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The Newark Journal
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
O. F. Craig. Editor
Entered at the post office at Newark,
Arkansas, as second class mail matter
ARE WE PROGRESSING?
Every patriotic citizen feels an
interest in the welfare and pro
gress of his country and wants to
see his country-men prosper. In
this section of country, progress
and prosperity depends largely
upon agricultural conditions, as
the farms produce about the only
articles of commerce that we have
to bring money into our county
and into our various channels of
trade. This being true, The Jour
nal does not believe that the im
portance is given to farming and
farm conditions that should be
given by other classes of industry
that must necessarily depend to a
large degree upon the success and
the progress of those who till the
soil.
In this connection the following
twenty questions submitted by
the Progressive Farmer as a test
of progress are well worthy of
consideration and careful study:
by those who are interested in the 1
progress and advancement of our1
county. The questions are right1
to the point and each bears some j
relation to the things that count!
for real progress in any agricul- i
tural community. Study them,
and if they inspire any thoughts
in your mind that would prove
helpful, let The Journal have them
for publication.
1. Is every country boy and
girl in your county getting a six
months school term?
2. Have you a county superin
tendent of education giving his
whole time to the work?
3. Have you voted road bonds
or a road tax?
4. Have you a county superin
tendent of health employed for all
the time?
5. Does the Farmers’ Union
or any other farmers’ organization
thoroughly cover your county?
6. Have you a good county
fair?
7. Do you select your county
officials the men who will help the
county forward fastest instead of
the men who serve the party ma
chine best?
8. Are your churches gaining
in strength and influence and the
people in temperance and morali
ty?
9. Have you properly support
ed farmers institutes, and are
there institutes for farm women
as well as men?
10. Have you Corn Clubs for
the boys and Tomato Clubs for
the girls?
11. If you are in the tick-in
fested territory, are you doing
anything to eradicate the ticks and
get out of the cattle quarantine?
12. Have you shown sufficient
interest in the Farmers’ Co-opera
tive Demonstration Work to get
its advantages for your farmers?
13. Have you rural free deliv
ery everywhere you might have
it?
14. Has every school in your
county a good library?
15. Can your boys and girls,
get the advantages of a good high
school near them, without leaving
their home communities?
16. Are you co-operating with ;
the State in the fight to extermin-1
ate hookworm disease?
17. Is there a good rural tele
phone system covering the coun
ty?
18. Are you supporting a wide
awake county paper—one that is
more interested in the progress'
of the county than in partisan
politics—and are your farmers I
taking the best farm papers?
19. Have you abandoned the
old fee system of paying county
officers?
20. Are your citizens and your
board of commissioners willing to;
go down into their jeans and pro
duce the necessary money, eco
nomically administered, to secure
these profitable forms of progress?
Record-breaking crops, busy fac
tories and brisk business consti
tute prosperity. As is usual when
business is good there is fear that
the banks will not have the pow
er to meet even the most transient
demand for currency without im
pairing their reserves below the
legal limit. The banks must, there
fore, curtail loans, however well
secured, in order to keep their re
serves intact and supply the cur
rency absolutely necessary to
move the crops. New wealth in
the form of crops, instead of stim
ulating business, chokes it. The
country’s credit svstem is inelastic.
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Ilearst proved the Archbold let
ters w'ere authentic and Collier’s
came along later and proved that
they were forgeries. It was a tie
game until Archbold impolitely
came forward and admitted their
genuineness.
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Cheaper Meat!
Owing to the fact that
cool weather is now here
and not having to use much
ice to keep our meat, we
are making a price of
10 AND 121 cents
per pound for fresh meat.
Me solicit your patronage
and will give you a sqaure
deal.
HERRINGTON & SON
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Government reports show that
during the year 1911, there were i
1588 farmers in Arkansas who
cultivated, under government in-!
structions, a total of 11,912 acres^
of cotton, which produced an av- |
erage of 946v pounds of seed cot
ton per acre. The same year, Vi\ I
farmers cultivated 10,783 acres of
corn under like instructions and
produced 33 bushels per acre. The
average production of seed cotton
for the whole state for 1911 was
558 pounds, and the average pro
duction of corn was 202 bushels
per acre. This appears to The Jour
nal as pretty good evidence that
better methods of farming will
pay the farmer big dividends. The
average producing power per acre
of our farms is too low. Instead
of making 20 bushels of corn, we
should be making at least 35 or 40 j
bushels per acre, and at least 1,000
or 1,200 pounds of cotton.
Here is a thought from a speech
made by Gov. R W. Hooper of
Tennessee that is worthy of being |
committed to memory by every J
young man and young woman in I
the country: The unused power J
of the streams that leap down our |
mountains and hills to the sea is |
not hopelessly lost, for the sun and
wind may some day bring the j
water back to where it may yet
turn the wheels of modern indus-; |
try. Not so with the wasted j
energies of men. The boy who is 11
compelled to pass through life
with undeveloped brain, untrain
ed hand and uncultured soul, is
but the shrunken image of what
he might have been.
Quite a lot is being said and
written about the importance of
river transportation, which is all
well enough, but we should not
overlook the importance of big
road transportation. That is a
matter that affects far more peo
pie, and is a matter that our con
gressmen might well take up the
fight for in earnest if they really
want to do something that will
benefit the great producing army
and bulwark of this country—the
farmers—whose intersts far out
weigh those of a few steamboat
owners whose craft move a very
small percentage of the commerce
of the country.
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“I had to quit school at sixteen,”
said a very well read man the
other day, “but I had a pair of
good eyes and an abundant supply
of pine knots, and they have help
ed me make up for what 1 failed
to get in school attendance.” We
pass the message on for the bene
fit of the farm boy who wanted to
go off to school this fall but wasn’t
able. If the absence of a college
opportunity spurs a boy on to
make a more determined effort to
get an education at home, he may
make a better man than if he had
had an easy entrance to the inside
of the University walls.—Progress
ive Farmer.
The Walnut Ridge Blade sug- I
gests Clay Sloan and H. L. Ron- L
der as suitable successors to Con
gressman Oldfield. It would be
hard to find a better man for the
position than Clay Sloan, and if he
should enter the race he will be
mighty hard to beat.
If the Democrats fail to win
next month, the party had better j
surrender its charer and go de
funct, says the Sharp County Re
cord. If they don’t win this time,
the Democrats ought to be disfran
chised.
A Chicago chemist claims to
have discovered a way to make
food out of wood. Has it come to
pass that the high cost of living
will transform the human family
into a race of stump-suckers?
The man who wants to put a
slush fund into politics never has
any trouble getting somebody to
take the money.
LODGE MEETINGS
Newark Eastern Star Lodge meets j
on the first Thursday in each month ,
at ;> o’clock p. 111. Visiting members
cordially welcome
Mrs. J. 1. Sturdivant, Worthy Matron i
BATESVILLE, ARK.
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OCTOBER 28 & 29
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Auspices Independence County Fair Association and Boys
and Girls Demonstration Club
LIST OF NEARLY
200 Prizes
OFFERED
Prizes for all sorts of farm products, live stock and poul
try--a full list can be had by addressing A. A. Webber,
Sec. Fair Association or Geo. W. Allen, Sec. Boys and
Girls Demonstration Club.
; EVERY FARMER AND STOCK RAISER IN INDEPENDENCE COUNTY
INVITED TO BRING EXHIBITS
BOYS AND GIRLS ARE ESPECIALLY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE
Follow the Crowd and
Come to Batesville. ilany Feature at=
tractions will be furnished. Good music
and other entertainments.
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M. C. WEAVER, Chairman I. N. BARNETT, Vice-Chair
T. J. W ALBERT, Treasurer Independence Co. Fair Ass’n
A. A. WEBBER, Secy Independence Co. Fair Ass’n.
GEO. W. ALLEN, Secy Boys and Girls Dem. Club
GOME AND HELP MAKE THIS A BIG
EVENT