The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-12-15
GOOD ROADS
LAW ENFORCEMENT
FACTORY BUILDING
Lions Club Reviews Many Important
Activities in Union City.

1ACt1Vlb1CS Ill Uu1UU OlCy.
Quite an interesting meeting G
the Ions Club was held last Tuesday
Mr.. Geo. Coslow, remembering tn
kindnesses of the club, forwarded
check for $40 to be used by the clu
as seen proper.
DR.. Turner called attention to tn
fact that election of ofScers of tn
club takes place on the third Tuesda.
in January.
In view of the fact that count,
road meeting is to be held at th
courthouse today, Dec. Is, a resolu
tion was read, indorsing the presen
road law in all it's essential features
Esq. Box Fox was present anC
stated that he approved the law
He said that there is some opposition
but that his district had better roads
to-day than ever before, with only
$32 district fund when the present
law went in force. Mr.. Burdick
stated that the roads of Obion County
had been improved more in the last
twenty years than they had been in
the twenty years before.
Mr.. Forcum, of Obion, another Wis
itor present, was here to hear the
highway speaker, Mr.. Grassland.
Speaker said he was interested in
improved highways, which guarantee
good schools and better living con-
ditions. He favored a law to require
a three-inch tire for wheel vehicles,
saying that it would work no hard
ship because it would make the up
keep of wagons cheaper, etc.
DR.. Turner spoke of the fact that
Obion County is on the highway to
prosperity, there being only two
things lacking-one is good roads
and the other is law enforcement.
Minister Baker was asked to give
synopsis of his Sunday sermon on
law enforcement. The subject of
this was weighed in the Balance
and Found Wanting" He referred
to the walls of Babylon, which were
three hundred feet high and eighty
feet wide and of the snug security
of the people on the inside against
their enemies on the outside.
The fact is that we are lulled to
sleep when danger has already in
vaded our precincts. We are asleep
to the conditions oftentimes. 1t was !
so with us in Union City. We had
while the still was max
ing the poison which entered the |
beast and slew our city night police
man. We were aroused after the
deed was perpetrated, but then it was
too late. We need to wake up and
slay the demon before he comes forth
10 destroy.
Mr.. Oliver offered resolution to
go on record for law enforcement,
which was adopted.
Mr.. W. A. Grassland, representa-
i've of the U. S. Bureau of Public
Roads, was then introduced. He re-
Yiewed the good roads work of Geor-
sia, stating that the good roads of
hat State had improved the schools,
health and general conditions. He
made special reference to Montgom-
ry County, Ala, which had the best
Dad material to be found anywhere,
nd the system of good roads in that
ounty had made it the model school {
ounty of the South S
Mr.. Grassland is assigned to the {
work. in Tennessee land he stated {
hat our ad valorem tax and the auto ]
ak, with The addition of a two-cent '
ak on gasoline, would pay the inter S
st and retiring fund on the proposed
75,000,000 bond issue for good
Dads in Tennessee, but that it was {
he purpose of the Good Roads As /
to issue only such amount I
equired for good roads construction t
it is needed, not exceeding alto e
ether $75,000,00O. Mr.. Grassland s
aid a compliment to this section of e
1untry. [
Mr.. Bob Rust stated to the club t
lat he has the blue prints and speci- v
cations of the Brown Shoe Co.
ranch factory to be built in Union
ity, now to be seen in his place of
usinessr and everybody interested n
invited to. see them. He stated n
lrther that the contract for the c.
'anch factory was let at the office
the Brown Shoe Co. Tuesday morn fl
g, the 18th inst, and that con- 1
ruction on the building begins next c
onday. An important feature of 2
e contract is that it was let to the
oder who is able to complete the W
ork in the shortest space of time. s.
mother interesting fact is that the Il