The commercial., December 11, 1914, Image 6

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ME COMMERCIAL
Entered at the pout office at Union City. Ten.
&f?see, as ecmi-clJiM mail matter.
Marshall & Iiaird, Union City, Tenn.
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1914.
Announcements.
For Trustee
lAfVfcnTJ. U arr authnrirril to announce W.
-V.. (Kilts) Jacknon a candidate for Trustee of
. fhicn County, subject to the action of the
Democratic party. Election nrstlhursaay in
August, 1V16.
Canal and Rail.
The Fanama Canal has bad a greater
effect on rail business than was antici
pated. The all-water freight rate from
coast to coast by way of the canal is io
many cases quite one-third lower than
the all-rail rate; and even more thaD
that in some cases. The voyage is made
in twenty days. Thus, Pacific Coast
freight from as far west as Ohio and
Indiana has been drawn to the canal,
the rate from the interior point to the
Atlantic seaboard and thence by water
being lower than the rail rate from the
shipping point to the coast.
The railroads want to meet this canal
competition by lowering trausconti'
nental rates; but they do not want to
lower proportionately, or at all, the
- rates between interior points. Thus the
present discrimination against interior
nninta a a nnmnarAfl with Coast noiDtS
would be heightened.
Already it costs more to ship a car
load of goods from the Atlantic sea
board to a point three hundred miles
' east of the Pacific Coast than to ship it
clear throuch to the coast. Likewise
it costs more to ship it from the Mis
sisaippi Valley than from the seaboard
If the roads lower transcontinental rates
still more, in order to meet canal com
petition, the effect will be to build a sort
of pyramid, with low rates at the bases
representing the two coasts and higher
ones the farther . back from the base
one gets. ,
The roads argue that, unless they
meet canal competition by lowering
rates, the traffic will simply go to the
canal, and interior points will be exact
ly where they were bofore; but we do
not believe people living on the sides of
the pyramid can be permanently recon
ciled to paying decidedly more for such
a universal necessity as freight service
than their fellow citizens down toward
the base.- Saturday Evening Post.
Ths above is a very clear idea of the
position the railroads of the country
have assumed for some timet. That the
railroads should have an adequate tariff
schedule to meet the growing demands
of freight and passenger traffic there is
no doubt at all in , the minds of men
who have a fair estimate of business
proportions. But that railroad com
panies should be sustained in the sys
tem of rate discrimination is absurd.
That' they should be allowed to mako
big central terminals and unmake their
intermediate stations is to undermine
and destroy the very essence of tho
principle of justice to all and special
privileges to none. For that is what
the railroads are doing, under the sys
tem of making freight tariffs much
lower to terminal points than to points
between, That is what they waut to do
: i'nia Knuol tn fnost 'traffic. Tt U lin-
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fair and unjust to the people of all sec
tions. The railroad companies con
strue everything from their own selfish
viewpoint and forget that peoples and
small townships have any right to ex
poc fair treatment. We heartily agree
with the sentiment that representative
railrosd men present when they come
among us preaching mutual interests
and co-operation. That is right. But
are they not playiug false when they
ask us to surrender to a system of dis
crimination in the get-together move
ment? A very plain illustration the
Post has made of this.
Christmas Greetings.
T. B. Meader, manager of the Met
calfe Laundry in Union City, wishes all
the friends of this enterprise and the
public in Union City and distributing
points generally the compliments of the
season a merry Christmas and a happy
new year. This laundry is one of the
loading industries io Union City. It is
a deserving one. The owners have,
practically without regard to expense
and trouble, undertook and have suc
ceeded in providing Union City with
one of the very best laundry plants in
the United States- They have asked no
lavors. J.uuy ua ouin,iw-
but patronage as the reward of actual
merit, and they are here now building
up one of the biggost laundry customs
ia the South, but still asking your in
vestigation and patronage. Union City
people owe this laundry something.
They have gjveu employment to our
people, and have shared in the industrial
growth and contribute! to our public
welfare. They have donated to all our
public institutions, our churches, our
schools. They deserve our patronage
however, from the fact that they have
a meritorous institution, and they are
our neighbors. How much more, then
should we feel under obligations to
them, who are our neighbors and co
workers.
For the favors received the Laundry,
through the manager, Mr. Meader,
tenders you not only the greetings of
the season, but wishes to thank the
patrons for the liberal support already
given aud solicit a continuance of the
same. Don't overlook them when you
want good laundry.
Capt. J. T. Perkins, conducting the
Board of Education from Martin," was
here Monday, accompanying the board
and the superintendent of the Martin
city schools, Prof. E. P. Smith, fdr a
tour of inspection of our city schools,
A special inspection was made of our
High School. Of the board there were
Geo. P. Hurt, J. H. Wilson and Jas,
Elder, and they were exceedingly well
pleased with their visit. They were es
corted through by Superintendent Nute,
who gave them a very satisfactory exhi
bition of the entire work, including the
commercial, the manual training and
the domestic science departments. All
of the descriptive .Turk and drawings
were exhibited to the Martin people and
they were indeed complimentary in their
comments upon the Union City schools.
In a conversation with Prof, Smith that
gentleman was kind - enough to say
frankly that Union City ranked among
the best in the South with her grammer
and high schools, and that our schools
were well known and held as a very
high standard all over the State. Mr.
Smith has been with the Martin schools
three years and is bringing them up in
line with other good schools. They
were neglected, we understand, for some
time on accountof tho boarding schools,
but Martin now proposes to make her
public schools as good as the best.
Union City people were indeed glad to
have the visitors.
Chairman "Road Commission.
W. Q. Reynolds, of this city, was by
the League of the West Tennessee Busi
ness Men's Clubs designated as chair
man of the Public Highways Committee
of the league. It is remembered that
the business men's clubs of the various
towns and cities of West Tennessee were
allowed one member each of the different
stated committees and that Mr. Reynolds
was appoin ted the good roads committee
man from the Union Qity Business
Men's Club. We presume on account
of Mr. Reynolds' experience in road
work and highway improvements that
he was assigned to the head of this im
portant committee. ' It is a good one,
we think, and there is not a man among
them who will give more attention to the
work and do it better.
Mr. Reynolds has some of the best
dirt roads in Obion County to be found.
He is a patron of the drag system and
has made great success with it. The
fact is iliai he and bis drag have revo
lutionized the roads of the county, and
the league will hear from Mr. Reynolds
before many days and months pass.
Members of the committee are as fol
lows: W. G. Reynolds, Union City; S.
G. Latta, Dyersburg; J. D, Senter,
Humboldt; E. E. Williams, Newbern;
G. E. Bowden, Martin; Thos. B. King,
Memphis; W, W. Powers, Trenton; W.
V. McFadden, Covington; W. E. Mc
Clamroch, Jackson; Luther Pierce,
Trimble.
Mrs. W. H. Swiggart is offering the
Red Cross Seals on sale in Union City.
The seals for' the present are made in
holiday designs and arevery attractive
for sealing and stamping Christmas,
packages. The Missionary Society of
the Methodist Church is assisting Mrs.
Swiggart in distributing these seals aud
is a beiieficiary in the work. Those who
can should help to extend the work in
Tennessee so as to take care" of the pa
tients in the establishment of hospitals
for their treatment. The work is pure
ly a worthy and philanthropic one and
deserves averybody 'a help. Get your
Christmas seals from the Missionary
Society or from Mrs. Swiggart:
No better proof of the standard of the
William Jennings Bryan brand of poli
tics than the numerous imitations.
Mrs. Ernestine Dreyfus, of Kansas
City, was elected executive secretary of
tue Council of Jewish Women at the
session in New Orleans. She fills the
place left vacant by Miss Sadie Ameri
can's sud Jon resignation.
William Graves Sharp, the. new Am
bassador to Paris, presented his cre
dentials to President Poincare, who ex
pressed, best wishes for t,he United States
and for the personal happiness of Pres
ident Wilson.
Obion County Schools.
At this time there is much agitation
on the part of school officials aud inter
ested friends in the improvement of the
schools in the rural districts, and may it
well be, for if we give the rptier proper
atteution we will gee" that "we are far be
hind in many respects. The consolida
tion of two or more schools and employ
ment of more teachers is the principal
thought of it all. This is without doubt
a strike in the right direction, and I be
lieve all will agree that this is true who
have given the matter proper thought.
This being true, then, as all will agree,
the next question is, what are we going
to do about it? How can things be
reuiedied, and when? ,
I will say that these changes should
come at once, and the sooner we get
busy to bring them about the better it
will be for all. How can any teacher
be expected to care for from forty to
sixty children ranging from 6 to 21
years old and to hear th:rty or more
recitations per day? It is out of the
question to think of such a thing that
is, to do justice to the pupils. The
teacher is not to blame either. She will
be a better teacher when you consol
date several Bchools and have three or
more teachers to divide up tlie work,
thereby having from twenty to forty
minutes for each recitation.
If our present laws are not sufficient
to make these changes without going
to the Legislature, then I suggest that
you ask the Legislature in January to
make such laws as Obion County needs,
and let's have it applied at once. Why
delay.
Another question will arise. That is,
how to get the money to build new
schoolhouses to meet these require
ments. That is easy wnen we get in
the notion to do things. A suggestion
here about these buildings might not be
out of place, When you build, do so
with a view of doing it up right. . Build
modern up-to-date schoolhouses, hot air
heated, with furnace underneath. It
will cost only a little more at the be
ginning but will soon pay back the dif
ference in saving, to say nothing of the
convenience and improvement over the
stove. ' .. ' " !
The primary school on the west side
of town here is about the plan that
most of the rural schools, we think,
will need, and all citizens and interested
folks from anywhere are invited to see
this building at any time. Any mem
ber of the Board of Education will be
glad to show you this school, and all
the other schools, at any time you will
visit them. This invitation is general,
and we hope you will take advantage of
it. Obion County is entitiea to oetter
schools, and if we will make first-class
schools in all the rural districts and one
great High School where all depart
ments are taught by the very best ex
perienced teachers, we will .have then
made a step forward second to none in
the State. ,
If a committee of one from each civil
district of Obion County will meet to
gether they could work out all plans to
the satisfaction of most of the citizens
of this county.
. Obion County can and ought to have
the beet schools in the State.
W. G. Reynolds.
A Suggestion.
Sunday, Dec. 6, was an inclement
morning, just twenty-five at Sabbath
school in our little country church,
Pleasant Hill, Obion Presbytery. Yet
aside from our study of the Resurrec
tion, our coming together was for good,
for we started a little movement which
we hope will be taken up by every C. P.
Church in our whole denomination, just
a little of the practical Christianity
taught by our Savior; just an oppor
tunity to practice some self-denial for
the relief of a distressed and suffering
people our brothers and sisters of Bel
gium. Our little band this morning
pledged $18. We hope to double this
amount, as we intend soliciting from
our entire congregation.
Now this is a matter specially for
Obion Presbytery, but hope it may
awaken others to immediate action,
we care not how wide spread. But to
Cumberland Presbyterians of Obion
Presbytery, if you act upon this (which
we hope you will), forward this Belgium
relief fund to Bro. Burgess Cunning
ham, treasurer of Obion Presbytery,
Union City, Tenn.
, , T. C. Calmcott.
Representative Gardner in St. Louis
repeated the statements be h rdo
recently as to the inadequacy of the
national defenses and said Secretary
Daniels bad not answered his criticisms.
The Roman Catholic Church will
ght the Arizona Prohibition law be
cause it would bs,r the use of wine for
sacramental purposes. ;
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NEWS NOTES.
The last step in the preliminary or
ganic ttion of the $135,000,000 cotton
loan fund was taken when committees
were namod in eleven Southern States to
supervise the distribution of the money.
Jobs are the foundation of all political
machines, according to the head of tho
Civil Service League, and the work of
the league will be to extend the merit
Frank Ryan, Chicago clairvoyant, in
a confession yesterday, said he paid the
police $400 monthly for protection and
duped Chicago people out of from $4,000
to $6,000 a month. .
Secretary Lane yesterday ordered the
opening for homestead purposes in
January of over 300,000 acres of land in
Oregon, Montana and New Mexico.
Katherine Gould filed suit against
two Parisian jewelers for $200,000 said
to be the value of jewels left with them
that have never been returned.
Cotton shipment to Germany and
Austria are expected to assume large
proportions as soon as the marine in
surance rates can be adjusted.
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