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New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-10-26

Insure fancy prices for butter By
having a clean, attractive package Of
good quality. A neat wrapper more
than pays for itself.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22
What We Did for
the Army Y. NJ. c. 4.

Il The teachers of the Polk COun-
Fly High School here after ten OF
them had taken $4,000 Liberty
Loan Bonds each, amounting to
100000, decided to work q little
in the school for the Y. M. &. A.
army fund, The association lead
er in charge Mr.. Lowery Of Eto-
suah suggested that Benton s
share of the S35, 900, 00O. 90 would
be Sl25. 90, but the local chairman
John c. Prince told him not to
expect less than $500.
The High School teachers and
the pupils gave among themselves
for the fund $4,000, and did no
soliciting outside the school at
tendance. A few Of the commit
tee solicited about half day each,
and raised $1,000 more making
$4,000 raised by Benton for the
Y. NJ. C. A. this time J. Harry
Swan was chairman for this sect
ion, and suggested the way the
work was accomplished here,
The patrons of the Bcnton
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22
Republican Primary Elec-
lion for the Fourth
judicial Circuit

At a meeting OF the Republican
| Executive Committee for the
Fourth judicial circuit held at Ath-
ems September p, 1917, it was or
dered that a Republican primary
election be held on Saturday, De
cenber T, 1917, between the hours
of 9 0 clock ain. and 4 O'Clock p.
M, il all the voting precincts in
each county il said judicial circuit
to nominate & candidate for Judge
and a candidate for attorney gen
eral for said circuit. to be voted
for at the August election, 1918;
that said primary be held under the
Primary Act Of 1901, chapter 80,
except as modified IN this notice;
that the expense of holding said
primary, including compensation
of the officer (same as in general
elections) shall be paid by the
candidates, thaLamount to be es
timated and divided among the
candidates by L. J." Woolsey,
treasurer OF the committee; that
each candidate shall deposit in
cash or certified check his portion
OF such expenses with the treasur-
er by noon, Saturday, November
"a, 1917, in order to. become a
qualified candidate in said primary,
and a candidate failing to SO quail
iy will not be voted for in said
primary; that the committee meet
in the court house at Athens, Sat
urday, November "a, 1917, at
0 clock pm. and il the event only
one candidate for each office shall
have so qualified by noon of that
day, such candidates shall be de-
,lared the regular nominees by the
committee and said primary called
off; that registration certificates
shall be required only in counties
1r voting precincts where registra-
ion applies; that poll tax receipts
are not required under said pri-
nary act; that A i. Love, Chas.
VI. Gamble and l.. T.. kimscy shall
constitute the Primary Election
}oard for Polk county, who shall
rave supervision Of said primary {
IL said county including appoint
nent of officers for the same.
Joe Il. ,ollock, Chm. :
{. 4, Hcrtties, Sec, J
,ep 1,< Com. Fourth .Tud. Cir. !
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22

Wcitzell Nicholson, Fate Lyle,
Wallace LiIlard, Cecil Lillard,
Leonard Barnes, James Moore,
Clifford Moore, HARRISON Brown,
John Nuchols and Clifford Brock
each sent ten ears of corn to the
fairs at Knoxville and Chattanoo-
ga. AS result, Fate Lyle won
first prize on Hickory King at
Chattanooga, IS, and fourth at
Knoxville, -, to say nothing Of
his winnings at home. Aside
from the individual prizes won by
him, twenty dollars was won by
the club, and the ten boys named
above, sending ten ears, each re-
ccivcd two dollars.
OF the twenty boys belonging
to the Polk county club, the fol-
lowing have completed their re-
cords and will later be awarded a
corn club pin: John Carter, Will
lie Cross, Lclmar Wilson, Fate
Lyle, Ernest Martin, Watson
Clifford Moore, James
Moore, WeitsclI Nicholson, Har-
bison Brown, Herschcl Higgins.
After the corn club show, the
eleven boys who had finished !
thcir records, with Messr., K. T. |
Nicholson, l. G. Lyle, i. A.
swan, Higgins, ", A, Cross, and
,. f. Hardin, district agent for
over East Tennessee. dined aith /
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22
General Peace Announces.

TO the voters of Polk county:
take this method of announc-
ing my candidacy for reelection
to the Office Of Attorney General
of this, the Fourth Judicial Cir
cult, subject to the primary to be
held on Saturday, December 8th,
by order Of the Republican Judi
cial Executive Committee, made
on September 22nd.
I submit my candidacy for re-
election in the trust that my record
as Attorney General is such as to
merit the confidence and support
Of the people Of the Circuit.
This Nov. 18th, 1917.
Very. truly,
T. W. Peace.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22

y. II. l - Y LOfS. JeWeAeF
Watches. Clocks. Electrical Goods
Auto Repairing. Storage Supplies
General Repair Work Goodyear
and United Statcs Tires.
TELEPHONE 80. Calls answered day
Opp. Co. Jail. or night.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22

T. r. Hines, the county agent.
During t.nner the prize winners
were anpRunced one at a time in
such a 4 II that each boy would
not besse Z highly excited. After
dinner5%Ue%lks and discussions were
going TIE rounds when someone
brought up the Pig Club work.
All boys finishing one year $
work successfully may enter the
Pig Club, and from that other
things will be taken up !
As the crowd was leaving, some
one suggested that each boy
leave his ten ears of corn for the
county agent. Among many
good exhibits was that of the ten
ears that had won the prize at
Knoxville and Chattanooga.
1t certainly was pleasant to the
Polk county corn club hoys to |
have Mr.. Hardin and the other
men with US during the day, and
we sincerely hope the work has
been 50 conducted that next year
we can have enough boys in the
club to compete favorabIy in nrm-
Der with the club of any county,
DR. Swan is due thanks for
the boys from Old Fort,
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Walter HutChinS, who is work e
ing in Philadelphia, Pa, spent a
few days with hometolk at this
place recently.
Prof. Med. Weams, of Carters-
vile, Ca, is conducting a normal
school of music in the Presbyterian
church here. Prof. Weams is the
composeS of several selections Of
merit, al is we'll versed in the
divine ati. The school is pro-
crossing nicely, having good at
tendance and interest.
Homer Lawson and others Ct
Rayland, Texas, are visiting rela-
tives i'll this section.
As we go to press circuit court
is still in session. Hon. n. Q.
Allen is presiding in the absence
of Judge Brown, who is i'll with
jaundice. Attorney General Peace
is at his post OF duty. Several
cases have been disposed Of From
present indications, court will al
iourn about Saturday.
Prof. Joe Clayton is teaching
in the Prendergast school during |
he temporary discontinuance Of
his school at Gal, Grove, which
.copens Monday.
A largely attended song service
yas held at Rahts Chapel Sunday
ftprupa1
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22
Volume 9

We carry the most Com
plete Line Of General Mer.
chandisc to be found any.
where in this Community
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22
Corn RaiiSerS
Good Exhibit il il

Report of the Polk county corn
club show, held at Benton Thurs
day, Nov. 2l:
TO corn club BOYS making best
records, based on yield, profit,
report and l0-ear exhibit
1st, $50, Fate Lyle, Benton
2nd 500 James Moore "
3rd 400 Clifford "
4th SEQ WeitzeIl Nicholson
5th $50 SeImer Wilson, Old f.
9th 200 Willie Cross, Benton
9TH 150 Watson Gregory "
Class II.
To corn club boys writing best
history of crop in record book
lst $500 w. Nicholson, Benton
2nd 2. so Ernest Martin. Old Fort
3rd 200 Fate Lyle Benton
4th 1,50 Watson Gregory
Class III.
To corn club boy exhibiting the
best 10 ears Neals Paynastcr-
lst $500 Willie Cross Benton
2nd 100 Watson Gregory "
Hickory King
lst S2. 90 Fate Lyle Benton
2nd loo John Carter Ocoee
Any other variety
lst 81. 90 James Moore Benton
Ind Loo Clifford Moore
Class W
70 the corn club boys making
~ 5ss sd aeg
est at club show
st $500 John Carter Ocoee
md 1.50 W. Nicholson Benton
,rd LOO Fate Lyle "
Class Y.
The $3.50 to be given for best
Gear exhibit was by vote Of
he corn club members divided
etWeen
Iarbison Brown, Benton, $1,25
Ierschel Higgins, Old Fort, $l.25
The books from the last two ,
oys were late coming in, no
oubt keeping them 4som having i
n even chance Tor prize money. y
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-22

There II m~e CalarrN in this section
az the country tlan all ether diseases
put together. aad Jor years It was sup
posed to be incurahi.. Doctors prescribed
local remedies and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment, pronounced
it incurable. Catarrh 10 . locat disease.
greatly influenced by constitutional con-
ditons and therefore requires consttu-
tonal treatment. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine, manufactured by + j. Cheney &
So, Toledo, ohio, is a constitutional
remedy, is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
of tho system. Ore FyuDdccJ Dollars re
ward is offered for any case that Halls
Catarrh Medicine fails 10 cu.e. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
L. j. CHENEY 6, CO, Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, Zoe
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

ave cheered President Wilson when he
raised the slogan Peace Without Victory;
cheered him enthusiastically and passionate
ly, believing that he had found the only pos
sible solution of this war madness. How
can we be with him now, when in his note
to Russia, he declares for victory at all costs,
complete victory such as shall enable him
to exact payment for manifest wrongs done
and to alter the basic conditions of European
life so that no people must be forced under
sovereignty under which it does not wish to
live? Here is Utopia with vengeance.
president Wilson must see that this war
is dreadfully hazardous and infinitely too
costly to be worth waging. The one power
that may gain through our vigorous prosecu-
tion of war is Great Britain, and are we
Americans really going to fight so that Great
Britain may keep all German Africa and
reign as a tyrant over Egypt and Ireland?
Sooner or later President Wilson will rea.
lie that it is better to support the Russian
social democracy in its cry for peace without
acquisitions and without indemnities' rather
than let these United States be used as a
cat's-paw by the British oligarchy."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Socialism Abroad

I'm FRANCE the question of war and
i peace has divided the socialist party
- into two camps, the smaller of which
is tpp6sed to war and favors peace with
out annexations or indemnities, and the
larger of which supports the government
in its policy and would make no peace till
Germany acknowledges herself defeated.
The views of the greater camp of Socialists
are very well expressed in an article by
Andre Cheradame, recently published in a
French Socialist journal, LA Victoire":
"The principles of German Socialists COM
pei the Socialists of all the Allied countries
to oppose any termination of the war which
would not result in the destruction of Prus-
sian militarism and in the downfall Of the
Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs. The So
calists in the Allied countries must conform
their activities TO their own principles and
not TO those of the Kaiser, of Kienthalians
and of Zimmerwaldians, who are cooperating
with the Vatican in their efforts to save the
Hapsburgs and to crystalline the formidable
extension of Prussian militarsm, which
would result in the subjugation of universal
democracy"
On the other hand, the views Of the mi
nority Socialists in France, especially in
reference to peace without annexations,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

service has been imposed upon the citizens
of the United States. Relieving this action
to be in excess of the constitutional au-
thority granted you, and in violation Of the
fundamental tenets of democracy, we, the
undersigned citizens of the United States,
respectfully urge the immediate repeal Of
the present conscription law. In justifca-
ton of our position we call attention TO the
following facts:
There was never afforded to the American
people any opportunity of deciding for them
selves whether or not this nation should enter
the European war. And such expressions of
the popular will as have been afforded fail to
substantiate the belief that conscription for
such war would be volunteering of the
nation en- masse.'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Revolt

I o! they have heard the cryptic talk of
IL trees
That keep in their Scared bodies all the
keen
High ecstasy of leaves; their eyes have
- seen
The miracle of these old mutinies.
They have seen April trcmble through a
line
OF shell-thinned poplars, heard their
silver cry
Above the swift death hurting down the
y. sky
Have seen and heard, yet prayed God for
-cE a sign! ,
-s@S
Let them rise up on these red fields Of
,'' strife;
Let them put forth their free souls even
as these
Leaves are put forth by the undaunted
trees
Rise in the white insurgency of Life!
y Leslie Nelson Jennings, in Pearsons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Gains in the Rank and File

/, reaction which additionally sets in after
a Presidential election is said to be lack.
ing in the party to-day.
Mr.. U. Soloman, state secretary of the
Socialist party, when asked about the in
crease, said:
1T exceeds our most sanguine expecta-
tions. The socialist party received at least
twenty times as many applications for
membership as they were in the habit of
receiving in ordinary times. For every
so-called socialist leader deserving the
party there will be at least five hundred
new recruits to take his place"
Albert Pauly, socialist organizer in
Kings County, in statement reveals that
more than one thousand persons have
joined in Kings since April. "The increase
made itself evident Immediately after war
was declared" he writes, and continues:
"The net result of the increase is: We ad-
mitted during April SO, during May SO and
in the first two weeks Of June 299 applca-
tons from less than half the branches. A
conservative estimate reveals total of about
800 new members for the month of June, or
1000 or more in the three months of April
to June. inclusive. The increase is fairly well
distributed over the county.
at is safe to say that the membership in
the county will be more than doubled before
the end Of the year"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

cases ttese unions are allowing their en-
blowers a slight dividend as a matter OF
temporary courtesy, but in practically no
cases are the employers in a position to de-
mand it.
"The Council Of Workmens and Soldiers
Deputies is in absolute control-so far as
there is a control-of Russian affairs And
even they are afraid to exercise extreme
power, because they are so directly followed
up and coerced by the groups Of individual
workmen and soldiers whose servants they
are. For once in the world, as Steffens says,
the mob rules And it rules we'll. Peace
and pleasure and quiet usefulness prevail in
Russia"
"The CALL" which insists in printing
bitter anti-Kaiser editorials, thus INDUCES
its revolutionary dream:
"Wilhelm may 'abdicate,' but there will be
no Successor The king is dead! Long live
the revolutionary masses
"Bethmann is out. Michaelis is in for
while. The Kaiser will try to hold out for
a while. The Hohenzollerns will try to keep
their grip. Capitalism will try to hold on.
But the end has come. Revolutionary Russia,
together with revolutionary Germany, will
dominate the world, and will end the world
reign of capitalism forever.
$50, at least, the present events lead US to
think. The first brcak-and all is over. And
it was not American participation in the war
that did it, but the German people. II was not
outside military power, but German social
ISM 1t is not a revolt. 1t is not a revolu-
ton. 1t is the revolution, and, at last, man
kind will be free"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Socialism in Verse

Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
Are in prison tonight,
But they have made themselves elemental
forces,
Like the water that climbs down the rocks
Like the wind in the leaves:
Like the gentle night that holds us:
They are working on our destinies:
They are forging the love of the nations
Tonight they lie in prison.
Josephine Bell, in The Masses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

"The American Socialist" organ of the
marty here, complains because Of its sup
preston for an interval by the military
censor:
ave have expended every effort to get out
q censor-proot edition, but failed, and the
explanation is easy. When the censorship
makes itself the judge of the spirit and
tone of any printed article, and assumes
power to decide on the passing or rejection
of copy from that criterion, there is, evil
IDENTIFY, no such thing as 'censor-proof mat
ter, from the viewpoint of the publishers.
"The censor, evidently, has no response
bility to anybody. There is but one recourse
the old free press fight, which in this case
must be carried on at Washington in the ma
tonal Legislature"
"The Masses" prints this little dia-
logue which, it says, took place in a New
York department store:
Customer--How much do you make? .
Salesgirl-Ten a week. That is, usually.
But don'o get that much now for WHITE.
Customer-Why not?
Salesgirl-Wel, you see, we have to buy
Liberty bonds. They take dollar week
out of our salaries for that
Customer-You have to buy them?
Salesgirl-That or lose our jobs. What
can we do? They don't give US any choice.
And it just means that get dollars worth
Of food less every week. But what can you do?
At this moment in the dialogue a band in
the street started playing "The Star-Spangled
Banner" and the rest of the girls speech was
drowned out in the mighty cheers of patriotic
citizens outside.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

Creel, who says: 81 am as firmly the friend
Of free press as any man, and would fight
for free press. But publications which
are trying to break down the government
are clearly reasonable, and | believe IN
enforcing the law against them. re
piled to Mrs. Lane, saying | could not for
one moment undertake to defend publ
cation that was violating the law, and
that she must not expect to receive any
help from me in contesting the action OF
the Postoffice Department"
THE radical press has received an
Il extraordinary stimulus since the war,
more particularly since the entrance
of the United States into the con-
fict. When the press in general con-
formed and bent itself with a single pur-
pose to the furthering of the war, there
was more left unsaid than usual in the
way of destructive criticism. This was
the signal for the rise of a hundred half
muffled. but still more or less rambunc-
tious. periodicals which had lived moribund
lives or which did not before even exist.
The shrewd man often takes occasion to
advise himself as to the nature Of these
morbid manifestations in the radical press.
In addition, there is the natural curiosity
to know what the man who probably vio-
lently disagrees with one really has to
say. "The Call" "The Masses" and
"Pearson's" are the aristocrats of the rad
ical press. The fortunes of war have given
them fresh funds and fresh subscribers.
Many persons who were only mildly So
cialistic three years ago have now fallen
in with these strange companions of de-
mocracy.
Observe what some Of these have to say
for themselves in prose, in verse and in
picture.
Frank Harris, that strange personality
who disturbs now London and now New
York with his radicalism, dictates "Peace"
from "Pearson's" in these phrases:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Doddering Mr.. Dodd

MR.. DODD communes with God,
I'VE Humbly nod;
He knows all by inspiration
Why this nation
Fights along with the Mikado
With bravado
For the freedom of all others
Who are brothers;
For the Belgians we pull triggers,
But the niggers
In the suburbs of st. Louis
Blooey! Blooey!
And the millionaires of oil
Let children boil;
To make profits out in Ludlow
They have blood flow,
Kill the mothers with their babies
As if rabies
Flowed from out the shrunken breasts;
But human pests
Are the hungered and the starving
They need carving;
II they dwell within this nation
Defamation
Is but justice. For the German
Is the vermin;
He is not Christian Human,
Like our gunman,
Whom the Standard Oil lets play on
In our Bayonne.
Part Of poem in The Call.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22

"%HE exclusion from the mails within
the last few weeks of a dozen or
~ more socialist and pacifist publca-
tons "as obnoxious to Section of the
espionage act" has brought home the fact
that however safe one may be in express
ing internationalistic or pacific views in
time of peace, it is legitimately and pa
triotically within the province of the gov
eminent to suppress them as treason
able" in time of war.
1t is rumored that Socialists in New
York City are arranging a mass meeting
of protest. and delegation of Socialists
from New York and Chicago, headed by
Morris Hillquit, conferred with officials of
the Department of Justice in Washington
last Monday. They are now seeking to
determine what publications shall be per-
mitted to continue and the class of articles
which will.not be deemed objectionable.
Alta protest meeting held recently under
the auspices of the Civil Liberties Com
mittee of the Union Against Militarism,
Max Eastman, editor of "The Masses"
expressed surprise at the imperial tai
ent" shown by officials at Washington,
and said further: "You can't even collect
your thoughts without being arrested for
unlawful assemblage." The August issue
of "The Masses" is barred from the mails
until such time as Postmaster Patten can
determine whether its publication OF
matter tending to obstruct recruiting has
been deliberate"
There has been considerable controversy
over the suppression of -Four Lights,
published by the Woman's Peace Party,
another Unreasonable" publication, the cur
rent issue of which has been barred from
the mails. Mrs Margaret Lane, manag-
ing editor of the magazine, has been
quoted as saying she had seen George
creel. chairman of the Committee on Pub
4 lie Information, in Washington, and had
enlisted his support.
This, however, is fatty denied by Mr..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
Ubtou Smclairs Statement Upon Resigning from
the Socialist Party

ssT SAY Germany allowed this BY her ruling
caste win from their
pcnt hold upon Germany Austria Bulgaria and Turkey
will have drop other activity and
thirty to preparing for last ditch de-
fenceof the democratic principle.
be fought until there has been thorough
and complete of Germany and Austria
and agitation which does not include this de-
mand is realizes proGerman agitation Inc
argument that right under what institution the Ger
man people shall 10 without force.
scruple the French and
They did this because they believed
that republic formidable military standpoint and
that the world shall do the thing Tor the
Germans, the purpose"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-22
A Tribute

is'T> NINA GOLDMAN and Alexander
II Berkman
Are in prison,
Although the night is tremblngly beau
r-2~ tiful
ssAnd the sound Of water climbs down the
esa5 rocks
Sa7nd the breath of the night air moves
through mutitudes and multitudes Of
stso leaves
.sphat love to waste themselves for the sake
~. Of the summer.