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THE COMMERCIAL Marshall ft Ba'ird, Union City, Tenn. Entered at the post office at Union City. Tea aesaee, as aecond-clau mail matter. FB1DAY, JUNE 7. 1918. Democratic Ticket. Chancellor T. H. HOLM B9 Circuit Judge R. A. ElKINS County Judge JOEL B. WADDKIX Attorney General TH08. O. MORRIS County Court Clerk R. H. BOND Circuit Court Clerk THUR MAN T ALLEY County Trustee T. J. EASIER WOOD County Register R. B. MII.NEK Sheriff J. M. HICKMAN ANNOUNCEMEHTS. For State Senate. ' CALDWELL- We are authorized to announce D. P. Caldwell a candidate for the Senate branch of the Tennessee General Assembly, to represent the counties of Weakley. Obion and Lake, subject to the action of the Democratic party.. For Representative. BRATTON. We are authorized to announce S. R. Bratton. Esq.. as a candidate for represen tative from Obion County in the Tennessee General Assembly, subject to the action of the Democratic party. For Floater. GRIFFIN. We are authorized to announce Dr. J. Frank Griffin as a candidate for Floterial Representative in the Tennessee General As sembly, to represent the counties of Dyer, Lake and Obion, subject to the action of the ' Democratic party. DR. I. GLOSSON VETERINARIAN Phone 12. Main and Third Sts. UNION CITY. TENN. DR. A. J. TAYLOR Veterinary Surgeon Cumberland Phone 544. Rural Phone 240 Office at Houser's Stable union crrv, tenn. THE MILLING HOSPITAL THIRD YEAR A Modern Surgical Institution. Graduate Nurse in Attendance. DR. W. A. NAILLING Surgeon MRS. L. E. RODECKER R.N Supt Union City, Tenn. Phone4l. DR. JAKE H. PARK DENTIST Office: Room I, NaiHin? Building TELEPHONE 136 , UNION CITY. TENNESSEE 3. C. BURDICK Wholesale and Betail Reelfoot Lake and Mississippi River Fish Game Oysters in Season. New location, East Main Street Phone 185 UNION CITY, TENN MOVED! Morris Shoe Shop. Now in the Marshall Build ing, upstairs, next door to The Commercial office. Machinery and equipment for first-class work. Wesolicit your patronage. W. H. MORRIS, Mgr. Somewhere in France. Over across the ocean, under the sky, Here on the fields I lie. ' The stars are somewhere above I know And the green corn Is growing, row y row. I look to the sky, but It all shows red, Dark as the blood that my flesh has bled. I catch at my throat, I gasp, I choke. I eald, thero Is no air only a cloud of eome And the wounds that sicken me, they dip, they sock. I look again! and nay, .there's a gleam of 'light It looks white, and it is bright. It touches mo on my breast and head, I think it is an angel with its bright wings spread To carry me to heaven if I were dead. Written by Rufu3 C. Joyner April 7, 1918, Sunday, 3 p. m. The food situation in Turkey 's causing considerable suffering. The people of the poorer classes are forced to live on chestnuts and pumpkin seeds and the Government, obstructive and dishonest, is afford ing no relief, . j . , , , ' - The State Board of Education has mailed to the county papers a lot of publicity matter concerning the school fight against Mr. Brister at Memphis. Now we know very little about this. It is a local matter in a great measure, in some respects concerns the people of the State. One thing we do know, and it is the very bitter feeling , that a school fight engenders." But since we have been asked to cortribute space, would like to say a good word for that man, whoever he is, that undertakes promptly and effectively to cut out the red-tape and blue-ribbon pink- tea affairs and the useless expense of these things in our public schools. In the first place, Tennessee had no need for three normal schools, when one good central school would have answered every purpose at much less expense. The three-school system was claimed by the Patterson admin istration as one of its good points, which should have been condemned. But since there are three, let them be run economically and efficiently, and without the class rot pins, functions, etc. practiced in some of our public schools. If Mr. Brister has been trying to save the people some money in the management of .the Normal at Memphis, he certainly belongs to a minority element in our State, so much needed to counteract the tendency for superfluous func tion and social caste in our schools, which should above all things teach end practice economy and democracy in the broadest sense of the. terms. Charmed life of Great Heroes. ' Marshal Mas3ena. War, it seems, naturally has the effect of engendering a fatalistic be lief in the minds of those engaged in it. They often come to believe that they are special objects of fate. Napoleon, for instance, believed that he was under the guidance of a special destiny. And Josephene said that because of that belief. Na poleon would bear the most extreme reverses with stoic equanimity. The boys on the battle line in the pres ent war seem to be considerably im bued with the belief in fatalism, especially as respects their own in dividual fortune In battle. In the' midst of battle, It is said, they are in the habit of making use of such expressions as "a bullet won't hit you unless it has your namo on it," or "look out for the bomb that has your number on it." Some great warriors possess, what writers of history are -pleased to call, "a charmed life" that is, they seem to be imbue with a kind of magnetic power, which, amid the deadliest fire or most "wide-wasting" clash of arms, turns away the In struments of death from their per son, often leaving them unhurt where their companions fall like wheat before the scythe. Or is it that a special juovdence protects the lives of some of the bravest and most daring generals and soldiers, as if Heaven had sealed a fiat that they should never die in battle? Massena, one of Napoleon's Mar shals, was such a general. No other warrior, I believe, ever carried tena cious resolution and determined bravery, amidst the most discourag ing obstacles and appalling danger, to a higher pitch than did Massena. Amid scenes of the wildest distress, suffering, famine and death, such as surrounded him when ho was cooped up in Genoa by a greatly superior force of Austrian; when men, wo men and children were frantic with hunger, the weaker often falling dead in the streets amid a perfect bedlam of confusion; and when his strongest soldiers became almost skeletons from lack of food and were scarcely more than able to walk steady amid such a scene Massena backed his harsh commands with loaded cannons in the streets, and moved with the stern unyielding firmness and fortitude of a higb souled chieftain, who was born, not to be conquered but to conquer. And finally he compelled the be sieging enemy to allow him to pass out of Genoa with hi3 exhausted army intact and colors flying a compliment to his unconquerable will. And ii, fifteen days he was back in Genoa as a conqueror! Massena was one of those men whose mind becomes unusually clear and active, and even cheerful, under the stimulusof roaring cannons and harsh braying of clashing arms. While a captive at St. Helena, Na poleon said of Massena: "In the midst of the dying and the dead, of balls sweeping "away those who encircled him, then Massena was himself gave his orders, and made his dispositions with the greatest sangfroid and judgment." Such a man is a born warrior and a terible foe in battle. During the campaign - of Aspern and Wagram, when Napoleon . was rapidly pushing his way to Yien, with the Austrians fleeing before him, Massena effected one of the most memorable passages of a river, in the face of great difficulty, and dangerous and powerful opposition, recorded In the annals of history. Washington's crossing the Delaware, that a very daring and brilliant feat, could not be compared to it. Neith er do I believe that Alexander's crossing tho Granicus, though quick ly and successfully carried out In the face of a powerful force, was equal to It, all things considered, Nevertheless, that ono feat was enough to make Alexander eternally famous. The village of Ebersdorf, on the Traun River, was the key to Vienna. Massena could only reach this village by crossing the Tjaunway River on a narrow causeway and bridge, both of which . together were one-half mile in length; while the Austrians in large force in tho village were well fortified, and had their heavy batteries trained to sweep every inch of the causeway and bridge. The planted batteries frowned in threat ening and horrid defiance, while the Austrians waited in fateful silence to see if the French on the opposite bank would dare to attempt the passage. Massena took in the situa tion. He knew what it meant to cross the River in the teeth of the Austrian guns and batteries. But Massena was on his way to Vienna; to reach his objective ho must cross the Traun and carry the village Ebersdorf. He therefore had but one resolution, and that was to cross. Ho gave the command and hit army began to file over the causeway in a close column. They could not make a rapid dash, like the Charge of the Light Brigade, but had - to move cautiously and with measured tread. It was a dreadful moment. The Austrian batteries opened up like belching volcanoes, and hurled their shells of leaden tempests into the head of the ad.vancing column, lit erally shattering it to pieces; while every house in the village, as the column under the stern command of Massena still stcadly advanced, sent forth its hissing messengers of death Into the French Army. Yet unfalter ingly they advanced; but on reach ing the bridge they were mown down in heaps, so that the dead and wounded had to be rolled off into the river to clear the way for the advancing column. Massena, stern and undaunted, still urged his wast ing army onward, and, finally reach ed the opposite bank. The French then charged and silenced the thun dering batteries, stormed and took the village, routed the enemy; and amid burning houses and a bedlam of mingled shouts, cries and groans, Massena stood victorious, while twelve thousand of the dead attested in dreadful muteness bow stubborn ly the crossing was opposed and how heroically the French had fought. But Massena, it seems, went thru the fearful conflict unscathed. Napoleon lost the battle of Aspern; and I need to say no more to convey a just idea as to how that battle was waged. In this battle Massena fought with the calm yet reckless daring that is characteristic of the firmest and most persistent heroism. When a column would recoil before the withering fire, Massena, rushing to front, sent his stentorian "For ward!" back down the line, like a peal of thunder. Then the division would steady, and dash forward with more deadly resolution. In one of these audacious charges, everyone of his guards was struck down dead or wounded on the spot, and Massena was left standing alone, like some stern mountain peak whose fellows had suddenly been shattered by an earthquako or terrifflc thunderbolt. Yet such an incident only Intensified Massena's poise, quickness of thought and accuracy of decision. ' At the battle of Wagram, Massena, having been recently hurt by the falling of his horse, went into the battle in a calash, accompanied by a physician. As soon as they began to get within the immediate vicinity of the batteries, the Doctor, unaccus tomed to Buch scenes, gave a jump In his seat at each terrific explosion of the artillery, which was very amusing to the rugged and veteran Marshal. But when the battle waxed warm, and Massena saw that it was a stubborn and doubtful con flict, and that Napoleon's throne was wavering in the balance, Jie forgot all about the frightened Doctor; his eyo, always terrible in battle, burn-' ed with ten-fold ardor, his face be came like granite that glints and gleams in the flashing lightning; he rushed here and there, wherever his columns wavered the most, and amid the deadly storm of shot and shell and smoke and roar, sent his thunderous commands thru the loud tumult of battle, that put steel into the blood and sinew3 of his men, and devil-daring into their souls. But it is said that his rapid and thunder clap commands were even more ter rifying to' the Doctor than the" ex plosion of tho ' cannon! Finally Massena, having somehow disposed of the Doctor or the Doctor having having disposed of himself de termined to mount a horse, that he might move the moro rapidly; and Massena had just alighted from his calash when a cannon ball went crashing thru the middle of It. But an incident like that was to Massena'8 courage just a fine tonic, a kind of spur to his military genius. The battle of Wagram was finally won and Massena's protecting star shone brightly as ever, while Na poleon's star shot up In the heavens about forty degrees. Such was the resolute bravery and reckless daring of this Massena dis played in all hia battles. Yet he braved the storms of fifty-two. pitch ed battles, and received hia first wound in a hunting expedition; and finally, after Napoleon's last banish ment, died a natural death at the age of fifty-nine. EUGENE' F. McSPEDDEN. Letter from France. Dearest Edith: Well, once again I am beginning a ictier. I want you to thank Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. Gardner, Aunt Bertlo and all who helped in preparing the knit goods you sent me. I will never be able to write everybody. Surely all will understand. We have for sometime been at tached with an American Division, and it happens that Bob Whltson and Jim Quinn's regiments are in the Division. As a matter of fact their regiments are the two finest in all the American Army. We were attached for this particular emerg ency and I am very much pleased to be with the American Army at these places at this time. Really I prefer our work with the French for some reasons, but consider this a rare op portunity. We are the only section U. S. A. A. S. loaned to the American Army. It may be an experiment. So far we have received nothing but praise from the commanding officers about our efficiency and capacity for work regardless of danger. I am very proud of my section, because I feel that it is one of the best and most reliable. I am confident that when a man goes out he will do his full duty as far as is physically pos sible. We have several real characters in the section. One is an Irishman, and typical. Had been in the States about eight years, I think. We have been heavily shelled for some days, and of course when not outside on duty compulsory to be in tho abris (dugout or tunnels, ours happens to be a tunnel under high railroad em bankment). Well, this Irishman didn't report for dinner, so I set out looking for him, found him in the abris as he said, "leaving French under fire." Give my best wishes to Aunt Ber tie's folks, Mesdamcs Adams, Allen, Gardner, Casebcere, also Brother Farris and Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Jones. Your brother, SGT. RALPH M. QUINN. France. Death of Tames Monroe Naylor. James Monroe Naylor died at the Confederate home, Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn., about the 20th of May, 1918, being at the time of his death seventy-three years and seven months old. J. M. Naylor was born Oct. 20, 1844, in Fulton County, Kentucky. Removed with our fath er, Alfred Naylor, and family to Obion County, Tenn., in the spring of 1850. There grew up and re mained on the farm until the Civil War between the States. Volunteer ed in the 33d Tennessee Regiment, C. S. A., March, 1862, participated in the battle of Shiloh, remained about seventeen months. Was dis charged in Kentucky and returned home. There he remained until mar ried to Miss Annie Spradlin about 1880. Two girls were born to this union. The eldest died in infancy. The survivor married Mr. James Meacham, now Hying near McCon nell, Tenn. He leaves three sisters and one brother, Mrs. M. D. Gibson, Oklahoma; Mrs. Ada Snyder, Kansas City, Mo.; ,H. W. Naylor, Medina, Tenn., and Miss Lula Naylor, Union City. His death was caused by paralysis and heart failure. He died surrounded by the U. D. C. that had so tenderly nursed him in his strug gle of life, and with sweet devotion and gentle hands laid him in his casket wrapped in the stars and bars the flag he so loyally defended. Brave' old veterans, heads frosted with many winters, with tottering steps and trembling hands, bore him tor his last resting place; there to rest and sleep in silent slumber un til God shall call him home. Sleep on, dear brother, soldier friend, peaceful be " thy silent slumber, peaceful in thy grave so low, thou no more shall Join" our number, thou no more our toils shall know. BROTHER, H. W. N. GOVERNMENT REPORT OF THE OLD NATIONAL BAN! UNON CITY, TENN., MAY 10, 1918 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts- United States Bonda. Stock in Federal Reserve Bank Banking House, Furniture and Due from U. S. Treasury.. CASH AND SIGHT EXCHANGE.. Liberty Loan Bonds Wax Saving Stamps Claims, etc .. TOTAL LIABILITIES. Capital Stock Surplus and Profits . Circulation DEPOSITS ... TOTAL OFFICERS R. P. WHITESELL President S. WADDELL, Vice Pres. A. J. CORUM. Vice Pre.. J. S. ROBERTS, Vice President. A. L. GARTH. Cashier. DIRECTORS. L S. Parks, S. Waddell, A. J. Comm. H. A. Beck, C. H. Cobb, A. L Garth E. A. Glover, G. B. Driskill, J. P. Verhine, J. S. Roberts, R. P. Whitesell WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS Why Not Feed Danco Feed is 1 5 per cent of the richest part of the corn. ITS ANALYSIS: Fat - 7.00 Protein 10.00 Sugar and Starch 65.00 Crude Fibre i 7.00 This is cheaper than corn and on the present market Jt will feed out at least s 25 per cent more than straight, corn, pound for pound. At the present prices, you can put 1 00 pounds of flesh on growing hogs run ning on clover at $ 1 0.00. Several progressive feeders have used it and all have made big profits in feeding it. This is a by-product of our Jersey Cream Meal. Datinke-Valker Milling Go. J U N B. Now we all must june especially about our eating and drinking. Uncle Sam is regulating our food stuff; also our drinks. Still; we all like our tea. He will let you have all the tea you want if you drink the right kind, and we sell it. Golden Gate and Chase & Sanborne fimi i j in , , ' 1 i- - i. . ii , , are the best brands for ice tea. Buy from us; drink and be refreshed.' We have all the meats in bulk and cans for cold lunches. All the fruits in season; all the fancy groceries and fresh meats in fact, everything to eat. We will be at home every day. If you want to see us june, call us real soon, and we will deliver the goods. E. IP. GIRIlSSOIVu' Three Phones "If Chicken Chowder won t make your hens lay. they must be roosters" ,-colpurjna If you want more eggs, order todaylfrpm Sold by the Cash Grocery -f EGGS OR V MONEY " V hback y -lMr $409,760.83 50,000.00 2,700.00 5.500.00 2,500.00 . 144,706.59 29.925.00 52.87 21.00 $645,166.29 Fixtures . $75,000.00 33.664.21 49,300.00 487,202.08 $645,166.29 DANCO? Union City. Two Fords Company, Union City, Tenn. PiaiOJK SCRATCH 1 1 MmbM feed r