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THE COMMERCIAL
Entered nt the post office at Union City, Ten
nessee, as second-class mail matter.
Marshall & Baird, Union City, Tenn.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1915.
Announcements
For Trustee;-
BRATTON. We are authorized to announce S.
R. Brntton as a candidate for Trustee of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
partv in the primary election Saturday, Nov.
20, 1915. '
JACKSON. We are authorized to announce W.
E. (Hllis) Jackson a candidate for Trustee of
. Obion County, subject to the-action of the
Democratic party in the primary election Siit-
urday, Nov. 20, W15.
BTKCVT Wf are authorized to announce T. P
Finch, of No. 11, as w candidate for Trustee of
Obion County, subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic party in the primary election baturaay
Nov. 20, 1915.
HnsvnRAir Wp are authorized to announce
P. D. Hornbeak a candidate for Trustee of
Obion County, subject to the action or the
Democratic party in the primary election Sat
urday, Nov. 20, 1915.
mokpvtt w- bw authorized to announce
Henry Moffett as a candidate for Trustee of
Obion County, subject to the notion of the
Democratic partv in the primary election Sat
urday, Nov. 20, 1915.
T? A STRR wnnn-We are authorized to announce
T. J. Easterwood as a candidate for Trustee of
Obion County, subject to the action or tneuem
ocrntic partv in the primary election Saturday,
Nov. 20, 1915.
POORE We are authorized to announce J. X,.
Poore as a candidate for Trustee of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Demo
cratic partv in the primary election Saturday,
Nov. 20, 1915.
FORESTER. We are authorized to announce
W. A. Forester a condidate for Trustee of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
primary election Saturday, Nov. 20, 1915.
For Tax Assessor.
HOWARD. We are authorized to announce I. J.
Howard as a candidate for re-election to the
office of Tax Assessor of Obion County, subjec.
to the action of the Democratic party in the
primary election Saturday. Nov. 20, 1915.
NOAH. We are authorized to announce Will P.
Noah as a candidate for Tax Assessor of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
partv in the primary election Saturday, Nov.
20, 1915.
For Sheriff.
MASSKY. We are authorized to announce T. R.
Masse y as a candidate for Sheriff of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Demo
cratic primary election Nov. 20, 1915.
CHI1.ES. We are authorized to announce Enloc
Chiles as a candidate for Sheriff of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
party in the primary election Saturday, Nov.
20, 1915.
McCAIN. We are aurhorized to announce J. R.
(Bob) McCain a candidate tor Sheriff of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
primary election Saturday, Nov, 20, 1915.
HICKMAN We are authorized to announce J.
M. Hickman a candidate for Sheriff of Obion
County, subject to the action of the Democratic
primary election Saturday, Nov. 20, 1915.
For Mayor.
WADpEM, We have the authority to announce
Hon. Seid Waddell a condidate for Mayor of
Union City, Tenn. Election January 1, 1916.
For Aldermen,
WHEELER. We have the authority to announce
John A. Wheeler as candidate for re-election as
Alderman ot Union City, Tenn. Election Sat
urday, January 1, 1916.
ADAMS. We have the authority to announce
John P. Adams a candidate for re-election as
Alnerman of Union City, Tenn. Election Sat
urday, January 1, 1916.
BURDICK. We have the authority to announce
J. C. Burdick a candidate for Alderman of
Union City, Tenn. Election Saturday, Janu
ary 1, 1916.
J. C. Burdick Announces.
The Commercial takes pleasure in
presenting the name of J. C. Bur
dick, Sr., to its readers as a candi
date for Alderman of Union City.
Capt. Burdick is one- of Union
City's ablest and best known citi
ssens. He has served on the board
with distinction. He is enterprising,
energetic and is always thinking
and working for the betterment of
liis town. He is president of the
Business Men's Club and has an ear
to the ground at all times trying to
locate some desirable enterprise and
capture it for the city. He is liberal
with his means and is found in the
front rank working to benefit and
leautify the community. If elected
he will make the city a good official
Consider his claims.
For Aldermen.
In the proper column of to-day's
"Commercial will be found the official
announcements of Mr. John A.
Wheeler and John P. Adams, candi
dates for re-election as Aldermen of
Union City.
For several terms Mr. Adams has
served the city in this capacity.
-Four years ago he dropped out, but
made the race and was successful
two years later. He was by Mr.
Reynolds given the chairmanship of
the street committee. This was just
after the walks and rock streets had
been built, so far as the bonded
funds would allow, hence Mr. Ad
ams has had very little money with
which to keep up the work. But
lie has done his work well. With
limited means he has reworked First
Btreet, and Washington avenue has
been filled, graded and graveled and
made th best looking business
.street in the city.
Mr. Wheeler was elected two
ears ago and has taken much in
terest In the city's affairs. He was
assigned the chairmanship of the
cemetery committee. He is a man of
means, a splendid business man and
ra llrst-class citizen. He has made
.a good official and deserves an in
dorsement. Two of our best citizens and we
take pleasure in presenting thier
names to the voters. Consider their
claims when you come to make up
your ticket at the city election on
the first Saturday in January next
Col. Cy Lyle used to be Mr. Patter
son's manager up in the eastern section,
and was a Colonel ou Mr. Patterson's
staff. He owas and edits the Johnson
City Comet and in the last week's issue
his paper contained this editorial para
graph: "If the people of this great
State want a man to represent them in
the United States Senate who has a clean
and" unquestionable record from the cra
dle to the present, and that has made a
success in' life, they will vote for Mc
Kellar.": CASUAL COMMENT
. Business Harmony.
This has been a good season for
business men's outings, picnics, field
days and other summer sports. And
they have served a good purpose.
Business harmony is an absolute ne
cessity to a community. It brings
a closer co-operation to business or
ganizations. Boards of Trade are
worthless if they are allowed to be
come hot beds of petty Jealousies,
bickerings and cut-throat methods
between the members. A great many
business organizations also fail be
cause a few officers are allowed to
do all the work and the remainder
of the members stand aside and criti
cise, fail to attend meetings and put
up an almost insurmountable bar to
closer unity. Here steps in the so
cial side. The picnic, the summer
outing, the field day, when all mem
bers of the Business Men's Associa
tion close shop and get together to
play, cannot but result in harmony
and a better understanding. Stiff
ness and formality can't last long in
the baseball game between the fat
men and the slim ones. The sourest
grouch in the association is apt to
become almost human under the in
fluences of the sack or potato races,
while the hatched-faced, thin-lipped
cashier who has a reputation of hav
ing smiled back in '96, is more apt
to thaw under the stories and the
luncheon under the trees than he is
if he remains secluded in his money
cage. These get-together meetings
are far-reaching. Bill Jones, who
has always hated his competitor, will
go back to town laughing at the
story the hated one told, and, like
as not, will get into the habit of
dropping by his store to hear more
of those stories and, incidentally,
talk over business matters with him.
Town spirit and good business grow
out of pleasant relations.
That Soldier Song.
(Being, incidentally, a hint to
song-writers that "soldier" can be
rhymed with something else than
"shoulder.") ,
I've tried to write a martial lay,
With cheers and glad Hosannahs,
Of troops so gay that march away
With drums and waving banners.
But thru my head till I'm insane,
Runs one tune now I've told you
"I didn't raise," goes the refrain,
"My boy to be a soldier."
I cannot write of guns that roar
Their challenge to the battle,
Nor of the glory that is war,
Nor of the musket's rattle;
This tune, until I'm almost dead
(To peace it seeks to mould you)
"I didn't raise," goes thru my head,
"My boy to be a soldier."
I weary of that senseless song,
Though I cannot forget it;
It haunts me now the whole day
long
I know I shouldn't let it;
It's spoiled the one idea I had,
So this will have to hold you
"I didn't raise my darling lad
To be a blooming soldier."
Manufacturing Criminals.
"The greatest crime in the United
States is the wholesale manufacture
of criminals," says Henery B. Hyde
in The Chicago Tribune, writing of
the great number of useless laws
passed by the State Legislatures and
city councils each year. And to sup
port his indictment Mr. Hyde mar
shals an array of facts which fic
tion cannot match.
Commenting editorally on Mr.
Hyde's charges, The Tribune says: ,
"Obviously, what Mr. Hyde calls the
wholesale manufacture of criminals
is one of the unexpected results of
our uncritical reliance upon legis
lation as a cure-all. When the
American sees anything he doesn't
like, his first impulse is to pass a
law against it. If there are no
statutes against gravitation enacted
at the vocfierous behest of Americans
who have slipped upon a winter's
day, it is an oversight which will be
corrected in due time.
'This is an American failing which
is often commented on. Less often
do we ponder the moral phase of the
American habit of passing laws.
"Undoubtedly we have been pass
ing thru a period of acute social self-
consciousness. Many things which
were ignored by our fathers weHin
derstand or think we understand the
evil of, and in attempting to express
our new sense of responsibility and
correct the newly discovered faults
by our favoritet method of law-making
we have not only far out-strlp-
ped our capacity 'for the more diffl
cult task of administration, but we
have developed a taste for correct
ing what seem to 'be our neighbors
errors which bids fair in turn to in
elude everything from his choice of
neckties to his religious creed.
"This taste for censorship is not
discriminating. What seems to the
great mass of a given community as
at worst harmless or i inconsiderable
seems to some - moral specialists
heinous and deeply demoralizing. In
no country of the world to-day, we
believe, are there bo many good peo
ple who happen to be passionately
energized over some particular fact
of our fallible human nature. The
United States is one huge example of
Herbert Spencer's simile on reform.
It is a titantic sheet of metal on
which the dinges are being furiously
beaten down with the inevitable re
sult that with almost every blow rf
our blundering hammers a new dinge
is made as the' old one disappears.
"In this period of an awakened
social conference we show collec
tively a tendency to neurasthenia in
reform, and individually a supersen-
sitiveness as to other people's errors
If a good many of our efforts at bet
tering the world ovefliight could be
tested with a dose of humor and
sense of proportion, a deal of un
necessary suffering could be avoided
and some very serious social reac
tions escaped.
"But more is needed even than
perfecting of law enforcement and
administration a thing more diffi
cult to attain. . We need a check up
on our growing tendency to force
our neighbors into compliance with
our, own special standards.- If we
are to accept a sterner and more de
tailed social discipline, let usat least
see that it is shaped by the common
conscience and based on the broad
and settled convictions of the com
munity. Let us no longer subject
the individual to the heterogeneous
tyranny of innumerable minorities.
Too much of our penal law is made
under the cover of public indifference
by that species of man or woman
who would have us all run into the
mold of his or her own conviction."
A Sermon on Noah.
My text dis mornin' Breddern, am
took from de Holy Writ, wherein we
read how Noah made de Ark an'
fashioned it; he built de Ark ob
gopher wood, an' used a cubit rule,
"while all de knockers sat eroun' an'
cussed him to 'a fool; de local anvil
chorus, dey jes' sat eroun' an' spat
terbaccer Juice upon his wood, an'
mocked him jes' lak dat, an' ' sez
"Whafoah yo'.makin' dis hyah boat
foah on dry lan'? Yo'-all a-thinkin'
maybe, dat yo'-all's a sallah man?"
But Noah paid no 'tenshun, ner
allowed he heard dem croaks, but
jes' minded his own business, lak all
good and proper folks; when ,dey
read -de weddah fo'cast "Mild; con
tinnered warm an' fair," ole Noah
went on buildin', an' allowed he
didn't care.
But one day de weddah shifted;
de barometer done fall, an' de rain
came down in torrents rained fo'
fo'ty days dat's all; an' de knock
ers and de croakers drowned jes' lak
so many rats, which was jes' what
dey had commin' nothin' . left ex-
ep' dey hats.
An' de moral ob dis story, Bred
dern, hit am writ quite plain, dat
whenevah knockers tell yo' dey ain't
gwine ter be no rain, jes' go ahead
lak Noah, an' don't let 'em get yo'
goat, an' some day you'll have lak
Noah, de bigges' show afloat.
The Country Editor.
He might have been a millionaire,
And won financial fame.
Or sat in a director's chair,
Had money been his aim;
He chose instead to spend his years
In service poorly paid,
And with the paste pot and the
shears
A humble living made.
He chronicled the town's events;
The local goings-on;
His fellow townsmen's hopes and
bents
Inspired his lexicon;
He felt the public pulse that beat
Around him, and he tried
To make his little country sheet
A thing of local pride.
Unselfishly, with all his heart,
He strove but to upbuild
His town, of which he was a part,
With great ambition filled.
He spoke well of his fellow men;
He praised when praise was due;
He wielded but a kindly pen.
And no reward he drew.
Cleaning Politics.
"Politics can be cleaned only from
the inside of the political party,"
says Rev. Joseph H. O'Dell, D. D.,
in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Men
who exert any influence in elections
must play the game three hundred
and sixty-five days in the year. A
hundred, circumstances make it im
possible for the minister to be a di-
rect fact in the results, but this does
not render him a political nonentity.
He can understand enough of the
working methods to apply the great
determinative principles; he can in
spire the sluggish citizens of his con
gregation to a performance of their
civic duties; he can fire the men of
his church with such a passion for
righteousness in public life that they
will serve their party committees
and become candidates for office; he
can luster registering and voting
with a sacramental significance.
What he cannot do himself by direct
action, he can cause a hundred or
five hundred of his parishouers to do
as an integral part of their Chris
tian lives. There are certain spheres
of influence in which a minister is at
a discount because of his professional
standing. But he is not thereby shut
out from a part in the development
of modern society. - Jesus did not
legislate by specific acts, regulations
and by-laws, but by the proclamation
of determinative principles. Those
principles are as applicable to-day as
they were sixty generations ago. It
is the minister's privilege to ' show
the relevance of those principles to
modern life; to bring them to bear
upon such problems as local option,
factory regulation, child labor,
workmen's compensation, capital and
labor, trade competition, penology
and a hundred kindred themes. If
he can lay the divine compulsions of
such principles upon the men who
fall within his pastoral domain, he
will have become a social, civic and
political power of the first order
without jeopardizing his influence by
plunging into a game for which he
has had no training and to which
he cannot give adequate time without
sacrificing his own unique responsi
bilities and privileges."
Harold at the Phone.
What-he thought he'd say:
Hello, dear! I love to hear your
voice. It's my inspiration. Won't
I see-you soon? To-morrow will be
a hundred years. It's unhearable to
be away from you, I'll never tire of
you. Your family will like me when
they know me better. My love for
you is wonderful. I couldn't live
without you. There is no other girl
in the world but you.
What he said:
Hello, dear! I love to hear your
voice
Gladys: That'll be all right, but
father says I can't talk to you until
you turn up with a theatre ticket
every now and then to pay for the
fur you're wearing off the sofa.
Harold : Oh ! sEr er I beg your
pardon. I've the wrong line.
Buy Luzerne hand-picked coal. It's
orazy with the heat. McAdoo Con
struction Co., phone 45.
DR. JAKE H. PARK
DENTIST
Office: Room 1, Naillinp- Building
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Veterinary Hospital
Near Palace Hotel. Calls answered
day or night. Drs. Youngblood
Graduate . Veterinarians.
Telephones Office 22-J; Residence 22-W.
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