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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-04

Offering their lives in any vain or idle
cause If there was ever a war in
the history of mankind in which the
highest good of all man was involv.
ed, that war is now There is moth
ing SO tragic as the death OF 4 bright
young promising boy or young woman
Just entering manhood or womanhood
with all the promising years before
them. Oh, that is tragic. But. these
young men, some of whom will not
come back but fill Il foreign grave
these young men, while they will
nave died young in years, will have
died having accomplished more in
their brief lives for humanity than
the octogenarians of our time Re.
member that. We are in the war we
began Il, SO why not let us see it's
llnlsh. Our forefathers began il in
concord and Lexington when they
cared oppose the might of another
great European empire, the British
empire. And the two principles in
VOWED in that battle of a century and
half ago are these-shall men gov
ern themselves or shall autocracy i'm
pose rule upon them and YOU can't
reconcile those two principles, there
can be no compromise; and that bat
tie which we began way back fhere in
Massachusetts, believe, is coming to
It's ifhal close. When ii is over, when
1t Is done, and when the banners of
the one side and the other are furled
forever either all the world will be
free or all the world will be under
the heel of military autocracy. That
IL inevitable, there is no comprom.
Use between those two. Then. think.
lhefe will be no new fields for man
TO go to and try new life as Ameri.
ca was All the world will be filed
with autoe1acy. There will be no
place of exile for the defeated. Just
think my friends, what America
means and has meant to ciyiliza-
tion, 1t has been an inspiration to
every nation looking to the advance.
ment of the human race the world
around. 1t has been a solace to the
dying idealist in other lands strup
Cling for liberty who could see way
of on the shore the flag of America
and knew that one day men would
be content, and so he died with this
vision before him with smile upon
his lips. II we lose this way. that
nope is gone, and their dreams will I
nave failed. and so far as man can see
there Will be no star in all the black, /
ness ahead.
My friends, honor these young men
VINO are going out to the colors of
our country to fight that these ideals
may be preserved, Iet your PRAYERS
attend them. God bless them all and
''od bless the parents of these noble
boys who make this sacrifice for
better. a iuster a more enlightened
md freezer world | thank YOU,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-09-04

II you want to make your distressed
babies easy and comfortable, give
Foley's Honey and Tar.
II is just what they oueh, to have for
teverish colds, coughs, 'snufTles," and
wheezy breathing. 1t stops Group, too.
toley's Honey and Tar tastes GOOD
and the little ones like it. II conAns
no morphine, chloroform or other drug
that you wouldn't like to give to young
children. DO not accept substitute.
Mrs B. II. Garrett. Schoolheld. Va, writer-
MY baby was stricken with severe cough and
cold at one month old. Gave him ten to fifteen
drops OF iolsys Honey md Tar every three
hours and l. surely did hel. hia. ils hasn't
been slek day siace."
For sale by w. D. Duncan.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
S 0 CIAL
AND PERSONAL
Review Club.

hebieW OluO.
Mrs. S. S. Thomas was the gracious
hostess of the club Thursday, Jan A.,
The afternoon study was the Golden
are of Rome. Miss Fletcher Coppedge
as leader gave a characterization of
Augustus Caesar; Miss Anna Austin
and Mrs. Lewis 7. Bond gave an inter
esting discussion Of the part and his
torians Of the period, and Miss Anne
bel Moore delightfully."- told the story
of Virgil's Aeneid with number of
most beautiful selections from the
poem. Dainty refreshments were serv
ed by the charming Misses Douglas
Hanna and Barbara Bruce. A COM
mittee from the club consisting of
Misses Annebel Moore, Mamie Bond,
and Martha Williams, assited in the
collection of the Armenian-Syrian
fund at the picture show Friday eve
ming.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
WEAK, NERVOUS OHIO WOMAN
Made Well BY Delicious VinoI

Bellefontaine. 0hio.-'My blood was
very poor-I was in a weak, nervous,
rundown condition. | tried different
remedies without benefit and one day
my druggist told me about Vinol. I
tried it and it built me up in every way
blood, strength and nerves, and / tell
my friends it is the best medicine on
earth. Mrs. EARL BRUNsoN.
Kinol sharpens the appetite, aids
digestion, enriches the blood and in
this natural manner creates strength.
Complete formula on every label.
Coppedge Drug Co. Brownsville.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12

Miss Martha Thomas is in Nashville
this week.
Miss Ella Hughes, after a pleasant
visit in Nashville, has returned to
Brownsville.
Mr.. F. R. Ogilvie spent several days
in Nashville this week.
Mr.. B. F. Morris was in Brownsville
Tuesday.
Miss Annebel Moore was in Memphis
Saturday.
Mrs. Leila Jarratt was in Browns
vile Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Mann were in
town Monday.
Mrs. Frank Pracht is visiting rela-
tives in Memphis.
Mr.. W. T. Morris of Bells was in
Brownsville Tuesday.
Mr.. John Ragland spent several DAYS
in Memphis this week.
Mrs. Maud Currie has been on the
sick list this week.
Mrs. Opal Burton spent sevral DAYS
in Memphis this week.
Mrs. Robert Young of Halls, is the
guest of Mrs. W. P. Adams.
Mr.. S. P, Musgrave of the fourth
district was in town Monday.
Mrs. Bette McKiel is quite sick at
her home on East Main street.
Mrs. Hattie Womack is recovering
from an attack of pneumonia.
Mrs. w. N. McCleish of jackson is
the guest of Mrs. C. E. McCleish.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Stuart of Eure-
katon, were in Brownsville Tuesday.
W. G. Grub of Colorado Springs,
was visitor in Brownsville this week
Mr.. and Mrs, Marshall and son,
Stephen Pettus, have moved to Texas.
Mr.. Joe Davis left last Sunday for
San Antonio, Tex, to spend month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claud Clark have re-
turned to Mckenzie for an extended
stay.
Mesdames Will Wilson and Winfrey
of Somerville visited relatives here this
week.
Charlie Scott has returned to Gulf
port, Miss, where he is attending
school.
Mrs. Edward Flynn of Amory, Miss,
IS the guest Of her mother, Mrs. R. Y.
Moses.
Mrs. Will Crump and little daughter
are guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. W
Wagner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lyle and Mr., T
o. Lyle of South Hatchie were in town
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. C. Sturdiyant left
Monday to spend several weeks in New
Orleans
Mr., T o. Bond, Jr., Of Covingtop is
the guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
T. o. Bond.
Mrs. Mona Lent and baby Of Mem
phis visited the family Of w. r. Lang
ham last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Hurt have re-
turned from a pleasant visit to rela-
tives at Irrelevant.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
Stag Dinner.

Mr.. j. o. Bonner was the host of an
informal stag dinner on Thursday eve
ming at his home on West College
street. The table was beautifully ar
ranged for the occasion. Cut flowers
were used for center piece and the
place cards bore the names of Messrs.
Arthur Smith, w. =. McLaurine, S. F.
Thomas, E. c. King, DR.. J. H. Sewer,
S. J, Turner, W. W. Wagner, Dan
Shaw, F. R. Ogilvie, F. W. Lyle, W. P.
Adams, l.. NJ. Short, R. N. Bond, J. 0.
Bonner.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
SHIPMENTS OF LIQUOR
INTO DRY FROM WET
STATES is PROHIBITED

An official digest of the majority
opinion prepared by the supreme court
of the United States on the Webb
Kenyon law sets out its holding as fol-
lows
"First-That the West Virginia law
besides prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoxicants except as to
that which is permitted for medical
sacramental and manufacturing pur-
poses, also forbids all transportation
of liquor and all receipts and posses
sion Of liquor transported in the state
whether originating in or outside Of
the state, and although it does not pro-
hibit personal use, puts serious res
trictions upon the power to obtain for
such use. e.
THE court holds that in v Iflfle
well established police authority Of the
state over intoxieants, there is no rea-
son to think that the law was in any
wise repugnant to the due process
clause of the fourteenth amendment
to the Constitution of the United
States. 1t, however, decides that un-
less the state authority has an excep-
tional application to shipments of in
testate commerce as the result of the
act OF congress known as the Webb
Kenyon law, the provision of the state
law restricting shipments of intoxi-
cants into the state from other states
would be unconstitutional because in
terfering with the powers of congress
to regulate commerce amongst the
states, and consequently would be a
direct burden upon such commerce.
Misunderstanding the Webb
Kenyon act, the court holds that there
is no foundation for the contention
that the act only applies to shipments
from one state into another for use
prohibited by the state to which the
liquor is shipped. On the contrary.
1t is decided that the Webb KENYON
act, to use the words OF the act, ap-
plies to shipments of liquor intended
to be received, possessed, sold, or in any
manner used in violation of the laws
OF the state. AS this conclusion causes
every prohibition of the West Virgin
Ia law to be embraced and come under
the right conferred by congress by the
webb kenyon act, it is decided that
the West Virginia law was not in con-
fllct with the commerce clause of the
constitution and the power of con-
gress to regulate commerce if congress
mas power to enact the Web KENYON
law. As''' VI
"Ihird--Disposing of that question
1t is decided that congress had the now
e e., under the constitution to adopt the
ebb-Kenyon law, whether consider
Led from the point of view of original
reasoning or in the light of previous
legislation by congress and the decis-
IONS OF the court holding that legis-
ton valid. VIZ - =
1T is therefore decided that bv dr-
tue Of the Webb-Kenyon law there is
no power to ship intoxicapts from, one
state INTO another in violation of the
prohibition laws of the state into which
the liquor is shipped. In other words
II Is decided that since the enactment
OF the Webb-kenyon law the channels
OF interstate commerce NAV not he
USED 10 convey liquor into a state
against the prohibition laws Of that
state or to use interstate commerce as
the basis for the right to receive. nos
sess, sell, or in any manner use Iiauor
contrary to the state prohibition
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
Complimentary Luncheon.

Mrs. c. K. Wellington entertained
on Saturday with luncheon, the guest
of honor being Mrs. H. L. Currie, one
of the most attractive young matrons
of Brownsville. Mrs. Currie's former
home was Ripley, but since her mar
rage to Mr.. Currie she has formed
many friends in this city who were
delighted to add her to our list of
young matrons. Those who were pres
ent were Mesdames W. G. Berson, Ted
Martin, Ed Dupree, Joe Dickinson, H
l.. Currie and c. f. Wellington.
Informal Dinner.
Mesdames James Dupree and John
Crowder entertained on Wednesday
with an informal dinner at their home
on Lafayette street. Covers were
laid for Mesdames r. Y. Moses, F. w.
Lyle, c. w. Anderson, James Dupree,
Edward Flynn Of Amory, Miss, C, W,
Miss Mary Neblett and Mrs.
John Crowder.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12

Cotton seed growers everv,vbara arc
ADVISED . to be extremely circumspect
IN disposing Of cotton seed this winter
even though the prices are execution
any high. Cotton seed is likely ii be
scarce next spring, the U. S. Bureau
o. plant industry says, and if Growers
dispose Of all their stock now believ-
ing that they VIII buy what thew want
v, It comes time to plant thew Are
likely to be disappointed
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
Ferreter- addell.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Hardy Cobb an
nounce the engagement and approach
ing marriage of their step-daughter,
Miss Mary Ola Fererter, to DR.. John
R. Waddell of Rogersville, Alabama.
The wedding will be solemnized in
April.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
Wednesday Morning Musical.

The Wednesday Morning Musical
will meet with Miss Grace Bumpass
Wednesday morning, January II, at
1890 o'clock. A Getting of the choral
will be at 10 o'clock. -..-.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
Birthday Celebration.

Little Richard Lyle Eggerman en-
tertained few of his little friends
Wednesday, the occasion being his Sec
ond birthday. Robert is very bright
little fellow and with his friends quite
a jolly time was enjoyed.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12

Mr.. and Mrs. Sullivan are at home to
their friends at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs Boyd on South Margin.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
COllier-Sulliyan

The marriage of Miss Pearl Collier
to Mr. Roy L. Sullivan was quietly
solemnized at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Boyd Sunday afternoon at 3
O'Clock, Rev E. L. Atwood officiating.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-18
=1ssMSy.rCssN7s-a fsisIs'tlSs sSgy,y4get.Y

random to be believed If there is to be
war in the United States, not the least
patriot will be he who saves us from the
sins which too ardent loyalty has COM
mitted in other countries. Not every ore
who pleads for paciism is on the pay
roll of the enemy; and there will be
MANY who will see no reason to halt orig
inality and freedom of thought, when
clear thought is more rare than ammu-
milton. 1t is hard not to let the voice
Of the herd dominate when the interests
of the whole herd are at stake. The
people of Athens, to whom Socrates
tried to teach the truth, probably sim
cerely believed he was dangerous char
acter when they sentenced him to the
fatal hemlock. And while Bertrand Rus
sell is thinking far ahead of his country
men with a patriotism they cannot un-
derstand. they guard him with secret
agents and consider him little short of
German spy.
During wartime there is always the
temptation to treat free-thinking people
with the same courtesy and considera-
ton with which savages treat an infrac-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-18

tectives will slip in hopefully expecting
a riot. Suggest that military training.
while necessary as a defence, is not alto
gether a substitute for a college educa-
ton. and friends will be afraid to be seen
with YOU in the street. Remark on the
excellent municipal administration OF
Berlin, and you are likely to be classed
with Attila and the Huns. Or suggest,
perhaps, that you would have fought in
the Revolutionary War, and you will DE
set down as an out and out militarist.
If you choose. however, to wander into
untrodden paths of thought, no one, save
your own family, will in ordinary times
reproach you. You can think what you
please. because no one will listen very
seriously. AT most, you will be an
amusement; it requires, in peace times,
a good deal of cleverness and advertis-
ing to get ones self regarded as a real
danger.
But in wartime (see the English pro-
vincial papers) personal opinion, instead
of being jovially forgiven as tempera-
ment, will be branded as treachery, and
the accusing finger has but to point at
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-18

ton of an ancient taboo. The tltSt
primitive man who thought something
out for himself and told the tribe about
it was probably killed for high treason
or ridicued until he decided to stick t.
the rules forever after. The conscien-
tious director fares no better in Eng
land to-day.
There is danger that in fighting for
liberty on the high seas we may lose it
On land. The censor and the scenter CT
treason will multiply among us. What
in less stressful months is merely
queer difference Of opinion will become
sinister and suspicious. Ideas always
look strange because they occur so sell
dom. and they are not liable in the ex-
element of military preparations to
look any more familiar. We will have
to be careful while we are mobilizing
men. railroads and ammunition not to
destroy ideas with the tyranny of pat
riotism. If we do, they may bob up
again. as thoughts have habit OF
doing. in the next generation or two.
And our descendants may wonder why
nobody thought of them sooner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-18

own risk and to read Ellen Key in the
subway is to be crowned with halo OF
suspicion. Thus in times of peace.
You must be gigantically queer in the
drowsy days of security, if you want to
be marked as a menace, and have de-
tectives and editorial writers and col
lege presidents swapping at your heels.
Either there must be tremendous I'M
tiaI investment, an automobile plant ard
q neace Yacht. or colossal crudeness and
desperation. A billion or bomb, ordi-
narilv. are the entrance requirements
for one who would rise to the proml-
hence of a national danger. Only with
rare and unusual perseverance is 1t pos
sible TO become Bogie at the early age
of twenty. The barest accidents OF pub
licitv determine whether Frank Tan
nenbaum il honored with jest or a jail
sentence.
Even before war breaks out, the
chances TO be regarded as a demon OF
danger are miracuIously increased. Al
tend a meeting devoted to the study oil
MarsiQlio of Padua, fourteenth century
advocate of peace. and reporters and de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-18
Thought Waves
in War
Bv Irwin Edman

scientist dSSulSo u.s. sOFOiho uE
both in war and peace. We wear
liars we don't like and borrow opin-
ms we don't believe, in order to please
orle we shall never know. We are ter
:5ed TO be alone with our opinions, and
rl,e 70 snuggle close to an editorial page,
rSere we can bask in the light of our
urn oninions written down by some one
also If somebody runs away and gets
~ oprion of mis- own, the herd gets
.norv with him, as Athens did with Soc
rates, as England has grown angry
with Bertrand Russell. 1t feeds him
bemlock or interns him, though he may
have an idea, if the herd could only
understand it, that might soon be It's
OWN slogan and it's own salvation.
The Voice of the Herd, the English
psychologist goes on to tell us, is what
has called men to work together, and
THAT prevents them from working bet
TOR It unites them enthusiastically in
tho service of an idea, and makes it al
most impossible for them to get new
me It huddles them together in the
face of an enemy and browns out any
other voice that may arise. 1t is what
makes people read headlines, and what
prevents them from doubling them.
And it is never so powerful or domlneer-
ing as at a time of national danger.
All it needed was a break with Ger
manv to make this ancient instinct rise
out Of the privacies of peace. Amer1-
cans began to recognize their Fellow
Nan in the Street. Before that he was
merely a person to be passed in revolv-
ing doors, and rubbed elbows with in
express elevators. No one ever dreamt
that the man who disappeared at the
fourteenth floor had the same hopes for
peace and new subways as ones self
on the twenty-fourth. One occasion
aIly dipped a coffee spoon into the same
sugar bowl with him at the Auto
nat. but even that established no
sweetness Of fellowship or understand
ing. It was even little surprising
TO find. when he coIlided with you at a
street corner, that he spoke the same
language.
After the break the Voice that IN
tines Of peace whispers in the headlines
and the clothing fashions spoke loudly
enough to interrupt US in our business.
It has already made us cuddle mentally
together, in that closer and closer union
which comes with uncertainty and the
comradeship Of danger. 1t has united
universities and trade unions in common
promises of service. Under the compul-
sion Of a crisis, the signs Of unified
nation are beginning to appear, from the
little flags on the packages Of depart
ment stores to the obliteration Of party
lines on national issues. The only
danger is, if we are to learn lesson
from England, that even patriotism may
90 too far.
An overdose Of patriotism! 1t seems
ironic to speak of it in nation where
Corrupt Practices Acts and pork barrels
exist. Yet it is in some ways the worst
Danger of a war fever. There is, for
example, the acute patriotism displayed
bys Columbia professor last week when
he refused to permit Count Tolstoy to
deliver lecture on peace. There is the
loyalty of the Westerner who wanted to
intern a prominent fellow-citizen with
whom he disagreed. And there is the
hastv zesi &c so,oo large corpOratiOnS
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-08-15
RED CROSS CONDUCTS BUREAU T0slocATE
SOLDIERS WHO ARE REPORTED AS MISSING

J LONDON, July 2s--(By MaiD-
OF the thousands Of British families
who have waited in dread anxiety for
fnal news OF relatives posted as
Missing" few have known how
much effort was being made to re-
lleve their fears. The fact that the
army continues a large corps Of men
who spend all their time searching
for missing men Ia not generally
known. Y U
These searchers, now an Important
branch OF the Red Cross, are the
result Of Walt paid TO France by
Lord Robert Cecil In the early days
Of the war, He had gone to seek for
news Of a friend among the COM
rades who had taken part in the en-
'gagcment that resulted In the
friends name being listcd among the
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-08-15
PATRIOTIC WOMAN WAR mayor Brings ss
HONOR TO THE french CITY Of QUESMY

PARIS. July 20 (By Mail) --Ques-
my. a little village north Of the Disc.
counts July z. 1917. as the proudest
day in Its modest annals. On that
day French general. with q guard
OF war veterans in attendance. came
to pin the War Cross on the breast
OF Madame Pellequer. the local
schoolmistress and mayor. for her
gallant conduct. kl
Nine. PelleQner is, one OF those
modest heroines whom France has
reason to be proud Of, When war
broke out Nine PelleQuer was teach
Ing school in Quesmy. while her hus-
band was, similarly employed at the
neighborlng village Of Maucourt,
Her husband left for the front. and
she took over his pupils.
Germans occupied ouesmy. and
found Nine. Pellecuer installed a.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-08-15
LONDON Cheers AS
us. TROOPS PARADE

LONDON. Aug. IS American
troops marched through London to-
day with thousands Of cheering Ion
doners showing more enthusiasm
than has been seen on the streets Of
the metropolis at any time since the
return Of British troops from South
Africa at the conclusion OF the Boer
war. FH
Ambassador Page and King George
reviewed the troops. The cabinet
adjourned its session while the sol-
dlers passed by. The cheering was
ear-splitting The entire city 10 dec
GRATED with British and American
naJs.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-08-15
SMALL GAINS MADE
IN French ATTACKS

PARIS. Aug. 15-The French have
advanced considerably west Of Dix
nude. Belgium. according to the
official announcement made today.
Enemy raids wsre repulsed along the
vauclerc PIatean. The artillery has
been active AL day on both banks Of
the Meuse River.
Northeast Of Ypres. In Flanders.
British troops have forced German
posts to retire across the Steenbeke
river. Field Marshal Haig's men
held their gain ana e-estabiished tho
line ON the eastern bank Of the
river. s,'sgs ii
Elsewhere from the coast to St.
Quentin. the artillery firing has in
creased In some sectors and the Brit
ish have carried out a number Of
successful raids. the most important
being in the environs of Lens. by the
Canadians. lss
French reconnoitsring parties have
penetrated the German lines near
Rheims In two places. Elsewhere IN
Champagne a. well as at Cerny. ON
the Aisne front. and In the Carspach
sector. the French repulsed German
surprise attacks.