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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30
Chapter 664-Senate Bill No. 800.
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An Act to amend an Act entitled
AN Act to regulate the compensa-
ton of Clerk & Masters of Chancery
Courts in all counties of the State
having a population of not less than
seventeen thousand nor more than
seventeen thousand two hundred by
the federal census of 1910 or any
subsequent federal census in the
State of Tennessee, 1.-THE same being
Chapter 70 of the Acts of the Legis-
lature of the State of Tennessee for
the year 191l:"
Section !. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Tennessee, That Section /, of the Act
entitled "An Act to regulate the CON-
pensation of the Clerk & Masters of
Chancery Courts in all counties of
the State having population of not
less than seventeen thousand nor
more than seventeen thousand two
hundred by the federal census of
1910 or any subsequent federal Gen.
sus in the State of Tennessee. the
same being Chapter TO- of the Acts
of the General Assembly of the State
of Tennessee for the year 1911, be
and the same is hereby amended by
striking out of the first section of
said Act wherever there appear
therein the words "Seven Hundred
and Fifty Dollars" and by inserting
in lieu and instead Of said words
"Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars"
whenever same appears in said Act,
the words Twelve Hundred Dollars
and by striking out of the first Sec
ton, wherever the same appear
therein, the figures $4,000" preced-
ed by dollar mark, and by inserting
in lieu of said figures 1850" proceed
ed by dollar mark so stricken out,
the figures 1920" preceded by dol
lar mark.
Section 2. Be it further enacted,
That this Act take effect from and
after its passage, the public welfare
requiring 1t.
Passed April 14th. 1919.
ANDREW L. TODD.
Speaker of the Senate.
SETH NJ. WALKER,
Speake,. House of Representatives.
Approved April 18th, 1919.
A. H. ROBERTS, Governor.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30
TAKING THE LESSON TO HEART

One fundamental fact confronts
the farmer to-day. The great indus
tries of the country can, and do, fix
their own selling prices, within reas-
enable limits. When the lumber in
terests meet in national association
and say that conditions necessitate
an increase in price, why, that settles
it. Their organizations are strong
enough to enforce their edict. All
the customer has to do is to pay the
bill. The same thing is true in prac-
tically all the other great indus
tries. Some of them deny it and
some of them admit it, but in gen.
eral way it is true. BY organization
they influence prices. Even labor
ing men are able to do it, through
their unions. Thus there has grown
up in our industrial life a kind of
armed neutrality. In effect the diff
ferent organizations say to one an
other, if you will let US get away
with it, why, we will shut our eyes to
what you are doing. And the farmer
Is rank outsider in this entente of
organization. He occupies a good
position now, because of the world
shortage of food. How long his adj
vantage will last, he does not know.
Bnt he, too, is organizing against the
future. In unionized and federated
world the agriculturists can no long
err pride himself on his isolation. -
Farm Life.
If the farmer would or could or
ganize and sell his stuff at his own
will, he could control prices in spite
of the size of the supply-but we
doubt if farmers will ever perfectly
organize, doubt seriously if it would
be well for the world for farmers to
so organize. Take cotton, for in
stance; IL twenty-million bale crop
should be made and baled and doled
out to the world by the growers the
price could be absolutely controlled.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30
9 Months on Sol
der Insurance.

Washington, May 24th.-Soldiers
who fail to pay their premiums on
government insurance after dis
charge will be given a nine-month
period in which the policy may be re-
instated, under War Risk Bureau
ruling announced to-day by Secre-
tary Glass.
Insurance on which premiums are
not paid will be classed as lapsed af
ter ninety days, but at any time dur
ing the six months following the
lapse may be reinsated by the insur-
ed, if he furnishes a physicians GER
tifieate that he is in good health and
pays up back premiums.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Will G..
Bunch, on Monday night, May 10Th,
fine girl--and Grandpa Sol is mad
because his folks have quit raising
Democrats. But Sol should remem-
Der that these "gal babies" will vote
and possibly, the Democrats tick
ct, as prohibition will be an accom-
plished fact by the time they reach
their majority. Mr.. viii Bunch will
soon leave for Blytheville, Arkansas,
where he is in the insurance bust
ness.
Miss Nell Davis entertained a
number of friends last Saturday
night in honor of Miss Mary Sue
Sanders, of Memphis. Refreshments
were served and all report an enjoy
able affair.
Mrs. W. c. Pearson has been on a
short visit to her daughter, Miss Lula
Mae, in Jackson, in the home of ]. W.
Enochs.
FOR SALE.-Jersey cow with
young calf. In good condition.-C.
c. Hamilton, Route /, Lexington,
Tenn.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30
Miller's Antiseptic Oil, Known AS
SNAKE OIL
Positively Relieves Pain in few
Minutes.


Try it right now for Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Lumbago, sore, stiff and
swollen joints, pain in the head, back
and limbs, corns bunions, etc. After
one application pain usually disap-
pears as if by magic.
A new remedy used internally and
externally for Coughs, Colds, Group,
Sore Throat, Diptheria and Tonsilitis
This oil is conceded to be the most
penetrating remedy known, It,
prompt and immediate effect in re
lieying pain is due to the fact that
it renorates to the affected rart ri
once. As an Illustration, r ~ tn
drops on the thickest pilee - sole
leather and it will penetrate Tins euh.
stance through and through in three
minutes
Accept no substitute. This great
oil is Miller's only, Every bette
guaranteed-3oc, Go, and 81 a 1a,-
tie at leading druggists everywj -.
and the STEWART DRUG CON-
PANY, Lexington, Tenn.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30
PINEY CREEK.

Minsted Little spent a night with
A. NJ. Bailey and family last week.
Your scribe was in town on bust
ness last Saturday.
R. T. Bailey visited at S. Goff's
Sunday.
Clarence Little, son of W. P. Lit
tie, has arrived home after seeing
service in France. We are glad to
have Clarence back with US.
Tommie Wilkerson visited J. R.
Holmes the first of last week.
Will Moore visited at s. Goff's
Sunday,
"Tin Lizzie" belonging to Charlie
Beecham, which has been Ealing"
for quite a while had to be carried to
the hospital" Friday. The opera
ton" did not seem to be serious, as
she was able to make a trip Sunday.
Max Bailey is on the sick list.
w. I. Christopher spent Sunday
afternoon with R. H. Phillips.
Jack McPeake and family, Lee
Gurley and family and Leonard Pow
ers and family visited at Mrs. Zim-
erlee's Sunday,
J. R, Holmes and family visited at
VT, Moriah, Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs, Claud Mills spent the past
week with relatives at Enville, |
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30

Office of Deputy Collector of In
ternal Revenue, Memphis, Tenn,
May %, 1919. On Monday, June End,
at IL o'clock noon, at the United Gro
Gerry Company, Lexington. Tenn, |
will sell to the highest bidder for
cash, 80 boxes of manufactured to-
bacco, branded "E. Rice Greenville,
plug" and each box containing be-
tween and 10 pounds. n. Rob
inson, Deputy Collector.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30

I'D. Porter, wife and baby, of Par
sons, were here on Thursday of last
week enroute to Henry county on &C
count of the death Of DIR. Porters
sister, Mrs. Minnie Bomar, which oc-
Cured in Arkansas and whose body
was brought back to her old home
county for burial.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30

In Lauderdale County last Sunday
afternoon, Robert Griggs, aged IL,
was handling an "unloaded" shotgun,
with the result that the gun was dis
charged and killed his 16 year old
sister.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-05-30

Walter Tanning, Of Union City. is
a guest of his brothers. W. C. and ].
II. Tanning.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-27
Sergeant York Returns.

Sergeant Alvin York on arriving in New
York is given the sort OF an American recep-
ton in honor of an American hero that tickles
the fancy and stirs the imagination of his fell
low countrymen.
The Tennessee Society of New York, COM
posed of men from his native State, meets
him at the dock and presents him with d
special fve-day furlough authorizing him to
skip the delousing station and the red-tape
routine of camp, and to go with them Wher-
ever they want to take him.
They lead him to the Waldorf. The man
ager personally escorts him to his suite, ad-
joining the suite set aside for President Will
son, riding him in an elevator which has been
held for his arrival A platoon of bell boys
fight for the privilege of ''toting" his bag
gage. On opening the door he sees on the
bureau big photograph of his mother put
in frame. He is introduced to a bath in a
fine, expensive, porcelain tub, with sweet
scented soap and linen towels. Admitting
friends divest him of the Well-Worn overseas
uniform and present him with new one,
bearing the shoulder marks and all the in
sigma of the one he took off. They positive
ly inform him that he cannot wear those ever
brogans-that he must put on these
vici kids which they have bought for him.
They bring him silk socks, brccaded loung-
ing robe, soft velvet slippers. The manager
of the telephone system personally supervises
a long distance telephone connection with
Sergeant Yorks mother in the grocery store
in faraway Pail Mall, hidden in the noun
tains of west Tennessee. All hands retire
while this incompatible American hero talks
to his mother.
And then they take him to the "swell''
barber shop, and have his hair trimmed in
the latest style, and Lave him shaved, and
'sic" the manicure lady tpon him, but the
sergeant declines her delicate attentions and
'reckons' he can trim them with his trusty
pocket knife. And after that they feed him
on the choicest viands of the famous cafe
where millionaires dine, and inform him that
tomorrow they are going to entertain him
with banquet attended by every person in
the realms of Gotham who came from Ten
there. He and General Duncan, commander
of the Eighty-Second, will side by side.
And who is this sergeant over whom New
Society, are perfectly wild? He is the giant
scientious objector,' the second elder from
the little church tucked away in the cove
the man who fought whole battalion of
German machine guns and whipped the
whole works. the man whose rife and au-
tomato pistol spoke twenty-four times and
sent to their doom tWenty-four squealing
Germans, the man who escorted to the near
est American officer string of captives num-
bering one hundred and .1irty-two, and then
went back to his own platoon commander and
reported for duty-ready for more.
America salutes this sublime example Of
American nerve, American courage, American
resource and self-coni.dence. Nothing the
people of his proud native State can do for
him will be too much for the admiration of
Nation that is honored to give him birth.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-27
Worth Remembering.

The Albany Herald seasonably asks:
Have you ever thought about the panic we
would have had, and of the state of finan-
cial chaos generally the country would have
been in following the outbreak of the world
war if the Republican party had been in
power and it's old banking system had been
still in force? 1t is enough . make one
shudder even now to think of what would
have been experienced"
For years and ,ecades the party which
pretended to be the all-knowe" in things
governmental and the sole custodian of pros
perity had 2uffered the country to jog on in
the rut of an outworn and dangerously in
adequate financial system. Moreover when
the Wilson adminstt ation proposed i'm
provements it was described hopelessly
academic by Republican obstructionists.
They did nothing themselves to better mat
ters;. they sought to keep others from act
ing The record is plain, and it is we'll
worth remembering
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-27
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE LUXURY TAX-By Frederic j. Haskin

will cost them great deal Of money, and that
this cost will be passed on to the consumer
in the price of the article. The articles de-
clared to be luXuries by the new revene law
and thereby bearing tax of 10 per cent are
as follows: Carpets and rugs. including fiber
with the exception Of imported and Amert-
can rugs made principally of wool-when
costing over five dollars per square yard;
picture frames, selling at price in excess OF
$40 each; trunks, costing over $50 each;
valises, travelling bags, suitcases, hat boxes
used by travellers, and fitted toilet cases re-
failing in excess of SIS each purses, pocket
books shopping and hand bags, costing over
$3.50 each; portable lighting fixtures includ-
ing lamps of all kinds and lamp shades at
over SIS each; umbrellas, parasols and sun
shades, over 81 each; fans, over 81; house
or smoking coats or Jackets, and bath or
lounging robes, costing over $3.50; mems
waistcoats, sold sperately from suits, costing
over SIS each; women's and misses hats, bon
nets and hoods, in excess of SIS; mems and
boys hats, in excess of So; and mems and
boys caps in excess of 81; mems, women's
misses and boys boots, shoes, pumps and
slippers not including shoes or appliances
made to order for any person having a
crippled or deformed foot or ankle, in excess
of $40 a pair; mems and boys neckties and
neckwear, in excess of 50 each; mems and
boys silk stockings and hose, above 81 per
pair, and women's and misses silk stockings
above 50 per pair; mems shirts in excess Of
SO each; mems, Women's, misses and boys
pajamas, nightgowns and underwear, in ex-
cess Of IS each, and kimonos petticoats and
waists costing over SIS each.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-27
PASSING THE BUCK
By Dr.. Frank Crane

Dy LII. IeIdIIk OldllE
visited factory the other day where are
made womens coats and suits.
There are some thousand workpeople en-
ployed and they have no labor troubles.
Strikes may come and strikes may go all
around this plant, but these workers grin
and keep at work
Neither do they have lockouts
An interesting phenomenon. And the ex-
PLANTATION is simple.
The boss simply passed the buck
That means he put the whole question of
labor, its hiring and firing, its grievances, it's
conditions, its hours and it's wages, up to the
laborers themselves.
He did not solve the labor question. He
turned it over to the laboring people.
Confronted with the shrieking disputes, the
clashing theories and The hot hates of Capital
and Labor, he said: 'Why should I worry?
Let George do it,"
George is doing it, And everybody is
happy
In this plant the workers have an industrial
democracy. They elect their own house of
representatives, which handles all employ
ment issues 1t receives and adjusts COM
plants. 1t regulates working hours, hears
and adjudicates quarre1s and fixes wages
OF course this cannot be done. It is i'm
possible.
Still, it is done, and any one can go there
and see it, where it has been working smooth
ly some years.
1t shows how Democracy in business beats
any theory.
For Democracy means letting people run
their own affairs-that's all. 1t does not
mean "helping'' people, nor doing them
good,'' nor any such thing.
But don't the workers make impossible de-
mands? Answer: They never have.
And why should they? They know their
Jobs depend on the prosperity of the concern;
would they cripple it?
The whole rotten vicious "Class" feeling
is absent in this factory.
They're all human beings. IF anything
does not suit them, they get together and
talk it over.
Is not this the way out of the industrial
enbroglio?
Let every concern put it's own house in
order! Let every house sweep before it's own
doorstep!
Why should there be "Class" of employers
and capitalists, and Glass of laborers?
They are all sons of women. They all were
helpless babies once and soon will be indis-
tinguishable dust. In the interim why sup
pose their flesh is different, or their souls or
their happiness?
81 am not philanthropist," said the head
of this house. II ain not even religious
not particularly charitable. Only I be-
leve this way is tho best and easiest COR do
ing business, and profits everybody most
While your country, you other capitalists
and employers, has been making the world
safe for democracy" did it ever occur to you
that Democracy would make your business
safe for you?
How can you do it? It's easy. Just "pass
the buck"
Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-27
DO A LITTLE MORE
Rv H AddinptOn Bruce

~ ENERAL CHARLES H. TAYLOR, edi-
~ tor of the Boston Globe, once wrote
to a friend Of mine:
THE only rule for success in newspaper
tie more than IS expected Of him every week,
every month, and every year. If it Is in him,
he will go IT,. head of tn class
wish that every y: ung person beginning
business career would memorize this tiece
of advice, 7itn a view to turning it to per-
sonal advantage.
Many people, for that matter, seem deliber-
ately to make up their minds to 40 a little
less, or great deal less, than Is expected of
them.
They come to work as late as hey dare.
They are ready to start for home with the
stroke Of the cocl.
In between, when they are supp" ed tC be
fully earni-g their pay, they are missin~3 no
opportunity tc let their energy tCwn to the
zero point.
Altogether they behave as though their
employer ought to be grateful to them for
working for him at all
. If they are discharged, they deserv', to
be, they talk of frank ingratitude." If tt ey
are tolerated but denied the promotion &C
corded to others, they bawl "fav ,ritism!"
They are malconteY,ts of the first order.
They swell the ranks OF those who would de-
stroy the social organization.
Under new der of things, they foolish
ly tell themselves, their talents would of a
certainty be rec )gnized.
AS a matter of fact, their talent for loaf
ing would indeed be recognized under any
social system. And they would fare as badly
as they do now
What these deludel ones really ought to
do is to looF at life from new angle.
They need to apr ,ciate that energy, not
lethargy, makes for success. They need to
become aware that initiative and loyalty are
the surest wage raisers to be found anywhere.
Instead Of scheming how to kill their en-
ployers time they need t busy themselves
planning how to use it most rrof1tably.
His interest and heirs, after all, are bound
pretty closely together. The more they can
advantage him the greater the likelihood of
their advantagng themselves.
If, then, you who read these lines happen
to be among the self-deceivers just described
urge you t. wake up to yourself.
Unless you wish to founder forever in
mediocrity, make General Taylor's rule ycu
standard for endeavor.
Do littlo more than is expected of you,
week in and week out. Your reward may
be slow in coming-but it will con
Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
papers)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-27
Il Weq0 Georgia Industry.

Cheese manufacturing in North Georgia
counties bids fair to become an established
and rapidly growing industry, thereby enrich
ing the mountain region and contributing ma
terially to the wealth of the State.
At the instance and with the cooperation
of the Georgia State College of Agriculture
cheese plant was built in the spring of 1918
at the town of Young Harris in Towns coun-
ty. Professor Milton P. Jarnagin, head of
the department of animal husbandry of the
college, is authority for the statement that
the plant has made a profit from the day it
started.
Two more plants are now being construct
ed. one being near Young Harris in the same
community as the frs, and the other being
located this side" of the mountains near
Cleveland in White county. The two new
plants will be larger than the irst and the
one near Cleveland will be operated on the
cooperative plan.
During the month of April, according to a
bulletin issued by the College of Agriculture,
the plant at Young Harris showed remark
able results. By selling their mill to the
cheese factory the owners Of COWS got an av-
erage of better than eighty-four cents per
pound for butter fat, while butter was selling
for only twenty and twenty-five cents pound.
Certainly there is not j more picturesque
region in Georgia for the development of a
new industry than the mo lntain counties in
the northern part of the State. In valleys
WdCereu ny mounIdln STREAMS me grass grows
lush and green as emerald. Corn and other
grains and forage crops are produced in
abundance. On the sheltered mountain
sides are thriving peacI and apple orchards.
Georgia consumes large quantities of
cheese, often importing carload shipments
from Wisconsin and ether dairy states. Now
it is promised that the State will produce her
own cheese in her own factories, furn' s hing
the farmers steady cash market or butter
lat. ana Keeping this money at home to in
crease her wealth
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-27
Pr0sberitv Via the Vat. .

If one sees no significance in the tidings
from the Federal Department of Agriculture
that the Southeast has thirty thousand more
dipping vats in operation this spring than
two years ago. he has failed to grasp
pivotal problem in one of the peculiarly I'M
portant fields of this regions prosperity.
The dipping vat, as the chief instrument in
campaigns against the blood-sucking cattle
tick means more to Georgia and neighbor-
ing States than the casual observer can
we'll imagine. To the extent that 1T is faith
fully employed, live stock interests which
hitherto have struggled for precarious ex-
stence grow firm and move robustly for
ward. 1t is a matter of official record that
since the movement for tick determination
was launched on a large scale some ten years
ago the industry in the South has improved
and multiplied from fifty to one hundred
per cent; authorities say, indeed, that with
in that decade there has been more progress
than durins the entire MALT century pre-
ceding.
Hence the far-reaching import of the
special vigor with which the campaign is
being pressed this spring. "In one month"
says the Savannah Morning News summarize
lion and quarter of the cattle OF the
Southeastern States waded through the
canals of prosperity-to freedom from the
enemy of life value and profits in cattle
raising" This foretokens not distant lift
ing of the tick quarantine from the entire
Southeast, whereupon cattle raising and
darying industries already waxing strong,
will go swiftly to q rank amongst the fore
most in the world. All the resources of
nature needful to that attainment are here
in lavish abundance, and the one serious
drawback is the tick. Let the dipping vat
go conqueringly forward. Prosperity fol-
lowing in it's wake.