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The Washington herald., 1921-10-17

a surplus of $50, 900 on
March 81, 1920.
That represented war profits.
During the following fifteen
months the great de6ation not
only wiped out this enormous
surplus, out substituted q
deficit of $4,000, 900. You are
buying the products of this
corporation in your retail
stores at the new price level.
PRICES ARE DOWN. In
some lines they MAY 60 a
little louer many lines
they WILL 60 higher. There
fors, buy NOW. :
Prices after an uninterrupted
decline for nine months have
become stabilized and many
of them have now begun to
climb. Farmers are marketing
their crops. Seasonal needs
and holiday buying will tend
to increase demand and reduce
surplus stocks, thus creating
shortages, which will force
prices up. Even during the
last three summer months
Bradsreet's commodity index
has shown a slight increase
each month.
The charts and tabulations on
this page show how greatly
prices have declined.
The Washington herald., 1921-10-17
The Tariff as
n Price Factor

TN THE judgment of a great
many mer. hants the Amer
lean Valuation feature of the
Fordney Tariff Bill will I'M
doubtedly increase the retail
price of many classes of mer-
chandise. To illustrate, the
following comparative list is
given:
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One Of the most active in
fiuences in keeping the prod
ucts of the American manufac-
turer at a reasonable price
level is the possibility of for
eign competition. Under the
proposed American valuation
plan, however, our manufac-
turers not only have legitimate
protection, but can themselves
regulate the duty upon i'm
ported goods by increasing
their own prices, as the rate of
duty is to be the wholesale"
selling price in the United
States of similar goods.
Theorists claim that the pro-
posed Permanent Tariff does
not materially advance the
cost of the goods, and some
extremists would have you
also believe that the tariff
provides Tor lower rates OF
duty than the present Under
wood and Emergency Tariffs.
From practical knowledge we
are in a position to state to
you that duty on women's
gloves, such as mentioned
above, will, under the pros
posed Permanent Tariff, be
from zoo to 600 per cent more
than the duty under the pres
ent tariff. Duty on cotton
hosiery will likewise be ad-
vanced from 100 to 200 per
cent. sDuty on china will be
from 10 to IFS per cent.
These are only a few examples
to show you that the proposed
Permanent Tariff provides for
more than ample protection
and advances the duty beyond
all reason.
&:NA4
The Washington herald., 1921-10-17

RICES will never get back to
normal" If some period of
low prices in the past Is arbi-
trarily set a. normal" Prices
are low as they would be if
normal development had not
been interrupted by the Great
War.
Both prices and wages are
higher than they were several
years ago-but the balance is
in favor of wages.
IF you doubt this, consider the
standard Of living Of the aver
age man; consider the quality
and variety of the comforts
and conveniences and luxu.
ries which he enjoys as the
result of each days work and
compare them with what the
man In the same position a
generation ago would have
been able to afford.
A days work has purchased
more during each decade not
withstanding advancing prices
because days work produces
more. The achievements of
science, of engineering, of or
ganizaton, of executive ability
in short, Of brains-enable
men to create more wealth
with each days work, and
therefore to obtain more of the
good things of life.
During and Immediately fol-
lowing the war prices scared
to ridiculous heights, and the
usual balance was DESTROYED.
But there has been a great
drop in prices during the last
twelve months "a drop so
great that a panic has been
avoided only because of our
unparalleled inherent strength
and sound financial system.
1t is important that the public
should appreciate how So
called war profits have been
wiped out and prices have been
forced down. One we'll known
corporation, for instance, had
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10 Ioel and eomfarisG the easrenf Price NTH hot
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22

he debt they owe us or resume the
trading that we did with them unless
we take their goods. They can only
settle the adverse trade balance
against them with their products.
They will never enjoy prosperity as
,ong as this balance exists. Now can
proper trade balance or financial
equilibrium be restored II the United
States is to build high tarlff,wall and
barall the. products OF our former as.
sociates 1t is idle to talk about fore
ing the collection of the International
debts undef such creumstancess Wlfat
America needs fmoreS than .knything
Else is unrestricted trade. The PEG.
pie of THE country need the markets
IT tha world for their surplus. pro-
luets. But those we cannot obtain II
,uRjparkets are to be forever, closed
70 the products OF other nations. Trade
s reciprocal. 1t must be mutually
profitable to exchange commodities
before either individuals 'or nations
can or will trade. 4 20
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
THE POLITICAL GAME.

] In searching about for a Moses to
lead the democrats of Tennessee from
the wilderness several editors have
suggested Hon, William G. Houston
of Cannon county, for fourteen years a
representative in congress from the
nth district and for ten years prior
to that time judge Of the circuit
!, court, PROFESSIONALLY Mr.. Houston
has the ability and integrity to make
satisfactory governor. He would be
strong candidate. His public career
covering a period of about forty years,
lie was member Of the legislature
in 1881, has been a long, useful and
honorable one, but it is said that he
Z Has turned deaf ear to the importu-
mites Of friends and expects to con-
tlnue the enjoyment of the peace and
quiet of private life, to which he vol
unfairly retired two years ago. .
Judge Houston shows good sense in
refusing to enter another scramble
for office. Why should one OF his
age, with a fine career behind him, to
contemplate and to be an inheritance
for his children, yield again to the al
lurements of public life? He Is we'll
fixed In this worlds goods; he is near
the sunset of life; he owns and occu-
/ pies splendid farm, has the esteem
and confidence of. his neighbors, lives
happily among the scenes of his ear
ly struggles on the hard and difhcult
pathway, to success. Now why should
j, he leave this peace and quiet of pas
/. toral life to struggle again for Elusive
) and doubtful honors Of political sta
ton? Even il elected governor would
the added honor be sufficient to com
pensate for the sacrifices that must
be- made? Judge Houston has always
been y man of good, sound, common
sense, and he never. made better dis
4plas, Of IT than in refusing to yield
to the seductive plea ofthe politicians,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
MISS CASKEY Will
TEACH At CULLE0KA
MEMBER OF FACULTY OF COLUM-
BIA SCHOOLS ACCEPTS PLACE
IN FIFTH DISTRICT.

(From Tuesdays Daily Herald)
Miss Mary Lee Caskey, who has
been a member of the faculty of the
Columbia city schools for the past
five years, has accepted the place on
the faculty of the Culleoka school
made vacant by the declination Of
Miss Virginia Parker to serve longer.
Miss Caskey graduated from the Co.
lumbia High School in 1916 and has
taken summer courses at both Pea
body College and at the Middle Ten
nessee Normal at Murfreesboro and
with five years of actual teaching ex-
perience she is highly qualified for
the place to which she has been Sc
lected. .t5'
Miss Brownie Renfro, of Culleoka,
graduate of the Birmingham, Ala,
high school, has been selected as do
nestle science teacher at the Culleo-
ka school to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation Of Miss Eva Nc.
Call, whose marriage takes place this
week. This completes the faculty at
the school, the other members being
Prof. D. M. Galloway, Miss Kennedy,
Miss Ladye Love Evins and Mrs.
Grace Wilkes Martin.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
WOULD co FROM.
HOUSE TO HOUSE:
TENNESSEE FARMER WANTS TO
GO FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE AND
TELL EVERYBODY ABOUT

=. II were mot SO busy with my
Atavark. would go, from house to
house and tell the people about Tan.
lac" said A. ]. Livingston, we'll
known farmer, living near Ashland
city, Tenn! le9i ,et. tR.:.'.
II had stomach and kidney trouble
and suffered torment with my back
and side. The doctors could do moth
ing for me SO | wrote to friend of
mine in Nashville about Tanlac and
he advised me to try 1t, saying he
had heard so many favorable reports
about 1t and sent me bottle.
after taking the first bottle | felt
so much better that ordered another
bottle myself and the result is | am
a we'll man. | told a friend of mine
about it and ordered bottle for him
and he had good results. Ircan eat
anything want and it don't hurt me
and can sleep like. a log To tell you
the truth, just simply feel like new
man and have more strength and
energy than | have had in years. 1t is
simply the grandest medicine in the
world. l would like to see all of my
friends and get those wis, are suffer
ing to try it and hope you will reach
them through this testimonial, which
| have gladly given" OF 49,.
Tanlac, the celebrated medicine,
which, accomplished such remarkable
results in this mans case, is a wonder
full tonic, appetizer and invigorant. 1t
builds up the system, creates heal.
thy appetite, promotes digestion and
assimilation of the food and makes
you feel strong, sturdy and well as
nature intended Advt)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
AUCTION SALE
OF fine SHEEP
HERE AUGUST 1
TWO HUNDRED HEAD OF PURE
BRED HAMPSHIRES TO BE OF
FERED FARMERS OF COUNTY.
CONSIGNED BY A. n. BLAsTOCl
Same Party Sold Splendid Rams and
Ewes Here Last year-Registered
Ram Donated to the Kings paush-
ters of City. ... ...4a. u.
(From Tuesdays Daily Herald.)

(From Tuesdays Daily Herald) "
On Monday, August /, at l O'Clock
at the barns of r. +. Moore & Sons
one of the finest and largest consign-
ments of pure bred sheep ever offered
for sale in Maury county will go under
the hammer.
On that date Kentucky pure bred
Hampshire sheep will be sold under
the joint auspices of the Kentucky
Sheep Breeders Association and the
Nashville, Chattanooga E. st. Louis
railroad. The Offering will be con.
signed by Alfred N. Rlastock, of Yer
sailles, KY, and will consist Of 200
pure bred but unregistered rams, reg
istered rams, pure. bred but unregister-
ed ewes and registered ewes and also
of highly bred grade ewes.
1t will be, recalled that about a year
ago Mr.. BlastockJ brought a consign'
ment of these sheep here and sold
them to the farmers of the county.
The sale was largely attended and
proved most satisfactory to the buy
ers. ..J.
Mr.. Blastock is one of the leading
sheep breeders of the country. His
flocks have long been famous. He
has visited practically every great
sheep breeding country in the world
and has been engaged in the business
for many years.
With the splendid returns receiv-
ed by the farmers of the county for
their lambs the past season. making
them the most profitable farm product
for the year, it is believed that the
flocks of the county will show an in.
crease this summer and fall. 1t is
expected that the farmers of the coun-
ty will take advantage of this opportu-
nifty to get splerdidly bred rams for
their fiocks. sr..
Mr.. Blastock has generously donat-
ed a fine registered Hampshire ram
to the Kings Daughters Of the city.
This ram will be sold at the auction
for the benefit of this splendid organ
ization. ..
l. ~4
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
FoHp,s PROPOSAL.

Aoceptaneegof the proposition made
by Henry Ford to! the secretary OF
war for the lease of the governments
property at Muscle Shoals will mean
the immediate development of the
great power at Florence and an era OF
Industrial progress and development
for all Of North Alabama, the like OF
which has never before been known
In the South. II the contract with
Ford should be consumated, the fail
ufe OF the republicans in the last con
gfess TO carry out the original plans
Of the Wilson administration for the
completion of this great project will
prove blessing in disguise to the peo
! pie of the territory contiguous to the
shoals. m
Ford's control of this property on
contract that would thoroughly safe
guard the interests of the nation
would mean an additional population
Tor that section OF unouSanuS Vi peopie'
IL would also guarantee the manufac
ture1 bf nitrate at the minimum of cost.
Ford would probably make fertilizers
and sell them at the eight per cent
profit allowed cheaper than. the gov
erfifient could manufacture them
Governmental operation of the prop
erty would doubtless mean deficit to
be met by the taxpayers. Ford's oper,
alton of 1t means an income on the in,
vestments greater than the interest
which Uncle Sam must pay on his in
debtedness. It Is to be hoped that the
contract can be made. 1t would be
profitable to the government,sto Ford
and more than all that to the people OF
the entire South and nation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
UTILITIES COMMISSION.

At mass meeting of citizens o:
Franklin county held recently to pro
test against the proposed increase in
telephone rates, one of the speakers
mad bitter attack upon the public
utilities commission, declaring the re.
pear of the lawnhad been pledged by
both parties and that but for gross
betrayal of prediction pledges there
would be no body now to which the
public service corporations could ap-
peal for an increase of rates. This
speaker also declared that the public
utilities commission had uniformly
allowed what that corporations asked
and that it was now the turn of the
telephone company to get what it
wanted.
The Herald has little or no patience
with structures of this kind on the
public utilities commission. 1t be-
lieves that the increases which that
body has allowed In rates have been
justified by testimony presented to
the board. 1t would be remarkable
that with the tremendous advances
made in the cost of labor and mate
rails during the past four years there
had been no advances In the costs of
furnishing transportation, etc. This
paper has confidence in the commits
sion. It believes that when the tele-
phone application is heard the com
mission will consider the de-
creased costs of operation due to de.
clines in wages and materials and will
insist that the company make its &C.
! counts balance by reduction in ex-
penses and not by allowing an in.
crease of rates, which would have the
effect of actually decreasing the reve-
nues of the company. iiFfa
This paper has always advocated a
public utilities commission. Suppose
there were no commission in Tennes-
see now, whose permission would the
telephone company ask for an in
crease of rates? Telephones are nat
urah monopoly and there must be
some body clothed with power to SUI
peryise and to regulate them. AS a
matter Of fact the commission stands
between the people and the rapaclty
of corporate greed. Had there been
no commission the new rates propos-
ed by the telephone company would
have been promulgated and would &C.
tually be in effect at this time.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
CAUSE OF DEPRESSION.

Foreign trade of the United States
fell off three billions of dollars last
year as compared with the preceding
year. That brief statement explains
the tremendous decline in the values
Of American farm products and the
cause for our present depression and
hard times. 1t Is convincing an
swer to those who would have Ameri-
ca pursue policy Of isolation and
aloofness from the other nations OF
the earth. 1t shows that Americas
prosperity and we'll being are intimate
~ linked with the prosperity and well
being OF other nations.
The nations of Europe need our
products as much as they ever did.
They are not buying now because
they have exhausted their credit and
depleted their gold reserves 10 buy
in the past The burden of debt that
oppressed them is already staggering
TO contemplate. They can recover
and contribute to Americas prosperity
only as they are assisted by wise
and generous policy on the part of
this nation. Fom purely selfish
viewpoint America, as shown by her
decline in foreign trade. is tremen-
dously interested in the recovery and
rehabilitation of her former allies!
Their desperate needs and their adj
verse effect upon our prosperity
should be bar to high tariff lesisla-
ton and other measures that will still
further isolate America from the af-
fairs of the world -"
The former allies of this country
cannot create wealth except by trade
and commerce. They can never pay
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
RATE
ON EGGS GOES
TO HIGH POINT
INTERSTATE RATE ON SECOND
CLASS FREIGHT ADvANCES'S
FoRTY-Slx PER CENT.
DECLARES PRESIDENT BEAsLEY
Head Of Big Produce Company Re-
ceives First intimatjon of Increas-
ed Charges From Freight House.
No Notice OF Change Ever Given, I
(From Tuesdays Daily Herald

(From Tuesdays Daily Herald)
Freight rates on eggs from Colum.
bia to Nashville have been advanced
from thirty-one and half cents to
,orty-six and half cents. according
TO statement made this morning by
W. S. Beasley, president of the Co
lumbia Produce Company. This adj
vance was effective on July Is and is
equivalent to forty-six per cent. D..
President Beasley. stated that the
frst intimation that he or any other
shipper had of any advance made in
intrastate rates was when they were
informed at the freight house by the
clerks, If there has been any notice
in the press of any advance or even
of any application to make one Mr..
Beasley said that fact had escaped
him. The advance of forty-six per
cent in the rate applies TO all second
class freight, and he said constituted
the biggest advance ever made in a
rate at one time.
There have BEEN advances made
also in other classes Of freight but
the percentage of the advances have
not been quite SO high as in the case
of second class lfhatter. Mr.. Beasley
expects to take immediate steps to
look into the situation and determine
whether or not there is any remedy.
He said that he had been hoping for
a reduction, intimations of that kind
having been given out nthe press, but
behold his amazement when he found
that his principal commority had
been boosted nearly fifty per cent.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
new TRIAL GRANTED
FEDERAL CHEMICAL Co
(From Tuesdays Daily Herald)

(From Tuesdays Daily Herald)
Judge Turner has granted new
trial in the case of Allen B. Harlan
against the Federal Chemical Compa
ny, argument having been heard on
Saturday. In this case the jury gave
Harlan a verdict of $500 damages
against the chemical company. After
the verdict was returned the defend
ant company made motion for a new
trial and the questions of law and fact
were argued at length before Judge
Turner.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
DAVIS POGUE IS
'"''' : 'i Admitted i TO BAR

(f'rom Tuesdays Daily Herald.)
Davis Jogue, son of Register James
]. Pogue, has successfully passed the
state bar examination and has been
admitted to the practice of hss po-
fession in this safe. Mr.. Pogue gradu-
ated at the law department of the ia
nous Cumberland University at Leb-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
THE PROPER COURSE.

1t Is unfortunate that the democrat
lc minority In the senate should seek
% make partisan issue of stheS sol
diers bonus bill. Two,thirds of the
democratic senators voted against the
oostponement Of the measure largely
because republican president had
urged that course. However, the nine
democrats who voted with the presi-
lent constitute. perhaps half or more
Of the brains of the democratic minori-
ty. Carter Glass, John Sharp Will
Jams, F. M. Simmons, Senators. King,
Myers and Swanson were among the
democrats who cast partisanship to
The winds and voted to postpone a
measure, the passage of which would
admittedly embarass the treasury
without any benefits to, the ex.ser-
vice men. 1t is one of the most gro
tesque bills everp presented in con.
gress. It seeks to place money val
uO ou CuO oCi FiCco lOuuClCu Iuc udIlOu
by the soldiers and sailors in the
great world war and estimates at a
luarte rof dollar day as the diff
ference in the value of the services
Of those who remained in camp or
stations on this side of the water and
hose who crossed the mine and sub
marine infested deep and fought the
enemy in France and Flanders.
The Herald is not often in agree
ment with Senator Borah. 1t has no
great respect for him as a statesman,
out he hit the nail on the head" when
he declared that it would not benefit
tn soldiers to vote them funds that
would cause depreciation in the
value of liberty bonds which their
mothers sacrificed and toiled to buy
ind to increase the burden OF taxes
which their fathers were forced to pay.
He might have gone further, Any bur-
dens now imposed upon the treasury
of the United States will have to be
met largely by the ton and effort and
savings and sacrifices of the men who
served in the world war. Government
can create no wealth. Whatever in
creased burdens of taxes may be laid
for any purpose must be met by the
exertions of the people. The very
men who are the benefciaries of this
proposed legislation would suffer most
from any impairment of the naion's
credit. The president was right in
the course that he took, one that re,
luired courage, and the senate did the
proper thing in following his advice.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
TO ATTEND FUNERAL
Of mrs. DALE'S FATHER

(From Mondays Daily. Herald)
Mr.. and Mrs w. J. Dale have gone
to Louisville to attend the funeral of
Colonel ]. W. Bowles, Mrs. Dsle's faith
er, who died Saturday at his home in
Waynesville, N. c.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22

- Mr. and Mrs. James Appleby, of
Franklin. returned home after spend
ing week in Columbia with their
aunt, Mrs. r. r. Flowers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22

anon with high honors. He has been
assisting Judge Whitthorpe and his
father, Register Pogue, about the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22

court house for some time and expects
to enter at once upon the practice oil
his profession.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
z. sgd DooL.EY

candidate for Sheriff, subject to the
democratic primary, Nov. u, 1921.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-07-22
r. SAM HARRISON

The Herald is authorized to an.
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