THE NEWARK JOURNAL
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
By The Journal Printing Company
Entered at. the Postoffice at Newark,
Ark., as second class mail
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The real Bolsheviki is a fellow who
has nothing and warts nothing ex
cept for everybody else to be just like
him.
Washington, the prelii inaiy census
figures show, has 437,000 people,
some of whom are not on the govern
ment payroll.
The news sent out from various
headquarters that the women will re
fuse to be controller! by party or
ganizations may be true, but it lacks
considerable of being news.
Any fool can criticise. But mere
criticism does not point a better way.
So unless you can advance some sug
gested improvement along with your
criticism, better hold your tongue and
saw wood.
It is said that rats destroy two
hundred million dollars worth of prop
erty annually in the United States.
It is very probable that nus destroy
enough in Independence! county every
year to pay all the taxe-' that are
paid in this county.
The socialists have Victor Berger
with a penitentiary sentence hanging
over his head, and the republican*
have Senator Newberry, who is in
the same peek of fixes. The demo
crats at present are the only people
who have no congressman or senator
penitentiarially inclined.— Hardy Her
ald.
AGRICULTURE BACK OF
EVERYTHING
Speaking of the particular crop
that the farmer grows for his great
est profits it is usually referred to as
his “money crop.” It is a wise farm
er who grows, along with his diver
sified crops a “money crop.” Like
wise, all agriculture together is th*
“money crop” of the state. And it
is a wise citizen who recognizes the
fact, whether he be a farmer or a
business man.
Never before have the banks and
trust companies of Arkansas held
such a volume of deposits. Where
did it come from? Agriculture.
Never before did the state have more
fine buildings, skyscrapers, public
buildings, fine residences, churches
and schools. What built them?
Agriculture. What purchased the
thousands of automobiles, trucks, trac
tors, other vehicles and a thousand
kinds of machinery being used in the
state? Agriculture. What built the
railroads and street car lines? Agri
culture. In fact what is the founda
tion of Arkansas progress? Agri
culture.
Making all due allowance to other
productive resources, agriculture will
be conceded to be the “money crop”
of the state; therefore, it is to the in
terest of every citizen to “cultivate”
this crop—Agriculture—in the most
intensified manner.
WHY ARKANSAS SHOULD GROW j
MORE FEED
The feed and fertilizer division of
the State Department of Mines, Man
ufactures and Agriculture made re
port last month of the total amount
of feed recorded, that had been sold
in Arkansas during the year ending
January 1, 1920.
The total in tons was 283,000 or
556,000,000 pounds. This represents
5,660,000 one hundred pound sacks,
which average price of $3 per sack ]
amounts to $16,980,000.
This is an enormous amount for
Arkansas farmers to be paying farm
ers in other states for products that;
can be grown at home. This amount j
of nearly seventeen million dollars
should be conserved, and could be, if
the farmers will get away from the
one-crop system and grow their own
feed. Such an outpouring of Arkan-1
sas money into the coffers of other ■
states surely illustrates a reason why i
Arkansas farmers should grow more
feed. Enter the campaign in your
community with the determination to
contribute your portion toward pro
ducing your own stock feed.
ARKANSAS APPLES BEST
Chas. S. Bouton, of the Arkansas
Co-operative Crop Reporting Service,
reports to Jim G. Ferguson, Commis
sioner of Mines, Manufactures and
Agriculture, that he received a letter
from Memphis dealers in which they
state that apples from northwest Ark
ansas were the best, best packed,
came in the best condition, held up
the best and gave their customers the
best satisfaction of any apples com
ing to that city. This is certainly
a high compliment for Arkansas ap
ples, for many other states’ fruit*
go to Memphis markets.
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LOCATING THE DISEASE OF
PROFITEERING
When Edwin T. Meredith, the new
Secretary of Agriculture, took his
seat at Washington, D. C., he was
beseiged with messages and inquiries
as to how, thru the agricultural de
partment, h( was going to bring
down the high cost of living. His re
ply should be generally appreciated
hy the farmers, for it shows that he
is not laying the trouble at their
feet. Mr. Meredith said, in part: “I
am surprised that 1 should have re
ceived the number of messages 1 have
particularly from daily papers, asking
what plans I have to reduce the high
cost of living, indicating that the gen
eral feeling is that this is essentially
an agricultural problem. It is, of
course, related to agriculture, but no
more than to other lines of activity,
and I am tempted to believe that Gjr
solution of the problem lies mort^fi
tin hands of those interested in^k
tribution and non-productive p ve, J'“
i ri es than in the hands of tb c\..*i
ers of the country.” y 1 m
"The farmers mustTo
duce. They have prod* ^ „ Z\hll
produce that is their business." -Sey
are on a peace measure basis, so giv
tn satisfactory conditions they will
do their part, as the farmers of Am
erica have in every situation or crisis
that has faced the country. But this
question of satisfactory conditions is
a big one. It is not a satisfactory
condition for the farmer to receive re
duced prices for his pork, wheat, hid
es, while the prices of his machinery,
lumber and shoes are raised. It does
not conduce to a pleasant frame of
mind on the part of the farmer to
spur him to greater production to be
obliged to sell his products for half
or less than he later sees them sell
for at retail.The hog
growers wonder if they are not in a
‘hazardous’ business whim they buy
fencing and all other supplies at
greatly increased prices, and then see
their produce fall fifty per cent and
sold by them at an actual loss, in
answer to a demand an the part of
the rest of the population for a re
duced cost of living. Mr. Meredith
points in like manner to dairy and
poultry farmers and ethers who are
not getting a square deal.
Calling attention to the fact that
farmers are willing to assume their
part of the responsibilities as Amer
ican citizens, Mr. Meredith continues:
“But this high cost of living problem
is a mutual one, and they ask that it
be approached by all of the people as
a common problem. They ask that
those engaged in distribution elimin
ate the lost motion and not put so
great a burden upon production as
there is today. In other words, they
ask that there be an adequate number
of producers of wealth, and this in
cludes property and food of all kinds,
and only such number of distributors
as is necessary to perform the ser
vices required.”
He then calls attention to every
factory, dealer and business enter
prise of vital interest to the farmer
being speeded up, and the production
of anything may be done by two men
instead of three, it means a saving
in the cost of production and relaases
men to go to the farm. Much em
phasis is placed on the matter of put
ting' thousands of useless employees
at productive work, as all these non
essential employees add to the cost
of production and distribution. “Let
us have six-tenths of our people in
production and four-tenths in distri
bution,” says the secretary “that
there may be six-tenths of what a
man can produce each day for each of
us, rather than have four-tenths in
production and six-tenths in distri
bution, which gives us only four-ten
ths of what a man can produce each
day for each of us. To do this con
ditions in production must be attract
ive; farming must be remunerative
and offer to a young man who en
gages in it an opportunity equal to
that offered in other lines.”
Labor must meet the farmer half
way. In this the secretary says:
“The farmer asks that the laborer in
the mines, the factory, the mills etc.,
who are also real producers along
with the farmers, make an effort
comparable to his to see that there
is just as little labor expense as pos
sible in each article turned out by
their hands, thereby helping the farm
ers of America, who in turn will help
labor.”
With reasonable day’s labor for
an honest day's pay, for labor, Mr.
Meredith sees where the manufactur
ers should recognize a fair profit, also
see the harm that must come with
continued profiteering upon the farm
er. There can be no improvement in
the situation unless the whole coun
try, all business and labor, recognize
this as a common problem, declares
Mr. Meredith; for unless the farmer
has fair compensation, more of the
older men will become discouraged
i with farming and more and more will
i the young men leave the farm or
avoid it.
In conclusion the Secretary urges
the necessity of cheaper distribution
and transportation; upholds the Fed
eral Loan Banks and condemns the
selfish interests which attack them.
Summed up. Secretary Meredith
promises the nation a “square deal”
in the cost of living if all other in
terests will co-ordinate thsir services
with that of the farmer, giving the
latter a “square deal” and making
faring sufficiently profitable and
ay active to increase the number of
fymers and farm production.
PLANT MORE IRISH POTATOES
Arkansas should produce more Irish
potatoes. This comes home to the
people very forcibly every winter and
spring when they have to pay exor
bitant prices for this product import
ed from other states. At this time,
mingled with other features of the
high cost of living, the potatoes from
other states are almost out of reach
of the average consumer owing to ex
■ tremely high prices. And, the pros
! pects are that seed potatoes are going
to be hard to get at any price withtin
! reason at planting time. This can be
avoided in future years if farmers
! and gardeners will grow the vegetable
more extensively. Under proper fer
tilization Arkansas produces excellent
; potatoes in prolific quantities. There
is no better all around potato than
the Irish Cobbler. If possible farm
ers and gardeners should contract now
their seed potatoes by carlot, and
| grow an abundance to supply home
‘markets and produce more seed next
I year. Let Arkansas feed herself Irish
potatoes. '
See The Journal for good printing.
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TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE
The undersigned collertor of reve
nue for Independence County, Ark
ansas will attend in person or by
deputy in each Township in Indepen
dence County on the dates hereinaf
ter named, for the purpose of Collect
ing the State, County, Road, School
District, Municipal and Improvement
District Taxes, assessed and levied
against the Real and Personal prop
erty of said county for the year 1019
as follows:
Ruddell Township at Court House,
February 19 20, and 21.
And after the last named date in
my office at the Court House at
Batesville, Ark., until April 10th.,
1920.
Act No. 415 of the Acts of 1911
provides that all Taxes levied on real
and personal property shall be deem
ed due and payable at any time from
the first Monday in January to and
including the 10th day of April, in
each year, and all such Taxes remain
ing unpaid after the 10th day of
April, shall be considered delinquent,
and it is hereby made the duty of the
Collector to extend a penalty of 10 per
cent of all such delinquent Taxpayers
who have not paid their taxes w'ithin
the time limited.
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the time of making settlement with
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the record of tax receipts as kept by
the Collector and charge said collec
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of all tax receipts recorded after the
10th day of April.
All persons are requested to have
deeds or Tax Reecipts, containing a
correct description of their land so
errors may be avoided in making tax
receipts.
S. D. LINDSEY,
Collector.
Independence County, Arkanaas.
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With two car-loads of cook stoves
and two cars of furniture in stock
at the old price, we are prepared
to make you extra good prices on
all housekeeping items.
Remember that in these lines as
well as dry goods, shoes, clothing
and wall paper we take your Lib
erty Bonds at 100 cents on the
dollar.
Also all returned Soldiers and
Sailors are Allowed a
Discount from Regular Prices
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Batesville, Arkansas