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The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

Judge ]. d. Brown, the new deputy
revenue collector, but better known
as United States Marshal Brown, is
moving his family to Greeneville to-
day. They will occupy the property
Of Supt. Pierce ON North Main street.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

See Troy at Vann Bros big store,
Waddell & Bird building, Depot St.
They have the largest stock Of mer-
chandise in Greeneville. Don't for
get we have plenty of store fixtures
cheap.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

One of the new business ventures
made known today is the purchase
of the Morristown Gazette by Mrs,
D. s. Susong, publisher of the Greene
willie Democrat. The Gazette is one
of the oldest weekly newspapers pub
lished in East Tennessee. For more
Than fifty years it has been in the
hands of the Helms family, We are
informed that the Gazette is to be
published as a weekly and in connec-
ton with the Greeneville Democrat.
Here's The Daily Suns best wishes
for both the Democrat and the Nor
ristown Gazette, Under its new man
agement.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

We are requested to state that the
poke supper at Doughty's Chapel,
which was advertised for next Satur-
day night, has been called off for the
present on account of the preya-
lence of influenza in the community.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

By mutual agreement, the presi-
dents of the Missionary societies con-
nected with the churches of Greene
vile havedecided to postpone until
further notice the meetings in their
respective churches which had been
announced for this week
This action is taken in loyal re-
spouse to the proclamation of our
Mayor which was published Oct. 7th.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

If you want to Buy anything or
Sell anything, little Want Ad in
The Daily Sun will bring results. One
Cent Word.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

Mems pants galoreF Over 1000
pairs to select from and ranging in
price from soc up, at Nann Bros,
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

Mr.. D. A. Lintz has been confined
to his home with grippe for several
days.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09
LOCAL and PERSONAL

Sheriff Ben H. Renner was in
Elizabethton Tuesday on official bust
ness.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

Farmers-if you want fertilizer,
see Frank w. Gass.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09

Miss Leora Leming is reported
much improved.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-09
These Are the Ones With the
Power and Energy To Win

Many capable man or woman falls
Just short of winning because they don't
back up their mentality with the physical
strength and energy which come from hav-
ing plenty of Iron in the blood" says DR..
James Francis Sullivan, formerly physi-
The sun., 1918-12-05
More Jobs Than Men.

From the Federal Employment Ser
vice Itself comes full confirmation of
THE Suns warnings that our M
tional problem now is not labor sur
plus but labor shortage.
One Of the strangest things since
the armlstice has been the political
hallucinntlon or fake that unless the
Government was careful and slow
about shutting down war plants and
returning munitlon workers to normal
industrial fields the country would
run into labor disturbances and so
clal upheaval. Anybody with sense
could know that this was not so,
because anybody wanting to get q
plumber to repair burst pipes couldn't
find him. Anybody wanting carpenters
to stop leaks In the roof couldn't
find them. Anybody wanting masons
couldn't find them. Anybody wanting
any sort of skilled workmen couldn't
find them. This condition OF labor
shortage has been true since the war
ended to the same degree it was true
before the war ended. Now the Fed
eral Employment Service in Washing
TON admits it is true. SO far 1t has
discovered more jobs looking for men
than men looking for jobs.
Nevertheless, when the welfare
Of the country demands that we get
back to normal industrial basis at
the earliest possible moment, the Gov
eminent persists In continuing hun
dreds of thousands of wage earners
on useless and costly war work. 1t
persists In wasting not merely the
labor, which is sorely needed by peace
industry and peace business all over
the country, but the raw material
now being manufactured to no pur-
pose whatever. 1t persists in wasting
fuel. still going up in smoke at the
munitlon plants by the millions of
tons, when coal is urgently needed not
only In the general mill and factory,
but In the business house and the
private home. 1t persists in wasting
the taxpayers money when already
they are faced with bills for billions
Of dollars for war supplies bought be-
fore the armistice, but yet to be paid
for out of tax collections and bond
issue funds still to be raised
The country wants to get back to
its regular business. 1t is trying tho
best 1t knows how to get back to its
regular business. But when the war
spenders ought to cut 1t all out they
cannot seem to make themselves quit
the spending.
The sun., 1918-12-05
NEWS OF THE CONFERENCE.
America Wants to Know What Hap
pens at Paris and Versailles.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Upon
the decisions OF the peace conference rest
the issues of the next hundred years.
Therefore we are all interested in II and
would like. when the time comes, to read
an accurate account OF its dolngs. Why.
then. in the name of 'pitiless publicity"
or OF freedom and democracy, II you like
the sound better. are the American peo-
pie to be deprived OF all news concerning
II until II has been veritab!y culled.
Creeled and sugar cured?
Is Mr.. Woodrow Wilson afraid 10 trust
the sovereign people of the United States
Of American Does the taking over OF
every means OF communication with
Europe, except ordinary letter post, mean
that we are TO know nothing OF the pro-
ceedings until the treaties made with the
utmost secrecy are handed to the Senate
for ratification? Have tho moves re-
terred to been made because Mr.. Wood
row Wilson knows that he no longer rep
resents the thought and feeling OF the
American people on the great questions
to be decided at that conference?
Does he fear that II they knew his
plans they would repudiate them? Ger
tainly II looks very much like 1t.
HUGH r. MAdILI-
nnpapnbar
The sun., 1918-12-05
Nothing but . Coincidence.

The circumstance of President
WILSON having sailed on the third
anniversary of the departure Of
HENRY FoRD's peace ship should give
not the slightest apprehension to
those who are sympathetic with the
present voyage. Not only are the
captains Of the two adventures widely
disslmilnr in the eyes OF Europe,
but there is a striking difference in
the character and occupations of the
two sets Of voyagers.
Mr.. FORD took with him pacifists,
publlcists, disguised Germans, bugs"
grafters looking for free picnic, and
a few persons who shared their hosts
dream Of getting the boys out of the
trenches by Christmas" Mr.. WILSON
takes diplomatists, publicists, nuvi-
gators, geOgraphers, economists, car
tographers, ethnograohers, historians
and so forth.
Yet the greatest difference of all
between the atmospheres of the
George Washington and the Oscar II.
Is psychological. Mr.. FORD permitted
his own Quixotic purpose to be
bruised and battered by the surging
multifarious opinions Of his guests.
He was weak Columbus with forty
Martin Pinzons, On the George
Washington there is but one mind,
one object, one chart.
The sun., 1918-12-05
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SOLDIERS MAIL.
A Demand That 1t Now he Ex-
pedlted.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir, How
much longer must the anxious mothers
and fathers wait until the accumulated
soldiers mail comes from France
Carriers have been pestered to death
with inquiries regarding soldiers letters
and they all have the same mo" ready to
fire back at the inquirer,
Mr.. Burleson says that mail comes
rom the soldiers over there and is
delivered in fifteen days, The mothers
and relatives OF those boys know DIFF
ferent. Now every one Is asking about
soldiers mail. Why should their letters
be held up? The war is over. thanks TO
those boys, and it's about time that this
important mail came across
Lists Of wounded and killed are COM
Ing in. and they too are behind, but If
the mothers mail came through there
would be no cause for worry, SC. My
sister. a Red Cross nurse, is over there
and so is my brother, who ie with the
Sixth Engineers. and we are, like others,
most interested to know how they are,
4 WORRIED BROTHER.
New York, December 4.
The sun., 1918-12-05
TRADE BRIEFS.

\ condensed milk factory Ia the
Mameshury district. Cape Province South
Africa, has started production on small
scale.
The American Consul General In London
states that proclamation has been is
sued prohibiting the importation OF whole
stearine and tallow and olive OIL
The telephone systems OF Hayr and III.
Dominican Republic have recently been
connected. 1t is now possible to com
municatc between the principal towns OF
the two republics
A fire that destroyed n warehouse and
approximately l5000 bags of sugar, en-
failing n property loss estimated al S3.
OoOO 900, Is reported by Consular Agent
George A. Mackinson 20 have occurred in
cardenas. Cuba, on September I
According to an article recently pub-
lished In the polet'n del Console Proyin.
cial dc Agriculture y Gannderla there are
1900 00o hcehives in Spain. practically an
In the districts Of Valencia. Arakon. VAL
ladolld, Guaie'aiara and MalIoy,a.
The sun., 1918-12-05

actual operation Of the roads that
public ownership was n better thing
for the shippers and for the country
than private ownership, undoubtedly
that result would lodge the roads per-
manently In the hands Of the Gov
eminent.
The Government has proved moth
ing Of the kind. Taking the roads in
the bad condition they were in, 1t is
not to be wondered that the Govern
ment made no success of the expert
ment.' But 10 still remains for the
Government to show between now and
the next national election whether 1t
can give better service than private
ownership, or whether, If 1t cannot
give a better service, 1t can at least
give cheaper service.
We have aimed to be fair with the
Government In Its operation during
the war. We shall aim to be fair
with 1t In its operation after the war.
But II the Government cannot do bet
ter In the next two years than 1t has
done In the last year, If It cannot do
immensely better. 1t ought to be an
easy thing for the American people
to decide in 1920 that the railways
shall be both owned and operated by
private capital, enterprise. energy and
brains. And II this is the decision
Of the nation 1t also must be decided,
as President WILSON makes clear,
that the Legislative and Administra-
tive Government, while still exercls-
ing proper and needful control, must
not force the roads to starve, but
must permit them to be supported |;
must not drive them to the scrap
heap. but must let them grow and
thrive until they are once more the
Incompatible transportation system
Of the world.
The sun., 1918-12-05
PRESIDENTIAL PROBLEMS.
Questions Arising From the Chief
Executives Absence.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN---Sir. Five
vacancies in the Office OF President have
occurred. all by death. In which the Vice.
President has been sworn In, not as
Vice President. but as President. In two
of these cases the President was for
weeks utterly disabled for the perform
ance of executive duties, but the Vice
President did not assume to act.
Suppose during those periods an emer-
gency had arisen requiring executive ac-
ton, could the Vice-President have taken
such action as such, after the manner Of
ordinary corporations? Does the provi-
sion of the Constitution providing that
the Vlce-Presldent shall act In the case
OF the inability Of the President contem-
plate this? II It does the matter would
seem to be comparatively simple.
But we have no precedent for such ac-
ton. And the peculiar duties and re-
sponsibillties of the Executive office
would appear to preclude 1t. They all
point to the status of the vice-President
as q successor to the Executive Office and
not as temporary substitute. The law
abhors q vacuum or vacancy. The Presi-
dent is the commander in chief OF the
army and navy, and these important
bodies cannot be without q head. Can
the President continue to be the head of
these arms Of the Government when In
foreign land? Probably the answer
would be yes, IL engaged in actual war
in defence OF the country; but what in
times of peace?
This raises the. question. What consti-
tutes a vacancy in the Executive officer
Does not leaving the country vacate the
office? Can the President leave the
country for an indefinite period and still
be President? Suppose in the meantime
an emergency arises requiring Executive
action, and according to precedent the
Vice. President is sworn in as President,
we would then have the anomaly OF
two Executives.
According to law and precedent. the
Vice. President cannot discharge the
duties of the Executive Office without be-
ing sworn in as such. That the nation
should be without an Executive head, or
with its Executive head absent In foreign
lands. Is both unthinkaole and untenaole.
II the President leaves the country does
he not step down and out of the Executive
office and thus create a vacancy. which
opens the way for the Vice-President to
be sworn in and thus fll the office?
in that case the President at once be-
comes a private citizen. He cannot re-
turn and resume the office Of President.
for that office will have been filled.
This seems to be the logical solution OF
the many problems raised by the going
OF the President. Another interesting
question occurs: What will Mr.. Wilson 3
status be at the peace conference? Can
he be President Of the United States sit
ting In that conference? VIII he be ex
of1icio an accredited delegate7 Where Is
tho authority for such relation? He
certainly has not appointed himself a
delegated Again, II on leaving the coun-
try he became private citizen. then he
will have no official status there. All
these eofsiderations clearly point to the
propriety Of the Executive remaining at
home. f. L. HITCHCOCK.
SCRANTON. Pa, December 4.
The sun., 1918-12-05
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Explanation Of the Southern
Senator's Attitude.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: In
q despatch from your special Washing
ton correspondent November 28 he says,
In referring to President Wilson's APP
peal to the Senate for woman suffrage:
He placed the Southern Senators who
stuck by him through thick and thin in
the most embarrassing position OF their
public eereers He put upon them the
onus OF faiiirg TO support him In war
measure II they voted against the amend
ment. Yet the political life OF every sen-
stcr from tho South would have been
wor;A nothing the moment he voted to
permit tho negro women to vote any
where
This statement Is not justified by the
facts, which are that fourteen Southern
Senators did vote for this Federal suf-
rrage amendment the day after Presi-
dent Wilson made his address, without
any fear Of danger TO their political life
They were probably encouraged to do
this by the fact that when this amend
mont was voted on in the House of
Representatives last January forty-slx
Southern members cast their votes In
favor Of It, and their political life does
not seem to be threatened, at least on
this account.
The DOGGY Of the NEGRO woman's
vote" is mere camoufiage to conceal
seated opposition to woman suffrage
Itself. Not one Senator who voted
against this Federal amendment would
vote in favor OF woman suffrage II II
were an Issue in his own State
The woman suffrage amendment which
was submitted by the Legislature OF
Louisiana and defeated at the recent
election proposed merely TO take the
word "male' out of the suffrage clause
in the Constitution. This was all that
was needed to bar out the negro woman,
for whatever State law prevented negro
men from voting would have the same
effect on negro women without any
constitutional change When Arkansas
and Texas gave the full primary suf.
frage TO women there was not word
In the law to indicate that this meant
white women only, as existing laws eff
fectually covered this point. The Fed
eraf amendment does not interfere in
the slightest degree with the right of
any State to prescribe its own qualifica-
tons for suffrage with the one exception
that 1t shall not disfranchise on account
OF Sex" Aside from this II may make
Its own requirements, but they must
apply equally TO both sexes.
IDA Hustled HARPER
New YoRK, December a.
The sun., 1918-12-05
An Eminent Rabbi Urges the Presence
OF the Clergy.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: !
suggest that the clergy be represented at
the coming peace conference for the fol-
lowing reasons:
First the clergy. standing for religious
ethics rather than ceremonialism or
doctrinal!sn, will emphasize that the
decisions OF the peace conference are
based upon Righteousness and justice.
This must appeal to all thinkers In all
lands, even those whose hopes and
aspirations will not have been Rratihed
by some OF the decisions. For righteous
ness and justice are words that mean
much. Where would be the hope OF the
world for peace with honor" without
them And who represents these ideals
better than the clergy
Secondly. the fact that the clergy take
part in the conference will do much TO
anticipate and to modify the animosties
the Jealousy, the spirit OF revenge, the
humiliation, tho aftermath of the war.
Thirdly, II will add the force of Bible
precedent. For the personnel OF the
highest court OF arbitration or adjudlcn-
ton, as indicated in Deuteronomy xviii
,. includes. first clergy secondly. mas
teS IN law ana tHiruISi hclentlsts CT
those who can Judge because they
"know."
The majesty Of religion, the dignity Of
law and the wisdom OF science will thus
make Il tribunal which will command the
respect Of public opinion in all coun-
tries. Without the Endorsement Of public
opinion peace will be but trausitory.
II, PEREIRA MENDEs.
NEW York, December 4.
The sun., 1918-12-05
BILL WOULD REPEAL
WILSON RATE POWER
Measure to Restore Regula-
ton to /. G. C. Is Offered
in Senate.
1T GOES TO COMMITTEE
First Move to Take Initiative
From Railroad Administra-
ton Is Made,
Special Despatch to The Sun.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.--The first move
to restrict the large powers OF the
railroad administration over the rail-
roads was made in the Senate to-day
by Senator Smith (Ga.), chairman OF
the Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee, who introduced a bill to repeal
the power given the President to In
itiate rates.
The portion of the law under which
the railroad administration Is pro-
ceeding and which Senator Smith
wishes to repeal is the first section
and provides that while Federal con-
troll continues the President may In
itiate rates, fares. charges, classinca-
lions, regulations and practices by
filing them from the Interstate Com
merce Commission. The law provides
that the commission may not suspend
these rates pending final determine
ton.
At present despite the power given
to the President IT is provided In the
law that the I. C. c., upon complaint
may hold hearings and go into the
rea son and justice Of rates inaugurated
by the railroad administration to
which the President has delegated the
power given him. The commission is
bound by law to give the fullest con-
sideration to certification from the
railroad administration that the rates
inaugurated are necessary to raise
money with which to pay railroad
rentals or compensation or taxes.
BY the Smith bill, which was re-
fcrred to the Interstate Commerce
Committee, all Of these provisions
OF initiating rates and fares and the
like would be resorted to again. I'm
der the system in effect just before tha
taking over OF the railroads the roads
applied for new schedules Of rates and
fares, and tie power lay with the COM
mission itself to refuse or grant such
applications.
Senator Smith has issued state
ment bearing out the story of THE Sun
to-day that the President had no in
tention OF returning the roads to pri-
yate ownership at once. Before the
President departed from Washington
last night Senator Smith had con-
ference with him. Mr.. Smith said:
president Wilson's position, as
understand it, is that he puts squarely
up to Congress the question Of work
ing out a future policy, and that as
speedily as possible. The President
has no pre-conceived opinions on the
subject and now waits for Congress to
handle the question"
The sun., 1918-12-05
An Offlclal Account Of Their Resist.
ance to Overw helming Numbers.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: The
article in THE SUN regarding the criti-
cism made by Frank r. Kent Of the
Baltimore Sun OF the Portuguese army
causes me to offer you herewith a trans
lated copy of the official description OF
the battle OF Lys on April 10, 1918, 50
far as 1t refers to the conduct of the
Second Division OF the Portuguese Expe-
dictionary Force in France. In It these
passages occur:
THE object OF the German attack was
line going from Bols- Grenier-Fleurbaix-
Lys-Canal de la Bassee.
whole companies, such as the Ninth
and Tenth of the Eleventh Infantry and
others, fought even after they had been
enveloped to their last man.
Companies and even platoons which
had been left isolated counter attacked
with bayonets In furious attempt to rip
open the German masses. but like a flow
ing ocean OF men the gaps opened were
filled vertiginously. and the defenders
entirely wiped out.
1T should be mentioned also that the
division was short Of over zoo officers,
whom it had lost in action. In all the
hattalons most Majors had been killed
Nearly every company was being COM
manded by sub-officers and the platoons
by second sergeants,
The line which we held was sup
posedly occupied by complete electives :;
that is. 1.0S3 men to a battalion; the
battalions averaged in reality from G77
to SIS!
Our division was defeated. but stood
for eight long hours under the most
violent fire that was ever seen on that
front, and resisted the impact OF eight
enemy divisions,
such defeat under such n tremen-
dous dIsproport!on Of forces really con-
sti;utes a glorious achievement for the
Portuguese who died doing their duty
This Second Division was for a whole
year un!nterruptodly in the trenches,
carrying out and repellipg continuous
raids, and with half OF its officers gone r.
action ara in charge OF a front much
above its strength II could never be ex-
pected TO act more calamity than II did
AGAINST eight enemy divisions.
1.-THE commanders of the battalions of
that division ended their days In the
battle OF the Lys without one exception.
OF the Brigaders only one was left to
tell the tale,
The headquarters staffs, that OF the
General in command inclusive, were de-
stroyed.
1.-THE Portuguese Second Division. de-
fbated, Is we'll deserving of its home land.
because II died In its post of duty fight
ing for liberty and civilization. 1t did
not win because 1t was humanity impos-
sible to win under such conditions"
II no laure,s were ever sought by the
Portuguese nation from any one except
the respect TO which they are entitled
for the enormous sacrifices and loss Of
life in France at sea and in Africa
which they have sustained with sparse
resources and a comparatively small
population. 1t Is right to ask for justice
for their men and to repudiate with the
healthy energy obtained from duty full
filled throughout many more trials the
sIurs thrown upon small but dignIfed
people. A. DE otlvEIRA AGUAs.
NEW YORK, December 4.