The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-21

Bankers, railroad men, agricultural
experts, editors, manufacturers, edu-
Gators and farmers from all parts of
Tennessee conferred in Nashville on
food preparedness. Agricultural au-
thorities declared that less than one
acre of potatoes to the farm has been
planted in Tennessee
officials of Vanderbilt University
announced the cancellation of all ath-
letic events for the present season.
This order affects track and baseball,
and if the war continues football will
also be banned Dudley Field will be
used as a drill ground for Vanderbilt
students.
About 1900 of the steel underframe
box cars of an order of $500 such
cars have been completed by the Lee
noir City Car Works, Lenoir City, and
the others will be finished as quickly
as possible. The contract for these
cars called for their delivery about
March 1st. Temporarily the delivery
of the finished cars has been stopped.
but the work of completing them is
going on as usual The remaining
two thousand cars will be ready for
delivery within six months.
While mobilization camp for Fed.
eral troops Of the Southeastern Divis-
ion will be located along the Atlantic
coast, yet Knoxville has some chance
of getting similar camp in the fall
If the CONSUMPTION law is put into
effect, the considerably increased num-
bers will probably require such a sta
ton inland. The splendid climate of
Knoxville, pure water, and other ad-
vantages, combine to make it an ex-
cellent location for a mobilization
camp.
At meeting in Memphis of more
than 200 persons identified with the
cotton trade and allied interests, an
organization was formed to be known
as the National Defense Auxiliary AS.
ISOLATION. The purpose of the associa-
ton is to protect Federal, state, mu-
nicipal and private property. Men,
bership carries no obligation for &C.
tive military or naval service and
young men eligible for service in the
fighting forces of the country will not
be accepted.
Memphis people are absorbed in fur
thering the plans for the big bridge
pageant, which is to be given May 49,
"a and rs. 1t promises to equal the
magnificent pageant given in st. Louis
last year. The author of the pageant
drama is Mrs Anna Robinson Watson
one of Memphis most gifted women.
Mrs. Robinson is widely known as a
! writer of both prose and verse The
pageant drama opens in pl historic
| period and the treatment is intensely
picturesque and is enriched by the most
suggestive symbolism.
During the first six months of pro
hibition in Bristol, bank deposits have
| increased several hundred Thousand
/ dollars, and the business men gen
/ orally concedethat the city has never
1 been more prosperous This is true
despite the fact that Bristol had be
come one of the largest mail ordel
liquor shipping points in the Soutl
and the bushes was bringing a grea
deal of money to the city. Interstate
i shipping houses will go out of bust
ness on July l, under the act of thu
Tennessee Legislature and the Fed
eral bone dry" law.
| AS far as is known, the planting o
the Dixie highway at Grassy Valley
near Knoxville, is the first public roa,
planting in the south. 1t wasn't jus
ordinary every day planting, it wa
landscape planting of shrubs and dos
wood trees and things that birds Low
and the Federation of Women was jus
ly proud Of the way the conservatio
chairman had planned it ali. One 81!
teenth of mile on the Dixie highwa
bears the Federation stamp and til
club expects to do wonders this sprin
in starting the Identification of tn
Dixie highway.
The managers of the Freight Ira
fic Bureau of the South will NEE
! either in Atlanta on April 18th or /
Chattanooga on April Goth to take a.
tion as to whether or not they wi
oppose the increase in freight rate
asked for by railroads of the Soutl
: along with those of other parts of tn
country. The Chattanooga Manufa
! turers' Association has issued ca
? for general meeting of Freight b
reau Managers of the South at Cha
!, tanooga on April Goth, and the Atlant
and Jacksonville Bureaus have SCI
out calls for a meeting at Atlanta G
April 18th.
The new state military bill VIZ
signed by the governor and is in II
:, mediate effect. Officials say that t.
, effect of the law is simply to make t.
I state military law conform to that
! the federal government, but that VII,
the members of the national guard n
!, called into the service of the Unite
= States again it Will mean the virtu
!; end of the national guard plan of Il
state. Had not this measure becol
! law, the whole state guard won