
er efforts instead of discouraging
him.
In his fight for the measure, Mr..
Nolan gained a more intimate
knowledge perhaps than any man in
Congress of the real suffering that
Uncle Sam doles out to his servi-
tors in the form of low wages. This
knowledge of real conditions among
the poorest paid government en-
ployes has caused Mr.. Nolan to
reach a decision to better their lot
before taking up the fight in be-
half of government employees who
are little more fortunate.
In its news columns, The Washing
ton Herald today presents an exclu-
sive interview with Mr.. Nolan in
which he outlines his position and
reveals his plan of action for the
second session of the Sixty-fourth
Congress which begins next week.
There is much wisdom to be found
in the position which Mr.. Nolan has
taken.
Briefly he believes in giving first
aid to those in the greatest suffering,
the less-than-$3-a-day employees. He
also believes in seeking the enact
ment of that remedial legislation
which has the best chance of passage
and he is firmly of the belief that
the Nolan bill, having already been
passed through the preliminary stages
of the legislative grind, has a better
chance of passage than any other
measure for the relief of govern
ment employees which may be intro
duced
The passage of the Nolan minimum
wage bill in the near future may be
regarded more as a probability than
possibility and its enactment will
bring happiness to every employc in
the government service for the rea-
son that its passage will mark the
first definite step taken by Congress
to remedy the conditions among
nearly all government workers caused
by the ever increasing living costs.