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Friday, January 21, 1916.
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For County Clerk
We are authorized to announce
Walter Jimerson
as a candidate for County Clerk,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic primary, 1916.
The many friends of Mrs. Bet
tie Rhea will regret to learn of
her death at the home of her
son in Bristol, Tenn., Monday,
Jan. 17, 1916. She was the1
mother of Mrs. J. H. Beidelman
who, until a few years ago, lived
in this city and to whom we ex
tend our sympathy.
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To Teachers of the
Northern District
The Woodruff County Teachers’
Association will hold its second
meeting on Feb. 5, at McCrory.
All teachers of the Northern Dis
trict of this County will be re
quired to attend or receive writ
ten permission from the County
Examiner to be absent; refusal
to conform with this ruling will
result in revocation of the offend
ing teachers’ license. A list of
the teachers attending or excused
will be furnished the County
Treasurer, and they alone may
cash school warrants after the
date of the meeting. This ruling
applies to teachers holding any
grade license.
A program will be rendered,
matters of special interest to the
rural teacher will be discussed,
and, thru co-operation, sympa
thy, and interest of the members
of the Association, the day will
be one of delightful instruction.
Every teacher should do her, or
or his, duty.
Every teacher of the County is
invited to attend.
Respectfully,
T. W. Woodbury, Co. Ex.
Missionary Society Meets
The Young People’s Missionary
Society met on Thursday evening
at the home of Rev. and Mrs. S.
M. Yancey.
An interesting program was
rendered. Leader—Miss Lissie
Powell.
What is consecration?—Read
by the leader.
Prayer for new officers—Mrs.
Yancey.
Appeal for work and workers—
Read by Miss May Williams.
Taking Pledges—(Sue Bennett
Memorial School, London, Ky.,) —
Read by Misses Blanche Powell
and Della Jeffries.
The Society adjourned to meet
with a social at the home of Miss
Bernice Baxter, Feb. 1st, 1916.
J. 0. Raymond, liveryman, is
spending this week with his son,
J. P. Raymond at Heber Springs.
G. C. Angus of Booneville,
division manager at Fort Smith
for the Singer Sewing Machine
Co., was the guest of relatives
here the first of the week.
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
William Sproule
On the Employment of the Employer
The employment of the employer is a phase of the
labor problem not so well exploited as the employment
of the employee but is equally as important to the pros
perity of the country. The employer was never known
to go on a strike nor to ask for a reduction in hours
yet the trend of our legislatures has been to discourage
his activities. Mr. Wm. Sproule, President of the South
ern Pacific Company, when asked to discuss employ
ment from the standpoint of the employer, said in part:
“It is the habit of the time to speak of unemploy
ment as if it related only to those who work for a spe
cific hourly or daily, weekly or monthly, wage. It is
thought of chiefly as relating to those engaged in the
humbler duties of life. The facts run quite to the con
nary. n is tne employer wno is nrst out ot employment, as a natural se
quence he is followed by the employee who next finds himself out of work.
Unemployment begins only when the employer himself begins to be unem
ployed. When the employer is prosperous and his energies are profitably em
ployed, employees have abundant employment and they also prosper. But
why is this period of unemployment? It is because all business is bewildered
and uncertain. It does not know whether it may proceed in safety. It does
not know with what snares its path may be laid. This condition began with
transportation and now extends to all business. The greatest trouble with
this country today is that every business which has been developed by the
genius of the American people has become the object of unforeseen attack
from some quarter or feels the threat or danger of attack. Our laws, which
formerly were precise and definite, have blanketed business with loose gen
eralities called crimes which the men who drew the laws and the men %who
interpret those laws cannot themselves define with any precision. Even
when they endeavor to expound those laws they make them more obscure
and mystifying than before.
“There is nothing more distressing to an employer of labor than to turn
away good men who desire to do good work; but until all wake up to the
fact that unlass the employer is prosperous the employee is failing in pros
perity, we will have little improvement. When we have learned the lesson
that in this nation we are simply a big industrial family in which we all
prosper together or we do not prosper at all, we will then have promise of
relief from the misunderstandings and cajolements which increase unemploy
ment and destroy the comfort and the prosperity of the average man.
“I urge relief from the fads, fancies and isms which have filled our streets
with unemployment and put away the dinner pail of the working man empty
upon the shelf in the impoverished home. I urge the restoration of confi
dence in the fact that American men of business are the peers, of any in
the world. I urge that the American workingman cannot be prosperous
unless the American men of business prosper. I urge that prosperity can
come to us only with the full dinner pail. Finally I urge that the public
interest in transportation is that it shall be prosperous in order that it may
be a successful and energetic aid to all the business it is designed to serve.”
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Rev. J. Murray Taylor will
preach at the Christian church
next Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, Jan. 26 and 27th.
Everybody invited to attend.
T. A. Reukenberger of Colum
baria, Ohio, was here Saturday
;he guest of L. B. Grace.
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