The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-05-24

greatest reverence and honor wal
shown by an immense crowd which
gathered here Sunday for the worl
of the American Red Cross in Obior
County.
The occasion had been arranged
by DR.. w. M. Turner and his asso
ciate committeeman so effectively
that everything planned was com
plete and unqualified success.
Governor Rye arrived here from
Memphis, coming over the M. & 0
r. r., and Company X, National
Guard, home rifles, marched to the
train and stood guard for the Gov
ernor and his friends to pass. May
or Pittman and the committee, DR.
Turner, Judge Swiggart, F. ]. Smith
H. o. Head, Jr., and G. w. Miles
were on hand to receive the Gov
ernor. who seemed in the finest
health and humor. The exercises
took place after dinner, with speak
ing at the park, beginning at
O'Clock. Gen. T. o. Morris presided
and the home guard, with Capt. An
drews in command, occupied the
stage. DIR. C. w. Miles was intro
duced and addressed the audience
which had by that time fairly filled
the park. He spoke of the present
as an epoch in the history of the
world when the great question OF
imperialism and democracy must be
settled. Either we must submit to
the hand of iron rule or conquer
Prussian militarism and Turkish
depotism. The bloody hand of the
tyrant must be destroyed, and that
it will be destroyed there is no
doubt, but how much will it cost us
is the problem. Our soldiers stand
ready to defend us and will we give
them the means with which to main
tain this defense? DR.. Miles made a
stirring appeal to the honor and
patriotism Of those who were in the
sound of his voice and he was liber-
ally cheered.
General Morris told the story OF the
man who had gone rabbit hunting.
He was a man of means and infiu-
ence in his country, and on this oc-
casion he ran rabbit into hollow
log. He tried to smoke the rabbit
out and to get him ut by other
means but failed. So he took the
alternative and crawled up the log to
pull him out. The rabbit was elusive
and he failed again. SO he tried to
back out and quit the game, but
found that he was hung. Time
passed, darkness came and then he
began to review his life. What had
he done for mankind? How did he
respond for the appeals for Red Cross
funds? All this and more found him
hopeless delinquent. Finally he
discovered that he was shrinking in
size and before he knew it he was
so small that he dropped out of the
log and crawled into knot hole.
Editor J. III. Brice was introduced
as the far-famed newspaper man of
this part of the country and he
dwelt on the work of the Red Cross
and the noble women.
DR.. Turner, commander in chief,
and his aids had by this time begun
to assemble the units of the parade
line. This was formed on First
street, north of the NJ, c. & st. L..
Ry. tracks. About $3.50 o'clock the
line began to move southwark, head
ed by the mounted police, Chief Josh
Adams and Officers Noah and Roper.
Then came Prof. Fletcher Tate and
his band, playing the military
marches.
Next was DR.. Turner's handsome
ly decorated car, in which were seat
ed Governor Rye, Gen. T. o. Morris,
Hons. F. j. Smith, G. W. Miles, Jr.,
Mrs. w. H. Swiggart and Miss Annie
Little.
The line moved to the swing Of
music, flying colors, and in
harmony with the spirit of the oc-
casion.
Every district in the county was
with car in the parade,
and on each of these cars was
banner cover the top by Monday
night"
Following these cars a body of
Red Cross ladies came next, forming
a huge Red Cross with their caps,
altogether 1872 of the most
beautiful women of the county in
white nurse uniforms. This beauti-
full Red Cross was under the leader
ship of DR.. H. w. Qualls and Miss