The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-03-18
The Best Thing.


The Commercial doesn't wantb to
appear radical or discoTdant. At
least the office is not anxious to adj
vertise itself as a booster, for any
pet scheme, but the suggestions that
keep forcing themselves Upon us con-
Germ two of the Invest subjects as
far as local civilization is concerned
that can possibly affect our health
and material progress. Union City
is the inspiration of the theme.
The first one of these things came
to lis years ago-in 1898, when The
Commercial was in it's swaddling
clothes. 1t was at time when the
last traces of the furniture industry
were disappearing. 1t was alter I'm
ion City AMI Troy had been passed up
by the l. G. R. r., like the poor way
farer who attracted neither the SYM
pathy of the priest nor the Levite.
1t came to us that if our citizens had
the spirit and the courage to under
take the job they could still make
this place one of the leading points
on what is now the l. C. Railroad.
This could be an accomplished fact
with macadamized road from I'm
ion City to Gibbs. We based our rea-
son on the fact that many a city
drayed it's traffic many times that
distance to the railroad terminal.
That suggestion presses us to-day
with all the power of conviction that
it is one of the most important things
that could affect our future prosper
ity.
The second one of these sugges-
tions, and that came years ego, was
that Union City should have a gener-
al hospital. We are sending our people
every week-almost every day-to
some of the hospitals in Memphis or
Nashville. We have a number of fine
physicians in Union City, men who
are just as capable of surgical
achievements as any man on earth.
We have private sanitarium with a
good surgeon, but we need general
hospital and every day that passes
leaves us behind in the march of
civic progress while we are neglect
ing these things.
Thic &c M act tho lnaaI
undertakings, but if we would con-
centrate rather than scatter the shot
how much greater and more impor-
tant the accomplishment. We need
improved streets in Union City, but
as to real value a hard road to Gibbs
would be worth thousands of dollars
where q paved street in Union City
would be worth a dollar. Pardon us
for this remark, but we are talking
about real things-things that count.
Nobody likes civic beauty more than
we do--nobody can admire beautiful
homes and streets. parks and pave
ments more than we. But for the flu
ture of Union City, it's commercial
progress and supremacy, hard road
to Gibbs would be infinitely more val
liable, and if we had to choose be-
tween one or the other the hard road
to Gibbs would be our choice.
People here, as elsewhere, are for
ever grumbling that the streets and
the walks are not perfect. Lots Of
them are doing this who will make a
determined kick against the taxation
which will be necessary for these
things. But no one is having any
trouble in getting from one part Of
town to the other. There was time
when vehicles got mired hub deep in
the middle of the streets of Union
City. That time is gone. There is
no such thing here to-day. Some Of
them are a little rough, but there is
no reason to make a wholesale kick.
What Union City should have
first-is a genuine truck road to
Gibbs, and l would like to enter a
popular subscription in this paper
for such an enterprise from some one
of our leading citizens who feels
moved by a spirit of genuine local
patriotism. | would like to start
with such subscription and keep it
up until the whole enterprise is guar
anteed.
This is our say The best any pa
per can do is 10 say what seems, at
least, the best thing in the world, or
in the State or town.