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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-07

The State Board of Education has
mailed to the county papers lot Of
publicity matter concerning the
school fight against Mr.. Brister at
Memphis. Now we know very little
about this. It is a local matter in
a great measure, in some respects
concerns the people of the State. One
thing we do know, and it is the very
bitter feeling that a school fight
engenders. But since we have been
asked to contribute space, would like
to say a good word for that man,
whoever he is, that undertakes
promptly and effectively to cut out
the red-tape and blue-ribbon pink
tea affairs and the useless expense OF
these things in our public schools.
In the first place, Tennessee had no
need for three normal schools, when
one good central school would have
answered every purpose at much less
expense. The three-school system
was claimed by the Patterson admin
istration as one of its good points,
which should have been condemned.
But since there are three, let them
be run economically and efficiently,
and without the class rot-pins,
functions, etc.-practiced in some of
our public schools. If Mr.. Brister
has been trying to save the people
some money in the management of
the Normal at Memphis, he certainly
belongs to a minority element in our
State, so much needed to counteract
the tendency for superfiuous func-
ton and social caste in our schools,
which should above all things teach
and practice economy and democracy
in the broadest sense of the. terms.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-07

Of the Doctor-or the Doctor having
having disposed of himself-de-
termined to mount horse, that he
might move the moro rapidly; and
Massena had Just alighted from his
calash when a cannon ball went
crashing thru the middle of it. But
an incident like that was to
Massena's courage just a fine tonic,
a kind of spur to his military genius.
The battle Of Wagram was finally
won and Massena's protecting star
shone brightly as ever, while Ma
poleon's star shot up in the heavens
about forty degrees.
Such was the resolute bravery and
reckless daring of this Massena dis
played in all his battles. Yet he
braved the storms of fifty-two pitch
ed battles, and received his first
wound in hunting expedition; and
finally, after Napoleon's last Danish
ment, died a natural death at the
age of fifty-nine.
EUGENE F. McSPEDDEN.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-07
Letter from France.

Dearest Edith: Well, once again
l am beginning letter. 1 want
you to thank Mrs. Whipple, Mrs.
Gardner, Aunt BERTHE and all who
helped in preparing the knit goods
you sent me. l will never be able
to write everybody. Surely all will
understand.
We have for sometime been at
tached with an American Division,
and it happens that Bob Whitson
and Jim Quinn's regiments are in
the Division. AS matter of fact
their regiments are the two finest
in all the American Army. We were
attached for this particular emery
ency and am very much pleased to
be with the American Army at these
places at this time. Really l prefer
our work with the French for some
reasons, but consider this rare OPP
portunity. We are the only section
u. S. A. A. S. loaned to the American
Army. 1t may be an experiment.
So far we have received nothing but
praise from the commanding officers
about our efficiency and capacity for
work regardless of danger. / am
very proud of my section, because l
feel that it is one of the best and
most reliable. / am confident that
when a man goes out he will do his
full duty as far as is physically pos
sible.
We have several real characters in
the section. One is an Irishman, and
typical. Had been in the States
about eight years, think. We have
been heavily shelled for some days,
and of course when not outside on
duty compulsory to be in the abris
(dugout or tunnels, ours happens to
be tunnel under high railroad en-
bankment). Well, this Irishman
didn't report for dinner, so I set
out looking for him, found him in
the abris as he said, leaving French
under fire."
Give my best wishes to Aunt Ber-
ties folks, Mesdames Adams, Allen,
Gardner, Casebeere, also Brother
Farris and Mr.. and Mrs. C. v. Jones.
Your brother,
SGT. RALPH M. QUINN.
France
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-07
Charmed Life of Great Heroes.
Marshal Mas5ena.


War, it seems, naturally has the
effect of engendering fatalistic be-
lief in the minds of those engaged
in it. They often come to believe
that they are special objects of fate.
Napoleon, for instance, believed that
he was under the guidance of a
special destiny. And Josephene said
that because of that belief, Ma
poleon would bear the most extreme
reverses with stole equsnimity. The
boys on the battle line in the pres
emit war seem to be considerably i'm
bued with the belief in fatalism,
especially as respects their own in
dividual fortune in battle. In the
midst of battle, it is said, they are
in the habit of making use of such
expressions as "a bullet won't hit
you unless it has your namc on 1t, !"
or "look out for the bomb that has
your number on it."
Some great warriors possess, what
writers of history are pleased to
call, ga charmed life"-that is, they
seem to be imbued with kind of
magnetic power, which, amid the
deadliest fire or most embarrassing"
clash of arms, turns away the in
struments of death from their per-
son, often leaving them unhurt
where their companions fall like
wheat before the scytho. Or is it
that a special providence protects
the lives of some of the bravest and
most daring generals and soldiers,
as if Heaven had sealed fiat that
they should never die in battle?
Massena, one of Napoleon's Mar
shals, was such a general. No other
warrior, l believe, ever carried tena-
cious resolution and determined
bravery, amidst the most discourag-
ing obstacles and appalling danger,
to a higher pitch than did Massena.
Amid scenes of the widest distress,
suffering, famine and death, such as
surrounded him when he was cooped
up in Genoa by greatly superior
force of Austrians; when men, wo-
men and children were frantic with
hunger, the weaker often falling
dead in the streets amid a perfect
bedlam of confusion; and when his
strongest soldiers became almost
skeletons from lack of food and
were scarcely more than able to walk
steady-amid such scene Masscna
backed his harsh commands with
loaded cannons in the streets, and
moved with the stern unyielding
firmness and fortitude of high
souled chieftain, who was born, not
to be conquered but to conquer.
And finally he compelled the be-
sieging enemy to allow him to pass
out of Genoa with his exhausted
army intact and colors f1ying-a
compliment to his unconquerable
will. And in fifteen days he was
back in Genoa as a conqueror!
Massena was one of those men
whose mind becomes unusually clear
and active, and even cheerful, under
the stimulus of roaring cannons and
harsh braying of clashing arms.
While a captive at st. Helena, Ma
poleon said of Massena: In the
midst of the dying and the dead,
of balls sweeping away those who
encircled him, then Massena was
himself-gaye his orders, and made
his dispositions with the greatest
sangfroid and judgment" Such a
man is a born warrior and terrible
foe in battle.
During the campaign of Aspern
and Wagram, when Napoleon was
rapidly pushing his way to Wien,
with the Austrians fleeing before
him, Massena effected one of the
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-07
Death of James Monroe Naylor.
France.

James Monroe Naylor died at the
Confederate home, Hermitage, near
Nashville, Tenn, about the Goth of
May, 1918, being at the time of his
death seventy-three years and seven
months old. j. M. Naylor was born
Oct. 20, 1874, in Fulton County,
Kentucky. Removed with our faith
er, Alfred Naylor, and family to
Obion County, Tenn, in the spring
of 1850. There grew up and re-
manned On the farm until the Civil
War between the States. Volunteer
ed in the SD Tennessee Regiment,
C. s. A., March, 1852, participated
in the battle of Shiloh, remained
about seventeen months. Was dis
charged in Kentucky and returned
home. There he remained until mar
ried to Miss Annie Spradlin about
1880. Two girls were born to this
union. The eldest died in infancy.
The survivor married Mr.. James
Meacham, now living near McCon-
nell, Tenn. He leaves three sisters
and one brother, Mrs. M. D. Gibson,
Oklahoma; Mrs. Ada Snyder, Kansas
City, Mo-; H. w. Naylor, Medina,
Tenn, and Miss Lula Naylor, Union
City. His death was caused by
paralysis and heart failure. He died
surrounded by the U. d. c. that had
so tenderly nursed him in his strug-
gle of life, and with sweet devotion
and gentle hands laid him in his
casket wrapped in the stars and bars
the flag he so Loyalty defended
Brave old veterans, heads frosted
with many winters, with tottering
steps and trembling hands, bore him
to- his last resting place; there to
rest and sleep in silent slumber un-
til God shall call him home. Sleep
on, dear brother, soldier friend,
peaceful be thy silent slumber,
peaceful in thy grave so low, thou
no more shall join our number, thou
no more our tolls shall know.
BROTHER, H. w. N.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-07
Somewhere in France.


Over across the ocean, under the sky,
Here on the fields 1 lie
The stars are somewhere above ]
And the green corn is growing, row
by row.
I look to the sky, but it all shows
red,
Dark as the blood that my flesh has
bled.
I catch at my throat, gasp. choke.
/ said, there is no air--only cloud
of some
And the wounds that sicken me, they
dip, they sock.
I look again! and cay, there's a
CLEAN of light
1t looks white, and it is bright.
It touches me on my breast and head,
/ think it is an angel with it's bright
wings spread
To carry me to heaven if l were dead.
written by Rufus G. JoyneT
April z, 1918, Sunday, 8 p. MI
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-07
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For State Senate.

For State Senate.
CALDwELL.-we are authorized to announce
d. P. Caldwell candidate for the Senate
branch of the Tennessee General Assembly, to
represent the counties of Weakley. Obion and
Lake, subject to the action OF the Democratic
party.s
For Representative.
BRATTON-We are authorized to announce S.
R. Bratton ESQ. as candidate for represent
tative from Obion County in the Tennessee
General Assembly, subject to the action OF the
Democratic party.
For Floater.
GRIFFIN.-We are authorized to announce DR.:
J. Frank Griffin as a candidate for Pictorial
Representative in the Tennessee General As
sembly to represent the counties of Dyer
Lake and Obion. subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-07

The food situation in Turkey IS
causing considerable suffering. The
people of the poorer classes are
forced to live on chestnuts and
pumpkin seeds and the Government,
obstructive and dishonest, is afford
ing no relief. ~
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-07
FRIDAY, JUNE 7. 1918.


chanceiior-v. H. HOLMES
Circuit Judge-R. A. ELKINS
County Judge-JoEL b. WADDEIL
Attorney General-TH0S. o. MORRIS
County Court Clerk-R. H. BOND
Circuit Court c1erk-THURMAN TALLY
County Trustee-T. ]. EASrERWO0D
County Register-R. B. MIL.NER
Sheriff.. NJ. HICKMAN
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-03
BLACKLEG CAUSES BIG
LOSS-HELP CHECK TT

Every county in the state has err
tain percentage Of losses among cat
tie every year from blackleg. Since
these losses occur principally in the
spring, summer and early fall, it is es-
sential that our farmers take imme-
date steps toward combating this
disease, so as to protect their cattle
during the coming year. The follow
ing facts and suggestions are offered:
1-Blackleg is. highly fatal infec-.
tious disease Of cattle.
Pit affects cattle as rule that are.
from three months to three years old,
although cattle of any age may be af-
fected.
SEThe disease is spread through the
distribution Of parts of carcasses from
blackleg.
4Tennessee regulations require
that the carcasses of all animals dying
from blackleg must be completely
burned.
Off blackleg does or has appeared
in your community, vaccinae your cat
tie before turning them on pasture.
eff you vaccinate your cattle be
sure to include those from three
months to three years old and better
still, those of all ages.
When using pellet or powdered
vaccine, treatment should be given at
least twice year, and in badly infec-
ted localities retreating in three or
four months is advisable.
8-The blackleg vaccines, including
Blackleg Filtrate, Aggressive, ETC., are
preferable to the pellet or powdered
forms, producing more lasting immu-
nifty and will protect the animal at
least year.
Sit is always better to keep sus-
ceptible cattle off of fields on which
blackleg has occurred until twelve or
fourteen days after vaccination, sothat
hat immunity may be established be-
fore the animal is exposed.
Show your true Americanism by
helping to control and eradicate black
leg, thereby increasing the fod sup
ply.-This article was prepared by
DR.. M. Jacob, State Veterinarian.
Buy Bond
Production Of 10000 new automobile,
trucks is in progress for the army.
Buy a Bond
The navy ration in 1917 cost $0.43S,
as against $0.376S4 in 1916.
-puv n Rond
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-03
"CIean Up" Week For Red
Triangle Collections In May

Atlanta, Ca, April. = "Clean Up"
week has been designated from May
LIST to 9Th. This does not mean the
furnishing up Of municipalities or the
date set for burning rubbish in back
yards. II is the date set by the second
Y. M. G. A. war work campaign fund
organization in the Southeastern mill
tary department for boosting collec-
tons on the last campaign.
In report by r. H. King, director
OF finance in the Southeast, issued on
April 18th, it was shown that 73 per
cent Of the collections had been made.
II is his aim to make that percentage
climb to IS per cent by the end Of
"Clean Up" week and local committees
will act accordingly.
Two states have already exceeded
the So per cent mark; Mississippi and
Florida. Georgia comes next with 71h
per cent, the others are as follows:
Alabama, 20; South Carolina, So;
North Carolina, So; Tennessee, so.
"The mobilization Of dollars in d.
rect gifts to be applied to national de-
tense is a shortcut method Of winning
the war" said A. H. Whitford, ma
tional financial campaign director,
when told Of the "Clean Up" week plan
Of pushing collections Of subscriptions
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-03

developments have largely operated tc
remove this. Miss Martin is quoted il
a recent declaration as saying;
accept the leadership Of President
Wilson in the war because he is the
chosen leader of our country; but the
world has accepted his leadership be-
cause he, more than any other man, has
been able to see through the war tc
this perfected democracy which lies
behind it. Even while he labors to
win this war, he is Striving also, as
his letter to the men of his party in
New Jersey proves, to gather the for
ces for the industrial democracy which
must come with peace.
Mr.. Chanery thinks the discrimina-
ton which Miss Martin perceives is
vital. He recognizes, as she does, that
the present world conflict is a warfare
against war and in the interest of de-
mocracy and peace. Miss Martin has
also been somewhat radical in her
ideas of the part which women ought
to have in the actual handling of the
government. The importance of the
h~Ssoing problem as a factor in o',r
shipbuilding program is cited as one
which a woman on the shipping board
would have recognized at once. Fur
Their on, Mr.. Chenery declares:
She wants the public lands to be
developed in the interest of farm
owning class rather than in behalf Of
large spectators. This couples up to
the need for greater food production
She wants the national government to
develop dry lands and to drain river
bottoms. She wants more government
loans to farmers. She hopes to see
measures taken to check the growth OF
tenant class. On many of these ques-
tons she has as allies such men as
Franklin X. Lane, Clifford Pinchot
Louis Post and others Of the liberal
leaders Of the country-not to men
ton the president, the greatest Of
them all.
The fight which this woman is max
ing is termed one against economic
and industrial privilege, and her sue
cess will be considered a triumph Of
democracy for men and women. The
aspirations of the two women above
named is invested with an interest
much beyond that which the mere fact
of their sex would arouse. In certain
sense they may be received as evan
gels Of the new order.-Chattanooga
News.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-03
What TO do zUhen
Backache comes on

az found immediate relief In the use
Of Foley Kidney Pills, have recon-
Miended them, and do not know of a
single instance when they failed to
give relief"
G. U. Landrum, a travelling salesman.
writes from San Angelo, Texas: priv.
ing over rough roads and in all kinds
OF weather gave me acute pains in the
back and suffered greatly. found
relief in the use of Foley Kidney Pills,
and before the first bottle was used.
the pain in my back had entirely disap-
peared and I have had no recurrence of
those pains which frequently amounted
TO almost neuralgia proportions"
When backache comes on, and Il
seems as IL you can't stand the pain
and pressure In your back, you will find
quick and grateful relief comes with
the use of Foley Kidney Pills. They
stop the cause of the pain, ease the
stin aching joints and muscles, and
clear the poisons out of your system
by helping your kidneys and bladder to
normal healthy action.
CURTIS DRUG COMPA..4
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-03
STOP that
Indigestion

Your stomach-does it ever bother you1.
That's sure sign something's wrong,
Indigestion, constipation, lazy liver.
clogged kidneys, impure blood, Nature
Is warning you, and you had better heed
the warning.
Nature not only warns us, but also pro
vides the remedy. There are eight great
herbal remedies that give positive relief
in all kinds Of indigestion. These have
been combined into one great nature medi-
cine-Vin Hepatica, the universal system
purifier.
L. f. Sweeny, a Nashville travelling
man, broke down as a result Of the
meals he was forced to eat on the
road. Indigestion and constipation Of
the worst kind caused him untold suf-
fering. Vim Hepatica restored him
and as he puts 1t, made him 'it as
fiddle"
Vim Hepatica is surely matchless
tonic for regulating the bowels and
building up the entire system. Try a
bottle on our say SO that 1t Is a real
medicine.
X. +. MARTIN, Stanton.
GLASS DRUG CO., Brownsville.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-03
The STATES GRAPHIC
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
MISS MARTINS DEMOCRACY.

MISS MARTINS DEMOCRAC1.
The country at the present has two
women candidates for United States
senator. One of hese has already
been extensively advertised. Less has
been heard Of the other, who is Miss
Anna Martin of Nevada. But, appar-
emily, she has a personality no less in
teresting than that Of the better known
Miss Jeanette Rankin. She is also
prophecies of the changing social or
der.
Miss Martin doesn't attach much
Importance to old political organiza-
tons or formulas. She is, in fact, ac-
cording to William L. Chenery, run
ming as an Independent candidate on a
platform of her own. She expresses
sympathy for and interest in the pro-
gram Of the British labor party. Her
platform is more economic than parti-
san. Instead of a meaningless politi-
cal dogma, she would make democra-
cy a living principle in industry as
we'll as in government. She bases her
appeal for election on a plea of funda-
mental human justice.
In her desire to break away from
old political tenets, Miss Martin does
not find herself lonesome. Quite a
large number of other persons have
already perceived the inevitable trend
James Hamilton Lewis, the rather
fantastic senator from Illinois, has sew.
eral times prophesied the obliteration
Of parties as they were formerly
known. Col Henry Watterson, the
venerable and versatile editor, dec
lares that present day parties are be.
coming obsolete because their name:
have lost their meaning, but thinks
substantially the same lines Of politi
cal demarkation will remain. If OBJ
lection be raised to this testimony
however, it may be pointed out thai
the president has himself predicted {
more radical breaking up of the exist
ling order that any Of these.
The president is apparently con
WINGED that political slogans of the flu
lture win involve something more vita
to the masses than the spoils Of office
The manifest needs of society willhavt
first consideration Mr.. Chenery notes
that while formerly there was an an
agonism between the group for whom
Miss Martin speaks and the president
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-03

There Is nothing tame about the Red
Triangle work in this world conflict.
II is no task for a man faint hearted
or of low physical vitality"
Not every secretary who goes over
seas is sent to the front line trenches
but he may be. The Army and
Navy Y. M. G. A. follows the flag and
the fighting men of the Allies every
where but over the top. The man
who goes up to the trenches pitches
tent, erects a sheet iron hut or finds
a deserted building, cellar or dugout
in which to begin work.
VIII Beat His Sons TO France.
Most admirable are the ambitions
OF many fathers of soldiers and sailors
to enlist for Red Triangle service, and
thus, perhaps, meet, their sons in
France or on the high seas. The Per-
sonnet Board has the record Of a man
who recently sailed for France, who
has one son an officer and another an
enlisted man. He is very proud Of the
fact that he will be "Over There be-
fore his sons.
Recruits for American Army and
Navy " NJ g. A. service overseas
need be "only ordinary men and good
Christians" as described by DR.. Alex
ander Of the Southeastern Department
Personnel committee Men of almost
any profession OF vocation are accept
able, but they must be over the draft
age-thirty-one years-or have been
rejected as physically unfit because OF
noticeable defect, such as a deform-
ity, loss Of eye or limb, which at a
glance will classify the secretary.
Absolute loyalty to the govern
ment and sympathy with the cause of
the Allies in our fight to the end for
a world safe for democracy, must in
spire the Red Triangle worker. A
man whose father or mother was born
in any Of the countries with which we
are now at war cannot serve overseas.
A secretary cannot be accompanied by
his wife, no more than can an officer.
Recognized by Military.
Wearing the regulation United
States army or navy uniform distin-
| buiohVu Wy Tic INeu lTlduBlG insignia
on the left coat sleeve overseas, but
on this side uniformed in olive green
OF cut not unlike the British uniform,
the Y. M. c. A. secretary has been
recognized as part of the military and
naval establishment vitality necessary
to the winning Of the war. An Amer
lean officer recently home from the
French front said: "Three forces will
win this war on land, the army,
the Red Cross and the Y. NJ G. A."
For full information, write to your
State Recruiting Secretary, care Army
and Navy Y. M. G. A. Recruiting Head
quarters, located as follows:
NORTH CAROLINA, CHARLOTTE.
SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLES
TON.
GEORGIA, ATLANTA.
TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE.
ALABAMA, BIRMINGHAM.
FLORIDA, JACKSONVILLE.
MISSISSIPPI, JACKSON.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-05-03
EAT YOUR CAKE
AND HAVE IT TOO.
Buy a Bond

The biggest gun we have is the Lib
erty loan. 1t is expected to develop
range Of three thousand or more
miles.
We all know that financial ammuni-