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Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-04
GOV. RYE ISSUES FIREPRE.
VENTION PROCLAMATION.
tuesday, October 9 to be
Observed as Day.

When we are reminded OF the
! fact that, perhaps, 80 per cent Of
all the fires in the United States
can be traced to carelessness,
and remember that because OF
this want of ordinary care,
thoughtfulness and prudence up
on the part of our reople, the
loss eccasioned by fires in our
State in the year of 1916 amount
ed to So, 444, 2O3, and in the
United States for the same year,
1914, $50, 995, we have a very
forcible object lesson of the need
and necessity of education along
lines looking to fire prevention,
This is especially true in times
like this when our country is
staggering under the crushing
weight of a worlds war crisis,
which of necessity will tax our
resources to the very limit in
order to meet, as we must and
will, the extra burdens and ad-
ditional duties and demands
thrust upon a patiortic people
who are eager and anxious to
render all needed and necessary
aid for the successful prosecution
of the war, not of conquest but
for humanity.
In this connection | want to
most heartily commend the in
surance companies, especially
fhe underwriters associations,
for the unstinted, generous and
effected services their represen-
tatives have and are rendering
the people of the State by their
hearty cooperation with the
Fire Prevention Department in
this important work. and | be-
speak for them and the State au-
thorities so engaged in this work
the hearty and sympathetic CO.
operation of the people of the en-
tire State in the splendid efforts
they are making for the preser,
vation of our national resources
and the prevention of waste of
life and property.
THEREFORE,. following the
custom established of commemer-
ating the anniversary of the
great Chicago fire by turning it
into an occasion when means may
be taken to check so much USE
less waste, |, Tom C. Rye, Gov
ernor, do hereby proclaim,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9th, as
FIRE PREVENTION DAY and
urgently suggest the propriety
of our people removing infam-
able material from their houses
and premises where it might en-
danger same; inspect heating and
lighting apparatus; that lectures
be given in public schools and
teachers give fire drills and SUI
perintendents of factories and
department stores cooperate
with the numerous inspectors of
the Underwriters Associations
and the State Department of
Fire Prevention. to the end that
the numerous annual waste from
unnecessary fires may be materi-
ally reduced.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF,
| have hereunto set my hand and
caused the Great Seal of State to
be affixed at the Capitol in the
City of Nashville. this the 18th
day of September. A. D. 1917,
and of American Independence
the 142nd year.
BY the Governor:
TOM C. RYE,
GOVERNOR.
Ike B. Stevens,
Secretary of State.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-04
Women Chairmen VIII Meet
Saturday, Oct. 6.

Food Pledge Cards is called to
meet at the courthouse in Gain
esboro, l:30 p. m. Saturday. Oct.
9th. All Chairmen are request
ed to be present in person, but
where it is impossible for any one,
to attend it will be absolutely
necessary for them to have some
one from their district present to
represent them.
This is to be, in all probability,
the most important meeting we
will have this year, as the work
of the various chairmen will be
outlined, and the defense work
of all kinds started. Registra-
ton day fall on the 18th, and we
will only have one week from
this meeting to prepare for this
important work. By this regis
tration the government will know
exactly what it may rely on
from the women in its great
need, and it will also give the
women the opportunity to select
the work they are best fitted for
and that they wish to do. No
one is obliged to register. 1t is
an opportunity to serve your
country. 1t will not take you
away from home. If you are
willing to go or can put your SER
vices to the command of the gov
ernment well and good In un-
ion there is strength, In organ
ization there is efficiency. In
efficiency lies success. Women
at home must stand behind and
supply the need of the men at
the front. Uncle Sam needs us
all. Not the limited few, but all.
On us women. in a large measure
depends the success of the war.
We must do our part with a man.
ly heart and without fear. Don't
be a Stacker. Register your
share in the great work for free
dom.
All school teachers, Ministers
of the Gospel, Sunday School
Superintendents. County officers
and officers of clubs and socie-
ties are expected to take part in
getting a full registration and as
sisting in the Pledge Card Cam
paign.
Those who are expected to at
tend are as follows:
Mrs. N. M. McCoin, Chairman
Food Supply. Miss Estelle Gail
breath, Chairman, Farm Produc-
ton Increase. Mrs. White My
ers. Chairman Farm Labor Sup
ply. Mrs. C. S. Brown, Chair
man Finance. Mrs. N. E. Gray,
Chrirman Farm Production Dis
tribution. Mrs. s. B. Fowler,
Chairman, Food, Feed, Seed and
Breeding Stock Conservation.
Mrs. J. M. Draper, chairman
lst District.
Mrs. ]. V. Pistole, chairman
End Dist.
Mrs. Atty Howell, chairman 3rd
Dist.
Miss Sallie Gillock, chairman
4th Dist.
Mrs. B. F. Cooper, chairman
5th Dist.
Mrs. A. ]. Pharris, chairman
9th Dist.
Mrs. H. B. Brown, chairman
7th Dist.
Miss Lillian Flynn, chairman
9Th Dist.
Mrs. Mary Gore, chairman 9th
Dist.
Mrs. F. M. Mabry, chairman
10th Dist.
Il
Miss Theo Hogg, chairman 18th
Dist.
Mrs. j. w. Chaffin. chairman
18th Dist.
Mrs. G. w. Birdwell chairman
18th Dist.
Mrs. ]. E. Smith, chairman
l4th Dist.
Mrs. T. NJ, Cason, chairman
18th Dist.
Mrs. L. B. Anderson.
| County Chm.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-04
CAINESBORO MISSION N. E.
CHURCH SOUTH =
Pastor Reviews Work Done
During Conference Year.
My Dear Friends and Brethren:

my Lear Fflen0S ana brethren
take this method of acquaint
ing you with the nature and ex
tent of my labors among you dur
ing the present conference year
closing October 10, 1917. Swift
er than the weavers shuttle hav'
the days and weeks passed b!
since | came among yod yea
ago. The statement is tru'
That we are all swift passeh
gers to the tomb"
| count myself fortunate t
have had my lot cast with The
good people of Jackson county,
especially those in the bounds
of the Gainesboro Mission, and
its adjacent territory. From the
first day ! came to you until the
present, your doors have ever
been open to me, your hands OF
brotherly and sisterly friendship
have been extended to me. Your
patience have born well with my
feeble, but untiring efforts to
preach the glad tidings of saliva
tion. Coming to you as a young
preacher, with the timidity and
perpleXing problems that affronts
all the young preachers, you
seemed to know just how to offer
good cheer and encouragement,
that has been a source of bless
ing to me.
Now, that the conference year
is near at hand, and not knowing
that | will have the pleasure of
serving you another year. | take
this opportunity of expressing
my profound thanks to you again
for your cooperation. and ah'
that has gone to make this year
pleasant. and | trust q success.
When | appear on the floor of
the annual conference, which
meets at Gallatin, Oct. 10th, !
will represent a charge that has
met all their obligations. For
the first time in years this charge
has paid all it's Mission assess
ments in full. The pastors sala-
ry is very nearly paid in full, and
no doubt will be in full by con:
ference. In addition to this the
freewill offerings have amount
ed to upward of fifty dollars, and
the churches have contributed
generously to other causes; the
whole amounting to 1870. 70.
More than 100 per cent gain over
last year, The revival meetings
have all been held. and ! trust
more good accomplished than is
visible. am able to report only
fifteen conversions. with twelve
additions to the church. Several
were reclaimed during the meet
ings, and a spiritual awakening
among the churches. ! was as
sisted in the meeting at Gaines
boro, by Rev. Dow A. 'Ensor, of
the Hermitage Circuit, and at
Flynn's Lick, by Rev.' j. w.
Swan of the Gordonsvilfe Circuit.
Bro. Swan and Bro. Ensor are
both very able preachers. The
Sunday schools are thrifty and
growing. :.
have served this pastorate to
the best of my ability. with the
one aim ever before me, and that
was to speak word of cheer and
comfort, and to elevate men. wo-
men, boys and girls to . higher
plain of Christian living. Should
Bishop Mccoy think wise to send
me back to you agiah. ] could
not be better pleased with an ap-
pointment. and will ehdeaver by
the grace of God to serve You
better next year than ] have
this. Should he see best to sefal
me to other fields Of labor, M
heart and prayers win bs with
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-04

you. May Gods richest benedic-
tons rest upon you. is my pray
er.
OPP. Gentry. Pastor.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-04
CAMP GORDON NEWS
JACKSON COUNTY BOYS WRITE OF ARMY LIFE.


such close quarters that his dog
will be waging his tail up and
down for a lack of space other
ways.
An eyeless needle would be of
little use, but a holeless dough-
nut would sure make ! a bit in
Camp Gordon.
Yesterdays mail brought par
GELS of unusual interest to the
jackson county boys and each
and every boy expresses sincere
thanks for the kind remember
ance of the Cainesboro citizens.
Encel A.. Chaffin,
Battery B, 32l F. A.
Camp Gordon,
Atlanta, Ga.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-04

les Of small parallel ridges and il
a beautiful grove of oak anC
pine, IL miles from Atlanta.
The barracks are built of pine,
and are enstalled with modern
sanitary equipment. Each bar
rack accommodates approximately
$50 men. The sleeping quarters
are comfortable, and the food is
clean, well prepared and plenti
full. There is not much COM
plant coming from the camp
life. Everybody seems to be
happy and cheerful.
Military life is invaluable in
many respects to young men. 1t
teaches the virtues of cleanliness,
exactness and punctuality. 1t
encourages habits of thoughtful
ness, self-control and courtesy.
1t teaches men to be confidential
and self reliant. The military
drills are invaluable in develop
ing a well proportioned body and
a graceful activity,
We drill approximately eight
hours each day, and the officers
are paying many nice compli-
ments to the boys. at the ease
and readiness with which they
learn to execute the drill COM
mandS.
| have seen most all the Jack
son county boys since we came,
and most of them are pretty well
contented.
The army Y. M. L. "A. is prov
ing a substantial friend to the
soldiers. The boys can go to
them a; leisure hours and write
letters, talk with their friends,
enjoy the music and interesting
given every evening.
We wish our friends and peo-
pie would contribute news to the
and help make it more
interesting and valuable.
! would greatly appreciate let
ters from any of my friends.
Very respectfully,
Wesley Chafiin,
Co. |, 325th Infantry,
Camp Gordon
Atlanta, Ga.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-04
Sentinel Mailed Free.

The editors of the Sentinel de-
string to do our bit" for the
Jackson county boys while serv-
ing their country. are mailing the
paper free to them. The boys
were requested before leaving
to mail their company's address,
as soon as possible. Some have
replied and their names are on
our mailing list. All the boys
will receive the paper as soon as
their addresses are received.
Our primmer class is increas-
ng their vocabulary from one to
three words each day, by using
their letter cards and cedar sticks
for the number class.
Our school is doing excellent
work. regardless of the fact that
a number of the pupils have been
suffering from chills.
A debating society has been
organized. which meets Friday
afternoon. We are glad TO have
the patrons of the school. and
others to visit US on these after
Moons.
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-04

|
Atlanta, Ga.
Here at Camp Gordon, near
Chambelee. there is something
doing boys. believe me. The lay
ing of sewers and water pipe
lines, and erecting of buildings
of nearly all kinds.
There are thousands of work
men. here as busy as turks, build
ing barracks for the boys, who
will do military work.
The little town of Chamblee,
compares in size to Gainesboro,
Tenn. Our barracks are. SANTA
ry in every way, and they are
built as if they meant for them
to stay. = -
+ We have plenty of clothing
and three meals day, and in
addition extra pay. -.
We are here to- do our coun-
try's will and if needs be will go
after Kaiser Bill.
Elijah i. Dudney.
. Co. d. 325 lnft.
Camp Gordon, Ga.
Sept. 80, 1916.
Editor, Sentinel:
The quota of soldiers from
Jackson county arrived at Camp
Gordon safely, and on schedule
time.
We arrived at Cookeville, at
$3.50 o'clock p. m. where we were
lively entertained at a patriotic
rally by the people of the town.
We were then given a free pass
to- the picture show. We tender
to the patiQtic people of Cooke
vile our deep appreciation of
the kindness and respect shown
US while in their town. ;..
We. left Cookeville at HOO
o'clock, arriving at Chattanooga
at 900 a. m. Sunday, where we,
took breakfast, We then .entrain:
ed for Chamblee, passing thru
Atlanta at 5 p. m. and arriving
at Camp Gordon at 5:23 p. ,Fs
with every man present and I'M
good spirits.
We were met at the depot and
giyen.a hearty welcome. to ouE
temporary home. We.then march,
ed the army Y. NJ. C. A. auditor
ium, and were assigned to duty
in a short time.
The camp is situated on a SER
Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1917-10-04
Camp Gordon,
Sept. q.

kJN TIts TT
Editor Sentinel:
Will write you few lines ask
ing you to mail me the Sentinel.
lam liking Camp Gordon just
fine, bit would like to get the
news from my home county.
Yours truly,
Curry Huffines,
Co. |. 325 Inft.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
Hommopathic Fuel Saving

Why is it that in urgent matters Of war
economy the government is content to
nibble away at the outer fringes of the
problem? The fuel administration admits
that there will be shortage Of coal this
winter. SO far as the coalless public is
concerned, it doesn't matter whether this
shortage will be induced by failure to
speed up production or by failure on the
part Of the railroads to furnish transpor-
tation from the coal fields. If the pro
spectve supply will not 90 around, the
practical thing to do for the moment Is to
stop the use Of coal for non-essential pur-
poses. And to be really effective this win
ter the policy Of restricting the non-essen-
tial use Of coal should have been put into
force as far back as last October.
What did we have instead? A timid
nibble at the excuses Of White Way ad-
vertising. For many weeks a discussion
ragged over the ACCESSIBILITY Of pairing down
the hours during which the monster street
signs Of Broadway and other urban "Main
Streets" were to he allowed to blaze. After
much hesitation an order was issued cur
failing a little the nightly glare Of these
fuel MASTERS.
a minute saving Of coal was effected, to
the accompaniment of much sounding Of
trumpets. But even the fuel administra-
ton soon realized that mere window
dressing Of this sort would not satisfy a
public which had begun to feel the pinch
Of a fuel famine. What greater mockery
could there be to a man suffering from
lack Of coal in his own home-as many
have already suffered in this city this win
ter-than TO walk the streets and see thou
sands Of signs ablaze, using fuel which
kept no body warm and served in no way
TO produce articles of utility, comfort or
even luxury?
The first anti-white light regulation was
joke. The fuel administration had
slapped the coal MASTERS on one wrist. Its
natural impulse was to get busy and slap
them on the other. An order was therefore
evolved creating two whiteless white
nights per week-Sunday and Thursday
But il there is IN imperious need for
economy in fuel, why economic on a $3.50
per cent basis? Why not insist from the
start on a 100 per cent saving?
The shutting off Of electric street signs
merely suspends the indulgence Of n SUI
perfuous passion for display. No one can
. Il. u =
a material aid to q theatre, restaurant OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
RIue;ays and the Deluge

i weather ovDort Of MISUNDERSTANDING
11rdso, tics hi, renutation in hand to
,rodic+ o mild winter on the strength of
tbo r,o,, Liroiave now winterinr in
Wostcbostar Tbev have been reported in
oil ,bo suburbs nc \ matter of fact. in New
Jersey and on Long Island as well as up
the Hudson and along the Sound. And
their presence in such numbers is a novelty
for present generations.
But why stress such a detail in a year
and epoch when portents hy past hourly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30

and Monastir. What more can we say of
the spirit, the unselfshness Of France?
Can the civilized world, can Britain
and the United States, who are safe to-
day because France stood firm in 1914
and again in 1915, refuse to France that
reward, that payment which she has
earned, that payment which is no more
than the return to her Of those Of her
own flesh and blood, her children, en-
shaved in 1871, as Belgians and Poles,
Italians and, alas, other Frenchmen have
been enslaved since August, 1914?
No. the thing is incredible, unbelievable!
The civilized world, we in America, our
allies in Britain, must stand with France
until France is restored, until the France
Of 1889, which gave Europe liberty, is
reconstructed. and A'sace Lorraine, the
cradle Of so many soldiers and patriots Of
the French Revolution, resumes its place
in the French national family.
No impcrialistic faint, no ignobe or sell
fish ambition, is revealed in the French
longing for Alsace-Lorraine: as well con-
Wet a mother Of crime for longing for a
lost child. kidnapped and borne away long
years ago, but still hers by every claim
that is vested in a mother.
1t is duty, high and ineluctable duty,
for the United States TO stand with France
until her lost provinces are hers again, her
stolen children restored to her. For such
q service France has already paid us ten
fold, and will pay again if necessary. The
beginning Of any real peace discussion
must be a German official statement of
willingness to surrender Alsace-Lorraine.
Until this is made we must fight on, and
we shall fight on; we, whom the French
gave liberty at Yorktown, and the British,
whose imperial structure they saved at the
Marine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30

shop in attracting patrons. The fad OF
street display advertising has been vastly
overdone. But even if there was color
able business reason for continuing TINS
display in the winter months, common
sense and patriotism would certainly coun-
sci discontinuance of it in the public
interest.
The government in this case, as in most
other cases. has underestimate the readi-
ness Of our people to take the war Sc
riously. What the public wants to. see IS
more sacrifice Of non-essentials, not less
sacrifice. Il would stand solidly behind an
every-night extinction OF electric street
signs. Washington alone is fearful and
hesitating in this matter. It still makes
boyle out of the selfish insstence of indl-
viduals that their habits of mind and of
business must not be modified.
The same narrowness Of view has been
shown in Congress in dealing with the
daylight saving act. No objection worth
listening to has been made to this law ex-
cept the one that it means government in
reference with existing time schedules.
1t does not mean even that, in fact. For
under the daylight saving scheme nothing
is changed except the position Of the sun
in the heavens as shown by our clocks Yet
because of inertia, of hesitation to disturb
the lovers Of ancient routine, Congress
neglected last spring to pass a daylight
saving law. 1t will have TO conquer its
hesitations this year, as the fuel admins
tration will soon have to overcome its
pussy-footing with the fuel saving issue.
The public wants coal saved and daylight
saved. And it is perfectly easy to save
both.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30

1t is a big job to get the place ready for a
million men. To get them housed, fed,
nursed, entertained and drilled means crowd
ed days in France. Just TO list the altera-
tons keeps a set of elderly men busy taking
notes. The French are an accurate race, and
they like to document the changes caused
by the American invasion. So they follow
our reconstructors around with notebook,
jottug down the alterations. When they
came to the Jesuit College, converted into a
Detroit Hospital, they listed the statuary,
and one item reads
Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, three
fingers off the Infant Jesus"
To get the army fed: mile beyond the
hospital lies the village of the American
bakers. No need of an inventory here, one
word would have covered the situation be-
fore the bakers fired up-mud, mud Of a
thick paste, axle-deep, heavy as molten lead
Through that Dead Sea the bakers built
road on which white loaves Of bread can
travel cicanly and swiftly. 1t is a road with
a stout stone foundation and dry black Gin
ders on the stone. It leads TO the store
houses and the ovens and the mixing rooms
Along it roll the daily thousands of loaves
to be shot out by train to the camps in every
part Of France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
A Coward, Not a Hero

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: OF course the strutt;ng king Of Ger
many is not the kind of villain 10 make
hero Of, but I've wondered whether oar
American cartoonists were not unintention-
ally helping to make an attractive villas
of this braggart by letting his martial uni-
forms and surrounding pomp and eireun'
stance Of war hide the cheap, vulgar ana
cowardly reality.
IL is part OF the German policy. for rs
effect at home and abroad to Try 20 make
an heroic figure of this degenerate. They
like to see him strut and shake his withered
arm and declare, There is only one master
in Germany, and am he and prattle socu'
the Iron ist' and me and Cott"; but H'
enough TO make a dog laugh when ne says
he won't take any nonsense from the Uni'ss
States" Uncle Sam can attend 10 that
The Prussian appears to be patterning him'
self on Shakespeare's Richard lIl.' smits'.
ing him well in cruelty, treaehery, hypocrisy
and blssphemy. One can imagine him m'
liciously contemplating his withered arm sas
repeating Richards words: "Then since %,
heavens have shaped my body so, let hsI
make crook'd my mind TO answer H. ps
Richard was not physical coward; ne ~
his armies into the fight and bore paw
sears upon his body-badges OF eou'.s.
which his imitator in crime has no'' w.
only scar upon his body being the one '"''
God cursed him with at his birth. ,,-,.
No, you can't make an attractive VIZ
of coward, and the world losthes -
despises the coward who BENEFITS 'n'0's
other mems bravery and sacrifice.
What 4 sorry figure he will cut IN ,.
history and dramal JOHN n""
Waterbury, Conn, Dec. 26, isils