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THE COMET CY H. LYLE . Owner T. L. ANDERSON Editor R. D. KINKEAD Associate Editor PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. Entered at the postofike at Johnsoi City, Tean., as second class matter. SU1SCKIPTI0X $1.00 A YEAE. THE STATE COMMITTEE. The newspapers are persistent! publishing the rumor that Gov. I:ye dissatisfied with the selection of it; own chairman by the State Demo cralic committee, will organize a com mittee of his own, independent of tht regular party uiKanizaiion, to look al tt-r his personal interests in the com ins campaign. We hope this rumor is groundless We sincerely w ant to see Gov. Rye re elected, lie has carried out iu go( faith the party pledges made when h was first nominated, and deserves election. lie was unanimously no.u nti ted for a second term, and the c .m vention which nominated him selec a committee to manage the campaigi and look after the interests of the Democratic candidates for Presidui United States Senator, Governor i Railroad Commissioner. No one these candidates had any right, fi n i-.taudpoint or any view of the ; i nation, to say who should be chairman of the committee. It been the unvarying custom for ih committee tJ select its own chairni.'.n Exercising the right which the Do moeracy of Tennessee said it sho exercise, the committee re-eleciP( Chairman L. D. Hill. Judge Hill is true, tried and loyal Democrat, and man of the highest standing and char acter. lie will not resort to tricks stoop to unfair methods. He sincere ly desires Gov. Rye's election aloiu with that of Woodrow Wilson, Ken "neth D. McKellar and B.A. Enloe, am will use every honorable means to se cure that end. We hope Gov. Rye will cheerfull and loyally acquiesce in the action e the State Committee, which was se lected by the same Democratic con vention which selected him as it candidate for Governor. The Gov ernor is a just man and wants to d what is right. If he does not wish be' discourteous to the great conven tion which nominated him, and doe not wish to question the loyalty o the committee which that conventioi selected, he should speak out and pu an end to the foolish talk about personal committee, independent o the regular Democratic organization As Congressman McKellar very wise ly said: "This is no time to rock tin boat." COXVEXTIOX VS. PKI.MARY. The report is being circulated to tht effect that Senator Shields favored the selection of Judge Hill as chair man of the State Committee, and wanted friends on the committee in order to have a convention instead ol a primary to nominate a candidate for the Senate. We happen to know thai, this is not true. Senator Shields does not favor a convention to nominate a candidate f.,r l'nltud States Senator. In more tha none speech in the Senate on the bill to provide a temporary method fur tht mim ination and election of United States Senators, under the amendment to the Federal constitu tion providing for the election of Sen ators by direct vote of the people, he took the position that if the spirit of the amendment was to be carried out Senators should always be nominated in primary elections; that to nomin ale by conventions would work very little change in the old method of electing Senators by State Legisla tures, and that for these reasons he was strongly in favor of a primary i lection system. For years Senator Shields has fa vored a compulsory primary law for Tennessee, to nominate all candidates for political offices. A primary law held under authority of . the State, villi safeguards such as are provided fr the holding of general elections, in order to prevent fraud and corrup tion, and to secure an honest expreS' sion of the voters. Should Senator Shields be a candt date for re-election to the Senate, he will willingly and cheerfully submit his claims to the Democratic voters of Tennessee iu a primary election. A TARIFF TRA1IE lNVESTHUTlOX, The Indianapolis News says the Illi nois Manufacturers' association some time ago recommended to the Presi dent that a committee of twelve to twenty be appointed to visit foreign nations iu search of information which will tend to prevent future trade misnnderstanding. In his reply Mr. Wilson says: "When the circum stances justify It, I shall take advan tage of that provision of the Rainey bill under which the President is au thorized to direct an examination or Investigation by the tariff commission of tradq, relations between the United States and foreign countries, includ ing the conditions, causes and eff cts of the competition of foreign incus tries with those of the United States." This is a subject which is certain io be much discussed in congivss, and possibly it is just as well tha; it has been introduced by a business or ganization. While it is possible so to iiiuUiply investigations that the re sults are confused, certain inqui.ies are necessary if the tariff commission is to be effective. In his reply the Pres.dent intimates that this miht not be the best time for such an in vestiation. Not much could be dine oy me commissioners until ptaee aonus. About all that this govern men! can do in the meantime is U keep informed of conditions as in:lu slice. I by the war or artificial trade resti ictions. T1;j President reminds the Illinois Manufacturers association that aiier ill, what we are interested in is to isce.iain all the facts surroundiu mr economic life and to disconnect a fundamental thing like the fiscal pol cy 11 the government with regard t'j auuc-4 on imports from party poll ics." This distinction is necessary if he tariff commission and the federal aadv commission are to perform their functions satisfactorily. We ar. sntei in;; a trying commercial period nit economically the nation is far letter equipped than the public gen i , . . jrauy is aware, in tlie effort to re lieve business of the fear of perseeni ion through radical legislation, the trade commission was established and the tariff commission is for the purpose of restraining political influ ence in fixing duties on imports. The first body is making itself acquainted with ia ernal conditions. It will be a duty cf the tariff commission to pro cure information from abroad. If the comn.isdons operate as successfully as is promised, our trade problems will lie solved as the occasion re quires. 01 K GREAT TRADE BALANCE. Familiarity, says the Pittsburg DIs patch, with the fact that the war is sostin;; Great Britain, for instance jver if.'j.OOO.uOO a day, and the other powers in proportion, with a total ex penuitii e tor England to date of nearly ilfteen billions, has given us a oetter rasp on totals running into :en figures. Billions, in fact, have be come commonplace, although the time is not . o remote when a billion-dollar aongrc. s or country seemed almost as I'abuloa.) as a billion and a half cor poration did later. So w hen the government report an nounce that our foreign trade for the year euded June 30 amounted to over dx and one-half billions we have a c'airly clear Idea of what It means. That is nearly $18,000,000 a day. We sxporte I nearly four and one-half bil lions' v. orth, as against a billion and a halt the previous year. Our im ports also were the greatest in our history, "about two and one-fifth bil lions, 1, aving a trade balance in our favor oi' well over two billion dollars, double that of the year before and four time that of 1914. In other words, our trade balance has been piling up at a raie of $0,000,000 a day. Our exports last year exceeded the annual average from 1911 to 1914 by more than two billions, and our im ports were nearly half a billion more than the annual average in that period. While Europe is spending billions In destructive warfare, we, too, are deal ing in billions but constructive bil lions. We, too, have our daily mil lions coining in not going out. 'And this is but a fraction of our total trade; our own great domestic mar ket, the finest in the world, furnish ing such a demand that our manufac turers have little capacity to spare for foreign orders. DECTSCHLANl) HAS DEPARTED. Baltimore,- Aug. 1. The German merchant submarine sailed today on her return voyage to Germany, leav ing her pier at Locust Point at fc:40 p. m. As the Deutschland left the wharf flags were run up on the interned . North German Lloyd liner Neckar and' her crew lined the rail cheering and shouting their farewells to their coun- trynien in the Deutschland Capt. Paul Koenig said that he would take the Deutschland safely home in spite of the allied warships waiting for her off the Virginia capes. Capt. Koenig and his crew of 27 men put to sea with the knowledge, that a man had telephoned agents of the entente allies that the Deutsch- land had started. They knew how long he had watched at the end of a nearby pier, day and night, but the captain went out of Baltimore liar- bors smiling and waving his cap. His last words in the harbor were of praise for America and for his treat- nient here, by customs authorities, To Guy Steele, surveyor of customs, he said: We came here dubious about our reception. We go back certain that ttie friendliest of feeling exists in America for Germany. You have been more than courteous, and the father- land will not forget it." EPISCOPAL ISMS. METHOD- (By Rev. John M. Crowe, M. A ston Conference.) Hol- 'Watchful waiting" has been our ixiniNt; attitude for some time, as we have . House. The statement was brought read the mind of the Church in our , forth by the announcement yesterday periodicals, hoping to read some sug- of Charles E. Hughes, the Republican gestions touching the possible solu-, nominee, that he favored an amend tion of the real problem involved. The nient to the Federal constitution glv difliculties in the way of unification ' ing tho vote to women, have been brought forward, probable j A delegation of suffragists saw the evils and possible perils have been President yesterday and afterward in- r apprehended and deprecated, matters dicated they believed he would make of mere expendiency have been dis-a new statement on the question be cussed, fear of the sinister design to ' fore the convention of the National absorb the minor force and destroy American Woman Suffrage Associa its identity has been spoken, sectional tion in September. At that time the pride has repelled the idea of seem- policy to be pursued in the presiden ing to go back into another Church, tial c; nipaign will be determined by and so on, ad nauseam. But what the national suffrage organization, about the historic, basic, constitu-j Today Secretary Tumulty discussed lional question demanding mutual the question with the President and i concessions, disposing of the thing afterward announced that Mr. Wil that divided us? For, confessedly, j sou's position on the subject was un the thing is still there, if we accept changed. This position, as outlined the recommendation of the Saratoga i several times to suffragist delegations General Conference and make ihe Genera! Conference of the reunited Methodism Legislative, Judicial and Executive. "Is there no balm In our Giliad, no physician there to heal the hurt" in our body ecclesiastic? If I am not mistaken, and I do not think I am, the assumption and assertion of the Judicial function by the majority of the General Conference of 1844 as a co-ordinate prerogative of the leg islative body brought on all the trou ble. Let the good and great men North magnanimously concede their anomalous contention, making the law-making body the law-judging body. If I am not mistaken, and I hope I am not, the investiture of the Epis copacy in the Southern Church with a quasi-judicial prerogative as a co ordinate prerogative of the Executive administration, with a provisional ap peal to the Annua' Conferences for ul timate settlement of questions consti tutional, is liable to embarrassment and open to just criticism. Let the good and great men South magnani mously concede their anomalous sit- uation, making the law-executing the law-judging body. I Dorn in Bn ' tne South, am glad As to this Judicial prerogative let 't is gone never to return. I am glad, the Joint Commission recommend also- that the idea of nationality has that it be lifted out of the Legislative supplanted that of confederation, de Department North and out of the Ex- sP'te lhe danger involved. And so, I ecutive Department South, and put in cau find 11 in mv heart to want to a Supreme Appelate Court composed make tne amphitheatre of Arlington of an equal number of bishops, trulv national in its scope." preachers and laymen. Here let all . appeals rest on matters coustitu-' tional. Now, you have an almost i brand new Episcopal Methodism, and let us both move into the new house, no one is joining the other Church the old home is not what it used io be, the old casus belli has been for ever oisposeu or, mutual, nrotneriy concessions have won the day, a Church polity has been adopted in full accord with all the analogies of Constitutional Government and not at variance with the spirit and genius of Christianity. What say you all? Next. I think all the Church papers ought to copy my little piece. Thanks. PEOPLE SAVING MONEY. (Buffalo Express.) During June there was a net gain of $3,800,000 in the postal savings. Nothing could better show the pros perity of the country than this. The increases naturally are mainly in the industrial centers, large and small, for it is those places that men are working for higher wages than ever before. The savings shown in the postal de partment are in line with the savings shown in banking reports from all parts of the country. It could not be hoped that the savings were great er, for greater they would be if the workers were willing to lay aside more money in these days of pros perity. The wise ones will strain themsevles to save, for they know that the prosperity will not continue forever. It must end not very long after the war ends, and that will mean a pinch that will be felt by ev erybody. Those who can best weather the readjustment will he the ones who have iaid awav money when nloney ame easiIv and pien, -fully. There is nothing so eiusive as ..easy money. It l8 tlie hardest kind of money to hold. GEOGRAPHICAL 1)01 BLES.' (From London Chronicle.) Accidental doubles of geography are very curious. There are two totally unconnected Galiclas, the present scene of strife and the one in Spain. As to the Carpathians, the doubling occurs between the ancient and the modern atlases. On the map of the ancients we find a people named CarDi in the north of what is now Hungary, antf north of them the Car- pathus Mountains. But "Carpathian" in Virgil, Horace and Ovid means soinethine Quite different. The Car- pathian Sea was the sea between Rhodes and Crete, from the island of Carpathus, now Scarpanto, and the I "Carpathian old man" was Proteus, who lived and no doubt practiced his quick-change tricks there, WILSOV ASSERTS STAND IXHANt.rO Washington, Aug. 3. President Wilson has not changed his position that the woman suffrage question should be dealt with by the states, it was announced today at the White within the last three years, is that, while he favors votes for women, he is opposed to Federal action. The President voted for woman's suffrage in New Jersey last year. It was indicated that today's nouncement was final. , TILLMAN'S FINE CONVERSION. Washington, Aug. 3. "I never be lieved it possible that I could do it, but slowly and by degrees I have come to think that it was best for all concerned that the South was defeat ed," said Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, Saturday, urging passage of a bill dealing with Arlington National cemetery. Slavery, he continued, was a curse, which had to be destroyed ere the Sduth and the world could ad vance. It was- a curse for which the South was no more responsible than the North. Both sections were re sponsible and both paid four long, bloody years of pennance for their joint sin. It had to go, and while it went in the worst possible way and its going gave birth to an apparently unsolvable problem, still I, who was j FOR THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN 1YOU CANNOT DO WITHOUT THE (01RIER-J01RNAL It prints the news as it occurs, full er, better, more accurately than any paper in its territory. 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The Busy Bee Restaurant is becom ing very popular. Mr. Nuckols is again at his desk al ter a week's illness. All the lumber firms in this vicinity report good business. Vance Newland was the guest of Clyde Graseclose Sunday. Joe Strauss, of Bristol, was in Kingsport Wednesday. Miss Lou White has been visiting friends in town this week. Mrs. T. L. Nehns and .Miss Grayce Clyce were in town Saturday. Mrs. Hillenberg was calling on Mr.". Walker Nehns Sunday. Ernia Dickson is visiting friends out of town this week. Thos. S. Ketron, of Bloomingdale, was in town Tuesday. Our physicians claim there is very little sickness in Kingsport. Mrs. Mattle Ketron was shopping in Kingsport Wednesday. Mr. Chas. Peavler was transie.'ng business In town Saturday. Misses Nell and Anna Childress were in town Saturday. M. F. Parsley spent Tuesday in Er win transacting business. Kingsport is proud of the Kings port Times, the home paper. Misses Annie and Alice Light wore in Kingsport Saturday. , Harry, Oscar and Winifred Ketron were in town recently. . J. V. Stephens, of Dale street, called at the Times office Tuesday. Mr. J. Byerly has again resumed his duties after a week's illness. Miss B. Pyle was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Breeding, Saturday. Mr. Alex Anderson, of Johnson City, was a visitor in Kingsport Tuesday. J. C. Pyle, the cow man from old HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE After Four Tears of Discouraging Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave Up in Despair. Husband ' Came to Rescue. Catron, Ky. In an interesting letter from this place, Mrs. Bettie Bullock writes as follows : "I suffered for four years, with womanly troubles, and during this time, I could only sit up for a little while, and could not walk anywhere at all. At times, 1 would have severe pains In my left side. The doctor was called in, and his treat ment relieved me for a while, but I was soon confined to my bed again. After that, nothing seemed to do me any good. I had gotten so weak I could not stand, and I gave up in despair. At last, my husband got me a bottle of Cardui, the woman's tonic, and I com menced taking it. From the very first dose, I could tell it was helping me. I can now walk two miles without its tiring me, and am doing my work." If you are air run down from womanly troubles, don't give up in despair. Try Cardui, the woman's tonic. It has helped more than a million women, in its 50 years of wonderful success, and should surely help you, too. Your druggist has sold Cardui for years. He knows what it will do. Ask him. He will recom mend it. Begin taking Cardui today. Write tot Chittinoon Mrdlrfn Co.. LadlM1 Advisory Dept., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Sprciat lmtruitionM on your cat and 64-page book, ' Home Treatment lor Wanes, teat ia plain wrapper, Bbtt-m Have Y&uT W have ner heard of anybody who sucoeeded In making surliness or Inolvility pay. You can get 87.00 each yearoneveiy Sioo.oo you have, If you Invest In our I Per Cent Preferred Sri Dividends payable quarter ly) 1 per cent, every 3 uiouthsi. - Let your idle money work for you. Ihe Bristol Telephone Cq, Bristol. Tennessee Safe Wide taint Kingsport, was in the city Tuesday. , Mr. and Mrs. Auluy Pyle were the, guests of friends out of town Friday. Russell Ketron, of Bloomingdale, ' was iu the city on business on Tues day. ! J. D. Ulakely, of the Smith-Blakeiy ' company, made a trp to Bristol Mol: iay. : It 11. BlizzarC, of Bloom 'nudali-, was a visitor in Kin.pori. on Tuesday. Conductor C. I Noiiis and son. Butler, were over I'inii Ei win Wed- nesduy. Mrs. Jennie Clyce had as Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Cam h;r finest King and 'daughters. Willie iiussell, of Church Hill. Tt-:in., called pleasantly at tl Times office Thursday. Mr. It. S. Collins, of the St i and Theatre, is at Hoi springs. Ark., I'm his health. Mrs. .W. E. Law motored to l!i istol Tuesday morning, returning in the af ternoon. Charley Lunsford, of the Busy lire Restaurant made a trip to Bristol Monday. Mr. Richard Gurney, of Johnson City, was a visitor in KiuKRport one day last week. Jess Bridwell, the good farmer of Indian Springs, called at the Times office Tuesday last. Charlie Richards, the grocery safes man from Johnson City, wis culling on our merchants Tuesday. A. N. Bridwell, of Indian Springs, was a pieasant cr.ller at the Times office Tuesday. Andy Ketron, of Bloomingdale, and candidate for School Supervisor, was in our city Wednesday. Mr. W. II. Bennett, of the Clinch field Portland Cement Plant, is in New York City I hi:; week. Miss Kiitie ifallomau, of Cl-arle-mont street, has been slightly i;dis- 1 posed, but is able to he out again, ) Thomas and Audio Ketron and Misses Myrtle, Mildred and Mabel Ket M?to!SlatP Victoria Shingle 2 31 I With hi varlntv of desit-ns. either CORTRlGn orKreen.yu tan find just the right style ofCortriKht Metal SliingleH fur your buildim;. Luuk lur trade-maik, "Cortright" Reg. U. S. Fat. On. 5 Fur Sale by LOCAL KOOKEKS, Oil COItTKMiHT ME I II, IIOOl'I.XJ CO. 50 No;;th 2ord St., Philadelphia, Pa. Telephones 50c per Month and Up If there is no telephone on your farm write for our free booklet telling how you may get service at small cost. Addrest FARMERS' LINE DEPARTMENT Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company INCORPORATED. BOX 411. KNOXVILLE. TENN. Carolina Clinciifield & Ohio Ry, In Effect July 3rd. ISIS Eastern Standard Time XORTHBOl'XI). 8 : G5 a. m daily, for Cincinnati, O., Eordtown and Kingsport, Tenn.,. Cameron, Va.-Tenn., Speer s Ferry, St. Paul and Dante, Va., and Elkhorn City and Louisvill e,Kenlucky4 ?:f5 a. m., dally except Sunday, for Cincinnati, O., Ashland, Catletnr- burg, Jenkins, Louisville, E ouisa, Paintsville, Pikevllle and Shel by, Ky.; also Charleston, Huntington and Kenova, W. Va. 5:15, daily, for Fordtown and Kingsport, Tenn., Cameron, Va.-Tenn.; Kpeers Ferry, St. Paul and Dante, Va. SOUTHBOL'XO 5:40 a. m daily for Erwin and Unaka Springs, Tenn., Tof-canc, Ko na, Sprueepine, Altapass;, M t. Mitchell, Linville Falls, Marlon and Bostlc, N. C, also Spartanburg-, S. C. 11:45 a. m., for Erwin and Unaka Springs, Tenn., Toecane. Burns- i ville.-Pensaeola and, Marion, N. C, and Spartanburg S C 6:50 p. m daily, for Unicoi and Erwin, Tenn. ' For definite and additional information apply at ticket office or to , . (HAS. T. MAN DEL General Passenger Agent, - ' J!'r' " JOHNSON CITY TENN, " ' - ron motored to Kingsport Saturuay. Patsy and Eleanor Hufford were the guests of their littla cousins at Rolh erwood Farm Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Kufene Guthrie is on an ex tended vacation to eastern points, and is enjoying his trip immensely. Mr. J. I'.. Beading, of the Brading S.'lls Lumber Co., of Johnson City, v. as iiunacting business here Tues day. j The First National Bank of Kings port will move to their new quarters in the 1. O. O F. building iu a few nays. .Miss KnUdeen and Master Walton Sproles. of Clinehport. Ya., are guests of Mis.;es Kittye and Violet llollomail this week. The Kingsport Hotel has an ad. in this issue of the Times. This hotel is first-class, fire-proof. sanitary and mod i n. i The Strand Theatre is drawing large crouds This is an up-to date J place and deserves the patronage of j olir people. j Tin I. t). O F. building will soon be completed. This is a three-story i brick, and adds much to the appear ance of Alain street. Misses Mabel. Myrtle and Mildred Ketron, of Bloomingdale and .Misses .Max and Bonnie Sleadman clled very pleasantly at the Times o:"ec Satur day. .Mess's. Wilson and Dovcll went to Bristol last Sunday. Both of these gentlemen are eflicient employes on the clerical force of the Federal Dye Stuff & Chemical Corporation. J. S. Peoples, of Petitions, Tenn., called pleasantly at the Time;, office Tuesday. Mr. Peoples, is guarding convicts in his section. Ho is well pleased with Kingsport and may buy real estate here. Mr. and Mrs Harry McDonald mo tored from Bristol Friday and spent the day with Mrs. George llolloman. Prof. T. M. Ketron, of Blooming dale, was a pleasant caller at the Times olfice Monday. 4 T Metal Shingles Imperial 5hingt 1 iralvanized. or tin-plate painted red on Farms 0nantal5hngl Bavtfdfll