THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, APRIL 4, 1919
NUMBER 37
H!NK of situation year ago,
and how ready we were
TO STAKE ALL.
big debt was incurred
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War Closed Earlier Than Anyone
Expected, and We Must Finish
Paying For It.
When your boy was on the fighting
front over there last fall, or was in
we of the training camps over here
jping hardened for the mpst terrible
ash that ever confronted man; when
-ountless mothers with sad eyes were
canning the death lists with hearts
(tremble, fearing lest the name of a
oved one might be there; when the
ale of the nation and of the world
mng in the balance, then the thought
ippermost in every mind was the win
ling cf the war and the avoidance of
■ontinued loss of life.
Then during the fall months of 1918
he purse strings of America’s citizens
cere cut with willing hands. For the
fourth Liberty Loan—the Fighting
liberty Loan—the almost ineonceiv
tble sum of six billions of dollars was
sked.by the United States Govern- :
nent to prosecute the war. What the
nswer was is history—glorious his- !
ory.
Americans not only met (he call, but
hrew in another billion for good
neasure.
it required the most sanguine opti
ng then to predict a victory over
>ermany before the summer that is
low approaching. Thousands of
America’s best and bravest young
nen, the flower of the country, were
Jaily offering up and giving their lives
or the weal of humanity. They were
'offering ghastly wounds, inflicted by
weapons such as only the brutality of
• ermany s most vicious minds could
ash ton; they were being blinded and
, red with poisonous gases, that
Germany introduced against all usage?
” ° m°dern warfare, and they were
ying m the mud of slimy trenches, de
JJ , of every comfort, with each
jrrent day sapping their vitality,
nat America might be saved.
Totat Wealth Pledged.
couid anyone in absolute au
CnJ aVe promised a victory before
lie 16f T3S Ioc^hd in winter’s gi*asp,
of this rich land
unhesitatingly have been placed
t rmJo1'011 S diSposal. that the lives
.Qiiitless thousands of the flower
iflced K'aU manhood need not be sac
thll° WeFe planning and di
eSl;tb?. war- or that part of it
ated bv^if^ — America- were domi
Hickly am ’ ldea °f endlng the war
saving every American
aunted. Th* The cost was not
he Peonio’ 6 Tnoney that flowed from
dly Mini PUrse was sPent unstint
^grandii0118 Were spent to equip
n. Other a»my the kSl,n ever shone
ips to conve11!0118 Were spent for
i Faein -ey L^em aeross the Atlan
tories Were kept at work
ight and a — ^ *vcyi m wors
,iDT»Ho«ay turning out munitions
nd supplies.
FIRST NAVY “Y” UNIFORM GREETS WILSON
The “gobs” at the big U. S. naval base at Brest, France, wouldn’t stand
for any suggestion of khaki at the Y. M. C. A, there, and here is one of the
results—the first navy “Y” uniform. It is of navy blue, lined with yellow—
the Annapolis colors—with the Red Triangle insignia over the anchor. The
“Y” built a big double hut at Brest, painted it battleship gray and every ship
In the harbor gave a flag to decorate it. It had window curtains of blue and
yellow, and the “A. E. F.” was removed from the writing paper and “Navy
Forces Operating on Foreign Waters” took its place. Finally came the new
uniform, which has Admiral Wilson’s official approval. Dressed in these new
uniforms, as they appear above, Mrs. Pleasants Pennington, daughter of Walter
Damroseh, and Miss Letitia McKiip of Philadelphia, stood with the bluejackets
to greet President Wilson when he arrived at Brest.
MRS. VINCENT ASTOR SERVES SOLDIERS
r
Mrs. Vincent Astor is just asking the young man in khaki if he wants
another spoonful of sugar in his cocoa as he assembles his food at Victory
Hut the new Y. M. O. A. center opened in Battery park, at the lower end of
Manhattan, New York city, for the accommodation of soldiers, sailors and
marines. Mrs. Astor worked for seventeen months in a “Y” canteen at the
base port of fcrest, France, and knows the soldiers and sailors require plenty
of sugar. She returned to New York at the end of the war, but re-entered
th« wof# when the Y. M. 0. A. opened Victory Hut. Mrs. Astor is only one
of a large number of wealthy women who are giving liberally of their time
and means to this work, trying in some measure to give the soldier a real
substitute for home.
FROM MILLIARD CROTZER
Miami, Fla.,
March 31, 1919.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Raney:
Would have answered your
letter sooner, but have been
havingn trouble with my eyes.
I had a birthday last month,
but I didn’t have chow, if I
remember correctly, I had
beans. Had some chow Wash
ington’s birthday. I am going
to look for the chicken dinner
you promised me when I re
turn. We very seluom get any
chicken here. Papa is sending
me the best paper in the coun
ty. I sure am glad to get it.
I read every copy about six
times. There are several dis
chargesh coming in, but not
mine. Guess I will be here to
locek. the gates.
Fifteen pilots and machine
gunners shoved off for Haiti
this morning. I didn’t like
much making the trip myself.
Guess McCrory is some live
berg now. Well, I guess I
had better quit, the canteen is
open andn they might run out
of ice cream before I get there.
Your friend,
Milliard.
VELVET BEANS
Velvet beans should be
planted the early part of April
Don’t plant the seed more than
one and one-half inches deep.
Plant one bean every twenty
four inches apart in each row
of corn. Purchase beans from
local merchants if possible.
Consult your county agent as ,
to the best place to buy seed.
The Early Speckled is well
adapted to Arkansas. Let
every farmer plant some Vel
vet Beanns. The Hays Stores
Co., of Little Rock has received
two cars for sale.
JIM G. FERGUSON,
Commissioner.
Babies are born to enjoy life
liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness, the first steps in these
are clean homes and clean
habits. Has your baby these?
. Herbert rawlixson axe
/ SYLVIA BREA MER. *
•stars of J. Stuart Blaekton’s “ Tb*
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At the Jewel Theatre April 25.