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The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03

NONE OF US BUSTED YET.

When hear some folks complainin'
Bout tn burdens they must bear
Just to keep our soldiers fghtin'
In tn trenches "over there"
Then want to show a picture,
One / saw tn other day,
Of little Belgian young'un
An her granny, old an gray.
In each face wuz fears an terror,
Born Of Teuton greed an lust,
An pledged my all to Freedom,
If to give my all ] must.
Then new song woke within me,
A refrain I can't forget:
"Well all 60 broke if we hat t.
But there's none Of us busted YETI
None of us is facin' hunger,
None need fear to seek his bed
Lest demon in a Gotha
Hurl bomb from overhead.
Here we 60 along a-singin',
Only now an then we sigh,
An we never see a soldier
'Cept our own a-marchin' by
Folks we'd ought to be so grateful
To each fghtin' Yankee boy
That tn sacrifice of givin'
Should be measured as JOY.
So let's do our part-full-hearted!-
Smile an say without regret,
Wen all 90 broke if we hat IT,
But there's none of us busted yetP'
William Herschell, in the Indian
apolis News.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03
FARMERS RALLY.

The Farmers Union will have its
annual rally at HarrIson's church,
south Of the river, on Saturday, Au-
gust 10, 1918, beginning at 10
o'clock a. m. There will be prom
inent speakers from the state or
ganizatio nand also some good music.
Dinner win be served on the
ground. All locals are cordially in
vited and the public in general. A
nice time is expected. Only one
stand for ice cream, ETC., will be al
lowed, the proceeds of the same to
go to defray expenses, balance to
the Red Cross.
R. 7. W00LsEY, Sec.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03
Figures On Race
In First District
Sells denomination by Republicans
Of the First Congressional Dis-
trict Is Assured.

Sells majority in the First dis
trict on incomplete returns, are as
follows: Johnson, 818; Washington,
597; Sullivan, $50; Unicoi, 500
Cooke, $50; Sewer, 200; Carter, 400.
Harmon carried Greene county by
60 majority and Hancock by at least
100. No returns are available on
Hawkins, Claiborne and Granger.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03
Protracted Meeting
Begins Next Monday

Rev. l. B. Leonard win begin a
series Of meetings at Pisgah church
next Monday night, August 9Th. The
public is cordially invited to attend
these meetings.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03
All Kinds Of Blanks
Now On Hands

This office has all kinds Of blanks,
for use Of merchants, on hands and
can send them by mail upon request.
Sugar blanks, -four blanks, egg
blanks for Gambling and also for
customer. The sugar blanks are soc
per hundred. The other blanks are
only 25c per hundred.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03

George Ehret, the New York brewer whose property
recently taken by the government because Of
his residence in Germany since United States entered
the war, is now reported to be in Denmark He is re-
turning to America to seek the return Of his estate which
the government estimates is valued at $4OOOO,OOO.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03

Berlin says that the German army has fallen back
"after fulfilling It's task" and has done so without the
knowledgerof the allies. There once was a little dog
which, when it was kicked out Of the house, would
down the road barking though IT had intended running
out to bark at something. But really, the fellow who
kicked him out knew all about it.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03

Trench warfare is interfering with picturesqueness.
General Pehng has decided against the cowboy hat for
less caps The reason is that the hat brm interferes
with sighting through the periscOpes. Well, we hope
the boys will their hats and them through
Berlin and then hOme
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03

President Wilson has sent to the president Of Switzer-
land message OE greetings the occasion Of the Swiss
national holiday and to the president Of Honduras mes
expressing the qualification Of the people Of the
United States that Honduras has joined the war against
Germany Ito fight for the freedom of mankind"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03
TO EGG PACKERS
AND SHIPPERS

You are now compelled to attach
a card to every case Of eggs you pack
or ship, showing that same has been
candled. You must have printed
cards for this purpose. We have these
cards and can send them to you upon
receipt Of the price-5Oc per hundred.
If you want larger quantities, we can
make you a better price.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03

grouehy editor resents the charge that he diskes
women and says that it is only foolish bold and use
ess women that he diskes He processes that he likes
'ssnsble modest and useful women But the trouble
that in his judgment "there Amt no such animal"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03

AMassachusetts woman suggests that way to con-
clothing. And maybe she is right.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03

Any sOneOusreaection upon the character, standing
rspuaticn u any person, firm corporation which may
appear in the columns Of this paper will be gady cor
rectsd IL brought to the assertion Of the editor.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03

woman who has boys nearly always believes that
he boys living next door are particularly tough
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-03
subssripAion Rates,

subscrpAicn Rates.
Daiy SUSCEPTIBILITY carrier 15c week; 4Oca month
b mail outside Of GreeneyiIIe, zoe month"; 75c for
months; $3.50 for s months; $500 for the year.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Need Definite Ideals

1--WE cannot afford any longer to con-
tinue our present industrial and social
system or rather no system, of every
manfor-himself and devil-take-th the
hindmost.
eve cannot any longer afford to
cover our inaction by Fourth of July
oratory in praise of ourselves. Least
OF all can we afford to accept sham
remedies which would merely make our
condition worse instead of better.
"What is needed is to fix definite
ideals and then try to realize them
by deeds; to cndeavor practically and
cautiously but resolutcly by the actual
service test, by actual experiment, to
tina out just how to translate these
ideals into working actualities and
therefore to understand the necessity
Of refusing to accept glittering half
truths and of painfully cndeavorAg to
reduce real truths to action
That great citizen of Maine, the
late Tom Reed, used to be fond of
saying that nothing was easier to
formulate, nothing more attractive to
shallow thinking persons, and nothing
more mischievous when reduced to
action, than half truth; whereas a
whole truth is always one Of the most
dlllcult things to state and one of the
most difficult things actually to reduce
to action, while nevertheless it is in
dlspensable that it should be so re-
duced.
"lt is our business as a nation scri-
ously to face our industrial conditions.
TO realize that we cannot without follv
permit thcm to go on unchanged, and
yeC that we are worse than fools if
VIC permit them to be changed for
evll. Therefore, we must shun equally
the bourbon reactonaries who invite
disaster by refusing to face and
grapple with the needs of the hour.
and the sinister demagogues and loose
minded Missionaries who preach a red
FOLLY that would bring us to even worse
disaster.
'lt will not help us in the least TO
have avoided Scylla if we land on
Charybdis. Unless we sail equally far
from both we shall sooner or later be
wrecked.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Speed Up Production

"The immediate need while the war
lasts, and while it is necessary in every
way to speed up production, is for the
government so TO act as regards every
industry connected with the war as to
secure the necessary reward for the
capitalists and yet to stop all excessive
and improper protiteering, so as to
secure an ample reward for the wage
worker, and also to insist that for the
full wage a full days work be DONE
"In the past too often capitalists in
the name Of efficiency have speeded up
the work of the laborers to the top
notch and themselves absorbed almost
all the profits. Naturally this has pro-
duced revolt in which the workman
has sought to protect himself against
exploitation by limiting production and
by reducing the work Of all to the
level of the work OF the least efficient
we cannot accept such attitude by
either side as proper.
we have a right to insist upon the
utmost efficiency. But due proportion
OF the reward for the efficiency must go
TO the wage worker, and he must have
some representation in the business
which will satisfy honest inquiry on
his part that justice is being done.
Here | do not have to ask that we pro-
ceed merely on theory. At the moment
the Indiana State Council of Defence,
under the presidency of Mr.. Hays, for
example, illustrates precisely what |
mean. The heads of labor organiza-
tlons work on that board with repre-
sentatives of the government and with
representatives of capital
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Russio's Sad Example

The great Russian commonwealth
offers a iamentablc example of the
effect of following the opposite course
and of vibrating between the TYRANNY
OF an autocracy and the tyranny of a
mob.
THE autocracy Of the RomnnofTs
united extreme incapacty with com
plete despotsm. 1t could not perma-
ncntly control the people, and it kent
them utterly unfit to control them
selves. 1t was overthrown. After
seothing tumult the Bolsheviki came
to the fore. We can all sympathize
with the we'll meaning, ignorant men
whose past pitifuly forbade their
acting with wisdom in the present and
who were therefore rcady-made follow
ers OF the Bolshevist leaders. But our
sympathy must not blind us to the fact
that these leaders led them into the
abyss.
"rhc Bolsheviki have no more to
teach America than the Romanofrs
themselves. The Romanoffs announced
that they stood for order and in the
long run they proved the most fatal
enemies Of order. The Bolsheviki an
nounccd that they stood for liberty.
and during the last six months they
have been, with the exception of the
autocracy Of the llohcnzoilerns. the
most dangerous of all the enemies of
liberty.
"lp international matters they proved
false to all lbcrty~loving nations, and
they betrayed their own country, and
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
to carry out the purpose

designed to carry out the purpose
above expressed.
Business cannot be permanently
successful nor can the commonwealth
itself permanently stand on safe
basis in a political democracy like ours
make the working man in some real
sense partner in the business in
which he works; that is, to make this
an industrial as we'll as political de-
mocracy. The effort to level down in
stead of levelling up represents that
'odious envy Of success which is but
another manifestation of the same evil
spirit which in certain very successful
men shows itself as an odious Rrco-
gance toward the less successful.
The arrogance and the envy are
merely different sides of the same evil
shield. In striving to secure square
deal for the workingman, to secure
for him an increase in his share of the
profits of, and gradually share along
certain lines in the control of, the
business, we must keep steadily in
mind these truths or we shall cause
more harm than we remedy.
"The government at Washington has
wholly failed to do its duty in connec-
ton with labor and it is to this failure
that large part of the calamtous
breakdown in the shipping programme
is due. To say that we are behind in
the ship programme is to describe dis
aster in the terms of an accident. 1t is
now apparent that the promise made a
year ago as to the shipbuilding pro-
gramme will not be more than third
fulfilled, and this will immeasurably
cramp our effort abroad, and for the
last few months trouble has primarily
lain with the labor situation, and this
in turn has been largely, and probably
mainly, due to the governments hap
hazard lack OF a settled and we'll
thought-out plan. The government
failed efficiently to regulate prohteer-
ing by our own capitalists, or to dis
capitalists who did we'll and those who
did i'll.
"a situation which is, of course,
merely aggravated by any abandon
ment of the tariff or other action in
the interest Of rroftcering by foreign
capitalists and manufacturers who can
use the underpail labor Of overseas
against our own industrial workers.
"This invited labor troubles; and the
government then feared to deal eff
cicntly with the evil conditions which
it's own previous inefticiency had in
vited England, on the contrary, by
dealing fairly and fearlessly with both
sides, has avoided nine-tenths of the
labor troubles we have had and has
been able to accumulate incredible
quantities of war material. Our gov
ernment has let both capitalists and
labor unions use the war merely as a
means to gain advantage in the struggle
with each other. Such an attitude, on
either side in this stupendous struggle
for human rights and human safety is
treachery to this country and to the
whole human race.
Fundamentally it is due to failure
in duty by the government; and an
aroused public opinion must compel
the government to do its duty, or else
we shall find that America has entered
the war too late, and has proved un-
equal to her task.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Means Food Shortage

"This war means shortage of food
everywhere, and it is worse than folly,
both for our own sakes and for the
salSes of our allies, if we fail in every
way to stimulate farm production (and
all other production necessary for Win
ning>th war as welD at this time. The
farmers Of this country, the men who
have for years earned their livelihood
by tilling the soil, and who are not
merely enthusiastic amateurs in the
matter, are those to whom we must
look for the immense bulk of produc-
tion from the soil. Everything should
be done to aid them.
"1lost certainly no obstacle should
be put in their way by the government,
and the government should not permit
any other person to put obstacles in
their way.
"The questions of business and labor
cannot be considered wholly apart
from one another. Unless business is
prosperous it is out of the question
that the country can prosper, and,
therefore, out OF the question that la
it is no less true that the prosperity
portion to business men at the expense
Of those whom they serve and those
who work for them. We have to
avoid equally the foolish creature who
fails to see that unless business pros
pers there cannot be general prosper
lty, and the equally foolish creature
who fails to see that it is our duty
collectively to take such steps as are
necessary in order that the prosperity
may be passed around with reasonable
equity.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Benefit Should Be Mutual

when he speeds up his work the
employer must not be permitted yo
usurp the benefit But the working.
man himself must do his full iob ss
a coal miner, instead of working eight
hours day at high wsges. WORKS
four hours and loafs four; if man
in an industrial plant works only l,,
three days and idles three because
ne can get as much money for thrse
days as he formerly could for six:
If a riveter in shipy.rd drives hi, h
half the number of rivsts he former.
ly did - why. all alike are proy,nv
false to themselves, to their felldw
workmen and to the country.
''ln such ease their offence il differ.
ent IN kind from but in degree nrs.
cisely as bad as The offence of the
profiteering capitalists, and thew are
Just as unworthy citizens as he is.'
THE law of successful democracy
must be the law of service and of rn.
ward measurably proportionate to tie
service rendered.; service from the
great and service from the small. ser
vice III peace and service in war; Let
US employ our collective strength
through the government so far as 81
is humanely possible to secure Justice
to each man.
Let us also demand from each man
service, not as a favor but as a right.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Business Must Haue Room,

Our aim must be to help business
not to hamper business. The Sherman
law at first did good, for it stopped the
uncontrolled riot of big business
men who wished to be a law unto
themselves and to absorb all business
and it definitely established the su-
premacy of the national government
over them But for the last ten years
1t has done serious mischief, far more
mischief than it has done good. 1t is
foolish to object to large scale busi-
ness. The telegraph and telephone,
steam and electricity have rendered
large scale business an absolut, neces-
slty If this country is to be kept
abreast of the progressive countries of
the world.
And in international relations it is
only large scale business that can Sc
cure for America its proper share of
world business. In internal relations
on The whole, there should be less diff
Guilty IN securing high wage and
proper treatment for labor from large
scale business than from other kinds
OF business, for the simple reason that
1T is prosperous business which has
the prosperity to share with its en-
Vious truth. But in practice there are
plenty Of demagogues and plenty of
tlmid or seeking politicians who
forget 1T. In business, as in farming
and IN the labor world, our aim should
oe 10 secure cooperation and control.
cooperation among business men. sub
Ject to control by the government.
We should accept he fact that big
BUSINESS deserves fair treatment and
shouId not be penalized, but that it
smould not OF, be left unregulated, uncon-
trol,ed. The nation must be the master
or the corporation; not in the least to
destroy the corporation.
On the contrary, to help il and To
see that an ample reward comes to
!ho%c who invest in it and who manage
it' but to see also that no injustice is
oohe competitors, that the public is
served. and that the labor men tho
Workingmen, are treated as in cfrnct
partners who must have their fnlI
snare OF tife prosperity.
IN lhis war no profteering should
oe allowed. 1t should not be STONED
nowever' rsI' by hampering production
production should be encouraged in
every way. But the excess profits
should be taxed on heavily increas
ing scale (Which, incidentally. canro.
be done to n fully satisfactory derroe
so long as production is kept down bv
the KIND of price liking that has been
attempted). All corporations doing nm
interstate or foreign business. which
means all big corporations, should. hv
system of license or of incorporation
come under national control. beinr
made subject to some national bosrd
ut Washington and required to comnlv
with the regulations established bv this
administrative board in compiiancc
with Congressional action; and so lone
Ns the corporations thus comply thnv
should be left free from The operations
Of the Sherman law.
'lhc law and regulations should be
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29

with the rest of the world it is passing
through one Of those tremendous crises
which lie centuries apart in world his
tory. Under such conditions the ques-
tion of partisanship sinks into utter in
significance compared with the great
question Of patriotism, compared with
tho duty Of all of US to act with stern
and whole-hearted loyalty to this
mighty republic. I come before you
Republicans Of Maine to speak only as
an American to his fellow Americans,
as patriot speaking to patriots. l
make my appeal only in the interest Of
patriotism.
"In other words, | make precisely
such an appeal as / should have made
here in Maine fifty-fve years ago, in the
days of the Civil War. We stand for
the nation now as Lincoln stood for
the nation then. We stand against
Germany now as he stood against slav
cry then. In those days the men who
demanded peace or kept demanding
conferences to talk about peace were
the foes of the Union and of liberty
To-day they are the foes of liberty and
civilization
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29

the last two generations that each is
strengthened by unity with his fellows.
There must be no improper discrimina-
tion against any man because OF his
choice to work by himself. There will
always be plenty of positions in which
purely individualistic work is best.
But more and more we shall find that
normally men can do best by working
in combination with one another.
"This especially applies to the
farmer 1t is slow process to learn.
Much has been done among the farmers
in certain parts of Europe along the
line of peration-cooperati IN
marketing their products; cooperation
even in purchasing what they need, and
, cooperation in more than one matter OF
home management.
"The state should encourage such CO.
operation, and where necessary eau
tiously supplement it by governmen ental
action. Standing as a separate unit the
farmer cannot completely hold his own
and get his full and proper reward for
his work, in the face of great business
concerns. But cooperative organiza-
tions of farmers, if wisely handled and
if they are willing to accept and TO pay
for the proper leadership, can hold
their own with any of the great busi-
ness concerns with which they have to
deal, can eliminate such middlemen as
are unnecessary and can use the SER
vices Of those middlemcr who fill a
great and useful function IN such man.
ner as to be of benefit to both and of
benefit to the public at large.
Every such powerful organization Of
farmers, like every other organization
of our citizens, must, while safeguard
ing their own interest, never forget
hat It,t, %o, Il
and unselfsh loyalty by the whole
commonwealth.
The one union to which all Cf us be-
long, and to which our parame unit al
legiance is owing, is that union which
is known as the American republic.
one great at acs THAT AreR nohng ua must 'e be
allowed to interfere with ample pro-
duction. There must be no limita ton
Of production. This means that there
must be no attempt by the government
at price fixing which shall result to
the detriment of the farmer. Any cx-
pertinent in price fixing, and especially
in maximum price fixing, should be en-
tered into only most cautiously, and
only when there has been such thor
ough canvass of the situation as to en-
able US to guarantee that good and not
harm will result. The price fixing by
the government during the past year
has worked nothing but mischief. 1t
has slowed up production; it has ag-
gravated existing inequalities by MAX
ing some prices too high and some too
low.
"In the winter that has just closed we
have seen great suffering, especially
among the poor, on account of a coal
famine which was in part caused by
very injudicous and improper price
fixing. A year ago our government
should have undertaken to put pre-
MUM upon the greatest possible pro-
duction by the farmer.
at failed to do SO, and some of it's
actions positively tended to reduce
production. Such limitation OF pro-
luction is an invitation TO calamity.