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The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-14
BASTILE DAY IN FRANCE.

Today Paris is swrng, dancing, gesculating ioy
Gus humanity Officially she is celebrating Bast day. and the
victory the Some later day in her history she may
establish tomorrow of great Importance her
aon as nation the sorming of the fownng prison by
the revolutionary mobs.
July 49, 1918, beginning of the end II marked the
most magnificent failure of the grandose
ever planned 1t thirty division hurled against the
French and Americans from Rheims
in main attack and almost number employed the
west of Rheims successfully in developing the Chateau
Ihery salient both attacks crump up 1t made posi-
bic transferring the offensive from the boche the allies
began to write the conditions of the peace of Versailles
Baste day in France in 1918 rather uncanny
tant whether the Germans could could
of March lent subtle undertone gaey
the days the best brands of champagne opened
and the civilians know that Germany gathering herself
geher for another effort which she expected
successful than those fefu April
jun Well did they know that she confidently
ensve to end Paris and Calais what most of them did
not know that the Germans mistaken.
July Is to prove that.
So there hectic gaiety July 1918 combined with
somber resolve and irritating uncertainty day
tension and of trial. day of Defiance dancing on the
threshold OF disaster of showing the world that France could
need be, die game.
Due to unusual impulse the consciously held
their attack until the French national holiday
came They about klomeer the of their
major attack They stopped They attacked days
they did not advance. 1t the beginning of the end.
Chalons not captured. Rheims did surrender The
French armies not separated France
capture of Paris and Calais only dreams enemy The
greatest offensive of all beaten. The begun July
IT, 1918, made possible July IA, 1919
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OBSERVATIONS

l
| Mexico asks us to stop the snug
| Cling of arms into Mexico, and to
promise not to send troops across the
| border again. If we grant the first
request, the other will take care of
| itself.
The proposal to increase freight
| rates again is the first step toward
| increasing wages again to meet the
higher cost of living made by the
new rates.
The base Of all sound political
economy is a regular job for every
body.
If we expect Heinie to pay through
the nose, we must check our natural
desire to keep on hammering him on
the nose.
The young man who complains
that there is no chance for a young
fellow in this age is right so far as
that sort of young fellow Is con-
cerned. ...
Too much indulgence in the
goose step leads to state of affairs
very similar to the lock step.
The change to water would be less
painful il they could put one foot on
a rail and pay cents a glass for 1t.
The doughboys are leaving Ger
many, but they are leaving a reputa-
ton behind.
Peace will revive the American
girls interest in a mere civilian with
a job.
1t may be that the French boosted
prices to the doughboy in an effort
to get them as high as American
ideals.
The doughboys who yearn to take
German brides have the right idea
about an alliance to preserve peace.
The loafer doesn't really live
longer than a working man. 1t
merely seems longer
Most of the urge to go back to the
farm comes from men who sit in
front of an electric fan to write
about it.
Fond memory of the ole swimnin
hole overlooks the little details OF
green scum on the water and the
village garbage dumped nearby.
The knockers overlook the fact
that feeding Europe fattens Uncle
Sans bank roll.
Italy won't get all she wanted, but
she will get all she can handle.
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A MANIFEST NEED.

The wire pulling and recrimina-
lions of the past few days would
have been obviated, or at least would
have lost much o. their zest had the
city charter contained civil service
provision for the protection of fire
men and policemen and of all other
employees of the municipality whose
tenure of service is not definitely
fixed. The potential political posi-
bilities of the administration OF
these departments would be very
much less and its desirability from
a political standpoint corresponding
ly reduced.
Control over the employment and
tenure of a large number of pei ms
in the public service is a great temp
tation to play politics. Most public
officials find themselves unable to
resist it. 1t is a power which a pru-
dent man hesitate to assume ar
bitrarily and one which ought to be
limited lest it fall into the hands of
one who would not use it wisely. It
is not often that a commissioner Of
fire and police would make wholesale
removals for personal reasons, but it
is not pleasant to members of these
departments TO have a Damocles
sword hanging over their heads.
The use Of city employees as a po-
htical force in the community is
greatly to be deprecated. Their OBJ
legation should be to the service of
the whole citizenship rather than to
that Of promoting the POI teal for
tunes of the heads. of their depart
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the United States is and Will remain remain
Commercially dominant in the FhliIp-
mines The greater the developments
The clearer il is realized that the lslanus
are an ideal source OF needed raw
materials as well as All admirable mar
ket for our manufactured proaucts,
Moreover. no surer guarantee OF tne
continued progressive and lndepeIlueht
conditions of the islands could De sousnt
than in closer commercial relations
with the United States after sucn tiine
as political autonomy is granted.
",rhe basis for American future trade
in the far east is the American IN,
vested dollar, Every American should
look forward to the time when invest
ment IN far east securities will be just
as great service to his country as
were his investments In liberty BONDS.
For, in order to keep American inous-
tries on high plane, we must nave
scale production, and the greatest po-
tential markets where such products
may be disposed of, lie In the far east.
Great Britain foreign investments
before the war bore direct relation
to her foreign trade. BY investing IN
and holding so pc cent. OF China's bonds,
Great Britain sold China half OF the
goods she imported. Far eastern In
vestments are now reckoning to Ameri-
can capital to come and enjoy the same
advantages. No longer does trade fol-
low the flag. but trade always has and
always will continue to follow the flag"
Subject of tomorrow's letter Now
for World Prohibition"
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RIPPING RHYMES
Vacation Time.

The man who works too ALFRED
hard, be he plumber or bard, will
wake some rainy morn to find that he's
played out in frame and mind And
he will murmur through his tears, Pm
not patriarch in years; l still should
be as good as wheat. a husky man on
active feet, all sound in intellect and
Drawn, yet to the scrapheap | have
gone" Man is an intricate machine,
though he's not run by gasoline: he la
bors, burdened by his cares. and hates
to slow up for repairs. Some other
year" says he. I'm go and climb a
large peak capped with snow, or gam
Dol on the oceans shore, or tread the
forests tufted floor but now l can't
afford to rest and let affairs go galley
west. Some shining plunks have
doomed in view, and | must try to COP
a few; let others picnic in the glen,
while I rake in. the iron men" And so
he wakes some rainy day to find his
pep has eboed away, his nerve is in
its winding sheet and he is dead upon
his feet. An auto must be overhauled:
locomotive oft is stalled, while skilled
mechanics test its works, to see why
it has jumpy jerks; all things that
move and toll need rest, and mans of
all machines the best
Copyright by George Matthew Adams)
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, governments are of course paramount
| in their respective colonies or Deepen
denotes. But even where this is the
case, as in India, there IS a breaking
away from the traditional lines of in
| dustrial effort such as textiles. leather
and mining and new ventures such as
steel and cement works are beginning
to attract foreign capital.
Great signs of progress are being
noted in the internal development OF
these countries. Gasoline engines on
the plantations are no novelty and rice
hulling plants, bone crushing factories
| and oil mills are all demanding working
capital and machinery. Under normal
conditions this capital would be sup
piled by England but conditions are not
normal today and the industrial growth
of newer India will not await the re-
habilitation of British machine making
industries or consent to be handicapped
through lack of British capital.
Not all of these ventures, as reports
show, are immediate successes, but the
failures are more than likely due to
lack of preparatory study. 1t is not
improbable that Great Britain, without
the capital to supply herself, will take
a broad view of the value of American
capital participating in Indian indus
trial advancement.
In the Dutch East Indies the ques-
ton resolves itself more into one of
rect trade which developed so wonder
fully during the last years of the war
and showed clearly that these islands
could be made direct suppliers of our
raw materials and purchasers of our
manufactured goods. Here is demand
not only for American capital to develop
the vast rubber lands of Sumatra, but
a genuine and steady demand for our
miscellaneous manufactured goods oil
pressing machinery, sugar machinery,
tobacco machinery and varied line of
hardware and agricultural tools and i'm
PIGMENTS. Our best investments would
be made in direct steamship lines and
banks willing to extend the credits
which were granted by European ma
tons before the war.
I'm French Indo- China, Siam and
British Malaga. the trading opportun-
ties are good and numerous bids for
American capital to engage in tungsten.
tia and anthony rinirg as well as rub
Der planting are being made. These
countries have depended almost entirely
on European capital in the past. and
are now beginning to realize that If
they are to further develop, the money
for such enterprise must come from the
worlds banker--the United States.
In our own Philippines we, of course,
must not be backward. The improve
ments which have been inaugurated
with American wealth are only har-
binger of what is possible The tre-
mendous growth of the copra oil milling
industry during the war has been
revelation of the possibilities of our
own island possessions. No matter
what form of government is granted. !
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THE FAR EAST BECKONS
BY FREDERIC j. HAsKIN

Washington, D. c.. July 1.-THE
American business man is more and
more coming TO realize that the great
potential markets of the world today
are in the far east. With a population
eight times that of the United States,
Asia offers unequalled possibilities for
trade and investment.
America got a taste of the great trade
opportunities of the far eastern coun-
tries during the war when its exports
to Asia more than doubled. Lack of
shipping facilities prevented even great
er expansion of trade with these coun-
tries Now the American exporters are
fighting to retain the advantage they
gained over other competitors during
the war.
According to F. R. Eldrldge, Jr., chief
of the far eastern division, bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce, of the
department of commerce, the future and
permanency of American trade in the
far east will depend largely upon the
amount of American capital invested.
He has lived in the far east for years,
has made careful and thoughtful
study of trade conditions there, and is
convinced that no longer does trade
follow the flag, but rather does trade
follow a loan
IAN the world knows that most of
the free capital in the world today"
he said, lis in the United States, and
all the world is looking to this country
to go into the undeveloped regions of
the earths surface, and wave the
creative wand of wealth. Not that
these countries of the far east are with
out wealth and resources of their own.
In the far east the potentialities are
beyond the dreams of the widest opti-
mist. But the people are not sure of
themselves. The workings of modern
finance are not within their ken, and
wealth to them still means something
to hoard, to conceal and to lie fallow.
There is something unfortunate in
the term far east which undoubtedly
reacts indirectly on the American bust
money in enterprises of even the most
promising character. Perhaps, if some
daring aviator were to startle the world
by flying to japan in sixty hours by way
of the Great Circle and Aleutian Islands
a distance of about 1000 miles, it would
bring about realization that the term
far east which was appropriate in the
day of the clipper ship, is out of place
in this era of modern means of travel.
This drawing closer of the east and
west by quicker and better means of
transportation and communication will
do more than anything else to dissipate
the feeling of mystery. and aloofness
which marks the attitude of the aver
age American investor today.
China, of all the far eastern coun-
tries, with its population three times
as large as that of the United States.
offers the most logical field for invest
ment and trade development In all
far eastern countries except China. ia
nan and Siam. the interests of the home
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George Was Richest.

| Editor The News.
We are informed today-and no
doubt correctly-that George Wash
| ington. the father of his country and
the first president of the United
States, was considered the richest man
in the country when he died, his for
tune being approximately 100000. con-
sisting mostly of real estate. A for
tune of 100000 in the days of George
Washington, a little more than a cen
fury ago. no doubt looked like a tre-
mendous fortune to the American peo-
pie then. In fact it was, but how in
significant compared with the great or
ganized fortunes of many present day
captains of American industry and
finance, which is only another evil
dence of the changing times and con-
ditions in moving world A fortune
of half million dollars now looks like
thirty cents" compared to the gigan-
tic fortunes of some powerful rich
men this day and time Many of us
who have lived for the past fifty years
in Tennessee can remember when any
man that lived in a white house and
possessed a horse and buggy was
called rich man, but not so today |
can very well remember when there
was only one man for several miles in
the north end of Rhea county that
owned both white house and a top
buggy. but today the toot of the horn
of the automobile is heard in that
community and it may not be long be-
fore the airplane may be seen passing
there, too In those days of forty and
nifty years ago, in the country, the
young man rode a mule to see his best
girl on Sunday and hitched it to "a
swinging limb" Since the days of
George Washington the times have
changed nightly, the people have
changed much, and the world has
moved several cogs despite the con-
slant mulelike kicking OF some we'll
meaning people that just naturally
don't want anything changed.
c. A DAGT EY
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COMING GENERATIONS.

Observes the Kansas City Times:
1.-THE going of booze means fewer
accidents, fewer fights, fewer men in
| capacitated for work. The time is
coming when people will wonder how
their ancestors tolerated the sale of
drug that produced the conse-
quences that came from liquor"
The agitation that has resulted
from attempts to deal with the liquor
question is caused by the money
making possibilities of the traffic.
Eliminate from the business all hope
of profit and resistance and litigation
will disappear overnight. 1t is not
per Sc a question of personal right to
indulge in the dissipation, but rather
of the right of the strong to prey
upon the perverted appetities and I'M
stable will of the weak. Men would
hardly ever spend hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in the endowment of
newspapers and the education of pub
lie opinion merely 10 safeguard the
right to drink if that We're all the
proposition involved
1t is not insisted that all newspa-
pers which are friendly to the liquor
traffic have been financed directly,
but it is well known that the trade
furnishes considerable business TO
such papers as appreciate it. Some
times it happens that real rights II
the people are invaded by legislation,
but these guardians are only dis
to ones neighbor is jeopardized.
There is little argument now over re-
strictions upon the sale of other
deadly poisons, and we join with the
Times in the hope that the same
may soon be true of the most seduc-
tive Of all poisons.
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ASSIGNMENT OF DEPARTMENTS

Commissioner Heron, it seem!
most likely, will be assigned the de.
partment of police and fire at thi,
afternoons meeting of the new city
commission. While it was unaues.
tionably the desire Of the people as
shown in the primary and election te
secure the services of Mr.. Heron
again in his former department, that
OF parks and public buildings, never
the!ess. we have confidence that Mr.
Heron will give conscientious and
able administration of the depart
ment to which he has been assigned,
His experience as a commissioner In
another department ought to qualify
him for any work that may come
within his jurisdiction under the new
administration. There was a we'll
defined sentiment, as shown in the
primary and election that Mr.. Her
ron ought to continue in the service
of the city. He now has an oppor-
tunity to show by his administration
of the department, which is perhaps
the most important except that of
mayor, that this confidence was not
misplaced We have no doubt he will
do so.
Commissioner Wassman will be
assigned to the department of parks
and public buildings, which was for
merly held by Mr.. Heron. While
there will be much disappointment
on the part of many that the former
tax assessor was not given the place
to which most of those who voted
for him expected that he would be
chosen. nevertheless, he will have
scope for his ability, as this is an
important department.
Commissioner Bass once again be-
comes commissioner Of streets and
sewers. In the primary of June 10
hei received the second highest vote
cast, and it was expected by those
who voted for him that he would
serve in the new administration in
the same department as before, and
complete the very important work
which he had excellently begun. Mr..
Bass is being accused of controlling
the commission, and the signs are
that the charge is well founded, so
far as his having major influence is
concerned. If he had taken the de- |
partment of fire and police he would, |
we believe. have been a fair target |
of very Just criticism, as 1t would |
have seemed like an effort to GEN.
tralize patronage in one family and !
faction. AS it is, however, such crit
icism need not apply.
Commissioner Frazier will, of
course, take the department OF
schools, and to Mayor Chambliss,
under the charter, goes the depart
ment of finance. 1t may be, however,
that he will also have charge of the
health department.
The new commission might, per-
haps, have made a better start, but
we shall not indulge in censorious
criticism. We believe that the pros
poets are excellent for a good adj
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And so you proposed to Ethel last
night?' asked the young mans sister
Yes, l did, replied her brother
sadly.
And did she give you any encourage
"Oh, yes"
Then have I to congratulate your"
mo; she refused me-"
But I thought you said she gave
you some encouragement"
Well" said the youth reluctantly,
she looked at me three times before
she refused me"
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PROTEST PEACE TREATY
italian Socialists Call Strike July &c
and II,

italian Socialists Call Strike July 20
and Fl.
Rome, July 1.-THE intransgeant
socialists have published a manifesto
proclaiming a general strike on July 20
and 81 as a protest against the peace
treaty, which is denounced as AN at
tempt by the allies to suffocate boil
shevism in Russia and Hungary"
''Workmen of France will do like
wise" the manifesto says Work
men of England will also show their
intention to bring to bear the powerful
action of their trade unions Work.
men in Switzerland, Holland, Denmark
and Sweden will join in the movement.
Thus the flag of the Internationale will
be unfurled against the new premedi-
tated crimes of the bourgeosie."
The manifesto was also signed by the
General Confederation OF Labor.
THE Socialist Italian union" COM
prising more moderate elements, mas
published another manifesto. agreeing
to a general strike but warning work.
men that the English proletarat does
not join in the strike, although its
government has the greatest RESPONSE
biity as to intervention in Russia"
The manifesto states that the strike in
France is a protest against the high
cost of living and not in behalf OF
Russia and Hungary.
Follow the crowd to McCaIlie lake.
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Somebody has discovered another
distinction for North Carolina be-
sides being the home of Josephus
Daniels. 1t is now being held up
as an exemplar of domestic peace
and tranquility. It's record of di-
vorces last year was only 36 per
cent OF the country wide average.
in six of its counties there was not
a single legal separation. We have
not heard II thus affirmed, but there
may be something in the climate Of
the old North state which conduces
to restfulness and resignation.
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ments. But, as before remarked, ev-
cry one knows what a great tempta-
ito 1t offers to the ambitious. A
mans employment in the public
service should depend Upon merit
rather than political pull, and his re-
tention should be based upon his fl
deity rather than the within or con-
venience of the appointing power
Wherefore Chattanooga should have
a municipal civil service law.
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Chamberiain's Tahlets

These tablets are intended es-
pecially for stomach troubles, bilious
ness and constipation. If you have
any troubles of this sort, give them a
trial and realize for yourself what a
first class medicine will do for you
They only cost a quarter-(Adv.)
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shakespearean knomledns.

What is the meaning of the word
'adage'?" a schoolmaster asked.
"A place TO put cats into" was the
pupils answer
What put such an idea into your
head?"
We'll, sir, doesn't it say in Shake
speare. Like the poor cat in the ad-
age?'
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A colony of Mennonites near Sas-
katoon, northwestern Canada, find %
ing that their conceptions Of self de-
Termination do not square with that
of the government are planning re-
moval TO Argentina. That would be
some migration.
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President elect Pessoa is hurry
ing back to Brazil to get on the Job.
Perhaps he remembers what hap
pened to a fellow named Castro one
time when he absented himself for a
while.
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) Senator Hitchcock is expected to
lead the fight for ratification of the
treaty with Germany, including the
league covenant. But it is rumored
that he draws the line at the Franco
British American alliance.
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The Nashville Banner objects to
the hyphenation Of Jugo- Slavia, in
sisting that Jugo simply means
southern. This is true. The use Of
Jugo in any way in this country
should be discouraged. Use the Eng
lish term.
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II Germany and Austria should both
became members of the league Of ma
tons. would Clemenceau still insist
upon a special extra alliance for the
protection of France?