THE HUTTIG NEWS.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARKANSAS AND UNION COUNTY.
VOL. XI. NO. 47
HUTT1G. ARKANSAS. SATURDAY. MARCH 23. 1918.
PRICE. $1 PER YEAR
The Coming Chautauqua.
The Farmerville Gazette had the
following to say of the Chautauqua
which will appear in Huttig late in
May or early in June and every
body who fails to attend will no
doubt miss a treat:
‘‘The Radcliffe Chautauqua
which played in Farmerville on
Friday and Saturday of last week
and Monday of this week was the
best attraction of the kind that has
ever visited Farmerville. Every
program rendered was worth much
more than the price charged for it.
The lectures delivered by H. W.
Sears and Dr.Nat’on were especial
ly fine and inspirational,and left the
people of this community who were
fortunate enough to hear them.with
a higher sense of patriotism and a
better understanding of this, the
most critical period of our coun
try’s history, than they had before
hearing them.
‘‘A number of business men of
the town readily signed a contract
for the return of the Chautauqua
here next year.”
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that a
call meeting of the Democratic
County Central committee will be
held in El Dorado on Monday,
March 25, at 2 o’clock, in the court
house. Said meeting is called for
the purpose of calling a Democrat
ic primary election to be held May
28, and to appoint judges, clerks,
bailiffs for holding 6aid election and
to fix fees of candidates thereof
and to transact anv other business
that may properly come before
said meeting. All members are
hereby requested to be present.
B. W. Reeves, Chm.
P. G. Lake, Secy.
A Badge of Honor.
A Liberty Loan button is a badge
of honor. Rightfully obtained it
marks the wearer as one who has
performed a distinct, definite serv
ice to the country.
Not all can fight, not all can
work directly for the government;
but in buying a Liberty Loan Bond,
or War Savings .Stamps, every
American renders some service to
the Nation. It has been put with
in the reach and power of every
citizen to aid the United States fi
nancially; it is a poor American
who withholds support from the
government, from our soldiers and
sailors fronting death on battlefields
and oceans.
Iron crosses to German soldiers,
and diamond orders exchanged be
tween Turkish and German sovere
igns may be but the honors of
atrocity. But a Liberty Loan but
ton, simple as it is, signifies a pa
triotic duty done and is an insignia
oi nonor.
In Life Boat Six Hours.
Another letter received from
Fatie Garter, who was on the tor
pedoed transport Tuscania, by his
sister says that he was in his state
room almost asleep when he heard
the explosion of the torpedo and
lost no time .in getting to the life
boat assigned him add that it was
after 12 o’clock before, they were
picked up by another ship and
landed in Ireland. He says he
never received a scratch and is
now feeling fine and is located in a
rest camp in E'.ngktnd.
American and German Lificiency.
The searchlight ok war has
brought out many in eres ting facts,
and one of these is .aat th e vaunt
ed German efficiency will not al
ways stand the test of comp, vision
with American efficiency.
The Germans boasted of b eing
the greatest farmers on earth. In
vestigation shows that in efficien cy
in agriculture, measured by the
produce per acre, America being
graded 100, Belgium leads the
world, at 205: Great Britain comes
second, at 164, and Germany third,
at 155; America comes fourth.
But the better test is the man
test, and here America leads the
world by over 2 to 1. Again,
grading America at 100 per farm
worker, Great Britain produces 43
and Germany 41. The American
farmer cultivates 27 acres, the
German farmer but 7. With the
aid of yast quantities of fertilizer
the German produces more per
acre, but he produces at a much
greater cost per bushel and he Dro
duces much less than half as much
per man.
\ Just and Lasting Peace.
The essential princides that
must underlie peace, as stated by
President Wilson, should be con
stantly kept in mind. They show
the greatness and unsefishness and
justice of America’s war aims.
Brieflv thev are:
(1) The final settlement of
this war must be based upon es
sential iustice and each particular
case so adjusted as will most likely
bring a permanent peace.
(2) Peoples and Providences
are not to be bartered about as if
they were mere chatties and
pawns in the game.
(5) Every territorial settle
ment must be made in the interest
of and for the benefit of the popu
lations concerned and not by way
of compromising claims of rival
states.
(4) National aspirations must
be accorded all the satisfaction
possible, without introducting new
or old elements of discord.
Commencing Saturday, March 9,
I will grind only every second and
fouth Saturday of each month.
H. P. Heard.
More Gardens—Better Gardens.
Every reader of these lines who
lives on a farm or who has a little
garden plot needs to raise a garden
this year and a better garden. So
important has the food problem of
our country become that the Pres
ident has directed this appeal to
Southern farmers:—
‘‘I particularly appeal to the
farmars of the South to plant
abundant foodstuffs as well as cot
ton. They can show their patriot
ism in no better way than by re
sisting the great temDtation of the
present price of cotton and helping
upon a great scale to feed the Na
tion and the peoples everywhere
who are fighting for their liberties
and our own. The variety of their
crops will be visible measure of
their comDrehension of their
national duty.”
You need The Progressive
Farmer that you may be a better
farmer. You need Prof. Massey's
Garden Book that you may better
respond to the Nation's Executive
for the more abundant production
of foodstuffs. You need our lively
home paper that you may keep
up with the progress of the home
folks. We make it easy for you to
get a year’s subscription to both
papers and a copy of the book.
The price of our paper and The
Progressive Farmer is a dollar a
year each and the price of a paper
bound copy of Prof. Massey’s Gar
den Book is fifty cents. Send us
(not The Progressive Farmer)
$1.75 or bring that amount to our
office and we will send our paper
and order The Progressive Farmer
— one year each and have The
Progressive Farmer mail you pre
paid a paper cover copy of Prof
Massey's Garden Book.
Toll us the news for the News
War Bread Demonstrations
Under auspices or the women’s
| committee of the County Council ol
Defense two "War Bread" demon
stations were given in Union coun
ty last week. Miss Sallie Cham
berlain, district agent of home
demonstration work, and Mrs.
Helene S. Henry, county home
demonstration agent, conducted
these demonstrations.
The demonstration at Junction
City was given at the home of Mrs,
John Cullins. Both yeast breads
and quick breads were made, using
substitutes for wheat flour. Eight
varieties of yeast bread were baked
and six varieties of quick breads,
using as substitutes cooked cereals,
rolled oats, graham Hour, whole
wheat flour, rice flour, rye flour,
cotton seed flour, peanut meal,
corn meal, ^an, Irish potatoes and
badex. Badex is a corn product,
something new on the market.
The same program was carried
out at El Dorado, the demonstra
tration being given at the court
house.
The women and girls .present at
these demonstations are interested
in the making of these breads as
they are anxious to conserve the
wheat supply. War breads or vic
tory breads are much more "health
ful and nutritious than the white
flour breads owing to the nutrients
contained in the flour substitutes.
Aside from serving victory breads
as a defense measure and a patriot
ic duty we can feel that we are
feeding for efficiency. It is the
duty of every home to save wheat
—substitute hreads make wheat
less days less burdensome,* Those
women who did not have the op
portunity of attending the demon
strations should obtain thes»
recioes from their neighbors or bj
writing to the county home demon
stration agent.
Plans are being made for haying
similar demonstrations in different
points of the county. ,
What W.S.S. Will Buy for Soldiers.
A single Thrift Stamp will buy a
tent pole or five tent pins, a waist
belt or hatf cord, shoe laces or
identification tags: two will buy
one trench tool or a pair of woolen
gloves. Four Thrift Stamps will
buy two pairs of canvass leggings;
six will buy five pairs of woolen
socks or three suits of summer un
Hprwpnr* t.wplvp will hnv/ a ctpp]
helmet.
One War Savings Stamp will buy
one hundred cartridges or a (part
ridge belt or a scabbard for a'bay
onet;two will purchase two pairs of
woolen breeches or two flannel
shirts; two and a half will buy a gas
mask. Three War Savings Stamps
will buy an overcoat or two woolen
service coats; three and a half will
buy three pairs of woolen blankets,
four will buy a rifle.
War Notes.
The annual expenditure of the
United States, for candy is ap
proximately $400,000,000 which
is a waste of sugar. 9
The war department now per
mits women to qualify as inspect
ors of small arms, according to an
announcement by the civil service
commission.
Before the war the navy's bu
reau of identification had the finger
print records of 300,000 men. In
the last year the number has in
creased to about 600,000. In
taking the finger print record of the
navy recruit the impressions of all
10 fingers are obtained.
Plans for the aerial mail route
between Washington, Philadelphia
and New York comtemplate the
use of machines capable of carry
ing 300 pounds of mail a distance
of 200 miles without stop. A
special postage rate would be
charged not exceeding 25 cents an
ounce.
In replying to inquiries regarding
the Dossibility of redistilling seized
spirits for alcohol the war depart
ment has announced that the small
amount of alcohol recovered, the
cost of transportation, recooperage
and redistillation would make the
cost to the government
greater than it is now paying. The
average yield from confiscated
liquor would not exceed 5 per cent
of alcohol.
In order to asssure prompt and
accurate identification, the war de
partment has adopted a system of
numbering enlisted men of the
army. The system provides for
one series of numbers, without al
phabetical prefit, for all enlisted
men. The number assigned to a
soldier will become a part of his of
ficial designation, and will never be
changed nor assigned to another
.man. It will be entered on identi
fication tags.
Soy Beans.
Have you made plans to grow a
sufficient amount of forage crops
for your hogs this years? Do not
forget that the government has
asked Arkansas farmers to increase
the hog production by 300 000
head. I know that the farmers of
Union county want to do their part
in the movement. However, to
grow hogs successfully in this
county or in any other county in
the state, it is necessary to pro
duce forage crops.
Ohe of the best crops which can
be grown for grazing hogs is soy
i beans. It has been shown by ex
periments that the cost of produc
ing an increase in weight may be
reduced from one-half to three
fourths by the use of this crop.
The Alabama experiment station
hafs made a number of experiments
on the feeding value of sow beans.
Results from the experiments
showed:
1. When the pigs were fed on
corn alone it took 572 pounds of
corn to produce 100 pounds of
flesh.
2. When the pigs were fed on
one-fourth of a ration of corn and
were allowed to runjpn a soy bean
pasture, it took only 54 pounds of
corn to produce TOO pounds of
flesh.
In this latter case an acre of soy
beans was'equivalent to an acre of
corn yielding 42.3 bushels.
Sow beans are quite similar in
their nature to cow peas, but they
have an advantage over cow peas
in that they are more resistant to
frost and yield a larger amount of
grain. Soy beans may be planted
about the same time that corn is
planted or about one month earlier
than cow peas. They are ready
for grazing from 90 to 120 days
after planting. If soy beans are
planted on April 1, they will be
ready for use for the hogs by July
or August.
Some of the farmers have had
difficulty in getting a stand of th;s
croD. This has been due in many
cases to the ground packing on the
soy beans and the plants breaking
off as they were trying to push
through the soil crust. This may
be overcome largely by planting
the beans at a depth not to exceed
two inches. When this is done
one is not likely to experience the
difficulty of a poor stand.
It is about one month before this
crop should be planted, but seeds
are scarce this year and therefore
those who are planning on raising
soy beans should buy their planting
seed right away.
C. H. Alspaugh,
County Agent.
“My Best Advertisement
Is a mother who has once used Chamberlain’s „
Cough Remedy, for she makes a point of tell- ****
mg other mothers about it, who in turn pass the news on. It is
this that has made Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a household^
word throughout the world. Just ask some mother in your
community what she thinks of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy—
she will tell you that it enables her to get her children through
the winter without coughs, colds or croup, and that at first
approach of a cold she herself takes
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
She will tell you that it is as thoroughly reliable for the youngest
child as for the oldest member of the family. You can give it to
the baby, the children going to school, or t<»ke it yourself, always
with the same result—a quick relief.”
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Back Your Soldiers
!1 With Your Dollars
A War Savings Stamp
IS AS SECURE
As A National Bank Note
Both are backed by the United States Government.
About the only difference is that the Stamps pay you 4 per
cent interest compounded quarterly on January 1, 1923.
If you are pressed for money at any time, you can
cash a War Savings Stamp for its current yaJue at any
money order post officeon-ten days’ notice.
War Savings Stamps are convenient
vestments, no ’“red tape,” and are backed by
sources of the people of the United States.
Every Stamp you buy helps to ksep
out of your own home. Eyery Stamp y^u buj
nearer to financial freedom.
and easy in
the entire re
the Germans
brings you
This War will be won only when
thrift becomes our. watchword.
This space patriotically contributed to War Savings Committee ly f
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Town Officers Nominated
At the mass meeting held in the
citv hall Monday night the follow
ing were nominated as officers of
the incoporated town of Huttig to
be voted on Tuesday. April 2:
Mayor—Thos. Green.
Recorder— R. A. Barrow.
Aldermen—A. E. Lucas, L. M.
Despain, J. B. Crockett, F. W.
Scott and H. P. Heard.
Appeals to farmers.
In an apDeal to the farmers to
put their savings into Government
War Savings Certificates, Secrata
ry of Agriculture Houston recently
said:
“It is the patriotic duty of every
citizen who is in a position to do so,
to invest in War Savings and Thrift
Stamps and thereby help the Na
tion to win this war. The purchase
of even a twenty-five cent Thrift
Stamp, is a definite contribution to
this end.
“War Savings and Thrift Stamps
foster the habit of thrift in small
expenditures, make it possible for
nearly eyery one to purchase what
are in reality small government
( bonds, and offer a unique oppor
i tunity to the people at once tb help
th9ir government and to economize
conveniently for the purchase of
the best imrestmant securities in
the world.
"To win this war, we must have
both men and money. I know that
every farmer wants to do every
thing in his power for the Nation,
in this day of triaJ. He will not
only labor to produce the necessa
ry food stsiffs hut. wilh also cenfir
ously contribute of Ibis means to
make it possible for tb«e men at the
fiont to achieve victory. I am
confident that the fanners of the
land will not permit any other class
to take the leadership i n supporting
the government in thl's crisis, fi
nancially or otherwise.
Notice of fleet fen.
Notice is hereby given that an
election will be held in the Town
Hall on Tuesday, April 2,1918, for
the purpose of electing a mayor,
recorder and five aldermen for the
Incorporated Town of Huttig, Ark.,
for one year.
Tries. Gresn, Acting Mayor.