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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29
WHEN GOVERNMENT EAlL s

Nashville street railway traffic was
completely paralyzed, the Transports
ton service ceased to function and
the public greatly Inconvenience be-
cause of strike of tle employees.
Both labor and capital lost as a re.
suit OF the strike. The street railway
workers had perfect right to join a
union and go on a strike. If working
conditions did not suit them no ono
can deny them the right to quit But
their right ended there. They had no
right to deter others from taking their
places. at least no right to use force
In doing 50. Other men were ready
and willing to take thC places of those
who quit work. They were good Amer
leans and had constitutional right to
do legitimate work. The street raj.
way officials were under obliglti rs
to the public to continue the trans
pCrtation service without interruption.
The ears were not allowed, however,
to operate A mob estimated ly the
Nashville papers at 1000 people lthcr-
ed and prevented the employees from
discharging their duties. Much prop
erty was destroyed. some people were
injured AID the lives OF others placed
in jeopardy. Finally all efforts to op
crate the cars, t. discharge a plain
duty to the public, were in the inter.
est of safety abandoned. Now the
street railway company. an aggrega
ton of capital and the men whom il
had employed to run its cars, were all
entitled to the protection of govern
ment Not only did they seek to dis
charge public service but they We're
all engaged in a perfectly lawful en-
terprise and>no one can deny that
they We're entitled to the full protcc
ton OF the law. But the law was inn
Roseat Government in Nashville
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29
RETAIL MEAT PRICES.

Investigations are said to show
that in many cities there has been no
reduction whatever in the retail
prices of beef although wholesale prize
es from the packer on the average are
about S. on the hundred less than they
were when cattle sold at the top of
the market in the early spring. This
sustains the contention heretofore
made by The Herald that the reduc-
ton in the wholesale price of beef
had not been reflected in the prices
paid by the consumer This conten-
ton has been made the basis for I'M
warranted and wholly unjustified at.
lacks on the packers and attempt to
make them subject to governmental
bureau. The fact that consumers
have not received the advantage that
was justly theirs as a result of lower
cattle prices has distinctly discourag'
ed the consumption of beef Accord
ing to the statement of the depart
ment Of agriculture the prices now be-
ing received by farmers for their cat
tie are below the cost of production
and are goins to distinctly discourage
the further production of cattle. If
there is profteefing in the cattle bus
%, nd nYlx
ers are absolved from blame
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29
DIDN'T WANT BALLOT.

Failure of the women Of Maury
county to register bears out fully the
contention of The Herald that they
did not, at least SO far as this county
is concerned, desire the ballot They
were absolutely Indifferent to whether
or not they have the privilege of vot-
ing. There are in the third, seventh
and ninth districts at least $500
wpmen of;voting age. Less than eight
per centaof them registered although
It, was expected that the novelty of
the ballot would have attracted alone
largely more than that number. Prob
ably not more than half of those who
did register would have done so with
cut the personal appeals Of some one.
AS we have heretofore remarked,
comforting the ballot on Ycmen is the
first time in the history Of the hui
man race that great political privis
legeg that Which is priced above all
others BY the English speaking peo-
pies, has been thrust upon people.
The ballot was literally thrust upon
the women of Tennessee. 1T was an
act of justice and. most commend
able one upon, the part of the men, but
it was privilege that not one woman
in ten cared rap whether or not she
ever had it. They were perfectly con
tent to let the men Of the country
share alone the privileges, the bur.
dens and the sp0nsibilities of gov
eminent. They are busy with their
own affairs and while they may agre2
that men often make a mess" of gov
eminent, they had no sort of desire
to help them solve it's many veXatious
problems, In time possibly the wom-
en- will come to general participa-
ton in the affairs of their state and
nation, but they evidently are not in
any hurry about doing so. When the
do they cannot quit with merely exer-
cising the ballot. They must aid in
administering the laws and The Her.
aid does not believe that thee a dozen
women in this county who really want
any office within the gift of their fel
low citizens
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29

the destruction of seven mil
lion human beings who were
the worlds best producers,
that they caused an equally large num-
Der of others to be manned for life;
that they are responsible for shorter
hours, for all the strikes in the world
and the general decrease in produc-
ton.
The truth about the matter is that
for four long and bloody years the
world danced a mad, wild dance to the
tune of the roar of the artillery, the
rattle of musketry and the destruction
of the accumulated property of the
ages and now it must pay the fiddler.
The human lives lost cannot be re-
stored. The wealth and commodities
destroyed can be re-created but only
through the sweat and toll of human
kind These are disagreeable truths
but they are facts nevertheless. Labor
and not legislation; honest toll and
not investigations by political agents;
hard work and not arbitrary regula-
ton of legitimate business, these and
these alone are the remedies for the
ills of the world today.
Speaking of conditions in the Brit
ish Empire David Lloyd George, that
great man of the people, used these
words on last week.
"ln every direction we are spending
more and earning less. We are con
suming more and producing less.
These are facts. 1t cannot last"
One of the great arguments used
by Lloyd George and Wilson and other
theorists in behalf of shorter hours
for labor was that reduction in time
worked would not involve a reduction
in output. But Lloyd George finds
that this has not been the case. There
has been, he declared, a substantial
reduction in the hours of labor and the
output has been reduced in almAt the
same mathematical proportion.
II the British Premier had been
speaking OF conditions in America he
could not have described them more
accurately than he did in the state
ments here quoted We are spending
and consuming more than we are pro-
ducing. We art constantly increasing
our consumption and all the time we
are reducing the output. 1t cannot go
on forever.
TO blame the packers, or the profit
GERS or some other particular inter
est is much easier and safer for the
demagog than to fairly and bravely
face the facts. President Wilson
could have done this country a great
service if instead of the quack or at
least only temporary remedies sug-
gested in his cost of living address he
had squarely faced the facts. He
might have incurred the enmty of
the labor agitatOrs but he would have
rendered real service to humanity.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29
ANOTHER REMEDY.

Everyone has some quack remedy
for the ills of the world today. Few
are courageous enough to face the
naked facts and tell the people that
in increased production which calls
for mere labor. can normal conditions
be restored. For example the es-
teemed McMinnville Standard thinks
that the high cost of living would be
remedied and that the labor of the
world could float to heaven on fiowery
beds of ease IL only the packers were
destroyed. u is just as logical to ar
que that the packers brought on the
war, that they We're responsible for
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29

ceased to exist. It's guarantees of life,
liberty and the rights of property
proved to be mere ropes of sand.
The law abiding citizens of Nash
vile pay large amount of taxes ev-
cry year to maintain government,
That government in city and state is
maintained largely that it may afford
protection to life and property and
the right of men TO do any lawful
work that they may desire. 1t cost
a good deal in blood and money to es-
tablish government and it costs a
great deal more to maintain it, Yet
in the Nashville emergency it absolute
ly failed to function.
1t should be stated that the leaders
of the strike urged their followers to
be orderly, that whatever violence
was manifested was against their adj
vice, but the point made here is that
regardless of the attitude of any in
terest, individual ca organization, it
was the duty of government in Nash
Vile, if it justified it's cost, to pre-
serve order. That it did not do.
Seemingly no effort to do so was made.
Labor has a perfect right to organ
ize. The Herald has no objection
whatever to union labor. 1t does not
believe in the CLOSED shop" That
principle is utterly repugnant to
American liberty. No man should be
denied the right to labor because he
is not member of any organization.
1t would be just as un-American to
refuse employment to a man because
he was or was not a member of the
Methodist church 1t is just as I'M
democratic and as un-American to re-
fuse the right of man to work be-
cause he is not a member of the Ply
thians or the Jun i0r Order. There
should be no discrimination between
men who belong to different lawful or
CARNATIONS and the man who is not
member should not be penalzed The
laborer who does not belong to an or
ganizatiOn is just as much entitled
to the protection of the law as is the
man who belongs to all of them.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29
CREATING AN AUTOCRACY.

During the period of the war the
congress passed law after law increas-
ing the powers of government. Liber
ties which Americans had priced as
they would life itself were willingly
and readily surrendered to the general
government. Restrictions were impos-
ed upon business, and even upon the
private conduct of citizens that are
utterly repugnant to the genius of our
American institutions. But it was
early recognized that a democratic, a
free government, is instituted for pur-
poses Of peace and not war, that in or
der to defeat the common foe and to
marshal all forces of society for a com
mon defense it would be necessary to
create an autocratic or despotic GOV
eminent. In doing this the congress
and the administration were wise. Our
democratic government cannot well
function when challenged by a power
full autocracy. England and France,
both democracies, were forced to
change their whole system of govern
mem.
But every war worker, every officer
of a war organization possessing des-
potic powers, promised the people that
as soon as the emergency ended, the
autocratic powers conferred upon and
assumed by government, would be sur
rendered back to the people and
transferred back to the people and
that with the coming of peace artifi-
cial restraints on business would be
Withdrawn. Indiyidualism would, it
was agreed, again succeed the social
ism and autocracy of the war. But
these promises have not been made
good. On the contrary the power that
was surrendered to government in the
greatest emergency of the government
is all being retained and even ex
tended.
The war ended ten months ago.
Germany has been PROSTATE since that
hour, impotent to raise finger
against this republic No other pow
er on earth dare Offer any indignity to
the United States. Yet not a single
war power has been surrendered
Upon the recommendation of the Pres
ident the Lever food control act, the
most arbitrary, autocratic and social
istic piece of legislation ever placed
upon the statute books Of a free coun-
try is not emily to be extended to peace
times but its scope is to be enlarged
to take in the control of commodities
that were not even controlled during
the period of the war
1t has been said that no government
ever surrenders any power once OBJ
tanned, that the tendency is always to
hold what it has and ask for more and
yet more. 1t is always dangerous to
surrender powers to any government.
Although our congress has been in
session almost continuously since the
armistice no action whatever has been
taken that would do away with the
hundred and more agencies brought
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29
TREATY RESERVATIONS.

AS result of the conference be-
tween President Wilson and the mem
bers of the senate committee on for
eign relations the way has been open
ed for ratification of the peace treaty
and league of nations covenant within
a reasonable time. The President
manifested rather unusual bat alto
gether commendable spirit of conces-
sion and compromise in his confer
ence with the senators. Unques tiona-
bly, the President would have found
his pathway much smoother in the
senate if he had at the inception of
peace negotiations taken counsel more
often of those who must share with
him the responsibility for the treaty
The President agreed with the res
ervationists, but insisted that the res
orvations proposed by the ''milder'' on
ponents of the league covenant were
merely a true and proper interpreta-
ton Of the proper meaning of that ar
ticle. The Herald cannot share this
view and for that reason it has insist
aG upon the reservations outlined. 1t
has never believed that the interests
Of this nation, for example, would
be properly safeguarded by the much
debated article ten. 1t also insists
that the right of the nation to with
draw from the league upon proper no.
tice should be absolute. This nation
ihould not ask the consent of any 9th
er nation to take such action How
properly construed and correctly in
terpreted the league covenant means
iGst what the reservationists insist on
declaring it to mean, he ought to have
10 objection to writing the reserva-
lions in the face Of the treaty. If the
)thay parties signatory to the treaty
understand the language of the trea-
y as the President understands. 1T,
.hcy assuredly could lot object to the
INTERPRETATIONS made by the Senate
IF the United States.
Anxious as The Herald is to have
the controversy ended and the treaty
rdtiied, it believes that it is the part
of wisdom for the senate to make such
reservations when actually ratifying
the treaty, as will make it plain to all
the world, and particularly to the ma
tons aignatOry to the peace treaty
that that United States does not sur
render one jot or title of its sover-
eighty. that it does not and never will
agree that: any league or association
or society CT nations shall dictate
what its domestic policies may be. 1t
ought to be made equally plain that
cur construction of Article ten is such
that we reserve the unquestioned
right 10 Intervene, if occasion arises
rs we did in the war between Cuba
and Spain. In other words America
in entering the league CT nations IRE
serves inviolate her absolute sove~-
eighty as nation. If this can be
done by separate resolution well
a"orgi, but it would be safer TO in
c'rdc tie reservations in the act of
ratification.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29

for human freedom and the great vic
tory achieved by our soldiers and sail
ors going to avail us, if in the end, in
the very hour of victory, we are to
substitute foryour institutions and our
democracy the hateful autocracy Of
the German system?
Even assuming that the Lever act,
this outrageous invasion Of personal
liberties, should reduce the cost of
living five per cent and it will net
do that, the price that must be paid
is entirely too great. There are some
of us, who have net hesitated to make
any sacrifice that we were asked to
make in order that government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
pie might not perish from earth, who
would not care TO enjoy low cost of
living" if in order to obtain it we had
to bring about complete trapsforma-
ton in our American system. There
are some things worse than the high
cost Of living and not the least among
them is loss Of liberty and a surren-
der of those precious privileges pur-
chased by the blood OF the best men
of the best family of the human race.
But the Lever act viii not of itself
reduce the cost of living. The effort
to control the prices Of all ccmmodi-
ties, if effective ct all must in Che end
hit the producer. protlfeering max L.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29

into being for war purposes. Actually
there were more persons on the fed
eral payroll in July in the District Of
Columbia than there were during the
previous month.
Extension OF the food control act
to other commodities, its revival in
times of profound peace with the
world, are evidences of tendency of
our government that cannot be viewed
otherwise than with distrust by those
who believe in the fundamentals of
American democracy, who believe that
there should be as few artificial re-
straints on business as possible, that
after all the old law of supply and de
mand is the best regulator of prices
In these acts The Herald sees me-
mace to our institutions and liberties
that bodies no good for the America
of the fathers.
This paper is not an alarmist, il
tries not to be un1uly excited, but it
would be false to it's conception of lib
erty and untrue TO its obligation to
the people of this county
and state, if it fails to ut
ter solemn warning against the
efforts that are being made to. change
our whole system of government: to
substitute for American indiyidualism
the socialism and autocracy ofour de-
feated foes. What Is our glorious war
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29
WHAT LOTHIAN SAID.

Senator Louthan writes that he did
not make the statement which the
Chattanooga paper credited him with
having made and which was the sub
iect of an editorial recently in The
Herald. What Senator Louthau. who
isythe chief statistician Of the state
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29
PR0TRACTED MEETING
BEGINS SUNDAY, AUG. 81

The Southport Methodist Charch
protracted meeting will begin Sunday
Afternoon at I O'Clock. Rev J. b. Heu-
gley will have charge of the meeting
and Rev. v. F. Powers will assist him.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-29

The cost of building house in Eng
land is three times as much as before
The Washington herald., 1919-07-31
CLEAN ICE BOX
MEANS HEALTH

II Is economy an buy "A refrigerator
of good quality and good size, as both
ice and food keep longer. Set the
box N the coolest corner of the kit
chen.
All rcfrigerators should have an
enamel or tile lining. These types are
easily cleaned and do not absorb food
odors. n the ice box already owned
is metal lined the lining should be
painted with several coats OF white
paint and white enamel.
Refrigerators should be thoroughly
cleaned at least twice a week, using a
strong solution of cold soda water,
and pouring hot soda water down the
drain pipe. Never allow spilled food
to remain in the ice box. Wipe it out
a once.
Ice wrapped in newspapers or
heavy wool cloth melts less rapidly
than ice left exposed to the air, but
does not cool the box quite so quickly
or so well
Remember, anything touching the
ice melts it more rapidly. Ii water
in bottles is to be cooled next TO
the ice. set the bottles in the ice
chamber, but do not let them touch
the cake.
Food should not be left uncovered
in the ice box. Keep milk ana butter
in glass or earthenware covered re-
Ccptacles
Never permit a great collection OF
leftover and forgotten bits and do 5s
OF food to accumulate in the box. Go
over the contents Of the refrigerator
every morning before planning the
meals or marketing for the day.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-31

TANNING MY HUSBAND
BY KATHLEEN FOX.
(Copyright, 1871


Go ahead and invite them" Crit
tendon then ordered. But mind
what l say about getting too ia
miliar with her. You don't have to
go oyer there at all as far as that's
concerned"
He certainly was exasperating in
his sudden simplemindedness. -
That would be So unconyention-
al and SUCH a nice thing to do" 1
flung back at him. I'VE are to in
vite Jack Langley and his wife to
dine with us, but l am to cut her
dead except when she is a guest in
my own home!
But then you insist Betty has no
character" ] kept on. loftify. per
haps the poor thing never would
know IT. Jack, however -"
viii you let up?" Crittenden
fared. now realizing his ridiculous
position.
I've got nothing particular against
that-sgainst Jacks wife" he then
said. stubbornly.
Then what are you trying to get
at?' l inquired. blsndly.
You, confound it,"
] had been dull not TO see it be-
fore. He had admitted the truth.
He had been striking at me through
Betty for he knew | loved her. that
/ valued her friendship. But his
attack had failed signally.
In that case or any other, my
dear Crittenden," l assured him. Il
shall see as much OF Betty Langley
as plesses her and ME and at any
time. In certain respects. though
your wife, | am a free agent"
To Be Continued.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-31

berti will sail from New York on
August Is to return to Italy. Nine.
Cuniberti has been prominently
identified with thetsplendid work of
the italian war relief committee in
this country.
Senator Truman H. Newberry will
leave today to join his wife at their
summer home in Watch Hill, r. l.
He will return next Sunday.
Representative Royal c. johnson
is making a short stay in New
York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur d. Addison
left Washington about a week ago
for their summer residence at Bar
Harbor. Maine. where they will re-
main until fall.
Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. william
Ayres Borden will leave Washing
ton next week to visit. Mrs. Broden's
parents. DR.. and Mrs. S S. Adams,
at their summer place in New
Hampshire.
Mai. and Mrs. Daniel c. Borden
will go at the end Of this week to
be the guests of Maj Borden's
parents. Col. and Mrs. w. c. Borden.
at their summer home at Chau-
mont, N. Y.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-31
Vuegt~@~ g.

INC following preparation is good
for facial perspiratiop. Lavender
water. so grams: lemon water. 40
grams; peppermint water, > grams ;
tincture of myrrh, 50 grams: tine
ture of quallaya, so grams; sodium
carbonate, 90 grams. Three times
daily moisten portion of napkin.
dipped in water and wrung out with
the above mixture. from a droppinv
bottle. and wash the face with il
If you desire preparations for per
spiration of the body I will be Glad
to furnish you with same.
Could Not Attend.
Dear Miss Lcr My chum and I were going
TO dance aDh invited boy friend Of mine to
90 also. When the day arrived we could not
70 and feel certain that the boy went any
how. thinking would be theT~ should I
"nte to him and explain the matts1I-Pauicia
As the boy was in a sense to be
your guest for the evening, you owe
him an explanation. A note would
not be amiss.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-31
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