Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1918-10-31
THREE SMITH FOUNTAINS At
TENDED NASHVILLE MEETING

Edgar Sutton, member of the mer-
camille firm of Copas & Sutton at
Difficult, was in Carthage few days
ago returning from Nashville where
he attended the Middle Tennessee
meeting of the United War Work
Campaign. Smith county has a num-
Der of young men who have given
their time freely in the war activities
since our country entered this strug-
gle, but there are none who have
displayed their loyalty in this respect
so much as has Mr.. Sutton. Ed is
postmaster at Difficult and, in this
position, he has been especially ac-
tive in the sale of War Saving Stamps
and has given great portion of his
time to the government in this work.
He also serves as chairman, OF an as
sistant, in the Y. M. C. A, Red Cross,
Liberty Loan, Belgian Relief, and all
other campaigns connected with the
war activities, and serves as a MEM
Der of the Legal Advisory Board to
assist. registrants with their ques-
tionnaires in his district. 1t is such
men as Ed Sutton who furnish the
food and raiment and comfort for our
boys who are undergoing the fierce
hardships at the battle front; and it
is such men as he who lends the real
helping hand to save his country.
When the war is over and our boys
come back home weary, wounded and
manned, there will be one young man
who can look those brave soldiers in
the eye and say, II stood by you,
boys" and that young man will be
Ed Sutton.
There were only two Smith counti-
ans who accompanied 7. B. Read,
County Chairman Of the War
Work Campaign, to Nashville to at
tend this meeting, and the other one
was j. w. Nixon, cashier of the Bank
of Hickman. In this connection, it
is but just to say that Jesse Nixon is
another one of Smith county's splen-
did young men on whom his people
and his government can always de-
pend to do more than his part. Since
the war began, Mr.. Nixon has freely
and periodically given a large por-
ton of his time to the various war ac-
Invites. He has rendered great as
sistance in the Liberty Loan and all
other campaigns and, when those
brave boys return from the battle
front, Jesse Nixon will not have to
shrink from their sight in shame, but
he can meet them face to face and
glory in their return with the con-
seriousness that he has done his full
duty in standing by them in the great
struggle for world freedom and lib
erty.
After all, the above characteristics
are the proper ingredients necessary
to make a real man, and il there is
citizen in Smith county who has
heretofore failed to do his duty in re-
gard to the loyalty of his country,
let him or her answer the call of their
country and enter into some of the
activities today, and henceforth do
his or her full part. 1t will not be
long until those soldiers will be COM
ing back in large numbers and we fear
that some of our people who have
been permitted to remain at home in
ease and comfort will not be able to
meet them OH their return with a clear
conscience. There is only way To
face situation of this kind, and that
is by doing your full duty. Ii you
are called OIL TO assist those boys
over yonder. you know what you can
do, then do it. And when they re-
turn, you will be in position to wei
come them.