The Newark Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
By The Journal Printing Company
Entered at the Postoffice at Newark
Ark.f as second class mail
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Cards of thanks and notice of enter
tainments where an admission is
charged, are advertising and are
charged for at regular rates.
A big head is not always a
full one.
All the world admires a
man—when he is a MAN.
Are you ever thoroughly
contented? If so you are
only half a man.
Why condemn the other fel
low’s laziness? It gives you
a better chance.
The biggest liar on earth
is the fellow who says he
would be satisfied if he had
Rockefeller’s wealth.
Just as soon as old General
Prosperity turns his steps our
way we are going to hike
right out and meet him."’
The June brides are safely
launched on the sea of matri
mony and the August maids
are looking forward in hopes.
Every once in awhile some
fellow takes a wallop at the
sharpness of woman’s tongue
—forgetting, of course, the
crookedness of his own.
Women are paying no at
tention to the men who crit
icize the way they dress. And
the women show' good sense
by doing so.—Stephens News.
Sometimes a fellow asks us
why we do not “publish all
of the news.” And if we did
the first dose would be
enough to start him after us
with a shotgun.
The Fort Smith man who
slept three years didn’t have
a thing on this community—
we know some people around
here who have been asleep all
their lives.
Blazing the
Wrong Trail
One of the leading farm
journals of the south is au
thority for the statement
that in the rural high schools
of North Carolina seven thou
sand children are studying
Latin, while only seven hun
dred are studying agriculture.
The significance of these
figures are not grasped until
we learn that of the pupils
attending high school in this
country not more than one
per cent ever reach the col
lege or university.
When we assimilate the
further fact that the high
schools do not and cannot im
part a working knowledge of
the Latin language, we be
gin to appreciate the utter
foolishness of an educational
system , that forces upon chil
dren the study of a dead lan
guage from which not one in
7,900 will ever benefit.
The above figures maj
vary in other states—wc
j
hope they do. But they serve
to call forcibly to our atten
tion a glaring fault in the
school system of the United
States.
Any system that requires
boys and girls (who in many
cases can ill afford the time
and means to attend even a
high school) to waste from a
| quarter to a fifth of their
school life on a study that
I will never benefit them in
life’s struggle, is not a blun
jder—it is a crime.
Consider again. Of the 7,
000 studying Latin, there are
only 700 studying agriculture.
These figures also may vary
in othe** states, but still any
one familiar with the school
system of this country know's
that the proportion of our
rural boys and girls who se
cure a competent education
in agriculture is lamentably
small.
Ana what is the conclusion ?
Why, that we are wedded in
our schools to a fossilized,
petrified and antiquated sys
tem thitt ordains that in or
der to acquire an “education”
one must be conversant with
a language that is so ever
lastingly dead it has not been
generally spoken on earth in
the last thousand years. And
this while the crying, burning
needs of the hour are side
tracked as of minor impor
tance.
It is time for the rural pop
ulation of our country to
arise in their might and de
mand that the schools cease
education their children away
from the farm.
The professions are over
crowded, and the trades are
in even worse condition. The
farmer's job is the only one
in this land that promises a
career without the paralyzing
competition to be met in oth
er lines. Yet insead of being
trained for efficiency in this
great calling our youths are
compelled to fritter away
their time on a course of
study that, to be in any sense
beneficial, must be followed
through the college or univer
sity—which the very smallest
per cent of them ever reach.
The day of the antiquarian,
the dreamer, the mummy, is
past in this country. The age
demands action, and the mind
that is not trained to it in
capital letters is doomed to
be left at the starting wire.
Arkansas Before the
Eyes of the World.
Arkansas is occupying a
large place in the public eye
these days and is attracting
the attention of the entire
country. This fact was brought
very clearly to the attention
of our home people by Ark
ansas scenes in motion pictur
es shown at our home theatre
last Saturday night. The pic
tures were a part of the “In
ternational News” showing
actual pictures of an oil gush
er being brought in at El Do
rado.
These pictures, being a part
of the “International News”
will be shown all over the
world, and their advertising
value in boosting Arkansas
cannot be estimated. Millions
of people in America will see
the pictures, besides the mil
lions who will see them in
England, BYance, Italy, Spain,
South America and other
countries.
Few people ever saw an oil
well brought in, and although
there are now more than one
hundred producing wells in
Arkansas,it is safe to say that
not more than a dozen citi
zens of Newark ever saw an
oil well, and less than one
fourth this number ever saw
a gusher brought in.
This brings home to us the
educational value of motion
pictures.
Most of us know nothing of
the world beyond the narrow
confines of our own commun
ity. Very few of us ever saw
an oil well, a battleship, an
aerial bombing plane, a sub
marine, or hundreds of otner
things that are caught in ac
tion by the motion picture
camera and brought to us
where we may see them in
such wonderful reality that
we are almost made to feel
that we are for the moment
transferred to some distant
land.
J o most ot us who live in
the country towns end com
munities, the motion picture
affords our only means of
ever seeing anything outside
of our daily routine of duties,
Yet, the motion pictures bring
many of the most important
happenings of the world to
our own door and we are per
mitted to see things and leant
things through motion pictures
that we would never have an
opportunity to see, were it
not for motion pictures.
The Journal agrees with
the sentiment of an editorial
from the Arkansas Democrat
published in this paper last
week, in which the Democrat
said: “There is education in
motion pictures of an easily
assimilated sort that is going
to make the motion picture
one our most important edu
cational factors. Those who
are overlooking the movie as
a factor in education are
overlooking the biggest thing
on the horizon.”
The Journal for good printing.
FARM
BUREAU NEWS
'
FROM THE
COUNTY
AGENT
BETTER SEED CORN
The following is a schedule
of the meetings to be held by
the County Agent in the in
terest of better seed for In
dependence County. The men
named are the local chairmen
and have agreed to advertise
the meetings in their com
munities and see that a good
crowd is out.
Aug. 1, Charlotte, E. L. Jer
nigam
Aug. 2, Oil Trough, M. A.
Parmer.
Aug. 3, Sulphur Rock, J. H.
Jimerson.
Aug. 4, Cave City, F. A.
Staggs.
Aug. 5, Rutherford, L. N.
Rutherford.
Aug. 8, Salado, J. W. Scott.
Aug. 9, Bailey, W. J. Cald
well.
Aug. 10, Sandtown, G. W.
Thompson.
Aug. 12, Cushman, Geo.
Tinney.
At these meetings we will
go into tne field and select
jseed corn. It win be too ear
ly to gather the corn but it
will be developed enough at
that time to enable us to
make an intelligent selection
and the stalks can be marked
| and the seed gathered later.
Corn yields can be increas
j eel more surely and more
cheaply by the use of better
seed than in any other way.
Seed corn should be select
ed in the field from stalks
which yield best in equal com
I petition with others. It
j should be of a variety which
j succeeds W'ell and mature un
der local conditions. Ears
should be saved only from
stalks free from disease.
Drooping ears which shed
rain readily should be select
ed, and these should be borne
on the stalks at a convenient
height for husking. In the
South, ears which are well
protected from insects by a
long, tight shuck covering
I should be chosen.
The same dqy the seed is
gathered it should be hung
in a dry, airy piace. One of
the best ways to cure seed
corn is to hang it from the
rafters of a barn or open
shed. It should not be allow
ed to freeze before it is thor
oughly dry. After it is well
cured it should be stored in
a dry place where it will re
main secure from mice, rats,
birds, and insects. Well cured
(seed corn 'will yijeld a much
j better crop than seed origin
ally as good but injured thru
lack of care.
Generally speaking, the
seed corn that produces the
best crop is the cheapest,
Farmers are justified in de
voting considerable time to
selecting and caring for it 01
in paying good prices if bet
ter- seed corn is purchased.
FARM BUREAU MEETING
The Farm Bureau will have
its regular meeting Saturday
July 23 at the Chamber of
Commerce. A good attend
ance is requested.
FARM DRAINAGE
B. S. Clayton, Farm Drain
age Specialist, has been in
the county for the past three
days and with the County
rent has visited three farm
giving demonstrations in the1
different kinds of farm drain
age. About 2000 yards of
i terraces were laid out and
i levels were taken for a sys
tem of tile drains. Many
| farms of this county could
| be greatly improved by a lit
i tie work of this kind. Con
sult. the County Agent about
J. B. DANIELS,
County Agent.
DON’T KEEP A HEN
THAT WON'T PAY BOARD
Now is Good Time to Cull Out
Non-Producers
I _
July is the month in which
to make the first culling of
the poultry flock. All hens
should be examined closely for
pin feathers. If loose leathers
appear on the floor of the
roosting house already, it is a
mighty good sign that some
of these boarders are around.
Sell or eat all hens that
show any signs of moulting.
Remember that every hen that
does not lay eggs, removed
from the flock, means a sav
ing of feed to the amount she
consumes, besides making
more room for those that do
lay and pay for their feed,
thus increasing the egg re
ceipts from the flock after the
culls have been removed.
Culling the flock of non-pro
ducers is a means of reducing
overhead expenses. Any suc
cessful business man will tell
vou that the secret of a suc
cessful factory or business is
the keeping down of overhead
expense. Poultry is a business
and a successful business, if
business methods are practic
ed. It can also be the most
unsuccessful, losing business,
if managed in the usual hap
hazard hit-or-miss way.
See your County or Home
Demonstration Agent and ar
range for a culling demonstra
tion at your home for the ben
efit of your neighbors.
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