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He Commercial, Union City, Tenn.
FRIDAY, MAY .26, 1922.
CHAUTAUQUA ORATOR
i SELECTS VITAL TOPIC
Dr. Huber W. Hurt to Speak on
"The New Industrial Day."
PART OF CAPT. FITZHUGH'S
SPEECH AT JACKSON
Wei I-Known Lecturer Will Set Forth
; , Practical Principles of Individual
and Collective Living.
t "The New Industrial Day" will be
,the subject of a challenging lecture
to be given at the coming Redpath
Chautauqua by Dr. Huber W. Hurt,
scholar, writer and orator.
This Is a lecture which sets forth
powerfully and convincingly practical
principles of individual and collective
living.
. For twenty years Doctor Hurt has
been speaking to audiences In this
DR. HUBER W. HURT
'country and abroad. He will be one
o f the headllner lecturers of ,the Chau
tauqua. j Doctor Hurt is a true orator. A thor
jough master of his subject, he makes
hls Ideas stand forth vivid and real
ito his hearers.
During the war .he was chief of the
Educational Division of the Foreign
!Press Bureau of the Committee on
Public Information.
VOCATIONAL EXPERT
TO LECTURE HERE
Chautauqua Audiences will Hear
Important Address.
Prof. Chester M. Sanford to Discuss
Problem of Avoiding the Misfit
In Industry.
, "What shall I do In the world?" is
threat problem which Interests all of
us. Aid In the solution of "this prob
lem Is afforded by the lecture, "Fail
ures of the Misfits," to be given here
at the Redpath Chautauqua by Prof.
Chester Milton Sanford.
Professor Sanford Is an expert .on
vocational guidance. His lecture alms
to guide the young people of the com-
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CHESTER M. SANFORD
munity into choosing their proper vo
cations to help eliminate misfits In
Industry and the professions. Every
person, young or old, who has the
future of America at heart will .be
vitally Interested in this lecture.
The tragedy In many lives is the at
tempt to succeed In one line of work
when ability and Inclinations point In
an entirely different direction. Many
a man who would succeed In business
would be a failure as a physician and
.vice versa.
Professor Sanford's lecture gives val
uable suggestions concerning the choos
ing, of a vocation.
Chautauqua Week
June 21 to June 28
In Chicago.
Chicago Prisoner: "Yes, your hon
or, I shot the iran. I murdered him.
I plead (stifling a yavn) suilty."
Chicago Judge: "Young man, you
should be more careful! If you'd
missed him you'd a broke every win
dow in Mike Murphy's salooH."
PARAMOUNT DUTY OF PEOPLE.
"The paramount duty of the Amer
ican people to-day is to check the
dangerous drift toward centralization
of Federal -power. The persistent ab
sorption by the national government
of these functions and powers-which
properly belong to and can be more
efficient and economically exercised
by the. State is slowly but surely un
dermining the republic. Any depar
ture from the plan of the dual sys
tem established by the constitution
endangers the whole structure. .We
can not impair or destroy the State
without Impairing or destroying the
foundation on which the Union rests.
No government will voluntarily cur
tail its revenues or diminish its pow
ers. Congress Is to blame; the rem
edy therefore is to awaken the peo
ple to the consciousness of the peril
which confronts them and to tfevelop
a public sentiment the most potent
force in a democracy, to compel Co'n
gress to pursue a policy of decentrali
zation. Otherwise the States will be
come mere revenue producing prov
inces. "For ten years prior to 1910 the
annual taxes collected by the Fed
eral government averaged about
$600,000,000, and the government
expenditures abtmt $7 per capita.
Realizing its unlimited revenue rais
ing power, we flndthat in 1920, a
year after the war, the Federal gov
ernment collected sevn billion dol
lars in taxes, or $33 per capita. The
billion-dollar Congress which so
shocked the country a few years ago
has given place to a nine billion-dollar
Congress, and yet we now face a
deficit of about a half billion dollars.
"The Federal government is not
only absorbing the functions and
powers, but occupying all the fields
iOf revenue of the States. The anti
lynching bill passed by the lower
house is a flagrant illustration of a
drift toward unlimited usurpation of
the police powers of the State. If
enacted Into law subdivisions of sov
ereign States and State officers can
be punished in tko Federal courts.
"Against the ever-increasing ten
dency toward the disintegration of
the States I shall firmly stand, not
only because I believe, with Jeffer
son, that we chould 'support the State
governments in all thMr rights as the
most competent administrators of our
domestic concerns, and the surest
bulwark against anti-republican ten
dencies, l)ut because in this watf
alone lies the safety of tho people.
AGAINST BUREAUCRACY.
"Congress seems to be constantly
seeking new means of increasing ap
propriations and expenditures in
stead of diminishing them, hence the
vast number of bureaus which have
been multiplying to an alarming ex
tent, with a multitude of inspectors,
to supervise and pry Into every phase-t
of our lives and every character of
our business. ;
"One of the counts in the indict
ment against George III in the Dec
laration of Independence was: "He
has erected a multitude of new of
fices and sent hither a swarm of offi
cers to harass our people and eat out
their substance.' What would George
III think of the situation here to
day? "We are informed that Congress
has appointed over one hundred com
mittees, commissions, boards' and bu
reaus, which during tho last ten
years are estimoted to have cost
about seven billion dollars, mo&t of
which has been wasted in doing
things which the people could best
do for themselves, or through their
duplication and Waste in tho function
of these bureaus, many of which
could be consolidated and others dis-1
pensed with entirely.- We are suffer
ing from a sort of despotism, of bu
reaucracy, which we havep ermy.ted
Congress to create, and to delegate
to them powers, legislative and ad
ministrative, which are useC. in a
manner thaf- amounts to an intoler
able interference with, our legisla
tive activities, and are exercised by
agents with whose appointment and
selection we have nothing to co and
who are strangers to our customs and
needs. Tho appetite of bureaucracy
grows by what it feeds upou. In
1827 there ware only 167 special
agents, deputies and Inspectors on
t"no government payroll. In 1907
they had grown to 3,000, and the
number is now placed at 30,000.
VAST ARMY OF EMPLOYES.
"It is difficult to get accurate in
formation as to ths number of civil
employes in t?io Federal service. The
government gavo out the toto! in
1919 as 777,600, but tho New York
Chamber of Commerce made an in
vestigation which it claims showed
there were 917,000. The reduction,
long after the war, is entirely too
small. Rigid economy must be ex
ercised. We must return to Jeffer-
sonian simplicity. .
"We can dispense wih at least 50
per cent of , these Federal employes
without detriment to the public oerv
ipe, and they could be placed in pro
ducts pursuits. Think of it, my
countrymen! We have one Federal
employe to about every 120 people.
Their activities In most instances
are not only annoying, but
positively - injurious They re
quire the farmer and merchant and
breadwinner to turn over their books
to them, to obey all sorts of regula
tions and to .submit to all kinds of
interferences with their business, be
sides having the increased burikin of
taxation incident to their useless ex
istence. ' , 'j
r "An expanding government means
more and more taxes, more extrava
gance, less efficiency, less prosperity,
less liberty.
"Jefferson, in his second inaugural
address, boasted that the government
under his administration had been
true to the constitution and thor
oughly unmindful of its delegated
powers. He said:
" 'At home, fellow citizens, you
best know whether we have done
well cr ill. Tho suppression of un
necessary 'of fices, ornselcss estab
lishments and expens cables us to
discontinue our internal taxes. These
covering our land vith officers and
opening our doors to their instruc
tions had already begun that process
of domiciliary vexation, which, once
entered, is scarcely to bo restrained,
reaching successively every article of
produce and property. It may bo the
pleasure and pride of an American to
ask what farmer, what mechanic,
what laborer fiver see3 a taxgathercr
of the Unite f States.'
"How diff lint is he picture pre
sented to-d ": i
"The C Jbnal government is
groaning uder a weight which it
was never intended it should carry,
while the States are stripped of their
sovereignty and becoming more and
more insignificant.
"Mr. Lincoln, just before he start
ed for the Ford theatre on the night
he was tCssassinatcd, was asked to ap
point a commission to investigate
certain claims. Ho said: 'Ashmun, I
have done vith commissions, I think
they are contrivances to Cheat the
government.'
"To-day commissions and bureaus
are being created for everything and
are becoming plague on the body
politic.
WOULD ELEVATE GARRETT
TO SPEAKER OF HOUSE
" OF
As the jtariff bill now seems to be
before the Senate for an indefinite
period, the House is arranging its af
fairs for recessing three days at a
time to give those members who will
have opposition in the approaching
primaries opportunity to campaign in
their respective districts. Several
Representatives are already filling
speaking engagements'- and others
will leave this week.
Representative Fisher is planning
to leave shortly for Memphis. Rep
resentative Finis J. Garrett, acting
Democratic leader in the House, is
now in his district by a special leave
of absence. The fact that this leave
was extended, Mr. Garrett has di
rected attention, especially on the
Republican side of the House, to the
fact that he is being opposed for the
nomination.
It is recalled in this connection
that is the first time the titular
leader of the party in the House,
either majority or minority, has had
opposition in his own party.
In the case of Congressman Gar
rett it is exciting unusual interest in
both political parties, the Democrats
because they are naturally concerned
in the fate of the acting leader.whose
prospects for the speakership in the
event the Democrats should control
the next House, seem bright, and
the Republicans because of a belief
that the defeat of the Democratic
leader in his own party would be
filled with a political significance,
national in scope and not of mere
passing local movement.
Indications are shading toward the
probability of the organization of the
next House by the Democrats and in
that event Mr. Garrett, it now ap
pears, will be the probable choice of
his .party for the speakership honor.
Republican leaders are searching
for something to discredit the Demo
cratic minority in both Houses of
Congress and the defeat of the acting
leader in the House would be con
strued by them as a repudiation in a
sense of the minority party's activi
ties and seized upon as an offset to
the blows of the Harding administra
tion by the defeat .of Senator New
In Indiana and' the nominatiou of
Pinchot in Pennsylvania over the op
position of the Republican machine.
Mr. Garrett is the only Democratic
member from Tennessee who has op
position and the fact of his titular
leadership has focused attention up
on the Ninth District. R. M Gates
im Commercial Appeal. (Adv.)
Valuable City Real Estate and
Farm Property.
In the District, Court of the United States for the Eastern
Division of the Western District of Tennessee.
In the matter of Estate of
George Dahnke, Bankrupt
No. 1085 in Bankruptcy.
Under and by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon me. the under
signed, R. H. Rust, Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Estate of George Dahnke, Bankrupt,
in the above styled matter in Bankruptcy, by an order of the Hon. P. W. Maddox,
Referee in Bankruptcy, made on the 1 0th day of May, 1 922, and pursuant to the
directions contained in said order so made, notice is hereby given to all whom it may
concern, that the undersigned Trustee aforesaid will offer for sale to the highest and
best bidder on the terms hereinafter mentioned, certain real estate hereinafter des
'gted, belonging to the estate of the said George Dahnke, Bankrupt, on
Saturday, June 17, 1922,
at the East door of the Courthouse in Union City, Tennessee, and beginning at 1
o'clock p. m. and continuing until the sale is completed.
1st TRACT. Situated in the 13th Civil District of Obion County Tenn., and located in the town of
Union City, described as follows: Beginning at a stake in the north line of Washington Avenue, at its in
tersection with the west line of the walk on the west side of Fifth Street, runs thence North with the west
side of the walk 181 feet to a stake; thence West 145 feet to a Btake in the east line of a 20 foot alley;
thence South with said alley 181 feet to a stake in the North line of Washington Ave.; thence East with
North line of Washington Ave. 145 feet to the beginning, being the same property conveyed to George
Dahnke by Laura Wells by deed dated May 21, 1904, and reorded in Book 6-E, Page 432, of the records of
the Register's office of the said County and State. This is the lot on which is located the residence in which
Geo. Dahnke resided at the time of his death.
2nd TRACT. Situated in the town, County and State aforesaid, lying on the west side of a 20 foot
alley directly west of the lot last above described, and on the north side of Washington Ave. and beginning at
a stake at the intersection of the west line of said alley with the north line of Washington Ave., runs thence
North with the west line of said alley 112 feet to a stake; thence West 150 feet to a stake in the east line of
6th Street; thence South with 6th Street 112 feet to a stake in the North line of Washington Ave.; thence
East 150 feet to the beginning, being part of the eanie property conveyed to Geo. Dahnke by Laura C. Wells
by the deed last above mentioned.
3rd TRACT. A certain tract or parcel of land, consisting of two tracts, lying and being in the 7th
Civil District of Obion County, Tenn., the first of which is described: Beginning at Haley's (formerly, now
Dahuke's) Southwest corner, runs thenco South 195 poles to a hickory with a pointer; thence East 44 poles
to a stake with two hickory and hornbeam pointers; thence North 195 poles to a stake, two white oak and
ash pointers, in Mrs. Wright's south boundary line; thence West with Mrs: Wright's and Hailey's line 44
poles to the beginning, and containing 53 acres.
And the said second tract is described as follows: Beginning at Mrs. Wright's Southeast corner, runs
thence South 195 poles to a hickory with pointers; thence West 57 poles to Mrs. Milam's Southeast corner;
thence North with Mrs. Milam's line 195 poles to a stake with two white oak pointers; thence East 81 poles
to the beginning, containing 97 acres more or less.
4th TRACT. A certain tract or parcel of laud near Crockett Station, on which is situated three small
dwelling houses, and lying and being in the 7th Civil District of Obion County, Tenu., and being the same
property purchased by the said George Dahnke in the case of C. C. Young et al. vs. Minnie May Young et
al. in the Chancery Court of Obion County, Tenn. The decree confirming said sale to the said Dahnke - be
' ing of record on Miu. Book M, Page 484 of the Minutes of the said Chancery Court, and more particularly
described as follows: Beginning at a stake, J. B. Horsley's original northeast corner now Mrs. Goodwiu's;
thence West with Mrs. Goodwin's line 73 yards to a stake; thence North 135 yards to a stake; thence East
73 yards to a stake in S. F. Howard's west boundary line; thence South 130 yards to the beginning, contain
ing 2 acres more or less.
5th TRACT. Also one other tract or parcel of land conveyed by Ross Nichols to George Dahnke by
deed dated November 27, 1916, and recorded in Book 8-F, Page 152, and described as follows: Lying and
being in the 8th Civil District of Obion County, Tenu., and beginning in the center of the M. & O. Railroad
in Bruce's south boundary line, and R. L. Quarles northeast corner, runs thence North 85 degrees east 80
poles to a point in the middle of Rutherford Fork of Obion River, with cypress and beech pointers; thence
South with the meanders of the river 22 degrees west 7 poles; South 12 poles; South 8 degrees east 8 poles;
South 33J degrees east 4 poles; South 54 degrees east 4 poles; North 75 degrees east 7 poles; North 38 de
grees east 10 poles; North 67 degrees east 12 poles; South 47 degrees east 4 poles; South 35 degrees west 6
poles; South 43 degrees west 8 poles; South 5 degrees east 4 poles; South 45 degrees east 4 poles!
East 16 poles;! South 26 degrees east 4 poles; South 3 degrees east 8 poles; South 5 degrees west 28
poles; South 27 degrees east 8 poles; South 35 degrees east 24 poles; South 22 degrees east 4 poles; South 2
degrees east 8 poles; South 23 degrees east 4 poles; South 60 degrees east 6 poles; North 55 degrees east 11
poles; South 55 degrees east 6 poles; South 35 degrees east 10 poles; East 14 poles; South 60 degrees east 4
poles; East 9 poles; North 50 degrees east 15 poks; south 35 degrees east 4 poles; South 67 degrees east 20
poles; South 35 degrees east 39 poies; South 43 degrees west 4 poles; West 15 poles; South 50 degrees west
4 poles; South 13 degrees west 4 poles; South 40 degrees east 16 poles; South 10 degrees west 7 polos; South
70 degrees west 4 poles; North S8 degrees west 4 poles; North 80 degrees west 4 poles; South 72 degrees west
4 poles; South 20 degrees west 4 poles; South 32 degrees east 4 poles; south 40 degrees eat 4 poles; thence
South 58 degrees east 4 poles to the middle of said river with black gum pointers, J. W. Nichols northeast
corner; thence running with J. W. Nichols north boundary line, North 80 degrees west 158 4-5 poles to the
center of said railroad, W. H. Wilson's northeast corner and J. W. and Ross Nichols southeast corner,
thence with said M. & O. Railroad, north 10 degrees west 108 poles; thence North 13 degrees west 40 poles;
thence North 15 degrees west 32 poles; thence North 27 degrees north 34 poles to the beginning, containing
167 acres more or less, but excluding 4 acres from M. & O. Right-of-way, leaving 163 acres.
There is assessed against the first tract t land described (assessed in two tracts of 53 acres and 97 acres
respectively) drainage taxes for the year 1920, amounting to $302.33, and for the year 1921, amounting to
$229.59, which is past due and unpaid, and the land will be sold subject thereto.
TERMS OF SALE: All of said real estate will be sold upon
terms of one-third cash, one-third in nine months and the balance in eighteen months
and for the deferred payments the notes of the purchasers with approved personal
security bearing interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum will be taken, and a
vendor's lien will be retained to further secure the same, and the said several tracts
will then be sold for cash and the sale realizing the better price will be adopted and
reported.
This property will be sold free from all claims for homestead and dower, and
the State and County taxes for the current year will be paid by the undersigned as
trustee. . .x ,
IR. M. RTUlSX, Trustee.
Of Estate of George Dahnke, Bankrupt No. 1085
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