Newspaper Page Text
Good Attendance Greets Entertain era Enthusiasm Continues. The second meeting of the Redpatl; Chautauqua in Uniou City opened last Tuesday afternoon, the Redpath Gran Opera Co. being heard in a recital, whic captured the musicians. George L. McNutt, tte dinner-pa man," was the first speaker o( the as sembly. He was introduced by Stipt Sowerby. Mr. McNutt is a Prebyteria preacher and evidently a Scotchman Many of them are and they are generally good ones. Mr. McNutt is an excep tionally good speaker. He introduce himself by saying that he married Kentucky woman. TUondorsement was entirely satisfactory. He stated that the other speakers had the advautage of hirn in everything but the subject he had the bisrsest subject. The dinner pail suggested itself to Mr. McNutt by a close observation of the operatives in a large manufacturing plant, and from that observation the truth came to him that wo can make things, but Can we make men. The mother is the only living being who cannot tell what will become of her babe, and this is the sub ject that he came to tell us about, hy so niijpy of our boys and young hi going in uie wrong uireciion; wuy my of them are in chains. The Lret of Culture and Democracy is 13 find what they can do and let them 5it. The fallacy of life is to look for b. A mule can do that. The man " wW has no higher aim than to look for a job will always be looking for a job, and life holds out to him no promise. Find out what you can do and go at it with all 'your might and main. That ia what it takes to make a man. Don't let this purpose get confused with the idea of having a job. Do what you can and let the consequences take care of themselves. This is not what Mr. Mc- he was driving at. Only he knew what he was talking about and we gathered only a few of the fragments. As the speaker reached the crescendo of his speech he was drawing a parallel between the common criminal and the man who conveyed to himself largo properties, one a failure and the other also. It was not tha nrifitf nf mnnlinnrl tn nnnrnnrialn to one's pelf without compensation the world's wealth and try to appeaso the liublic with the gift of an organ. Mr. McNutt is a fiuo speaker. He Is rugged of surface, with an open, honest Scotch countenence, and if all the speak ers measure up to his standard the Chautauqua will be as fine or better than it was last year. The Eedpath Grand Opera Company appeared again at the evening hour. They gave us the "Lover's Quarrel." "is not altogether grand opera, but it " 1 rr-t . I - . ! t. a uranu. jlub score was wusi inigut , med light opera. Tbe lyrics are . j.Vwr.V .,r,A loll at Mrm Purnlli jsecms to nave revived uie memories 01 Verdi irv this work. The ' visitors are familiaf with the argument, so there is no use referring to that The Redpath 'singers fairly sang their way into the hearts of the auditors Tuesday night. They have four good voices evenly matched and the accomplish men U of the operatic stage. Tbev are not only lingers and entertainers, but they are full of the chautauqua spirit, and '.imnrtilv rfisnnnsive to the enthusiasm x the audience. They were encored again and again, and every one of the numbers was a gem. The first encore was the quartette from Lucia, and in that ever soul inspiring theme they worn hoard to a decided advantage. It is hard to judge a quartette of singers undertaking to interpret the entire score of an opera, or even, portions of it, with- , - . y' i . ..... .. .iil, lOVVaiU W8ti,.8 of a good building JLOU Canned an accomplishment to Small C0V succeed in producing the frivinff fa Tl,cy diJ raor6 thatl r captured the audience, and charming music of Lucia was ed the chain of- sympathy was com 'plete. The company is made up of artists and they have added to the laurels of the chautauqua program. The pianist should also.be remembered as a mu siciao and a director of exceptional ability. Tho company is complete in every respect. And Ratto. He returned to Uniou City and his return ii KulJy wulconie He scales the entire gamut of dialect reading and his character study covers the globe. There were Irish and Ger man sketches, poIHe v conversation rniDgled with tho lingo of the , street, the Coster monger, which Chevalier imported to America, and Ratto proved himself in all these and more a versa tile artist.. He is also versed in the I. -.1 V.-i..1r oKii-a InnmiAq ftful J5COICU tttiu iuihuuv w..ft-v.w,, . in the Latin dialects, hut he brought us a new program tins lime. - He is an artist from the crown of his head to his finger tips. He is versatile and gifted in his work, and his contribution to the Union City chautauqua is one of its notable events. We will always have a warm welcome for Ratto. Wednesday afternoon - Mrs. Isabel Garglull Beecher appeared on the plat form. Mrs. Beecher is a top liner in the chautauqua work, and her appear ance here was the occasion of an en thusiastic reception. "The World and His Wife" was her theme, and she drew a honeymoon picture iu Spain, illustrating tho relationship of human kind aud influences of one mind upon another. Her subject was intensely human and the lessons were full of charming imagery and lofty ideals. She marshaled the forces of her beauti ful logic against the poison of gossip, and there wasn't a single individual in the audience, perhaps, whether guilty or innocent, who did not foil guilty, especially those of us (old bachelors) when the handsome . woman leveled the accusing finger and used a pai of sparkling eyes and a matchless voice to uncover our stricken consciences Mrs. Beecher has a national reputa tion as an interpreter of literature. She is distinguished as a genius, and the Redpath Chautauqua is adding fame to its illustrious group with Mrs. Beecher's work. The Wcatberwax Bros, quartette ap peared at both tho afternoon and even ing sessions. They are popular musi cians and singers. Their imitative work was especially good. One of the num bers was the misorari from II Trovatore for the trumpets. - This was a treat, so also was a number of the song num hers. Speaking of the author of the former, Verdi: When the great com poser died the nation mourned a greater sorrow than when any 01 uie Kings passed away, and when the anniversary of bis death was celebrated, Fatti went to Rome to sing at the ceremony, even though seventy years of age. THE DEBATE. The debaters, Hons. Emil Seidel, of Milwaukee, and J. Adam Bede, of Min nesota, appeared at the evening enter tainment in their subject,' "Is Socialism Desirable in the United States?" Mr. Soidel opened with the affirma tive, with the statement that Socialism had been misrepresented. The greatest error was a popular belief that anarchy and Socialism stood for the same thing. Anarchy stands for a nullification of all the statutes, while socialism appeals for legislative control of not only polit ical economy but industrial economy. Socialism, Mr. Seidel said was the next stop in civilization. It is the evolution of government. It is an economic equality, industrial democracy. Social ism stands for the initiative, the refer endum and recall, and every political party was compelled to recognize these principles iu their recetit platforms. Capitalists produce nothing. The profit system is wrong. It takes more than it gives.' Socialism stands for equality in exchange, ther?foro Ihe capitalist should not enjoy the profits of mental and manual labor. These are the pro ducers and they should participate equally. No one has a right to the earnings except the producer. Mr. Sei del tries to establish the fact that the profit system is immoral. It gives us impure foods, makes rascals of men and causes them to try to cover up their transactions for foar of being exposed. Mr. Seidel says that the Socialist theory is to produce for use. : Twenty minutes being up Mr. Bede came forward. This gentleman was a former Congressman from Minnesota, and he made himself known then as a debater, "but morVparticufarly as a humorist. His reputation was ably sus tained while hero. Mr. Bode is a Re publican. He is a standpatter, and that of course meanthe was antipodal in the extremity of his views against Social ism. He stated that the Socialists want ed tho Government to take over all the productive property and destroy the competitive spirit, individual incentive or the desire of emulation. He referred to the fact that Government control of tho public utilities was not distinctive Socialism. It did not destroy individ ualism. He also referred to the co operative system,, especially the dairy' ing system of Minnesota. All the stock holders did not own the samo amount of stock and hence did not share equally in the earnings. The spirit of individml incentive was maintained. He referred to experimental farming under Social ism and other experiments which had been failures when the Socialistic theo ries were applied. They wero not prac tical. He produced the figures which showed that American labor had four and one-half billions of money in the banks, and that tho laboring classes were in better condition than they ever were. We get everything to be had un J-r the individual system, said Mr. Rede, and avoid the evils of Socialism. Tbe real trouble is that Socialists do not want to work. Socialism means not only to destroy individualism but to in vite every rate under the sun to come and live with us under the peculiar ideals of that theory. Socialism means the lack of incentive to work. It means idleness. It means that we will have no industry, just like we have no pub lic roads. Will Mr. Seidel tell us, says Mr. Bede, how he will regulate the wages how will he fix the wages or ex change values under Socialism. And that, he says, is the proposition that Socialism has never defined. He went further to prove that Socialist leaders had opposed Christianity and religion. Socialism proposes to establish its own religion. Mr. Seidel, we forgot to say, was elected Mayor of Milwaukee as a Social ist. Hence lie is therefore an author ity on Socialism. He denied that Social ism opposed Christianity or any man's religion. That was straying from the argument, but he did say that the Social ist creed was better than some of the church creeds. He said that Socialism does not propose to take over tho farms, but to control the industries. Mr. Bede, if he owned aiarm, need not have any fear along that line. Mr. Seidel referred to the construction of the Panama Ca nal to show that individual industry was a failure. The French contractors failed, and every one failed until the United States appointed a civil engineer to take hold of that great enterprise. Mr, Sei del said that ten per cent of the pfcople were .making a profit fronj the other ninety per ceut. Socialism meant to secure us in the ownership of our farms. It means to secure what individual prop erty is needed. The co operative sys tem is a Bten towards Socialism. The question is what are we going to no with the trusts. Mr. Bede spoke of the blessings of capitalism. He said that John Rocke feller was a benefactor; that we used to pay 35 cents a gallon for coal oil and what we got would not burn. Now we get kerosene at 20 cents. The harvester trust had given away to the schools and churches and its public benefactions were great. They also provided for in surance for their employes, etc. . Mr. Seidel said yes, and there were thousandsof idle men alloverthe coun try, while the trusts were destroying the ife of the human rate with child labor. The foregoing is an abstract of the ar gument. The fact is no bocialist lias ever explained how to fix an equality of exchange. They have not told us how to establish, the basis of equal exchango how that labor may enjoy a fair com pensation in the use of its product with out profit. It is an ideal based on the honesty of mankind, a transformation of heaven to earth, and this might bo viewed with favor if man had not brought sin into the world. On the other Jiand Mr. Bedo, who ar gues bo stoutly for individualism, does not want tho individual to participate in government. This is a Government that must be entrusted to the hands of representatives a representative gov ernment from the standpat Republican viewpoint, not the Democratic idea of representative government. Mr. Bode in his reference to Standard Oit "might have stated that John Rockefeller did notfail to rob every competitor of his individual rights in the use of his prop erty by crushing him not only with the aid of capital but with the aid of the Government itself in allowing a discrim ination in railroad tariff. Ho forgot to state that under the competitive system coal oil, instead of being 35 cents a gal lon, might now be 10 cents a gallon and that the by products would have been equally as valuable or probably more. He fails to prove his theory of individual incentive in the reference to Standard Oil. His reference to the high cost of living was unsatisfactory. Mr. Bede did make a hit, however, as a humorist. He should take the platform as a humorist. He spoke of Dixie and the receding lines of section alism. He stood under the monument of Lee and he was glad that Lee's stat ue was placed in the Hall of Fame in the Capital at Washington without a protest from the North. Referring" to the incidents of that period, he-said he met a Kentucky girl some years ago who was twenty-one years of ago and did not know that dam Yankee was two words. In the course of his remarks he told the joke of the fellow who spent all the money he and his father-in-law had ever made trying to find a brand of whisky that tasted as good coming up as it did going down. He closed at a late hour in a shower of applause iliii i mmm 1 Njw sawC 1L --J Ik Spray your cows and horses with Cow-Lase and Hies wonc ooiner km in hot weather. Buy it at WEHMAN'S. J mmJJ ips GRAND BIG OPENING OF M's 1 - finr Smer T x - TiLiesciay9 eJiLMie IT! in The People's Theatre Run by the people, for the people High -Class Reels of 3 MOTION PICTURES iSeven Piece Orchestra EVERY Mi This show. will be conducted in a high-class manner, and a square deal guaranteed to every man, woman and child at tending the People's Idle-Hour Theatre 10 cents to One s 10 cents to Everybody Business Men's Advertising Slides RUN FREE ! j& O RC H ESTRA i W. F. Tate E. McCullough C. Whitley R! Whitley B. Hurt E. Mavety Mrs. C. S. Johnson , ; 0. P. BISHOP and J.M. FORRESTER MANAGERS John Cox, Operator P. S. Content yourself with the fact that everything will take place just as advertised. Th Chautauqua. t .' The Chautauqua attractions are draw ing large crowds. The talent is equal or better than last year, and the man agement is tho best of its kDd. The Superintendent, Mr. Sowerby, is doing everything possible to bring the Chau tauqua and the people into closer rela tionship. He is one of the Redpath 's best toen, and he and Mr. Kline and the entire force are all in thorough har mony with the Chautauqua spirit. To-; day's program appears or the front page, except that the Moaart Trio Bhould read the Bergen-MarxCoi That is a mistake in the original program. To-morrow will be band day with Bohu- mir Kryl and his band. Being Satur day many of our business people will j miss the opportunity of hearing the music, but while that is so it will be a good day for the people out of towo to be with us. Hayiug is about over and the wheat harvest is hardly begun. So we will expect a large crowd from tbe country. The band is the biggest aua one of tho best attractions of the Chau tauqua. It is worth coming miles to hear. There is none better in this country. . - HELPLESS AS BABY Down in Mind Unable to Work, and What Helped Her. Non-Resident Notice. Moss Johnson, Complainant. ' vs. - Mrs. Alice Harpole ct als., Defendants. To Mrs. June Clark and her husband Charley Clark, residents of the State of Kentucky, Mrs. Ethel Johnston aud her husband Thomas Johnston, residents of the State of California, and T. S. Johnson whose residence to tho complainant is unknown de fendants. In the County Court of Obion County, Tennessee, before the Honorablo George R. Kenney, County Judge. It duly appearing in this cause from complainant's bill, which is sworn to, that the above named defendants are non-residents of the State of Tennessee, so that the regular process of law can not be served upon them, they and each of them- are therefore and hereby re quired to appear on or before the FIST -MONDAY IN AUGUST, 1913, before the County Court Clerk at his office in Union City, Obion County, Tennessee, and make defense to the complainant's bill filed against them et ah in said court by Moss Johnson, com plainant as above styled, or otherwise the bill will be taken as confessed. It is further ordered that this notice be published for four consecutive weeks in Tho Commercial, a weekly newspa per published in Union City, iu Obion County, Tennessee. . , This tho 11th day of Juno, 1913. C. S. TALLEY, ll-4t County Court Clerk. J. L. Mosier, Sol. for Complainant. Summit Point, W. Va. Mis. Anna Belle Emey, of this place, says: "I suf fered for 15 years with an awful pain In tny right side, caused from womanly trouble, and doctored lots for it, but with out success. I suffered so very much, that I became down in mind, and as help less as a baby. I was in the worst kind of shape. Was unable to do any work. 1 began taking Cardul, the womb's : . tunic, aim kui imti mv - dose. By the time I had taken 12 bot tles, my health was completely restored. 1 am now 48 years years old, but feel as good as I did when only 16. Cardui certainly saved me from losing my mind, and I feet it my duty to speak !n its favor. 1 wish 1 had some power over poor, suffering women, and could make them know the good it would do them." If you suffer from any of the ailments peculiar to women, it will certainly be worth your while to give Cardui a trial. It has been helping weak women for more than 50 years, and will help you, too. Try Cardui. Your druggist sells it Wriu to: Chattanooga Mdidnt Co., Laair . . Insolvent Notice. Having suggested the insolvency of the estato of J. D. Roach, deceafl, all persons having claims against said es tate are hereby notified to file the same with tho County Clerk for Obion Coun ty, Tennessee, duly authenticated in a manner prescribed by law, on or before the 20th day of September, 1913, or the Bame will be forever barred both in law and equity. This May 16, 1913. Mrs. Minerva Ann Roach, Administratrix. ' Advisory Dot., ChaMnooe. Term., for nttructiotti on your c&s and 64 per dook1 nomm Treatment lor Woman," in piiin wrapper. Ivw. lit Special Notice. A representative of the Ceresit Water proofing Co., of Chicago, is in the city at the office of McAdoo-Wisterman Co., where he will be pleased to see anyone inlerestcd in concrete basement con struction. Waterproofing guaranteed and you ore respectfully invited to call and see the work. McAdoo-Wisterma?? Co. WANTED The party who found or borrowed my Kodak to return it at once. 11-lt CI.J5M DlIBDICK. FOB SALE One hundred and thirty of t-foot heavy oak fencing, taken down in 16-foot sections; good order. Mor tised cedar posts ready to put up. 11-tf Mrs. S. T. Haydon. WANTED Reliable, eiiergotio man to sell lubricating oils, greases and paints in Obion and adjacent connties. Salary orcorrtmission. Doan Oil & Taint Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 11-lt Attention, Macabees, TIwj members of Obion Tent, No. 22. . , are hereby requested to be present at the regular review Friday night, June 13. Business that concerns every Sir Knight will come up for consideration and every Sir Knight of our Tent should be present. Be sure to be present. 11-ltpd Salesman Wanted. To sell1 Singer Sewing Machines and collect on accounts in Obion County. Good contract to right man. Experi ence uot necessary. Apply at once to Singor Sewing Machine Co., Union City, Tenn. , 11-tf If you want the bost and cheapest, use Bon Air coal Union City Ice & Coal Company. ill latriliiu I. mmMWIIWl amso.m-mm W A NTE I) To past u re a 1 i m i ted n u m -ber of cows on the Edwards la n, south eastern limits of city. ' -,. 11-lt D. A. EmvAHj. Come Tell Us Your Goal Troubfes We like to hear them here. With us they'll be like soap bubbles, and as quickly disap pear.: We sell BON AIR COAL Union City Ice & Goal Go. Telephone 150