DR. KNAPP SAYS THAT FARMERS
MUST NOT BE DECEIVED BY
RECENT ADVANCES
I
EXPORTS ARE DROPPING
Tells Jefferson County Planters That
It Is Not Business Like To Buy
Corn And Other Grains From
The Northern States.
Pine Bluff.—Dr. Bradford Knapp,
deau of the College of Agriculture,
University of Arkansas, and J. A.
Evans of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, In addresses to
a representative gathering of planters
and business men of Jefferson county,
stressed the necessity of reducing
cotton acreage and diversifying crops
during the present year. Dr. Knapp
said:
“The farmers must not be deceived
by recent advances in the price of
cotton or the statistics circulated re
cently purporting to show that there
will be a shortage of cotton next year.
If he does he will meet the same fate
as last year and he unable to realize
from his crop what it cost him.
'It is true that we had a short crop
last year due more to the boll weevil
than to actual reductions, and it is
just as true that the world market
for cotton has shrunken. The world
needs cotton, but unless it is able to
pay for It, the farmer cannot profit
growing it.
* “Exports of cotton to Europe are
dropping steadily, and there is no as
surance when Europe will be able
financially to buy a normal supply of
the staple. Until she is, the farmer
had better curtail production of it.”
The present financial plight of the
farmer, when he is forced to pay 1016
17 prices for what he buys while re
ceiving half or less for what he sells,
the speaker said, makes it imperative
that the farmer conduct his farm on
a strictly business basis.
Dr. Knapp especially warned the
farmers not to stop raising corn and
grain because corn is practically
worthless this year and all grains are
low in price.
"Last year Arkansas raised 60,000,
000 bushels of corn, tl e largest yield
In its history,” he said. “But during
the same year we consumed 75,000,000
bushels. The difference was bought
from Nothern producers and high
freight rates were paid to bring if
to Arkansas. That is not business
like.”
Above all Dean Knapp urged farm
ers to raise poultry and produce and
dairy products, to make them more
self-supporting.
“There are too many farms in th's
section without a milch cow and too
many witnout chickens.” he said. “If
every farmer had one or two good
cows, some pigs and poultry, he would
not feel the hard times st much.
“I have in my pocket a letter from
a woman operating a little faun up
in the hills of north Arkansas, a
farm that you would call a ‘postage
stamp’ farm, m which she gives an
Itemized statement of her Jncume dur
ing last month, showing that she sold
$179 worth of butter, eggs, milk and
other produce. How many farmers
of thi;- section can snow an income of
Mr. Evans spoke specifically on
nearly $-00 during January?"
methods of controlling the boll wee
vil menace.
Van Buren.—Two men have been
added to the regular force of the city
Fire Department by the City Council.
The other members of the department
are volunteers receiving pay for each
Are visited. The regular firemen now
employed consists of Fire Chief
Oliver, one captain and one lieuten
ant.
Pocahontas A night school for
adults will open at the high school
building. Teachers of the public and
high schools will give their services
in instruction free.
Conway.—The Conway cotton oil
mill, which closed November 7 on ac
count of the short cotton crop reduc
ing the local supply of seed, has re
sumed operations and is now work
ing on both day and night shifts.
Conway.—George It. Alewyne has se
cured the local agency for the Over
land and Willys-Knight cars, and has
opened a garage in the Douglass build
ing on West Oak street. The build
lng was occupied by the Standard Mo
tor Car Company, 'which discontinued
business.
Bentonville.—A new dry goods and
■womens’ ready-to-wear store was
opened here Wednesday by .1 I,
Fletcher of St. Louis in the Baird
building on West Twelfth street
Pocahontas.—The Rev. F. C. Neely,
a Baptist preacher of Knot . Mo., has
purchased of D. Hobson of Iteyno a
fine farm near that town, paying JISj
an acre, the highest price ever paid
for land in that section of the county
The Rev Mr. Neely will move to
Reyno and take charge of his farm
at once.
Pocahontas.—Will B. White, a
young local teacher, has announced
that he will be candidate for county
treasurer.
Camden.—Members of the Camden
Council Boy Scouts of America made
five-minute talks at the local church
es recently.
Russellville.—J. A. McGraw. a plant
er and merchant from near Pine Bluff,
has purchased the G. S. McGee resi
dence on Jefferson street.
Walnut Ridge.—C. S. Henderson,
who has announced for railroad com
missioner, has opened headquarters
in the Osburn building.
Fayetteville.—A community club
house. modeled after the University
of Arkansas Y. M. C. A. hut, is being
erected near Mount Comfort and Sa
lem, west of Fayetteville.
Paragould.—A carload of marble to
be used in construction work on the
new First Baptist church, was received
here yesterday and is being hauled to
the site of the new edifice.
Paragould.—The Y. W. C. A. has
begun a campaign for funds to main
tain the institution during the pres
ent year. Several committees are at
work and meeting with success.
Fayetteville.—Miss Eva Bynum was
voted the prettiest girl attending the
Fayetteville Business College at a
benefit supper and play given at the
college here last week.
Walnut Ridge.—C. W. Allen of Hake
Charles, La., has purchased the Cas
per Motor Company at Portia, suc
ceeding H. H. Casper, who has been
in business there for several years.
Stuttgart.—The Rev. E. C. Gallaher,
pastor of the First Christian church,
has announced his resignation to take
effect April 1. The Rev. Mr. Gallaher
came to this city from Memphis about
a year ago.
Stuttgart.—A standard training
school for Sunday school teachers i9
being conducted at the M. E. church,
South, in this city. Mrs. Clay Smith,
formerly of Little Rock, has charge
of the junior department.
Walnut Ridge—J. F. Few has leased
the New Lawrence hotel on West Sec
ond street, and assumed charge to
ARK GALLEY TWO.
night, succeeding W. R. Lane, owner
of the building.
Paragduld.—The local Baraca Class
has adopted resolutions endorsing the
work of the officers and others who
recently have been endeavoring to
enforce the law In various parts of the
county. The resolution was signed by
about 100 members of the class and
others.
Bentonville.—Circuit Judge W. A.
Dickson has returned from Eureka
Springs, where he held the regular
term of the Western District of Car
roll County Circuit Court. The East
ern District of Carroll Circuit Court
convened at Berryville on February
20.
Van Buren.—The big road grader
purchased several weeks ago by
County Judge John L. Smith arrived
today and will be used at once on the
county roads. A caterpillar truck
leased by Judge Smith is to be ubed
with the grader.
Camden.—Annual inspection of Com
pany E. 153rd Infantry, stationed here,
was conducted here at the Jefferson
street armory by Maj. C). E. East
wold, 1'. S. A. Major Eastwold said
the local company was above the
average.
Bentonville. — The seventeenth
monthly sales day and auction here
under the auspices of the Communi
ty Club, proved successful in spite of
disagreeable weather, and attracted
many people living in the remote
sections of the county.
Camden.—Ed Harper, sheriff of
Ouachita county, is planning to enter
the race for railroad commissioner of
the Southern District. Mr. Harper
is closing his second term as sheriff,
and has been active in politics in
southern Arkansas for several years.
Walnut Ridge H. V. Wilson and
W. H DeVoe of the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company are making sev
eral changes in the local exchange.
Two additional switchboards will he
installed and change : made in the of
fices of the company here.
I’aragould.—The Rev. .1. Murray
Taylor of Memphis, pastor of the
local First Christian church, last
week delivered his lecture. "The
Book of Books,” at the Christian
church. A large audience was pres
ent.
Russellville —I>ogan Tata, who
served 15 years in the I’nited States
navy and has been three times around
the world, has purchased the H. E.
Hire farm, northwest of Russellville
and will engage in farming and stock
raising.
Walnut Ridge.—II. L. Ponder gave
his annual dinner to members of the
local bar at his home at Walnut Grovo
last week. All lawyers in town were
present. After the dinner an informal
discussion was held on “What Can
We Do to Better the Walnut Ridge
Bar.”
Conway.—Quitman Rotten has
opened a plumbing shop on Rail
road Avenue. Mr. Rotten is an ex
perienced workman and has been en
gaged in the business for several
years.
1—Interior courtyard of ancient Wings palace at Genoa, where Edison'"photic
photograph showing the steamship Northern Pacific being destroyed bj hri a ....
graphed with Mrs. Edison on his seventy-fifth birthday. __
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Republicans Struggling With
Problem of Financing the
Soldiers' Bonus.
DENBY TRIES TO SAVE NAVY
Asks Personnel of 90,000 and Appro
priation of $350,000,000—General
Strike of Coal Miners Impends
—Collins and Craig Com
ing to Agreement.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
vi EARLY everyone is in favor of
1 v giving the ex-service man a
bonus, hut no one is willing to help
pay for it. Every plan so far pro
posed for raising the necessary rev
enue—estimated at $350,000,000 annu
ally for the next three years—has
aroused determined opposition. Mem
bers of the house ways and means
committee thought eight special taxes
would turn the trick, but every element
of the population that would be di
rectly affected by them raised an Im
mediate wall.
Republican leaders appealed to Pres
ident Harding to suggest something
feasible, and he undertook to do so on
Thursday. But what should ids plan
be but the same old general sales tax
proposition which it has been admitted
by nearly everyone cannot possibly get
through congress! Because ttiis was
bis only plan, and because he also
criticized the plan of providing for the
payments of cash bonuses in install
ments over a period of two and a Half
years, it was assumed by many Itt
Washington that the President really
wished the bonus legislation again
postponed, though he hesitated to say
so flatly. The situation was plainly
uncomfortable for the Republicans,
and the Democrats were joyously tak
ing every advantage of the discomfi
ture of their adversaries. The leaders
of the agricultural bloc in both the
house and the senate reiterated their
unqualified opposition to any kind of
u general sales tax.
Some of the Republican leaders
strongly favored the passage of a
house bill without any plan of financing.
They thought the necessary money
might be made available by further re
duction of appropriations fur certain
departments, especially the army and
navy. Mr. Mondell prepared a state
ment to show how nearly $.300,000.
000 could he saved this way. But
even that would not lie sufficient, and
many congressmen urged again the is
sunnee of bonds. Of course the defi
cit, after the problematical saving of
$.300,000,000 In appropriations, could
he made up by Issuing short term cer
tificates of indebtedness, which It was
asserted the market would readily ab
sorb. Both the President and Secre
tory Mellon declare that a big bond
issue would seriously embarass the
extensive refunding operations that
must be undertaken during the coming
year, causing an Increase In Interest
rates and disturbing the Liberty bond
market. Some other government offi
cials do not agree with them.
SENATOR BORAH Is consistently
opposing tin? bonus because, be'
says, it will Interfere with the care
of the soldiers now undertaken by the
government through the veterans’
bureau. He predicts that with u ten
years the annual expenditure for dis
abled soldiers will have reached $1,
500.000,000, of which no one will com
plain "so long ns the appropriations
are based on the necessities and Re
quirements of the disabled soldiers.”
Director Forbes of the veterans’
bureau calls attention to the fact that
the total government expenditure re
quired for disable.) soldiers for 1922
Is $510,000,000, and thus sets forth the
ways In which the bureau is using the
money:
Raying out $1,000000 cash every
day. including Sunday, directly into
•tie hands of the ex-service man or Ids
dependents In compensation allot
ments.
Providing, without cost, hospital care
iglU UlaiuiUiL Lo uVjliJU
This care Includes hoard and lod.irln.tr
and represents an expenditure by the j
government of $00,000,000 a year.
Giving vocational training, without j
cost to over 100.000 disabled ex-service
men at an annual expenditure for tu
ition and supervision of $30,000,000.
Mailing out 650,000 checks every
month, representing $42,000,000.
Conducting an insurance business
for over 600,000 ex-service men. with- >
out cost of administration to them, at
premium rates below that of private
companies for like policies. Insurance
in force $3,500,000,000.
Conducting over 50,000 medical ex
aminations every month. -»
Giving outside treatment in cases i
where hospitalization is not required ;
to 20.000 ex-service men every month.
Receiving 1,000 new claims a day in
addition to the 1.200.000 already on
file; employing 4,000 ex-service men
and woman in carrying out the work.
SECRETARY DENBY began last
week a strenuous fight to save the
United States navy from congressional
action which, he believes, would de
stroy its efficiency and at the same
time destroy the international naval
relativity provided for in ttie pending
treaty for naval limitation. He is ably
seconded by Assistant Secretary Theo
dore Roosevelt and Admiral Robert A.
Coontz, chief of naval operations.
All three of them appeared before
the house naval affairs committee and
argued for a minimum personnel of
90,000 men and 6,000 apprentices, and
for an appropriation of $350,000,000
for the fiscal year 1923.
At the outset < halrnmn I nomas ).Dr
ier, voicing also tin* opinion of other
members of the committee, declarer]
the amount asked by Mr. Denby was
altogether too large, that the people
would never support a vole by congress
for three times what tlie navy cost
In 101(5 exclusive of construction.
Admiral Coontz In his argument
said: “Tire secretary of the navy lias
raied your attention to the expendi
tures of the naval establishment for
this year as amounting to $478,(KM1.('Oi5.
If we odd to this various other trans
actions and moneys returned to (lie
tr :*ury, we will have practically :\
half billion dollar business. Its rami
fications extend all over the world
‘•The navy maintains communica
tions In the interior of Europe n« far
east tis Constantinople and Warsaw for
the benefit of our country, its commer
cial interests and the American relief
work. Our radio communications han
dle Pacific matters, and, at the present
time, due to the breaking of the mid
way cable, are handling practically
the entire trans pacific traffic. The
naval appropriation also provides the
funds for the administration of our
island possessions, among which are
the Virgin Islands, Haiti, San Do
mingo, Guam, and Samoa.”
NE of the outcomes of the unem
l ployrnent conference was up for
I discussion in the senate Wednesday
and received some hard knocks. It was
the Dili introduces] by Senator Ken
yon by which the President would be
authorized to postpone federal con
struction and improvements In pros
perous times when Jobs are plentiful
and then order the work carried on at
full speed when business stagnation
appears.
Senator New of Indiana based his
opposition to the measure on the
rather ridiculous reason flint the
Pharaohs were unable to discover a
formula to solve the problem of re
curring periods of plenty and famine
• *n Egypt. He did not think congress
could succeed where tlie Pharaohs had
failed.
7UII.K the senate foreign relations
* » committee was discussing tin
four power racilie treaty, the same pad
obtained place on the floor of the
upper house. Senator Hitchcock of
fared a resolution asking President
Harding to transmit to the senate ad
ditional information and documents re
lating to its negotiation, asserting that
I little of tills was contained in the re
] port of the American delegates. Ad
i ministration leaders said this was be
cause practically all the negotiations
"ere oral and few minutes or notes
of the conversations were kept. The
resolution, however, was adopted.
C KCRKTAUY OF COMMERCE
i HOOVER wants to publish tlie
I trade statistics gathered by trade ns
Jewi-iiU-a, al) i»C -l.'.yfUVJ Gtli
ernl Daugherty ns to tne iegai
within which such associations could
operate. Mr. Daugherty in reply
holds that their activities do not con
travene the provisions of the anti
trust net unless in actual practice they
suppress competition, curtail produo- ;
tlou or enhance prices. They may
standardize grades, quality and proc
esses; furnish information as to fi
nancial responsibility; handle insur
ance and engage in co-operative ad- .
vcrtising; gather statistics of produc- 1
tlon, distribution and wages for the
information of the secretary of com
merce; and they may provide a stand
nrd system of cost accounting, hut
should be warned to guard against ;
uniform cost as to any item of ex
I«*nse.
TT AITKAKS likely there will be a
A general strike of coal miners on
April 1 unless it Is prevented by gov
ernment intervention. The United
Mine Workers of America are in con- j
vent ion in Indianapolis and have re
ceived the report of tin* scale com- j
inittee positively declaring against the j
wage reductions which have been de- ,
manded by the operators*. Indeed, \
some increases are asked by the men, !
though they do not demand the six
hour day and five-day week. The re- j
port says:
“In event no agreement is reached I
by April 1, we declare in favor of a
general suspension of mining opera
tions, such action being subject to a
referendum vote of the membership
of the United Stine Workers of Ameri- j
ica, such referendum to Le held prior
to March 31."
Religious factions in Belfast
fought bitterly throughout the
week anti about two score persons were
killed and many wounded. The British
troops there took a hand in the melee,
making bayonet charges on both sides
impartially, but were unable to stop
the sniping and bomb throwing.
Michael Collins, head of the Irish
Free State, went to London and after
a conference with Sir .James Craig
announced that they had agreed upon
| the appointment of liaison commis
j slons from the Free Stute and Ulster
] that will patrol the frontier and pre
vent bloodshed. He also said he had
secured the release of the kidnaped
I'Isterites. The evacuation of the
Free State by British troops had been
halted, but on Mr. Collins' representa
tions it was resumed.
J'BOM I’nris comes the prediction
* that the conference on the
economic rehabilitation of Europe will j
be postponed until May, and shifted
probably from Genoa to Home. Milan
or Verona. The reasons advanced are
the delay in forming a new Italian
government, the insistence of France
on a preliminary meeting to decide
on the agenda, and the alleged fact
i that the United States will not de- j
(ermine the extent of Its participation
until the senate has acted on the Wash
lngton conference treaties.
The German delegation to the con
ference. which will be headed by Ur.
Walther Itnthenau, foreign minister,
will be armed with elaborate argu
ments to prove that the reparations
clauses in the treaty of Versailles must
he abandoned or radically altered If
the tinanctnl salvation of Europe is
to he accomplished. Itathenau’s idea
is that file interests of all will lie best
served if there is almost a complete
cessation of payments during 1022 and
if Germany is permitted to pay In
goods anil work instead of cash.
t'<;n ST IN.Mi S, industrial may
ante. learned on Wednesday tliat
lie is not so rnucli tin- master of c,er
niany as he thought. After a debate
in the reiehstag in which lie and ids
Peoples' party were bitterly assailed
tin' government was given n rote of
confidence. This was n victory not
only for Chancellor Wirth but also
for Doctor ltufheunu and the Indus
trial group tlmt is opposed to Stinnes.
ANOTHER Of the gangs of swin
dlers that prey on Ignorant foreign
residents has been uncovered, this
time In Chicago. The victims were de
frauded of millions of dollars by means
comparable to those employed by
l’on/.l of Boston. Most of the mem
ber*- of the gang are under urrest nnd
the police art* eh»se tn the trail of the
b.
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CAUSE a HOT FIGHT\
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HOUSE LEADERS are FIRM IM j
asking reduction to
60,000 MEN.
WILL BE REPORTED ON SOON
It Is Evident That All Administration'*
Influence Will Be Necessary To
Prevent Drastic
Action.
Washington.—A bitter struggle is
under way in Congress to determine
the size of the navy.
House leaders are determined to re
dace the enlisted strength cf the navy
to 6U.U0O men. Its present strength
Is 106,000 men. The number of offj.
cer8_7,900 at present—would be cut
25 to 30 per cent.
The House plan, which probably
will be reported by the Naval Approp
riations Committee within a few days,
would cut the naval budget to $200,
000,000.
Secretary of the Navy Deuby and
Assistant Secretary Theodore Roose
velt contend that the very limit of
Bafetv to which Congress may go in
cutting the navy's enlisted strength
is 90,000 men. President Harding's
limit is SO.OOO men. The naval bud
get as it will be recommended to the
House will provide for 30.000 men less
than Secretary Denhy’s minimum and
20,000 less than the president’s limit.
The Navy Department's estimate of
expenditures for the forthcoming >ear
was $360,000,000. If the House plant
become effective the navy estimates
would be slashed $150,000,000
The House, dominated this year a«
It was last year by the "Little Navy”
men. undoubtedly will give approval
to these drastic outs. The Senate
Naval Affairs Committee is expected
to champion the cause of the navy.
Whether the Senate will go to the ex
tent of approving the Navy Depart
meat's estimate is u question.
Senator Poindexter of W asbmgtoa,
acting chairman of the Senate Nava!
Affairs Committee, believe* that the
1'nited States should take advantage
of all the building it is allowed to do
under the terms of the naval pact;
particularly in the matter of aircraft,
aircraft carriers and submarines.
The naval 1 udget undoubtedly wi'l
be the subject oT stubborn contest in
the Senate. The outlook is uncertain.
Last year the Senate supported the
Naval Committee in the fight over tba
size of the navy. What it will d’
this year, with an election approach
ing. is highly problematical If the
Senate supports its Naval Affair*
Committee, the whole question will
be thrown into conference.
It is quite evidence that all the in
fluence and the power of the Harding
administration will have to he
brought into play to save the navy
from the most drastic slashing it ha*
felt in years.
Will Open Curb Market
Memphis, Tonn -The city
leased a plot one tdo< k Ions; bv a half
a block deep, upon which a "curl'”
market, will be established for tb#
benefit of housewives and the truck
gardeners hereabouts.
German Is Taught.
Chicago.- Study of the German lan
guage once more has been made a
part of the official currh lutn of Chi
cago public schools.
Tampa. Fla.—Mrs. John Kingling
of the millionaire circus king and five
of Mr. ({anglingV guests were slight
ly burned in an explosion aboard the
Itingling yacht in the Gulf of Cortex,
near Sarasota.
Englishmen Attacked.
London— A dispatch to the London
Times from Cairo says a series of
attacks on English during the last
week appears to confirm statements
recently attributed to Egyptian cir
cles that an Englishman would be shot
daily until the return of Said Zaglool
Pasha, f< rmer minister of justice,
who sometime ago was arrested by
the British authorities.
Auto Show Opens.
St. Louis..The llftieth annual au
tomobile allow in St. Louis lias open
ed here.
Governors May Cibate.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. —Word that
Oov. Nathan I,. Miller of .New York
lias accepted a challenge of Gov.
Henry J. Allen of Kansas for a debats
on the St. Lawrence canal project
was received here. The debate, it
was said, will take place at Washing
ton March 15.
Snow Slide Kills Four.
Denver, Col. Four employes of the
Denver and Salt Lake railroad were
killed when a snow slide struck a®
engine belonging to that road near
Loop, Col.
King Visits eighbor.
Belgrade, Jugoslavia.—King AleJ
ander, accompanied hy Premie*
Pachitech. has left for Bucharest
Rumania, to carry out the rites i®
connection with the official engage
tnent of the king and Princess Marie