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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-10-03
GET READY
/ FOR FLU
Keep Your Liver Active, Your
System Purified and Free From
Colds by Taking Calotabs,
the Nausealess Calomel
Tablets, that are De-
lightful, Safe and
Sure.

Physicians and Druggists are adyis-
ing their friends to keep their systems
purified and their organs in perfect
working order as protection against
the return of influenza. They know
that a clogged up system and lazy
liver favor colds, influenza and serious
complications.
To cut short cold overnight and to
prevent serious complications take one
Calotab at bedtime with swallow OF
water-that IS all. No salts, no nausea
no gripping, no sickening after effects.
Next morning your cold has vanished,
your liver is active, your system is puri-
fed and refreshed and you are feeling
fine with a hearty appetite for break
fast. Eat what you please--no danger:
Calotabs are sold only in original
sealed packages, price thirty-fve cents.
Every druggist is authorized to refund
your money if you are not perfectly
delighted with Calotabs.-(Adv.)
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-10-03
Harking Back.

"Thcy used to have half reel films. I"
Eyes, and now and then | see a
show so lugubrious as to make me
remember that feature as one not
without considerable merit"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-10-03
SENTENCE SERMONS.

Keep the home fires burning in safe
stoves.
The child who plays with matches
will gain experience.
A quart of gasoline will cause an
automobile to move three miles.
A similar amount used in household
cleaning may cause three auto fire
trucks and an ambulance to run sim
liar distance.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-10-03

When Tennessee loses s5,00O,o0 by
fires in a year, who pays the bills?
You do, though you have suffered no
direct fire loss. It's in the premium
rates you pay for your next years
Insurance.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-10-03
Card

We wish to take this opportunity
to thank the people of Obion County
who furnished products and assisted
in any way to put on our exhibit 1T
the Tri-State-Fair. In winning first
honors we all feel well paid for our
efforts.
Miss Luther.
Mr.. Dougherty.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-10-03

We hope the Post Master General
is popular with somebody, at any
rate.
The sun., 1919-09-28
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THEATRES

Greene. and forgetting everything
wanders Off with her, hand IN hand.
Bessie miriam Sears) to Dan, who
heaves a huge sigh-What's the mat
ter?
Dan ernest Glendinning)-I was
Just envying-Charley.
Bess-Why? Because he can walk
with her? 20
Dan-No, not because he can walk
with her. guess it was the way they
walked.
Bess-Oh, he hasn't seen her for a
year.
Dan-Absence makes the heart grow
fonder.
Bess-You mean, out of sight out Of
mind.
Dan-I don't think so. (He indicates
the two off.) Doesn't look like 1t.
Bess-But she's a wealthy girl, and
poor Charley has nothing.
Dan-He1l get something. You just
watch. Do you know that young lady
Is responsible for his puncture proof
tire? I tell you-there's nothing like
something-or somebody-you want
clear through to make you hustle.
Bess-You seem to speak from ex-
perience.
Dan-That's why I'm going to sell
that tire.
Bess-ohl know he likes her.
Dan-Likes her? Didn't you see
how he looked at her?
Bess-I didn't see anything unusual.
The sun., 1919-09-28

Dan-That look means only one
thing. --''
Bess-What--kind of a look Is t7
Dan-What kind? Why, It's when
your heart is in your eyes.
Bess-Oh, the boys are always
looking.
'Dan-So are the girls-but there's
one look that means one thing-only.
Bess-Oh shucks, that's romance
and nonsense.
Dan-Is II? When the man meets
the girl---he'd go through fire and
water for-and he's unable to tell her
because he hasn't enough to offer
her--or he hasn't known her long
enough--but he knows it's the girl.
Then all he can do is to let his eyes
speak for him. Gle looks steadily at
her for a moment. She meets his gaze
with laughter in her eyes, then her
expression changes and she begins to
flght) ~ -
Bess-And you think look like that
would win girl? You certainly are
sure of. yourself. (She is compelled
to look at him again-he gazes sifently
at her) And you try the same thing
on every girl you meet. And you
never mean it-why do you go on
looking like that at me?
.Dan--I'm trying to tell you. I've
got to sell that tire.
Bess--I hope you do--sell the tire.
(She goes in and closes door. Dan
looks after her, then smiles.)
The sun., 1919-09-28

divided among the three-one was N.
leading man, another the stage direcs
tor, and Reed doubled as scene painter
occasional author and constant fnan,
cial genius, for 1t was his duty in ad-
dition to others to handle the business
end Of the enterprise. The COMPANY
was recruited in part from the two col.
leges which flank Galesburg and from
q number of retired professionals who
lived there. Tt was all excellent train
ing, and before the year was out Reed
and his friends knew lot more about
the theatre than they did when they
left Boston. They finally sold out to the
Galesburg Drama League and Reed
went home and wrote "She Would and
She Did,"
The sun., 1919-09-28
NOTABLE feature of Adolph
Klauber's reduction of
"Nightie Night" at the Princess

A NOTABLE feature Of Adolph
"A Klauber's production of
"Nightie Night" at the Princess
In to be found in the settings. which
are not only exceptionally lovely in
themselves but provide exactly the
right background for the story and
the characters of the play. So much
so in fact that most Of the first night
reviewers found time and space to
say. a word or two about the scenery,
which Is unusual in these days where
elaborate settings are taken as q
matter of course.
In this particular case 1t is not the
eiaborateness so much as the appro-
priateness that causes comment.
Naturally in the first scene. which
shows the interior of a Pullman chair
car, there was no chance for choice
or originality. 1t is just a duplicate
Of the real thing. The action then
passes to the drawing room of a smart
apartment, and here one Immediately
gets sense of thoughtfulness and
good taste. 1t is the first instance In
which the Venetian eighteenth century
chinoiserie has been used as the gen.
efal motif of stage scene, though
this type OF decoration has had an
immense vogue in smart apartments
and more important private houses.
background in keeping with the
brightness and lightness Of the play,
and the color which runs riot in the
designs of that period with the anus
ing paintings of birds, flowers and
people used in the decoration made it
Ideally suitable. Alexander King, Jr.,
who designed this delightful set, said
that jade tree was its inspiring
motif. The jade green therefore pro-
vides the background, which proved
I to be a most happy one for gowns and
faces.
That the great English novelist
Charles Dickens got his inspiration, II
he did not in truth borrow facts, for
the tale Of "Oliver Twist" from the
real life experience Of an actor is the
arm opinion of Thurston. the magician
q bibliophile who loves TO ramble
through the mysterious passagewaya
OF literature and seek out new ave-
During MIR. Thurston's three year
tour of Europe he rummaged through
the museums and libraries and visited
tho old curiosity shops of London and
the provinces in quest Of lore, either
The sun., 1919-09-28

wrote a play. When he reached his
home in Chelmsford, Mass. some
months ago he was greeted at the
front door by a telegram announcing
that Miss George had accepted the
play. That play is "She Would and
She Did," at the Vanderbilt.
Out of seventeen months In the
army Reed spent fifteen In France.
Nine of those fifteen were spent in
active service at the front with the
artillery 1t fSl to his lot as a men,
Der Of the camoufiage corps to help
do the concealment work on and about
new artillery positions.
Reed had a varied career before he
played a part In the big adventure in
France. He was graduated from Dart
mouth and then studied architecture
at Boston Tech. He even went so
far as to try to make living as an
architect for a while, but his interest
In the theatre, acquired as a youth,
daily became stronger, and he finally
deserted plans and specifications for
Harvard and Prof. Bakers famous
for playwrights he stayed two years,
being In the same class with Cleaves
Kincaid, who reached Broadway and
fame as a playwright through Com
mon Clay" ...+f
His next adventure was in the pur-
suit of elusive dollars and correspond
ing circulation for the Woman's Jour
nal, the national suffrage paper, Of
which for a time he rejoiced in the
title of circulation manager. g.,
Then in company with two others
from Harvard he set out to do things
in the middle West Galesburg, ILL.,,
was the metropolis selected, and there
the three Harvard dramateers installed
The sun., 1919-09-28
Vaudeville and Burlesque.

PALACE-Bee Palmer and
her shoulders will make their
metropolitan debut in vaudeville
here, as the Palace historian
happily phrases it. Then, after
q lot of free verse delirium to the
effect that Swinburne and Walter
j. Kingsley both seem to have
had her in mind when they wrote
their poetic masterpieces show
ing there's a lot to the grand
passion, if you only look at it
rightly, the historian goes on to
say that Pat Rooney will be the
featured single, which is like
making a bad landing after a
beautiful airplane flight. Nonette,
the violinist, and Lew Brice and
company will also be in the Of
fng.
RIVERSIDE-Grace La Rue
and her voice will occupy the
chief dressing room here. The
Ford Sisters, Lew Dockstader,
and Harry and Anna Seymour
will be among those getting a
free view of the show.
:. AMERICANA cast of eleven
in "The Birthday Party" a
musical tabloid; Dorothy Roye,
registering through popular
melodies; Jack and Tommy
Weir, burnt cork comedians. and
Fred Allen, ventriloquist, will be
some of the guests of the man.
| agement.
COLUMBIA-Billy Watson
and his Partisan Whirl" will
present a production said to have
been iavishly supplied with cos
tumes' scenery and electric bulbs.
The sun., 1919-09-28
BROOKLYN THEATRES.

MAJESTIC-Louis Mann is
presented by A. H. Woods in
Friendly Enemies" with most
of the players who were able to
survive the long run of this
amusing comedy at the Hudson
Theatre.
MONTAUK-Robert Mantell,
in "Richelieu" and performances
from his Shakespeare repertoire,
will show how readily a skilful
actor can change his character
with his costume.
STAR-The ne plus ultra of
burlesquc, not to mention the
sufnmum bonun, will be pre-
sented here by the Pace Makers
Company, as in the glorious
past.
The sun., 1919-09-28
"A REGULAR TELLER" ON LOVE

There Is a scene In "A Regular
Felier," Charles Emerson Cooks pro-
duction Of Mark Swans automobile
comedy at the Cort Theatre. which is
played by Ernest Glendinning and
Miriam Sears and which might be
described as lesson in love making.
The scene takes place after Charley
Winter, played by Everett Butterfield,
in the midst Of q heated business dis
cussion, comes face to face with his
sweetheart played by Margaret
The sun., 1919-09-28
NOT A BROKEN REED.

Up to a week or SO ago Mark Reed
was a name unknown in the theatre
Now, thanks to brilliant performance
by Grace George, his name follows the
word by" on the programme Of a
comedy which still on view on Broad
way.
And to Reed, late OF the camoufiage
section, Fortieth Engineers, goes first
prize in the way of real welcome
home. Before he sailed overseas Reed
The sun., 1919-09-28

a little theatre and fostered art. They
made over an old acknowledging
had gone dry-into what they called
"the Prairie Playhouse" and there
played and prospered for year. Reed
and his friends put on worth while
plays.
The work OF the organization was
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-02

flight of Major MacAuley and the nonstop
fight of Captain White from Chicago to New
York will be equalled and surpassed. The
feats Of these aviators presage flights across
the Atlantic in less than one-flfth the time re-
quired by the speediest ocean greyhounds.
1t hasn't been great while since the world
was startled by the performance OF Glenn
Curtiss, who few from Albany to New York
City, May 20, 1909, making two stops en-
route. Such flights are commonplace these
days. When Louis Bleroit, in 1909, crossed
the English channel in an airplane it was the
wonder of the. time. But what is such flight
today? Ministers on errands OF state today
ferry across the channel, between England
and France, and think little of it. The
channel was crossed thousands of times dur
ing the war by airplane
The development of the airplane as useful
agency of transportation exceeds the alacrity
with which commercial and industrial commu-
mites are preparing for it's utilization. In a
word, the science Of air navigation today is
being retarded by the failure Of towns and
cities to prepare landing fields upon which
aviators, in their cross country flights, may
land in cases of emergency and convenience.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-02
FOUR CROPS A YEAR


(The Orangeburg Is. CO. Times and Demo
crat.)
There are truck farms around Beaufort
which have artificial irrigation in excellent
form, enabling the farmer to operate success
fully regardless of the rainfall. In Guernsey,
an island, the farmers raise four crops yearly
by means of glass houses which is intensive
farming to the NTH degree. Mr.. w. w.
Marsh, a prominent Democrat, was recently
talking to Arthur W. Brisbane, the note i
editor, who recorded his remarks upon this
phase Of farm operations as follows:
"This country knows nothing about getting
wealth from the soil. The Island of Guernsey
is about half the size of township in Illi-
nois, Wisconsin or Iowa. That island of 49,
900 acres supports 10000 people well.
''Here farmer is proud if he takes $50
from an acre in one year, Guernsey exports
in agricultural and horticultural products
$500 year for every acre.
"They~have, on the island, 1000 miles of
glass houses in which they raise four crops e
year, without artificial heat. The houses are
48 feet wide, IA feet high to the ridge of the
roof.
"Their first crop is early potatoes. The sec
ond, string beans. The third, tomatoes. The
fourth, grapes that sell here and abroad for
a dollar pound and UP. In the early season
they strip the leaves from the grape vines to
let the sun il to the other crops. This holds
the grapes back to just the time when they
want them. That is zeal intensive farming
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-02
The Sling and the Giant.

The Triton Gazette appropriately recalls in
this anniversary season OF Americas entrance
into the World War that in the spring Of 1917
our Regular Army numbered only 127, 58S
men; the National Guard, 8O,466; the Navy,
65,777; and the Marine Corps, 1922. With
this slender force-this David's sling-we en-
tered the lists against giant milltarism But
see how matters stood in November OF 1918
when the armistice came Our army then
and the Marine Corps, 78,017-an aggregate
strength of 4,339,O57. Further, 1--WE had
transported 2,O53,347 soldiers overseas, and
of these 1,338,169 had been in action"
Boosting is the last infirmity to which a
great nation should yield. But may it not be
said without hint of uppishness that this is
rather creditable record for so unmilitaristie
and, as some critics screamed, so Woefully un-
prepared a country as America? There
would have been veritable tempest OF IL
toId-you-so's," if conspicuous inefhclency had
developed in the expeditionary forces. But
unprejudiced observers-the French and
British, for example-report the speedily
raised American divisions as having served
with pronounced effectiveness as we'll as eour-
age Undeniably there were faults and errors,
and some deplorable incompetencies-as, for
instance, in the handling of soldiers mail
But in things big and crucial the army and
the fleet acquitted themselves SO we'll that
every Achilles of critic who would, il he
could lie sulking in his tent must come forth
with words of praise.
This does not prove that unpreparedness is
any wise other than hazardous and earnestly
to be avoided. But it does prove the mettle of
Americanism and the capacities of a Govern
ment that does not live for bayonets and
spurs.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-02
PREVENTIVE TAXATION
Rv II. Addingtnn Bruce

REVENTIVE taxation may be defined as
taxation directed to preventing condi-
tions which, il not prevented, will
cause intolerabIe social evils making neces-
sary an enormous outlay Of public money to
cope with them. 1t is a kind of taxation
which should be more in evidence than it is
at present.
AS regards preventive taxation, in fact, so.
cety's attitude is much that of the man who
gashed his hand badly ON an old saw.
You had better go to doctor" advised a
neighbor, who happened to be standing near
by. THAT cut needs attention"
ooh, that's all right" was the confident an
sWer. "I'll wrap my hand up, and it'll heal
in no time. It's nothing serious. No need to
waste couple of dollars on doctor"
But the cut did not heal as expected,
Somehow-perhaps because the saw was old,
perhaps because the cloth used for bandage
was not SO clean as it might have been-the
hand became infected. Blood poisoning set
in. There was a swelling Of the whole arm.
Now it was question of many visits by a
doctor. Fifty dollars had to be paid out,
where two or three would have suffced had
prompt action been taken.
Just so society is yearly spending hundreds
of millions of dollars that might be saved by
judicious preventive taxation.
Hardly one community, for example, is to-
day taxing itself as it should for the proven
ton of disease. AS result, needlessly heavy,
appal1ngIy heaVy, no6pltal taxes are the Well
nigh universal rule.
The annual cost of crime to the UniteL
States alone is estimated at $60O,000,O 900.
There are increasingly heavy bills for prisons,
courts, and the functionaries connected there
with. These bills could in time be cut appre-
Gladly by a liberal outlay for really preventive
taxation.
Housing and treatment Of the feeble-mind-
ed and the insane cost the United States
$500, 100000 annually. The single state of
New York has program calling for the ex-
penditure of $10,000,000 year for the next
ten years in extensions to meet the growing
need of caring for the mentally diseased.
In the last three years Ohio has spent over
$13,0OO,000 on these two types of unfor-
tunates-the insane and the feeble-minded.
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, every densely
populated state is finding them an ever cost
ler problem.
Yet insanity and feeble-mindedness are
largely preventable. It still is a question,
however, Of bringing the public to appreciate
this, and thereby to gain the public's consent
to the preventive taxation that would prove
both humane and economically profitable.
Something, of course, is being already done.
Preventive taxation is not entirely lacking as
regards all these social burdens. But we must
have it in more abundant measure if it's
beneficent influence is to be really felt.
Copyright 1919, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-02
TRAVELETTE-By Niksah
NEW HEBRIDEs CUSTOMS


In spite of the white mans efforts to civil
lie them, natives of the New Hebrides cling
tenaciously to their old habits and customs.
Superstition and precedent are so firmly
rooted in their minds that any new ideas are
looked upon with distrust. The sacred men
of the tribes are sternly jealous of their power
and ward off encroaching civilization by ter
rible threats.
The islander of the New Hebrides likes Wis
ible reminders of his religion and supersti-
ton. Sacred objects are guarded by evil
looking carved figures and departed chief
of tribe is kept in mind by setting up an
effgy in conspicuous place There Is never
any doubt as to the identity of figure, as
the head of the effgy is the chiefs skull
covered with clay and moulded and painted
to resemble the departed. The rest OF the
figure is rather like scarecrow, with paint
ed clay body and very few clothes. While this
effgy remains in the public view, there is no
danger of the chief being forgotten. His
memory is ever green, and he is f1ttingly ven
Grated.
Throughout the islands, many OF the prlm
tive ceremonies are still performed. The
"sing sing ground is still kept in readiness
for the periodical outbursts of feeling, when
the islander dances his wild and sacred dances
to the CHASTITY music of the drums. Watch
ing one of these weird reve1s followed by an
orgy of eating, or more correctly, stuffng, 1t
seems to the observer that the New Hebrides
race is destined to continue until it dies out
a savage, or, at best, semi-ciVilized people.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-02
CANADA'S EXAMPLE
o.
THE Boston Evening Transcript

(The Boston Evening Transcript
Canada's aid in the winning of the war af-
forded from first to last an inspiring ex-
ample to all the allies, to none more than
their nearest neighbors, the people of the
United States. In men, money and loyal sup
port the contribution of Canada stands out
as a splendid sacrifice in a noble cause, one
that will forever rebound to the greatness
and the glory of men and things Canadian.
Now Canada is setting a similar example
in the swiftness with which her demobiliza-
ton of her sons returning from the colors
and their repatriation and advantageous al
location in her peace establishment are pro-
ceeding. On another page today appears an
account by our Toronto correspondent of the
liberal treatment which every Canadian sol
der is receiving from the government at the
time of his honorable discharge; Of the
thoroughness with which the wounded and
incapacitated, who paid with their bodies"
that Canada might live, are being cared for
and helped to help themselves; of the work
of the department of re-education OF these
heroes of the liberal pension system for
widows and families; and of the methods
which make certain that every discharged
soldier shall receive promptly suitable job,
one for which he is fitted and which takes
into account his increased efficiency as re-
suit of his services with the colors.
Without detracting from what Massa-
chuSetts and other states are trying to do,
without taking into account what Washing
ton has done and failed to do, let us not for
get what the Canadians are doing while many
Americans arc still talking in regard to this
all-important matter. The way to make the
men returning from the colors feel at home
everywhere in America, the way to make
America mean all that home shou mean to
them, is now open to thos2 who were de-
prived of the privilege of participation in the
greatest adventure of the ages. The we1com-
ing celebrations and the parades and re-
views are excellent features with which to
commence the real job of making America
mean to her defenders now and in the years
to come, Liberty and Equality mot only but
Fraternity.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-02
Il Dastardly Crime.

The sympathy of the Georgia people and
of right-minded citizens everywhere goes out
to former United States Senator Thomas w.
Hardwick in the atrocious attempt upon his
life and the distressing injuries suffered by
members of his household through the open
ing of the Internal machine. Whether or not
the criminals back of this incident be linked,
as Federal Investigators suspect with those
who recently launched a similar stroke
against Mayor Ole Hanson, of Seattle, it APP
pears certain that none but rabid anarchists
or outright lunatics would have adventured
so dastardly deed.
Every effort Of the national and municipal
authorities should be exerted to the utmost
to find out and bring to justice the guilty
persons. For whether it be the work of a
crazed or a criminal mind, plot like this is
of its very nature destructive of all that is
American and all that is right. 1t is a
source of profound qualification to his fellow
Georgians that Mr.. Hardwick entirely es-
capped; and they earnestly trust that the re-
sponsible criminals may be brought to un-
sparing punishment.