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THE COMMERCIAL
Marshall & Baird, Union City, "Ten;
Kntered at the post office at Union City, Ten
nessee, as second-class mail matter.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918.
, Our Schools.
We believe it is our duty, outside
of any local prejudices, to suggest
plans for the management of our
public schools, and particularly for
the schools of Union City.
In the first place the German
language and literature should be
eliminated absolutely from our pub
lie schools. After the knowledge,
which has been established, of the
methods of German warfare and the
motives which have actuated Prus
sianism in its diabolical undertak
ings, the German language should
be obliterated from international
usage.
The schools whica persist in teach
ins German should be branded as
.Blackers. The German language
should be known, if at all, as a dead
language, and if we have to teach
dead languages, it were a thousand
times better to teach Greek or Latin
Now, then; the greatest language
spoken and the greatest literature in
existence is the English. We should
first see to it that English in the
universal feense is taught in our
schools. We should be taught Eng
lish language, English literature,
American literature, the true democ
racy of the Allied peoples, the prin
ciples of the democratic government,
civil and religious liberty.
There is nowhere on the face of
the earth a people with a more il
lustrious heritage than the English
speaking peoples. There is nowhere
a parallel in literature to the galaxy
of names headed by those of Shake
speare, Milton, Scott, Dickens, Ten
nyson, Burns. If we are to accept
other tongues then why not that of
our friends, whose gallery of illus
trious sons includes the names of
Mollere, Hugo, certainly no less fa
mous and truly no less brilliant than
Goethe or Schiller. Men and women
of rational and healthy sentiment
will no tfoubt welcome the ' decline
of the cult of Wagner, the master of
Baireuth, the craze for an erratic
and impossible music like the elabo
ration of the Nibelungen.
Why not after all cultivate our
South American peoples. t
Why German" -
We cannot only afford to dispense
with German, but we can drop for
a while during the war emergency
such things as manual training and
agriculture, until the school is" pre
pared for such things. ' The idea of
introducing these things into the
school before we have 1ieen able to
employ and pay 'thoroly competent
teachers for other departments is
premature.
Tno department of agriculture
should be supplied with an experi
ment station or else it is a waste of
time and money. Manual training
should be somewhat more extensive
than the present equipment.
First eliminate all traces of Ger
man, then perfect the necessary de
partments, and by that time the. war
may be over and we can branch out,
but such branches should bo estab
lished on bigger grounds.
If it is necessary we can dispose
of art until the school is ready for
it, but by all means if we have these
branches be- ready to support them
with first-class talent and equipment.
Your July-August Chickens.
After chicks are sufficiently large
to wean, pullets and cockerels should
be separated and placed in colony
houses where they may have ample
roosting space. The colony houses
should he well ventilated, having
wire-covered fronts. This will pre
vent crowding, sweating and, later,
roup. '
July is a good month in which to
set eggs to hatch fall fryers. Care
must be taken to keep the setting
hens free from lice and mites. This
can he done by using sodium fluoride
to dust the hens and later the newly
hatched chicks. ,
July and August hatched chicks
should all be used for slaughtering
as the pullets of late hatchings will
not make profitable layers.
The Bolshevik protest to the
United States over the landing of
allied troops at Kola was ignored by
the State Department because the
Bolshevik Government is not recog
nized by America. Fears for the
safety of Ambassador Francis are
expressed in Washington, as no word
has been received from him since
July 11, and word from the United
States has failed to reach him.
- Paper mill workers are not en
titled to the 10 per cent, bonus al
lowed by tho International Paper
Company, Nonpayment of tho bonus
caused the walkout of paper workers.
. If Congress Were Adjourned.
Members of Congress would not be
taxing tha overtaxed public to pro
mote their own political fortunes
thru wholesale abuses of the frank
ing privilege.
The Congressional Record, printed
and circulated at public expense
would not be loaded down with un
delivered, leave-to-print speeches and
other campaign matter intended sole
ly to serve celfish personal or pai;ti
san political purposes.
The congressional distribution of
free seeds would disappear, as would
the prostitution of Government pub
lication to political uses.
There would not be scorc3 of po
litical clerks and underlings about
the Capitol, paid for by tho public,
to do the personal political work of
Congressmen and Senators. ,
National legislators would cease
to be errand boys for Tom, Dick and
Harry in their districts.
Private pensions and private
claims and local legislation would no
longer clutter up the law-making
machinery.
The pork barrel would be a bar
baric relic of professionalism in poll
tics.
Patronage, as a trading element in
legislation, likewise would be only a
shameful memory.
Both branches would set their
houses in order thru real and per
manent parliamentary reform.
Congress would be organized, not
on a basis of political spoils, but on
basis of democratic, business-like
efficiency.
Seniority, sectionalism and parti
sanship would disappear.
National legislators would set the
people an example in efficiency and
saving by eliminating every non
working, non-essential standing com
mittee, which would mean about
two-thirds of them.
All the law-making business of the
public, from tent poles to treaties,
would be done out in the open.-.
Above all else, a budget system of
national finance would be adopted
at once. "
It all costs enormously. A great
many are asking Just what the cost
is. It ought to be easily possible to
tell exactly, but no one can do more
than wildly estimate. v
Figuratively speaking, politics
keeps no cash register. Facts and
figures are covered up. Secrecy,
subtle evasiveness, is a characteristic
of the congressional political system
Congress will not even disclose what
paid to individual members in
mileage allowance, to say nothing of
permitting the public to reduce
abuses like that of the franking
privilege to dollars and cents.
Not all members play the great
game of congressional politics at
public expense. . With some the blue
sky is the limit.
Congressman Fuller, of Massa
chusetts, spends no public money on
private or party politics. At the
other extreme it is conceivable that
the most professional and expert
politician may use directly and indi
rectly as much as a million dollars
of public money for his own political
maintenance.
Counting in all the elements
franking, printing, patronage, pork,
useless committees, and other legis
lative machinery, etc., etc. the cost
is appalling in the aggregate. It
may cost the people no more than
$25,000 a year per member to main
tain congressional politics; the cost
on the average may exceed $100,000
annually for each Congressman and
Senator. Searchlight on Congress.
According to the Federal author
ities investigating the German own
ership of the New York Mail, it was
stated that George Sylvester Viereck,
editor of Viereck's Weekly, and for
merly editor of the suppressed Vatcr
land, had admitted that ho had been
paid $100,000 by Count von Born
storff and former Austrian Ambassa
dor Dumba. The money, It is al
lege, was spent in disseminating
propaganda. A list of books and
pamphlets that were distributed was
given, according to the authorities.
Beginning August 1 restrictions on
the consumption of sugar will be
further drawn, according ,to orders
issued by the Food Administration.
Instead of three pounds per capita a
month, the monthly ration has been
reduced to two pounds. In the state
ment it was pointed out that produc
tion had fallen off and that the "de
mand had increased. For house
holders, the rationing ' is voluntary.
In the case of hotels and restaurants
it will be enforced.
In the face of a threatened strike
of Great Lakes seamen the Shipping
Board issued a statement declaring
there was no grievance to justify
a walkout at this time. Telegrams
were sent to the various unions
pointing out that a strike now would
have a disastrous effect on war work,
as much depends on lake, traffic in
the transportation of ore and grain.
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Whiter, Cleaner
dolt
lies
and
Larger
Package
No matter now white they have
been in the past, we know you
will say GRANDMA'S Pow
dered Soap with its wonderful
suds and cleansing power makes
them m little whiter. A tables poo n
ful to a pailful of water ii enough.
You measure out just what you
need no more. There is no waste
tuct) as the wasting away of bar soap
lying around in water. There is no
chipping nor' slicing. Wash any
, thing silks chiffons laces and
expensive shirt waist, with safety.
GRANDMA'S Powdered Soap
Your Grocer Has Iff ;
NEWS NOTES.
August is here and we can look for some refreshing
showers. So town and country will all be happy and
rejoice together. -
We are at the same old stand with the same &ld force,
but we have everything new that the market affords.
Everything in Fruits, Vegetables
and Melons.
Our Grocery department is full and complete
With everything clean and neat
Our Meat Market is always the best
Beef, pork, veal, lamb and all the rest.
1 - We are glad you have a home, a nice place to stay, so ,
don't worry about the eats. You can get them from us
Wery day. Your Grocery, ' '. .-
E. F. GRISSOIVI
Three Phones Union City. Two Fords f
Union City Training School
1 PRIVATE SCHOOL for
BOYS and GIRLS
Small Classes insuring individual attention. .
Phone or address
' F. CI AYDELOTT, Principal.
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Tire R
epairing
C&sings and Tubes Vulcanized.
Fix Punctures at once.
R. S. WATSON
.With Union City Garage.
We
OUR TIRE SERVICE
IS BETTER.
Dr. AVillir.m Bayard Hale. sclf
confessed head of the German in-
TTbrniation service in the United
States, prepared the 'speech in de
fense of the linking of the Lusitania
delivered by Dr. Bcrnhard Dernberg
in Cleveland in May, 1915, accord
ing to Deputy State Attorney Gen
eral Becker. According to the testi
mony the speech was edited and re
edited by Dr. Hale in New York and
telegraphed to Cleveland.
Food Administrator Hoover - in a
cable received released hotels, res
taurants and clubs from thoir vol
untary pledge to use no wheat until
the present harvest. Public ecting
places,- he said, would continue to
serve "Victory" bread. The lower
ing of bars on tho use of wheat be
comes effective August 1. The build
ing up of an enormous reserve is the
cause for the action.
The House Ways and Mean3 Com-
mittee ratified the tentativo agree
ment on the excess profits tax. The
rate of from 30 to 80 per cent, on
net incomes beyond exemptions prac
tically was adopted in final form.
The committee further approved the
tentative agreement on c specific
exemption of $2,000 plus 10 per cent
on the amount of invested capital.
The military critic of the Vossische
Zeitung of Berlin admits that "an
American danger is facing" the Ger
mans. Continuing he declares that
the Germans cannot allow the war
to drag on, into the years of 1919
1920 because of the American mil
lions. . He expressed tho view that
the present battle must end in a pre
liminary decision.
Air raids on a big scale on Berlin
and other German cities are not far
off, according to Maj. Gen. W. S.
Brancker, Controller General of
Equipment of the British Air Minis
try. In making this prediction Sen.
Brancker appealed to the United
States to speed up production and
urged allied co-ordination in aerial
warfare.
National directors of the Ancient
Order of Hiberians passfed a resolu
tion expressing confidence in Prcsi
dent Wilson's fairness in dealing
with the Irish situation. The reso
lution declared that the President's
stand regarding .the rights of small
nations insured a "square deal" for
Ireland after tho war.
Plans for tho merger of the sys
tems of the Independent and the Bell
Telephone Companies under Federal
control are already under way. It is
probable the postmaster in cach town
will be treasurer and handle the fi
nancial affairs of both the telephone
and telegraph companies.
Munition workcra in England,
are not at work on and after
Monday, July 29, will bo subject to
tho military service act. Premier
Lloyd George declared that such men
would lose their exemption .on the
grounds they were in essential war
work.
At a conference of representatives
of steel plants, Charles M. Schwab
appealed for increased production.
He declared the Government needed
an annual supply of 4,000,000 tons
of steel, to carry out the ship pro
gramme, and at the present rate only
3,000,000 tons were being received.
Give Courteous Attention
, When Telephoning
. ; Concentration and courteous
attention given- to a telephone con-
versation is a mark of respect that
will be appreciated. T -v
. - Frequent interruptions and re
; ' quests to repeat mar the , pleasure of
the talk. Concentrate on what is be
ing said and talk with a smile.
Courtesy is like oil to machinery
the lack of it will cause friction and
friction in telephone talking is a thing
to be avoided. ,
When you. Telephone Smile
CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE
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'I Incorporated
BOX 211, UNION CITY, TENNESSEE.
IIUSBA
who
Over the Sea.
In Union City, Tennessee,
There was a boy that longed to be
With your Uncle Sam over the sea.
He welcomed a chance to join hands
With the allies and their bands,
To whip the Kaiser and his clans.
But now as he lay in his tent awake,
He thought of home in the doar old
State,
Home, sweet home, how dear to
relate. '
Dreaming" awake there over the sea
Of dear old dad and sisters three
Away back home Jn Tennessee.
By LEO FRIEL.
Written on his cot.
St. Louis Live Stock Market.
Cattle: Beef steers $9 to $18.25;
stockers and feeders $7.50 to $11;
stock cows and heifers $7 to $8.25;
yearling butcher cattle $8 to $16;
beef cows $8 to $14; canners and
cutters $6 to $8; beef bulls $11 to
13, and sausage bulls $7 td $9.50.
Hdgs: Native hogs at the start
sold freely to the city butchers at
prices '20 to 25 cents higher than
Saturday, with a top of $19.15. Good
to choice hogs 160 to 260 pounds
selling from $18.85 to $19.10; pig
market extremely lower, 120 to 150
pound pigs $18.25 to $18.50; lighter
pigs $17.25 to $18, and rough hogs
17.25 to $17.50.
Sheep: Trade 60 to 75 cents low
f on lambs with a top of $17; fat
sheep steady. Bulk of the good
Iambs $16.50 to $17; medium lambs
15 to $16.25; culls $12 to $13;
choppers and bucks $9; canners $5;
breeding ewes $12 to $15. Goats
$5 to $7.60.
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pound for me.
After taking two
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and my troubles caused by that weak
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Mrs. Jas. Rohrberg, 620 Knapp St,
N. 8., Pittsburgh, Pa. ;
' Women who suffer from any form of
weakness, as indicated by displacements,
inflammation, ulceration, irregularities,
backache, headaches, nervousness or
"the blues," should accept Mrs. Rohr
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For over forty years it has been
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, "
' Get the Best. Variety. .
- Some varieties or wheat will yield
well and others will not. What va
riety do you raise?
Some varieties and strains of corn
produce much corn, others do not.
What is yours?
Some kinds of alfalfa result in big
hay crops. Others give less. Do you
grow alfalfa?
These are big questions ' that
should interest any producer of farm
crops. If Tennessee farmers should
pay strict attention to the variety of
grains and grasses thoy grow, they
would be worth hundreds of thou
sands of dollars more than they are.
Each year would) sed greater de-
yuBiis in me duuk oi every couiuy.
Sometimes it costs more Jo get
what you want, but when it comes
to getting a high or a low yielding
kind of seed, it is best to go to the
high price.
Crimson Clover a Soil Builder.
Crimson -clover is a great' soil
builder. A fine stand of this clover
turned under as green manure will
add as much fertility to the acre as
will ten tons of . barnyard manure.
It is unexcelled as awlnter cover and
pasture crop for hogs, sheep, lambs,
and calves. It produces from 3 to
10 bushels of seed to the acre and,
sells from $8 to $15 per bushel. The
threshed straw is used as bedding
and cattle feed. It grows well on
unlimed soils. The seed can be sown
in cotton or corn at la3t cultivation
if season is favorable.
America's great chain of ship man
ufactories is nearing completion.
There are now 118 fully equipped
shipbuilding yards and forty-four
others partly completed. Many have
been built from the ground Aip. The
Hog Island yard, the greatest of all
yards and one of the four Govern
ment fabricating plants, is 90 - per
cent, completed. These figures were
given out by Chairman Hurley, of
the Shipping Board.
DR. JAKE H. PARK
DENTIST
Office: Room' I. Naillin? Buildina
TELEPHOINJE 136
- UNION CITY. TENNESSEE
DR. I. GLOSSON
VETERINARIAN
Phone 12. Main and Third Sts.
UNION CITY. TENN.
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. THIRD YEAR
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Graduate Nurses in Attendance.
DR. W. A. NA1LLING. .Surgeon
MRS. L, E. RODECKER R. N.. Supt.
union vjty lenn. rhone4l.
J. C. BLIRDSCK
- Wholesale and Retail
Reelfoot Lake and
Mississippi River '
Fish 9 Game
Oysters in Season.
New location, East Main Street, ' "
Phone 185 UNION CITY. TENN