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DR. E. M. LONG
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Over Wehman'a Hardware Stor
Union City, Tenn.
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Union City Commercial, established Ml,. ... .
West Tennessee Courier. established 1897 I ConaoUdated September 1. X97
UNION CITY, TENN, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1920.
VOL. 29, NO. 2
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LIONS' CLUB RALLY
. FINE SPEAKERS
AND GOOD ROADS
Xadiei of th$ Cumberland Church
Serve Dinner.
At the Elks Home last Monday,
thru tho generosity of the Elks ol
Union City, the Lions' Club was
able to entertain a number of the
anxious to see the highway con
structed to the lake.
Mr. Ben LeDuke, of Tiptonville,
was present and entertained the
audience with some good roads en-j
tliutiasm. He was for good roads,
first, last and all the time. The man
who was born and reared in Lake
County tnd refused to indorse good
roaca deserved to be banished to
Union City. Mr. LeDuke proceeded
t3 entertain the audience with good
humor. He was told that it took a
soil. Number Ten; S. R. Bratton,
Number Thirteen ; A. K. Wells, Num
ber Fourteen; S. A. McDade, Number
Sixteen; Joe L. Holbrook, Dresden;
F. E. Quinn, D. Reeves, J. T. Sturgis;
Cleve Donaldson, Ben LeDuke, Tip
tonville; W. W. Thomas, Number
Three; J. A. Howard, Number Seven;
W. B. Stewart, J. W. Buchanan,
Obion; T. B. King, Memphis; W. J.
Davidson, Number Thirteen; J. B.
Skinner, Kenton; M. A. Gaulden,
Trimble; R. B. Moore, McKenzie;
ATTENTION
team of four mules to pull a funeral I W. W. House, Highway Commission-
car in UDion county, but he pro
posed to stay alive until there is
good roads speakers of Tennessee and better transportation for funeral cars.
members of She County Court of
Obion County.
, A regioter of the list shows a ros
ter of some one hundred and fifty
or more around the tables and every-
. body dressed up with a good roads
expression.
' The dinner was one of those affairs
possible only to the skill of the la
dles, and especially the Cumberland
ladies who have been called upon
frequently on occasions like this.
Mr. House, one of the State High-
. way Commissioners, was the first
speaker Dr. Turner called on for an
' address. Mr. House first paid his
compliments to the ladies, stating
that tho he had been a candidate in
Weakley County in a number of
races he would like to run once more
for the privilege of electioneering
with the ladies.
But speaking to the point Mr.
House said he came to Obion County
to make some statements setting
forth as clearly as possible the atti
tude of the State Highway Commis
sion with respect to the Bristol-to-
Memphis' highway thru Obion Coun-
Mr. LeDuke is a candidate for the
Senate, and by the way one of the
best citizens of Lake. He said he
was not a politician but knew how
to ask for what he wanted
Mr. Cleve Donaldson, also of Tip
tonville, addressed the dinner party,
saying that for twenty-five years he
had hoped for a good road across
the lake country. This bad been a
dream he hoped to realize1. The lake
is a natural resort which might be
made a wonderful playground with
good roads. As far as the route is
concerned that can be left withi the
engineers.
Senator D. P. Caldwell reviewed
some of his work in the interest of
the Reelfoot Lake road, and advised
a liberal spirit in the promotion of
the Brlstol-to-Memphis Highway.
Rev. Howell, of Obion, made one
of the most enthusiastic talks. We
need, said Mr. Howell, a broader and
b'gger vision. It would be imprac
tical for every citizen to have a mod
em highway leading to his front
door. We should be moved by a
greater spirit of loyalty to the inter-
er; Alvyn Brevard, Number Thirteen.
SENATE FIDDLED AS ROME
BURNED, SAYS WILLIAMS
Mississippi Senator Would Rather Be
Dog and Bay at the Moon
ty. Last July the County Court ac- ests of the State. Why should we
cepted a proposition from the State
Highway Commission and a resolu
tion was passed accordingly to the
effect that the county authorize the
issuance of $150,000 in bonds, to be
used on the Bristol-to-Memphis high
way in the county, routed from the
Weakley line to Union City, thence
to Troy and Hornbeak and to the
lake to connect with1 the lake road.
At the January term of the court
an amendment to this resolution was
passed which called for the exten
sion of the road from Troy to Obion
and Glass and thence to Hornbeak
and the lake.
Mr. Mouse said be did not come
here to criticise anyone but to Call
attention to the fact that a change
had been made in the original reso
lution to cover more territory and
for that reason the State Highway
Commission could not accept the res
olution as amended, and therefore
unless the next April term of the
court rescinded its action in adopt
ing this amendment, the Federal and
State aid for such a road would not
be available. There were, said Mr
House, numbers of counties ready
for a survey, and but for the fact
that he refused to recognize the res
olution as it was , amended by the
County Court and put his surveyors
In the, county, it would have been
necessary to abandon the work here
and answer other calls, thereby de
laying the work in Obion. Mr
House said he felt sure that Obion
would rectify this error when it was
thoroly understood that he could
not proceed without the sanction of
' the Federal Commission, , and the
Federal Commission 'had already
adopted the resolution &a passed in
July, 1919.
, Mr. House said that we would have
to become reconciled to the fact that
we could not have at once all the
local roads "We needed. The trunk
lines must first be served as provided
by the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture. The point is often raised that
people should be left free to locate
not be more Interested in a good
road to the capital of the State than
a local community road. One Is feasi
ble and the other Is not.
Judge J. B. Waddell made a state
ment to tha effect that it was not
the intention of the County Court at
its January term to destroy the pro
visions of the resolution passed be
fore in July. It was merely a matter
of calls between Troy and the lake
in the amendment.
Here Mr. T." B. King of Memphis,
was the speaker. He was grateful
for the sunshine and the wind mak
lng it possible this time to ride in.
He said tnat when he looked over
the audience he was ready to shout
because he understood the impulses
of such a meeting and knew that
we had gotten together. We have
authorized a total bond issue of
$150,000, and he was sure wie would
make it. 500,000. The Jeff Davis
Highway must be placed on the map
of Tennessee, and Obion would Join
in the movement. I wouldn't be a
preacher in a country where there
are no good road3, said Mr. King,
in discussing the religious aspects
of the subject. If the preacher had
to return nome rrom cnurcni over a
bad road he woul! be driven to bad
words. Terminals are now being
projected at steamboat landings.
The railroads cannot tako care of the
freight and the heavier tonnage is
being laid on the river wharves for
transport. So it is up to us all to
get to the river connections. There
fore the importance of the Memphls-
to-Bri3tol Highway. Memphis is big
enough to support all the main trunk
lines in the State. Not one of them
but will aid Memphis iif some way,
so how important it is that we get
Jackson, Miss., March 26. Dec
laration by United States Senator
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi,
that defeat of the League of Nations
"More than any one thing in my life
made me come nearer doubting the
cause or Democracy, sometimes al
most the providence of God himself,"
enlivenod a joint session of the legis
lature here to-day. 1
Senator Williams in his address
said:
'I am just from Washington,
where I have listened ad nauseum
to the most confused gabfest in the
history of the world since the Maker
created it. I do not see how any
man who loves his country can look
with unconcern on what has Just
occurred. But the trouble Is we
don't seem to know what we want to
do while the continent of Surope is
in chaos.
"There was a chance for the Un
ited States to stand at the head of
a council of nations of the world; to
lead the universe in the patliways
of peace. The opportunity was re
Jected and future historians will re
fer to the last two years as the 'time
of the geat conspiracy,' that the his
tory will be discreditable to some,
especially in the American Congress
America went to war not because it
wanted to, but because it was a ne
cessity. We preached to our boys
at home and In France that this war
was fought that wars might be no
more. We looked on the sufferings
of Belgium and Serbia, and resolved
what we would do when it was over.
Then it finally was over and we have
done nothing. So far as we are con
cerned it appears wo are willing to
go back to 1914 before it all began
"Tho long winded arguments in
the Senate were like fiddling as
Rome burned, talking with a world
in chaos. Do you blame me for say
ing that I would rather be a dog and
bark at the moon than to spend one
minute in the Senate after' the expi
ration of my term of office.
"The great conspiracy commenced
when the President went to Ver
sailles and , every time news came
from Versailles that the President
advocated or opposed something the
conspirators opposed his plans.. They
are two-by-four politicians. I call
them that because that is what they
are no matter how high their station.
"Senator Lodge is tho head of the
poison squad, and then, after the
treaty had - been emasculated with
reseervatlons that no Democrat could
reservations that no Democrat could
accept, he sought to blame the party
for its rejection.
Has any great institution bounded
by cur forefathers fallen down at
way thru Obion County. Obion has
furnished a gap in both the Mem-phls-to-Bristol
and the Jeff Davis
Highways, and the prospects for
closing this gap are now very bright
indeed.
Join the Federal Highway plans
and build their ownYoads, but, said and let the constructive work pro-
the speaker, have the people ever ceed.
made any provision independently
for good roads?
The next speaker was Mr. Joe
Holbrook, editor of the Dresden En
terprise. He remarked that he was
not familiar with our local road
matters, but in his own county he
had been very much interested in
good roads, for twenty years enlisted
in the work in his county. A road
was proposed thru Weakley running
north and south, but this road, which
'was intended to develop some of the
. best country in the county, was tem
porarily abandoned in order to Join
the State Highway Commission in
tha building of the highway east and
,west thru the State, the Bristol-to-Momphls
Highway.
. A Mr. Moore, a business man of Mc
Kenzie, was present and responded
to a call for some remarks. He was
busy and push tho work of "the high- the time of stress and travail like
the Senate has fallen down?
I believe there are now men glad
that the President is sick, perhaps
hope for his death. When McKinley
was shot down, when Garfield was
shot, was there a Democrat but ex
pressed sorrow? Has any one seen
words of sympathy for the President
in any .Republican paper? A great
man is sick, a great mind and a
great character and they have whis
pered, 'We've got him now
"Men sometimes disparage ideal
ists, but they are coarse-grained
jackasses who do so, and do it be
cause they are coarse-grained, but
the idealists point the way and cheer
men's souls.
"If the Republicans elect the Pres
ident the first thing he will have to
do is to make explanations, but the
Democrats will enter the flgfit with
something definite.
"Let us do as Saint Paul said he
had done, 'fight, the good fight of
faith and keep the faith. "
Judge S. R. Bratton closed the re
marks made on tho occasion with the
statement that ho had no intention
of impairing the effect of the good
roads resolution in the amendment
calling for the extension by way of
Obion and Glass. He has been a
good roads advocate all his life. He
was at first for a referendum and
for a million dollar bond issue, but
now he is willing to, join the majori
ty and to vote to erase the amend
ment.
Following comprise the names of
a number or visitors and Justices
present: .
F. O. Howell, Obion; A. M. Moul
trie, Number Five; J. W. McCorkle,
Number Thirteen; J. D. McBride,
Number Twelve; T. W. Cunningham,
Number Six; Judge J. B. Waddell;
Bob Fox, Number Fifteen; E. H. Rus-
Pointed Paragraphs.
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