THE NEWARK JOURNAL
Published Every Friday
0. F. CRAI6, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Entered at the post office at Newark,
Ark., as second class mall.
WEED OF GREATER
SCHOOL INTEREST
There will be a citizens meet
ing at the school house in New
ark tonight (Friday) for the pur
pose of forming some sort of or
ganization for creating a greater
interest in our schools.
Newark has one of the best
schools in North Arkansas, and
material and means at our com
mand for making a school that
will be not only the pride of ev
ery citizen, but a distinct aid and
a profitable financial investment
for the town.
But we must wake up and take
a greater and more active inter
est in our schools.
With regard to our schools we
take too much for granted. We
go to the school election, vote a
big tax and elect directors, then
pay our taxes, and take it for
granted that the directors and
teachers will do the rest.
All this is very essential, but
if we would have our schools
render their full worth to the
community we must not stop
here. The directors and teach
ers have wrought wisely and
well, and are continuing to ren
der good service, but they need
assistance and encouragement.
We who favor progress and ad
vancement in its broader terms
should not overlook the fact that
our school is the most potent fac
tor for human progress and for
the making of men and women
that we have in this community.
This does not mean mere walk
ing machines; it does not mean
mere intellectual machines;but it
means men and women who have
hearts, as well as minds; who
look beyond the material things
of life, and look to humanity and
to God for the elevation, progress
and betterment of mankind.
The common schools of our
country are its foundation stone;
boys and girls are attending the
public schools of our land who
never will, and never can, enter
any higher course. Statistics show
that there are more than twenty
million boys and girls attending
the public schools of our land, and <
not two per cent of that number !
have ever graduated from the
higher institutions of learning in
any one year.
Then how necessary it is that
the common schools should be
made better.
And how necessary it is that
every person connected with the
maintenance and efficiency of our
schools should be a man or woman
thoroughly equipped for the ser
vice, and should give it their best
thought.
There is today a greater pre
mium upon intelligence and hon
esty than ever in the history of
the world. The schools are the
most powerful factor we have for
the diffusion of these most valu
able human assets.
The importance of our schools,
therefore, cannot be over-esti
mated.
None of us are doing the best
that we are capable of doing.
There is better stuff in all of
us than we think there is, if we
could only arouse it and bring it
into action. This is true of ev
erybody, everywhere. Now is a
good time for we folks of New
ark to make an effort to arouse
a part of our better self and bring
it into play in behalf of our
schools. This is the day of
achievement, but the individual
or the people who make no more
than ordinary efforts achieve only
ordinaay results.
Go to the school meeting to
night and let’s show the school
board and the teachers that we
have more than ordinary interest
in the school. Show them that
we are going to expect them to
make the school produce more
than ordinary results, and that
we are ready and willing to assist
them to produce these results.
Gov. Hays is again being urged
to call a special session of the legis
lature. There is no urgent demand
for a special session of the legis
ture, so far as the people generally
are concerned, and if Gov. Hays is
as wise as we think he is, he will
refuse to call a special session.
The members of the legislature
can render their country better
service right now by remaining at
lome and helping with the fodder
nulling, pea picking and sorghum
making than they could possibly
render with a twenty-day gabfest
it the state capitol.
Interest in the Good Roods
movement is growing. Join in and
lelp it along.
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Sash Doors, Lime, Nails and almost
anything you need in the buildingline.
We also have a complete assortment
of General Hardware and Harness,and
we invite you to come and see us when
you need anythihg in these lines. We
treat you right and appreciate your
patronage.
NEWARK LUMBER CO
Newark, Arkansas
THE COUNTRY
NEWSPAPER
If you are inclined to think the
country newspaper “don’t amount
to much nohow,’’ read the follow
ing editorial from the Memphis
News Scimitar, one of the very
few really big dailies of the South:
“Turning from the voluminous
metropolitan journals, with their
| scare headlines and egregious pic
tures, there is a soothing and an
undiluted joy in turning to the
country newspaper. Hare are no
insincerities or make-believes, but
a heart-to-heart communication of
ideas between neighbors and
friends. The freshness and whole
someness of the items published
affect one as some healing ano
dyne. It is redolent of the soil.
It is undisguisedly human and full
of real interest. There are coun
try newspapers that ape the city
dailies, but in so doing they de
stroy their chief characteristic and
most valuable asset. The real
country newspaper is never ex
treme or exhausting. It has a
dignity of moderation and a re
serve of force that are manifest.
It is homey and seriously Ameri
can, and never prostitutes its
pages for the purpose of notoriety
seeking. The country newspaper
has tonic properties for the jaded
mind of the city newspaper
worker.”
Former Governor Donaghey |
has announced his withdrawal
from the race for United States
Senator, and Judge W. F. Kirby of
the Arkansas Supreme Court has;
formally announced his candidacy
for senator. Senator Jas. P.
Clarke, who will be a candidate
for re-election, is a strong man
and an able man, but a very poor j
“mixer” when it comes to getting :
out among the people and becom
ing one of them. Judge Kirby is
not only an able man but is a good
“mixer” and although Senator
Clarke and his friends do not real
ize it, Clarke has the race of his
life on his hands right now.
The business men of Newark
responded liberally with cash sub
scriptions for the Good Hoads
fund. The business men of New
ark, like all other humans, have
their faults, but taken as a whole
they compare favorably with the
business men of any other town
of this size. In this instance, at
least, The Journal feels that they
have done as much as could reas
onably be expected of them. If all
other parties who should be inter
ested do as well, there will be some
good work done on the road next
Tuesday and Wednesday.
When you get to ranting around
about what the other fellow has
done, or hasn’t done, and if you
were in his place what you would
do, just stop and take a real
good look at yourself and see if
you measure up to the standard
that you set for others. If we
could always see ourselves as oth
ers see us, there would probably
be a difference in the way we often
thoughtlessly express our opinion
of others. _______
More farmers should attend the
State and county fairs. The Tri
State Fair at Memphis opens Sep
tember 22, and the Arkansas State
Fair at Hot Springs opens Octo
ber 27. Both are good fairs, and
any farmer who attends either for
the purpose of studying the exhib
its and gaining useful information
will more than get his money’s
worth.
Very often the man who won
ders why there isn’t more work for
a fellow in this community is the
very chap who is helping to keep
a mail-order crew busy somewhere,
else.
The Daily Live Stock Reporter
told the other day of the sale of
some Arkansas steers at 6.90, and
commented on this as “a very good
price for Atkansas steers in the
quarantine division.” Just below
were reports of Missouri steers
selling for 8.40 and 8.50. It is
very plain that we need to get rid
of the quarantine line and get bet
ter cattle in Arkansas.
The farmers of this community
will spend thousands of dollars
during the next few months. This
money, if kept in this community,
will work wonders in local devel
opment. What are our Newark
merchants going to do toward
helping to keep Newark money in
Newark? _
The local paper is a great factor
in building up the community be
cause it tells the resources of the
country and urges co-operation to
develop them. Patronize your
home paper and co-operate with
the editor in building up the
town.—Farm and Ranch.
The first victim of the electric
chair in Arkansas was electrocuted
at the penitentiary in Little Rock
last Friday. He said he was go
ing straight to glory. We suppose
that in a few years there will be a
well-beaten path from that chair
direct to St. Peter’s gate.
Shade trees add much to the at
tractiveness of a town, and there
is nothing that gives more com
fort, for the time and money they
cost, than beautiful shade trees.
Let’s have a tree-planting day this
fall, and plant trees along every
street in Newark.
What will Newark and this com
munity amount to in ten years
from now? That depends in a
large measure on how much push
and enterprise and good judgment
that we of today put into our work
of building for the future.
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The home merchant who has
not the enterprise to take the
steps necessary to supply the
farmers’ wants, ought not to com
plain if an outsider supplies them.
It is easy for other towns to be
bigger than Newark, hut there is
no reason why they should be any
better.
Relief is pouring into Hot
Springs from all sections of the
country, and the unfortunate
homeless and hungry people of
that city will be well provided for
by generous and sympathetic peo
ple. _
It is the freight that is shipped
OUT of a town that brings the
money IN. What we need in this
community is more and a greater
variety of products to ship to out
side markets.
There, will be no governors to
labor on our roads during our two
Good Roads Days next week, bet
there will be some mighty good
workers—and workers are what
count.
If you keep your mind clean and
think the truth, you will live the
truth and speak the truth—and
Krifffr It-hrwhat counts. — .
Public sentiment can raise a
man to the highest pinnacle of
fame in a day, and cast him off his
high perch in an hour.
No man is too poor to build a
home as long as he is spending
money for luxuries that he could
deny him'seif. " —
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NEWARK, ARKA8NAS
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Office in New Masonic Building
Phones: Office 40, residence 16
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ARKANSAS
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NEWARK, ARKANSAS
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