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THE COMMERCIAL
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1914.
.Marshall & Baird, Union City, Tenn
Kntered at the post office at fnion City, Ten-
as Mwna-cinsn mail mutter.
Announcement.
For Representative.
McD ADR We are authorized to announce G.
McDnde a candidate for re-electioii as Reore
entntive to the Oneral Assembly of the State
ot Tennessee, subject to the action of the Dent
ocratic party.
For Floater.
CKIFFIN. We are authorized to announce Dr.
J. F. Griffin, of Tiptonville, aa a candidate for
Floterial Representative for the counties of
Dyer, lke and Obion in the General Assembly
or the bute of Tennessee, subject to the action
ot the Uemocratic party.
Announces for Floater.
Dr. J. F. Griffin, of Tiptonville, an
nounces this week as a candidate for
Floater, to represent Dyer, Lake and
Obion counties in the General Assembly
ofTennessea. Dr. Griffin is a Democrat
and announces subject to the action of
the Democratic party. He is for law
enforcement and against the repeal of
the State-wide laws, and pledges him
self to stand on this platform. , Dr.
Griffin is well known at home as Frank
Griffin, a citizen and physician of the
highest character and qualifications. lie
comes before the Democratic voters of
this Floterial District the first time
candidate for office, askiDg permission
to represent and serve their interests as
an integral part of the State and to par
ticipate in legislation for the general
welfare of the State. He aspires to pro
tect and promote the best interests of
his people and the people of the State
Dr. Griffin, as we understand him,
stands for progressive and moral legisla
tion. He opposes any backward move
ment along this line, and indorses such
legislation now on the statute books.
We take pleasure in presenting the name
of Dr. Griffin to our readers.
wit- o n ...
; The speaker who appeared at Rey
nolds Theatre Tuesday night, under the
auspices of the Leonidas Folk Chapter,
was introduced by Attorney T. O. Mor
ns, of Obion, in a felicitous manner.
Air. Bennett is a more versatile enter
tainer perhaps than some of his prede
cessors. He has a good singing voice
in tone, timbre and resiliency, full and
free, but bis speaking faculties and logic
are hardly up to the standard set, eSpCC
iallir Vir Tlr flff onH fiiO nrfitnr Franlr
.Dixon.
"The Man Who Can" is a good sub
ject and he told that in a graphic man
ner. Radium was an important dis
covery, but more important was the
human mind. This was discovered
hundreds and thousands of years ago,
but people had not understood its pos
nihilities until recent years. Some very
interesting points he brought out along
this line. The family tree was dissectod
and the old theory of inherited inspira
tion dispelled. Great men usually come
from (he farm. An illustration of this
was given when President .Taft and
members of his Cabinet were one day
riding along a landscape, and from the
car window saw a boy driving the cow
up to be milked. The President asked
his associates if they had ever seen that
before and everyone answered that he
had gone through the same experience.
He referred to the theory of evolution
and said that it made no difference
where we sprang from. The question
is, where are we going. Boys in easy
circumstances usually make squabs and
he despised a squab. One of the great
est governments is that of New Zealand.
The strong Christian men of that coun
try are the grandsons of savages, though
he did not attempt to suggest that there
was any evolution of the brain cells, but
of the cultivation of the mind with civil
ization. Tha snvAcre mieht have had a
bigger brain than his grandson, but he
was like the squab, who refused to im
pAve it. The speaker made no defense
: of the Darwin theory. He simply un
dertook to show that origin was of lit
tle consequence if we did not take ad
rautage of our opportunities. He eulo-1
gized the men who responded to the call
of duty, to the opportunities of the
hour,' to the best citizenship. It is
greater, he said, to be a man of indus
try than a politician, to be a farmer
than a painter. The farmer that pro
duces two beads of wheat in the place
of one is contributing more to his coun-
darYtan otitis Km ntr.
made a tnp Satun
. visementof a8pec( andsrtof cQok
. , .v i. th its tail dang-
haa been on the sickf
. fa speaker was
M ss Amy Moss, "
1 i i .was iuii or tne
. Sunnysido school, w
, jc' a,., ivem he spoke of
urday and Sunday, f ;
- ' . f eBses, He pre-
load of fowls, PTtag
; twelve cents pet F""1
t itr. .i. i . ..rt.w- car
1J. J. YV aue una vuiu
proof, but he wondered where the women
carry their mopey now.
Going from the "Man Who Can,"
the speaker began to unfold his allign
ments. He spoke favorably of woman
with her
irt was mou?
suffrage and of the work Jane Addams
is doing. Women are emerging from
slavery and he would be glad when she
could sign a check and go into partner
ship with ber husband in business. That
she is entitled to suffrage the speaker
had no doubt. He eulogized President
Wilson as a man of conscience, relating
the circumstance of the office seeker
who called and asked for a job. The
President declined to accommodate him,
saying that his boss wouldn't let him.
His boas, he explained, was his con-
a .
science, lie spoke oi tne au vantages
of the trusts, saying that he favored co
operation in business, that the Sherman
law is obsolete and could not be en
forced. He stated that it is better to
have a community of selling interests
than to sell against each other. In this
be differs radically from a great many
leading men! The late James J. Hill,
the railroad king, said that there was
no such thing as stopping competition,
that men would be competitors in bus
iness as long as the world lasts. So also
will experience teach us that this is so.
Honest rivalry and competition is the
basis of American greatness. To de
stroy this is to kill the spirit that be so
successfully ascribes' to the "Man Who
Can."
One subject he touched upon found
a ready response from every person in
the audience, and that was the crime of
child labor. The manufacturer who had
made money from the hands of child
labor is a failure not a success from
any point of view. Make child labor
prohibitory and put the children in
school and into healthy surroundings.
This point seems to be a leading thought
with practically all the Redpath speak
ers, and Godspeed that they may keep
up the campaign until every child in
the United States is taken from a mouldy
factory building and put into school.
Mr. Bennett enumerated many of the
achievements of the Man Who Can."
He spoke of the old style plow and the
laborious work of the farm compared
to the present riding plow and its canopy
top how it is much easier and pleas-
anter to farm. He spoke of his own
dairy farm and the improvements in
milking. He spoke of these any many
more as the achievements of the Man
Who Can." : '
At the close Mr. Bennett related a
story to emphasize his subject. It was
the hunter who had no object in fife
but the chase, and when he had at last
destroyed the only remaining wild ani
mal a wolf in. his forest life had no
place for him.
Mr. Bennett said that he was not
rich, but wealthy. He did not have
large sums of money, but he had the
inspiration of the "Man Who Can."
He wanted to instill this thought into
young men. He wanted to fire them
with the purpose to do greater and bet
tor things. He wanted to awaken them
to the limit of their possibilities. This
is his work and his health and oppor
tunity to achieve this object are his
weaitn. nas jonn v. itockeieiier any
more?
Quo Vadis.
The eight-reel production of Quo
Vadis, presented at Reynolds Theatre
the other night, is one of the greatest
achievements in the photo drama line
It is a masterpiece. The Philadelphia
millionaire, Widener, can buy Rem
brant's and Michael Angelo's works at
fabulous prices, but he cannot boast of
anything so remarkable as the moving
picture production of Quo Vadis. It is
a graphic and intensely interesting pan
orama of Nero and his brutal, beastly
vanity. In its shifting scenes is the last
word in tyranny and despotism, the
rumblings of a tottering empire. The
photographs were made at enormous
cost. The tragedy is enacted by native
Italians, and the entire picture is an
exact portraiture in costuming as well
as scenery. The whole. is a product
without a parallel and is being exhibited
all over the United States as the high
est conception and execution of photo
drama work.
How any person can look at this pic
ture and doubt the inspiration and as
surance of the Christian religion is be
yond our conception. How agnosticism
can stand before it is without compre
hension. All the science of the univer
sity coxonib and all the Darwinianism
of an erratic brain cannot fathom the
faith of a Christian martyr. The world
from the peasant to the sage must stand
and bow before the . light of Divine
Truth, and the wisdoti of all ages must
acknowledge the exist ince of a supreme
being. ' " ' - .-
s advortise-
Kead Dietzel Produce Co
ment in this issue.
Telephone Union City Ice & Coal Co.
when you want coal right now.
JR.. T. . CURLIN
Our First Snowing in
Ts&iloFcl
'units
in Blues. Tans, Wisteria Green and
Tango Models of the latest creation.
Spring Cotton and Wash Fabrics
in great variety
Crepes in white and colors
Ratines in plain and fancy mixtures
Odd Lot of Suits &t Skirts
at Prices to Close
Suits, $4.98 and $6.98 .
Skirts, $1.48, $1.98 and $2.48
GOOD VALUES.
All Winter Merchandise
at Great Reductions
Tf3
T.
Office Phone 77
Night Phones
W. L. White 83
G. B. White 224
White's
Furniture and Undertakers.
Shades, Mattings, Rugs and Druggets
We have one price for all. Our goods are marked in
plain figures. We have a rest room for Ladies and
will be glad to have them call and make use of same. ,
' G.B.White. W. L White.
Chaa. Williams
Frank W. Adams
WE wish to thank all our patrons for the liberal busi
ness given us in the past and hope to be able to
serve them better in the time to come We also wish to
say to those who have not given us a trial so far that we
have built our business on quality and service and shall
continue to carry out the same policy. Wishing you all
prosperity possible, We remain.
Williams Adams
Telephone 421
306 East Main Street
I
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1 J Edison Talking Pictures Coming.
I 1 A 1 T"i II
me ineynoius upera iiouse on
Thursday and Friday next, Feb. 19
and 20. Thomas A. EJtson will nffir
j to the people of Union City his latest
phone, or perfected talking pictures.
The Southern touring road company
consists of four experts from Edison's
workshops and offices in,Orange, N. J.,
and a full equipment of machines to
give a complete presentation.
This is absolutely the highest class
touring attraction in the country, it be
ing possible to play the largest and
smallest playhouses everywhere, and to
give the same wonderful results in each
Naturally under the conditions, each of
Mr. Edison's companies companies is a
Number One Show," something im
possible heretofore in theatricals.
The program is very high class and
diversified, consisting of comedy, drama,
vaudeville, minstrel, grand and light
opera, and -specialties not of the usual
motion picture type, but all made by
big artists not heretofore seen in pic
tures.
Edison has not invented "talking pic
tures," but in the Kinetophone has a
device which simultaneously records the
perfect picture and every spoken or sung
word and every sound or musical note
in connection therewith, and this device
projects in absolute harmony or Syn
chronism the picture and all sound in
an amazing strength .and accuracy. The
effect has been described as almost un
canny in its realism, the auditor for
getting that he is merely witnessing a
mechanical device, for the vocal effects
are absolutely perfect. The Edison
Talking Pictures have scored a won
derful and popular success everywhere
that this touring company of experts
has offered them in the first-class theatres.
There will be a change of program
on Friday evening. A matinee will be
given on Friday at 2:30.
The Bookworm.
BY Jt. M. NAVLOR.
The world is mean and sordid,
I hate its glamour and gold;
The miser who hoards
Only trouble affords;
The spendthrift who spends
In wild ruin ends.
Oh leave the poisoned waters
That spring from founts of Sin!
But the joy of books is lasting,
Their treasures never grow old;
The poet who sings,
What rapture he brings!
The reader who reads
13 inspired to good deeds.
Oh drink the draughts of knowledge
From Pierian springs of Truth!
" i
After Thirty.
I never saw my daughter economize
but once."
'How did it happen?"
She was buying candles for her
birthday cake."
Ever Think of This
"It w ill be a great day when wo have
universal peace."
"Yes; then every little town can have
a cannon for its public square."
The Reason.
"Your death struggles were very real
istic to-night," commented Yorick
Hamm.
"Confound that careless property
man," snarled Hamlett Fatt. "When
I fell, I lit on a tack."
The Passing Muse.
"A prominent educator says every
body ought to read a little poetry every
day."
"Well, I read all I see in the street
cars."
Mecca for Wayfarers.
"Seen this statement that ex-President
Taft has thirty-five pairs of old
trousers?" .
"Yes; next we'll hear that all the
tramps in the country are heading for
New Haven."
Warnings! Hints! Re
minders on a Burning
Subject!
IT'S COMING SURE !
Be
$1 Pays for The Commercial ! Year
The Check Did That.
"Do you think the things you eat in
fluence your dreams?"
Undoubtedly. I ate a porterhouse
steak the other evening and dreamed
about bankruptcy all night."
Card of Thanks.
I desire to tender my heartfelt thanks
to our friends and neighbors for the
many favors daily bestowed on us dur
ing my husband's long and painful ill
ness and death. May God's richest
blessing rest on each and every one that
was so faithful, kind and true to us dur
ing the long months of affliction, sor
row and death of our loved one. We
will ever kindly remember Drs. Nailling
and Bond who so patiently administered
to the sufferings of our husband and
father.
Mrs. Emvood Harris.
Lucie Harris.
Robert Harris.
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Prepared for Winter
Weather.
Stop Every Crack and Hole.
Get Your Winter Clothing All
Together and
FILL YOUR BINS WITH GOAL
DO IT NOW I "
WE KNOW HOW !
Union City Ice & Coal Co,
Telephone 150
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