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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16
WILLIAM j. fowler
PAINFULLY INJURED
PROMINENT ATTORNEY BRUISED
ABOUT FACE AND BODY WHEN
THROWN FROM CAR.

William j. fowler, special assistant
counsel for the city of Columbia and
one Of the most prominent men of the
city, was quite painfully but not dan
gerously injured, and Hugh Todd
Shelton, county attorney, sustained
painful bruises in All automobile &C.
cident that occurred on Thursday
night Together with Deputy United
States Marshal Thomas II. Mclean
they we're coming from Nash
vile when in some way the steer.
ing wheel hung and Mr. Mclean, wno
was at the wheel, was unable 10 avoid
Il ditch on the side Of the road. When
the Cur lurched into the ditch. M
Towlsa' was thrown out between the
car and the fence jest to the side OF
the car. Caught between the car and
and the fence he was very painfully
hurt, being bruised and torn about
the face and body and immediate med
ical attention was necessary. In the
position in which he was thrown II
was regarded as almost miraculous
that he was not dangerously hurt
Mr.. Shelton was only bruised. Mr.
TOWERS injuries are expected to heaI
up in a short time.
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lumbia, Tennessee for April /, 1920.
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16
HIGH SCHOOL WILL
CLOSE TERM MAY 20
GRADUATING EXERCISES or
PROBABLY BEST SESSION IN
HISTORY OF INSTITUTION. a

Commencement exercises at The
County High School will take place
on Thursday, May 20. Superintendent
Harris is not yet ready to announce the
orator for the occasion, but he has,
he thinks, a very pleasant surprise in
store for the people Of Columbia as
he hopes TO bring here one of the
first speakers Of the state. The grad
uating exercises will take place dur.
ing the morning, the class day exercis-
es being on the previous day. TAX
ing it altogether the members of the
faculty, many Of whom are veterans,
believe that it will bring to a close
the best term in the history of the
school.
An unusually large number of the
boys and girls have signfed an inter-
tion to attend college this fall. No
institution has made greater progress
in respect to sending its graduates
to college than the county high school.
Every year the number who go to col.
lego increases.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16
LITTLE BOY IS
DEATHS VICTIM
FOUR YEAR OLD SON OF Mr.. AND
MRS. n. A. MoREL DIES AFTER
SHORT ILLNESS.

( Herbert Eerchel Morel, four year
old son CT Mr. and Mrs. H. A. M0rol
died at O'Clock this morning at the
home Of his parents near SawduSt
The little fellow had been i'll but two
weeks, and rs untimely death comes
as a great blow to his parents, who
have the heartfelt sympathy of the en-
tire neighborhood.
Deceased is survived by his parents
one brother, Ezell, and one sister
Christine Prayers will be said at Mt
Nebo at O'Clock Wednesday after
noon by the Rev John Spurlock. The
Maury Undertaking Co. in charge.
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tendent Graham should be chairman,
should be appointed to visit and in.
Vestigate the communities where
school buildings or repairs on old
buildings are needed, ascertain the
cost Of the proposed improvements,
find out what assistance the commu-
mites will give and report in detail
to the adjourned session. This com
mittee is composed of Prof. Graham,
Squires Digger, Matthews and Wilkes.
In addition TO the school matter the
bridge appropriations for the year will
also be considered
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16

use for the sinking fund the court on
recommendation Of Judge Washington
G. Whitthorne, ordered the election of
finance committee This commit
tee is composed eli Justice Jackson,
chairman, ard Justices Orr, of Column.
bia, and DAYS. Of Spring Hill. This
committee will re called together al
once by Chairman Jackson, who was
considerably exercised over the fail
ure Of the county to loan more of the
sinking fund. and an effort made to
loan the funds OH good and solvent
security. The finance committee will
also exercise general supervision over
the finances of :fc county.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16
BETTER SCHOOL
BUILDINGS FOR
COUNTY is seen
SQulRES ADJOURN TO MEET ON
MONDAY, MAY 10, TO CONSID-
Err THAT SUBJECT.
COMMITTEE WILL INVESTIGATE
County superintendent Graham and
Justices to Ascertain Needs Of Com
.munities and Pledges of Aid in Re-
/, turn for County's Libcrality.

{ :; When the county court by a practi-
cally unanimous vote decided on Mon
day 10 adjourn for a special day to
consider the question Of adequate
school buildings in the county, one Of
! the most IMPORTANT steps IN cd,loa'
tional progress had been taken in the
history OF the comfy 1t is the first
time since the county court began TO
levy school taxes that il ever fixed a
special day 10 consider the needs OF
the most important department of the
county.
The court adjourned Monday to
meet on Monday, May 10. 1t can, OF
course consider any subject on that
date, but it adjourned primarily to
consider school buildings and in direct
response to request from Raleigh S.
Hopkins, who appeared with plea
for a better building at Mcdowell.
This was followed by a motion OF
Squire Digger, of Culleoka, that a
committee of which County Superin-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16
FARMERS ELECT
DIRECTORS FOR
COUNTY COUNCIL
TWENTY-oNE CHAlRMEN ARE
ARE CHOSEN TO MANAGE AZ
FAIRS NEW ORGANIZATION.
RIDLEY GETS THE HIGHEST VOTE
Receiving Sixty-Nine out of a Posi-
BILE Eighty That We're Cast--New
Board Will Hold First Meeting Sat
urday at I O'Clock.

Organization Of the County Council
of Agriculture was brought a step
nearer completion when Wednes.
day the canvassiDg committee met,
canvassed the returns for the election
Of directors and announced the result
The diectors,eect will meet on next
Saturday at the court house at noon
and proceed to elect the permanent
officers. The returns showed that
near ninety of the lis members had
voted and the constitution was unani
mously approved. not single ballot
being cast against il.
The following FAMED were elected
directors; William p. Ridley, James
Il. Williamson, George Campbell, Mrs.
w. J. Lamb, j. Frank Porter, Thomas
Y. English, John P. Graham, Miles
Murphy, J. I. Finney, George E. Nc
Kennon, d. Frank Fulton, A. r. Mat
thews; C. L. Alexander, William j.
Russell, Arthur e. Murphy, Henry H..
Hill, George N. McKennon, ]. II. Din
ming, Mrs John T. Stephens, DR.. Wal
ter r. Woodbridge ISAIAH c. Murphy.
Mr. Ridley led the ticket with six
| ty-nine votes to his credit In the
classification of general farming he
| got all but eleven votes cast. }. J..
| Finney editor Of The Herald, came
next in ballotng with siXty-two votes
| out Of eighty-two cast for the public
! ty section of the board Isaiah G..
! Murphy was not far behind with a
total Of fifty-nine votes out of eighty
one cast Although DR.. Woodbridge
| asked the members not to vote for
him he was elected by a majority OF
! thirteen votes.
For general committeeman A. b..
Murphy led The general balloting with
/ W. j Russell next A close race was
run between Mrs John C. Nelson, OF
Enterprise, and Mrs John p Ste
| phens, of Hampshire, the latter Win
ming by vote Of forty to thirty-two
! There was a very much divided vote
| on the social welfare section, j. II.
Dining leading with 20; e. P Turner
had %; ]. B, Ashton, IS, and Webb
Williams Is. There will be two wo-
men on the board, Mrs. Lamb and
Mrs. Stephens
The committee, to canvass the re
turns was Wade up Of Miles Murphp,
j. l. Finney, j. Il. Williamson, Bob
! Goodloe and J. r. Ilardison and all OF
| them were present They were as.
sisted in counting the vote by Coun-
ty Agent Mclean and Ashley Sowell
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16
CLOSING EXERCISES
MILITARY ACADEMY
DR.. j. w. CHERRY WILL DELIVER
THE COMMENCEMENT SERMON
ON SUNDAY, MAY %.

Graduating exercises Of the Column
bia Military Academy will be held on
Wednesday, May 26. The speaker to
deliver the graduating address has
not yet been announced. The Acad-
envy will graduate the largest class in
its history, no less than forty-fye COM
pleting the course.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached by Rev. j w. Cherry at the
First Methodist church on Sunday
morning, May 3d.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16

Published Daily except Sunday at Co
lumbia, Tennessee for April /, 1920.
State of Tennessee,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16

Miss Mary Lee Foster, who is at
tending the University of Tennessee,
to the national convention w. Y G.
A. at Cleveland, Ohio, which viii be
in session one week, beginning tomor-
row,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-16

CORN PLANTERS. If you want
the the best we have it. Combined
Corn and Pea. B A. SATTERFIELD
& co. d&w1t
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

assembly-as illustrated in the old
barbecues, for examples an equal
ly American proceeding once one
crosses the Alleghanes.
The point is, we think, that what
a Chautauqua audience gets from it's
meeting is not to be Judged or meas
ured by the practices OF customs of
a large city. Let US agree that
enjoyment, direct tingle, is the
prime requisite Of true artistic ap-
probation, and that so far as learn
ing goes one lecture hardly more
than scratches the surface of any
subject. What the blase city
dweller fails to realize is that to
the small town citizen the average
Chautauqua program is approached
with all the artistic appetite Of
famished epicurean. The halo Of
solemnity and piety which usually
surrounds a ChautauQua gathering
deceives the visitor. In reality here
is an emotional welcome for beauty
hard to equal in any metropolitan
audience.
AS for solid fare for the mind, the
Chautauqua lecture needs to be
judged in relation to the aftermath,
to the home reading, to magazines
and newspapers and books, and to
the incomparably valuable quiet anti
time for reflection. The superficiality
Of the Chautauqua lecture is more
than compensated for by the op-
portunity country life gives for
after-probing and consideration.
When every allowance is made for
the absurdities of this university in
a tent that Bishop Vincent founded,
its solid service to its members is
unouestionablc. The American will
to culture operating through COM
munity gathering. is a much jollier
and wholesomer proceeding than the
outsider can realize. The Chautauqua
has for millions of people opened
the door for at least a glimpse of
beauty and wisdom. For which we
can forgive Chautauqua much, even
Bill Bryan himself.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
Headlines VS.. Freight
the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The life and business of New
York City depend on its transporta-
tlon services and are endangered by
rash and ill-considered measures which
affect its transportation. Is not the
recent belligerent "challenge" of the
Merchants Association to the trucking
unions just such a rash measure? If
four coastwise steamship lines, NOV
ing 3 to per cent of New York Citv's
freight, do not accept a governmental
award and 50 get in trouble with their
men, is that difficulty to be remedied
by snarling up trucking service
throughout the city? ] believe that to
be fair statement Of the facts in
this case and of the alleged "plan" of
the Merchants Association. It would
be a public service if our newspapers
would call attention rather to the need
for dispassionate study and practical
constructive solution Of so important a
problem. Defiant challenges, naughty
ultlmatums to "labor" and ar-fung
schemes for brand-new methods Of
transportation evolved over night NAV
make headlines, but it is not so cer-
tain that they move any freight.
w. l.. WHITTLESEY.
New York. Nav 8. 1920
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
Cunnery at Lutland

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; Two or three weeks ago, before
the naval inquiry at Washington. an
American naval officer was reported in
the press to have said "at the Battle
Of Jutland the British were shot Off
their feet by the Germans" or words
to that effect, meaning that the German
gunnery was far superior to that of
the British
In THE Scientific American" of Nav
8, 1920, page 50S. is an editorial en-
titled What the Germans Thought Of
Jutland," from which | quote: at has
been reserved for a German naval Of
iicer to expose the absurdty of the
German claim that the battle of Jut-
land was for them a great victory.
This confession is to be found in n
book which has recently been written
by Commander Georg Won IIase, the
chief gunnery officer of the battle
cruiser Derfiinger, which was in the
thick of the great battle from first to
last. The reader does not proceed very
far with this work before the convic-
ton is borne in upon him that it is a
stra ghtforward and vivid account of
the battle, written in q sailor-like man
ner by one who was an eyewitness of
the dramatic events which he records.
Won Hase admits that the British shot
superbly and at a fabulous speed AL
times, he says, so effective was the
British guntire that we stood power
less before the enemy, unable to re-
turn his fire. We were fight
ing an enemy at the second stage Of
the action inferior in numbers. but
superior in fighting power, which was
depressing, nerve wracking and pain
full. With every moment the
British fire seemed to grow more in
tense and accurate.'"
1t would seem from the evidence fur
nished by this German eyewitness that
the American naval officer must have
been misQuoted or misinformed.
ONE ANXIOUS FOR CORDIAL
AMERICAN-BRITISH RELATIONS.
Lockport, N. Y, May S, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
PostoGce Injustice
Meager Pay That Penalties Length
10 the Editor of The Tribune.


10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May | be given space in your
paper for word of appeal for the post
office clerks and carriers? This is a
question that Is positive disgrace to
the Congress of the United States.
have cousin that has given to
| Uncle Sam thirty-fve years of service.
The last years of the war he was in
formed that he must take out Liberty
bonds or he would be reported to the
Postmaster General. He gave to the
Liberty loans and had the amount taken
from his salary (wonderful salary!)
Sl,400 year, which his family needed
every cent Of The bonds when paid up
had to be turned in to his butcher and
grocer, as his salary could not meet
these bills. In the last year he received a
raise in salary of 500. During that
year his rent was raised $40 month.
the landlord telling him that he could
get more for the house. but, as he had
been a good tenant for three wears.
wanted him to stay. He could not find
house anywhere, so, of course, had to
pay the rent
In the mean time the furnace went
bad, but the landlord could not afford to
make repairs, so more coal was burned,
and with it all he faced the hardest
winter IN years, and more coal was
needed at price of $1125 a ton, against
$8.25 ton when he was earning $1,000
year. Milk, u cents a quart. against
Is cents; butter, so CENTS against So
cents.
These are only few of the things
he has talked to me about when he be-
came frantic with foods going higher.
He and his wife have gone without new
clothes for the last three years in order
to give to the children, to have them
look clean and neat for school,
The government should look after
their old employees first. In speaking
to my letter carrier the other day he
informed me that he had given twenty
years to the service. and yet the sub
carrier who had given but two years to
the service, would under the new ruling
as now submitted, receive almost as
much as he. Is this fair play? The men
IN my business who have given faithful
service are receiving more by far than
the ones in my employ but a short while
My Office boy works from o'clock to
5 o'clock. with half hour for luncheon.
and has his half-holiday every Saturday,
My cousin reports on swings, his hours
being 7 to ) and to 7-within ten
hours. Why can't our government Offices
be regulated on a business basis, where
more regular hours could be maintained?
He is in a second class office, and the
hours could be better arranged in such
an office.
1t has seemed SO strange that the
government could so quickly act on all
the strikes and give the men their de-
mands, and yet could be so slow in
granting its own men decent wage
This is one case. | suppose thousands
of postotficc clerks and carriers have
been compelled, like my cousin, to use
savings laid by for years to pay honest
debts because hei is honest and re-
spectacle, because he can't live decently
on his wages. READER
Newark, N. j., May 10, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
William Dean Howells

Years must pass before the student
OF literature can fix, with any def
nlteness, the status of William Dean
Howells. The foremost of our nov
efsts for generation, his novels are
at present little read, and he is reck-
oned Of more significance as a critic
and essayist than as a writer of
fiction
Mr.. Howells, as a worker on the
ancient and honorable craft of story
writing, was victim of a Franken-
stein Monster that he helped to call
into existence. He himself was of the
school of Dickens, Thackeray and
George Eliot, applying, though some
what less amply, their general meth
DDS to American life. Then Mr..
HoWells became great admirer of
the raW-meat realism of the Euro
pean Continent, particularly of the
rough and raucous Russians who
made a cult of ugliness and strong
emotions. Mr.. Howells made some
essay to follow their spirit. But he
couldn't. The retinements and taboos
IN his fbers would not yield. In
practice he showed that he deemed
1T indecent to discuss many themes.
tie continued to be the deft delineator
of the feelings and manners of wom-
en-but women with the modest in
nocence OF eighteen and twenty or
the sober respectability of the ma
tron of five and forty, rather than of
the passionate woman Of thirty.
But, though unable to force him
self into becoming a continentalist,
Mr.. HoWells was enough of a realist
to avoid the romantic, the heroic, and
even the sentimental. His interest
was in life in its everyday aspects.
He allowed for love as an inhuencer
Of conduct, but his temperament was
more congenial to recognition of the
forces of habit, Of duty and the like
In this respect he seemed to many a
trucr realist than those who make
sex attraction practically the whole
of life, thus sentimentally over
emphasizing while pretending to be
superior to sentiment
Most books seem bigger than their
writer's. The author met face to face
is commonly disappointment, and
there is the silent comment, "How
could he have done such good work ?"
But Mr.. Howells was bigger than his
works. His character was beautiful
this common word describes it
best. Permeated with that uncon-
sclous assumption Of human equality
Which IS democracy when it is grown
up, his personal life was devoted to
dong good. He gave sympathy and
intelligent encouragement, more pre-
clous gifts than money, to each on
coming generation Of pen workers.
Few are the writer's of America who
have not been helped by his gentle
yet discriminating intelligence. He
loved the young-his spirit never
grew old. 1t may be truly said that
ne was reVered and that memory Of
nm may long be sweet benison.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12

can or British naval strategy. His
tory must, therefore, be left to spec
ulate on the problem whether it was
unfortunate or not that Mr.. Wilson
had so little influence with the Brit
ish sea lords or with Mr.. Daniels
and Admiral Benson.
But history will not speculate
much as it notes that at the time
the President was exhorting subal-
terms to engage in a, supreme adj
venture he was supporting Daniels
in his policy of risl1ing no American
warship.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
Any Way to Beat Wood

In the recent struggle in Califor-
MIA Senator Johnson was supported
by group of multi-millionaires
that he formerly steadily hammered.
They constituted the "Southern Pa
citic crowd" that it was his mission
to destroy.
The results of his coalition with
the California Old Guard have been
pleasing to Senator Johnson. It's
captains were a present help in time
Of trouble. And having found asso-
c,ation with one group Of the sus-
pected agreeable, the Senator seems
willing to associate with other sus-
poets.
Washington has noted the cordial
relations between Senators Knox
and Johnson. "Apparently,' it is
reported by one observer, Senator
Knox will do everything in his power
to aid the nomination of the Cali
fornia Senator.' Senator johnson
will not accept second place on a
ticket headed by his close friend.
But he does not object to working
union, with Senator Penrose in ca
nonlcals saying: "Bless you, my
children.'
AS once all roads ended in Rome,
so now the terminus of all political
maneuvering is to beat General
Wood.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-12
The Chautauqua Idea

he toplofty critics of the Chau-
tauqua system see in it only smat-
terlng of culture, and that smatter-
ing gathered in by painful and pious
effort, without any real assimilation
OF the art or philosophy offered.
These sophisticated souls place them
selves in the ChautauQua hall and
scott accordingly.
But this is not a fair judgment
Of the system which Bishop John II.
Vincent, who died this week, initi-
ated. Begun as a scheme for the
training of Sunday school teachers,
Chautauqua developed into some
thing approXimating a home uni
versity, with reading circles as the
classroom equivalent and lectures as
a sort of general assembly to inspire
and stimulate. Piety did play a
large part in the proceedings. "Bin"
Bryan's moral platitudes were al.
ways a topliner alongside of really
great singers and able speakers. But
the lecture system, the community
assembly, is far more natural and
wholesome system for those who
eagerly patronized it than the metro
politan scoffer is likely to realize.
There is an old American tradition
in favor Of the lecture from Emer-
sons fay onward. The community