The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
For Union City.

ALWAYS contended for as a mean
toward an end-first the upbuildin
of Union City as commercial an
industrial center and then its phys
ical and moral health. To be NOR
specific, Union City should have
general hospital, where all the loca
surgeons especially may practice
This institution should, of course, b
ample in size and equipped with ap
paratus for modern surgery.
AS much as we may think to tn
contrary, the procuring of means t,
build and equip hospital is not b!
any means the greatest hospital prob
lem. The operation and maintenance
of a first-class hospital will be the
test of it's success. The problem il
more difficult in smaller centers than
it is in larger cities. For that reason
any effort and any serious attempt
TO find the means and the organiza-
ton for hospital establishment must
be accompanied by spirit of unself-
1sh interest and complete co-opera-
ton. Everything almost depends up
on the superintendent of such an in
stitution and the support given him
by the local physicians. The success
of such an arrangement is necessary
to inspire the confidence of the COM
munity, and without the confidence
of the community the hospital is
destined to failure.
We speak of the hospital because,
as we say, it is needed, but it further
Invites the ambitious young prac-
titioner and student to greater
achievement and brings eventually to
our local confines men who are in all
probability as capable of great things
in medicine and surgery as those of
national fame. There are now men
of this character in almost every
place where there is properly
equipped hospital. We have them
in Union City and can have more of
them with better hospital facilities.
The other great thing that has al
ways impressed us since the first day
we entered business in Union City
1wenty-one years ago is the paving
of the road to Gibbs.
1t is useless for us to state what,
in our opinion would have been the
result of such road had it been
built thirty years ago. That may
be matter either for the widest
imagination or for the pessimist to
dismiss with frown, but it is the fu-
ture we are ANXIOUS about. Union
City is good town. l have never
heard anyone speak to the contrary |
But it has been said to be a conserva-
tive town. That doesn't alter the |
fact that Union City is located in a
rich farming country, and with its
topography and natural advantages
it is susceptible of greater possibil-
titles. These things are very poten-
tial if they are utilized as they should
be.
Now, when we speak. of a paved
road to Gibbs, we mean truck road,
a dray road driveway, a speedway,
and for these various purposes no or
constructed road would an
swer. The road to Gibbs, after first
being leveled to a standard grade and
specification, should be a concrete
road of high mixture twenty feet
wide and ten inches in depth.
The idea in outlining these speci-
fications is to show what is needed,
not simply for a hard road to Gibbs.
but what is actually necessary to
make Union City a station on the I.
c. Railroad. Nothing less will give
rs this advantage. No penetration
or cheap construction will answer,
for the minute road is completed to
Gibbs the next step will be to draw +
with trucks by our manufacturers
and millers, and cheap paving will !
not stand under motor truck.
The I. C. R. r. system is the great g
sst in the South and one of the ,
greatest trunk lines in the United ,
states. The l. G. system has built +
md made more towns than any other Z
DAD in the South. We say the |. C. &
I. r. has done this, because the facts
n the case are that more fiourishing +
owns have developed along the l. c. '
/. R., in our observation, than have 7
cen developed on any other system {
f railway, in the South :
Those of us who have been wit (
esses to the fact know that thirty +
ears ago Union City was the undis-
uted metropolis of the Ninth Con-
ressional District of Tennessee. And
re believe as firmly as anything on
arth that the l. c. r. r. has given
MS to another town which was not v
rem big enough thirty or forty years d