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Marshall & Baird, Union City, Tenn.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1922.
Democratic Ticket.
For Sheriff J. W. (Watt) Cherry
For Trustee Armour Ratlin
For County Court Clerk R. H. Bond
For Circuit Court Clerk J. N. Ruddle
For ReKister-W. . Edwards, Jr.
For Representative.
BRATTON We arc authorized to an
nounce S. RV Bratton as a candidate for
re-election as Representative from Obion
County in the General Assembly of Ten
nessee, .ubject to the action of the Demo
cratic party.
Only a few of Iho citizens met last
Saturday at the courthouse to take
Up the matter of taxes and general
legislation. Mr. Callicott and Mr.
McAlister and a small number were
present, but no meeting was held.
It was suggested to these gentlemen
that the taxpayers and citizens are
interested in the movement, and no
doubt they are interested,- but it is
very hard to get them together unless
they are convinced that disinterested
action will be taken and proper
measures pursued. No one possibly
could be satisfied with the way legis
lative matters in Tennessee are be
ing handled and it is evidently cer
tain that the people could be in
duced to come together to discuss the
DroDosition if disinterested motives
are assured. If there was a selfish
motive in the proposed meeting this
office knew nothing about it. Ev
erybody was invited to the meeting
and the candidates, whoever they
are. were also invited. To take for
granted that the present political
conditions in Tennessee, because no
meeting was held, are satisfactory to
the people of this county, would be
to discredit the protests and criti
cisms that have already been made
over and over many times. Surely,
if our people are willing to stand the
pressure of the present tax arrange
ment they could not be satisfied with
the prospect of still further tax in
creases, which are practically cer
tain with increasing State treasury
deficits and State bond issues. If
the present call for a meeting was
not satisfactory let somebody else
call one and let us show to the peo
ple of Tennessee that we are interest
ed in Tennessee's political future.
I don't know where the blame for
the coal strike rests nor how much
of it rests upon the respective par
ties to the strike. The statement
made by Mr. Stanley for the coal op
erators in the New York World was
not very illuminating. The statement
made by Mr. Lewis for the miners in
the same paper was more to the
point. Mr. Stanley seeks to hold the
miners up as a class irresponsible and
unreliable. Mr. Lewis is inclined to
regard the miners as citizens and en
titled to some consideration. Mr.
Lewis' statement of coal costs and
profits is very conclusive if it is ac
curate. Says Mr. Lewis, the average
retail price of coal is $11 a ton. The
miner gets $1.35 cents a ton for his
work, the freight averages $1.30 a
ton and the balance, $8.35, goes to
the operator. There are enough
miners, says Mr. Lewis, to mine the
entire coal fields in the United States
by working six hours a day regularly
and by this means have better liv
!ng hours and opportunities. But
the operators will not yield and the
old full-day system forces them out
of work and pay a portion of the
time. The miner can not find some
thing else to do to employ his idle
time and he is not fit for many jobs.
Mr. Stanley, for the operators, does
n't seem to have any figures to make.
So it looks to the public as much like
an operators' strike as it does a
miners' strike.
WORD WITH TOBACCO GROWERS
As this is written the dark tobacco
districts of Kentucky and Tennessee
are discussing with much interest
various plans offered for the market
ing of their tobacco. A Dark Tobac
co Growers' Cooperative Association
has been organized on the same basis
as the Burley Tobacco Growers' As
sociation and Is getting ready to be
gin an active campaign for member
ship. The basis of this association is
the binding contract by which mem
bers of the association obligate them
selves to sell their tobacco through
the association for a term of five
years. Other marketing plans and
other proposed marketing associa
tions are also being offered "Black
Patch" growers for their considera
tion. In some sections, we under
stand, discussion is becoming a bit
heated and proponents of the various
plans are appealing to growers with
much earnestness and enthusiasm
The Southern Agriculturist has
just one interest in this discussion.
it is vitally interested in tne pros
perity of the growers of dark tobac
co. Probably 40,000 of these grow
ers are our subscribers. The more
money they may make, the more we
shall make. Any marketing plan
that will help them to get better
prices for, and to make more money
out of their tobacco will be a direct
benefit to us.
With this fact in mind, the South
ern Agriculturist hopes to see the
"Black Patch" farmers go into the
Dark Tobacco Growers' Association
with the same practical unanimity
with which Burley growers went in
to the Burley Growers' Cooperative
Association. This is said with no de
sire to condemn any other proposed
marketing method or plan of associ
ation, but with the firm conviction
that the binding contract is the
soundes. safest, most enduring
foundation a co-operative marketing
association can have. It gives the
association something to stand upon,
something to base plans on, some
thing to do business with, and some
thing to offer each member as securi
ty for its permanence and its future
strength.
Cooperative marketing is not a
matter of sentiment. It is a matter
of good hard dollars and cents. The
cooperative marketing association
that endures will be the one that
makes money for its members. No
business organization' that cannot
count with some assurance on its
own strength and its own stock in
trade for a year or two ahead is in
position to make money for its mem
bers in our fiercely competitive mod
ern markets. The man asked to sign
a five-year contract should remember
that it binds not only himself to the
organization, but the organization
to him. It is a mutual guarantee. To
be afraid of it, is to be afraid of the
collective judgment of one's self and
one's fe'.low-producers. Co-operative
marketing societies vill no doubt
continue to make mistakes, and may
sometimes fail the man who has
himself never made a mistake or a
failure in the selling of his crops can
afford to stay outside but their suc
cesses have so far been far greater
than their failures and they are all
the time getting stronger and wiser.
The time has come when it is Just
a bit unreasonable to doubt the pos
sibility of successful "cooperative
marketing associations; and the
time has come frankly to recognize
the binding contract as the very be
ginning of efficient and effective co
operation. Southern Agriculturist
WHAT TWO YEARS
OP PROHIBITION
HAVE MEANT TO OUR COUNTRY
The pro-liquor press are saying
that prohibition is a failure and that
conditions are worse than before the
Eighteenth Amendment was adopted
The only way to counteract the effect
of such statements is to give wide
publicity to the REAL news about
prohibition. '
1. Two years of National Prohi
bition has reduced the number' of
drinkers of alcoholic beverages from
20,000,000 to 2,500,000 a decrease
of 17,500,000, says Federal Prohi
bition Commissioner Haynes.
2. Only 15 per cent of former
drinkers are drinking now and these
are drinking but five per cent the
quantity of liquor that was formerly
consumed, says Federal Prohibition
Commissioner Haynes.
3. The same authority states that
the entire drink bill of the nation
has decreased $2,000,000,000 a year,
This mon-y formerly spent for drink
has gone into savings banks or has
been spent in legitimate lines for
necessary commodities.
4. The year 1921, the second of
the prohibition regime, was the
healthiest in the United States, ac
cording to figures submitted by
thirty-seven leading insurance com
panies transacting about 80 per cent
of the insurance business of the
life insurance business of the country.
5. The Federal Comptroller of the
Currency is authority for the state
ment that more than 600 mutual
savings banks show gains both in
number of depositors and volume of
deposits during the last fiscal year.
Prominent banks in every ''section of
the country testify that prohibition
has promoted the thrift movement as
shown by increased savings.
, Judge Kent Greene, president
of the Washingtonian Home Associa
tion, the oldest operating association
of its kind in America, is reported to
have said that the Chicago home is
the only one out of sixty or more in
the country to survive and that its
slim patronage makes its future
doubtful.
7. The report of the Board of
Charities of the District of Columbia
for the fiscal year 1921 shows a con
tinued decline in the population of
the workhouse and other correctional
and reform institutions. The chair
men of the committee on Reforma
tories and Correctional Institutions
and others says: "The most en
couraging fact to be noted in connec
tion with the workhouse is that dur
ing the past year the daily average
of prisoners was only 208 as com
pared with 334 the preceding year.
This is the lowest number recorded
since the establishment of the new
workhouse at Occoquan, eleven years
ago."
The Vision That Is to Be.
T. K. Cushman, of Hopkinsville,
Ky.. came in last week with Mr.
Torn Metcalfe, of Hopkinsville Ky
for the Durpose of looking into the
prospects of the Union City Laundry.
Mr. Metcalfe is the owner of the
plant and is trying to increasa the
volume of business which is j'isf.iliod
by a capacity production. Mr. Cush
man will make a canvass of the city
and take the road in the interest of
the laundry. Mr Metcalfe stated
that the plant is doing only one
fourth of its capacity and that unless
the businer-,1 rould be increase! !t is
not now a practical proyca'Moii as
an invesiir.ent. He and Mr. Cush
tuaa are trying to boost the business,
incidentally to contribute to our in
dustry, aa.1 everyone sho-iid tako a
personal interest in the matter. It
is a Union CHy enterprise and shot.id
have" our support.
Mayor J. W. Woosley is in receipt
this week of some beautiful flowers,
a present by Mayor Shank, of In
dianapolis, Ind. Mayor Shank is com
plimenting the mayor on the occa
sion of the fifth annual flower show
at Indianapolis.
We Stand Corrected.
In an article reporting the meet
ing of creditors of the Union City
Motor Implement Co., held in this
city with Referee Taturn presiding,
the item stock on hand reading $2,-
928.08 should have been $22,928.08.
Total assets as reported by Mr. Rust,
trustee, $43,721.25. Total liabilities,
$42,190.65.
Clean Up Week.
I have designated the week of
April 10, 1922, as clean up week
and request that every one lend a
helping hand that we may commence
the summer months with our city in
a better sanitary condition, free from
tin cans and rubbish of all kinds
that have been allowed to accumulate
during the winter months, so if you
will collect together all the rubbish
and tin cans and place them near a
driveway so the wagons can load
them without driving over your
premises, otherwise they may be
overlooked (as the teamster will
have instructions not to drive on the
premises of any one for such accumu
lations. This does not include ashes
and we would request that you have
the ashes hauled from your premises
at the same time, as it will be my
purpose to get the town in a sani
tary condition, and keep it in like
condition, and this can only b edone
by and with the help of the citizens.
Yours truly,
March 27, J. C. BURDICK. SR.,
Chairman Sanitary Committee.
To the Editor of Farm and Home:
-May I add one more voice in
praise of your proposal to the nation
al agricultural conference "that the
United States take over the entire
navies of the Allies toward payment
of their debt, and accept on account
the nations' other war equipment at
junk prices, loading those vessels and
our own navy with that junk, and
sailing this Grand Armada to the Pa
cific, there, with all flags flying, to
be sunk in Wyman deep 3,000 fath
oms down!
"This crushing burden and other
causes of war being sunk beyond
resurrection, each people will police
their own lands and waters, and the
world will enter upon the thousand
years of peace and prosperity, follow
ing the century-old example of Can
ada an dthe United States, with a
world court to adjudicate disputes
between nations and with a world
wide public opinion to enforce its de
crees." For so the Associated Press this
morning heralds to a weary world
your thrilling idea! It grips the
imagination. It is a simple means
toward solving world troubles.
Public opinion, led by the press,
will force through your plan, if for
nothing more than the wonder of
this glorious spectacle, which shall
restore forthwith confidence in the
economic present and in the future
of business and inspire all people
for all time that fleet of war out
ward bound to oblivion, sailing thru
the canal, joined in mid-Pacific by
the navies of South America, Japan
and China, and the nobly unique cer
emony of the sinking, "with all flags
flying," and radio connected with
amplifiers carrying 'round the globe
the sound of cannon for the last
time, and the people everywhere
throughout the nations gathered in
mass meetings to celebrate the con
summation of this outstanding event
in human history.
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What every mother
should know
THE one subject nearest a
mother's heart is the welfare
of her children. It is during
childhood that their health is
most important.
Weak, under-nourished chil
dren seldom develop into vigor
ous, healthy men and women.
Malnutrition produces anemic
constitutions, liable to many
diseases. Food is the most
important factor in the de
velopment of children.
An interesting fact to every
mother in America
is this: Grape
Nuts, served with
milk or cream, is
a complete food.
Grape-Nuts is
sf
the wholesome, delicious cereal
made of whole wheat flour and
malted barley. It i3 rich in nutri
tive mineral salts that supply
strength and nourishment to the
growing body tissues. Your
children will thrive on it.
Begin today to make Grape
Nuts, with milK or cream, the
regular breakfast dish not only
for the children, but for you and
the others as well.
Your grocer sells Grape-Nuts,
the same delicious Grape-Nuts
that is served in the leading hotels
and restaurants of America.
The cost of Grape-Nuts is
little because of the large num
ber of dishes you can serve from
one package.
Grape-Nuts the Body Builder
"There's a Reason"
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Farmers, Attention !
Never before was there such a need for the co-operation
between the Farmer, Packer, Manufacturer, Banker. and all
kinds of legitimate business as to day. We all need to work
together. The farmer was the first to catch the decline in
prices and he must be the first to be pulled out.
Manufacturing and other business cannot prosper unless
the farmers prosper. The very existence of this Packing
Company depends upon the farmers of this community.
Thousands of dollars are lost every month in Obion County
by the farmers selling their grain instead of feeding hogs and
cattle. Go into the Stock Raising business to stay. Sell an
average number of stock yearly instead of by "spells." Keep
your stock until they are fat and ready for market, then' they
will command the best price. Every farmer in this county
should raise both hogs and cattle, and every land-owner should
encourage their tenants to raise enough chickens and hogs for
their meat -
When you have live stock for sale call for Mr. J. G.
Saunders, our stock buyer. We are always in the market.
Reynolds Packing Go.
Harpole-Walker Furniture Company
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
WHITESELL HARPOLE J. L RANSON. JR.
554 AND 216-3 RINGS
OFFICE PHONE 99
432 AND 32
UNION CITY, TENN.
NOTICE OP THE FIRST
MEETING OF CREDITORS
In the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern Division of
the Western District of Tennessee.
In the matter of Claud Vestal An
drews, of Union City, Tennessee.
In Bankruptcy No. 1159.
To the creditors of the above
named bankrupt, in the County of
Obion and district and division afore
said, a bankrupt:
Notice is hereby given" that on the
3rd day of March, A.D. 1922, the
said Claud Vestal Andrews was duly
adjudicated bankrupt, and that the
first meeting of creditors will be
held at Jackson, Tennessee, in the
office of Federal Court Clerk on the
5th day of April, 1922, at 10:30
o'clock a.m., at which time the said
creditors may attend, prove their
claims, appoint a Trustee,' examine
the bankrupt, and transact such
other business as may properly come
before said meeting.
This 18th day of March, 1922.
S. HOMER TATUM.
Referee in Bankruptcy.
J. A. Whipple, Union City, Ten
nessee, Attorney for Bankrupt.
And every day brings still more
proof that the average New Yorker
is more easily Darwinized than the
veriest hick from the Ozarks, where
sleepless Hiram Clayton was wont
to cough and cough until relieved
by a cough medicineTirewed by Good
Old Granny Metcalfe. Knoxville
Journal and Tribune.
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