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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-07-08

The Playground COMMITTEE So
licits your donation of any articles
you will contribute to this great
cause. Bring or send jam, pre-
serves, canned goods, eggs, butter,
chickens, produce, handmade arti-
cles, anything that can be sold at
the Community Store. Country hams,
bacon, calf, bring it on Deliver 1t
to the community store or Dietzel's
Jewelry Store either Friday or Sat
urday afternoon. Help the children
help yourself.
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AGENTS WANTED.

Watkins Summer Drinks. Watkins
Cocoanut Oil Shampoo and big line
of 1877 other Quality Products are big
sellers. We want a lady or gentle
man agent in Union City and other
vacant cities. Write To-Day for free
sample and particulars. ]. r. Wat
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home and set to work to recuperate

home and set to work to recuperate
my losses, and when the opportunity
offered became candidate for Sher-
iff. l have conscientiously and earn
estly undertaken to discharge every
duty incumbent upon your Sheriff.
leave my interest in your hands,
feeling that these things are mat
ter for your kindest consideration in
weighing my claims for Endorsement.
/ earnestly solicit your influence and
support, and should you see fit to
indorse me for reelection, / pledge
you my very best effofts in the dis
charge of duty.
Respectfully,
T. w. (WATT) CHERRY
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PALM BEACH SUITS

are scarce and high, but we have one
lot Of dark suits to offer at $7.98.
They are nice looking. So come in
and get one at
PHIL HYMAN'S CUT PRICE STORE
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Respectfully,
J. w. (WATT) CHERRY

FOR SALE-Starr, Richmond.
Trayser and Remington pianos.
Player-pianos. Bargains in slightly
used standard makes. Terms to suit.
15-4t A. N. DICKSON.
Phone 101
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A Card.

/ want to thank my many friends
for all Of their kindness during my
illness. MISS JENNIE KERLIN.
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STATE OF TENNESSEE, GO
COUNTY OF OBIoN.

I, Punter Elan, Cashier of the
above named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the
best OF my knowledge and belief.
HUNTER ELAN, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 9TH day of July, 1921.
CSeal. B. F. HOWARD,
Correct-Attest: Notary Public.
JNo. 7. WALKER,
WALKER L. MARTIN,
D. N. WALKER,
Directors.
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agents. Others were journalists who posed
as Bolsheviks in order to get copy" and
who afterward attacked him in the cap
itaistic" press OF Europe and America. The
few who were honest fanatics were also
fools.
Most OF them borrowed money or jewelry
from him. but repudiated Bolshevism as soon
as they got out Of Russia, and built them
selves comfortable houses Everybody who
touched Lenines gold seemed to turn imme
diately into bourgeois" with strong views
about the sanctity Of private property. I'm
pecunous desperadoes whose lives had been
spent partly in Communist agitation and
partly I'm jail became respectable members
OF society AS soon az Lenine advanced them
something for propaganda purposes" II
was not long before Vladimir llyich dis
covered to his horror that. instead OF maxi
ing Communists. he was unmaking them.
Thanks to his lberality they were embrac-
ing Christianity, becoming steady church
members. marrying. investing their money
in safe capitalistic concerns. settling down
comfortably and forgetting an about Mos
COW.
What put the final touch on Leninc's dis
lliusionment was the discovery that the
swarms OF French and Italian Socialists who
visited Russia during the first three months
OF the present year were mostly in the pay
as agents of the French capitalists and
Russian s. RS who were behind the Kron-
stadt revolt After making this discovery
Lenine shook his head sadly and said that
all his trust in humanity mad gone; men
liked their chains. he wasn't gong TO be
phiianthropist any longer; he had had
enough or II In three years to last him
lifetime.
The Pontiff 81 the kremlin finally discov-
cred 10 his disgust-for hc has lot OF
shrewd common sense-that he had drifted
into the position OF a mild mental case
with mania for giving away money, and
had accordingly become surrounded by a
gang of the greediest foreign sharks that
ever invaded Russia. He has therefore,
turned over a new leaf An English mis-
sion will soon he on It's way TO Moscow. so
the old man is tidying himself up a bit and
putting his bombs out Of sight.
People do not consider sympathetically
enough the worries Of q man In the position
of Lenine and the heartlcss frauds that have
been perpetrsted upon him, and for which
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nitch's commissariat to local Esthonian
dealers. so that at present about a fourth
OF the male population in Esthonia Is wear
ing this clothing. some Of which. Is still TO
be had very cheap In the shops Even after
trains had been loaded up with British ma
terial for Yudenitch's soldiers at Narva they
sometimes arrived at their destination abso-
lutely empty, and no coherent explanation
of this strange disappearance was ever fur
nished by the slightly inebriated Russian
officers in charge Of the conveys.
What happened to the British and Amer
lean supplies sent to Kolchak and Denekin
was even worse. for owing to the hopeless
muddle I'm the White Russian commissariat
arrangements the Reds got most Of them.
John Bull Is beginning, however to knit
his brows very sternly but probably he
win relax into a pleasant smile when he Is
told that old man Lenine has been swindlcd,
too.
j. .. has loaned a hundred million pounds
to men who told him dn conidence) that
Lenlne was going to collapse: and Lenine
has lost about the same amount to men who
told him Caiso in conidence) that j. y. was
going to collapse. The suspicion now crises
that the same people may have been getting
money out of both of them: and, far from
being an extravagant suppostion. this has
always been the ordinary procedure in Rus
sian history. And I am perfectly sure that
many OF the spies employed by England.
France and America In Russia are at the
same time in the pay Of Lenine.
For the last three years they have been
getting money out Of Lcnine by telling him
that In a few weeks more there will be
universal revolution. and at the same time
they have been getting money out OF the
Entente and Uncle Sam by telling them that
Lenine is Just about finished
That Lenine must have made some dis
covery in this connection fs evident from
the heated manner In which, after profess
ing for years the utmost certainty In uni
versal revolution. he denounced as mad"
any one who entertained such an absurd ex-
pectation. He made this denunciaton, II
will be remembered, at the Tenth Commun-
ist congress toward the end Of March. UP
10 that time he had been receiving foreign
cmissaries OF revolution almost daily. Some
OF the most extreme and confident Of them
he discovered 10 be ENJOYS Of the American
Government Others were British Or French
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Lennes Abouace Stimulating Trade Within and Without but Cha
oc Conditions Are Bound to Continue Made by Dictator
for All Russians Return Refugees Worry Neighbor States

rounded as il is by capitalist countries, Rus
STA must naturally utilize in the work of
reconstruction not only the labor class.
which furnished it with ideal leaders in the
struggle for better future, but also the
peasants and the intelgentsia. The Rus
sian emigrants abroad are wearing them
selves out in the hopeless effort to find work
and slowly dying off. The only ones
among them who are able to help themselves
to the bourgeois roast beef are the repre-
sentatives OF the militant Black Hundred
clique. And meanwhile Russia is a land
which offers work to an unlimited number
of workers.
I'm every department of industry we are
suffering from the lack of qualified work
men. We have now before us the question
OF utilizing those classes of the Russian
emigration which have for many years
been wandering wearily in the bourgeois
paradise. and who have finally come to the
conclusion that the only way to build up
the Russian State and Russian culture is
by cooperation with the Soviet Government
of workers and peasants"
This appeal from Moscow comes Just at
the time wheh Esthonia is trying to induce
the 10000 Russian Weary willies who are
living In wretched condition here to move
on somewhere.
The Esthonian Foreign Minister in the
House the other day said that he had done
his best to get such of them as wanted to
go back to Russia to do so, and such Of
The New York herald., 1921-04-24
Lenine in Tenth Congress
Admits BoIsheyik MISTAKES

During the Petrograd and kronstadt crisis
Lenine was delivering a whole series Of
speeches at the tenth congress of the Conn
munist party in Moscow, where his position
was for time precarious ii was in
Petrograd A bitter wave of opposition TO
"BolsheviE bureaucracy" had swept through
the congress. and Lenine, well as his
whole party, was in danger Of being sub
merged by 1t. but the Red Gar stuck TO his
guns and managed to bring every one round
TO his way of thinking.
On March he spoke about a critical
pamphlet called THE Opposition of tho
Workmen." which had been launched at him
by Shyapnokov and others, who denounced
"Bolshevik bureaucracy" Why didn't you
denounce It," asked Lenine, when you We're
yourselves National Commissars?" Kiselev
also denounced It, why didn't you. fight
against bureaucratism, Kiselev," asked Le
nine, when you were at the head of the
Technical Department." These home thrusts
settled Kiseev, Kollontai. Shlyapnokov & Co
I'VE all know" continued Lenine, that
we have bureaucratism, but beyond telling
us that we have IT our critics say nothing.
This then, is the purest demagogy. 1t Is
very easy to criticise the leading Commits
sars and the Soviet of National Economy.
but the non-party workman understands
your criticism to be the war cry Of Down
with the department.! and the Socialist
Revolutionaries understand 1t in the same
way. If we agreed to your views we would
admit the existence of an anarchicai force
not only among the workmen but also In
the ranks of our own party, and that we
can never admit"
Kollontai's pamphlet said that there were
symptoms OF disease In the Communist
party.
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though they be the soldiers of the most lib
eral nations on earth.
Kerensky, the greatest Republican oppo-
nent of Lenine, compared very unfavorably
with the Bolshevik leader in point of stub
bornness and decision of character, and there
was a general impression in Russia thar
with Kerensky at the helm the Republic
would not be in safe hands. Too many of
the old regime folk would return with
Kerensky, and their return would lead to
civil war, chaos and Czarism.
AS for pure Bolshevism. it is now seen to
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w RUSSIA is REACTING TO END OF BOLSHEVISM

he has at present no redress in any foreign
court OF justice. He sends one man 10 Amer
ica TO blow up President Harding. and the
scoundrel invests the funds with which he
has been entrusted in Liberty Loan bonds
and enters politics on the Democratic side.
He entrusts another man with the delicate
and responsible work Of extermnating
Lloyd George. and the rascal buys British
War Loan bonds and joins the Coalition Lib
erals. Not that Lenine minds the money he
has thus lost, colossal as the amount is, for
after all. it isn't his money. II is the moral
shock that upsets him and shakes his whole
trust in human nature.
No wonder that old man Lenine has init,
mated with considerable heat that he is 'fed
up" with the whole bally business. and that
IL the world proletariat wants to pull of
that world revolution they have got 10 do It
without any further financial or moral sup
port from him. He has had just about
enough of IT,
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Red Chiefs New Policies
Set Forth in His Own Words

Set Forth IN HIS Own Words
From this II will be seen that Lenine's
original theory that he alone possessed the
truth and that all who differed from him
should be anathema is being modified by
circumstances. He has even denounced Boil
shevik bureaucratism himself in very strong
language, and he has entirely given up his
dream OF world revolution.
lis there any one mad" he said, 'as
to believe that world revolution win come
to our assistance? l don't believe that there
is a single person In this hall who expects
It,"
This remarkable declaration was made
while Lenine was defending his decision a.
grant concessions TO foreign capitalists
I'VE cannot hold out in isolation till a world
revolution comes"--such was the gist OF his
speech--"for there are no signs whatever Of
a world revolution. We must therefore
grant concessions 10 the capitalists OF
bourgeois States.
I'm order to improve the relations between
tho workers and the peasants we must
change our policy towards the peasants and
allow them to own part Of their farms
Some Of their crops we shall take, but we
shall allow them to possess the rest OF II.
and shall respect their proprietarIal rights.
We shall have 70 agree TO free trade We
shall also have TO admit the right Of pri
vate property In the case OF tho small crafts
man until in ten years or so great Socialistic
industries can be established. We must de-
velop our trade with capitalistic countries.
for without foreign assistance we can make
no progress. We must improve the position
OF the peasant and leave him free to attend
20 his farm"
This OF course, means the end Of BoI
shevism as the world understands Boil
shevism. Private property Is reestablished.
Private trade is allowed. Capitalism is al
lowed Individual enterprise II permitted.
Artisans are allowed TO work for money
Farmers are allowed to own their farms
Foreign capital is permitted TO enter the
country Bolshcvism is gone. yet Lenine
stll remains.
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great
THE NEW YORK HERALD described IN
detail accompanying article from Capt Nc
CuLagh, Russia
Russian nation taking the abouce attitude of its dctators how
foreign going important
McCughs appeal
saw
that he has surrounded
other the problem of the border States
Russia Thousands of croding Finland Ehoni
BY
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Urge Emigrants TO Return
And Help Build UP Russia

Significant in connection with the new
regime promised by Lenine Is an appeal
published in the Moscow press asking all
Russian emgrants to return home and help
to build up their country, where there Is
plenty Of work for them. while there is none
outside The appeal reads IA follows:
During the last few days the Soviet Re
public signed three treaties BY far the
most important OF these was the treaty
with England. the greatest capitalist coun-
try in the world and one which TO a large
extent determines the policy OF all nations.
The last attempt 10 make the peace negotia-
tions break down was the Kronstadt mu-
tiny and. in connection with II. the cam
paign OF caiumny which was let loose.
mo doubt among tho Russian emigrants
these events called forth the differences
which had manifested themselves on pre-
vious occasions. The Monarchlst- Black
Hundred elements constitute the most mill
tant section Of the Russian counter revoiu
tion. but these elements will be powerless
IL that great mass Of the texiled) intell-
gentsia, which Il not bound by economic ties
with the reactionary bourgeois and landlord
class, learns a lesson from tho events Of the
last few days.
New conditions that have arisen In the
sphere OF international politics dictate 10 us
a new avenue Of approach 10 the question
or Russian emigration Tire unparalleled
damage that has been inflicted on our coun-
try after seven years OF uninterrupted war
must be repaired as soon as possible. Sur
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Lenine Turns on Foreign Crooks
Surrounding Him in the Kren1iil

While old man Lenine Is thus displaying
"A touching anxiety to lure back his prodiga
sons, he Is also getting somewhat ashamed
OF the collection Of foreign cutthroats By
whom he is surrounded in the Kremlin.
Now that he is beginning to grow slightly
less disreputable he is showing a tendency
TO give the cold shoulder to those Red Firms.
Terrible Turks. Anarchist Americans and
unbalanced Hindoos in whose urid conver-
sation he once delighted
The real explanation probably is that
being a man OF acute intellect he cannot
hide from himself the fact that most of
these alleged enthusiasts are utter frauds
Some of them have been for the last three
years prophesying an imminent proletarian
revolution In the outer world, and he has
got as tired OF listening TO them as Lloyd
George has got tired OF listening to Mr.
Miukov prophesying to him al regular in
tcrvals during the same space or time the
imminent overthrow OF Russian Bolshevsm.
England would not have minded so much
IN they had not. on the strength or these
fairy tales. borrowed money from her--over
100 900 900 pounds sterling And tho way in
which that money was spent did not inspire
John Bull with confidence. Here IN Reval
Cen. Yudenitch OF the Northwest army tried
10 make tracks with all the army funds
(supplled by England. OF course) but was
arrested by his own chief Of staff. Gen.
Balakhovitch, who Is now himself touch
ing the Poles for cash. which comes from
the French. but ultimately from the good
old L. S. A. Hence. by the way. the savage
indignation OF an ex-Mlnister OF Finance In
the French Chamber about two months back
and his violent denunciation Of Uncle Sam
for pulling tight his purse strings.
Great Britain sent here TO Reval In 1919
whole shIpioads OF clothing and boots for
Yudenitch's army but about 90 per cent. Of
these supplies went straight from yude-
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Lofty Phrases Coined by Lenine
Already Are Suffering Depreciation

All great movements OF humanity
whether right wrong, begin with these
large phrases. which are retained even after
they have become meaningless. Lenine's
lofty phrases about the Government of the
poor and the oppressed" already have suf-
fered as much depreciation as the Russian
ruble, and nobody need take them very se-
riously II he continues to find them en-
bedded in the official correspondence OF the
Soviet Republic as long as that system OF
government lasts.
Boshevism was fierce blaze while II
lasted, but II would not have lasted so long
had II not been for Intervention which
brought patriotism to the aid OF Commun-
ism, for the triumph OF Kolehak or Denekin
would probably have meant the restoration
OF Czarism. Almost Immediately after inter-
vention ceased Bolshevism In It's original
form also ceased. The interventionists had
a simple plan. Russia" they say has al
ways been ruled by small group OF people.
Lenine and his friends have at present got
hold OF the steering gear In Moscow We
have only got 10 knock them on the head
andsthe whole machine is ours
But the machine sided with Lenine be-
cause though an impossible person In most
respects. he was certainly anti-Czarist, while
his opponents, though representing every
shade OF non -Bolshevik opinion undoubtedly
would have ended up in Czarism. For they
we're hghting under Czarist generals and ad-
mirals who II they had once got 10 Moscow
would have had little mercy on the s. RS.
Menshevixs, Anarchists and others who had
helped them to get back.
The Bolshevfks had stolen the thunder OF
the first revolution and all the moral energy
which II represented. They had no right
10 IL, but they stole IT, Their republican OPP
ponents were mixed up with a whole crowd
of officers, functionaries and landlords OF
the old regime we'll with foreign
troops Now the Russians, like all other
peoples. regard the presence OF foreign sol
dlery on their soil with deep suspicion. even
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MaorGenera Koovski former commander of the Kronstad
flee Finland
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them as wanted to go to the Argentine to
emigrate. But now the Argentine has init
mated with considerable emphasis that she
does not want Russians of any color.
Many OF these emigrants are being sup
ported by charitable organizations. Ameri
can and English, but few of them are doing
any work except Matching more or less inn
possible plots for the overthrow of the
Esthonia into trouble with her powerful
neighbor. and in any case the presence of
such huge. non-productive foreign popula-
ton is in many ways undesirable. They
raise prices, they spread typhus, they cause
a house famine in all the towns, and they
not popular with the natives Of the country
any more than any other kind OF Russians,
red, white, green or black.
The same remark applies to all the adjoin-
ing countries in which the Russian emf
grants have taken refuge. In Finland they
are treated with particular strictness in
fact like ticket-of-leave men. for they have
got to report daily to the police and cannot
leave the town or village wherein they
live without a permit, which II is practi-
cally impossible for them to obtain.
When the Bolsheviks show they have
really modified their system of government
strong pressure will be brought to bear on
Russian emigrants in the neighboring states
to make tracks back into Russia, for APP
parently no other country wants them. And,
judging from the crowded state of tho ante
rooms and passages in the local Bolshevik
Legation last time visited IL. good many
OF the emiores are already busy making
their peace with the Reds.
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Russian refugees camp Gin ovalD
showing the miserable shelters forced
upon thousands. Below is scene at the
frontier of Finland. Russian refugees
being examined by Finnish officials.
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have been a superficial force. Its cries have
become stereotyped and meaningless. like,
unfortunately, many of the formal prayers
some of us learn In childhood or read in
church without really rejecting on what we
are saying No movement In history has
burned itself out so soon, and the reason is
that IL fed on the brushwood and never
seized on the timber 1t ragged among the
dried twigs that had blown in or fallen
down; ii never touched those great silent
oaks-the peasants.
As Lenine was forced by circumstances to
change, so he may be prevented by circum-
stances from changing back again. History
is full OF such examples. America and Eu-
rope WILL after ALL have no reason TO
grumble II Russia gets from Lenine even
a barely possible system of government in
stead of the utterly impossible system that
she has had for the last three years. II we
start insisting that every government in the
world must come up 10 the highest western
standard and refuse to have anything to do
with II II she does not. we shall have no
end of trouble on our hands
Meanwhile a British official mission is now
on it's way to Moscow, and British firms arc
getting ready to repair Russian locomotives
and TO supply new ones. met here in
Reval the other day Mr. Grimshaw. a
Yorkshire man, representing the great cloth
manufacturers OF his native county. who
has just sold Lenine f15o.oOo worth OF Eng
lish cloth and got paid in gold and platinum
100000. which gives him $4,000 to go on
with: and there have, am sure. been many
other deals like this.
America is rather getting left behind.
am afraid, both I'm Russia and in the Baltic
States which are the doors to Russia. She
has not recognized the republic, with the
result that, while she is not represented here
by a Minister, Great Britain has just APP
pointed as her Minister able and ex-
perienced diplomatst Mr.. Wilton.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1921-01-26
U. S. RANKS NINTH ON
EDUCATIONAL LEVEL


WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan 90
The United States IS declared to
rank ninth among the nations of the
world in the general educational lev
e. Of its people, in a report of the
house committee on education, rec
ommending passage of the Smith
Turner bill to establish a federal
department of education with fed
rrm aid increasing the educational
facilities
The country is trailing behind
most of the civilized world" the
report said, from the standpoint Of
its educational advantages Hitter
acy is ID national and not a section
al problem the report said, in cit
ing statistics to show it is almost
equally prevalent in every section OF
the country