THE NEWARK JOURNAL
Published Weekly
0. F. CRAIG, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Entered at the post office at Newark,
Ark., as second class mail.
Unwarranted Attack
On Faithful Servants
The Batesville Guard of last
week makes an attack upon
Governor Hays and the State
Charity Board and plays upon
the density of its own ignor
ance and prejudice in an at
tempt to show that the gover
nor and the charity board have
discharged employes at the
state farm and the charitable
institutions solely for political
reasons.
A warden and physician at
the state farm and five or six
employes of the state hospital
were discharged, but for good
and sufficient cause, and the
Guard’s cheap attempt to make
political capital of the incident,
shows to w hat depths that pa
per will stoop in an effort to
wreak vengenane upon some
one it does not like.
It is very evident that the
Guard’s attack upon these state
officials is made without the
slightest investigation and with
the deliberate intent to injure
the parties attacked.
If the Guard would use as
much common sense and good
business judgment in the con
duct of that paper as Governor
Hays and the charity board use
in the conduct of the state’s
business, the Guard would have
more friends and supporters.
The facts in the case show
that the warden whom Gov.
Hays had discharged had be
come very brutal. On the occa
sion of a visit to the state farm
on Thanksgiving Day, Gov.
Hays found an old man 65
years old, a convict, whose back
showed evidences of an unmer
ciful whipping. After.carefully
investigating the case, the gov
ernor found that the old man
had been taken out of bed and
whipped by the warden, and
although the whipping had been
administered more than 30days
previous to the governor’s visit,
the scars were still sufficiently
in evidence to show that the
whipping had been a most bru
tal and unmerciful one. Investi
gation showed vthat this parti
cular warden had become ex
tremely brutal and had admin
istered extreme punishment in a
number of other cases. Gov.
Hays demanded his immediate
discharge, and any man who
knows the facts in the case and
possesses as much humanity as
an ordinary Digger Indian will
say that Gov. Hays did right
and should be commended for
what he did in behalf of hu
manity.
Of course, if a man is abso
lutely devoid of human sympa
thy; if his soul has dwindled to
the point where it is no bigger
than the soul of a gnat; if the
t'Vliaf I'Vl'll'OotoV’ietioo rv-P Viin
make-up are gall and guts—
then it is easy for him to over
look the cause of right, justice
and humanity in an instance of
this kind and chrage, as the
Guard does, that the governor
was actuated solely by politics
in discharging this human fiend
who had reached the point
where he took a ghoulish delight
in punishing human beings.
'lhe Guard may have reach
ed the point where it can crush
all the elements of human sym
paty lrom the breasts of the
men under its immediate con
trol and influence, but the
thinking men and women of
Arkansas will never reach the
point where they will applaud
the brute and denounce the hu
manitarian.
The physician discharged at
the state farm at the instance
of Gov. Hays was discharged
for the neglect of duty. The
state was paying him a good
salary t> look after the sick a
mong the convict; on tlx- stab
farm. But lie became negligent
and .-pent mor* tune in Little
Rock than on the state farm.
He deserved to be discharged
£nd a little investigation will
show that Gov. Hays did righi
in asking for his resignation.
It happens that a citizen of
Independence county is a mem
ber of the State Charity Board,
whom the Guard severely criti
cises for their alleged political
activities. It happens also that
the editor of The Journal is
pretty well acquainted with
conditions at a number of the
institutions under the control of
the State Charity Board,and not
from hearsay but from person
al observation, having fre
quently visited these institu
tions, and having a personal
acquaintance with many of the
employes.
The Guard makes the charge
that employes at these institu
tions are discharged because
their political views are differ
ent from the board. The Guard
should be specific and not guess
at the situation. Thereareabout
400 employes at the various in
stitutions under control of the
board through the various sup
erintendents. About twenty em
ployes have been discharged
during the past year, which is a
small number as compared with
the number employed. The per
centage in most any business
will be as large as this. About
ninety per cent of the employ
es’ at the Hospital are migra
tory—that is they work north
or south with the seasons, go
ing north in the summer and
south in the winter. 1 he most
of this kind of attendants have
spent their lives in the Hospital
work and since the salary is
about $25 per month they do as
little work as possible. Only two
women have been discharged.
One was Miss Jackson, former
ly of Batesville. The Hospital
had four stenographers and one
clinical clerk, with salaries of
$65 per month forthree and $50
per month for the other two,in
cluding board, laundry, etc,
The board felt like this was
costing too much so they re
commended that Miss Jackson
be discharged and cut the sal
ary of the other two to $50 pel
month. One member of tht
board secured another positior
for Miss Jackson at the Demn
ing Investment Co., at Little
Rock at a salary of $60 pel
month. She is very competeni
and will make good any where
but the board was trying to re
duce expenses and should be
commended rather than cen
sured.
The other lady was discharg
ed for being discourteous tovis
itors and for inattenton to hei
duties. The board has definite
information and a record of the
discharge of each of the eight
een men during the year anti
no doubt it will be gladly giv
en any one who wants to inves
tigate.
Not over five of the people
discharged are voters and it
could not have been on account
of politics as these transient
pvv/jnc viu iivil \ uit' licit: rtliu
very few of them vote any
where. Some were discharged
[because they would not work,
some were not necessary but
most of them were discharged
for cruelty to patients, but any
one can easily obtain the facts
in each case by calling at the
I office of the board in Little
Rock or by making a little per
sonal investigation.
The fact is the state charit
able institutions have been bet
ter and more economically man
aged under the present board
than they have been in many
years, and politics has played
less part in their management
than at any time in their his
tory.
It requires very small effort
for the Guard to poison its owr
mind in matters of this kind but
its effort to transmit its poison
ous prejudice to the minds ol
an inteffTfcent and thinking peo
pie will have very little effed
—the people know it too well.
Efficiency and economy n
Jther than increased taxes or ;
bond issue, is the suggestion o
Hon. Earle Hodges to put th<
state on a firm financial foot
mg and the taxpayers, whonei
th< 1 want to --addle a bond is
sue on future generations. 01
make the present tax burden:
any greater will agree with hiru
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The New Year
Humanity still measures its
evolutions by years. Before an
other virgin page is turned we
view its blotted predecessor
vith mingled emotions. To some
he dying year has brought suc
cess and joy; to others failure
and sorrow; to all opportunity.
Nations and individuals have
reaped and sown. The harvest
is composite. The hour glass
dwindles without surcease to
times’ drum beat, that swells
and subsides as a new year is
born and passes on to its grave.
It is a good old custom to hail
the New Year as an evangel
and revives in us hospitable
sentiments that vent themselves
in warm expressions of friend
ship and expressions of good
will. These are traditions which
are peculiarly appropriate to
the season. Just why the new
year is new it is, at first sight,
not easy re see ortounderstand.
It is less easy to explain. The
same dawn will open its hours
and the same ancient stars will
vigil its departure.
The Anglo-Saxon forefathers
in their language have preser
ved a significant hint that is
worth while to notice. They re
.joiced in the fact that the sun
had started on a fresh round.
This fact for them placed light
in the shadow of darkness. It
sets the season on an ascending
scale and in the turn of the sun
they read the promise and po
tency, which should conquer
the roughest wintry weather,
inviting the seeds to bloom and
the soils to future harvest.
Man is born an optimist.
When we ray “A Happy New
Year,” it is uttered before the
daylight actually comes and on
the instant the clock finger
points toward the dawn.
Friday night whistles and the
sound of bells told of the birth
of a New Year.
We did not know that the
morning would bless us anj
more than we knew that the
year just born will hold instore
for us a heritage of good for
tune.
Behind us we reminescentlv
looked upon many spoiled yes
terdays. They were plain incur
view dismal and foreboding
They gave us the pin sticks oi
■ conscious. Before us unspread
ing in a reluctant way appear
ed the future—a land wrapped
in impenetrable mystery. Yet
More than one-third of the
states of the union are now in
the prohibition column, andthe
present indications are that a
few more years will see the en
tire nation dry.
We always imagine that to
morrow we will have so much
more time to do things than we
have today and whentomorrow
comes we wish we had done
them in the time we wasted
yesterday.
There’s a fellow over at Dar
danelle, trying to compare L)r.
Brough to Woodrow Wilson.
“Its a long, long way to Tip
perary, a long way to go.” And
when he gets there he will find
that the comparison does not
compare.—Monroe CountyCiti
i zen.
Dr. Brough wants about 10,
000 more tax assessors—one in
Seach township of every county
in the state. If these addition
al office-holders are paid a sal
ary of only one hundred dollars
. a year each, which is putting
the salary very low, it means
that the tax-payers of Arkan
sas must go down in their pock
ets and dig up a million dollar
. more in taxes just to pay th<
t salary of these new officer
whom Dr. Brough seeks to ere
> ate. The cost of government ii
Arkansas i already too high
The people are ravine ' none!
■ jtaxes now, without creating 10,
• 000 more officers whose sal
; aries must be paid by the tax
, payers.
despite the logic of experience !
—despite the illusions we have
outlived, we instinctively, on
New Year, obey some hidden
impulse in the dark foundation
of our natures and hopes that
the New Year will bring us an
other chance as it sets before
us a clean page. We are saved
by hope. If our secret thoughts
could be exposed to view we
would see hopes as thick as
buds in their sheaths, coiled up
and ready to greet the sunlight
I when it comes.
j The self same expectation
that has inspired poets and
prophets to sing through the
dark and cloudy day, of a good
time coming bears us along in
j anticipation of some brighter
i tomorrow and some better fu
ture. The past may be a dream,
sometime.', like a night mare we
are glad to let it go. It is some
times worse to look upon than
ja rain-soaked nest in some win
jtry tree. It is beyond the relief
I of our tears. It is beyond the
warming influence of our
laughter. The future we name
opportunity, just because it is 1
within our scope of action and
iwill. This very fact stimulates
jin us those recreative powers
'which can largely produce the
fortunes we seek.
We have real grounds for be
ing optimists, for the pasthelps
jtoward a new reading of the
future. The buried and un
|sightly root of yesterday has
its white blossom enliveningthe
atmosphere of today.The whole
■cumulative force of history
points to the transforming ray
which shoots down from afar
and changes wavering dreams
of the past into the glorious re
alities which have met us by
, th•1 ir surprise.
When a thing has existed for
centuries before us and may ex
ist for centuries to come we
frequently take it as we do the
sun and the rain, the air, the
winds, the coming of the green
grass, the falling of the leaves.
We seldom pause to question it.
In this light there are doubtless
many people who merely ap
preciate New Year as the be
ginning of another year. They
do not seek to go beyond this.
New Year should be a season
of new hope, new faith in our
fellowman, new inspiration for
the coming days. We should re
alize this season and make the
best of it.
I _
In his campaign for governor,
Earle W. Hodges makes it plain
that he is for progress along
educational lines; but he makes
it just as plain that he wants
the little country school house
on the hill, the little brick aca
demy in the village andthefour
agricultural schools to receive
their just proportion of theedu
, rational fund, and not give it
all to the University. Mr. Hod
ges wants to make it possible
for the boy and girl who can
|not leave home to attend col
lege, to obtain an education at
i home.
I The first American automo
bile was built 17 years ago.
Since that time upwards of 3,
000,000 of cars have been man
ufactured in this country at a
valuation of a little over $3,
|000,000,z00. Of this number
l two-thirds have been built in
the last five yeas, last year’s
output reaching the enormous
i figure of 703,527.
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F The easiest way to hurt some
I men is to hit them on their
pocket book.
Good bye booze!
KILLED BY TRAIN
Hoxie, Jan.l.- Whileswitch
ing his train here today, E. J.
Owens, I’ri ro bmkeman, run
oii.Hg betw rn Ho ie md Fop
jlai Blutt, Mo. wu. instantly
! killed. When he fell between
I the cars he was crushed by the
|moving train.
EVERYTHING
IN LUMBER
Sash,
Doors,
Blinds,
Screens,
Glass,
Lime,
Cement,
Brick,
Wagons,
Furniture,
You win by being able to get
anything you want ''.tie " un
you want it.
You win by being able to get
it at a price that is always con
sistent with the quality of the
material.
You win by trading with a
firm that backs up every state
ment it makes, that stands be
hind every dollar’s worth it
sells.
You win in every way when
you buy your lumber and other
material from us.
NEWARK LUMBER CO
Newark, Arkansas
FINE FARM FOR SALE
We have for sale a tract of 450 acres
of the finest land in Big Bottom, lying be
tween White and Black Rivers near Jack
sonport and convenient of access to that
place. Sixty acres of land in cultivation, is
the most fertile, and produces more stuff
than any land in Big Bottom. Fine cane
pasture of 350 acres under good woven
wire fence and will support several hun
dred head of stock the year round. More
than 1,000 bearing pecan trees on the place
About 400 acres of this place is susceptible
of cultivation and when cleared and put in
cultivation, which can be done at an ex
pense of $10 per acre the land is easily
worth $60 an acre. Can be bought now for
$18 per acre.
HENDERSON REAL ESTATE COMPANY
H. E. Hawthorne, Manager
Newark, Arkansas
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