The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-28
QUOTA OF SEVENTY
ONE SENT To CAMP
Thinning Out the Ranks of Young
Men of Military Age.

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One of the largest crowds gather
ing in Union City to see the troops
of selectmen going to camp was here
Tuesday to bid the boys goodbye.
There were seventy-one altogether.
The colored minstrel band, here for
an evenings performance. furnished
music for the occasion, and the boys,
led by Captain Will Morris Hardy,
marched thru the streets of the city
as the crowds cheered. They as
sembled in the park and Attorney
Morris Miles, representing the May
or on behalf of the city, spoke to the
young men.
Mr.. Miles referred to the fact that
Germany had always meddled with
American affairs. King George, who
stirred Americans to revolution, was
German prince. Lord Chatham
and Edmund Burke were opposed to
edicts of the Prince, but they were
overruled. The English people them
selves were in sympathy with the
colonists, and hence it was that King
George sent his Hessians-his hire
lings-to America.
1t was the German Admiral, who
undertook to create disloyalty among
the natives of Manila during the
Spanish American war and violated
the rules of naval warfare, and 1t
was Admiral Dewey who silenced
his disturbance. Germany has been
envious of American progress. 1t
was during the Spanish-American
war that Germany shipped arms and
ammunition to Spain, but it was un-
fair, she says, for the United States
to ship the munitions of war to Eng
land and to France. So the Germans
have proceeded to interfere, and
when the Lusitania was sent to the
bottom with its American passengers
Germany thus expressed her vicious
contempt of America. 1t was enough
to set the nation at war, but peace
loving people are slow to wrath.
Mr.. Miles also referred to the
gallant Frenchman, Lafayette, who
came to us in the Revolution and
made his name immortal in America.
We are thus linked with the for
tunes of France and England in the
ties of brotherhood. We are of the
same kith and kin, and by the eter-
nal we will show the Teuton his
place in the world.
In the name of the city Mr.. Miles
bid the men Godspeed, pledging our
good offices to them across the sea.
When they come home, the speaker
said, they will be able to tell who
the Stacker is. They will come home
to take up the government of civil
affairs as they have protected that
government against foreign foe.
They will be band of patriots pro-
claiming liberty to the world.
Attorney Miles introduced DR.. j.
B. Adkerson, the orator of the occa-
sion, who made one of the most
beautiful and impressive addresses.
DR.. Adkerson is much of an orator
and his message received the most
profound attention. He stated at
the outset that the presence of the
young men before him filled him
with mute admiration and it was
difficult to find his voice.
These brave boys, reared, educated
and grown to manhood in Obion
County are the flower of the race.
They are the men who will take
their places in the world after the
war is over as leaders of men. 1t is
to them we owe our loyalty, our
gratitude and everything we hold
dear. Dr. Adkerson held up the flag
as their guide, bidding them to pro-
tect it's honor and return with its
folds untarnished, victorious in arms
and the heroes of American liberty.
List of boys who entrained for
Camp Gordon, Chamlee, Ca, on the
25th of June, 1918, from the Local
Board for Obion County, Union City,
Tenn:
Paul Henry Leeper, transferred
from Ell Centre, CAL; Ernest Henry
Herbert Lee Anderson,
Henry Hassell Allen, Tillman Baker,
Talmage Byrd, Claud Henry Byrd,
Allen A. Baggett, Leslie Leonadus
Boone, VIM. Erwin Barnes, George
r. Burrus, Fred Lee Bowers, Clar-
ence Edward Buchanan, Albert
Brown, Burra Ethridge Brown, VIM
Alonzo Bryant, Jim Brockwell, Gill
bert Gibbs Carman, Thomas Foun-
tain Craver, Fred Crawford, James
Noel Caldwell, George Houston
Mike Chamberlain, Cal
vim Guy Crittendon, Vernon Lee
Craig, James Henry Caldwell, Chas.
Steve Cochran, Elgyan Elias Calls,