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The long green dosen’t re
main with the green long.
Success is one-tenth inspir
ation adn nine-tenths perspir
ation. _
It is the tragedy of progress
that you have to makegood,
or make room.
The Eagle's Last
Scream for Him.
There is a great sermon on
national gratitude, or nation
al ingratitude, whichever way
you wish to look at it, in the
brief story of Charley Am
mons, carried by the papers
recently.
When the flags waved and
the eagle screamed in T7,
Charley gave up his job and
volunteered to help run the
kaiser off the job. In course
of time he was wounded and
sent home. The other day
he shot himself to death in
a Washington, D. C., hotel,
after mailing his last dollar
bill to the war risk insurance
bureau, with the following
note attached:
“The eagle will scream no
more for me.”
It developed that Charley,
after being wounded, had
come home to find his former
job filled, and for eleven
months had been vainly seek
ing for either employment or
relief. The unequal struggle
finally was too much for him.
In these days of depression
we seem to be working our
“forgetteries” overtime on
what these boys did for us.
War profits, war prosperity,
and the inestimably greater
boon of preserved liberty and
democracy which their gal
lant work made possible are
shoved into the background
to make room for our petty
discouragements of the hour.
That was the prevailing at
mosphere which sent Charley
Ammons to his bitter and cy
nical death. Take care that
you are not responsible for
the spread of that atmosphere
and the resultant quenching
of the priceless fire of pa
triotism in the hearts of *the
young men about you.
We wrapped them in our
4 love and gratitude in '17 and
’18 when we needed them.
We ought not to forget them
now, when they need us.—
Arkansas Democrat.
Value of Boys and
Girls Clubs.
When the leaders of rural
progress began to organize
calf and pig clubs, etc, among
the boys, and canning clubs
among the girls, few people
dreamed of the importance of
the movement.
Formely boys and girls felt
they had no interest in the de
velopment of a rural home.
They should perhaps have ar
gued that as they were get
ting their board and clothes
free, they ought to be wiling
to work as hard as they could
; to help their fathers and
1 mothers.
But when a boy learns that
his city cousin is able to go in
to factory or shop, or store
during vacations, and earn
money which he can keep for
himself, it makes the country
J fellow restless not to be hav
ing any enterprise of his own.
This failure to attach the
boys and girls loyally to their
home life, has been the prin
cipal reason for the big drift
to the cities, which has thrown
; the national life out of true
| balence. \
When you organize the boys
into a calf or pig club or other
scheme giving them an enter
prise which is their very own,
you change a boy’s point of
view more than if you give
him several years of agricul
tural study. He sees the door
of hope opening wide to him.
He watches that beloved calf
stow tin with a tender and
eager eye. He figures up the
returns of animal husbandry.
You can’t make him believe
there is no money in farming.
Not many boys who have had
god encouragement to enter
these competitions and who
have any willingness to work,
will ever leave the home town
for the uncertain chances of
city life.
Similary the girl who has
joined some club for canning
or other domestic arts, comes
to feel the pride in the achive
of the country housewife. She
sees that skill and efficiency
produce wonderful results in
managing a country home,
and she has little desire for
the cooped up life of city
factories and offices.
SCHOOL NEWS FROM
DISTRICT NO. 38
Our school began July 4, a
fine time for making declara
tions that mean something.
We made several, one especi
ally, that of having a good
school, and we feel that from
the attitude of pupils and par
ents they must have declared
the same.
Our directors, J. E. May
han, J. R. Marshall and W. H
Dawson were present the
■fit’cf m i wn 1 n nr rF \ cruvo nc
much good advice and assur
ed us of their cooperation
throughout the term. Sever
al of the parents have visited
us and expressed their desire
for a better school. We ap
preciate their interest and
hope they will continue to
come.
Our good superintendent,
W. T. Jernigan visited us last
week. He gave us a good talk
relative to work in school. We
enjoyed his visit and hope he
will come several times be
fore our school closes.
We believe education to be
the greatest protection for
humanity and also feel that
our country demands a great
er fight against ignorance,
therefore we expect to con
tinue teaching that which we
wish to be in the character of
people.
McK 1NI,EY HUDDLESTON,
OPAL BRADFORD,
Teachers.
RICE PLANTER
KILLS HIMSELF
Hazen, Aug. 3.—Joe Guidos
aged about 38, a rice planter
living four miles southwest
of Hazen, shot and killed
himself at about 2 o’clock this
afternoon at his home. Guidos
shot himself through the
head. He was not married,
and lived with his parents.
The cause for his act has not
been learned.
FARM
BUREAU NEWS
FROM THE
COUNTY
AGENT
All parties who are inter
ested in pure bred poultry
and a poultry association for
Independence* Stone and
Sharp counties are requested
to meet at the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce at
Batesville, Saturday, August
3.
Despite the fact that Inde
pendence County is rich in
certain mineral deposits and
that the manufacturing indus
i tries are a growing possibili
ty, yet Independence County
is now and always will be pri
marily an agricultural coun
ty. We perhaps have not
found the best adaptable crops
for some of our lands, neith
er are we universally using
a crop rotation system which
is found in practice in all
financially farming countries.
It does little good, however,
to grow any crop or practice
any type of crop rotation un
less we use the best seed ob
tainable when we plant these
crops. No community ever
made itself famous in the
growing of crops that had to
buy seeds from an outside
source every year. We must
get good seeds either from an
outside source or from our
own selection to start with,
and then it should, and must
if we evenually succeed fin
ancially, be selected from our
own home grown crops. This
refers to all farm crops but
more particularly to such
crops as corn, wheat, oats,
peas and also cotton if the
ginning process of mixing
seed can be avoided.
Not every man can be a
seed breeder, as that requires
infinite knowledge of the
crop or crops, and usually an
outlay of money and labor
which but few men can af
ford. Every farmer, no mat
ter what the size of his farm
or the extent of his business
can improve his income won
derfully with a relatively
small expenditure of his time
if he will select his seeds
more carefully.
Seed selection is a fine art
when practiced as an exact
science but any person of av
erage intelligence can soon
learn the basic principles of
seed selection and be able to
increase his farm yields. We
often read of enormous yields
In order to get such yields
the soil must be in a good
state of fertility, cultivation
of the crop must be good and
rainfall pleniful, but with all
of these unless good seeds are
used such large yields w7ould
be impossible. In the history
of all good yields you will
find good seeds to be at the
foundation.
To make Independence
County the banner seed coun
ty of the state will require
the majority of the farmers
to practice field selection and
a few to get into the business
of producing pedigreed seed,
that is a fewr to be real seed
breeders. We want the repu
tation for Independence coun
ty. You never in all your
life saw anyone who had a
reputation of being better
than anyone else in his line
but who had money. Many is
the time we pay extra for a
trade-mark reputation. Let’s
get the reputation of having
good seeds in Independence
county. We need the money
Just now we are holding s
j series of form field meetings
j studying points in the selec
i tion of seed corn. Meetings
. have been held at Charlotte,
' Oil Trough, and Sulphur Hock
up to date and future meet
ings will be held at Ruther
ford, Salado, Cushman, Bail
ey and Cave City.
Independence county is al
ready known throughout the
i State for corn growing, b or
five consecutive years the
boys corn club Championship
has come to us. Let’s keep
the championship coming.
|TWO KINDS OF FARMERS
In a recent communication
j to Farm and Ranch it was
' stated that there were two
kinds of farmers, one who
continually directed his ef
forts toward getting a maxi
mum acreage production by
building up the fertility of
his soil, and the other who
milieu ins sun, lading iium n.
all he can get without putting
anything back.
The miner farmer is found
in every neighborhood. He
can be spotted by the general
run down condition of his
farm; his shiftless appearan
ce ; and his pessimistic atti'
tude toward every question.
As a general rule he does not
jread a farm paper or even a
newspaper. He is always poor
and much given to cussing
the government. He is a one
cropper by nature; talks
about working sixteen hours
a day twelve months in the
year when as a matter of fact
he spends more time going to
town than he does in his field.
He is a failure on the farm
and the only place he can
make a respectable living is on
a job in town where the boss
has the brains and the deter
mination to make him speed
up.
The other kind of farmer
never cultivates a greater
acreage than he can take care
himself or hire taken care
:)f without at least having an
even chance to make a profit.
His plan is to make his land
more productive each year.
He plants a variety of crops
and never two that _ require
his attention at one time. Hj/e
has one good dairy cow
more and never goes to towjP ,
to buy butter. He has a flock
of chickens and takes care of
them. He has eggs and poul
try to eat and some to sell.
He has a good garden and an
orchard. He also has a
smoke house and kills much
of his own meat. He grows
feed stuffs and has enough
hogs and cattle to eat them.
This kind of farmer studies
his soil needs and if neces
sary will turn under sweet
clover, cow peas or othei
green crops. He is not ad
verse to listening to other
people’s opinions; consults his
arrant nn(1 st.lldlGS 10*
suits of the work of experi
ment farms. By growing
much of his own: living he is
able to sell his surplus at the
top of the market.
Fortunately the latter class
of* farmers are becoming more
numerous in the South.—
Farm and Ranch.
J. B. DANIELS,
County Agent.
AN EARLY BIRD
Stranger — Healthy place
ihis. I suppose?
Native—Sure, when I first
came here I was too weak to
walk.
Stranger—Really ?
Native—Yes, I was born
here.
Gathering Life’s Gold.
The poll] of lift* do. s not lie hidden
In mines; it sparkles In tiny smidu
all along the common path of every
day. He only who gathers if bit by bit
from daily duties and pleasures and
opportunities and frl.mb hips will find
himself the possessor of the real treats*
nre at Inst.
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