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The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
THE MPEACHMENTS.

The unanimous vote by which an
Impeachment was brought against
Judge Edgington and the practically
unanimous vote by which the same
sort of impeachment was brought
against Attorney-GeneralE Estes, leave
no doubt as to the opinion of the
house that the facts brought out are
sufficient to warrant a trial of the
two Memphis court officials before
the bar of the senate. The trial Will
proceed. The evidence will be gone
into much more fully than it was in
the house. And Judge Edgington
and Mr.. Estes will receive justice at
the hands of the tribunal constituted
for the trial of such cases.
As the Tennessean and American
has said before, it is no more nearly
proper for a newspaper to pass judg-
ment upon cases like these than
upon the case of a man who is in
dicted by a grand jury and about to
be tried in a criminal court. The
senate has the means of learning
the facts, the intelligence to judge
correctly of the facts, and the integ-
rity to pass judgment honestly upon
the facts as it finds them.
1t must be borne in mind that,
though Judge Edgington and Mr.. Es-
tes are impeached, they are not yet
convicted; that an impeachment is
exactly similar to an indictment, and
that there must be trial and convic-
tion upon the impeachment. In the
matter of an impeachment, as in the
matter of returning an indictment,
the evidence must be merely sufi-
cient to create a reasonable presump-
ton that the accused is guilty. In a
trial before the senate on an i'm
peachment, just as in trial on an
indictment before jury, the evl-
dence must be much stronger, and
sufficient to show, beyond reason
able doubt, that the accused is
guilty.
1t sometimes happens that the ev-
| idence adduced before grand jury
would be sufficient to secure a con-
viction before a trial jury. In the
same manner, it might happen that
/ the evidence adduced before the house
in an impeachment proceeding would
| be sufficient to warrant conviction
by the senate. 1t remains to be seen
what is true in these cases. But the
people of the state may rest assured
that justice will be administered
evenly between the people of the
state and the impeached judge and
attorney -general-The Nashville Ten
nessean and American.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
WALNUT STOCKS
OF NEARLY A
MILLION MADE BY
IN BRISTOL

Bristol, Tenn, March "A. H.
MCGOWAN and company, of Louisville
after having manufactured upwards
of a million walnut gunstocks here
operating a plant of limited capacity
have closed out the business, for the
reasonthat they could not get the
use of the planning plant longer. The
company, however, is operating a
number of other plants The mills
occupied by them here will now be
operated by the Peter Mccain Lum-
Der company, which is soon to re-
sumo operations on a large scale.
This company has a traffic arrange
ment for the shipping of large guam
titles of logs daily over the Virginia
and Southwestern and Southern rail.
ways from Johnson county.
The company is now taking steps
to have tramway construction car
ried on in the mountains as a means
of making vast body Of valuable
timber available on the market.
Their Bristol band mill has a daily
capacity of $4,000 feet, and they will
pay to labor here $2,5OO monthly.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06

has taught domestic science, domes-
tic art, and agriculture in a country
school without any equipment what
ever.
President Gilbraith presided over
the fourth session of the Country
Church and the Country School con-
ference and first, in a very happy
and appreciative vein introduced Dr..
J. l.. McBrien, extension agent of the
United States bureau of education,
who has been called friend by the
student body and other friends of the
E. T. S. N. S.
DR.. McBrien took for his subject,
Our Young People and What Shall
We do With Them" This was one
of the very best addresses ever heard
in East Tennessee, and it will long be
by those who heard it
and will inspire and uplift. DR.. Nc
Brien asserted that his subject was
very important to the fathers and
mothers. teachers. prCaChers-in fact
tn the entire world 1t was more
than the international
notes now being intcrchanged be-
tween the United States and Europe.
He said it was a continuous question,
on beyond this generation,
to children and children's children.
Youth is lifes golden opportunity.
Demosthenes, Shakespeare
Joan Of Arc and multitudes of the
worlds great men and women did
great deeds and wrote immortal
thoughts in their youth. Some Of
our youth are fashioned on small
patterns, but many are of heroic
mould Youth should have and should
make money, for it is necessary to
all big endeavOrs and great successes,
but what is absolutely needed is man
hood in man, and womanhood in
woman, which by Interpretation
means character. One other requisite
for satisfactory and succ5Esful
youth is obedience. In some families
it is difficult to determine whether
the children live with parents or the
parents with children. The two eX-
tremos of parental control are like
the two extremes of governmental
control, viz: despotism at one end
and anarchy at the other.
The speaker plead for a happy
medium. He prayed for the homes
of our land to be the happiest places
in the world, etc. He closed with
one of the greatest patriotic out
bursts of oratory heard in East Ten
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
TRADE TRIP
SPECIAL TRAIN

Mr.. o. f. Whittle, representing
First Trade Trip, and
President of the Whittle Springs
company, which operates a summer
resort at Whittle Springs, near
Knoxville, was a visitor here this
week, making arrangements for the
visit of the Knoxville business men
who will reach here April IS, 7:45
D. m. Mr.. Whittle came here for the
purpose of discussing with the local
committee the question of the pro-
gram to be followed upon the arrival
of the visitors aboard the Trade Trip
Special Mr.. Whittle stated that the
Trade Trip committee, comprised of
men representing every business or
ganization in Knoxville, decided on
this move to get in touch with our
people here as means of impress
ing upon all Of us that the trip is be-
ing undertaken by Knoxville's busi-
ness men rather for the purpose OF
SEEING than of SELLING our folks
Mr.. Whittle stated that the business
men of Knoxville were just as anx
ious to buy what we had to sell then
as they were to ship what they had
to sell us. In other words, it is
more or less of a "bartering" trip.
The personnel of the Trade TriT
Party will consist of men like Mr.
Whittle, who are owners or mana
gers of the business houses which
they represent. Mr.. Whittle stated
that he had arranged to furnish
complimentary to the Trade Tril
committee Whittle Springs water OK
clusively on the Special"
The local committee is leaving n,
stone unturned to show the Knox
Vile party that they are willing t,
meet them half way in the effor
being put forth to establish close
business and social relations be
tween Knoxville business men an
our own.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
GOV. RYE NOW
SAFE IN PORT.
MUCH TALK OF A DARK
HORSE IN RACE FOR
COMMISSIONER
Conventions HELD
IN MANY COUNTIES
ENLOE AND WALSH EACH
CLAIMS HE WILL BE
NOMINATED

Nashville, Tenn, April 3,-As a
result of the county conventions held
today Gov. Rye has between 500 and
900 instructed votes, more than 200
above the figure necessary to give
him the nomination. Mr.. Lit Pardue,
Gov. Rye's campaign manager, closed
headquarters tonight.
Former Senator j. Walsh, candi'
date for railroad commissioner, sta
ted tonight that he had about three
hundred instructed delegates and
enough of the uninstructed to give
him a majority on the first ballot.
Col. Enloe claims that while he has
not enough instructed delegates that
he has enough of the uninstructed
to win
There is much talk of Il possible
dark horse in the race for the nom
ination for railroad commissioner.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
Sun BROS BIG SHOW
COMING TO JOHNSON CITY

The Big Show is coming Yep!
Sun Brothers. This show will come
by train bright and early, with a
long string of handsome steel cars
and will bring a retinue of the
Worlds latest and strangest won
ders.
The advertising car and advance
agents have been to town and have
billed the attraction very heavily
for two performances TO be given at
Johnson City on MONDAY, APRIL
"a. There will be exhibited for the
lrst time many new animal features,
but the monkeys are the same, and
the elephants, too, as in the days of
long ago. However, the latter are
now doing a new routine Of acts, no
table original tricks, being a satire
on the great American craze, the
tango dance. These big giants are
certainly some dancers" They must
be see nto be fully appreciated. They
also do a great base ball scene and
new and novel brass band stunt.
The equestrian and riding seals and
sea lions are also among the new
novelties this season. The big show
programme is rich and fairly teens
with the finest foreign and American
feature aerialists, acrobats, jug
glers, contortionists, equilibrists and
general performers.
The clowns are a predominating
attraction and they are better than
ever, with a routine of new funny
scenes, and are, this season headed by
Billy Zanfretto the well known hip
podrome clown and pantomimist.
AS a special free attraction the
Sun Brothers will present at noon
time, on the show grounds, a great
European thriller" said to be the
greatest free attraction ever offered
by q tented aggregation.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06

The closing session of the Coun'
try School and Country Church con-
ference was presided over by Dean
Jarvis of the Athens department OF
the University of Chattanooga. The
session was opened with two selec-
tions of music by the normal school
chorus. Devotional exercises were
conducted by Rev. Dayton A. Dobbs,
pastor of the Watauga avenue Pres
byteIian church, Johnson City.
The first speaker was Supt S. Y.
Adcock of Bradley county on THE
Community Development as a Social
Center in Bradley County" When
made superintendent of Bradley
county, Superintendent Adcock found
that something like $500 children
started to school but only two out of
every hundred finished. A commits
sion was appointed to attend the
Southern Teachers conference which
met in Chattanooga. This resulted
i'll the formulation of plans for com
munity centers whose standards for
each center were a store, blacksmith
shop, Il livery stable, a telephone, an
information bureau, community Ii
brary, with daily newspaper, maga-
zines, and books, moving pictures,
inspection, teachers home.
roads, agriculture dem
onstration plots, club organizations,
play grounds, community church and
community Sunday schools.
Supt. Adcock was followed by
President Gilbreath of the normal
who said that the story of the COM
work in Bradley county was
one of the most wonderful stories
that had been heard. He said that
community center schools were the
only real schools, that all others
werd make-beliefs or excuses.
He called attention to the fact that
center work depends upon
a person. one with brain, one with
a heart, a person of industry. Pres
ident Gilbreath closed by saying that
if every school in East Tennessee was
not a community center the teacher
of that school was to blame.
The subject was further discussed
by Miss Anna Mitchell, principal of
the Kingsport school; and by Prof. j.
w. Boldwin, principal Of the Sulphur
Springs high school.
Prof. Alexander of the normal told
of the wonderful work Of Miss Hat
tie Newland of Sullivan county, who
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
WORTHY EXAMPLE
SOUTHERN RAILWAY co,
DONATES FUNDS TO
STATE SCHOOLS

Washington, D. c., March 29.-As
perpetual memorial to the great in
terest in Southern farming manifest
ed by the late President Finley,
President Harrison, Of Southern
Railway Company has arranged to
give 100000 each to the State Ag-
ricultural Colleges in Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida. Alabama, Mississippi, Ken
lucky, and Tennessee, to be disigna-
ted Southern Railway Loan Fund:
William Wilson Finley Foundation" !"
Loans from the fund in each State
are to be made by the College au-
thorities to worthy students in such
way as tha authorities Of each Col
lege may determine, subject only to
the restriction that the students re-
cciving the benefits shall be from
counties traversed by the lines of
Southern Railway Company or its as
sociated Companies.
This permanent loan fund will take
place of the four-year Southern Rail
way scholarships provided by Mr..
Finley, which will expire with the
close of the present school year.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
AT THE STATE
CONFERENCE
WILL BE DISCUSSED CIVIC,
SOCIAL AND COMMU>
NIFTY PROBLEMS
REV. H. C. CLEMENS
ONE Of THE SPEAKERS
WILL DISCUSS SOCIAL
SERVICE IN SMALLER
CITIES.

The second annual session of the
tiles and correction will be held in
Chattanooga April 9-10-11, 1916. At
this time representatives from all
parts of the state will meet and dis
cuss the various social, civic and
community problems which are i'm
portant questions in the development
of Tennessee and the welfare Of her
citizens. While some of the discus
sions will be technical and designed
for certain groups of workers act
lively engaged in specific fields of
work, most of the addresses will be
of live interest to all citizens who
have the welfare of the state at
heart. Speakers of recognized au-
thority will frankly and intelligently
deal with the problems of Jail and
workhouse conditions in Tennessee,
juvenile delinquency, parole and pro-
bation the public health, preventa-
BILE diseases, children's institutions,
organized charity, community coop
Grafton and other questions which are
receiving the attention of the states
best thinkers.
The conference is divided into four
general departments: Child welfare;
the family and the community; state
and county institutions, and penal
and correction work.
The executive committee of the
conference has requested the South
ern Howard association to take en-
tire charge of the penal and correc-
tional work and has named as chair
man of this department Hon. T. c.
Thompson, president of the South
eln Howard association. The detail
work of the arrangements and pub
licity for this department of the con-
ference will be done by Secretaries
C. c. Menzler and w. C. Headrick
from the state headquarters of the
Southern Howard association, 226
James building, Chattanooga.
Use of Honor System.
Among the subjects to be consid
cred at the sessions of this depart
mcnt of the conference are: The
use of the honor system, value of
mental and physical examinations,
responsibility of the church to the
delinquent, parole and probation.
work of the w. c. T. u. in prisons,
sanitation in jails and warehouses;,
Juvenile delinquency, the need of 4
new constitution in Tennessee, the
fee system, etc.
Gov. T. c. Rye will speak on the
states duty toward its unfortunate.
and Hon. John S. Denten, who is
president of the state board of con-
troll. will speak on the work of the
board. Rev. H. c. Cldmens, of John
son City, will speak on the social ser
vice in smaller cities.
At the first annual session of the
conference, which was held in Nash
vile last year, representatives from
every walk of life registered as dele
gates. This year it is expected that
especially large numbers will come
from among social workers, teachers,
religious workers and other profes-
sonal people, sheriffs, court officials
and officers of various state institu-
tions, representatives of private in
stitutions and organizations, mem
bers of county boards of parole and
county Jail committees, womens club
leaders, probation officers and inter
ested citizens from over the state.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Four per cent of the inhabit-
ants of certain sections of the
South have malaria?
The United States Public Health
Service has trapped 615,744 ro-
dents in New Orleans in the past
1S months?
The careless sneezer is the
great grip spreader?
Open air is the best spring
tonic?+
Typhoid fever is a disease pc
culiar to man?
Measles kills over 1000 Amer
ican children annually?
There has not been a single
case of yellow fever in the Uni
ted States since 1905?
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
DELEGATES TO CHATTANOOGA
NATIONAL DEFENSE MEETING

Mayor S. E. Miller has appointed
the following delegates to the con-
vention called to meet in Chattanooga
on May 18th at which the question of
national defense will be discussed:
Maj. Leroy Reeves; J. E. Brading;
Oscar NJ. Fair; George E. Burbage;
j. Stanley Barlow; R. Clyde Hodge;
j. r. Gardner; H. NJ. Burleson; Geo.
S. Hannah; F. w. Hoss; D. M. Quinn,
Rev. Dayton A. Dobbs; DR.. H. NJ.
Cass.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
GREAT MASS MEETING ATHEISTS
INTEREST IN MOVEMENT
AT MEMPHIS.
(Memphis CommercialAppcal.-

Nearly 1000 real Democrats last
night. in a mass-meeting at the Ly-
ceum Theater, enthusiastically rati-
fed the action of previous mass
meeting of Democrats who, in the
court house yesterday afternoon, re-
organized the Memphis and Shelby
County organizations and elected del
egates to the Democratic state con-
vention, thereby wrestling the control
of the party machinery from the
hands of former Mayor Edward H.
Crump, who was ousted from Office
by the supreme court because he vio-
lated the oath of his Office.
There was no chance for mistak-
ing the determination of the men
who decided that the Democratic
party in these parts needed a thor
ough cleaning. The first step in that
cleaning was taken yesterday.
Gov. Thomas c. Rye's. administra-
tion was indorsed and the delegates
were instructed to vote for his re-
nomination.
President Wilson's administration
was likewise treated. Congressman
Mcclellan was indorsed for thl Sen
ate.
The delegates we're not farther in
strllcted.
At the mention of the governors
name the Lyceum audience let go its
enthusiasm and it was several min
utes before applauding hands and
cheering voices subsidized.
p. W. Lanier, nominated for the
craftsmanship of the meeting by Prof.
George A. Macon, was heralded as
"the man who fought the lion in his
lair He was elected by acelama-
tion.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
FOREMAN AT CHEMICAL
PLANT BREAKS HIS LEG

Chas. Gerwin, day foreman at the
Chemical plant, received fall at the
plant on Tuesday of this week re-
sulting in a broken leg. Latest re-
ports from the local hospital are
very favorable, stating that he is
doing nicely.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
JOHNSON MAPES DIES
IN A LOCAL THEATRE

Johnson Makes, a veteran of the
civil war and who has been an in
mate of the Tubercular Hospital at
the Soldiers Home for number OF
years, died very suddenly at the
Edisona Wednesday afternoon while
enioying the movies. His death was
attributed to heart failure.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06
BLOUNT COUNTY is
TO SPEND $3OO,OOO

Maryvill5. April 3.-The Blount
county court today let the contract
for the 100000 pike roads to the Oh
iverHill Construction company. This
makes 100000 to be spent by Blount
county in her system of pike roads.
This expenditure will complete her
system of pike roads that are now
laid out, giving an automobile road
from the Knox county line to Town
send, also completed road down the
old state road, known as the Miles
Ferry road to the Monroe county
line, also complete road from the
Knox county line at Louisville to
Maryville, and from Maryville to the
Loudon county line at Friendsville,
and with Sewer county at Trundle's
Cross Roads.
Blount county is the home of Mr..
r. B. Oliver, president of the Oliver
Hill Construction company, and it is
expected Mr.. Oliver will take great
pride in his home county and give
Blount county the best system of
pixies in East Tennessee.
cation would require the calling of
the few regiments in the United
States other than those engaged in
border patrol duty or stationed in
the Southern department. None of the
troops along the border should be
used, in the opinion of army officers
here, unless replaced by other mill
tary units. The only remaining reg
iments that might be called are the
second cavalry and the third and
thirteenth infantry.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-04-06


has won his way into the hearts and
affections of this East Tennessee
country. and we claim him at least in
part, for his mother was born in
Blount county and his father in
Bradley.
Origin of Moonlight Schools.
One of the most interesting ad-
dresses of the conference was that
of Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, supelin-
tendent of the Kentucky Illiteracy
commission, who, in a wonderful and
inspiring way, told of the wonderful
and thrilling and pathetic humorous
story of how she originated and eX-
ecuted a plan of removing the blot of
illiteracy from Rowan county. KY.
of which she was at that time the
county superintendent of public in
struction.
In the course of her remarks she
explained when and why and how
she originated the Moonlight
Schools" Some people thought
these schools we're places where chill
dren gathered on moonlight nights,
The Moonlight Schools in reality
originated from Mrs. Stewards eXpe-
rience in writing some letters for
some friends who could neither read
nor write. One old woman had a
daughter in the far west, and she
would come into Mrs. Stewards Of
flee many times. and get her to read
letters from and write letters to her
distant daughter. Also Mrs. Stewart
told of a merchant in her town, who
could neither read nor write, but
kept books by means of pictures, for
instance, if a woman bought a broom
he would make a picture of woman
and a broom, etc. Also a little boy
composed and sang a ballad for her
one time, but when she asked him to
write it down for her he told her he
could neither read nor write. From
these incidents Mrs. Stewart began
to evolve her plan of reaching and
helping such unfortunates through
out her entire county and thus the
idea of Moonlight Schools" was
born. She called for volunteers
among her teachers and every one
responded. Only $50 was expected
to enroll the first year but instead
more than 1900 enrolled, ranging in
age from 1S to 81 years. Today, the
speaker stated, there are only about
25 illiterates in the county.