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WHICH SHALL IT BE
DOGS OR SHEEP?
There is a saying in this
country, and it has grown into
an adage, that the legislator
who desires to commit political
suicide has only to introduce
and father a dog law and the
people will attend to the obse
quies
Yet the one thing which
Arkansas stands urgently in
need is just such legislative
timber—men who are willing
to forego political preferment
if by so doing they can confer
a great benefit upon the coun
try.
We are told by the time ano
ther clip i$ made wool will be
worth two dollars a pound.
This in a country than which
there is no better in the world j
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for sheep raising.
What must be the amaze
ment of the peoples of other
countries when they are told
that the only reason Americans
are not sheep raisers is because
of the dog—that the average
Health
About
Gone
Man y ttiousanfli of
women suffering from
womanly trouble, have
been benefited by the use
of Cardul, the woman’s
tonic, according to letters
we receive, similar to this
one from Mrs. Z. V. Spelt,
OfHayne, N.C. “Lcould
not Stand on my feel, and
just suffered terribly,"
she says. "As my suf
fering was so great, and
be had tried other reme
dies, Dr. - had us
get Cardul. . . I began
Improving, and ft cured
me. I know, and my
doctor knows, what Car
dui did for me, for my
nervea and health war*
about gone."
TAKE
The Woman’s Tonic
She writes further: " I
am in splendid health . . .
can do my work. I feel I
owe ft to Cardul, for 1 was
In dreadful condition."
It you are nervous, run
down and weak, or suffer
from headache, backache,
etc., every month, try
Cardul. Thousands of
women praise this medi
cine for the good ft has
done them, and many
physicians who have Used
Cardul successfully with
their women patfentt, for
years, endorse this medi
cine. Think what ft means
to be In splendid health,
like Mrs. Spell. Giva
Cardul a trial.
All Druggists
in
j citizen prefers his dog to his
sheep, and if he must be with
|out either, the sheep must go.
Statistics tell us that this
country today is maintaining
25,000,000 dogs—an average
of one to every family in the
land. Placing the cost of
maintenance at a conservative
figure, these brutes will con
sume as much as half their
I number of human beings, say
ing nothing of their depreda
tions. This is equivalent to
feeding twelve and one-half
inillion people or more than it
will cost us to feed every sol
dier we will ever send to Fran
ce.
Hut the mere feeding of this
horde of useless animals is by
no means the big item. The
great expense lies in the great
menace which they constitute
to the sheep-raising industry.
We would not be so unjust to
the canines as to allege that
all are addicted to sheep kill
ing, or evert would be if there
were sheep available to be kill
ed. But the uncertainty as to
the guilty individuals brings
the whole race under suspicion.
However, this country is now
paying dearly for its devotion
to the dog- It is conceded by
all that his dogship is the one
great deterrent to the sheep in
dustry. In sections of the
country where the people have
had the wisdom to prefer the
sheep to the dog, prosperity
has been a welcome guest. But
these communities are rare,
and over a large part of the
country the dog ranges at his
own sweet will.
So long as w'ool wTas cheap
and easily procurable from
other countries, the question as
between the dog and the sheep
was not so pressing, and the
American hoseholder could be
left in possession of his expen
sive luxry. Now, however,
when the fleecy staple is con
spicuous for its scarcity, the
decision should be put squarely
up to our people: “The dog or
the sheep—which?”
THE LABOR PROBLEM
AND THE FARMER
The most serious problem
that confronts this country the
se days is the labor and labor
prices problem As the form
er becomes scarcer, the latter
rise, until already in many lnes
the workmen are drawing wag
es that shame a Congressman’s
salary.
We are told this is unavoid
able—but is it? When we get
a close-up view of the labor
conditions we are inclined to
believe much of the great rise
in wages is unnecessary. Not
that we would for one moment
oppose an honest wage for any
workman, but that all must ad
mit that the matter is becom
ing serious.
Perhaps the most pernicious
influence in the labor situation
is the practice that has arisen
of competitive biddng for la
bor. This is practically notice
able in industries engaged in
producng government supplies.
Whenever, in these industries
there arises any scarcity of the
labor supply wages are immed
iately forced up a notch. It is
I no uncommon thing to hear
men, who only a short while
ago, found it difficult to earn
i a dollar a day, boasting of six,
and eight and eagerly looking
1 out for offers even higher.
The natural result of these
conditions is that in many lines
j labor has become so scarce as
to seriously threaten their con
tinued operation. In many lines
these abnormal wages are
an impossiblity. It would
mean bankruptcy. But to some
extent they must be met, and
the problem is—how?
If our government will kind
ly inform us how the farmer,
for instance, is to retain a man
who is offered six to eight do!
Jars a day on-some government
or semi-government works, it
will confer a great boon to the
millions of perplexed farmers
—and others.
The Socialist can no longer
claim that his theories are un
tried. Russia has put them to
the test and it has resulted in
upsetting everything and has
thrown that country into a
chaotic condition that has
probably never been equalled
in any civilized country. It has
destroyed the right ofuroperty,
has abandoned marriage, has
denounced religion and defied
God. If there is anything left
in Russia which savors of san
ity it survives by accident.
Selfishness is the greatest
enemy of the human family. It
has wrecked nations, improv
ished idividuals, caused pover
ty, disappointed politicians and
filled .jails and state prisons.
Our greatest trials are likely
to be not with our neighbors,
but with ourselves. Men must
learn to conquer self before
they can be victorious in so
ciety and for the state. And
unless one begin in youth there
is little hope of being master
of one’s self.
About the only thing IIin
den burg seems able to take
now is a back seat.
FORMER NEWARK BOY
WRITES FROM CAMP
A. R. Alexander has receiv
ed the following letter from
his son, R. W. Alexander, who
is now a corporal in the U. S.
Field Artillery.
Dear Father.—I have been
waiting, thinking that 1 was
going to get a furlough and
come to see you, and would
have in a day or two, but the
order has come in to get ready
to leave at any time and we
are only waiting now for our
transportation to come. We
may be away from here by to
morrow. We are going from
here to Camp Merrit, N. J
which is about 15 miles from
New York city. I dont think
we w'ill stay there more than
about two weeks before taking
the big jump.
So it may be that they might
shut off the mail to us for
awhile or it might be that we
could not get a chance to mail
anything. So you can go by
i what always has been said,
that “no news is good news.”
I am very busy here now.
I have been going to school for
about two weeks to what is
[called Orientation School. It
has to do with map sketching
and a lot of scientific stuff that
is a little too deep for me. In
| order to do any good in it you
[should be able to figure Alger
bra, Geometry and Trigonom
etry and be a civil engineer
and a soldier too. It is the
same stuff that the officers get
when going to an officers train
ing school.
1 have had two stripes on rm
arm since July 1st, after being
one year and one day a pri
vate- I am now a corporal in
the Battery Detail. I (have
charge of instruments to meas
ure angles, and ranges and a
lot of other things and it is
'said to be the suicide bunch of
this battery, as the detail is
made up of men to scout and
sketch and establish telephone
lines and find the ranges of
targets and observe the shots
of the guns and you are always
snooping around the enemy po
sitions trying to find out some
thing and the enemy are al
ways" looking for detail men as
they know that the Battery
cant do anything without the
dope furnished by the detail.
1 have heard said that the av
erage life of detail men is 24
hours of actual fighting. But
they can’t make me afraid if
they say it is only one second.
I have forgotten how to be
afraid.
I am hoping that when we
get to New Jersey they will
give us a chance to go outside
of Camp. 1 want to see Briar
cliff again and all my friends.
So perhaps you may yet
have a chance to hear of the
old 8th U. S. Artillery.
Corporal R. W. Alexander
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HIS SHIP HIT BY A
TORPEDO HE LANDS
ON THE SIDEWALK
Memphis, July 1G.—Herbert
Jones of Pine Bluff had aspir
ations of becoming a U. S. ma
rine but as a result of a som
nambulistic stunt in jumping
through a window Monday
during a dream, he will be laid
up at the General Hospital for
a few days.
Jones came to Memphis Sat
urday with three companions
to enlist in “the soldiers of the
sea.” Addicted to walking in
his sleep, police say, he dream
ed he was crossing the Atlan
tic amidst a lot of submarines.
He told police he dreamed his
ship was torpedoed and he
jumped into the ocean.
Jones awakened on the side
walk with a cut forehead and
a badly wrenched leg. He had
fallen from a two story window
at 347 Union Avenue. His
friends called the ambulance
and he was removed to the
hospital.
The Journal for good printing.
accused stealing mules
Jonesboro, July 15. J. A.
and Henry Thompson, broth
ers, ages about 18 and 20, were
placed in jail here today on a
charge of stealing three mules
and two saddles from John
Taylor and Tom Blake of the
eastern part of the county.
The boys were arrested at
Leachville and the property
recovered. They admit their
guilt, having been caught with
the mules trying, it was said,
to dispose of the same.
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just put in. Price $400.
T. J. RANEY,
Newark, Arkansas.
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As Freely As They Are
Giving Their Lives
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You don’t have to fight, you don t have to die
BUT—
Your son does, or your brother who is now across the
way—or the kid now in khaki to whom you used to
give pennies a short time ago.
That money you have laid away for a “rainy day”—
wouldn’t you give every nickle of it to keep a Hun’s
knife away from his throat?
Well, the Hun is here, and so is his knife—and so is
the “rainy day”—its raining now, raining bombs and
sharpnel upon our boys “over there.”
Make Every Day a Thrift Stamp Day
Your government is calling on you, not just your nei
ghbor but you, to buy Wix Savings and Thrift Stamps
Lend your money as freely as they are giving their lives
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The Newark Journal
As a part of its contribution toward winning the war