PUREBRED SIRES ARE
IMPROVING GRADES
Better Stock on the Farms of
Arkansas Will Bring Great
er Prosperity
The use of purebred sires in
producing better farm and
market stock in Arkansas is
one of the important features
in the programme of county
agent work of the agricultural
extension service for the com
ing year.
Entirely too many low grade
scrub animals are going to
market from this state, special
ists of the extension service
say. Purebred bulls were
found on only one per cent of
the farms in the state last
year, according to census re
pons.
Last year through the influ
ence of County farm agents
a total of 486 purebred sires
for farm animals were brought
into the state. This work of
replacing the scrub sire with
the purebred sire will be car
ried on until the class of ani
mals raised in this state i3 bet
ter. With more purebred sires
in the state there will be fewer
“heretics, quinine steers” and
“cold-blooded” hogs going to
market, which means that the
market grades of Arkansas
Jive stock will be higher and
that Arkansas farmers will re
ceive more money for animals
marketed.
The sire is the biggest half
in producing an animal for
use on the farm or for the mar
ket. It has been found thru
years of experimental work in
breeding that the sire has
more influence on the offspring
than does the dam.
Through years of careful
selection and intellingent
breeding the purebred sire
has acquired the ability to
stamp his own fixed charac
teristics of good quality and
conformation on his offspring.
The scrub sire (so many of
which are found in Arkansas)
degenerates the farm herd.
He is an intensified mass of
imperfections, a mixture of
which he transmits to his off
spring. He reproduces not his
kind, but an assortment of de
generates, fewer better than
himself.
Figures easily show that it
is economy to use a purebred
sire in the production of mar
ket animals. The grade calf,
a result of using a purebred
sire on a scrub or grade dam,
will weigh more than its dam
when from six to nine months
old. The grade yearling will
weigh 50 per cent more than
the scrub yearling.
HE SERVES BEST
The Rotary Club has as its
motto, “He profits most who
serves best.” “Surely this
ought to be true,” observed a
man the other day who is a
keen student of country life
conditions. “But I doubt if it
is true of the country news
paper. Few country life in-1
stitutions render the service to j
their community that the;
country weekly renders, yet I
know of few editors of the j
country papers who have died |
rich or even well-to-do. I am;
told that surveys show that|
the average difference be
tween what the editor takes
in and what he pays out is an
exceedingly small figure when
it has to be salary and return
on investment. "
Harold Lloyd at the Royal
Tuesday night.
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BANK CASHIER USES
SHOTGUN TO END LIFE
Wiley D. Cotton of Dardanelle
Commits Suicide Follow
ing Breakdown
Dardanelle, Oct. 17.—Wiley
D. Cotton, for 30 years con
nected with the Dardanelle
Bank & Trust Company, and
during virtually all of that
time its cashier, committed
suicide at about 6:30 o’cclock
this morning by emptying the
contents of both barrels of a
shotgun into his body, dying
a little more than an hour lat
er. The tragedy was enacted
in what had been a cow lot
in the rear of the Cottton
home. The two barrels of the
gun were fired separately with
an apprciable interval of time
between. The shots were
heard by members of the fam
1 ily and others in the neighbor
hood, who, upon rushing to
he scene found Mr. Cottos
lying upon the ground partly
disemboweled.
He arose early this morning,
before other members of the
family were astir, went into
the lot and placing the muzzle
of the gun to his abdomen,
pulled the trigger.
surgeon \n as
from Russellville and reached
Mr. Cotton before his death
but was unable to render any
effective aid toward saving the
man’s ilfe. Mr. Cotton re
mained conscious until shortly
before his death. He had
been suffering from a nervous
breakdown for about a year
and in conversation with a
friend who reached his side
after the shooting, he said
that his suffering had become
unbearable and this was the
cause of his taking his own
life.
Mr. Cotton was about 50
y.ears old. His breakdown oc
curred about one year ago,
during the financial crisis that
affected banks and business
institutions throughout the
South. While the institution
of which he was cashier
weathered the storm, Mr. Cot
ton’s nervous system gave way
under the strain. His mind
was affected at times and he
was unable to transact busi
ness and relinquished his du
ties at the bank.
GIVE CREDIT AND
YOU WILL EARN IT
Don’t hesitate to express
your appreciation of the other
fellow’s merit. It will please
him, and it will raise you in
the estimation of others.
Try it. If you have men
working under you, speak up
and give them credit. Don’t
wait till they make mistakes
and jump on them. It makes
had blood and causes little
good.
Try it for just one week.
Stop finding fault. Be on the
lookout for merit. The chanc
es are you will find something
to praise. And just keep on
giving credit for a whole week
to the men you have been
finding fault with hitherto. . -
You will have all the men
on your side. They will do
better work and more of it.
Incidentally, you will become
popular, and eventually your
men will give you credit for
handing it to them.
KEEPING THE COUNTRY TOWN
YOUNG FOLKS IN THE COUNTRY
—
Country towns turn out a
large number of bright and
progressive young people. But
in past years most of them
went away to larger places.
Ii you could induce the ma
jority of these folks to settle
down around home, this town
and the nearby country, would
i make a marvellous advance in
prosperity.
This is not an impossible
proposition. All it takes is
the same go-ahead spirit that
many rural communities are
showing. Country life can be
made so bright, so attractive,
and so hopeful in a business
way, that the young people
will become deeply attached
to their home life, and will
see such a satisfactory career
in it, that they will in the ma
jority of cases settle clown
near home.
While our community has
made splendid progress during
recent years, yet we have
lost a large number of young
people w’ho might just as well
I have stayed at home. We need
their bright wit and progress
ive outlook ard business abil
ity.
Now the problem is, how to
keep the many of their type
now in our schools, some of
| whom are beginning to get a
little restive, and to long for
big city glitter. We can keep
them, or most of them, if we
will. If wre succeed in doing
it, it means a splendid future
development for our commun
ity.
The Public and the Railroad Strike
COMMERCIAL APPEAL
In 1914 the railroad em
ployes were drawing an aver
age of $815 a year.
In 1921, before the propos
ed and now disputed 12 per
rent cut the average wage was 1
$1,898 a year.
After the proposed 12 perj
cent cut the average wage is j
$1,695 a year. j;
Since 1914 the government !
and labor board made two in
creases. Other increases were j!
made by carriers.
The pay of engineers over,
1914 is a rate of 38 per cent !
increase. The pay of firemen!
is 100 per cent. But in 1914 '
negro firemen were receiving
much less than white firemen.
Thy were brought up to the
level of white firemen and I
this, in part, accounts for the 1
higher per cent of 100.
The labor board ordered a
2Ut of 12 per cent, beginning
July 1. Th’s was regarded as!
lcceptable ft r a time but a
strike vote rejects this cut.
The men threatening to
strike are in position of de- [
nanding the peak wages—re
fusing to accept any cut.
They claim that this cut is
:hreatened to be followed by
another. They say they might
stand the 12 per cent cut, but
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no other reduction or change
in working rules will be toler
ated. Hence the strike.
There has been a decline in
other wages, in all things men
! eat and wear—in all things
except those held either in the
grip of an owner trust or a
1 labor trust.
j The public pays the wages
of railroad employes, and the
public pays the interest on the
railroad bonds and on the
stocks.
Raliroads, while an impor
! tant part of the business of
; the .country,, create nothing,
make nothing.
They haul what other peo
ple make and what other peo
ple consume. They haul peo
ple from 01 e place to anoth
!er.
During the war and follbw
| ing it the people wore patient
with the roads. They exempt
ed many railroad men from
the draft. They loaned money
to the roads. They wet nurs
ed both owners and employes.
They stood for high freight
rates until the rates in some
cases destroyed business, be
cause the business could not
pay the tariff.
The roads claim the rates
are made necessary by the
cost of operation. They say
the biggest cost in operation
is wages.
Well, the preset cost of
operation, as reflected in rates
is stopping sawmills in the
south and steel mills in the
north. It keeps corn on the
farm and cattle in the fields.
Farm labor, timber labor and
much skilled labor is out of
work because what they work
in cannot stand the rate.
We know of no other labor
killed or unskilled, receiving
war time pay. No profession
is getting it. Sources of in
come are making smaller
yields.
Now labor should not be
called upon to make all the
cut, but at the same time the
railroad employes cannot jus
tify themselves in holding up
all other classes of labor, the
farmer and the manufacturer,
in order to maintain wages at
a point out of line with other
wages and other costs of pro
duction.
The railroad labor court,
created by the United States
government, accepted as a fin
al court, decided there should
be a cut of 12 per cent. This
figure was reached after both
sides had their day in court.
The court was an arbitrator.
Its findings were lawful. If
both sides entered . he court
both sides are bound.
Some are saying the em
ployes must win or their unions
will be smashed. Otheis in
sist the roads must win or go
body and soul back to the
government. The lives of the
unions and the lives of the
roads are in no danger because
of an adjustment of the pres
ent row.
The third party (and the
biggest party)—the public—
has rights. It pays the bills.
It insists that things go on in
order.
WAREHOUSE BURNED
Over 40,000 Pounds of Seed
Cotton Lost in Blaze
Paragould, Oct. 16.—The
cotton house of the Indepen
dent Gin Company, located in
the northeastern part of the
city, was destroyed by fire
yesterday afternoon. About
40,000 pounds of seed cotton,
valued at about $5,000 w'as
consumed. The cotton was
(he property of the Lesser
Gold man Cotton Company and
was insured. The building
was also insured.
The fire is supposed to
have been caused by a match
accidentally dropped by some
one while unloading cotton.
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BURGLARS DON’T SEEK
THE LIMEUGHT
m-J ARK NESS is their stock in trade.
They work by stealth—unheard and unseen—
their movements cloaked in secrecy. It’s hon
est folks that seek the light. They are the
only ones who can risk it.
It’s the same way in business. The mer
chant who is not sure of his goods does not
dare to advertise. Advertising would hasten
the end of his business career—put him to a
test he could not meet.
invites your inspection. He tells you about his
product and then lets it stand on its own
merits. YOU CAN DEPEND ON HIM. HE
KNOWS HIS PRODUCT IS GOOD.
That’s one reason why it pays you to read
the advertisements. It is through advertising
that you are able to keep in touch with the
good things that progressive business men are
handling for your benefit and convenience.
Advertisements throw a powerful light
The merchant who advertises, deliberately on the very things that concern you most.
Trade With the Merchants Who Advertise
THE NEWARK JOURNAL
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