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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
STRIKE Dol sHEvIsM NOW.

No consideration whatever should
be shown the Bolsheviki in America.
The real danger in this movement
comes from the seeming leniency of
the government authorities and yet
Bolshevism means the utter destruc-
ton of our institutions. One or the
other must perish. If we do not prompt
ly and effectually stamp out the seeds
of anarchy in this country the very ex-
istence Of government itself will be
imperilled. Both cannot exist under
the same flag.
There is no excuse for anarchy any
where. assuredly there is none in this
land of freedom and of opportunity
where man is the arbiter of his own
destiny. In no country in the world,
in mo country since time began has
the youth ever had the opportunities
to get ahead in life. to receive the
just rewards for initiative, incentive
and labor, that he enjoys in the Unit
ed States of America. And yet our
doors have too long been open to
those whose only object in coming
here is to destroy our institutions.
There is maudlin sentimentality
that saves too many disloyal men
from the prison or the halter.
1t is gratifying to know that Nash.
vile has a mayor who has no, tolera-,
ton for the high brow intellectuals or
the back alley anarchists who are
joined in common cause to destroy
the freedom and the order which the
American people enjoy and which cost
them so much in blood and treasure.
IL every mayor in the United States
had taken the same stand that Mayor
Gupton took there would have been no
May Day riots, no May Day meetings
to adopt resolutions asking for the re.
lease from just prison sentences OF trai.
tors and murderers. Bolsheyism must
be crushed, utterly destroyed, before
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
DEPoRTiNG ALIENS.

The Florida legislature has memo.
rallied congress to deport undesira-
Bile aliens. 1t is to be hoped that the
petition of the Florida solons will not
be ignored. With the very life of gov
eminent itself at stake the national
law makers have been exceedingly
slow to take action necessary to ban
ish the undesirables from the country
and to bar our doors to their kind
who attempt to come here. Too long
there were no restrictions whatever
upon immigration. Finally law was
passed over the veto of President Will
son requiring a literacy test. This
was good as far as II went But it
does not go far enough. Some of the
most undesirable immigrants are the
so-called ''intellectuals" who boldly
ally themselves with the back alley
anarchists. They are more dangerous
than the ignorant Bolsheviks. They
not only attack our government. but
they attack the Anglo-Saxon stand.
ards Of life. The marriage relation
is especially scorned by them. They
would destroy the home life, that
which has made the Anglo-Saxon
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
THE coLUMBIA Herald FRIDAY, MAY D .I9Ie

great and strong and moved it to the
mighty deeds that 1t has wrought.
.Prof." Scott, the Vanderbilt social
list or Bolshevik, is much more to be
dreaded than the ignorant of the East
side OF New York, who have neither
the brains or the leadership to infiu-
ence others. 1t is surprising that a
great Southern and American institu-
ton like Vanderbilt University with
a long line Of illustrious dead on the
battlefields of Europe to save our in
stitutions and our civilization should
ever have tolerated man holding the
views to which Scott gives public ex-
preston. Assuredly the university
cannot too soon disclaim all RESPONSE
bility for Scott and his kind.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09

sion, to the view that baseball for COM
-mercial purposes was not unlawful In
Tennessee. 1t struck vicious and
most hurtful blow at the Sunday OF
the Anglo Saxon. No greater calami-
ty could come to America than that
which would inevitably follow the
abandonment of the Sabbath of our
fathers and the substitution for it of
the continental Sunday. There can
be no genuine regard for the religion
of Christ If no single day OF the week
is to be set part for holy day; II
secular business is to be done on Sun
day as on every other day. There
must be some reverence, some re-
spect for divine law or else the whole
fabric of our religious structure will
fall.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
BETWEEN TWO Fires.

Whatever one may think of the mer-
its of the Italian claim to Fiume he
must sympathize with the predica-
ment of Premier Orlando. The pre-
mier, who really is a very able man
thoroughly qualified for the very i'm
portant post that he holds, is between
two fires. He realizes full we'll that
Italy cannot afford to "break" with her
allies, that his country needs America,
lEnslahd and France far more than
those countries need Italy. 1t would
be asgreat economic misfortune to TIA
ly to become estranged from America
especially. Therein lies the strength
of the Presidents position at the
peace table.
The Italian people have not the dis
cernment and the appreciation of the
situation that their premier has. They
are demanding the full pound of flesh
They have never been more united
than they are now in insisting upon
the retention of Fiume. They are the
masters of the country. Orlando IL
simply their servant although nomi-
nally and in form Italy is monarchy.
Had he yielded without show of
resistance to the insistence of Presi-
dent Wilson his government at home
would have been doomed. He could
not have received the vote of conf
dence coveted and without which he
would have had to retire. Govern
ment in countries actually ruled by
ministries chosen from the dominant
party in parliament are really much
more responsive to the popular will
than Is the case In America. For ex.
ample just before the end of the
war the American people elect
ed congress hostile in both
branches to the administration. In
European democracies that would
have resulted in complete change in
governmental policies. 1t had no ef-
feet in this country. Of the five peace
commissioners only one comes from
what is now the dominant political
party of the nation and he is rather
nominal republican.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
LUsiTANiA's ANNIVERSARY.

If the shot fired in April, 1861, on
Fort Sumpter was heard around the
world" assuredly the torpedo that sent
the good ship Lusitania off Kinsale to
the battom four years ago yesterday
circled the globe in the bloodiest orgy
of warfare history records. When an
American prisoner was being question
ed by a German officer as to how it
was possible for so many Americans
to get to the battle front, he was ask
ed, And pray tell me upon what ship
they crossed the deep?" Without a
moment's4 hesitation the soldier re-
piled: as.eaThey came here, sir, on the
Lusitania."
! That torpedo destroyed forever any
hope that the Germans might ever
have had of finding their place in the
sun" It doomed eternally the dream
Of great world German empire. 1t
ended for all time to come the menace
of German "kultur." 1t opened the
eyes of the civilized world; II shocked
humanity; it brought America to a re-
alization of her duty as one of the
guardians of Christian civilization.
The thousand and more who went
down to a cruel and untimely death on
the Lusitania were as truly martyrs to
the great cause of humanity and Chris
tian civilization as were men in other
ages who were burned at the stake or
fed to the lions for opinions sake.
Thank God their blood has been
avenged and the cruel monster that
then threatened the world has been
brought to bay.
: 1t will always be a source of pride
to The Herald to know that it was
one Of the first and foremost of all the
American. journals to recognize the in
eNtable conflict between the autocra-
cy of Central and Eastern Europe and
the democracy of the West 1t was
never for a moment misled by the irri-
descent glimmer of ideals impossible
of attainment. 1t followed from the
first with unerring prescience the
steady light that illumined the path
way of national honor 1t was like.
wise the path of duty that led alone to
self preservation. 1t recognized from
the first that in such conflict as was
staged in Europe the course of the
United States was plain. II was eth
er fight with triumphant Germany
or fight shoulder to shoulder with
heroic allies to save the fabric of
world civilization from utter destruc-
ton.
1t is with pride, a sense of duty
done, that this journal can recall now
its editorial comment on the sinking
of the Lusitania, which it denounced
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
CAMPAIGN ON FOR
REORGANIZATION
(By United Press.)

WASHINGTON, May S.-The real
melting pot of the United States
seems to be Monessen, Pa, where the
steel industry thrives, according to
the bureau of naturalization figures
Eighty per cent of the population
the largest of any city in the coun-
try-is of foreign birth. Practically
every racial division and nearly all
of the larger countries are represent
ed in the small town.
Monessen, however, is fast cutting
down this percentage, as the result of
an Americanization campaign. "A
member of each nationality has been
appointed by the steel companies alh
the department of labor to makefall
OF them real American citizens.
Friendly rivalry has grown up among
the various races as to which will be
the first to be 100 per cent American.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
WOMEN VOTERS.

Mt. Pleasant women will have the
honor of being the first in this county
to vote as the municipal election in
the phosphate city comes this month.
1t would be interesting to know how
many of them actually cared whether
or not they had this privilege. The
Herald would like to see an election
held in Tennessee for women only to
decide for themselves wether or not
they desire the ballot. They have
manifested SO little interest In the
subject and have apparently been SO
Indifferent that the suspicion will not
down that for once in the history of
the world a great privilege" is being
thrust upon a people who really do
not want it.
In all history mankind has achieved
rights" and privileges" and liber-
ties only as the result of toll and eff
fort and agitation and frequently
bloodshed. but giving the ballot to
the women Of Tennessee was a sim
pie act of justice upon the part of the
men with very little agitation on the
part of the women. In fact, as stated,
il they had been asked, 1t is not i'm
probable that majority would have
thanked their would be benefactors
and declined the responsibilities as
we'll as the privileges of citizenship.
But we have now partial suffrage
and the conviction is growing with the
men that women are as a matter of
right and justice entitled to equal suf-
frage. 1t is bound to come and will
come at an early date. 1t therefore
behooves the women of the state to
make of themselves not only good"
citizens in the negative sense. for we
are assured already that they will
measure up to that standard, but to
make themselves positive force for
good in the affairs of the state and
their several communities. Women
can, if they will, do the state a vast
deal of good as electors. 1t is to be
hoped that they will realize the grave
responsibilities that come with citi-
zenship and will begin now to prepare
themselves for an intelligent exercise
OF the elective franchise.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09

as deliberate MURDER declaring it
to be without a parallel in the annals
of civilization. And with unquavering
voice and unfaltering purpose it urged
the people of America to prepare to
play their part manfullYp a struggle
that would as surely come as that God
rules the world. This journal, please
God, never saw the day that twas
too proud to fight for the ideals
that have made the Anglo-Saxon
strong and great, the dominant race
of all time. 1t never even hoped for
peace without victory desiring only
such a peace as would guarantee for
ever the institutions of its country
and its race.
There were times after the sinking
of the Lusitania when 1t seemed that
the still small voice of duty stern
and uncompromsing, would be smoth-
cred by the whines of the pacifists or
stilled by the cunning devices of pro-
German propaganda. But journals like
The Herald kept true to the faith that
has made America what it is, refus-
ing alike to be bullied from the path
way of national honor, or removed
from the steady purpose to lead the
people to the shining heights of self
sacrifice Finally when the test was
made the great masses of the ,Ameri-
can people, God bless them. proved
true to the faith. They responded
with men and money, pledged all that
they had, to the caouse of national
honor; laid everything upon the sa-
cred altar of Liberty. 1t is well that
occasionally we should recur to these
great periods in history when so much
depends upon faithfulness to true
ideals.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
& VICTORY LoAN.

VI II every red blooded American pa
triot in Maury county could have
heard the address of Carter Glass, sec
rotary of the treasury, at Atlanta
Thursday this county would buy mil
lion dollars Of the victory loan and
they would be purchased without any
further intensive or extensive cam
paign. His appeal was one of the
most dramatic, convincing and elo-
tQuent that has been made anywhere
in any effort to sell the securities of
the government. AMY,
: Secretary Glass has few Of the arts
or tricks of the orator. He is not a
prepossessing gentleman as far as ap-
;pearances 60. A little under the aver
age in stature with nothing impress
sive about him but his massive brain,
he talks rather than crates. But he
mas a message, and fired with genuine,
patriotic fervor, thoroughly consecrat-
ed to the task that is before him; with
a confidence in the patriotism of the
American people that Is not to be
shaken he Is truly a powerful advo-
cate.
. An, Anglo-Saxon of the old Virginia
stock. he has that conscious race pride
that has made the Anglo-Saxon the
greatest of all peoples, who have ever
lived upon the earth. His speech to
the editors and statesmen, the bank.
+. ers and public generally was one eli
max after another. It. was full of SEN
timent,, which. has moved men in all
ages to sacrifice and die, it was pitch
ed in the loftiest and noblest ideals of
public, service and his hearers were
not only frequently moved to the most
remarkable outbursts of applause but
tears constantly flowed from the eyes
of grizzled veteran editors wholly UNI
accustomed to making public demon
stration Of their feelings.
The secretary was at his best when
with fine sarcasm. backed by an ar
ay of facts that could not be disput-
ed, he ridiculed the claim of
the average man that he had
made sacrifices during the war.
After a vivid comparison of the
contributions made by the people
OF France and Belgium and Great Brit
ain with those made by Americans in
the war to save civilization. he declar.
ed that the soldiers who fought and
the sailors who braved the dangers
OF the sea that they might fight, were
alone of all Americans who had really
made sacrifices in the war.
Secretary Glass late last October
made tour Of the devastated regions
Of Flanders and France, from which
the enemy after an occupation of four
years had but lately been driven and
he is one of the very few men whom
1t has been the good fortune of the
writer to hear. who can really visual.
lie the scenes that he there witnessed.
Describing the havoc, the desolation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
SUNDAY PICTURE SHOWS.

Following the decision of the SUI
preme court in the baseball case
Judge McReynolds, of the criminal
court of Chattanooga, has charged
the grand jury that it is not unlawful
to operate a moving picture show on
Sunday. He cites the supreme courts
decision in the baseball case in sup
port of this conclusion, and his charge
seems to be fully warranted by the
very unfortunate and i'll advised de-
cision of the high court. Judge Nc
Reynolds charges that the operation
of moving picture theatre on Sum
day is not per Sc against the law. 1t
becomes unlawful only when it is a
nuisance and that is a question of
facts or proof II indicted at all the
operator of a moving picture or other
show on Sunday must be indicted and
charged with the operation of public
nuisance. What in the judgment of
some might be regarded as a nuisance
would be held by others as perfectly
legitimate, hence for all practical pur-
poses Judge McReynolds has licensed
the operation of Sunday moving pic
ture shows.
The supreme court started a train
of fearful evils when it gave express
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Having been duly appointed as adj
ministrator with will annexed of the
estate of Thomas Bates, deceased, the
undersigned hereby notifies all per-
sons having accounts and demands
against said estate to bring them to
him. properly made out and verified.
Persons indebted to the estate are re-
quested to make immediate payment.
This May Z, 1919.
GEO. E. McKENNON, Admr.
with Will Annexed, Columbia, Tenn.
wkly may9 80 Id16I2a
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09

ard OF value, and 1t is the only legal
or bankable standard that we have, 1t
would be the most anomalous situa-
ton imaginable II, while 1t required
only half as many pounds of pork or
of wheat or corn, to get that dollar,
1t would require just as many acres
of land to obtain it now as it did be-
fore prices commenced to climb.
Credit has been easy, money abund-
ant, and as has been the case always
in history under such circumstances,
values have appreciated. When money
is tight" credit difficult to obtain
and capital timid, all values shrink.
But The Herald is discussing existing
conditions, values as they are in this
good year and not what they may be a
few years from now.
There are many who insist that the
period OF high prices will not con-
tinue much longer, that when the
peace treaty is signed and the people
of Europe restore. order, and begin to
produce and rebuild, values will de-
cline. That is altogether probable.
Experiences Of the past would seem
to prove as much, but at present there
is no immediate indication of start
ling decline in values. Witnesses can
only testify to what present and past
values are. They could not forecast
future values. That would be pure
speculation and would not under any
circumstances be competent. Again
the values legally ascertained at this
time will be changed as conditions
shall warrant.
If the state desired and expected to
produce the same revenue from taxes
this year that it did last; If the only
object Of tax hearings was to equalize
values and tax property upon its &C
tual value as defined in the statute,
The Herald is frank to confess that
no reasonable objection could be in
terposed. 1t would probably be bet
ter inducement to capital to come into
the state if we had a higher assess
ment and lower rate. However, the
new system is designed primarily to
raise assessments in order to get adj
ditional revenues for a state that is
badly in need of them. An ever re-
curing deficit must be stopped and
1t can only be stopped by larger
draft upon the taxpayers. 1t is simply
a question of raising the assessment
valuation or increasing the rate. The
administration took the former
method More taxes are going to be
collected so that we had just as we'll
face the situation squarely and admit
that real estate values in the good
old country of Maury have exper-
fenced wonderful advance in recent
years, but one wholly justified by the
grain and stock and money markets.
Proof of the desirability and attrac-
tiveness of Maury county farms, even
at socalled inflated" values, is con-
vincingly and eloquently presented in
the ever. increasing volume of trans
fers recorded in the county clerks
office. People are now buying more
and more of commodity, that alone
of all desirable things, has failed to
appreciate in value.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09

1t has any opportunity to spread Its
hateful doctrines in this country. II
would not only destroy our govern
ment but the most sacred institutions
of the race. The man who is not will
ing to support and Loyalty defend the
constitution of this country should be
imprisoned or deported.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09
D : . = . Eo- 90 eEe=a e. Q
. MARRIAGE LICENSES. 9
0 EegeEeEeEeNezeHe

Marriage license has been issued to
H. 7. Goad and Mrs. F. NJ. Caughron.
Marriage license have been issued
to Marcus e. Hendrix and Miss Roda
Lee Riddle; Dewey Waldrop and Miss
Lizzie Bell Price; B. H. Walters and
Miss Lillian Mckee; R. A. Digger and
Miss Nina May Wiley.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-12-02
TOBACCO MARKETS TO G
HERE TOMORROW.

Tomorrow the various tobacco
warehouses will open their doors for
the 1890 season, in disposing OF
the crop raised during the year. In
this enterprise thousands of dollars
are paid out to the growers, to the
tenants and to the various branches
of manual and clerical labor EN-
ployed at the warehouses. Paris
benefits financially to large ex-
tent by these sales.
Every merchant in Paris knows
how largely he is indebted to ito
bacco money" for the swelling OF
his bank account. It's an endless,
chain from the manufacturers to
the buyers. from the buyers to the
growers, to the warehouses, their
helpers, and SO on to the merchants.
The money thus creates little finan-
cial waves which spread and spread
until the business crafts of the city
ride upon them into safe and Sc
cure financial harbor.
The people of Paris, with just
appreciation of the benefits the to-
bacco industry brings to the city,
extend the hand of welcome TO the
buyers who came here to represent
their firms, and to the management
of the warehouses, the workers and
those dependent upon them, they eX-
press a sincere wish that the coming
season may be a prosperous. one in
all respects
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-12-02
FUEL RESTRICTION ORDERS
ISSUED FOR TO-DAY,

Orders eliminating electric signs
and display advertising, limiting in
dustries, except public utilities and
plants engaged in continuous opera
tions. TO forty-eight hours opera
ton a week, restricting the hours
of stores and office buildings to 9 a.
m. 10 p. m, and theatres, movies
and all other public amusement
places to p. m. to 1890 p. m,
were announced Sunday by the
Regional Coal Committee, effective
throughout the Southern region at
noon yesterday.
No orders to the local Fuel Ad-
ministrator, James H. Thompson, to
this effect, were received here I'D to
last night, and until this has been
definitely established the people are
in q state of uncertainty as to what
they should do. Merchants were on
the anxious seat yesterday regard
ing the matter, and number of
them. including the clothing houses.
agreed among themselves TO observe
the restrictions as outlined above.
Paris is in the Southern region
controlled by the committee which
issued the above order, so, unless
there IS a change in the situation,
we bid fair to experience to some
extent at least, Eighties nights and
heatless days" for while.
Two prominent citizens of the
county told THE NEWS yesterday
that, while on their way TO church,
they saw four trains on the Louis
vile & Nashville, heavily loaded
with coal, one train in each block,
while on another track was the
same number of empties, going
South. Large quantities of coal
have been observed here, and on
trains passing through.