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Synopsis and Comments on Improvements Made Over Old Constitution of 1874
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PROHIBITION
Art. XIX prohibits the manufacture of in
toxicating liquors of any kind in the state and
makes it unlawful to “import into, deliver, sell,
own or keep within the state” any such liquor,
except wine for sacramental purposes, and alco
hol for medicinal or scientific purposes. The
General Assembly shall provide laws for its en
forcement.
This provision is suctioned by the Prohibi
tion forces of the state. It has been pronounc
ed puncture proof.. It is only proposing to en
force at an earlier date a law that will soon be
nation-wide through the ratification of the pen
ding Amendment to the Federal Constitution. It
reads into the Constitution a principle already in
effect by statute, which long years of local op
tion had made operative. And yet it is no
stronger than the General Assembly makes it,
for penalties and enforcement are retained to
the people in their legislative capacity. There
is no reform more thoroughly accepted through
out the nation than the legal prohibition of the
liquor traffic in all its forms, and even Liberal
ism can not consistently insist upon a return to
the days of the open saloon and its attendant
evils. Prohibition is advocated by President
Wilson as a necessary war measure.
LOCATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS
Art. I provides that all public educational
institutions of the state heretofore located or
hereafter located within the state by lawful au
thority shall be and remain as located.
This wise provision will prevent the con
stantly recurring agitation about the removal of
the University of Arkansas from Fayetteville.
It will make secure the location of the S*ate
Normal, and the f( ur agricultural schools, with
a great wealth of property interests annually
increasing in extent. Being free from political
agitation, the institutions may grow and expand
without being crippled and hampered in their
operations, and impaired in their usefulness.
MAJORITY VERDICTS
Art. II, Sec. 7, provides that “in civil and
in misdemeanor cases> five-sixths of the jurors
may find a verdict.”
This is a wise provision that is being adopt
ed in many states, and will be the means of
greatly expediting court proceedings without
jeopardizing the rights of the litigants. It will
make it impossile for one or two men to cause a
mistrial. The traditional safeguard of a unani
mous verdict is retained in felony cases where
life and liberty are at stake, but in cases of mi
nor importance there can be no valid objection
offered to the principle of majority verdicts al
ready being recognized in the progressive juris
prudence of the country.
SALARIES
Art. XX, Sec. 10, provides: The Governor,
Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney
General, Commissioner of Mines, Manufactures
and Agriculture, Commissioner of State Lands
and Highways, Commissioner of Education and
other State Officers shall each receive a salary
which shall not be increased nor diminished dur
ing their respective terms, nor shall any of
them receive to his own use any fees, costs, per
quisites, of office or other compensation, ex
cept that the General Assembly may. provide
for the payment of the expenses of Circuit Jud
ges, and Chancellors when holding court at
places other than in the counties in which they
reside; and all fees that may hereafter be pay
able by law for any service performed by any
officer mentioned in this section shall be paid
in advance into the State Treasury. Until oth
erwise provided by law, the annual salaries
shall be as follows: Governor, $7,500; Secre
tary of State, $3,600; Treasurer, $3,600; At*
tcrney General, $4,000; Auditor of State, $3,
600; Commissioner of State Lands and High
ways, $3,600; Commissioner of Mines* Manu
factures and Agriculture, $3,600; Judges of
Supreme Court, each $6,000; Judges of Circuits
Courts and Chancellors, each $4,000; Commis
sioner of Education, $4,000. Art. V, Sec. 16,
places members of the General Assembly on a
salary not to exceed $1,000 for a four-year term
in spite ui me popular prejudice against in
crease in salaries, provisions authorizing fail
living salaries for the members of the General
Assembly, the judicial and executive officers
of our state Government, are among the most
important reforms worked out by the framers
ol the Constitution of 1918. The old saying
that “The laborer is worthy of his hire” is cer
tainly applicable in times like these, to the ex
ecutive, legislative, and judicial officers ol
Arkansas. The cost of living since 1847 has
I increased conservatively 50 per cent, and since
i the outbreak of the European war the cost of
I the necessities of life has arisen fully '35 per
Scent. Arkansas needs the highet type of men
I to fill its responsible legislative, exeyutive and
{judicial departments, and it is universally rec
ognized that annual salaries are preferable
either to fees or per diem allowances.
BUDGET SYSTEM
~ Art. XVI, Sec. 7, provides that on or before
November 15, 1920, and biennially thereafter,
the heads of all State Departments and institu
tions, except the judiciary and the Supreme
Court, shall, with the Governor, compile a bud
get of financial requirements and expenditures.
Five days after organization, the General As
sembly shall submit an itemized statement of its
financial needs to be included in the budget. On
or before the fifth day following the organiza'
tion, the Governor shall submit to the General
Assembly a budget containing a complete state
ment of proposed expenditures and estimated
revenues, also current assets, liabilities, reserv
es, surplus or deficit. Items may be changed,
but the aggregate appropriations shall not ex
ceed the aggregate recommended by the Gov
ernor. No other appropriations shall be made
unless provision is made for the revenue to cov
er the same.
I his provision as enevitable in working out
!a thorough business system of running the state
government. Its adoption will mean that the
state’s business will no longer be run on a hap
hazard plan. The revenue must be in sight to
cover an appropriation or no appropriation will
be made. The Legislature will no longer pass
appropriation bills without limitation or regard
to the ability of the treasury to meet the obliga
tion, leaving it to the Governor to prune and
cut down to the best of his judgment, and the
dissatisfaction of all parties concerned. The
adoption of this system, with otherwise econom
ic measures, will enable the state to keep on a
cash basis at all times, prevent its paper from
being hawked about at a disgraceful discount,
pay its employees dollar for dollar all they earn
and maintain its credit upon a high plane. The
General Assembly will enter upon its work with
a clear, comprehensive chart to guide its course
and shape its appropriations.
LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS
Art. V, Sec. 5, provides that the General
Assembly shall meet on the first Tuesday after
the second Monday in 1919, and biennially
thereafter; the session of 1921 ^and_ alternate
sessions shall not exceed thirty days, and no
business shall be transacted except the consid
eration of general appropriation bills for the
State Government and the State Institutions,
and the investigation of accounts of State offi
cers and management and condition of State in
stitutions. The regular sessions shall not ex
ceed sixty days.
This is in keeping with the policy of re
i striding legislation to that which is essential,
land eliminating protracted sessions. The peo
ple decisively went on record for this reform in
1913, when they adopted by an overwhelming
majority an initiated amendment limiting leg
islative sessions to sixty days. With all local
legislation prohibited, it will be found that all
necessary laws can be enacted within that time
and many thousands of dollars saved the tax
payers of the state by this wise economy. .As
they will be serving on a term salary, there will
be no financial inducement for members to
prolong a session beyond the time actually nec
essary to transact business of benefit to the
state.
Two Views
Wise, economical Abigal Jane
Leaned from her snug limousine to explain
“Help a French Orphan—give 10 cents a day?”
1 couldn't afford it—that’s too much to pay.
My boots cost ten-fifty, my gloves six a pair,
Five dollars a bottle the scent ftr my hair,
I love little children, but yet it is plain
I can’t feed an orphan,” sighed Abigal Jane
(Wise, economical Abigal Jane.)
Silly, extravagant Ellen O’May
(Works in a restaurant down on Broadway)
“I cud walk to me job—what’s a carfare to me,
If ’twould save a wee Frinehman that’s over the
sea?
Ten cents a day—’tis a paper o’ pins—
I’ll pay for the kid, an’ wish he was twins!”
(Silly, extravagant Ellen O’May.)
Exchange.
This is Serious Blow 1
To Possum Family
Fayetteville, Nov. 25.—A
light of apprehension burns
nervously in the eye of every
’possum in Arkansas. He has
cause to worry, for the per
simmonless day is at hand for
him. Hitherto despised and
neglected, the persimmon at
last has come into its own.
/Experiments conducted by the
'young women in the depart
ment of economics, University
of Arkansas, have shown that
innumerable delicacies may be
prepared with this common
fruit. The young women are
learning how to use persim
mons instead of dates and figs
in persimmon whip, preserves,
pudding, and pie.
Here is a recipe in which
persimmons are utilized as
sandwich filling: Run a cup
of soaked dried persimmons
through the food chopper, fidd
one-fourth of a cup of corn sy
rup, and simmer until a thick
mass is the result. Add a cup
of any kind of chopped nut
meats. Variety in flavor may
be secured by the addition of
the juice of half a lemon.
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FLOUR SUBSTITUTE
SALES ARE REMOVED
The substitutes and Victory I
mixed flour program has been |
removed for the present. It is
no longer necessary that sub
stitutes accompany sales of
straight wheat flour nor that
they be mixed with straight
wheat flour in baking bread
and pastries in homes, hotels,
restaurants and bakeries.
Quantity restrictions have
also been removed but hoard
ing is still a violation and we
urge, as a patriotic duty, that
only a reasonable amount of
flour be sold to any one cus
tomer.
A. K. GOODNIGHT,
County Food Administrator.
ARKANSAS RICE IS
SHIPPED TO BELGIUM
Twenty-eight car loads of
rice were shipped from the
DeWitt rice mill last week to
Belgium to be distributed un
der the supervision of Mr.
Hoover. This is the second
shipment from DeWitt of rice
to feed the Belgians and the
people of northern France.
The rice was sent on order of
the United States government.
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Buy a thrft stamp today.
HOW TO FIGHT
SPANISH INFLUENZA
nr mi. l. w. bowers.
Avoid crowds, coughs and cowards,
but fear neither germs nor Germans!
Keep the system in good order, take
plenty of exercise in the .fresh air and
practice cleanliness. Remember a clean
mouth, a clean skin, and clean bowels
are a protecting armour against disease.
To keep the liver and bowels regular
and to carry away the poisons within,
it is best to take a vegetable pill every
other day, made up of May-apple, aloes,
jalap, and sugar-coated, to be had at
most drug stores, known as Dr. Pierce’s
Pleasant Pellets. If there is a sudden
onset of what appears like a hard cold,
one should go to bed, wrap warm, taka
a hot mustard foot-bath and drink copi
ously of hot lemonade. If pain develops
in head or back, ask the druggist for
Anuric ( anti-uric) tablets. These will
flush the bladder and kidneys and carry
off poisonous germs. To control the
pains and aches take one Anuric tablet
every two hours, with frequent drinks of
lemonade. The pneumonia appears in
a most treacherous way, when the influ
enza victim is apparently recovering and
anxious to leave his bed. In recovering j
from a bad attack of influenza or pneu
monia the system should be'built up
with a good herbal tonic, 6uch as Dr.
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, made
without alcohol from the roots and barks
of American forest trees, or his Irontic
(iron tonic) tablets, which can be ob- j
tained at most drug stores, or send 10c.
to Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo,
N, V., for trial package.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
sp — and has been made under his per.
/T* s sonai supervision since its infancy
Allow no one to deceive you in this]
All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the he-alth of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, i
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has ;
i>een id constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, !
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising L
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids J
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep, j
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
•GENUINE CASTORIA always
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In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bough
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one that will stay—you don’t want to have to do
the job over again next year. Wire fences look
better last longer and cost less. You can’t tear a
; rail down or knock a paling off a w’ire fence. We
have just received a carload.of wire fencing of
every description and can take care of your needs.
• Now is the time to build the fences you have been
planning and it will pay you to come here for your
wire.
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Cotton and Corn Buyers
General Merchandise
To the Farmers: —We want your produceand will
pay the highest market price in cash or trade
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Colds Cause Grip and Influenza
LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets remove the
cause. There is only cue "Bromo Quinine."
E. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c.