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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02
STAR ROUTES
WILL OPERATE
UNTIL JAN. |
PADGETT SUCCEEDS IN GETTING
SUSPENSION OF ORDER DIS
CONTINUING THEM. &
SITUATION IS MORE HOPEFUL
Congressman Making Every Effort to
Save Two Routes Between Colum-
bia and Lewisburg and Columbia
and Lawrenceburg.

(From Tuesdays Daily Herald.)
Another lease on life for the star
mail routes between Columbia and
Lewisburg and Columbia and Law
renceburg has been given by the pos.
tai department at the urgest request
of Congressman Lemuel p. Padgett.
About the first of the present month
an order was received at the local
pOstofiice from Postmaster General
Hays to the effect that these two star
routes should be discontinued on No
vember Is. When Congressman Lem
uel p. Padgett learned that this order
had been given he appeared before Mr..
Hays to show what an injustice was
being done this section by the order
disseminating the mail service. AS
result of Mr.. Padgett's appearance be-
fore Mr.. Hays, an order giving the
routes an additional two weeks to op.
crate was issued, and this time ex-
pires on November 80.
1t was believed up until this morn
ing that these routes would be dis
continued after tomorrow. Assistant
Postmaster McFall, of the Columbia
Office, stated this morning that no fur
Their orders had been received from
the postal department, and that it
would be necessary to suspend oper-
atoms after Wednesday.
Shortly after a representative of
The Herald interviewed Mr.. McFall, a
telegram came to The Herald from
Mr.. Padgett which read as follows:
Action on star routes postponed UNI
til January first next"-therefore the |
service will be continued for another
thirty days before action is taken |
This new extension of time secured. !
by Mr.. Padgett if added to the fifteen I
secured some time ago makes a total |
extension of forty-fiye days, which I
means much to this section.
Mr. Padgett has worked untiringly |
to prevent the discontinuance of these
routes and it is expected that afterS a
full investigation by postal authorities
Of local conditions that orders sus-
pending or disseminating the two
routes will be rescinded.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02

nor the inclination to study every
question that may, arise in the admin
istration of their ahals,
No Improvement has ever been
made on our federal system. The
scheme of government devised by the
fathers when under divine inspiration
they adopted the constitution of the
United States, is the best example of
free government that all the history
of mankind gives us. We invite'dan-
gers that may become too formidable
to resist, whenever we attempt to
change the general scheme of this sys-
TEN. Assuredly the referendum is one
of the most dangerous of these ,inno-
vations. 1t has no place in Ameri-
cas- political system.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02
SPLENDID DISPLAY
DUCKS AND GEESE
A. FLEM THOMAS, A. LooNEY
WALKER AND GROVER PARKS
HAVE GREAT LUCK.

(From Wednesdays Daily Herald)
That geese and duck shooting is I'M
usually good this season was attested
by the display that was made in front
of the store of Harlan, Porter & Wal
ker on South Main street this morn
ing. Two huge geese and score or
more of teal and mallard ducks were
show on the line in front Uf the store
to hundreds Of admiring folks. The
bag was the result of the efforts of
A. Looney Walker, A. Fleming Thorn
as and GroversC. Parks, three of the
Oldest and most expert sportsmen in
all this section of the country.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02
NEW REVENUE LAW.

While the new revenue law is a
patchwork sort of crazy quilt affair 1t
is an improvement on the present law.
OF course no substantial reduction in
taxes could be expected for the rea-
son that the nations expenditures are
and must necessarily remain for many
years enormous, but some of the most
vexatious taxes have been eliminated
and a reduction made in the ur-taxes
1t is to be regretted, however, that
the house did not accept the cOmpro-
mise proposed and make the maxi
mum rate forty per cent instead of
fifty per cent as fixed by the senate.
But for the fact that the democrats
were playing politics the lower rate
would have been fixed.
AS a matter of fact Senator Smoot
presented the most reasonable and
least vexatious of all the plans propos-
ed for raising revenue. A manufac
turers sales tax would raise an enor-
nous amount of revenue, distribute
the payments throughout the year and
disturb business less than any other
tax. The excessive profits taxes and
surtaxes have proved to be a burden
upon business that have in part been
responsible for the present financial
depression. 1t has been a case of
killing the goose that lays the gold
en- egg.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02
DOG TAX
SOMEWHAT IMPROVED
EXPECTED ACTION BY GRAND
JURY BRINGS NUMBER DELlN-
QUENTS TO PAY SAME.

(From Wednesdays Daily Herald)
sThe payment of the dog tax contin-
ues steadily. The number of CANNES
paid upon has been increased from
some 500 a few weeks ago to more
than 100 and it is believed that hun
dreds of others will come forward dur
ing the week and pay the tax in order
to escape indictment.
1t is insisted that those who do not
pay this tax are just as guilty of law
violation as those who do not observe
the law. against carrying concealed
weapons, or assault and battery, MUIR
der or liquor laws. They are all laws
of the state and if indictments are re-
turned for one offense it is argued that
they should be returned for all Of
lenses.
1t is believed also that as time
passes the dog tax will become more
popular as after this year, all money
that is paid upon CANNES will go to
the school fund, whereas it is now go
ing to pay for sheep killed by the
worthless dogs.
There are no less than 5000 dogs
in the county, it is estimated there
fore there are thousands who have
not yet paid the tax, and final OPP
portunity is being extended to these
delinquents before this matter is TAX
en- up by the grand jury.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02

conspiracy on the part of any candi-
date to debauch or corrupt the ballot
and moreover 1t believes that, taking
the county as whole, as honorable
and upright gentlemen held the prima-
ries as ever officiated in similar capac.
tiles in the history of the county.
AS to whether or not under the act
of 1901, which was violated in the
call for the primary in the matter of
poll taxes, it was the duty of the com
mittee to actually count the ballots,
The Herald expresses no opinion.
That is legal question. But 1t does
know that it has been the uniform, UNI
broken traditional policy of the dem
ocratic party in this county to simply
canvass" the official returns as GER
titled by the election officers, just as
the committee did i'm the recent con-
test. 1t doubts if any other policy,
any departure at this time from its
custom, without previous notice that
it would be changed would have sat
is fed the voters of the county. In
any event precedent has been follow
ed
The five democratic nominees for
county Offices are worthy of the con-
fidence that has been reposed in them.
Jackson, Ewing, Anderson, Orr and
Pogue are all splendid gentlemen;
they are qualified for the Offices to
which they have been selected and
their administration of the duties of
the Offices which they will assume
next September will be creditable to
the democratic party and to the coun-
ty. They are each entitled to the sup
port of all who participated in the pri-
maries which gave them the nomina-
tions.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02
THE REFERENDUM.

In an election to vote. on bond is
sues aggregating nearly two and a
half million dollars only three thous-
and of seventeen thousand registered
voters in the city of Nashville went
to the polls and voted. 1t is an easy
matter for resident of Nashville to
vote regardless of weather conditions
The streets are all paved, no one lives
very far from polling place and
transportation is easy. Yet less than
one-fifth of the electorate voted on a
bond issue that if it had carried would
have placed mortgage of, around
twenty dollars per capita of the popu-
latiOn on all of the property of the
city. To have paid the interest and
provided a sinking fund for this debt
would have cost the taxpayers mil
lions of dollars.
Two days after the Nashville cleo
ton more than half as many voters
as registered their choice on an enor-
nous bond issue, went to the polls in
the little city of Columbia to vote for
two county officers The population
of Nashville is just about twenty
times that of Columbia. 1t is doubt
full if on bond issue, unless there had
been some politics in it, Columbians
would have done much better. If
bond issue has some political signifi-
canoe, and that in Nashville had none,
it will bring out measurably good
vote. If the voters can be made to
understand that in some way that by
voting bonds or defeating an issue
some politician may be retired or his
fortunes promoted, then interest will
Immediately grow in such election.
But on the mere naked issue of wheth-
er or not millions of dollars in mort
cages shall be added to the burden
under hich they already groan, inter
est is wholly lacking.
The referendum has he place in
the politics of the cou 1t is not
in consonance with the erican sys-
tenn. About all that it has done has
been to make towards of legislators
and aldermen and members of county
courts. They have eyaded responsible
ity and lodged many issues simply on
the plea that they would leave it to
the people" This is a representative
republic and not pure democracy. 1t
was never intended that the people
should be required to pass frequent
judgment upon matters of policy or
governmental finance. They elect
governing boards for the purpose of
administering the affairs of the gov
eminent. These boards have great re-
sponsibility and they should not dodge
It by referring issues to the people.
For the people have neither the time |
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02
THE COLUMBIA HERALD
THE ARMS coNFERENcE.

Whether or not the arms conference
at Washington results in the adoption
of any formal pact or treaty for the
definite limitation of all ornaments,
land and seag or confines itself to the
latter, or merely reaches so-called
'gentlemen's agreement" to end the
senseless rivalry in preparations for
war, 1t will not have been in vain. The
conscience of the world Is behind the
purposes for which the conference was
called together and the coming togeth-
or of the statesmen of the leading
powers of earth has directed atten-
ton to a situation that would soon be-
come intolerable. 1t has aroused the
plain people, the taxpayers, the bur-
den bearers in war, to the enormity of
the ornaments burdens of the world
and from out of this aroused con-
science of the citivilized peoples, there
must in time grow up sentiment that
Will CPai . toi pCoSC anu NV III "oi'
No movement, whatever its immediate
results, is ever in vain if actuated by
a high purpose. Not only does the
conscience of mankind revolt against
the ceaseless and burdensome prepa-
rations for the horrors of war, but
the common sense of mankind is
aroaled against it. These conditions
must Inevitably produce what Pre-
mier BRAND so well described as the
will to peace" When we have this
will to peace, the desire becomes so
overwhelming among mankind for an
opportunity to pursue the paths of
peace and restore the losses and re-
pair the ravages of war, the dawn of
better day is certain to come.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02
THE COUNTY TICKET.

Now that the county democratic
committee has canvassed the returns
and formally declared the results the
county primaries should be forgotten
and the people of Maury county should
once again turn their thoughts and at
tention to other and more pressing
matters. While. as The Herald has
heretofore pointed out, the county
democratic committee has a rather
doubtful title, yet the fact that every
candidate submitted his claims to the
primary called by 1t and that over
5000 recognized its authority by par
ticipating in the primaries, would
seem now to estop any one from ques-
tioning the legality of its being.
The committee made some mistakes
in its call for the primary. In fact
The Herald doubts the wisdom of hav-
ing primaries at all. Unquestionably
there were many irregularities in the
primaries. the rules were violated and
republicans voted in all sections of the
county. But The Herald believes that
the primaries as conducted were about
as fair to one candidate as to the 9th
err. II the partisans Of a particular
candidate could induce republicans to
vote for him generally that was done
In some other section of the county
the opponent of this particular candi-
date was doubtless the beneficiary of
republican votes. But The Herald
does not believe that there was any
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02
ROLL OF HONOR
FOR ZION SCHOOL

tFrom Wednesdays Daily HeraldD
The following is the hpnor roll for
November for the Zion school.
First grade-Mary Fain Dalton, ia
ME Evins, Mary Tom Evins.
Second grade-Robert Wilson Flem-
ing.
Fourth grade-W. C. Armstrong, Jr.,
William Johnson.
Sixth grade Sibyl Spencer, Corne-
liza Derryberry.
Seventh grade-Eugene Johnson.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-12-02

II world peace comes, will Marshal
Foch turn his gold swords into wrist
watches or pencils?-Providenc Jour.
nal.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-18
SECRETARY HUGHES TELLS
JAPAN ABOUT ISLAND OF YAP

A. IT its
Island Yap the American would merely
with correspondence the
Secretary Hughes United
unable with this GAS
concluded with the
validity Japanese mandate"
IssuesU
WASHINGTON(By A. P)Guatema Hunduras Salvador
boundary
official advices received
United States VIII Whip the Whole
of
both
governments have been informed to this effect
Disarmament.
A.
committee
with him today
Congress Wants to Know About BergdoIL
WASHINGTON-By
Of the Grover Cleveland Bergdo wealthy Philadelphia draft
opposition
a
Steel Trust Man For Shipping
WASHINGTONBy A. P)am Farrell president Of the United
officers
which will
be President Harding this
Soldiers Insurance Dividend Declared
Mellon
b Paw" For Germany.
ROMEBy P)The Vatican formally that
of propositions regarding reparaons
Capital
WAsHNGToNBy A. P)-The today reafmed its
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-18
MOTHERS MEETING
PROGRAM is ARRANGED

The mothers meeting to be held
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock
in the basement of the Methodist
church promises to be very interest
ing. The following program will be
rendered. Devotional part led by
Mrs. Charles Summerfield; solo, Mrs.
H. D. Martin; violin duet Iris Var
bough and Dorothy Messenger, Mrs.
Paul Cole at the piano; duet Mrs. H.
D. Martin and Mrs. Paul Cole; kin
dergarten talks by Mrs. J. w. Steven
son with songs and games by the
children of her kindergarten; paper,
Good literature for young children"
by Mrs. Gail. All the mothers of
Moscow are cordially invited to at
tend. The Misses Gladys and Vida
Allen and Ruth Cole will be glad to
entertain your small children while
you enjoy the program.
Refreshments will be served.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-18
Juliaetta Team Won Game.

Juliaetta, Especial to the Star
Mirror )-The first game of. baseball
of the season was scheduled for
o'clock Sunday afternoon between
Troy and Juliaetta. The Troyites, in
Guiding good sized bunch of rooters
arrived in autos promptly at o'clock
and coincidentaly with their arrival
in the village the heaviest downpour
of rain and hail of the season began
falling. The game had to be post
poned for more than an hour waiting
for the diamond to dry enough to be-
gin the game The locals had walk
away, the scores resulting 13 to in
favor of Juliaetta. The local team is
not one bit superstitious.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-18
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
AGREE TO DIE TOGETHER

Grangeville- Successfully carrying
out suicide pact, Mrs. Thomas Ste
vens, SO, and her daughter, Mrs. Gray
Hasley, 26, were found dead last Sat
urday evening at the Stevens ranch,
five miles east of Forest. The bodies
were discovered by Thomas Stevens,
husband and father of the two wo-
men, respectively. They had taken
strychnine.
No motive has been assigned to the
double suicide. The younger woman
had been confined to the state asylum
for insane at Orofino, and left the in
stitution about six weeks ago. The
mothers sanity had not been ques-
toned, it is said.
The mother and daughter are de-
clared to have left note in which
they expressed intention of killing
themselves.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-18
FATAL TRAIN WRECK
NEAR GLENNS FERRY, IDAHO

Boise, Idaho-A man believed to
be John Stevens of Los Angeles was
killed and G. j. Hart of Seattle
Marshall Bleyen and Carl Jackson of
Boise slightly injured at O'Clock
Sunday morning when eleven freight
cars were derailed on Medbury Hill
near Glenns Ferry. Head Brakeman
J. M. CLANCY was riding atop the train
when the accident happened. but was
only slightly injured.
The delailed cars contained apples,
flour and lumber, all of which were
thoroughly mixed along the track.
Main line trains were delayed about
three hours while the wrechage was
being removed.
The accident was due 10 a loose
wheel on one of the forward cars, it
is said.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-18

Chicago-(By A. P.)-Charges of
Irregularities in docketing wage cases
before the railroad labor board were
coupled by labor representatives with
strenuous protests against limiting
the length of presentation of evidence
in the consolidated wage reduction
hearing which convened today. Dis
putes with 81 carriers were present
ed. Labor requested adjournment of
present. The board decided to pro-
ceed Immediately with the hearing,
denying the motions of the union for
postponement until the senate con-
firms the presidents nomination of
three new members. 1t ruled it is
within the law to proceed without
majority of the members present.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-18
LAYS HEAD ON RAIL
TO COMMIT SUICIDE

Standpoint, Idaho-John Klinger, a
stranger apparentup about IS years
of age, committed suicide at Bonners
Ferry Saturday afternoon when he
lay down on one of the passing tracks
of the Great Northern, with his neck
resting on the rail, and permitted an
outgoing freight train to decapitate
him. He had about $40 in currency
and silver and pass book on Van
couver, Wash, bank in the name of
John Langworth. A search of the
mans effects at the Riverside hotel,
where he registered about 10 days
before, afforded no clue to the mans
identity.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-18
JULIAETTA JULIPS
PREPARING FOR ELECTION

Juliaetta-(Special to the Star
Mirror)-At~ mass meeting called
last week for the purpose of nomina-
ting five village trustees to be voted
upon at the election to be held on
Tuesday, April 26, N. M. Talbot acted
as chairman of the meeting, and
Eben Adams as secretary. The fol-
lowing were chosen as nominees of
the meeting. E. W.. Porter, VIM.
Fields, L. W. Houck, Herb. Millard,
and M. F. Morgan. On Wednesday
a petition was circulated and suf
ficient number of signatures obtain
ed to put an opposition ticket in the
field as follows: Joseph G. Grose-
close, Walter Cochran, E. J. Chris
tophersen, A. G. Hardman, and R. F.
People. This will insure lively con-
test.
L. W. Louck opened his new garage
for business this week. The new
equipment has been installed and
full line of gasoline, oil and access
sories will be carried in stock:
The large new awning has been put
in place at the J. A. Heacox confec-
tionery
The neat sum of $50 was realized
as Cne result Oh LHc PIE ooSloi ciiu
program given by the high school
senior class.
State Senator, E. w. Porter of
Juliaetta is in receipt Of a letter from
DIR. Stanley Rhinehart, husband OF
the noted author, Mary Roberts
Rhinehart Thirty years ago DR..
Rhinehart and Senator Porter were
classmates at Adrian College, Michi-
gan. They were members Of the
college quartette at Adrian, which |
made tour covering a number of !,
towns Of the state and they were col
lege chums. Surmising that the DR..
Stanley Rhinehart might be his col
lege chum Of generation ago, Mr..
Porter wrote that gentleman a letter,
which caused the latter to confirm !
Che truth Of the senator's surmise.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-04-18
METHODIST CHURCH
SUNDAY SERVICES
EXTRA SEATS NEEDED IN MOS
COWS LARGEST CHURCH
PASTORS STRONG SERMON.

Sunday was a big day. The morn
ing congregation filled the pews and
many chairs were brought in. The
evening congregation nearly filled the
large auditorium. There were 500 in
| Sunday School and ID in the mems
| Bible class.
In the morning the pastor preached
on the Second Coming of Christ"
He said in part:
'The bible must be used honestly
and frankly. 1t is the most abused
book in the world. 1t receives it's
worst treatment from those who call
themselves it's friends; it has nothing
to fear from open enemies. When
studying the bible one should always
ask himself these questions. Who
wrote this sentence? When did he
write it? To whom did he write it
For what purpose did he write it :?
Many things are taught today about
the second coming of Christ which
have no standing in the scriptures. A
great many worry and weary them
selves over the beasts in Daniels
visions while they neglect to do
Christian work which would over
come the beasts of iniquity in our
day."
''In Jesus talk of the second COM
ing he emphasizes most the practical
considerations of faithfulness and
watchfulness. Jesus compared his
second coming to the suddenness and
uneXpectedness of flood, and to the
destruction of Sodom. He gives sew
eral parallels emphasizing that we
are to watch and be faithful"
There is no doubt but that Jesus
predicted the destruction of Jerusa-
lem as it took place in A. D. 70 and
then made this typical of the far off
event of His second coming. When He
speaks of false Christs, wars and
rumors of wars, nation rising against
nation famines and earthquakes,
pestilences and all kinds of tribula-
tions, of flight to the mountains, of
not trying to recover personal prop
erty of miseries which would come
upon nursing mothers, of tribulation
such as hath not been seen from the
beginning of the world, He speaks of
events which actually happened at
the destruction of Jerusalem. No
events of the recent Great War were
any more CHASTITY than those of this
siege of Jerusalm which ended in it's
overthrow"
''In this description He typified that
which should come to pass through
the centuries until the final consum-
alton of all things. Judgment is be-
ing visited upon people through the
years for their misdeeds and in the
end there will be a final Judgment |
when Christ will again come. He is |
now coming through reincarnation
in the lives of men. 1t is our to be
faithful"
Next Sunday morning DIR. Perry
will preach from the subpect, "Why,
How and When will Christ Gomez"