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THE COMMERCIAL
Marshall & Baird. Uuiou City, Tenn,
Entered at the post office, Union City. Tennes
see, as second-class man mauer.
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1922.
For Representative.
RRATTON We are authorized to an-
S. R. Rratton as a candidate for
re-election as Representative from Obion
County in the General Assembly ot I en
nessee, .ubject to the action of the Demo,
cratic party.
Statement of the ownership, management
circulation, etc., required by the Act of
August 24, 1912, of
The Commercial
Published weekly atJUnion City, Tenn.
Editors, Business Managers, Publishers
and Owners:
E. H. Marshall Union City, Tenn.
John Baird Union City, Tenn.
(ivo corporation.;
Known bondholders, mortgagees, and
other security holders, holding I per
cent or more of total amount of bonds
mortsaues or other securities none
E. H. MARSHALL.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
24th day of March, 1922.
J. WALKER KERR. Notary Public.
(My commission expires July 5, 1922.)
State Politics.
General Harvey Hannah, candi
date for Governor on the Democratic
ticket, has issued his pronunciamen
to. He is following the lines desig
nated as an expression from the tax
payers of the State. In a general
way they include a readjustment of
taxes, creation of a budget, weeding
out of unnecessary State departments
and officials, reorganization of the
public school system and dispersing
the school lobby. General Hannah is
specific in one item and that Is a re
duction iu the University of Tennes
see tax to half of the present rate.
He mentions also that the eight per
cent interest law should be repealed.
His platform is a popular one if there
is anything significant in the gen
eral protests that have come from the
rank and file of the people of the
State. No one knows yet what Mr
McMillin will have to say, but every
one knows that his record as Gov
ernor of Tennessee is about the best
or equal to the best the State has
ever had. The trouble that arises
now is the chances of disaffection
among Democrats. Peay and Han
nah have both declared for fiscal,
tax and school reform and paring in
ivnenaaa nrantlitallir alnno1 iha earn a
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lines. McMillin is no doubt com
mitted to the same policies. But
if there is a bitter fight among the
Democratic candidates it may be car
ried over into the general election,
and in that case we are likely to have
Mr. Taylor again and a Legislature
made up of grafters and pie hunters.
The thing for Democrats to do is to
go to the primary election voting for
whom they regard as the ablest and
best man and then lay down their
differences and vote for the ""party
nominee.
This is not, positively not, a mat
ter which concerns party success
above everything else, but involves
matters of vital interest to every
taxpayer in the State. If the Rob
erts administration was a failure the
Taylor administration has been ten
times worse. Maybe Taylor wasn't
wholly to blame, but as far as the
people are concerned the fact re
mains just the same.
"We can see Clabo and men of his
ilk laughing in their sleeves if Tay
lor is re-elected. We say this be
cause, if the fight between the Dem
ocratic candidates for Governor di
verts the attention of the voters
from the Legislative race, there is
likely to be a repetition of the same
conditions that existed before in the
General Assembly.
Instead of allowing the campaign
for Governor to overshadow every
thing else, it is a matter of the ut
most importance to elect a legisla
tive ticket that will redeem the State
from the corrupt and disgraceful
methods and practices that prevailed
in the last Legislature.
This is not a small fight by any
means. There are more than selfish
individuals in this work. The organization-
which controlled the last
Legislature, and . which has been in
the saddle for some time would ruin
the average taxpayer and citizen of
the State to' enrich certain sections
and interests of the State at the ex
pense of the taxpayer. There are
some newspapers which understand
this, but they either intentionally or
under pressure ignore the fact.
The nation as well as the State
is running too much to government.
If we grant honest motives to those
who are promoting public establish
ments and extensions of all kinds,
many of these things are neither
practical nor consistent with repub
lican order and system and therefore
cannot endure. But if we add to the
uses of these things the advancement
of professional politics, then we have
an example that la presented In Ten
nessee to-day.
Let us have -a clean slate in the
election. There will be no way to
undo the wrongs that have been done
in the name of the State but to create
an Interest among the voters to go
SUBSIDIES AND BONUSES
FOE EVERYBODY
Frank J. Warne, testifying before
the Railroad Labor Board, advocates
a national subsidy for the railroads
to enable them to pay a "reasonable
STRAWBERRY PRODUCTION
GROWING INDUSTRY
IN TENNESSEE
to the polls and register an edict to wage" to employees. At the same
those who are to serve In law-making
and administering laws.
"Everybody's Doing It."
The Constitution of the United
States provides that the President
shall, at stated times, receive a com
Densation for his services, which
shall neither be Increased nor dimin
ished during the period for which he every
time Chairman Lasker of the Ship
ping Board urges Congress to put the
Ship-Subsidy Bill through without
change so that there will be an at
tractive profit in flying the American
flag on the high seas. But there's no
sense in doing these things by halves.
Every corporation should get a sub
sidy, and while bonuses are going
citizen should get a bonus.
has been elected, and he shall not
receive within that period any other
emolument from the United States.
Up to to 1872 the President's salary
was 125,000, when it was increased
to $50,000. Not many years ago it
was increased to $75,000. But the
Congress, seeking in some manner,
no doubt, to curry the favor of the
President, instituted many years ago
a systematic method of increasing
the compensation of the Executive of
Otherwise what's the Treasury De
partment for and why do we main
tain a Government?
Among all the citizens and corpo
rations in the United States there
isn't one that doesn't need money at
once for some good reason or other.
The railroads, according ' to Mr.
Warne, would like to increase wages
-a laudable object, which no prop
erly sympathetic Administration can
ignore By all means let the rail-
For several years past Tennessee
has led the entire country in acreage
devoted to strawberries, wim ahu
bis second. In 1921 Tennessee pro
duced 941,220 crates from 13,446
acres. " The average price - received
wa8i$4.80 per crate, the total value
of the crop being $4,517,855. The
total carload shipment from the State
in 1921 was 2,092 cars. This large
production- with the satisfactory
prices of recent years, has attracted
general attention, and the strawberry
is being planted in many, sections, in
1922, which had not previously
grown it commercially. It is fair to
assume that the 1922 acreage is the
largest in the history of Tennessee
strawberry growing, according to
Charles A. Keffer, director, Division
of Extension.
In speaking of the growing interest
in the crop Director Keffer stated
recently that where the strawberry
has become well established in farm
operations as in the Humboldt and
IVSbriey" t p ; toao
We are authorized to take applications for farm loans
in Obion County on improved farms of 40 acres or more..
The rate of interest is 6 per cent per annum and the loan
made with the least possible delay. '
See us for information and details. ,
C. IN. & H H. LANNOM
Union City, Tennessee.
the United States without violating roads have what seems necessary for Chattanooga districts, the experience
the letter of the Constitution, and mis purpose, ana nen u iney can
thN was in setting apart different think of further imperative uses for
hronrhM and denartments of White cash, let them have more. No doubt
House maintenance and providing a
fund for each said department, this
fund to be subject to the President's
draft and disposal, with the excep
tion - of railroad transportation,
which fund is paid only as it is re
quired. Now, the various depart
ments of the White House, together
with the President's salary of $75,-
000, aggregate a total of near half
a million dollars. But no President
has been so honest as to decline a
cent of it.
Members of Congress, on the other
hand, undertook to give themselves
more pay by various and divers meth
ods, doing it in a way to escape con
stitutional provisions. One is a mile
age of twenty cents a mile for every
mile of railroad transportation to and
from Washington City to their re
spsctive abodes. Another is in sta
tionery accounts. There is a sta
tionery store in the Capitol, where
the members get their stationery al
lowances, and it is always of the best
quality and in abundance. This
privilege has been made the subject
of general criticism, charges being
made that playing cards and whiskey
have been furnished thru this de
partment, on the free list, to mem
nerrf. Anyway it has been vary ex
pensive. Still another is the frank
ing privilege, by which one Congress
man is said to have saved $60,000 in
his campaign for Governor. The lit
erature he mailed at one time would
have cost that amount of money if
payment had been forced as it should
have been. Still another is committee
assignments, some of special com
mittees having no work at all some
times for years. Then the clerk's
salary goes to the Congressman and
with these things he manages to get
almost double his salary. And yet
when Congressmen Fuller, New
York, and Blanton, Texas, attack
these practices, they are persecuted
by the other members. Blanton is
dubbed a liar, traitor and whatnot.
The Tennessee General Assembly
has for years been seeking some
method of overriding the provisions
of the State Constitution, which pro
vide as compensation for services a
per diem of four dollars for 75 days,
or $300 per session. This was first
done by recessing and organizing a
junketing committee from both ends
of the Capitol, with extra pay. That
did not suffice, however, and for a
number of years the stationery ac
count has been increased. All fail
ing to satisfy the representatives, the
last Legislature created a lump sum
bonus of $500 for each member. And
everyone knows what a general
storm of criticism this has created
all over the State.
Now, for the first time we have
an example of this at home. Here
tofore the men who manned the cor
poration affairs of Union City held
strictly to the letter of the law. The
charter makes special provisions as
compensation for the services of
Mayor and Aldermen. The Mayor
is allowed a salary of $25 a month.
He is of course, not required to de
vote the business hours exclusively to
the duties of mayor, as is done in
some other municipalities, where the
salary is larger. But at a special
meeting last Wednesday night, the
Mayor was allowed an addition to
his salalryof $50 a month, making in
all $75 a month. The $50 was desig
nated as ex-officio services. Since
the meeting there has been consider
able comment pro and con, and if
the criticisms have a general appli
cation, all these legislative and mu
nicipal bodies have exceeded the pro
visions of the various constituted
authorities, and are not strictly pro
tected from searching criticism. As
for legal action we are not prepared
to say whether or not there would
be any liability.
they could think of a few if they
thought hard. And nobody wants
American shipping to operate at a
disadvantage. When shipping com
panies find it difficult to return a
profit it is the duty of the Govern-
of the growers may be considered as
a guide for future plantings. "How
ever," ne saia, tnere are aisincis in
the State where the strawberry has
not been so extensively grown, but
where the adaptability of the region
to this crop has been fully establish
ed, and in these regions there can be
no question as to the advisability of
ment to make it up to them hand- greatly increased pianungs. Any uin
somely. The bituminous mines too er section or me oiaie in wmcn me
have been running at a loss. Many crop has done well should be justi
fled at this time in increasing its
wages than they have always want- area
ed. lower in some instances than they it 18 naraiy pos-iDie tnat me nign
have asked prices of the past few years will con
To remedy this unusual and intol
erable condition we must have the
bonus for all citizens ,the subsidy for
all corporations. This is the one way
to put business on its feet and the
country on a firm financial footing.
The Treasury has been locked too
long; it is our inalienable national
heritage. Probably it contains sev
eral days' pay for each of us. New
York World.
Gordon Browning.
tinue Indefinitely. Labor is more
abundant than in the two years fol
lowing the war. All commodities are
cheaper. The general reduction in
values may be expected to continue
gradually, if slowly.
'But the strawberry was grown
at a profit in Tennessee before the
war advanced prices, and it will
doubtless continue to be an attractive
crop to Tennessee farmers."
Ask your county agent for a copy
of publication 80, "Strawberries" or
write the Division of Extension.
-Democrats of the Eighth Tennes
see District are to be congratulated
upon the happy working out of cir
cumstances which means that after
November they will be represented
in Congress by Capt. Gordon Brown
ing. Capt. Browning has no opposi
tion for the Democratic nomination.
He should not have had any. Two
years ago, in a magnificent fight, he
won his spurs, and, though he led
the Democratic ticket, the Republi
can landslide was too much.
Young men of Browning's type
are needed in congress. He led a
Memphis battery in France. His rec
ord is as clean as a hound's tooth.
We join with other friends of Capt.
Browning in the feeling that it was
a splendid thing for the Democrats
of the Eighth to tender him the
standard again and in the assurance
that it could not have an abler de
fender in November. Memphis Com
mercial Appeal.
At
GRISSOM'S
YOU CAN SEE THE LATEST UP-TO-THE
MINUTE
REFRIGERATOR COUNTER
AND MEAT SLIGER
We invite you to come in and see the nice sliced meat
and fine cuts of meat. Also the nice Vegetables every
thing kept in this Ice Cold Refrigerator Counter,
We also have some specials in Canned Goods, Canned
Grape Fruit, Canned Fruit Salad. A few cases nice
standard Peaches at
$3.00 per doz. $6.00 per case.
E. P. GRISSOM
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230
SAVING A HALF
BILLION DOLLARS
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes
E. B. Allen, president of the Adams
Bag Co., as its authority, for the
statement that $500,000,000 could
be saved yearly by the housewives of
America, by the home baking of
bread.
For $8.80, the price of four quar
ter-barrel paper sacks of Ohio-made
flour,' says Mr. Allen, "plus the cost
of milk, sugar, salt, yeast, fuel and
labor, the frugal housewife can pro
duce 189 one-and-one-half pound
loaves of bread. The average price of
such loaves thruout Ohio is probably
around lOV cents, or $19.85 for
what can be produced for $8.80, plus
seasoning, fuel and elbow-grease.
The figures suggest other angles
that are interesting.
If $10 or any considerable part of
it, can be saved in the home baking
of a single barrel of flour, In the cost
of the bread alone, what is the total
of the economies thus effected. It
is admitted that home-made bread
is appetizing and it has long been
recognized as the best and healthiest
food available. If its appetizing and
satisfying quality results in the use
of ten per cent more bread in each
home in the State, what is the sav
ing thus brought about by the re
duced demand for higher prcied foodstuffs?
And still more interesting, if each
family would thus use one additional
barrel of home-made flour during
1922, what would the aggregate be,
in dollars and cents, to the farmers
and what would the re-distributed
wealth, thus created for release,
mean to the general prosperity of the
State?
It is worth thinking about, isn't
it? PJease pass the bread.
NON-RESIDENT NOTICE,
Rice Brown, col., vs. Lucy Brown,
col. Circuit Court, Obion County,
Tennessee.
In the above styled cause, it ap
pearing from the bill of complaint,'
which is sworn to, that the defend
ant, Lucy Brown, is a non-resident
of the State of Tennessee, and resi
dent unknown, so that ordinary
process of law cannot be served upon
her. It is hereby ordered that the
said above named defendant appear
before the Circuit Court of Obion
County, Tennessee, on or before the
first Monday of May, 1922, that be
ing first day of said Circuit Court,
and make defense to the said bill,
or the same will be taken as con
fessed by her, and the said cause set
for hearing ex-parte as to her. It is
further ordered that publication of
this notice be made for four consec
utive weeks in The Commercial, a
weekly newspaper published in Obion
County, Tenn. . l-4t
This 29th day of March, 1922.
J. N. RUDDLE, Clerk.
E. H. Lannom, Sol. for Complt.
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 Co.
When Will There Be A
Disarmament of Dining Tables?
Suppose everybody would
recognize the fact that there's no
gain but much loss in keeping
up hostilities with the stomach!
Suppose the ancient aggrava
tion of improper food on indig
nant digestive organs should be
settled with guarantees of sen
sible diet arid tranquil digestion!
The saving would be beyond
all possibility of counting.
Yet millions go on declaring
war on the stomach and accept
ing war in return loading up
on starchy, heavy, unbalanced
and highly-seasoned
food at breakfast or
lunch and wonder
ing why comfort, hap
piness and efficiency
are out of reach.
Grape-Nuts makes a friend
of the taste and an ally of the
stomach.
There's a charm and satis
faction to this delicious food
which prompts appetite to say,
"There's a meal!" and digestion
to answer,- "Thank goodness,
here's peace at last!"
Grape-Nuts is the perfected
nutriment of wheat and malted
barley sweet, crisp, and won
derfully nourishing. It digests
quickly, and provides the neces
sary elements, including the
vital mineral salts, for body,
nerve and brain.
Order Grape-Nuts from your
grocer today, and let a delighted
taste pass a treaty of peace along
to an enthusiastic digestion and -assimilation.
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"There's a Reason'
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