The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-10-21
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
FOR MORE LIONS
One Hundred Called for in the Plan
of Campaign.

An emort VIII De :1%dc Dy Ine
Lions Club in a membership drive tC
increase the roll with one hundred
rames, and with the new member
chip to move full strength for greater
things in the city and county.
The subject was discussed al
length by the Lions last Tuesday
wien they met in the new rooms re-
Gently fitted up for them by w. H
Forester to the rear Of the Forester
Cafe.
Mr.. Rust, chairman CT the commit
tee to investigate the prospects of q
new county feir AID baseball organi-
zation, had No report to make IN re-
gard to the business of the commit
tee, but he counseled with the club
to defer an important matter like
this until the membership campaign
had been effected.
Before lunch was served, Mr..
Brown, visitor from Jackson, Tenn,
was invited to address the club, and
he did so in the interest of the young
people, condemning the evil infiu-
ences of the day at work in recognized
amusement and business enterprises
to lead young women and young
men astray.
Mr.. Hugh Smith spoke relative to
+bo n,ooracc of oood roads in tho
county. He stated that the Highway
Commission is not yet ready to act
on the construction of the highway
from Union City to Troy and west
and would not be ready until Con-
gress passed the good roads bill car
rying appropriations for same, which
will no doubt be next in the program
of legislation. The bill, passed by
the House and Senate, is still with
the conference committee, and is ex-
pected to be reported shortly
In the matter of good roads Mr..
John George, travelling for the Her
kel-Meisel Trunk Co.. ST. Louis,
stated that he had just returned from
Mississippi, and that the good roads
he passed over would make us green
with envy. They would make us
sick, so Mr.. George said. Mr.. George
was talking on a motion made by
Mr.. Rust to memorialize Congress to
take a firm stand on the railroad
strike question, and that with the
support of the people everywhere the
Lions Club of Union City would stand
by the action of our Senators and
representatives on this proposition
to fight it out to the last ditch, If
possible.
Mr.. Rust made some remarks con-
cerning the threatened strike to the
effect that if the crisis must come,
then let the people who are most
generally affected by cessation of
rail transportation, stand solidly to-
gcther and fight it out to the last |
ditch He asked this 20 be formed |
into a resolution and forwarded by
the Lions Club to our Senators and
Representatives in Congress.
Mr.. Brown, visitor present, made
some remarks to the effect that the
proposed 12 per cent cut in wages
ioes not represent the total reduc-
ions in wages which include also the
extra pay for overtime, amounting
altogether to much more than a
.welve per cent reduction. According
% Mr.. Brown, it is nearly fifty per
.ent.
Mr.. Howell Bransford made the
,oint that officials and men higher
I'D in the employ of the railroad COM
,anies should also submit to twelve
Ter cent reduction, while fair play
s so facetiously suggesteS by the
abroad companies.
But the general consensus of the
lub was that the cut in salaries and
wages should also carry with it re- ,
uction in freight rates. One is not ,
vorth much without the other, and
his is the purpose Of the memorial
rom this club to our Senators and
+
Farm produce in some instances is 7
ot worth more than the freight i
harges, and until the railroad COM
anies make some reduction in rates \
here will. be very little relief from Z
ne present depression in conditions. N
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