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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10
A Treasury Raid.

Maybe not this year. but some
year, the Missouri Legislature is go
ing to look into the mirror and be
ashamed of itself.
Then it is going to abolish the sys-
tenn of hiring RATS and slathers of
useless clerks simply for the sake Of
raiding the Treasury. There is no
milder word than the word graft to
describe this biennial grGb.
The money that 10 taken is no
great sum when the resources of Mis-
souri, are considered, but the self
respect and State pride that are lost
are assets beyond price. Every time
the members of the Legislature go
thru the shameless process by which
they create hundred or so of we'll
paid sinecures for the benefits of
their wives, children, uncles, cousins,
aunts and political pals they say to
the youths of Missouri that public
official need not be true to his public
trust. They say to the people that it
is entirely allowable to bleed the
public, altho they would never per-
NIT anyone to bleed them as they
bleed Missouri.
Instead of the old system of whole
sale clerk-hiring there ought to be
carefully, limited system under
which needful clerks would be hired
primarily as committee clerks. They
ought to be chosen for their ability
to serve the committees and members
expertly, and there ought to be no
more of them than is needed for the
work to be done.
Just as long as the establishment
of some such system as this is put
off, just that long will the odor of
graft hang over the General Assem-
bly, of Missouri.-St Louis Republic.
Righto! And what is said of Mis-
souri, may be said of many other
States with equal force. Governor
Roberts made the race on q platform
Just such as this tho Republic re-
fers to. The people of Tennessee are
going to weigh him by this platform,
and if he doesn't make good. as far
as this paper is concerned, he is go
ing into the discard. Neither will
a hord of Office hounds nor tho party
whip hold us in check.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10
FRIDAY, JANUARY 10. 1919.
Baby,s Gone.

A beautiful bubble ioated on life's
stream and caused comforts and
pleasures in our home for nearly
eight years. 1t burst and is gone to
heaven forever.
John Harris Baird died at the
family home on Vine street Tues
day at 1880. Ho was born March
16, 1911.
Rev. w. B. Cunningham conducted
the service Wednesday st 2 o'clock
and the little casket containing the
body was laid away in East Wow.
God bless everyone who helped us
stand up and try to boar the awful
sorrow.
JOHN BAIRD'S FAMILY.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10
Good Man Gone.

In the death of George Washing
ton Whipple Fulton County has lost
another popular and useful citizen.
The end came at the family resi-
dence, four miles southeast of Hick-
man, Saturday morning at o'clock,
Dec. %, after an illness started with
case of influenza and later develop
ed complications. Softening of the
brain was given as the final cause of
death.
Esq. Whipple was born in Obion
County, west of Union City, Feb. "a,
1852, and moved to this county in
1897, where he has since resided.
His life work was that of farming.
He was honored in political way on
two occasions; being appointed by
Gov. Beckham to the Office OF County
Judge of Fulton County to fill out
the unexpired term of Judge Kearby;
and later as magistrate of his dis
trict to finish the term of Esq. Mayes.
At the end of his term he was elect
ed by his party to the magistrates
office, which he again filled for four
years. In 1909 he made the race for
County Judge but was defeated by
the late Judge w. A. Naylor.
On February 25, 1880, Mr.. Whip
pie was united in marriage with Miss
Mamie c. Lancaster. To this union
were born three children-Mrs. J. B.
Townsend and H. w. and Bonner p.
Whipple, who survive their father,
as does also the wife. Deceased was
one of family of nine children
five of whom are still living, a broth
er, c. A. Whipple, of Obion County;
four sisters, Miss Bette Whipple, of
this county; Mrs. Green Cloar, of
Obion County; Mrs. Lige Threlkeld;
of Naylor, Mo-; and Mrs. Nell Began,
of Paragould, Ark.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the Poplar Grove
Church, being conducted by Rev. G.
T. Mayo, of Mayfield. A large con-
course Of relatives and friends were
present to pay their last respects to
their departed loved one and friend.
For many years Mr.. Whipple had
been a member of the Missionary
Baptist Church, and was a fine ex-
ample of Christian manhood. Like
the rest of mankind, he probably
had his faults, but his virtue and
good qualities predominated in a
measure that made his shortcomings
negligible. He was a useful, honor
able, kind-hearted, upright gentle
man; generous with his loved ones
and friends; an ardent supporter of
all worthy causes, true to every trust. |
He had many friends by whom he
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10
For PHYS Sake, Listen !

l am dying for the want of bit
of bread. Feel my arms. They are
skin and bone. Look at my eyes.
They are ready to fall from their
sockets. Look at my body and then
look at yours. Take my hand in
yours. 1t is like dead mans. Look
at my rags, then look at your own
warm clothing. Look at home in
ruins, then yours. Look into my
face and see death staring at you,
and then look at your loved ones and
see health and life smiling back at
you. Look at my loved ones, my
friends and my neighbors-dead,
dying, homeless, starving-sick in
body and soul, then look around and
see healthy, happy people every
where.
For PHYS sake, please give me
just enough clothing to cover my
body and protect it from cold; give
me just enough food to keep me
from starving. Go without some
luxury; give up just one bit of pleas
ure, and just share little with me.
l am one of the starving millions
in the Near East. We have been
deprived of home and everything by
the terrible Turk and the horrible
Hun. We have lived on grass, on
blood of slaughtered animals, car
cases of dead animals, and even
picked grains of corn from the dung
of animals. We have starved by the
millions. We will starve by the mil
lions unless you help us. For PHYS
sake save us!
There are 3,950,000 people in the
Near East who will starve unless
they are saved by the efforts of
American Committee for Relief in
the Near East. The Government
can't help now. The Red Cross has
no organization for work in this
section. They are over-burdened al
ready. 1t is up to this Relief Com
mittee.
President Wilson has made an ap-
peal to the people of the United
States to raise the $50, 900 need
ed for this work. Robt. Lansing,
VIM. H. Taft and scores of other
great men are behind this committee.
T. r. Roosevelt gave his check for
1000 to the work.
Tennessee has been asked to give
100000, and Obion County has been
asked to give $4,000 of this amount.
Obion County has been wonderfully
blessed since this war begain in re-
sources. She has given only $40
per capita. benevolences since the
war began. She is not poor but rich
and will never miss this little mite.
The drive to raise this $4,000 will
start Jan. IL and continue till the
18th. Let everyone remember the
Golden Rule and give of his abund-
ance to these people of the land that
gave the world its Savior. Then in
the Great Judgment day He will say
to you, II was hungry, and you gave
me to eat-naked, and We clothed
me-sick, and We visited me, etc."
j. RANDALL FARRIS,
Chairman of Publicity Committee.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10

Rear Admiral Taylor testified be-
fore House Naval Committee that
the bulls and machinery of ten bat
tleships and six battle cruisers au-
thorized in 1916 will cost $15O,000,-
600 more than estimated.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10

will be missed; and the loss to his
immediate family is inestimable. To
them we extend profound sympathy,
as we, too, have lost a valued friend
in the passing of this good man.
Hickman Courier.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10

The new republic of German-Aus-
tria has announced wish to enter
into relations with all civilized ma
tians as soon as possible, and asks a
place in the peace conference.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10

died at the home of her son, r. l.
Miller, in Union City, Wednesday
night, Jan. /, 1919, at o'clock. She
was stricken with a homorrhage and
only lived q few minutes. She pro-
fessed religion and joined the Chris
tian Church at the age of sixteen.
On Dec. 80, 1868, she was married to
Robert C. Miller. There were six
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10

chilren, three of whom survive as
follows: r. l. Miller, this city, Lark
Miller and Mrs. ]. o. Nicely, of Obion.
Service was conducted at the Memo
Hotel by ]. Randall Farris and the
remains were taken to Hornbeak for
burial.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-01-10

Eat at Forrester's.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
Presidents Pre-War Preparations.

Report made in the house by the chairman
of a committee of investigation on the course
pursued by the president for some months prior
to our entry into the war promises some inter-
esting disclosures. In outline, the charge is
made that the law which authorized the ap
pontment of council of national defense was
perverted by the executive, and cut Of this grew
some embarrassing situations. To its operations
has been traced most of the vexatious delays
that proved SO costly at the start.
We know now what some suspected, that
the mobilization of the National Guard on the
Rio Grande in 1916 was not so much to overawe
the Mexicans as to give Germany notion of
what force we might put into the field on short
notice Mr.. Wilson had in his possession in
formation of such nature as must have con-
WINGED him of the impossibility of evading war
with Germany, unless the leaders Of that coun-
try radically changed their policy. He did not
know what strength might be hastily mustered
in this country. He did know that any force
we could put under arms on short notice was
woefully inadequate. In order toNget at an exact
basis the troop movement to Texas was under
taken. 1t did not seriously impress either Hob
enzollern or Carranza, but it did show thought
full Americans how pitifully weak our nation
was at the time.
Authorized to name council for defense as
part of preparedness movement, the president
by a perversion of the plain intent of the law
took to himself the formulation of plans for the
entire campaign That he had only the best OF
motives will be admitted. That his judgment
was at fault is equally plain As a result the
American people were put to enormous ex-
pense, while the process OF getting ready was
held back many precious days. Further dis
closures will be waited with interest but enough
is already shown to support the conclusion that
the blunders that marked the war program were
begun long before the public had any idea OF
what was going on.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
The Basis for Prosperity.

"Good times" in America do not rest solely
on the plenitude of money and the consequent
high prices A more substantial strata of real
facts underlies the present prosperity and en-
sures it continuance for an indefinite period. In
the building situation alone, and it is enough in
itself to maintain industrial activity at its
never experienced
Careful estimates put the number Of needed
homes in the United States at 100000. This
makes no note of the buildings required for the
expanded business of the land. Here is pros
pective expenditure of at least twenty billions.
Other billions are required for housing the
growing commerce and industry of America.
Railroad maintenance, to say nothing OF ex-
tension and improvement call for additional bill
lions, and in every phase or branch of industry
similar demand for capital is heard The
world has moved into an era of expansion
greater than any it ever faced.
Warnings against unwise speculation as well
timed, and should be needed, but opportunity
for legitimate investment is presented on every
hand Capital may be prohtably employed in
so many ways the prudent investor may find
some difficulty in making up his mind which
to select from the multitude of inviting pros
poets that surround him. The great work can
not all be done at once, but must Of necessity
be extended over considerable period Of years,
but its urgency will not diminish and therefore
it is as sure as earthly things be that all our
national energies may be usefuly engaged for
a long time to come. Restoration Of wealth de-
stroyed by war and creation of new to meet the
expanding needs of society underlie the activity
of the present and guarantee the employment
of all for the future.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
LAw-BREAKINo AND LAwLEss POLICE

Is it necessary for enforcing the liquor laws to
set at naught all other laws? Does punishment
of law-breaking call for midnight invasion of
peoples homes, beating up the inmates and
general rough housing of common decency? Are
our "booze hounds" a law unto themselves and
above all other law?
The high-handed methods OF our Omaha
moral squad as illustrated by their recent per-
formances seem to US wholly indefensble, just
what the public has always protested against
arbitrary and brutal abuse of police power 1t
is not question whether the victims are other
wise reputable folks or poor devils without
friends, whether they are guilty or innocent
They ough to have some rights entitled to be
respected even by the police.
We submit that there is no good reason for
dragging men and women to jail in the wee
hours of the morning when they can be ar
rested any time they are wanted and no danger
of trying to run away. The same applies to the
execution of search warrants at unreasonable
hours in homes whose occupants have already
gone to bed, when the search can be made just
as we'll and just as effectively in proper time of
the day and the liquor, if any is held in illegal
possession seized in the day time with no i'm
pairment of the consequences.
Why can't we have little less lawlessness
and little more common sense in the hand
ling of this business?
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
Prosperity and Economics

A mans personal circumstances make all the
difference in the world in his views of economic
rights and wrongs. Give the most extreme and
vociferent socialist on the town plat job at
$4,000 year and he no longer will believe that
all the money on earth ought to be divided up
equally.
No state in the union is more opposed to Dol
shevism in all its crack-brained and hideous
tenets than Kansas. Kansas stands like rock,
living, speaking rock, for the recognized and
just rights of property: Kansas is harvesting
its wheat crop, 100000 acres, 225 900 bush
els of the golden grain, worth $450OOO,OO0 if a
cent. The only bone Kansas has to pick with
capitalism at present is that the automobile COM
panies are shamefully behind on their deliveries.
Otherwise, the status quo is just about right.
But if the government had fixed the price of
wheat at 50 cents bushel or if the hot winds
and the grasshoppers and the Hessian fly had
harried and ravaged and despoiled those golden
fields, Kansas, as we know by past experience,
would be for bolshevism in some rural guise
so earnestly, so deafeningly, so determinedly
and so contagiously that all we sober-minded,
sound-money, rights citizens of
Ohio and other points in the effete east would be
worried to death about the control of the ma
tional government.-Ohio State Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
Farming With a Difference

Soldiers who are restless indoors after the
life in the open will give heed to booklet sent
out by the War department from the Office of
! Col Arthur Woods assistant to the secretary
Many man has not loved his little old job
so much since he renewed his acquaintance
with it. He finds it cramped and combining.
Life was no picnic in France. But for all the
devishness, he finds his thoughts straying from
the streets to the trenches from the desk to
the dugout, from the Office to the she'll plowed
fields where the wind breathes through the
grasses in benediction over the fallen.
d Urban sophistication in the cities poked fun,
before the war, at the farmer. He was sup
posed to be uncouth and gullible-a child Of
nature. He chewed a straw and pulled his
beard and creased his boots and rose by lamp
light and was man with hoe among the
herds and orchards, man to whom the great
round world blank page or a distant
myth.
Now that is changed The farmer is an ap-
spected, with whose vote lies the balance OF
power, in whose hand, as it is busy or idle. is
the feeding or starving of the nations. For
millions during the war life has been 4 grim
unmitgated quest of food. The farm has had
TO yield by intensive cultivation many times~its
former produce, and marketing in haphazard
ways has had to yield to methodic and speedy
Transportation. Farm work and farm life today
lsutilize every last development of engineering
The machinery has revolutionized farm labor
and electricity and gasoline are the greatest oil
AN hired hands. The motorcar, the tractor, the
dairy machinery, the telephone are common
places where once they were unknown.
The dcmobilized fighter no longer regards
Iaindiferently or scornfully the chance the farm,
holds out to him. If he is not aware, he can
s learn from such booklet as this before US what
4 prospect of healthful work at a fair wage is
open to him. The fields are clamoring for him
fields where the hattie is for life and not for
testruction.- Philadephia LAdr..
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
Many Questions Answered.

Mrs. c. Give have no informa-
ton as to when the 806th pioneer
infantry will sail from France. 1t is
the purpose Of the government to get
all the forces home as quickly as
possible.
B. M.-Refrigerator Plant Com
pany No. SOL still is stationed at Bor-
deaux, and will not be released for
transfer to the United States until
the homeward movement Of the
troops is nearer completed. Can not
tell when this will be.
Soldiers Friend-The 41Oth tele-
graph battalion came in on the
North Caroline on July 1. 1t was
landed at New York. Do not know
where it was sent for rehabilitation.
Mother-We can not tell you when
the 35th service company Of the
signal corps will be released for re-
turn to this country. 1t is in the
service of supply and is stationed
at Paris.
Mary-Some individuals of the
Fifth division have reached America.
but the homeward movement has
been delayed. It was ordered re-
Gently to prepare for the trip, how
ever, and an announcement of its
sailing date may come out from
Washington at any time.
Puzzled-A man who had filed his
declaration of intention to become
an American citizen, and afterwards
enlisted in the Canadian army, has
forfeited his rights under that
declaration, and must begin his
naturalization over again.
L. NJ. Accommodated with the
bureau of navigation, Navy depart
ment, Washington, D. c., in regard
to the sailor you inquire for. You
would have been notified If he were
sick or disabled.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
e. title folks Corner 3

about uncertainty. Looking back at
the bunch of grass, she saw a great,
teeth-filled mouth open wide in a
sleepy yawn. In a flash she under
stood-the patch of silvery scales
was on a monster fish which had
been sound asleep in the grass and
was now waking up.
IT'S a pickerel" gurgled Billy
when they were at safe distance.
"One snap and it would have been
'goodby Peggy"
The water COLLINS soon recovered
from the alarm, and after a time
General Croaker came crawling out
of the mud. Then they went at their
frolic in greater glee than ever. Tir-
ing of hide-and-go-seek, they played
f ,llow-the-leader. and one of their
stunts was to leap as far as they
could out Of the water. Peggy. fly
ing for a moment into the air in one
Of these leaps. caught glimpse of
Pat Clancy, the widows son, fish,
ing on the bank.
my. wouldn't he be surprised If
he pulled me up at the end of the
worms. The game consisted in see
ing how big chunk each one could
line?" she gurgled.
AS she splashed back into the wa
ter she found the water gobline in
new game. They were gathered
around Pats hook, which dangled in
the water, loaded with squirming
ing how big a cunk each one could
bite off the hook without getting
caught. Peggy and Billy wanted
to join the sport, but didn't bit
fancy biting a worm.
Poor Pat jerked out his line and
rebaited his hook, but he didn't
catch one Of the merry, but wary,
sunfish COLLINS. They were too wise
for him.
When this fun was at its height,
there came a sudden rush as a
whole school Of minnows fed by in
panic.
= Look out! Look out! The can
nibal fish are coming" they gasped.
With one f1irt of their tails the
water COLLINS vanished into the jun
gle. General Croaker abruptly lost
himself in mass of weeds.
Huge shadows moved slowly
through the water. Looking up,
Peggy and Billy saw that the shad-
ows were made by great fish. At
the same moment the fish saw
them. Powerful tails thrashed out
and the water fairly boiled as the
f1nny cannibals rushed downward.
Peggy and Billy fled desperately.
PUNK! they hit the bottom with the
cannibals coming fast. Quickly using
his wits, Billy dug into the mud,
throwing it up in handfuls. 1t rolled
the water, making a concealing
cloud that hid them for a moment.
Creeping along through the murky
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08

water they came to a cavelike OPEN
ing. Into this they plunged, their
fear Of the known danger from the
cannibals overcoming their dread of
any unseen peril that might be Turk
ing in the cavern.
Covering away from the entrance
they banged full tilt against hard,
cold, prickly creature hidden In the
darkness. There was a startled jump,
a wild furry, an excited thrashing
about and the creature fed through
the opening. AS it flashed into the
clearing water outside they saw that
1t was q fish almost as large and
ferocious looking as the cannibals.
They had blundered right into its
nest.
We've given it a good scarce"
gurgled Billy. Maybe it will not
dare to come back"
Tomorrow will be told how Peggy and
Billy are arrested and land In a fish
court.)
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
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Were he describing bull fight or a
hog-killing scene in a packing house,
his story would be more accurate
and realistic. His egotistical opinion
Of his own judgment having had SO
hard a fall within so short notice,
combined with his daily efforts at
ALTERATION, rhetorical phrases and
pomposity Of expression, intoxicated
his mentality to promulgate the loo
quacious article depreciating the
strenuous efforts Of both the fight
ers.
The world knows the fight was
won by the aggressiveness of Demp-
sey and not the cowardice Of Will
lard, as Sandy infers. Willard and
Sandy are both old, but the public
prefer optimistic youth to garrulous
old age. P. C. BOWMAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
Control of Automobile Thievery.

Massachusetts has new law designed to
deal with the crime of stealing automobiles.
Essentially it follows the line suggested by The
Bee more than two years ago, in that it places
Urinary responsibility on dealers. Traffic in
secondhand cars or parts of cars is infinitely
regulated, and heavy penalties prescribed for
infractions. With vigilance on part of the police
and ordinary prudence exercised by dealers, dis
posing Of stolen machines inMassachusetts ought
to be attended with much difficulty if not made
impossible. In order to make his business sue
cessful, the thief must have means for dispos-
ing of his plumber. When buyers become eau
tious and dealers are all honest, the rogue will
soon be out Of business. But the country is
large, the roads are filled with touring cars, and
the dishonest are thus assisted in carrying on
their traffic. Until regulations such as Massa-
chusetts has adopted are made generally and
registration is insisted upon everywhere, the
thief will have the advantage of the owner
Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-08
BITS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The average weight of the circu-
lating blood in the human body is
% pounds.
In proportion to its size a fly
walks thirteen times faster than a
man can run.
New Zealand is preparing for an
annual expenditure of $10,000,000 in
war pensions.
The pearl is the only gem that
does not require the lapidary's art
to bring out it's beauty.
The light of the north star is esti-
mated to be one hundred and ninety
times stronger than the sun.