Make Living First
The South is in an exceeding
ly critical condition. The com
parable high price of cotton
has brought aboutan unhealthy
frame of mind in an unexpect
ed place.
The farmers as a rule realize
that raising corn, oats, hay and
grain—a moderate diversifica
tion—saved them during last
year. They also realize that,
had they grown a full acreage
of cotton, the priceswould have
been low. The price is running
upward now because of the re
duced acreage and extraordin
arily bad season. The bankers
feel that to get back to a single
crop next year would be a mis
take. But a number of whole
salers and retailers in the cities
now state that they are so busy
that they are losing interest in
the diversification campaign,
and that the thing to do next
year will be to grow a big crop
of cotton.
Cotton, they say, is the only
thing that makes for general
prosperity.
Let us see if this is true.
For six year previous to 1914
cotton commanded a very high
price. Cotton alone was grown
yet 30 days after the outbreak
of the war most of the individ
uals, who are now saying that
cotton alone will makeprosper
ty, were running around the
streets and asking people to
buy a bale and writing their
foreign customers to buy a bale.
Trusting to one crop alone is
putting the burden of risk too
high.
Of course cotton should be
the chief money crop of the
south, and will always be the
commanding crop, but the
southern people themselves will
never prosper, even if they
would get 50 cents a pound for
cotton, if they bought every
thing that grows on the farm
from some other country.
And southern merchants and
southern cities will have no as
sured prosperity if this is the
order of living in the south. No
matter if cotton were to bring
50 cents a pound, the scale of
expense would be raised to
about 48 cents and maybe 51
cents.
We cannot eat cotton, and if
cotton goes to a low figure we
are in a bad way. That is what
happened to us last fall.
The only safe rule isto“make
a living at home.”
Assure yourself of a living,
then go out after profit.
You can make a living at
home if you will grow enough
stuff on the farm for yourself
and live stock.And then after a
while you can slowly branch in
to the live stock business.
Make your living on your
farm. Don’t hire a man in Iowa
or Illinois to make it for you on
his farm. You may not be able
to pay him when the season is
over.
If you make your own living
on your own farm you don’t
have to pay anybody. Yourfarm
will be your debtor instead of
your creditor, and your farm
properly managed is the best
paying debtor.
If we stick to cotton as a sin
gle crop during the next 25
years, even the delta land would
become depleted in fertility so
that land which now produces
a bale to the acre would not
produce half a bale. If we keep
the soil rich we have got to
change our method. If you im
prove the soil of the high coun
try,you have got to change these
methods at once. A single crop
that exhausts the soil, as does
cotton or wheat, no matter what
it fetches, will finally bankrupt
any country that persists in it.
—Commercial Appeal.
Holy Land is Now a
War Training Camp
The European war news on
Monday contained the follow
in;’ from Paris, France.
“The Turks have transform
ed the Holy Land into a huge
military training camp. All the
convents in Jerusalem are now
barracks, and thousands of re
cruits daily are drilled on the
Mount of Olives and Samaria
plain by German officers. Im
mense targets have beenplaced
Mount Golgotha, the spot
where the crucifixion took
place, to serve in artillery prac
tice to te l the feted of high
explosives."
WOULD RAISE SCHOOLTAX
Little Rock, Oct. 9.—Plansto
conduct a strenuous campaign
for the constitutional amend
ment, to be submitted at the
next general election, providing
that school districts can levyan
optional school tax of 12 mills
on property, instead of seven
mills as at present, were made
today at the third annual coun
ty superintendents institute.The
20 superintendents and :>0 oth
er edu< - tors who attended vot
ed unanimously to indorse the
amendment and to support it in
their respective counties. Many
addresses by the superintend
ents. county examiners and of
ficials of the state department
of public instruction were made.
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South Needs Better
Hogs Than This
January 1, 1915 there were
30 states in which the average
value of hogs per head was
over $10. The highest value,
head, $15.70, was in Maine,and
the lowest. $6, in Florida.
The average value of hogs
per head for the United States
was $9.87, and not in a single
one of the Southern states did
the hogs have the average val
ue of the whole country. The
loss from thislowervalue,which
is a result of lower quality, is
enormous. For instance, 1,540,
000 hogs in Mississippi, at a
value of $7.20 per head, had a
total value of $11,088,000. If
the hogs of Mississippi had been
j of average quality for the Unit
ed States and had been of an
[average value, they would have
had a total value of $15,199,
800. or a gain of $4,111,800.—
The Progressive Farmer.
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HURT IN GIN
Walnut Ridge, Oct. 11.—
Henry Alexander, a laborer,
was painfully and seriously in
jured when caught in the ma
chinery of the Phoenix Gin Co.,
here today.While adjustingthe
machinery his clothing caught
| in the set screw of the shaft.He
jwa;. thrown violently to the
floor, suffering a borken leg
and arm and several fractured
ribs. His condition is serious.
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NEWPORT CHURCH
CALLS PASTOR
Newport, Oct. 11.—The Rev.
jC. C. Marshall of Arthur, 111.,
|who recently visited friends in
.Newport, has been called tothe
iPastorate of the First Baptist
j church of this city, to fill the
^vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of the Rev. R. J. O Bryant.
Around the Evening Lamp
The cheerful gatheringof the
family around theeveninglamp
in our farm homes is a great
factor for family ties and deep
sentiment among young people.
After the labors of the day
are over, the evening meal eat
en, the gathering in the circle
means rest, conversation and
reading, which entertain and
instruct the young people and
knit the fibers of the family ties
in solidarity. In after years
when the children, now happy
and contented, have homes of
their own, the evening lamp
will be installed and thus the
influence of this sentiment lives
and enlarges as the yearsswift
ly pass.
Reading in the home is re
sponsible for ambition thatstirs
many boys and girls for educa
tion and useful service in
society. The farm papers, the
home paper, current literature,
magazines,books with useful in
formation must be read, if at
all, around the circle of the
country home during the early
evening hours. The busy day
—
light hours will be used, forthe
most part, for earning a living
and meeting the exacting du
ties of farm life. The schools,as
useful as they are in giving in
formation to children, would
fall very far short of their op
portunity without home study.
In fact, it is the reading and
thinking done out ofschoolthat
counts in an education afterall.
Fortunate is every child that
likes to read and cultivates reg
ular habits of reading. Such
children have themselves solv
ed the problem of education.
Regardless of the country
schools and the time such child
ren have for attending school,
they will train the mind and
gather information that will
make them useful and efficient
in life.
Parents who wish to give
their children educational op
portunities should install the
evening lamp, encourage their
children to read and study and
set the example themselves in
regular hours for reading. This
is where one can help himself
in helping others.
BURN TWO MILLION IN
CANCELLED WARRANTS
Little Rock, Oct. 12.—The '
istate burning board, composed
of Gov. G. VV. Hays, Secretary
of state Earle W. Hodges and
Auditor M. F. Dickinson, today
cancelled warrants represent
ing the sum of $2,98.‘>,869.77,
which had been cashed during
the quarter ending September
:>U. Thousands of pension war
rants and warrants that had
‘been drawn against the general
i revenue fund were among those
! burned.
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Paroquet, Oct. 13.—Cotton
picking and hay making is the
order of the day.
G. W. Thompson and G. W.
Yaney arrived home Saturday
night from Jackson county.
J. I’. Williams came in Sat
urday night from Little Rock.
John Parks moved to New
ark this week.
Mrs. Lizzie Martin was call
ed to Sulphur Rock Friday on
account of the illness of her
grandson, Hubert Smith.
Misses Pearl Craig and Win
nie Dealing of Newark spent
Sunday here the guests of'Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Gregory.
G. W. Thompson is on the
sick list this week.
John Barber and Jim Walk
er made a business trip to New
ark Monday.
Mrs. G. W. Yaney spent
Tuesday at Newark shopping.
Joe East of Newport is spend
ing a few days here with his
family.
Miss Mittie Duff spent Tues
day in Newport shopping.
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FOUND DEAD IN BED
Heber Springs, Oct. 11.—T.
F. Heniger, Jr., aged 22, of
Memphis was found dead in his
room early this morning. Mr.
.Heniger had been here two or
three weeks for his health, and
was able to go to the park yes
terday. Last night he complain
ed of feeling worse. When call
ed this morning for breakfast
he did not answer and upon in
vestigation it was found that he
had been dead several hours.
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