THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUMN 4
TO OPEN FOURTH
LOAN CAMPAIGN
UBERTY LOAN DRIVE OPENS SEP.
TEMBER 28 AND WILL CON
TINUE FOR 3 WEEKS.
VOLUNTEERS HAVE TWO DAYS
Citizens Are Urged to Make Their
Pledges on First Two Days,
September 28 and 29.
The Central Committee of the
Eighth Federal Reserve District has
set aside Saturday, September 28,
and Sunday, September 29, the open
ing days of the Fourth Liberty Loan
Campaign, as ‘‘Volunteer Subscription
Days."
It is intended that on these two
days opportunities shall be provided
for all citizens in the district, to vol
untarily, without solicitation, sub
etriue ior r ounn i>iDerty «onas.
The directors of publicity are re
quested previous to the opening of
the campaign, to arrange for publicity
throughout all counties and cities,
bringing to the attention of the peo
ple the opportunity of exprerssing vol
untarily their patriotism and loyalty,
by buying Liberty Bonds.
Churches Will Help.
The director of speakers will ar
range to have patriotic speeches and
mass meetings on these days, and all
churches on Sunday, September 29,
will have patriotic sermons preached.
Sales Director Vincent L. Price has
Issued instructions to each county
chairman and director of sales re
questing their co-operation on the
plan. Places must be provided in
each locality, where the people may
enter their subscriptions, and ample
publicity must be given. Director
Price suggests that booths, offices,
stores and banks may be used. The
factories should be organized for
“Volunteer Day,” and some one pres
ent to receive subscriptions?
It is expected that the Women’s Di
vision will have an important part in
the work of "Volunteer Days,” and
they should be included in all plans.
The work of subscribing on Sun
day, September 29, will be largely
through the churches, and the Lib
erty Loan Workers are particularly
Instructed to see that the pastors of
each church is advised of the plaps,
and requested to aid in the work.
Buttons and Flags on Hand.
The head of the sales department
in each community is expected to see
that subscription cards, Liberty Loan
buttons and individual honor flags are
at hand. These supplies may be ob
tained through the Central Liberty
Loan Organization at St. Louis.
Mr. Price says that it is felt that
this idea of Volunteer Subscription
Days is wanted by the people and that
they will respond t same readily and
liberally. If such proves to be the
case it will be a movement toward
simplifying and shortening the Liber
ty Loan Campaigns.
In France and England the Loans
are all taken by Volunteer Subscrip
tions.
The Loans are announced by the
right kind of publicity, places and
means for subscriptions are provided
and the people take the Loans.
That's all there is to it there—why
not here?
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, SEPTEMBER 13, 1918
Bonds Choke The Hun - By Sparks
Remember Volunteer Days—Sep
tember 28 and 29.
Every American church in America
will provide a place on Sunday, Sept.
29—the latter cf the two Volunteer
Days—where subscriptions to Fourth
Liberty Loan Bonds may be received.
if the right kind of a response be
made on Volunteer Days—Sept 28
and 29—the Fourth Liberty Loan Cam
paign will be given such an impetus
that the allotted three weeks will not
be required to sell the bond issue.
* * *
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Take good care of your Ford. The
war is reducing the out put of motor
cars, therefore see that your present
Ford is kept in smooth running condi
tion that you may get the full satisfac
tory service it is built to give. Bring
it to us that our experienced workmen
may keep it in first class order. They
know how to do it. We use only gen
uine Ford materials and make Ford
factory prices. Let us take care of
your Ford and it will serve you fine
every day in the year.
RIGGS BROTHERS, McCrory, Arkansas
NUMBER 8
It
GREAT ENGLISH WRITER
MADE GLOWING PRE
DICTION
HAS LONG SINGE FULFILLED
Reunion Visitors In September at Tul
sa Will See Monument To
Irving Who Visited
the Spot in 1832.
Tulsa, Okla., —In the early
thirties, the renowned Washington Irv
ing came over from England and made
a tour of parts of the United States.
His tour to the southwest included
a stop among the Indians at the pres
ent location of the city of Tulsa. Lo
cal history has it that he paused on
an eminence about a mile northwest
of the center of the present business
district of Tulsa, and took a compre
hensive view of the valley of the Ar
kansas spread out before him. The
following description of the land
scape, and prophecy of the future
wealth of the community, appears in
his sketches of the American tour:
“This seems to me to be the Prom
ised Land, flowing with milk and
honey. On the rich herbage of the
prairies will be fed herds of cattle
as innumerable as the sands upon the
seashore. And the flowers that bedeck
the prairies will be a paradise for a
nectar-loving being."
This was written October 13, 1832,
about the time of year that the 28th
annual reunion of the Confederate
Veterans’ Association will be held this
year at Tulsa. The dates of the re
union are September 24-27 inclusive,
or some ten days earlier in the fall
than the dates upon which Irving
wrote his appreciation of the valley
of the Arkansas. Visitors to the re
union will have an opportunity to en
joy the same river panorama, made
more beautiful and promising by mod
ern enterprise and a city of 80,000
people. The greatest agricultural
section of Oklahoma is along the Ar
kansas, above and below the city of
Tulsa, a land now flowing with milk
and heney, fulfilling the Irving proph
ecy if not discounting it.
One of the beauty spots around
Tulsa Is Irving Circle, on the crest of
a ridge north of the city now beauti
tified by handsome residences. A
monument has ben erected there com
memorating the visit and prophecy of
Washington Irving made more than
eighty years ago. The idea was orig
inated and carried out by W. Tate
Brady, chairman of the General Com
mittee of the Confederate reunion or
ganization. In the meantime, the
prophecy of the great English writer
has been discounted many times.
The comparatively ancient settle
ments of the Indians around Tulsa and
throughout the state are full of in
terest. The footprints of the Indian
have been obliterated by the march
of modern progress, but his name ling
ers. Where he formerly had his tent
ed villages, or wigwam abodes, cities
have been built and towns laid out.
His hunting grounds on the Arkansas
have been converted into rich and
productive farms. Alfalfa has taken
the place of prairie grass, and domes
tic cattle graze in former haunts of the
wild beast.,_