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

There are two very important
things that go toward making a
good, live town. One is persistent,
thorough and attractive advertising
and the other is backing up the ad-
vertising with performance.
There is no use advertising if you
haven't the goods, and there is no
use having the goods if you don't
advertise them.
No town has ever been benefited
by the man who sits down and waits
for more enterprising and public
spirited persons to bring trade to
him, and neither is it by the man
who fails to deliver the goods when
called upon. Both help make COW
pasture out of town.
When the business houses of a
community know how to advertise
and how to follow up the advertising
by giving good service the communi-
ty is sure to grow, and that helps all
the people, for a part of every dol
lar stays in town. A part of every
dollar spent in town goes to taxes,
churches, schools, charities, street
and sidewalk improvements. Isn't
that argument enough to convince
you that the dollar should stay here.
Advertise and help keep the dollars
at home.-Lake County Gazette.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22

are being built and endowed by great
financiers. Life insurance companies
are also spending millions of dollars
to educate the people to the need OF
better health, showing that the en-
tire country is awake to the need
and Importance of protecting our
health.
In our own town we find that ma-
ny things have been done to offer
| us better health. No longer are the
anopheles permitted to bring aches
and chills, for the nalarial control
campaign is wiping out their breed
ing places.
Our city fathers are having all
homes made accessible to our splen-
did sewer system. This, together
with the system of surface drainage
planned for the entire town. should
reduce disease.
One of the most important things
! that has been done in the county
| in number of years is the testing
of dairy cattle for tuberculosis. Do
you know what kind of cow supplies
the milk that your baby drinks?
Another system of progress is that
| the Public Health League has en-
ployed a nurse, and is working for
"better babies medical inspection
of schools and proper care of the
sick in the home.
TyDh' id fever and smallpox,
thanks to sanitation and vaccination,
are practically thing of the past,
and anyone who dies from either dis
ease practically commits suicide.
Our own club has fostered "rat
eradication campaign" to avoid the
danger of bubonic plague.
Our public school has a nice swim
ming pool, which, together with a
little heat and the splendid showers
will make possible "a bath day
and the health of our boys and girls.
An awakening in health-giving
sport has been seen in the Sunday
School Baseball League and the in
terest shown in the local school
teams. Some one whispered some
thing about an amateur athletic as
ISOLATION.
1t is also hoped that some of our
enterprising citizens have seen the
need of adequate hospital facilities
for the sick of our town, and that a
new hospital will soon be built.
Our city water supply is the purest
of any town anywhere, and all in all
ours is the healthiest of small towns.
The local registrar of vital statistics
states that we have had the smallest
death rate so far this year that we
have had in four years.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
WOODLAND MILLS.

The school at Woodland is pro-
crossing nicely. We think we have
good professor and the other two
teachers seem to take great interest
in the children. The teachers and
parents meeting was success Fri
day and had very good attendance.
Bro. Baker made good talk.
Mrs. T. B. Isbell has gone to Jack
son to visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
1. N. Penick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miner Ferguson have
taken little boy ten months of age
in their home to care for. May God
help and guide them, for He admon-
ishes us to take care of the orphans.
There is to be an ice cream supper at
the Woodland schoolhouse Friday
night, Sept. %, to get a basket ball
for the children, the rest to be put
on the debt for putting in a deep
we'll, which was finished last Mon
day. Hope there will be good crowd
at the supper. Mr.. and Mrs. James
Marshall are the happy parents of
two fine baby girls, of which they are
very proud, but my, my, the fine
dresses and hats James will have to
buy.
The w. M. U. will meet with Reel
foot Baptist Church the 9Th of Octo-
Der. A large attendance is hoped for.
Go to Corum's for fresh bread
| and cakes.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
Gift of Health,

DR.. Ira Park contributed to the
Lions Club as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and fellow cubs; it
is with a great deal of pleasure that
bring to these chilrden and our
dear babies priceless gift, the beau
ty and glory of which can not be ex-
celled-a thing so precious that
Mr.. Rockefeller with all his millions
can not obtain it. Without this val
liable gift these children would never
grow into makers of the wonderful
civilization that Lionism fosters. This
gift embodies the sacrifice of thou
sands of lives and the tireless research
of hundreds of trained men who, to
combat disease and find it's cause,
were willing to give up ther lives
as a living sacrifice. Hippocrates,
Jenner, Harvey, Pasteur, Mcdowell,
Reed and the late General Gorgas,
together with their associates, made
possible the wiping out of great ep-
idemics and with years of untiring
effort finished the gift that l present
to you to-day. l bring to you the
invaluable gift of Better Health. !"
National and State governments
have so recognized the Importance of
health that great departments devote
their time and millions of dollars that
disease may be conquered and the
public educated to better conditions.
Great schools for the treatment, pre-
vention and eradication of disease
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-09-22
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs. z. Y. Wnlte WAS very sim
last week, but is improved.
Mrs. w. M. Walker, TRY street,
has been very sick for a few days.
For ice and coal call $50.
Miss Della Mai Knox was visitor
Sunday in Rives with Miss Lillian
Barker.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Caldwell, OF
Rives, were in the city Monday as
visitors.
500 cures Chills and Fever.
Misses Maisie Williamson, of Full
ton, was Miss Ruth Caldwell's Wis
itor the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. D. Kirk, of Num-
Der Three, were in the city last week
visiting relatives and friends in I'm
ion City.
Did you know that the Central
Filling Station sold tires?
Mr.. Edward Meadow left this
week returning to Vanderbilt Uni
versity for another years study in
academic work.
Mrs. Henry Quilmack and children
left this week to join Mr., Quilmack
who has been located at Flint, Mich.
for several months.
-Rub-My- Tism for rheumatism.
Misses Christine Redman, Wave
Gauldin, Ruth Inman, Pauline Poore
Nina Swindler and Mai Harrington
of Newbern, were in the city Mon
day.
Mrs. C. Boyle and Miss Jessie Ell
der, of Kenton, were in the city
Monday visiting Mayor Clarence
Boyle, who is here at DR.. Qualls' in
Urinary.
Go to Corum's for fresh candies
of all kinds.
E. A. Keathley, of Dyer County
was in the city last week. Mr.. Keath
ley is State organizer for the United
Farmers of America, an organization
formed a short time ago at Blythe
vile, Ark.
Col. John White, Of Hornbeak, on
of the well known citizens and lead
ers in politics and public affairs il
Number Five for many years, wa
here this week visiting his son, Mr.
Sion White, who is with the Red Sta
Drug Store.
500 quickly relieves a cold
Mr. Jas. T. Chiles, a resident 70
many years of Obion, has located her
in the home of his son, Mr.. Enlo
Chiles, and the friends are glad t.
welcome him back to Union City
Mr.. Chiles was former Sheriff o
Obion County.
Students leaving this week for tn
University of Tennessee are as fol
lows: Gus White, Earl Smith, ]. c
Brown, Glynn Brown, Willard Car
man, Richard Alexander, Miss Elsi
Stone; from Troy, Misses Sancy an,
Hester Bennett; Polk, John Harper
Perfectly delicious, deliciousl.
perfect Crystal Ice Cream. Phone 81
We deliver.
Mr.. o. R. Cummings, of Leland
Miss, was in the city Monday, Wis
itor in the home of his uncle, Mr..
H. McCaw. Mr.. Cummings left Rive
about twenty years ago, going t
Mississippi, and is at present engage
in the lumber manufacturing busi
ness.
Mrs. Reece Alexander was take
to DR.. Qualls' infrmary last Satul
day evening with a very acute al
tack of appendicitis. An operatio
was performed as soon as the patien
was ready, and we are glad to sa
that Mrs. Alexander is rapidly i'm
proving. Nj Tom Hamilton, VIII
was one of DR.. Qualls' patients iron
Rives, is able to be out again afte
an operation for appendicitis.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-12-21

square board building at the end OF
the street. But every day for the past
ten years he has been coming to our
Office for his bundle of old newspa-
pers. These he reads carefully, and
sometimes what he reads inspires him
to write something for our paper on
the future of the Queen City, though
much oftener his articles are retro
spective. He Is the president Of the
Old Settlers society, and once or
twice year he brings In an obituary
which he has written for the family of
some old-timer.
One would think that an idler would
he nuisance in busy place, but, on
the contrary, we all like old Alpha
betical around our office. For he Is
an old man who has not grown sour.
His smooth, fat face has not been
wrinkled by the vinegar Of failure,
and the noise that came from his
lusty lungs in the old days Is subsid-
ing. But he has never forgiven Gen
eral Durham, of the Statesman, for
saying Of a fight between Alphabetical
and another land agent back in the
sixties that chose who heard it pro-
nOunced it the most vocal engagement
they had ever known" That is why
he brings his obituaries to us: that
Is why he does us the honor of Dor
rowing papers from us; and that Is
why, on a dull afternoon, he likes to
sit in the old sway-back swivel-chair
and tell us his theory of the increase
in the RAINFALL his notion about the
influence Of trees upon the hot winds,
his opinion of the disappearance of
the grasshoppers Also, that is why
we always save a circus ticket for old
Alphabetical, just as we save one for
each of the boys in the Office.
One day he came into the office in
a bad humor. He picked up a country
paper, glanced Il over, threw it down,
kicked from under his feet a dog that
had followed a subscriber into the
room, and slammed his hat into the
waste-basket with considerable feel
ing as he picked up a New York
paper,
"WelI-well, what's the matter with
the judiciary this morning?" someone
asked the old man.
He did not reply at once but
turned his paper over and over, appar-
emily looking for something to inter
est him. Gradually the revolutions of
his paper became slower and slower,
and finally he stopped turning the
paper and began reading. 1t was ten
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-12-21

is charged and discharged. However,
the radio impulses come so fast that
the condenser charges and discharges
almost instantly.
The low capacity fixed condenser in
the grid circuit Of the vacuum tube
detector functions as a checking con-
denser for the radio currents to the
plate Of the tube and Is generally
about 00005 mlcrofarads. Without
this condenser In the tube circuit the
signals will be much weaker and the
bulb may have tendency to choke
up so that no plate circuit will flow
through the circuit. Fixed condensers
must be made of the best grade of ma
terials possible; that is they must
possess high insulating qualities so
that the charges will not leak off
through poor insulation. Condensers
made Of pure mica and copper foil are
to be preferred over paper and tinfoil
condensers, as they will build up their
voltages to the highest point without
leaking, before they suddenly dis
charge.
Variable condensers should also pos
sess insulating qualities and such parts
as insulating bushing and top plates
should be made Of good grade bakelite
or equally good insulating material
Fiber washers and bushings soon de-
yelop leaks as fiber has the property
of absorbing moisture and warps in
time, causing the plates in the conden-
ser to touch. Variable condensers are
generally made from aluminium so as
to make them as light as possible.
Aluminium has the property Of keep
Ing its shape in fiat plates and Is also
good conductor.
Built-up variable condensers with
metal washers used as separators gen.
orally give more satisfaction than 9th
err types. Experience has proved that
they keep their plates separated with
out scraplng and the number of plates
can be increased or decreased ut WILL
A variable condenser inserted in Sc
ries with the antenna and tuner de-
creases the wave length of the anten-
| na circuit as It Is varied. When the
plates are separated the wave length
Is the shortest, and even when the
plates are intermeshed the wave
length Is shorter than If the condenser
were out Of the circuit. A variable
condenser in shunt with the secondary
' or the tuning coil will Increase the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-12-21

over and yawp that old Alphabetical
is visionary. Here l can get can
ming factory and nobody eats the
goods; hustle up a wooden factory,
and the community quits wearing
trousers; build for them a street
car line to haul them to and from
their palatial residences, and what
do the sun-baked human mud-turtles
do but all jump Off the log into the
water and hide from them cars like
they were chariots Of fire? What this
town needs is not factories, nor rail
roads nor modern imprOvements-Old
Alphabetical can get them-but the
next great scheme 1 go into is to go
down the river get some good red
mud, and make a few thousand men
who will build up a town."
1t has been fifteen years and over
since Colonel Morrison put on his long
coat and high hat and started for the
money markets of the East, seeking
whom he might devour. At the close
Of the eighties the Colonel and all his
tribe found that the stock Of eastern
capitalists who were ready to pay
good prices for the fine shimmering
blue sky and bracing ozone Of the
West was running low. 1t was said
in town that the Colonel had come to
the end of his string, for not only
were the doors of capital closed to
him in the East, but newcomers had
stopped looking for farms at home.
There was nothing 20 do but to sit
down and swap jack-knives with other
land agents, and as they had taken
most Of the agencies for the best in
surance companies while the Colonel
was on dress parade, there was moth
ing left for him to do but to run for
justice of the peace, and, being elect
ed, do what he could to make his
tenure for life
Though he was elected, more out
Of gratitude for what he had tried to
do for the town than because people
thought he would make a fair Judge,
he got no further than his Office in
popular esteem. He did not seem to
wear well with the people in the daily
run and 1ostle of life. During the
forty years he has been in our town,
he has lived most of the time apart
from the peOple-transacting his bust
ness in the East, or locating strangers
on new lands. He has not been one
Of us, and there were stories afloat
that his shrewdness had sometimes
caused him to thrust a toe over the
dead-line Of exact honesty. In the
town he never helped US to fight Tor
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or fifteen minutes before he spoke.
When he put down the paper his
cherubic face was beaming, and he
said
"Oh-I know I'm fool, but wish
the Lord had sent me to live in a
town large enough so that every dirty
faced brat on the street wouldn't feel
he had a right to call me Alphabet
cal Dammit, I've done the best
could! l haven't made any alarming
success. l know 1t. There's no need
of rubbing it in on me-" He was
silent for a time with his hands on
his knees and his head thrown back
looking at the ceiling. Almost i'm
perCeptibly a smile began to crack
his features, and, when he turned his
eyes to the man at the desk, they
were dancing with merriment, as he
said; Just been reading a piece here
in the Sun about the influence Of
climate on human endeavOr. 1t says
that in northern ATTITUDES there is
more oxygen in the air and folks
breathe faster, and their blood flows
faster, and that keeps their liver 60
ing. Trouble with me has always
been climate-sluggish liver. If had
just little more oxygen floating
round in my system, the wooden mill
would still be running, the street cars
would be going, and this town would
have had forty thousand inhabitants.
My fatal mistake was one of latitude.
But"--and he drawled out the word
mockingly-"but I guess If the Lord
had wanted me to make a town here
He would have given me different
kind Of liverl" He slapped his knees
as he sighed: "This Is funny world,
and the more you see of 1t the funnier
1t gets" The old man grlnned COM
placently at the ceiling for minute,
and before getting out of his chair
kicked his shoe-heels together mer-
rily, wiped his glasses as he rose, put
his bundle Of papers under his arm
and left the Office whistling I'm old
old-fashioned tune.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-12-21
Watch Your "a" Battery.

When your storage battery is
cranky" do you have it recharged
without having 1t looked over by an
expert? If you do not take any no.
tice of 1t you are apt to be buying a
new battery in short time. Many
are the things which can go wrong in
storage battery. Here are a few Of
the more simple troubles which lead
to bigger ones: Letting the specific
gravity of the battery go without no
tiCe, not using distilled water, over
charging, letting the battery stand idle
for length of time without charging
and drawing too much current from 1t.
These are only few Of the many
troubles which occur in storage bat
teries Of the lead-plate type.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-12-21
CONDENSER ACTS
AS STORAGE TANK
How the Fixed and Variable
Types Are Constructed and
What They Do.

A condenser In q radio circuit Is a
storage tank for electrical charges.
This storage unit may be either fixed
or variable. The fixed condenser,
which consists principally Of few
sheets of metal foil, intersectiOned be-
tween paraftined paper or mica and
bound tightly together, and which, IN
like the variable condenser, does not
cost very much either to buy or build,
Is the one generally used on the re-
ceiving circuit Of the vacuum tube.
When connected across the termi-
nails OF the receiver, the fixed conden-
ser has the property Of diScharging
with great violence across these ter
minals and setting up stronger cur
rents to act upon the magnet coils Of
!he receiver. If the condenser were
eft out of the circuit the receivers
would still respond to the impulses
Of the deteCtors rectiticd currents, but
when they are added to the circuit,
these currents build up a voltage in
the condenser SO great that when it
is discharged it does so with violence.
This discharge occurs at each impulse
in the voice of the speaker The voice
impulses set up in the condenser are
forced to discharge Immediately in
order to leave room for the next
charge and to prevent the cOndenser's
becoming overloaded. Just imagine q
reservoir Of water filling slowly until
the water were up to brim, and then
flood gates opened so that the water
all ran out. This is a good example
Of the manner in which the condenser
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wave length Of the circuit, depending
upon the number OF plates that are
inserted in the condenser as it is va
ried from $50 degrees to zero.
BY reason of this characteristic the
variable condenser allows for very
close tuning.
A condenser consists of two electri-
cal conductors separated by an insu-
lator. The electrical conductors are
called the plates and the insulating
medium separating the plates Is called
the dielectric.
In Fig. l liz shown simple conden-
ser consisting Of two plates, A and b,
with air between two plates acting as
the dielectric. II now a battery G Is
connected to the two condenser plates,
the positive side Of the battery to one
plate and the negative side to the 9th
er plate, current will fow. This cur
rent that flows from the battery termi-
nails when the battery Is connected to
the plates of the condenser is called
the charging current. During the proc
S'oo Va NAAuA 3 rs q NOiuSAloNA ttl VIM
trio displacement takes place in the
dielectrlc. This electric displacement
gives rise to an electromotive force
which tends to oppose the applied
electromotive force from the battery
G. Finally point is reached where
the back g. m. f. and the charging cur
rent become zero.
If the battery G be disconnected
from the condenser a potential differ
ence will exist between the two con-
denser plates that will just be equal
to the potential Of the battery G.
Short-circuiting the condenser plates
will cause the condenser to discharge,
condition that will exist until the
potential difference between the plates
has been reduced to zero or until the
dieectric has again resumed its nor
NAL state.
The charge that can be placed on
static condenser depends upon three
factors. First, the area of the conden
ser plates; second, the thickness and
composition of the dieleCtriC, and third
the potential difference applied to the
plates by the battery G.
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those things of which the town Is
really proud: our schools, the college,
the municipal ownership of electric
lights and waterworks, the public
library, the abolition Of the saloon,
and all of the dozen small matters of
public interest in which good citizens
take a pride. Colonel Morrison was
living his grand life, in his tailor
made clothes, while his townsmen
were out with their coats off making
our town the substantial place 1t is.
SO In his latter days he is old Alpha
betlcal Morrison, a man apart from us.
We like aim well enough, and so long
as he cares to be justice Of the peace
no one Will object, for that is his due.
But, soneway, there is no talk Of
making him county clerk; and there
Is a reason in everybody's mind why
no party names him to run for county
enough for ten years to break through
the crust Of the common interests
that he has so long ignored. One sees
him at public meetings-a rather visit
Unlocking, chubby-faced old man
on the edge Of the crowd, ready to
be called out for a speech. But no
one calls his name; no one cares par.
ticularly what old Alphabetical has to
say. Long ago he said all that he
can say to our people.
The only thing that Alphabetical
ever organized that paid was a fam.
lily. In the early days he managed tC
get home clear Of Indebtedness and
was shrewd enough to keep 1t out OF
all Of his transactions. Tow-headed
Morrisons filed the schoolhouse, and
twenty years later there were sc
many Of his girls teaching school that
the school board had to make a ruling
limiting the number of teachers from
one family in the city school, In order
to force the young Morrison girls tC
go to the country to teach. In these
days the girls keep the house golnl
and Alphabetical Is notary public
! and justice Of the peace, which
keeps his Office going in the little
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-12-21
What Is Meant by Resonance.

You'll read in any radio magazine
or other publication that in order to
detect incoming waves you must bring
your secondary into resonance. Sounds
oddlike, doesn't it? It's very simple.
Take two tuning forks. Adjust them
to the same pitch and strike one The
other will respond to it's vibrations.
That's resonance.
Resonance in radio means bringing
your couplings to point of sympathy
by tuning carefully with the incoming
wave and you'll get it.