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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
OLD TIRES ON REAR WHEELS
Danger of Blowout Is Greatest OF
Front of Car If Travelling at
Twenty-Five Miles.

The popular idea that repaired or
questionable tires are used to best adj
vantage on the front wheels is per-
ilous one. The danger of a blowout
when travelling 25 miles an hour or bet,
ter is greatest if the blowout occurs on
the front wheels. A serious accident
seldom results from rear tire blow
out. Put your old tires on the reG
wheels.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
What He's Geino 70 Re

Yes" said the nice little old lady.
Il am much interested in the war. !
have two nieces who are going to be
Red Cross nurses. and one fine nephew
who is now at TT Sheridan studying
to be an Armenian"
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
DON'T TOLERATE 1T.

The slaughterhouse is nuisance
because the odor that comes from 1t
cannot be confined to the land on
which it is situated; it is as impossible
to confine the evil influence of the sa-
loon to the city that licenses 1.-THE
Country entleman.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

It is reported that the fashions for
p women for the coming season will all
have d trousered basis. This move Of
fashion is more or less patriotic as it
will put an end to sIaCkers hiding
behind petticOats-
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

You may not be able to make a silk
purse out of sow's ear, but at the
present price of pork you may make
money to put into the silk purse, or
TO buy silk purse if you do not hap
pen to own one
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

We don't understand recent refer
ences to the latest style in water
melons" unless IL contains PROPOSE
sion to equip enthusiastic consumers
with ear muffs.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

AS 2,250,000 iron crosses had been
there doesn't seem to be any good
reason why it shouldn't be made unnn-
imouS.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

The eskimos of CrOcker land, accord.
ing to a returned member of that ex-
peditiOn, prefer ragtime TO classical
music on the talking machines. Thus
civilization continues to spread TO the
four corners of the globe.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

A Swedish paper fears its nation
may suffer the fate of Greece if it Is
friendly toward Germany. Yes, and it
might become real chummy and suffer
the fate of Turkey.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

ut doesn't look as if the hotels and
restaurants were likely to make much
of a hit with the patriotic plain peo-
fple by reducing the size of the por-
sions and maintaining the size Of the
check.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

- le..4 fdf 81 me Tg5fgt' 81 fhifil
tary discipline should bear in mind
that slapping one on the wrist is no
longer feasible ON account OF the wrist
watches.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

In q few days you'd begin to hear
the first rumors that owing to the
scarcity and the wet weather" Cor
something elsel turkeys will be un-
usually high this year.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

The Philadelphia Record speaks Of
~.reguIation as a stimulant," which
seems about the only kind of stimu-
liant there will be left in the world at
no very long deferred date.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
GET POWER FROM MOTOR CAR
Illustration Shows Method of Trans
hitting Power From Automobile
to Other Machines.

We illustrate here a method of
transmitting power from an automo-
bile to other machines. The rear axle
Is supported by two jacks and the rear
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

England Is now employing women
cooks in some OF the army kitchens.
When the men are baRished perhaps
they will NO longer call it mess.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
GOOD FOR ALE.

We have now prohibited the sale of
liquor to our soldiers and sailors. II
that Is u blessing, pass 1t around If a
sacrifice, let's all share it.--Exchange
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

Apparently the only group that out
number the inventors of perpetual mo-
ton are those who are trying to write
the official war song.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

What became of the sure-shot solu-
zion of the submarine menace which
was loudly announced q few months
ago?
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

Perhaps Citizen ROmanoff could give
afr. Hohenzollern some advice he could
make good use of without charging him
for il.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

With soap shortage threatened we
7ook for a sigh of relief from that
Hobo Union that was organized some
time ago.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

Men with cupful of marital trOu-
bles have found a balIn Of Gilead in
the draft law. IL stops the payment
of alim0ny.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
Will Clean Up Entire State

Harry l.. Eskew, state commissioner
Of food and drugs, has returned to
Nashville from an official visit to
points in East Tennessee.
A similar campaign will begin al
Nashville, Nov. /, with particular ref
srence to soda fountains and soft
rink stands When seen at his office
Mr. Eskew said there would be no
oackdown from his announcement
made in September to the effect that
The food sanitary laws will be vigor'
,usly enforced from and after the in
iuguration of this campaign.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

THE swagger stick is the result of
numanity's subservient and Shject sur
gender when the wrist watch made
its appearance.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

The confident way the food director
speaks of substituting fish for meat
suggests that he hasn't bought any
fish for some time
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
prison Has Fine Dairy.

PFTSUH TIdS TFFIc DdHJ'
The state penitenti&ry operates
perhaps the largest dairy in the state;
1t certainly has the largest dairy barn
IA Tennessee, and the management
figures that it has affected great
saving to the state. All the proven
Ter fed to the cows is raised on the
state farm. Both Jerseys and Hol'
stems are used in the dairy depart.
ment, and both the patients in the tu.
berculosis hospital and the active con-
victs are plentifully supplied with
milk. Much of the butter is sold or
supplied to other state institutions.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

Wooden shoes for the wcrkingman
nc the war continues is the prediction
If n statistieian- But he is wrong;
sn,y the !alSres EN- afford the leather
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

Few women ever become so old that
they relish their husbands remarking
the beauty and amiability of other
women.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

Even though the price of soap should
go up there would be no justifiable ex-
cuse for the black hand.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

A lot of boys are just discovering
chat the army ration no longer con-
Sists of hard tack and beans.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

You cannot help the prosecution of
Sche war by knitting your eyebrows.
TRY ball of yarn.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

The number of things that are going
TO end the war is only equaled by the
number of things that don't.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

Human hogs always display their
characteristics more emphadcally in
sShe dining room.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

The pedestal of the soap box orator
becomes more and more insecure as
the demand for kindling increases.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

The Germans have good excuse for
taeaving 0stend. however. The bathing
ssseaSon is over.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

A good dinner has about the same
effect on u man that good cry has ON
n woman.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

Paper itself is high, but SCRAPS of pa
sDer are the most expensive thing "A; the
world.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

A few good story circulators in this
country are worth more to Germany
fhan nice, fresh regiment in the field
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

T'OW TVWST 70 ITdFISII5tIeu'
wheels are belted to pulleys on shaft
beneath the floor. The power is taken
from third pulley on this shaft--Wia.
consin Agriculturist.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

There are signs of an early and hard
winter. There are signs of late and
vnild winter. We print all the news.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
slater Gets AppoIntment.

oFdISI SFNto ''FF0r''s'''0''e'
70. L. Slater, Confederate veteran
md contractor, received official cor
tirInation of his appointment by the
state board of health as registrar of
VITA statistics in Shelby county, to
succeed Mrs. o. c. Fleunier, who has
leld the position for several years,
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
TROOPS ARE ATHLETIC
FIELr CONTESTS GIVE HOME
BOYS CHANCE TO SHOW
SUPERIORITY.

That There Are Mo Better Fighters In
the Service Than the Tennessee
Bows is Proven BY Prowess Of Ath'
ietic Fields.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10

santa cans Is gctIg TO have a lot
of home-knit socks to fill this year.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
etarv sI compilino Laws.

secretary 81 Compiling Laws.
In a few days there will be issued
from the department of secretary of
state small volume containing d
compilation of all the laws of Tonnes
lee b, aring on corporations.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-10
Radiator Solutions.

Radiator solutions differ somewhat.
but all of them should contain a good
percentage of alcohol. The use of salts
should be avoided, for, while they will
not evaporate like alcohol, they have
a bad effect on the metal, and also eat
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-16

don't get to use it now. ] have been
on guard duty part OF the time. We
are living i'm small one-story frame
houses, 30xS0 feet, and fifty of us sleep
In one house. We have everything
nice and clean around the camps. Ii
IL cleaned up every morning. Our
work Is not very hard.
I'VE get up at o'clock and have
breakfast at 6. Then we go out and
drill for one hour then rest for half
an hour and drill for another hour.
Then we are off until noon. At
o'clock we go out on the drill grounds
for our running and jumping and all
kinds of monkey shines We play
baseball, football, do all kinds of
physical stunts for the rest of the day
until 5 o'clock. then we have supper
At $3.50 we have retreat, then we are
all thru for the day.
"As / belong to the military police
this IL what | did last week: Got up
at G:30 and chased prisoners until
noon, and here Is where they have
all the work to do, such as hauling
the wood and coal and groceries to
different camps, and all we guards do
Is to watch them and see that they do
IL and see that they don't get away.
We work mt this a half day at time.
The rest Of the time we are over in
town looking after drunks and disor-
derly soldiers and those who have been
absent for a week or more.
81 weigh l41 Il now, which Is moro
than | ever weighed before When l
entered | weighed 1870. / eat every
thing | can fine and my only worry
is that | will bankrupt the commits
saTV -
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-16

in order to free yourself from your
burden of shame. Initiate
US and we will honor you. Seek to
constrain us by war, and we will
thrash YOU to annihilation, and de-
spise you as a robber pack"
Prof. w. Kahl: I'VE thank our
German army that it has kept spot
less the shield of humanity ana chiv-
airy. 1t is true we believe that every
bone Of the German soldier. with his
heroic heart and immortal soul, Is
worth more than a cathedral"
Prof Adolph Harnack: IF we are
beaten-which God and our strong
arm forbid-all the higher kul.ur Of
our hemisphere, which 1t was our mis-
sion to guard, sinks with us into the
grave"
*. A. Khun: "The individual
Frenchman may fight as heroically as
he pleases; his cause, is nevertheless,
lost, because he does not believe that
where the German element hSs never
penetrated, or has penetrated only to
disappear again, no development OF
kultur in thetrue sense of the word,
Is possible"
"Shail Rule Over Mankind"
Rev. w. Lehmann: "If God is for
us, who can be against us? 1t Is
tllouSH lOT uS W NC IL pdTb VI bou
Tho German soul is the
world soul. God and Germany belong
to one another We are be-
ginning slowly, humbly, and yet with
a deep gladness to divine Gcds in
tention. 1t may sound proud, my
fiiends. but we are conscious that II
is also in all humbleness that we say
it: the German soul is Gods soul; il
shall and will rule over mankind"
Rev. NJ. Hennig: "The p.inciple
which the kaiser impressed on his
soldiers lives in his own soul Each
must do his duty that when he shall
one day answer the heavenly bugle
call. he will stand forth with a good
conscience, before his God and his old
kaiser"
Rev. H. Francke: "Is the living
God, the God whom one can only have
and understand in the spirit of Jesus
Christ. Is he the God of those others
No; they serve at Lest satan, the ia
ther of lies!''
f. Naumann: "The French, of
course, count on the possibility that
Germany may be weakened In the
further course of the war, and at last
Eeaten by the Russion army and the
English fleet This we do not believe.
tccause we know Germany. and hold
the alliance between providence and
our people to be matter of neces-
sity"
Rev. w. lehman: "All the deep
things: Courage, patriotism, faithful
ress, moral purity. conscience, tho
sense of duty activity on n moral ba-
sis. inward riches, intellect, industry,
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-16
Letters From Soldiers

The following letter has been re-
ceived by Mrs. d. NJ. Trees OF this
city from her son, who is stationed at
Camp Travis, Texas:
81 am nearly sick with a cold. and
we took our first hike this morning.
so I came back all in and have been
in bed since dinner; feel like | am
fit for the hospital. 1t has been very
warm here thru the day, but the
nights and early mornings are cold.
This is my first cold; have had 1t
about a week, but expect to be better
In a few days. 1t Is a cinch ! won't
have smallpox or typhoid fever, judg-
ing from my two wings My left
arm Is a peach, but | am glad 1t Is
over with And now that the vaccina-
tions and inoculations and other things
of red tape character are over. | sup
pose we will get plenty of training.
We haven't been idle much of the
time, for when the officers were busy
with the bookkeeping part OF it the
non-coms would drill US, generally
from 1880 to 1880 a. m. and from
1880 to 4:30 D. m. We are called in
the morning at 5:45; breakfast at $50.
dinner at ~, supper at 545: lights out
and everything quiet after 0, but we
can stay out of the barracks until IT,.
but must stay in camp unless we have
a pass which entities us to go to town.
about four miles from here. The car
line does not come this far out, but the
jtneys do thriving business. ] have
been in town twice. Soldiers are good
spenders and San Antonio is a pros
porous burg. 1t is a pretty and unique
place with its Alamo and other mis-
sions, old Spanish architecture, pre-
vailing class of Mexicans and Span
iards and literally cut to pieces by
the San Antonio river, which winds
back and forth thru its business sec
tion. The photographers and tatooers
are, / believe, the busiest of the busy.
The sfrae'- --e "'~'"''~ ""owded. espe-
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-16

and so forth-no other nation possess
es all these things in such high per-
fection as we do"
."To BE Gods Successor.
Reverend Doctor Preuss: cit was
the hidden meaning of God that he
made Israel the forerunner Of the
Messiah. and in the same way he has
by his hidden intent designated the
German people to be his successor"
Rev. II. Francke: German craving
for truth and German strength of
faith, working along Biblical paths,
have attained to the true faith, the
pure Righteousness whose first and
greatest spokesman is Jesus Christ
Thus the Germans are the very near
est to the Lord, and may claim for
themselves that they have continued
in His word We fight
then for Christianity as against de-
generation and barbarism.
God must be with us and victory ours
This is guaranteed us by the truth OF
our nature. which is as German as il
is Christian"
Rev. ]. Rump: "a Jesusless horde
q crowd of the goddess, are in the field
against us. May God sur
round us with His protection. since
our defeat would also mean the de-
ltii VI MS NbIl III
Rev. ID. Vorwerk: Let US rejoice
that envy has risen up against us; II
only shows that God has exalted and
richly blessed us. Think of Hini who
was hanged on the cross and SCENE !
forsaken Of God and had to tread In
such loneliness His path to victory
My German people, even IL thy road
be strewn with thorns and 5eset by
enemies, press onward, full of def
ance and confidence. Thou and thy
God, ye are the majority"
1t has often been remarked that the
Germans have little or no sense OF hui
NOR. But the two following quota
tions, read in the light of the iTeced.
ing, would seem to indicate tina. they
are not wholly devoid of that blessed
quality:
Prof. f. Hasse: Excessive mod.
esty and humility, rather than excess
I've arrogance and ambitionAis a fea.
ture of the German character"
X. Engelbrecht: eve will nod fas
to our old modesty, with which we
have so often been reproached. ant
| which has indeed often enough degen.
Grated into the undertaking. of our
rselves and overValuinE Of that which
is foreign and despicab ble."
Ruthlcssncss.
N1eZche: "One must resist all sen
timental weakness Life Is in it's es.
sence appropriation, injury, the over.
powering of whatever is foreign to u'
end weaker than ourselves. suppres
! sion, hardness, the forcing upor
others of our form. the Incorporation
| of others, or, at the very least and
mildest. their exploitation"
G. w. B.: by stepping himself ir
military history an officer will be able
to guSrd himself against eXcessiv,
! humanitarian notions. 1t will teach
him that certain seventies are indis-
rensable to war, nay, more. that tbs
only true humanity very often lies IN
a ruthless application of them"
General Won Hartmann "It is \
gratuitous Illusion to suppose that
n sodern war does not demand far
more brutality far more violence. and
CONTINUED
an action far more general than was
formerly the case. The en-
emy state must not be spared he wan.
ton recklessness of war; these are
particularly useful in shattesing IT,
energy and subduing It's will. :
Individual persons may he harshly
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-16

cause IN which they had no interest
Nor was any such portrayal true TO
facts. The German people mad faith
in their rulers. faith in their cause,
and above all, faith in their army. The
consuming vanity of the kaiser and
his religious DeutsChtum (German-
ism) have been communicated TO the
people to such an extent that al acute
form of national paranoia, perhaps
not much previously known in his
tory, has resulted. Side by side with
this eXaltatlon has grown the ccnvic-
ton that England and France were
decadent, and the equally honest con-
yictlon that Germany's world mission
was to extend her kultur over the
whole earth by force If no other
means seemed to present themselves.
Germanism is iStels a re-
ligion, and that is why In such n
struggle terrorism becomes spiritual
iZed, and the outer passions and blood
lust are attuned to the inner heart of
the great world purpose. l go so far
az to express the opinion that few who
really knew Germany and the Ger
man spirit have been greatly surprised
at the treatment accorded to Bel
Gians or the methods Of warfare prac-
ticed by German submarines, or even
Of the encouragement of the Turks, IN
their sanguinary persecution cf the
Armenians.
Let us not blind our eyes to the
plain facts. We are at war with a
mighty people, dominated by the OBJ
session that they are called Of God 70
impose their civilization on the world,
and that la accomplishing that pur-
pose any and all means are leglti-
mate. Let us be equally firm IN ou'
belief that we are called. in the inter-
ests of freedom. Justice and humanity,
to crush that obsession and to bring
to naught that purpose"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-16
Quite Dangerous.

"Yes, sir" said the station master.
safety first has spread all over this
country. And nobody that comes to
Beaver Hill will ever get in no acct
dents for want O. warnin' signs about.
Jest look at that, now"
The stranger gaZed appreciatively
at the sign nailed on a nearby tele-
graph post. It's stern message was:
ut Is dangerous to walk or stand
on these tracks while train is pass
ing"