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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-08
MAJ. FRIERSON
HEADS LOCAL
LEGION Post
SERGEANT CLARENCE WATSON
is ELECTED SECRETARY
AND ADJUTANT.
NAMED FOR FIRST COUNTY HERO
Herbert Griffin, First Son Of theyCoun-
ty to Die In Action to Have b Per.
petual emorial-Permanent Offic-
ers Elected Later.

Major Horace Frierson, late of the
Hath field artillery, was elected com.
mander OF the local post of the Amer
lean Legion organized here on Tues
day night Sergeant Clarence Wat
son, of the same organization, was
elected adjutant and post secretary of
the organization.
In memory Of Herbert Griffin, the
first Maury county soldier to be kill
ed in action, the post here was named
the Herbert Griffin Post. There was
strong sentiment to name the post
in memory of Capt. Meade Frierson,
the ranking officer from the county,
who died such heroic death, but as
other posts were being named for the
first soldier killed, it was felt that it
would not be bad idea to follow this
precedent. Again it was argued that
it would tend to promote the popular
ity of the post and thereby increase
it's influence to recognize an elisted
man who was hero in selecting the
name. .s 'sss 81
There was good attendance at the
meeting on Tuesday night and much
interest was shown. Application was
made for charter and just as soon
as this is obtained there will be an.
other meeting when an effort Is going
to be made to get the largest possible
attendance of the soldiers and sailors
of the county. At this meeting the
permanent officers of the post will De
selected.
The Legion stands for the hest in
Amevican:sn Its members are piedg.
ed to standstr ue to the ideals and prin-
clrl"s. Of TIE srepublic'a al 10 combat
WITH Ill tl'eir power the efforts Of
ralicalS to substitute tn ,ule Of a
class for american s.'.ocracy.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-08
NATIONWIDE DRIVE TO
IMPROVE ALL LIVE STOCK
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRIcUl
TURE ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN
TO ELIMINATE SCRUB SlRES.

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.-"Better
sires, better stock"
This is the slogan of a national
better live stock crusade, to get &C
lively in motion October /, that is an
nounced by the United States depart.
ment of agriculture, working in coop
GRAFTON with the state agricultural de-
partment and other agencies interest
ed in live stock improvement. The
campaign looks forward to the future
food needs of this country's increas-
ing population and results from long
and careful observation Of the live
stock industry in this country, and
was planned after extensive consulta-
ton with specialists and breeders.
The plan is to hasten the replacement
of the multitude of scrub domestic an
imals in the United States with pure
bred or high-grade stock and also to
improve the quality Of pure-breds
themselves. The goal in view is
greater efficiency in production.
The campaign will be the first or
ganized crusade in large country to
improve all live stock simultaneously.
1t will interfere in no way with any
work in live stock improvement now
being conducted, but makes all the
work more definite by providing Of
fetal recognition for progressive
breeders.
The campaign will be supervised
from the department of agriculture in
Washington, and in each state by the
state agricultural college. County
agents and other field workers of the
er state colleges will handle the cam
state colleges will handle the cam
paign locally. Every live stock owner
actively cooperating and keeping and
using none but pure-bred sires of
good quality will be given an EN-.
blem as an official recognition of mer-
itorious effort
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-08
REFUNDED TAX
ON AUTOS NOT
SATISFACTORY
COUNTY OFFICIALS OF OPINION
THAT ADDITIONAL SUM
is DUE.
~. SHELTON INVESTIGATING
Legal Representative viii Go to Nash
Vile Next Week to Make an Audit
and Examination of the Accounts.
$1,000 More Wanted.

County officials are by no means
satisfied with the settlement that the
state treasurer has made of Maury
county's account against the old auto
mobile fund ordered refunded to the
various counties under the recent de.
cision of the supreme court. County
Attorney Hugh Todd Shelton, who has
given the matter considerable investi-
cation and thought, is of the opinion
that Mury county should have receiv-
ed $4,000 instead of only $1,000.
1t was at first considered by County
Clerk Lipscomb, to whom the check
was sent, County Judge w. C. Whit
thorne and County Attorney Shelton
that it might be best to decline to
accept the state treasurer's check, but
upon reflection they agreed that the
acceptance of the check would in no
way compromise the claim of the
county for any further sum. The To-
cal officials are satisfied the state Of
ficials will be only too glad to pay
over any sum that they can be shown
is justly due the county. The records
at Nashville in the road or auto tax
department were so poorly kept that
it was exceedingly difficult to ascer-
tain the amounts due the several
counties. There are a number of
counties where no sum has yet been
refunded, due to the incomplete re-
cords made
Mr. Shelton will go to Nashville
next week to make an audit and in
vestigation and ascertain whether or
not gull justice has been done the
county in the apportionment made.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-08
LIGHTNING KILLS SEVEN
HANDSOME RED STEERS
ON THE FARM OF J. o. SMITH
NEAR RALLY HiLl-BELONGED
TO ELLINGTON SMITH.

Lightning struck and killed seven
handsome red steers belonging to Bill.
lington Smith on the farm of his faith.
or, ]. o. Smith, near Rally Hill. The
steers were out in the pasture with
three others and averaged about 900
pounds each. Mr.. Smith was in the
city Friday afternoon and stated to a
Herald reporter that his son was in
New Jersey and knew nothing of the
misfortune that had befalIen him. The
steers had been sold for September
first delivery at ten cents per pound.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-08

bly, to the property and well being OF
labor than the DEVELOPMENT of the au-
itomobile industry. Probably the la
borers who make the motor cars are
the best paid, except railroad work
ers, Of any class in the country. The
farmers have furnished the great mar
ket for the cars, In the agricultural
states of Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa
there are more automobiles per capita
than in any aother states in the union.
These cars could not have been pur-
chased unless the farmers had enjoy
ed prosperity. Not one farmer in a
hundred would have ever purchased
car under the conditions that OBJ
tanned in the early nineties or even
in the early part of this century.
Prosperity has enabled the farmers
to buy more and better machinery for
their farms. High prices for their
products have been responsible for
the purchase of millions of dollars
of Injuries and comforts for the
homes. All these articles were made
by labor which has shared in the bus
mess enjoyed by their employers.
Factories have had to work overtime
to supply the demands for the pro-
ducts. .."
There is one way and one way only
to reduce the cost Of food and that
Is to pay the producer less. Necessa-
rily when this is done his purchasing
power. will be less With less money
he will buy fewer of the luxuries and
comforts and there will be falling
off in all lines of business for when
the farming interests are depressed it
follows as day follows night other
lines of business will suffer. One
might destroy the great cities of the
land, but if the farms remained it
would be only few years until the
cities would be rebuilt. Destroy the
farms and the grass would grow in
the streets of every city in America.
1t Is true that labor will be able to
buy it's food cheaper, but can it hope
to maintain the existing high wage
scale? Assuredly if business is dull,
factories close or run on part time,
jobs will be scarce and competition
in the end must bring down the cost
OF wages. While arraigning the high
cost of living labor should remember
that during the period of high prices
jobs have been easier to obtain than
ever before. This condition did not
obtain when cost of living was low.
The Herald doubts if in the end the
people of America are going to be
as we'll off when they have impaired
the purchasing power of the produo-
sers as they are under the much abus-
ed high cost of living. 1t would be a
fine thing il some statesman could
work out a plan whereby the produc-
ers could enjoy remunerative prices
while the consumers had-to pay-p roth.
ing for what they bought But it sim
ply can't be done.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-08
TREATY RESERVATIONS.

IN Unquestionably the majority of, the
American people favor the ratification
Of the treaty of peace with Germany
just as soon as 1t is reasonably pos
sible. They ,shudder lat the thought
that all Of ffiestime add labor and ne
quotations at Versailles may t.he lost.
They do not want any reopening OF
the peace questions. 1t probably
would have been better and fairer t.
have SO arranged the terms of the
treaty that it could he devisable. that
is the terms imposed upon German!
might have been considered separate
ly. from the league of nations treaty
But the neass cehfereaee, thought 9th
erwises Ehescosefant OF the leagns.o
: natioffs rs spurposely $50 interviewer
with the treaty with Germany that
one fails the other fails.
The Herald is by nsSmeans satisfied
upon every point that the United
4. States ought to enter the league o;
nations tinreservedlyia accept eyers
article therein as written. But it ap
preciates. the fact that amendments
to the treaty by the senate would nee
essarily reopen negCti atoms with the
other powers Therefore II strike
this journal that x-Piesident Taft in
'hfs suggested interpretations hay
opened the .way for the speedy ratiii
cation lof the league and peace treat.
without any sacrifice of conviction
upon the part of those who do not APP.
spf6ts fahsstle ieasSe covenant, The
interpretations or reservations sug
gested by the able ex-president would
not prevent the, exchange of ratliica
ton and at the same time would serv,
notice upon the other members of thu
league of the American attitude.
The world longs for peace. Prob.
iems more momentous even than
those presented during the recent
-struggiF to save civilization muse bc'
seoiped. Trade relationships need t
be 're-estaDlfshed.- Nothing is nofmati
now. Everyone is seeking change;
there is no security for the things that
are or. have been. With the Issues OF
the war behind perhaus the situation
couFf te clarified & ut And we co'sld
more .sspely meet the issues pressing
upon US for decision.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-08
NEW CONSTITUTION.

That the people or Tennessee are
taking practically no interest in the
referendum next month TO decide
whether they will have new consti
tuition is perfectly apparent to any OBJ
server. II 1t were an election for
some second rate ONCE there would
be some excitement by this time, but
1t Is another pretty conclusive evi.
dence that the referendum is not in
practice what it is In theory. People
get very much more excited and vote
in very much larger numbers where
the fortunes of individuals are involv.
ed, than Is the case where some poll
cy or principle of government is the
Issue. 49, .5S..
For many years The Herald has en-
tertained no sorts Of doubt of the
need of new constitution in Tennes-
see. Our cumbersome double barrel
court system of itself affords conclu-
siye argument on that point Our null
uplicity OF county Offices and our ev.
erlasting division sof authority land
consequent inability to fix respon-
sibilitya in governments. Y will s be
conceded. But this paper does
doubt the wisdom ana doubts 1t very
seriously, Of submitting the question
to the people now. The world is lit!
orally upside down. Old standards of
living are openly houted. One hard
ly knows today what to expect tomor-
row. There is no fiSety~ or conviction
among large poftionl"of the popua.
ton. Many are seeking change for
the sake of change and the novelty of
trying something new.
Under these copditions The Herald
is frankly slow to advise the people
whether they should make an effort
TO amend tthe admittedly anticipated
constitution. that they, have lest in
tryfngto remedy conditions they may
not get a. constitution that win be Fad
ical,socialistic and embody a radical
departure from the present standards.
1t Is a puzzifflg question. II the great
masses Of the people were interested,
if they gave themselves really to So
.IutiohSSof the problems, The Herald
would not hesitate to advise consti-
yutY6n8f eUHveHsfUn Bur the ruountry
folk, with whom now abides the last
hope OF Amerioan%defn are alb
solutely unconcerned and it might be
comparatively easy forget ehanges in
the constitution written orr insured
by the socialists and4the fsagitatorssss
II any assurance cansbe obtajned that
the masses of the people will be sufi'
ciently aroused and, interested to elect
suitable Representatives, to the . con-
vention, then by laiImeans it should be
held Otherwise fet ny hold to what
we have rather than flee to the evils
we know not Of
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-08-08
THERE IS NO PEACE.

Problems that are daily challenging
the attention Of thoughtful men iu
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that building to learn what was hap
pening to their husbands.
Village is BdrECd.
The party headed by the British
consul visited Soochung and found
the village had been burned. The Ko-
reans told the visitors that they were
awakened in the night by finding their
houses on fire. When they ran out
they were struck with swords, and
bayoneted or shot None were killed
but several were wounded and we
saw one man whose arm had been laid
open with sword. A church and
thirty houses had been burned here,
but no attempt had been made to
clean up the others.
The Rev. Stacy L. Roberts an
American Presbyterian missionary
stationed at Pyen Yang, has issued a
statement asserting that more than
100 Koreans were shot or beaten to
death in Tyungju and church there
was burned by Japanese.
In another village eight miles away
another Christian church and an acad-
emy for boys were burned by Jap
anese soldiers after the contents, such
as benches, stoves and mats, were
carried away and put to use in the
government school at Tyung-ju.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-06-05
YORKINVITEDTO
CONVENTION OF
PRESBYTERIANS

ATLANTA, June 5.-Sergeant Alvin
| York, of Pail Mall, Tenn, the man des-
ignated by General Pershing as being
the greatest individual hero of the
world war, has been invited to address
the Presbyterian Laymen of the
South at their convention here June
$40. York will leave Nashville June
9 to attend the convention of the Ro-
tary club in Salt Lake City with the
members from Tennessee and it is
hoped that he will be able to spend
the evening of June in Atlanta.
The reiterated assertions of the
warrior ahtt it was his implicit and
simple faith in God that brought him
unscathed from the furnace of war
has made him a parsonage who has at
tracted attention in ecclesiastical cir
cles as well as military subjects. 1t
is largely for this reason that he is
being sought by the great gathering of
Presbyterian Laymen.
The woman's Auxiliary will meet
here at the same time, and these two
big conventions, the one for men at
Wesley Memorial church and the other
for wsmen at the Baptist Tabernacle,
will have something doing every min
ute during the three days of their ses-
sions on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. Many speakers of ma
tional reputation will be heard at both
conventions.
So many delegates are coming to
the conventions, probably 5000, that
not only the hotels but thousands OF
private homes will be opened for their
accommodation Every housewife who
could spare room to Presbyterian
layman or woman was asked to COM
municate with Mrs. George B. Den
man, chairman of the housing COM
mittee, and private homes from one
end of the city to the other have al
ready been listed.
During the conventions, big Ko
rean pageant will be put on at Pied
mont Park. Missionaries are in charge
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DRAINAGE MEN MEET.

ATLANTA, June 5.-The seventh
annual meeting of the Georgia Drain
age association, which was organized
for the purpose of promoting drain
age throughout Georgia, will be held
at Marietta on June 10. The officers
of the association are A. R. Lawton
of Savannah, president; S. w. Mccall
lie, of Atlanta, secretary and treas
urer; L. R. Akin, of Brunswick; Dr.
J. A. Pirkle, of Monroe; T. A. Pate, OF
Snellville, and E. A. Copeland, OF
Greensboro, vice presidents.
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rea Describing his visit to Cheam-nli
the Seoul correspondent writes that
when they asked residents of nearby
villages why that hamlet had been
| burned they were told that it was be-
cause there was a Christian church
and many native Christians in the viii
lage.
when we got to the place which
had been a village of about 40 houses
we found only four or five standing,
all the rest were smoking ruins" he
continued. I'VE found a body fright
fully burned and twisted lying in a
compound and another either of a
young man or woman jusr outside the
church compound. Several groups of
people were huddleG under little
straw shelters on the hillside, with
few of their pitiful belongings about
them. They were mostly women,
some old, others young mothers with
babies, but all sunk in the dull apathy
of abject misery and despair. Mr.. I'm
derwood an American mossionary
who talked to them in their own Ian
guage, brought the story of what had
happened.
Ordered Into Church.
'The day before we arrived soldiers
came to the village and ordered all
the male Christians to gather at the
church. When about 80 were in the
church the soldiers opened fire on
them with rifles and then entered the
swords and bayonets. After this they
set fire to the church and to houses
which otherwise would not have been
burned.
One Korean told the correspondent
lie was alive because ne was no: Q
Christian and was not in the church.
Later when the correspondent made
second trip to Cheam-ni with Mr..
Roys, the British consul, and a party
of seven including several mission
ares he said, we Photographic cree
ly without interference, but when we
started to talk to the natives a police.
man would saunter up and the Korean
would freeze up They were in fear
of what might happen later if they
were seen talking to u.s."
The party, however, divided up and
obtained many interviews concerning
the story as the correspondent learn
ed it on his first visit. They were told
that two of those killed in or near
the church were women who went to
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Heal ski, Diseases

1t is unnecessary for you to suffer
with eczema, blotches. ringworm, ,rashes
and similar skin troubles. Zemo. oh.
tained at any drug store for 35c, or
$1.00 for extra large bottle, and prompt.
lyapplied will usually give instant relief
from itching torture. It cleanses and
soothes the skin and heals quickly and
effectively most skin diseases.
Zemo is wonderful, penetrating.
disappearing liquid and is soothing to
the most delicate skin. It is not greasy.
is easily applied and costs little. GET
1t cs1ddy and save all further distress.
The E. W. Rose Co., Cleveland. q
Americus times-recorder., 1919-06-05
WANT FOOD OFFICE TO STAY.

LONDON, June 5.-(By Associated
Press.)-The General Federation Of
Trades Unions has requested that the
food controllers department continue
to exist for a time, until the world
RECEIVERS it's political and economic
equilibrium, not as an expensive de-
partment, but as a skeleton depart
ment to facilitate and not to restrict
distribution.
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Watch The Lice

on chicks. These parasites sap the
very life blood out of them. Dust the
hen at night with B. A. Thomas Louise
Killer and your troubles are ended. 1t
also kills bugs on cucumbers, tomato
and squash vines. We sell it to you
and if it does not make good, we will.
adv G. E. Buchanan.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-06-05
6KOREANS ARE
SLAIN BY JAPS
INSIDE CHURCH

TOKIO.-(Correspondence of The
Associated Press.)-Thirty-fve Ko-
reans were shot or killed with swords
or bayonets by Japanese soldiers in a
Christian church building at Cheam-ni
40 miles from Seoul in connection
with the Korean independence move
ment.
This has been confirmed by an in
vestigation by British and American
consular agents and by missionary
leaders in Korea. The facts submit
ted by the Japanese authorities at
Seoul, including the Governor General
Hasekawa. The authorities say that
they deplore the outrage, that those
guilty of it have been punished and
that orders have been given to pre-
vent recurrence.
Investigators also have found that
Soochung, another village near
Cheam-ni, was burned by the Japan
ese and that several Koreans there
were wounded in an attack by Japan
ese soldiers who shot them or used
their swords and bayonets on them as
they fed from their buring homes af-
ter the troops had set fire to the build
ings. VI
Reports have been received of the
burning of Christian churches in
three other villages and Koreans told
the Associated Press correspondent at
Seoul that they could show him nine
villages which had been burned by
the Japanese.
Details of Massacre.
Details of the massacre at Cheam-ni
were obtained by the Associated Press
correspondent who visited that place
in company with Raymond S. Curtice,
the American vice consul at Seoul, and
Mr. Underwood, an American mission
airy. Subsequently the correspond
ent again visited the place with Mr.
Royds, the British consul, and several
missionaries, including the Rev. Her.
ron Smith, who is in charge of the
work of the Methodist church in Ko-
Americus times-recorder., 1919-06-05
YANKS SEEK OPPORTUNITY.

BRUSSELS, June 5.-American Wis
itors are arriving almost every day
to examine commercial and financial
opportunities here. American bank
ers are taking an interest in the
work of reconstruction. One big New
York trust company already has op-
ened an office here
Americus times-recorder., 1919-06-05
FLU TOOK $1,000 IN SWEDEN.

STOCKHOLM, June 5.-(By Asso-
ciated Press. Deaths from influenza
in Sweden totalled $4,000 during 1918,
according to official figures just pub
lished. Sweden's population On jan
uary totalled 5,S13,85O, an increase
of only 10000, or 2.25 per thousand,
the lowest recorded since 1892.
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of it. 1t will probably be one of the
most spectacular church exhibitions
that has ever been seen in the South
ern states. Costumes have been inn
ported from Japan.
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NOTICE TO OUR
FARMERS FRIENDS
PLANT PEANUTS.

We can furnish white Spanish pea
nuts for planting upto next Wednes-
day, the 18th, at &c per lb. We com
plete our crush then.
We can also furnish peanut meal for
feeding your cattle and hogs.
FARMERS COTTON OIL COMPANY.
3-5t&w1t
Americus times-recorder., 1919-06-05

Ask for Chero Cola at founts,
There's none so good. 9-tf
Americus times-recorder., 1919-06-05

Ask for Chero Cola at founts.
There's none so good 9-tf