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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-02
Political Moths.

Col. Jeter, over at Murfreesboro,
is urging a return to the old-time
Democratic State and county conven-
tions. He intimates that the rank
and file of Tennessee Democrats are
tired of primaries and ready to well
come the convention. The subject,
as far as we know, has not been dis
cussed at all lately in the press and
no one has mentioned it in this neck
of the woods. Then, we would like to
know, how he came to the conclusion
that Democrats are tired of prima-
ries.
The fact is that this is one of the
political snares by which the trium-
virate-the political MACHINES un-
dcrtaking to strengthen it's organi-
cation.
Already this organization, with it's
school and State fair Jobbies, and
other promotion schemes, has disor-
ganized State government and fl
nances. With very high tax as
sessment Tennessee is running into
debt at the rate of three millions of
dollars year and paying impossible
rates of interest. Now, to fasten this
plumber irrevocably upon the State
it is desired to hoodwink the people
into a return to the highhanded and
wholly INSCRIPTIONS methods of the
State and county convention.
Every man who can call back
twenty years knows what political
convention is. The primary is not a
perfect institution, but compared to
a convention it is haven of political
idealism., The convention is hot
house of bribery, brigandage and
corruption. 1t is a place waere men
divest themselves of every honest i'm
pulse, every patriotic motive, every
thing that is ordinarily governed by
sense of equity and honor, and
plunge into saturnalia of political
crime. 1t is hell.
And this is the kind of thing the
triumvirate wants with which to
fasten it's fangs into the throa's of
Tennessee Democrats.
We are waiting, patiently waiting,
for some man to make a counter call
to the Democratic hosts to arms |
Whether the candidates for the next |
gubernatorial nomination will have |
the courage to make this call remains
to be seen. The people are slow,
very slow to take up the fight for
political reform. But if they ever
do, and get started right, there will
be mighty scattering of the politi-.
cal money changers in Tennessee.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-02
FARMS FOR SALE.

218 acres, IL miles out on Bank
head Highway. Six-room residence,
good barn and fences; ITO acres level,
second bottom land. School on adj
joining land, church one mile. Nice
going farm, good neighborhood, As
minutes by auto to the university
town of Oxford. $4,000, half cash,
balance FIVE annual payments at 8
per cent.
EOS acres, four miles out on high
way, with school wagon passing the
door; 100 acres creek bottom. Cot
tage with hot and cold water, good
tenant houses. $4,000 will buy this
splendid, well-located farm.
785-acre cotton. grain and stock
farm, so miles of Memphis, near
and highway; 500 acres riv-
or bottom, IT'S acres in cultivation.
Fine cane for winter pasture. Only
$40 per acre. If bought in August
rents and personal property thrown
in. This is fine Investment or spec
uletion. w. L. ARCHIBALD,
21-2t Oxford, Mississippi.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-02

Now let some genius give us a new
song entitled, II Didn't Raise My
Boy to Be q Taxpayer"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-02

DR.. F. M. McRee has returned from
his European trip, arriving home
Sunday. DR.. McRee spent twenty
three days travelling in England,
France, Belgium, Switzerland, and
visited the battlefields of France. He
says that the English and French
people have gone to work in earnest
and that they have bumper crops in
France and Belgium. There are no
finer people than the Belgians and
they i. are rapidly rebuilding. The
greatest trouble is in finding the cor
rect value of damages. The battle
fields of verdun and others are bar
rem, still covered with tangled wire
and torn with bitches. 1t will take
years to reclaim these lands. The
Doctor looks fine. He says there are
no women in Europe who are as good
to look upon as our own.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-09-02

Talk is 30 cheap that most Of it has
to be disposed Of ut big discount.
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POLITICS WITH BAYoNETS

A CtORDlNG 70 the note formally re-
\ jecting the Allies offer of mediation in
the remnant war between Turkey and
Greece, the Government of the latter coun-
try will be ready 10 hear proposals from
the Entente during every phase of the
operations.
II is needless 10 look further to demon
stratc the dynastic character Of this pestif-
erous conflict. King Constantine, infatu-
ated with dreams Of Byzantine dominion, is
playing the ancient and dangerous game Of
politics with bayonets
His campaign in the Near East has been
costly, and substantial victory has not yet
percLcd upon the Hellenic banners Could
he point to military success, his political
prestige now none too secure, might be ma
terally enhanced.
Were the conflict 10 end today Greece
would have little but new debts TO justify
its restoration Of the ex Kaiser's nephew
The COnstantinists are palpably in search Of
bargaining assets 10 Confute the discomfort
ut home a we'll as to impress the Allies in
order to wiring from them pro Greek con
cessions in the Lcvant.
The entire situation would be shabby
enough were it merely exhibited in dplo-
matte maneuv"rings. But human lives are
ruthlessly staked in this tragcally discredit.
able business.
II would be interesting to learn of Veni-
2eIos' REACTIONS to such a policy Of selfish
and cruel cynicism, the antithesis Of the
glory of Greece ns he envisaged IT,
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for every one who must endure II in Penn
sylvania.
Condemned prisoners are removed at reg
ular intervals from jals in all parts Of the
State and transported Informally to Rock
View. Other passengers on the trains are
soon made aware of the tragedy being en-
acted under their eyes. They display sym
pathy or curiosity. They tender cigars and
money to the man who goes to his death.
The prisoner looking at the free world for
the last time, seeing its full beauty in the
flying fields, can feel under the pitying scru-
tiny Of the day coach a sense of isolation
more complete than the isolation of the
'"dcath house."
Ordinarily. there is only one answer to
the usual question of the pcnitentiary Off
Cias put to the guards. How did your man
take the trip "Oh, we'll enough. He
cried all the way up" The law provides
that all executions ordained in Pennsylvania
must take place at Rock View. That is one
of the reasons why preliminary torment,
not provided for in the statutes, is visited
by necessity upon every man sentenced to
death in the Pennsylvania courts.
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WHERE WOMEN CAN HELP

TT DOES not appear whether Mrs Barclay
i Warburton. vice chairman OF" the State
Republican Committee, consulted the chair
man before she prepared her address to the
women voters urging them to indOrse the
proposition for a convention TO revise the
Constitution.
Some of the members of the committee
are satisfied with the Constitution as il
stands. Senator PenroSe has been quoted
as objecting to any changes at the present
time.
The objectors have raised the point that
there is danger Of too radical a revision if
anything is done at this time. But as they
have raised the same objection for a great
many years and as the radicals are likely
to continue their activities Indefinitely. the
objection is one which would force us to
live under the Constitution of 1874 forever.
Mrs. Warburton = appeal 10 the women
voters cites the well known arguments for
revision. They seem to appeal TO her judg-
ment. They certainly appeal to the judg-
ment Of every citizen who il not bound up
in some way with interests which will be
disturbed by any changes.
II she and the other women active in
politics will cooperate with the men who
are seeking to bring the Constitution up 70
date, the voters who 90 u the September
primaries will both order the holding Of n
Constitutional Convention and nominate
delegates to sit in it,
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A SUMNER JOURNEY

DI'T for the intervention Of Governor
ID Sproul with a last minute rpprieve
Yesterday there would have been at the
State Peuiteutiary near Bellefonte a demon
-tration Of the method Of capital punish
ment by electroCutiOn more gruesome than
any over recorded since the gallows was
lcgislated out of existence in this State.
In the execution building at the prni-
tcntiary--a beautiful white building remi-
nisccnt Of a modern bank or a modern hos
pital. set upon a green hill among rolling
green fplds-a man afflicted with paralysis
md without any life in the lower part Of his
body. man already diving, would have been
carried to the electric chair, bound and
killed.
This man. Sidney Rhyme was actually
carried from the Media jail TO an autono-
bile on Saturday. He was carried to
train and carried again up the winding
steel staircase that leads to the cells built
for the condemned in the new State prison.
At Belpfonte he was carried from the train
and transferred to the local" which runs
to Rock View, the penitcntiary station.
Previously the Governor and the State
Pardon Board had good reasons for refusing
clcmpncy to Rhyme, who was stricken by
paralysis while in jail. The murder of
which the man was convicted was partcu
larly cold bl0oded and cruel. But the pecu-
liarly agonzing circumstances of his long
Journey through open country to the place
OF execution were the same that serve to
make capital punishment peculiarly terrible
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28
A SENATE GAS ATTACK

INCREDIBLY and blcakly stupid is the
campaign of opposition started by the
amalgamatcd coal combines in opposition TO
Senator Frclinghuyscn and his Coal Sta
blization" Bill. I'VE do not have to in
qure about the effects of bolshevism," rum
blcs the propaganda machine Of the exploit
ers' bund. I'VE have only to look at Rus
sia."
Mr.. Frelinghuysen Is neither a Russian
nor Boshevist. He is not deluded by any
random desire to be idealistic. He is a very
practical man who pleads in the interest
and at the suggestion of other practical
men. There is no tnge of radiCalism or of
even tho mildcst socialism in his makeup
In this instance the Senator is express
ing, with a great deal of courage and
ability. the disgust and resentment of bust
ness men in the great industrial area OF
Northern Jersey who are tired Of being
robbed by the agencies upon which they
must depend for fuel.
IL the coal barons want to convict Mr..
Frelinghuysen of bolshevism they will have
to include the business men Of Newark,
Trenton, Jersey City, Hoboken, Elizabeth,
BayOnne and like communities in the in
dctment. Having done that they will have
to put President Harding and Secretary
Hoover in the Red company, for it is very
evident that both the President and the
Secretary Of Commerce are giving their sup
port to the Senator from New Jersey.
1t ought TO be remembered that the Fre-
linghuysen bill is not a step toward nation
alization. 1t is, If anything, a step away
from it. The bill, if it were passed, would
not put anybody in Jail. 1t would not take
away any operators rights or profits.
1t is intended merely to let the people
know why the price of coal continues to-
ward the moon.
The people of New Jersey have demanded
that Mr.. Freinghuysen solve the mystery
for them.
And if business men. large and small. in
other parts of the country were not so will
ing to be exploited, if they were less ready
to pay whatever is asked for coal and to pass
the losses on TO the people who buy their
goods, a return to normal industrial condi-
tions would be quckened and Mr.. Freing-
huysen would receive far greater support
from his colleagues in the Senate.
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WILL HAYS, HUMANIZER

NTHEN VIII Hays took charge of the
w Postotfice Department he said that one
Of his first tasks would be to put it's man
agement on a human basis. There are sew
eral hundred thousand men and women
under him. They can be treated as ma
chimes or as human beings His predecessor
lsaned toward the machine theory and
sought to get as much work as possible ont
Of the employees for the least possible
money. This policy created considerable
dissatisfaction,
sIr, aiays has now appointed Or. Lee X.
F~svtel graduate Of the University of
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Pennsylvania, to take charge Of a Welfare
Bureau in the department. The business Of
DR.. Frankel will be to study the conditions
under which the employees work and to ar
range for making them as comfortable as
may be. In brief he will attempt to intro
duce into the conduct Of public business the
intelligent and humane treatment of the
workers, which has been found profitable in
many great private enterprises.
Out of the greater satisfaction with their
employment which is expected to come from
the work of the Welfare Bureau, Mr.. Hays
anticipates better service for the Govern
ment. He is not likely to be disappointed.
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Philadelphia, Tuesday. June IS, 1921
A BLUFF AND ITS SEQUEL

lAIOTHING, unless it were his eagerness
IN to have the 81 600 600 Municipal Court
payroll jammed through in the councilman"
budget. could have exceeded the caudor Of
Judge Brown in welcoming investigation of
the sphere of his activities a few months
ago.
In the very heartest and most compliant
spirit OF why certainly, my dear srs, trot
out your microscopes, stethoscopes and die
tagraphs, we have absolutely nothing to
conceal" the President Judge solicited
searching inquiry, appealing most affectingly
to the City Club to hear the splendid truth
that the greater glories of the Municipal
Court administration might be realized at
last by a somewhat unSympathetic public.
Anxious to oblige TO the best of its sincere
and disntnrested abilities, the Bureau Of
Municipal Research delegated by the City
Club TO conduct an exhaustive survey. dill
gently set TO work and was on the verge of
recommending technical changes in the aC-
counting methods and of beginning a study
Of personnel, when Judge Brown sgnif
cantly proposed TO Mr.. Gutenberg postpon
ing the consideration of the survey until the
fall. Naturally. the director of the Bureau
Of Municipal Research was forced 70 aban
don operations, since the door of the court
was slammed in his face.
Judge Brown has weakly disclaimed in
tention of blocking the proceedings and has
attempted to advance himsy arguments in
support of his position, but the facts are
against him. AS it served his purposes to
assume a virtue when the fate OF n major
political deal hung in the balance, the call
to cease play-acting is now equally per-
suasive.
Even at the risk Of exposing the cmpti-
ness of his bluff, the President Judge is now
constrained to maintain and safeguard the
secrets of his organization.
The spectacle is only a shade less ludi-
crous than disgusting.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28
THE BUNGLED BELT LINE

IF THOMAS A. EDISON mad seen fit to
devise a local quiz and had sought like
wise to floor" his classes. "What is the
Belt Line|' might have been appropriately
displayed upon his examination list II i
hardly an exaggeratiOn 10 declare that many
Philadelphians know little If this railway
and that those more intimately Acquainted
with its purposes are sunk in depressing
silence.
The truth is that a transportation svs-
tam designed to simplify and cheaper freight
shipment within this city Is put 70 the
clumsest use and Is operated in the most
cumbersome and convention ridden fashion.
The fact was lately revealed that produce
on the cooperative railroad OF Delaware
avenue and Noble street and intended for
distribution at Thirtipth and Market streets
must be shipped to its destination by way
OF Wilmington, Del. TO reach the Vine
street terminal on the Schuylkill from Della.
ware avenue and Noble street goods are
carted out TO the Belmont station and then
by easy stages to the end Of their circuitous
Journey.
These and other evidences of supcran.
uuated administration are brought out by
Director Sproule in a significant report upon
the condition of the Belt Line The Di-
rector of Wharves, Docks and Ferries does
inject CLEAN Of hope into the situation in
forecasting a conference of committee Of
the Belt Line directors with Vice President
Lee, of the Pennsylvania Railroad
1t would be proper to rejoice fervently in
this prospect were not the whole history Of
the Belt Line darkencd by futile meetings
gorgeous promises and precious little per-
formances
There is this to be said for its present
status: the functoning Of the line has
reached the depths Of old fogyism and
costly bunghng, All revision must ineyi-
tably be upward
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

There has been some excitement me ibs,rcit a. i.
Resolutions asserting the rights Gdtiss,,%tcr.SIl
working classes to set up a'tina ,hns psa
were turned down. Victor Bsrserd berger the the resO'
his respects to the men who offered ,bs ,e' ssps'
iutions: "Engdahl and kruse, ,"' n t,
ncnts Of communism, do not beD,nt, be,o%st IylsI
proletariat. They are in the salS1''s .Sa 'sociilt
of the money received from n I"r mt it;
Party" Or, as the poet woTtI woTiOtorrist, rt
"The poor steer, proIeta,t"
Was roped by the salar'a''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

After President Harding hsd sa'r, y ~
centon to delegates to the convention o. m
American institute of Homcopathiisdts lids,,i Il
doctors at their closing session Cldsnt COnslddsatt'
relieved of the custom, and turned .bo"y y %y' b
II was decided that the President SnU%S h"siuss
permitted to attend to his own cIuS,s GuS,.b b
Which. declares DemostheneS MStnSr McnaS% dcs
n revolutionary declaration. Nooou'
thot NOWADAYS. 1t isn't allowed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28
What Do You Kno,U?


QUIZ
l. Name two athletic games of American
origin.
2. Who was LaZare Hoche?
8. What river Is sometimes called the Oar
danelles OF the New World?
T. Who was Patroclus in Greek legend?
s. Who succeeded Martin Van Buren, as
President of the United States?
6. What are Odonata?
:. Distinguish between an apiary and an
aviary.
s, What is worsted?
0. What Is the literal meaning of the ex-
Clamation bravo?
10, What is humidity in the atmosphere?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

There is pathos and scntlnep, ,hn pr,sturrhi
story Of the Texas spnstrr whU, iii Of M
from Ireland brought win her n A tt
could sod with shanrorHS thorn, y" q sps
beech tree: n hcmlock, a onIv INV to have tgs
GanCG Ga SG Rcr R"1 when she reached New S0s 10
I"tr GrmT %T "W recently % enacted to rr'ySrpc Yen cs
gcroas f"'% Plant fungi from c9rr%s ERIN ton eUt S
What about the tons Of earth 1srsss orsssh hs|
ts I" bloom with the poppies o OF u " T.
Doesn't il seem, on the ua.r as
straining at gnat and swaiio~''s
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

There is one angle to
Keeping the Faith the proposed reduction
in the size of the
army, a reduction which will mean adding
80 900 men to til" army Of the unemployed.
which has not been sufficiently stressed A
man who cnlsts makes a definite contract
with the Government, contract he is bound
to keep. Can the Government afford to
break faith by disrharging him before it has
provided him with the things promised?
These things, according to recruiting posters,
include a certain rate of pay and a chance to
receive an education, learn a trade and see
the world. Would it not be wiser and NOR,
honorable to reduce the size of the army
gradually by stopping recruiting and allowing
the men to 60 as their terms expire?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

Congressman Paul johnson. VINO .SvI, s1yE
70 preyent women from smoking in puOhs p, \.
places in the District Of Columbia, VIII N'th,t, h
interested to learn that the Pasteur insu% M,
Of Paris has issued bulletin declaring '1S ~
tobacco smoke is antseptic and kilIs N ahosn
minutes the primary bacteria OF s;,is raE,''
diphtheria and cerebro- spinal mehihB'''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

Publicity appears to be what the co..
operators fear most But without wise pase. ps.
lcity no business can live. And, BY 70.
same token, without wise publicity OGS
present competitive system as opposed y
public ownership, capnot five. For the e.s,n, SM
of present gain the operators are "O'A~'
against their own best interests.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. Goethe coined the word superman in
2. The Aland Islands are situated in the
Gulf Of Bothnia, an arm OF the Baltic
Sea They have been awarded TO Fin
land by the League OF Nations.
3, Gugllelmo FerreIo is noted Italian his
tOran especially celebrated for his
works upon the Roman Empire
4. Georgia was the last Of the thirteen colo
MES TO be settled permanently by Eu-
ropeans, Georgia was founded by a
chartered company of English colonists
In 1888
8. The famous Dreyfus case in France NAV
he said to have begun when Captain
Dreyfus was degraded on December
23, 1894 and ended when he was
restored TO rank as an army officer on
July l2 1906
6. louisiana Texas. Wyoming and Nevada
are the chief sulphur reproducing States
of the United States.
l. Charles BeeCher Warren has been named
Ambassador to Japan by President
s. The L" roads have been in operation in
New York city since 1878
.. Charles w. Paddock of the University Of
southern California, Is rated as the
worlds fastest runner He holds four
worlds records.
10. Father Damien (Joseph de Veuster Dam
ien) was missionary priest who de.
voted his life to the welfare OF tha
leperS in the island of Molokai in
the hawaiian group. He fell n victim
10 the disease In 1889. He was horn T.,
Belgium IN lS40. 80
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

Some hope Carpenter will win sSn'
have their money on Dempsey; and the 10
ternational Reform Bureau, not to be e'
hindhand when conjectures are rife, a1
presses the hope that Chancellor walker w,u
put both contestants to sleep with one WeH'
directed blow
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

Congresswoman Robertson says Con
gress could save money for the country b,
talking less and thus reducing the size ol
the Congressional Record. More than Sa
Cousin Alice justifes the presence OF women
in poltics
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

At a Fourth Of July celebration down
town the losers in tug OF! war are 10 Dc
ducked under n fireplug. II the presnnI
warm, weather continues the ducking Will
be a luxury rather than punishment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

1t is presumably coal dust that Fn
linghuysen declares the operators are throw
ing into the eyes of the public.
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Perhaps 1t wouldn't be bad idea II b.
State Constitution called for a Constitu.
tional Convention, say, every twenty-five
years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

The ashcart men are hoping that The
Weather Man will help them il municipal
street cleaning can be held over until Jan.
uary 1.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

Jupiter Pluvius arrived but to tease
What's the good of bringing watering pot
when it is only a quarter full?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-28

Pittsburgh appears to be getting tn
water allowance Of the whole State.
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If Senator Frelinghuysen is right the
coal operators have already achieved the on,
big union. 81"