Beards Agricultural Club
The Beards Agricultural Club
was called to order Friday night
by Chairman W. M. White.
Mr. Knox of the Extension De
partment of the Uuiversity of
Arkansas made quite an interest
ing talk on fall gardening and the
people seem to be interested in
trying to raise more and better
gardens.
State Agent Davidson, being
present was called on to explain
the Federal Farm Loan Act,
which he did very dearly.
County Demonstration Agent
Strickland made a talk on the im
portance of raising some kind of
clover and wanted farmers to see
■{ what they can do in regard to
seeing their land owners about
sowing a small patch of clover.
This is not a secret order just
a community club, organized for
the betterment of the farmers.
Come out and let us hear from
you.
We will meet again on the eve
of Friday, August 10th. Every
one welcome.
R. J. McDaniel, Sec.
Cartwright-Lewis
The many friends of Mrs. Genia
Lewis, age 66, of this city were
very much surprised this week
to learn of her quiet marriage
Sunday, July 29, 1917 to Mr.
Robert A. Cartwright of Hot
Springs. The ceremony was said
in the First Methodist Church in
the Vapor City and the newly
weds will be at home in McCrory
after August 10. They are spend
ing a portion of their honeymoon
in Heber Springs.
Ford cars will save you money
in the long run. Riggs Brothers,
MeCrory, Ark. Adv.3-30tf
Mr. J. T. Cocke and family of
Holly Grove were guests of J. W.
Barrentine and family the first
of the week.
Miss Wilena Burton of Jones
boro arrived Monday for a two
weeks’ visit here the guest of
Miss Rena Berry.
Mrs. George W. Cobb of Tole
do, Ohio, arrived Sunday for a
visit to her brother, Mr. R. L.
Johnson, and family.
Mr. A. G. Kerr left Sunday
for Olive Branch, Miss., to visit
his father who recently suffered
a stroke of paralysis.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Drewery
left Sunday for a ten days’ visit
to the former’s mother, Mrs.
Etta Drewery, at Newbern,
Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. D. 0. Harton and
family of Conway are guests at
the beautiful home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Crossett. They made
the trip in their new Reo.
FOOD. AND WAR
Shortage in Raw Materials Gives Rise
to Alarm Among Manufacturing In
terests—America Must Apply Every
Resource to Meet World's Demand
for Food—Labor Saving Machines
and Man Power on the Farms Vital
Factors in Economic Crisis—Appeal
for Government Action.
Government action ensuring the
farmers of America ample supplies of
farm implements and competent farm
labor is virtually necessary to this
country’s future participation in the
war, declare the manufacturers of
farming tools and machinery in the
United States. This action must he im
mediate and radical, they say, or in
1918 the United States will fail to pro
duce foodstuffs necessary to feed the
civil population of our allies and to
keep the allied armies in fighting trim.
This declaration is made in a public
statement by the National Implement
and Vehicle Association, whose mem
bers manufacture most of the farming
implements used in and exported from
the United States. It is the Associa
tion’s answer to an anxious inquiry
about reports of a prospective imple
ment shortage addressed to it in behalf
of the country’s farming interests by
ex-Governor W. D. Hoard of Wiscon
sin, one of the leaders of American ag
riculture and publisher of Hoard’s
Dairyman. The statement, which is
signed by Charles S. Brantingham,
Chairman of the Association’s Execu
tive Committee, says:
Unless prompt action is taken by
the Government, our country will make
the same mistakes that have result
ed in compelling our allies to ap
peal to us to save them from famine.
Unless we protect the production of
labor-saving farm machinery and the
supply of skilled farm labor we, too,
must soon face a shrinkage of food
supplies.
Without such action as is here sug
gested and urged, the farmers of
the United States will not have enough
machines or men in 1918 to meet the
demands upon them.
We are now confronted by shortages
.)f raw material and factory labor that
will begin to be manifest in shortages
of certain lines of farm machinery this
! fall and will result in serious shortages
in many vital lines next year. Stocks
on hand in important kinds of tools
and machines are smaller than in nor*
inal years, because of earlier scarcity
of factory labor and a rapidly tighten
ing scarcity of all raw materials.
“Farmers have deferred during the
last three years the replacing of old
! and badly worn tools and machines.
| Now, confronted by the practical cer
tainty that the war is to continue in
definitely, with attendant assurance of
a heavy demand and high prices for all
I their products, and by an inevitable
shortage of farm labor, they cannot put
off longer replacements of worn out
machines and the additions to equip
ment necessary to increase acreage
and production.
“It is also essential in meeting the
demand of the farmers for implements
that there shall be preference in trans
portation for raw materials to the fac
tories and for finished goods from the
factories to the farms.
“For the last ten years farm labor
has been more and more„diftieult to
secure, and now with an enormous in
crease in the demand for labor in mu
nitions factories, and the withdrawal
of many young men from productive
occupations, there is bound to be a
shortage of farm labor such as this
country has never known. In Kansas
alone a vast number of fertile acres on
which the wheat crop failed will lie
idle this summer, chiefly for lack of
labor and partly through lack of ma
chines to replant to corn.
“We regard it as vital^to keep on the
farms the men now there who know
the business, especially the men
trained in the use of labor-saving ma
chinery. It would be wasteful and
foolish to let them go and afterward
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New Garage!
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For First-class Auto Re
pairing, Blacksmithing, Horse
shoeing and Woodwork, See
W. B. Fakes
Old livery stand just South of M. E. Church
try to replace them with unskilled men. !
“We seek no advantage for our in
dustry over any other, but we realize
and we want the public to realize that
without this product and without suf
ficient labor the farmers of the United
States cannot increase or even main
tain their production of foodstuffs next
year. To avert the calamity that such
a condition will surely produce, our in
| dustry and the farming industry which
it chiefly supports must be put upoD
the same preferred basis as the making
of war munitions, even if other less
vital industries suffer thereby for rna
| terials and men.
! “These are the measures that we de
clare to be vital to the feeding of this
I, nation and its allies next year:
“1. That the manufacture of farm
j materials be given equal preference
! with the manufacture of war muni- j
tions as regards supplies of necessary !
raw materials.
“2. That service to the country in
i farm machinery factories be consid- j
j ered of equal importance with service
| in munition making plants, Govern
I ment or private.
, “3. That labor on the farms be eon
i sidered as of equal importance with
| the production of war munitions,
j “4. That the raw materials for farm
! ing machinery and the finished goods
| be given equal preference by the trans
i portation agencies of the country with
I munitions of war.
“These measures must be taken im
| mediately to be effective, because the
use and demand for farming machinery
«re seasonal. We must have right now
materials and the men to make the
farm machinery that the farmer at
home and abroad must use this l'al)
and next Spring. Delay in action will
be as disastrous as failure to act at
*ii ”
GENERAL DIRECTORY
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
J. M. Jackson, Helena. .. .Circuit Judge
P. R. Andrews, Helena.Pros. Atty.
R.M.Hutchins, Augusta. Dep Pros. Atty.
E.D.Robertson,Wynne. .Chancery Judge
Sam Vann, Vanndale.
.State Senator, Seventh District
Ross Mathis, Cotton Plant.
.. Representative
A. L. Hutchins, Augusta.County Judge
Alex McGregor, Augusta.Sherin
L. W. Winfree, Augusta.Circuit Clerk
Walter Jimerson, Augusta. .. .Co. Clerk
Roy Mitchell, Augusta.Treasurer
Edgar Miller, McCrory.Assessor
Alex Beilis, Augusta.Surveyor
T. W. Woodbury, McCrory.. .Examiner
C. C. Hunnicutt, Cotton Plant.
.Deputy Examiner
Dr. R. Q. Patterson, Augusta. .Coroner
Dr. R. N. Smith, Augusta. Health Officer
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The clothes washing wonder that
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Barber Shop and get sample, free,
adv. 6-29tf J. P. Taylor.
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