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THE COMMERCIAL
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FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1922.
For Representative.
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; R Rratton as a candidate tor
re-election as Representative from Obion
County in the Ceneral Assembly of Ten
nessee, .ubject to the action of the Demo
cratic party.
For Floater.
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ized to announce Charles Claiborne of Uyer
County as a candidate ror me u.cmuv.".
nomination for re-election as Flotenal Rep
resentative for the counties of Dyer, Lake
and Obion, subject to the August primary.
' Hon. L. E. Gwinn.
One or two things that are usually
impressive about any young man
striving to make himself useful and
aspiring to places of honor are the
elements of devotion and sincerity
the study of his w. rk and the heart
to declare its principles. We refer to
Hon. L. E. Gwinn, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor
of Tennessee, who spoke here last
Monday night. Mr. Gwinn made a
very interesting' speech to a small
number of Democrats. It would have
bceen worth while to every citizen
of the county who could have heard
it. The Commercial can call atten
tion to only .". few points of the
speech, and the principal one is the
subject of taxation. Mr. Gwinn evi
dently has beeen making a study of
taxation. He says that the Roberts
and the Taylor tax .laws are neither
a fundamental change in system, but
merely enlargements upon former re
cent acts of the Legislature. Said
Mr. Gwinn, all governments have for
generations been trying to realize on
intangible personal and property
taxes, and the greater the effort, it
seems, the more difficult becomes the
problem and the harder it is to bring
about the desired results. Mr. Gwinn
therefore proposes an entire change
of system, fundamental as well as
administrative changes. He gets his
inspiration from John Stuart Mill
and the more recent works of some
of our university presidents. The
first proposition is a radical change.
It is to abolish the direct land tax
for State purposes. This seems to
be diametrically opposed in theory to
the Henry George single tax plan,
which contemplates a single direct
land tax. Something of this nature
is lately promulgated by Mr. John
Rogers, of Knoxville, who proposes
to do away with personalty tax alto
gether nd gradually to abolish the
tax on improvements, such as build
ings, etc. Mr. Gwinn proposes to
take exactly the opposite route from
these theories. He proposes no direct
land tax whatever for State purposes
and that the county and State tax de
partments be separated entirely, the
counties having entire jurisdiction of
their own taxing problems. This
look3 to us like local self government
and Democracy, if not practical.
But why not practical?
Now the question is how does Mr.
Gvinn propose to get his revenue for
State purposes. First is a severance
tax on the natural products of the
earth, viz: Coal and mineral proper
ties. Next is a tax on incomes from
corporations. . Next is a tax on the
interest from stocks and bonds. Next
is a tax to take the place of privilege
taxes and this is a tax on the net
profits of mercantile business. All
of these and others, say a tax on
such things as gasoline, will do much
towards solving the economic prob
lems of State government. Anyway,
it sounds good, and no doubt the
enforcement of such a system would
create a stronger sentiment in the
State among commercial and busi
ness organizations for more sound
business in State government.
Mr. Gwinn had other plans as to
State administration, but one other
only will we undertake to recall at
this time. That is the consolidation
of administrative departments, which
' ar3 scattered all over the cty of Nash
ville and costing the State some five
hundred millions a year. The con
solidation and coordination of these
departments, says Mr. Gwinn, will
yield better results and give greater
efficiency to the State. Mr. Gwinn
would reorganize these departments
nnder nine general heads. It would
mean a political fight against the
office bolder, but no man can serve
the State and the professional poli
tician at the same time.
Now, in all the work of political
reform, says Mr. Gwinn, little can be
accomplished except with indorse
ment of the people of the State.
Any effort of this character without
the moral support of the people will
avail but little.
Mr. Gwinn was heard with un
usual attention and interest, and it
goes without saying that he made a
Giif speech.
Election Qualifications.
Every man and woman of voting
age in Obion County, if they desire
to vote in the primary and general
elections in August, must govern
themselves by the election qualifica
tions, requiring registration and the
payment of poll tax. Poll tax"niust
be paid as follows:
The law requires poll tax receipts
for 1921 to be paid 60 days before
the election either in a primary or
general election; to entitle one to
vote in the August primary or gen
eral election, June 4th Is the last
day on which they can be paid. This
is a matter of general interest to ev
erybody and one in which all candi
dates are interested.
The law for 1921 assessed all poll
taxes as of June 1,1921. Every year
after 1921 they are assessable as of
Jan. 10. So that, any man or wom
an becoming 50 years old before June
1, 1921, will not have to pay any
poll tax. Any boy or girl becoming
21 years old after June 1, 1921, will
not have to pay any poll tax. Any
boy or girl who is under 21 on the
day of the August primary, but who
will be 21 by the November' elec
tion, can vote in the August primary.
In other words, any person who will
be a qualified voter in( the general
election in November can vote in the
August primary. All geneial election
requirements a3 to registration, etc.,
apply in the primary election.
Hon. Benton McMillin, candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Tennessee, was a visitor
in Union City last Monday. He came
in Sunday evening and spent the en
tire day shaking hands with the peo
ple of Union City and Obion County.
Mr. McMillin is an honored citizen of
Tennessee. He was in Congress twen
ty vears ago, a member of the Lower
House for many years, and served
wo terms as Governor of Tennessee.
It is said that no governor ever in
the history of the State exerted more
influence upon the Legislature for
the best interests of the State than
did Governor McMillin and no gov
ernor made a better executive nor
Droduced greater efficiency and co
ordination in administrative affairs.
Mr. McMillin has been signally hon
ored by the people of the State,, but
the State has also been honored with
the services of one of the biggest and
most loyal sons of the South. T hese
are things which will weigh very
greatly in the coming primary elec
tion. Chas. Claiborne for Floater.
Chas. Claiborne, who served in the
recent General Assembly as Floterial
Representative from Dyer, Lake and
Obion counties, is announcing for re
election, subject to the August pri
mary. . Esquire Claiborne needs no
introduction to the voters of Dyer
County. He has represented the
fifth district of the county in the
Dyer County Court for years and has
always been found on the right side
of every question. He has been one
of the most active men in the court,
ever ready to work for the interests
of the people. In the General As
sembly he was just as active. He
fought against every bad interest
that popped up and favored every
measure that was introduced for the
benefit of the taxpayers. He is pro
pressive, yet conservative, on all fi
nancial questions. His work deserves
a renomination. Dyersburg Gazette.
A Country Sick of Politicians.
Senator Frelinghuycen made a
stump speech before the Hudson
County .Republican Committee Mon
day night in the course of which he
said that everything the people of
New Jersey had demanded when they
voted the Republican ticket in 1920
"they had received." "They will sup
port the party." he continued, "that
has not indulged in false promises
but has delivered beyond their ex
pectations." It is safe to siy that there is no
body in New Jersey intelligent
enough to read and write who be
lieves what the Senator said. It is
equally safe to say that Senator Fre
linghuysen himself does not believe
it. He was talkinz the familiar pat
ter of the professional politician, and
the patter of the professional poli
tician has little relation to any ex
irting state of facts.
The Republican managers will
never win the fall elections by tell
ing the country that the Harding
administration and the Sixty-second
Congress have surpassed all expecta
tions. They would stand a much
better chance if they went before the
country admitting their own hope
less incompetency but triumphantly
pointing to the Democratic minor!
ty's record of unsurpassed stupidity
in Congress. That would be some
thing to talk about, and the Repub
licans could fairly claim thpi a po
litical trial balance would show that
they were no worce than the Demo
crats and that their leadership has
been no more blundering. On that
issue they would have a debatable
case and a great may voters might
be convinced. .
To claim, however, that the Ad
ministration and the Sixty-seventh
Congress have more than met the ex
pectations of the American people is
to claim in effect that the American
people are less than half-witted. Out
side of the select circle of Republican
office holders nobody io satisfied with
the work of tho Administration or
with the work of Congress. Repub
licans are no less vehement in their
complaints then Democrats. Tho av
erage voter is rapidly losing his faith
in political parties, and his faith in
government itself is at the lowest ebb
that it has ever reached. Everybody
is dissatisfied, although nobody quite
knows what could be done about it.
If it were possible to organize a
third party which could start with a
clean slate and with a leadership
that betrayed some faint understand
ing of the economic problems of the
country, both of the old parties
would have to fight for their lives
and one of them would have to go
under. All that is saving either of
them to-day is the inability of the
country to find means by' which ef
fective expression can be given to its
political discontent.
Tho Republicans in Congress are
still thinking in terms of 1897 and
the Democrats are thinking only of
the mistakes made by the Republi
cans. The country in the mean time
is sick of party politics and sick of
party politicians, but somehow it
seems to have lost its capacity for po
litical initiative. It has forgotten
the trick of recovering possession of
its own affairs. That is the only rea
son why the Senator Frelinghuysens
are not chased off the platform when
they make speeches saying that all
campaign promises have been re
deemed beyond the expectation of the
voters. New York World. '
Notice.
Elder Ernest C. Love, of Nashville,
Tenn., will preach at the following
places and on the following dates:
Hornbeak, Monday night, May 15;
Glady Hill, Tuesday night, May 16;
Mount Zion, Wednesday night, May
17; Bethel, Thursday night, May 18;
Dark Ridge, Friday night, May 19,
and at Rehoboth Saturday , night,
May 20. I hope the brethren at each
place will get a move on themselves
and have a large hearing for each
appointment. 1
I will accompany Bro. Love thru
the crooked, winding paths of the
lake hills to each of the above named
places to secure a safe arrival on the
part of the preacher.
Brethren, have your meeting
houses well lighted and your souls
attuned to sing God's praise and hear
the dear old gospel preached in its
purity and simplicity.
May 5, JOHN R. WILIAMS.
Turning the Searchlight on Chicago.
The Chicago division of the Asso
ciation Against the Prohibition
Amendment had declared that pro
hibition was an unmitigated failure
in Chicago as elsewhere.
The pro-beer and wine newspapers
of Chicago had been for months run
ping a "blood and thunder" serial
of law violation and "moonshine
whiskey" mortality, as the only news
about prohibition.
The city council of Chicago had
made itself notorious by passing a
resolution favoring a modification of
the Volstead Code to provide for the
manufacture of wine and beer, and
had then sent out circular letters to
councils of other cities asking them
to do likewise.
In the face of these facts Chicago
seemed a somewhat hopeless field in
which to search for benefits from the
dry law. But the one to whom the
task was assigned reasoned that if,
perchance, tnere should be discov
ered in that city a very few men,
women or children who had profited'
in body, mind or soul by the Eigh
teenth Amendment, then without
doubt in more favored, territory
there could be found an aboundance
of such evidence as to the value of
.the national prohibition law.
The following statements from va
rious individuals, societies and de
partments of the city government
speak for themselves.
FROM STANDPOINT OF HEALTH.
The year 1921 was heralded far
and wide as a banner health year in
the city of Chicago, the vital statis
tics furnished by its officials showing
a marked decrease in deaths.- When
Dr. William H. Evans, for many
years commissioner of health for Chi
cago, and now editor of the Health
Department of the Chicago Tribune,
was asked if prohibition had been a
factor in this fine health record, he
replied in the affirmative.
At the Department of Health, E.
R. Pritchard, secretary of the board,
gave expression to his sentiments in
the following words: "From both
health and economic standpoints pro
hibition has been of pronounced ben
efit. For people' to be proper.y nour
ished, housed and clothed has a di
rect effect on our mortality statistics,
and that is what prohibition has
done."
Dr. John Dill Robertson, until very
recently health commissioner of Chi
cago, gave the following statistical
records of public institutions: -
Alcoholic Cases in House of Correc
tion (Bridewell).
1918 (last license year) 1772
1921 151
Total Alcoholic Cases Reported.
1918 1921
1921 1040
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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. N.&H. H. LANINOM
Union City, Tennessee.
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NON-RESIDENT NOTICE.
Carroll P. Wilson et al vs. R. L. Da-
' Via tit Hi., vuBiiueiy wuun,
County, Tennessee.
la the above styled cause it appear
ing to the Clerk and' Master from the
bill of complaint, which is sworn to,
that the defendant, K. L. Davisand
Victoria Davis are non-residents of the
State of Tennessee, so that ordinary
process of law cannot be served upon
them. It is therefore hereby ordered
that the said above named defendants
appear beforo the Clerk and Master of
the Chancery Court of Obion County,
Tennessee, on or before the First Mon
day of June, 1922, that being a rule.
Hav of said Chancerv Court, and make
defense to tbe said bill, or the same
will be taken as confessed by tueui,
and thfi said cause set for hearing ex-
parte as to them. It is further ordered
that publication of tins notice be mae
four consecutive weeks in The Commer
cial, a weekly newspaper published in
Obion County, Tenn.
This May 1, 1923. '
GEO. A. GIBBS,
Clerk and Master.
By Nelle F. Marshall, D. C. and M.
Pierce & Fry, Sol. for Compl't.
- Rising in the World..
' "Well, Jenks finally mounted to
the high place for which the whole
community felt he was destined."
"Yes?" ,
"Yes. They hanged him to the
highest limb in the county.
Overheard in Our Office.
Some girl called you on the phone
ewhlle you were outto lunch."
"That so? Did Itsound like a
blonde or a brunette?"
"Must have been a perox. Her
voice seemed to be changing.'
' Tardy.
"I notice they arrested another big
gang of bootleggers In Chicago yes
terday." "What for? Getting behind with
their deliveries?" Life.
Personal Application.
"Is poker a matter of luck, or does
science enter into it?"
"It's science if you win; but luck
if you lose." Life. -
Reduced to Pulp.
"1 put a note in ho Jar for the
milkman."
"Yes, my dear, I found it in tha
milk."