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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

The proposed sixty millions in
bonds for concrete roads con-
Meeting county seats figures like
this. Divided between the sc
counties it would be $625, 900 per
county. Marion paid $3.50, 900
for 29.5 miles of road under
first bond issue, which was the
most serviceable road built un-
der any of our bond issues. Hence
with $625, 900, provided material
and labor could be got at same
figure, Marion would get 41-6
times as much road, or 1923 miles.
BIT these roads are to be built of
concrete, and if concrete road
costs twice as much we would
get Gil miles of road, if three
times as much,a fraction less than
Al miles, and for only $625, 900.
We suggest the cement company
we suspicion is behind this move
ment be required to furnish fig
ures as the cost Of concrete road
and that auto owners have the
right to demand sample mile
of concrete construction in their
counties, before asserting to a
plan which would in all plobabil-
ity mean a tax of from 81 to SIS
monthly. This would costly rid
ing for the car owner of Marion,
number of miles of road improv-
ed thereby considered.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
taStland.
SbeciSi TO tie N<lOJ.

| SpeeiSI TO the N<tOJ.
Today is very gloomy, Every,
thing is dull here at present.
The mines are running only two
and three days a week.
There is lots Of sickness here
now. Some influenza and two
or three cases Of fever.
The boys are beginning to re-
turn from the army. John Smith
arrived last week. He left the
23rd of September, 1917. for
Camp Gordon. Atlanta, Ga, and
was transferred from there to
Camp Jackson. Columbia, :. c.
From there he went to New York.
then overseas to France. He has
a brother still in France.
The stork passed by Sunday
night and left an eight pound
boy at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charlie Girdley. Mother and
babe are doing well.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ike Wilson left
Saturday for Huntsville. Ala, to
visit Mrs. Wilson's mother, who
is sick.
James Thorn left Monday
for Tatesville, Tenn. Tatesville
will be one of the largest coal
fields in the state in the near flu
ture.
The Rev Clarence Nash filled
his regular appointment at this
place Sunday. J. G.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
doors thereof.

doors thereof.
The issue of government own
ership, unless abandoned by the
political party fostering it, will
be prominent one at the polls
in 1920, which the great Ameri-
can nation will defeat With
800, 900, 900 deficit in government
control of railroads already exis-
tant. there is absolutely no basis
for further continuance of the
scheme which is as illusory as
the ignis fatuus which floats over
the meadow.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
NOTICE.

Advertisers and others will
please send in copy not later than
8 a. m. Wednesdays during the
winter months, as this paper. in
order to conserve coal, will go to
press Wednesday afternoons at
8 o'clock instead of Thursday
mornings at 9so'clock.
THE NEWS.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
Little Folks Party.

Little Miss Mildred Hill enter
tanned Saturday afternoon from
two until four, the occasion be-
ing her 9th birthday anniversary.
Various games were enthusiast
tically played by the happy little
folks. and cake followed by plen-
ty of roasted peanuts done JUS
tice to. The little hostess wa.
the recipient of a number of
gifts. which she Thoroughly ap-
preciates.
Those participating were:
Willie, Thelma, Homer, Gladys
and Elisha Barnett, Lillian and
David Minor, Mildred, Glen and
Merna Curtis, Kathleen Starr,
Willard Lewis, Will9rd, Thelma
and Ralph Griffith, Louis and
Mary Harris, Marion and Mildred
Bushelman. John Leland, Wilma
Lawson, Frank Scofield, Edward
and Marjorie Lee Martin.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

1t is said that some of the ad.
herents at Jasper of the fur
Tennessee legislators who voteC
for wbiskey are getting very
loud in their conduct. If SC
Judge Raulston should instruct
Sheriff Coppinger to be sure to
have them all before him at mex,
session of court, if their attend
ance cannot be enforced for this
one. 1t is always in order to
work on a whiskey adherent.
who never considers his commun-
ity when it is a matter of graft
flying his own desires.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
Rock throwing at night is an

Rock throwing at night is an
accomplishment OF Sequachee
young gentlemen, which they
possibly may have acquired at
Hell's Half Acre, or some 9TH
err places of nocturnal meeting,
but certainly not at church or
Sunday school. 1t is an accom-
pllshment which is not to be
commended. and should be stop
ped. 1t is too bad our young
men cannot behave themselves
after it gets so dark that they
imagine they cannot be discover
ed.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
Mr.. Nc A doc beat us out of all

Mr.. Nc doc beat us out of all
railroad advertising, to the a.
mount of about $500 year. He
saved 81, 900, 900 from new spaper
publishers, but is in the hole
$50, 600, 600 some financiering
in railroad management. Mr..
Burleson is starting in to save a
lot more money from publishers.
but is at the head of a postoffice
system which is declared to
have the poorest system of book.
keeping on earth"
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

1t Jack and Jill" of Morgans.
vile, and Lonely Girls" of Mt.
Olive, will kindly furnish US
their real names we will use their
news items from those places.
We appreciate their remember
ing the News. but regret they
did not furnish their real names
as it is a rule of this paper not to
use communications unless ac-
companied by real names Of wri.
tiers.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
TELEPHONELESS.

away Dack In history the news
ordered a telephone placed in its
office. For years and years il
was fixture. the rent being
paid regularly.
The price of a business phone
is So. rs per month, but the tele-
phone people recognizing that
the News had space to sell, used
twelve inches weekly at l0c per
inch to tell its patrons the proper
way to use telephones. This
reduced the bill to $1.55 per
month. A residence phone
would have cost $1.65.
Thursday orders came that no
more advertising would be plac-
ed and that the rate would be
SITS per menth cash. This was
in response to the Burleston con-
troll in telephones and telegraphs
whereby their direction has been
seized.
We couldn't stand the price,
and ordered it taken out, and it
is no more.
We used that telephone for our
own business about once in three
days. The balance of the time
was in answering all sorts of
questions and calls from SUBJ
scribers and non subscribers at
other telephones. At $2.75 per
month a telephone message,
therefore. would cost us 27c.
Previously it cost US 133c.
No more will we have to get up
in the middle of the night to call
doctors, no more will we pay
long distance calls for other par
ties who never paid US, no more
will we patiently answer all sorts
of questions which had no place
in our business. no more will we
be disturbed in our busiest hours
by parties wanting to use the tel
ephone, and from the majority
of whom we got not even thank
you, no more will we be blessed
out by some cheap guy for some
thing in the News which he does
mt like, for if he complains at all
now it will be from behind a
postage stamp, and the written
page is always dang erous to send
q long-suffering editor.
There are numbers of mo
mores" for us, especially that
one which we were frequently
handed, Zine busy, and right
here we want to tell Lord Burles-
ton that subscribers use tele-
phones more than actual sub
scribers and to their continual
jangle is due the majority of
reasons why a subscriber can
hardly get the party he wants in
one call out of three. When Mr..
Burleson invents q secret call
unknown to any one except the
subscriber and central" where
by none get number except the |
subscriber, then he will have
placed the telephone on the pin
nacle of human perfection.
We "kalkerlate" we can get
along without a telephone at
any rate lack of means 10 going to
make us try it.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
AN iGKlS FATUUS POLICY

In a speech before the Rail
way BUSINESS Association, Chica-
20, Jan. 9, 1919, H. B. Merrick,
President Chicago Association of
Commerce, said:
Germany was built up over
many, many years on the real
theory of""government downright
control aid operation of every
thing, including the men them
selves. Year by year the iniria-
tive of the individual and the ini-
alive of the business man was
reduced; and doubt if many of
our people know the extent to
which the German government
was partner snd controlled the
industries of Germany. Even its
foreign trade throughout the
world, it's cartel system, was
nothing more or less than gov
eminent control and direction by
government directors. And the
strange thing was that until a
year ago the world cheered that
practice, and spoke of the mar
velous German efficiency that
was marvellous in many ways.
but Germany failed, not a.
lone because Of our allies and our
men, but inherently because its
manhood was destroyed and the
initiative of the individual in its
armed forces and in its navy
was gone; and that initiative had
been Slapped year by year in this
insidious fashion down to the
point where they were merely
cogs in machine. Had Germa-
ny conquered, within a single
generation il had the seeds of its
own death in that very practice.
Someone perhaps might question
this statement and say that it is
the mere statement of a man
who is talking but if you will
pick up to-night's paper and read
of the revolution throughout
Germany, you realize that had
they conquered. that revolution
probably would have occurred
within the next five years; be-
cause manhood and womanhood
will not srand beyond a certain
point the utter elimination of in
dividualism and initiative.
There is nothing truer than the
above. Why should we, free
American citizens, ape a prac-
tice which has caused the down
fall Of a nation. namely the alb
solute servility of people as
must come from government con
troll of property that is controlled
by virtue of seizure and not by
virtue of purchase. This latter
feet, in itself. savors of infringe |
ment Of right of property. end |
cannot be calculated to foster re-
s2ect among the people 10 tho |
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they
cannot reach tho seat of the disease
Catarrh IL a local disease. greatly in
in order to cure 1t you must take an
internal remedy. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine is taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Halls Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years. 1t Is COM
posed OF some OF the best tonics known.
combined with some OF the best blood
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results in catarrhal conditions. Send for
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All Druggists, Toe.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

The advertising patronage the
the News has this week is the
least in years, and this weeks in
come from the paper wouldn't be
enough to pay a day laborer. It's
a shame that we cannot be bet
ter supported.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
THE NEW TREASON.

On his appearance as a witness
before the House Post Office
Committee at Washington it de-
veIoped that Edward Reynolds,
formerly General Manager of the
Postal Telegraph Company, had
been dismissed by Postmaster
General Burleson for refusing to
comply with orders issued after
the telegraphs and telephones
had been taken over.
Having made this fact a mat
ter of record, Chairman Moon
proceeded on a line Of questions
indicating his belief that Mr..
Reynolds had been guilty of high
crimes and misdemeanors. You
were dismissed because YOU were
treasonable?" and "You were
disloyal to Mr.. Burleston?" he
asked, to which the witness in
dignantly responded in the mega
tive.
We used to suppose that treas
on against the United States con
sisted "only in levying war
against them or adhering to
their enemies. giving them aid
and comfort" but the authors of
that clause in the Constitution
did not know Albert Sidney Bur-
leston,6 of Texas. If they had
even suspected that he would one
day come upon the scene and be
in charge of all means of commu
nication they would have pre-
scribed the death penalty for any
hireling who ventured to ques-
ton Rurlesonian authority. New
York Herald Dem. g..
1t is too bad that Chairman
Moon, who has been honored sig
nally, year after year by the peo-
pie Of this congressional district
with reelection. should fail to see
the rights of the people as COM
mon citizens and not as owners
of property. to protest against
government ownership, such as
seizure of telephone and tele-
graph lines. after war is suppos-
ed to have been concluded. and
the soldiers are supposed to be
returning as fast as they can be
conveyed back from the CORY
fields of France. Is it treason
for an American citizen like Mr..
McReynolds to refuse to obey a
servant Of the government like
Mr.. Burleson? If so, a new code
of ethics has been constructed.
which equals the German system
of force against which the arms
Of this country has been directed.
The American system of gov
eminent, as it is is good enough
for it's citizens, and no German
methods OF compulsion or seizure
are wanted. The American
people, the people who want this
country to continue on the same
broad and generous lines Of gov
which it has enjoyed in
the past. are going to ask a con-
tinuance of this at the polls in
1920. and the Burlesons and
other slave drivers of their ilk
will have to get out.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

There is a growing belief tina
McAdoo attained his high mari
of good judgement when he turn
ed loose the railroad job before i
got too hot to handle. Mash
vile Evening American.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

Anyway we got rid Of our tele-
phone before the Government
charged for taking it out.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

Preparations should now be
made for q good garden to help
keep down the living expenses.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

H. G Francis, Inman, Tenn,
orders the News for six NOR this.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06
ssquacbss GALLEY nsWs.

Entered at the postofice at Sequat-
chic, Tpnurssee, as second class matter.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1919-02-06

THURSDAY, -, February 8, 1918
The sun., 1919-03-02
"The Charmed American"

ter dealing with the Champagne, ws
quote paragraph which seems peculiarly
characteristic Of this book, grewsome and
depressing but strong and dignifcd
throughout and sure to enthrall its audi
ence, however it makes us vince.
ave are sixty-two men in the company,
including the reenforcemcnt-a deprecia-
ton that in cattle would be appallingi
Our faces are streaked with filth, blood
and totos; our backs swarming with these
bugs; our clothing vile. We are odorous--
dank. We smell like q herd of swine. We
come from open graves and are called
men! We have not washed, changed our
garments, shaved or brushed in twenty
eight days. We have eaten swill food; we
have rotted with the vermin; we have
thirsted for drink and shrunken from IA
tigue. We-sixty-two men left out of 225
are soldiers of France and Just en-
anating from the trenches"
Naturally the book abounds in anec-
dote, usually of grisly order. We are
told, for instance, of an incident during
an advance on Arras. The Captain called
to one man who remained standing, in de-
liberate danger of death:
Cant you lie down like everybody
You will get killed like foolw The sol
der replied:
81 cannot lie down, because I have lost
the cork Of my canteen and it is full Of
winew
THE "CHARMED AMERICAN" By
FRANCOIS XAVIER and GEoRGEs LEWIS.
John Lane Company. $3.50.
The sun., 1919-03-02
BY CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE

n MEMORIAL volume, consisting of
= poems by Lieut.-Col. John Nc
Crae, his letters from France, others writ
ten during the South African war and a
character study by Sir Andrew Macphail,
is attended by emotional as well as liter
airy interest for every one who knows In
Flanders Fields. This poet, the best loved
in the Canadian army, served throughout
the war until his death from pneumonia
In January, 1918, at which time he was
on duty in the Canadian General Hospital
In France. He had already rendered in
calculable service to humanity and he has
left q memory of deeds which will pro-
hibit his dying so far as that word is used
to mean obliteration in any sense.
Macphail tells us that he was of the
Eckfords and that the "Eckford men were
bonnie men, men with rosy checks. AL
though he was upward of forty years of
age when he left Canada" he says, "he
had always retained an appearance of ex-
treme youthfulness. fIwere asked to state
briefly the impression which remains with
me most firmly I should say it was one of
continuous laughter. After his experience
at the front the old gayety never re-
turned"
Gen. Morrison, who was in command of
McCrae's brigade when he wrote In Fla.-
ders Fields, says Of it, "This poem was
literally born of fire and blood during the
hottest phase of the second battle of
Ypres. 1t was written in his dressing sta
ton in hole dug in the foot of Il bank to
pass away the time between the arrival of
patches of wounded" Which is all the
more remarkable when we consider how
artistically the artificial form of the ron
deau has been overcome.
As we might expect, there is not another
The sun., 1919-03-02
"The Red Cow"

THE jacket Of The Red Cor, by Peter
Il Macarthur, says Of the author:
"Canada has never produced Carlyle, an
Emerson, a Thoreau or Bret Harte, but
in Peter Macarthur she has produced
combination of all four with a few add
tions thrown in" That must be regarded
as facetious statement, for careful re-
search by an impartial critic fails TO re-
veal any strong likeness to these authors.
Peter McArthur seems to be writer OF
pleasant, mildly humorous, but by no
means extraordinary accounts of farm
life. His book is made up of scattered
papers usually brief, on topics connected
with agriculture, that he has published at
various times in Canadian journals.
Mr.. McArthur's whimsical spirit Of
satire and his s5 t,lde toward country life
is illustrated IN The dedication Of his vol
ums ITO all city men who feel sure that
they could farm al profit If each one
buys a copy can afford to keep on farm
ing"
THE RED COW. Ri PEra MoARrHUR.
John Lane Company. $50.
The sun., 1919-03-02
THE "CHARMED AMERICAN"
4 might have been written under the


4 might have been written under the
auspices Of Siegfried Sassoon, so relent-
lessly does it picture the horrors of war and
do away with the glory Of the trenches
concerning which Mr.. Coningsby Dawson
writes 80 feelingly. 1t is the true story
of Francois Xaver's experiences with the
Iron Division, the battering ram of
France. Georges Lewys has put it in its
present form from notes made in the
trenches by Xavier. In spite of manifold
charms of style and manner, the author
has written with such frankness in re-
gard to the realities of war that his pub
ishers delayed the publication of the vol
ume from last spring until the present
time, thinking its revelations too vivid for
a people still at war.
AS q young man Francois Xavier served
three years with the Iron Division and
came later to America, settling in bust
ness in San Francisco. On the day that
he was to have signed his final naturali-
cation papers the war broke out and he
found that his heart as well as his duty
lay in France. His notes take us through
the fighting of Arras, Ypres, the Cham
payne, Verdun, the Somme and the Aisne,
the miraculous immunity with which
Xavier passed through it winning for him
the name of "the charmed American"
"Our Colonel told me confdentially
that $4,000 men went through the
Twentieth Army Corps in three years"
he writes, (which is to say they wiped us
clean out Of existence From the chap
The sun., 1919-03-02

poem in the book which approaches In
Flanders Fields, though there are others
of great interest, and SO the name Of John
McCrae is added to the long list of poets
distinguished for one supreme effort, espc-
cially an effort inspired by a war theme.
The poem The AnriOms Dead, which occu-
pics second place in the volume, is entitled
to it, and is interesting as being perhaps
the best of all the answers which have
been written in response to In Flanders
Fields. We have chosen several verses
from it in preference to quoting the more
familiar one:
80 guns, fall silent till the dead men hear
Above their heads the legions pressing
on;
These fought their fight in time of bitter
fear,
And died not knowing how the day had
gomez.
"Tell them, o guns, that we have heard
their call,
That we have sworn and will not turn
aside,
That we will onward till we win or fall,
That we will keep the faith for which
they died.
IBID them be patient, and some day, anon,
They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence
deep;
Shall greet in wonderment, the quiet
dawn,
And in content may turn them to their
sleep"
IN FLANDERS FIELDS. BY JOHN Mo
CRAk G. Z. Putnam 5 Sons. $l50.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-08-01
Mr.. and Mrs. Hampton
Cor1pitn1erted


On Tuesday evening, at their home
in the fourth ward. Mr. and Mrs. F.
g. B. Weihe entertained at a very
charming musicale as a farewell com
pliment to Mr. and Mrs. H NJ. Hamp-
ton, who are soon to move from Ocala
to Miami to reside.
The Weihe home was very attract
icely decorated for this occasion, and
the guests included a few of the spe-
ciaI friends of Mr. and Mrs. Weihe.
and of Mr., and Mrs. Hampton. Mr..
and Mrs. Weihe were assisted in
their duties as hosts by their son
and daughter-in-law, Dr. and Mrs
Karl Weihe.
During the evening there was very
delightful music rendered by Mrs.
Hampton, Mrs Blake, Dr.. Weihe ana
other of the guests. and the evening
was thoroughly enjoyed by Mr.. and
Mrs Weihe and their guests.
During the evening fruit punch ice
cream and angel food cake were serv-
ed by Mrs. Weihe and Mrs. Karl
Weihe.