THE ItlTTIG NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Huttig, Ark
C. A. BERRY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered as second class matter May 3, 1907 at
the postoffice at Huttig, Ark., under the act of Con
jress of March 3. 1879.
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Saturday, September 12. 1914.
TOWN OmCIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
tig;
Mayor—C. T. Thompson.
Recorder—W. H. Moore.
Marshal—Thos. Ashcroft.
Aldermen—L. A. Bodine, A. E. Lucas.
J B. Crockett, D. A. Keasler and F. W.
Scott. ✓
Board of Education—W. H. Moore, F.
W. Scott, C. T. Thompson, E. N. Collett.
L. G. Gibson and L. F. Magee.
Democratic Nominees.
U. S. Senator:
James P. Clarke.
Congressman
W. S. Goodwin.
Governor
George W. Hays.
Associate Justice
J. C. Hart.
Attorney General
W. L. Moose.
Secretary of State
Earle W. Hodges.
Auditor
L. L. Coffman.
State Treasurer
R. G. McDaniel.
State Land Commissioner
Wm. B. Owens.
Com. Mines, Mfg. & Ariculture
John H. Page.
Supt. Public Instruction
George B. Gook.
Railroad Commissioner
W. F. McKnight.
Circuit Judge
C W. Smith.
Prosecuting Attorney
E. O. Mahony.
Chancellor
J.#M. Barker.
Representative
W. H. Helms.
Circuit Clark
Archie D. Murphy.
County Clerk
Jesse J. Craig.
County Treasurer
Finn Craig.
County Judge
Henry S. Yocum.
Sheriff
J. M. Wallace.
Tax Assessor
R. E. Harris.
Surveyor
W. B. Armstrong.
Coroner
T. M. Pinson.
LAPILE TOWNSHIP.
Justices of the Peace
C. B. Wood.
W. R. Richardson.
Constable
J. D. Nelson.
Road Overseer
Walter McGowen.
THE MACHINE GUN.
I speak with the voice of men
and devils. My messengers speed
their unerring'flight to countless
hearts. 1 work between two voids
—back of me a pile of empty shells,
in front of me a widening circle of
empty hearths. 1 am no respecter
of persons.
My victories lie in a horizon of
homes. Hell inspired me, man
created me, women and children
pay for me. Each day of battle 1
prepare a feast of bodies, with
Death as the host.
With my blackened wand 1 touch
Ihe breast of man, and forthwith
there springs the incarnadine river
of death.
1 turn but an inch, and the lives
of maidens are blasted, mothers
and sisters mourn, and a hundred 1
babes are fatherless.
Science. Christianity and Civili
zation stand sponsors for me.—
Life.
Nev» blood', new money brought
by new people, homeseekers and
investors is what we need to de
velop Arkansas. More people are
necessary to enhance land values
and bring the greatest prosperity1
for the greatest numbers. The
way to bring people here is to let
them know what we have. Whatj
we have is so much better than
most states havqTq pffe.r that when
we let the people know what we
have to offer hqmeseekers and in
vestors thay.wiU.fiock to Arkansas
by thousands. Showing the world
what we have is the big thing to be
accomplished at the Panama-Pa
cific Exposition by Arkansas. We
shouli have the finest state
exhibits at the exposition and a
state building that ranks with any
there. No one county is asked to
do anything unreasonable, but
merely to show a proper amount of
co-operation. Let's all help Ar
kansas make the best showing of
any state at the big world's show
in California next year.
There is not the sli ghtest chance
for America to get into the war.
Instead of sitting idly and ' hoping''
that we do not get into the mess,
the people of the United States
should be grasping firmly with both
hands the opportunities which lie
before them. It is an ill wind that
blows no good. It may be selfish,
in one way. for us to take advan
tage of the troubles of other na
tions, but we must do as others
have done before us and reap the
harvest. We have no right to even
think of "mixing” in this trouble.
People who worry about what is to
happen in the future are blind as
to what is to happen now. With
the greatest crop this nation has
ever seen and with a wonderful
chance to broaden our commercial
influence abroad we should be
ashamed to assume a , pessimistic
demeanor.
A certain Huttig couple are in a
pack of trouble. Neighbors op one
side of them do not go tu bed until
late and the neighbors on the other
side get up about four o'clock. The
result is one family is losing a lot of
sleep._
“Too many men,” says an ex
change, “are sweating to make
their children well off instead of
trying to make them useful and
letting them make themselves
well off.”
Every man who isn't prominent
imagines he will .be some day.
GREAT SAVING IN
INTEREST CHARGES
INDISPUTABA E
ADVANTAGES
I i'At. BOND
((heater Mkansae \sBociation.)
Arkansas cities ami towns, under I
present arrangements, ar« forced to.
pay high rates of internet for accom j
odatiou. Under the terms of proposed!
Amendment Xo. 1 t, “40 bonds or oth 1
fv interest bearing evidences of in-1
debtedness, issued tinder the author
ity of this amendment, shall ever be
so’d at (ess than par, and when is
sued hy cities of the first class they
shall not bear greater rate of inter
est titan five per cent per annum, and |
when issued tty cities of the second j
class and by incorporated towns of
1,000 or more population, shall not
hear a greater rate of interest than
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six per cent per annum.
It is a well known fact that many j
cities and towns in Arkansas have j
been-forced to.^pay not five per cent,
or s!\ per cent, but ei^ht per cent per
annum, and more, for short time ac
comodations. The alternative has
been placed before the officials of
such cities and towns either io pay
such rates of interest, or to permit
much needed public Improvements, of
a general character, to fail for lack of
assistance by the cities or towns.
Strange as it may apircnr, cities and
towns in other states, under laws aim
ilar to that proposed hy the present
ant end men t, are able to obtain mon
ey by the issuancevbf long term bonds
nt very low rates, namely, 4 per cent,
4 1-0 per cen\ 5 per cent or f> per
cent, whereas, Arkansas cities ami
towns now desiring money for two,
three or four years, are forced 'o pay
eight per cent per annum, or more.
Suppose the aggregate indebtedness
of the State and towns of the State
of Arkansas was being carried at 4,
4 |-2 r. or 6 per cent, instead of the
rates which cities and towns are now
forecd to pay for accommodation. Fig
ure for yourself the saving there
would be to the people in the amount,
of interest per thousand d'd’ars, bv
figuring tlie difference in the rat's,
3.11 d multiply that mu oval by the Mura
FIGURES SHOW
OF THE MUNIC
AMENDMENT.
>i«>r of thousands of dollars which the
people of your community now owe,
or have been forced to owe, during
(he pant ten years.
As the constitution is now no city
or (own can issue interest bearing
evidences of indebtedness. Arkansas
cl lies and towns, by general consent,
in order to make * public improve
ments. for years have made a prac
tice of issuing warrants, properly
drawn, and approved in every way as
reunited tty law. these warrants ma
turing from one to five or six years in
(he future.
IT after the present law these war
rants cannot bear interest, either
from date or after maturity. There
fore, such a warrant for one thou
sand dollars maturing in five years,
would he discounted by the bank at
a rate of interest of 8 per cent per
annum or higher. No criticism of
Hie banker ran properly he made, for
the reason that the warrant cannot
hear interest, and therefore is not
considered first-class bankable paper.
A municipality issuing such a warrant
would receive in cash, under the law
as it is at present, only six hundred
dollars, or less, and that amount, and
pot one thousand dollars, would Iip
the amount which would he left for
use by the city: whereas, if tile mu
nicipality could issue an interest bear
ing certificate of indebtedness, hear
ing say a ner cent interest, the city
would receive the full amount of one
thousand dollars in cash, hut would
not pay the interest of Sr.fl.00 each
year until after the city had used the
money for that year.
In short, the passage of promised
Amendment Vo. If will enable Arkan
sas munieipalitles to obtain the use
of money at about one-half the pres
en* rates of interest, as well as to
make unnecessary the payment of in
terest in advance, as is now done
For example, under the law as it is
nt present, an Arkansas city or town,
which issues a warrant for one thou
sand dollars, due in five veers, would
receive at the most only $600.00 cash,
and would he forced to suffer the de
duction of the sum of $(00.00 from the
face of the warrant as interest for
five years charged for the use of the
$600.00. Four liundrpd dollars inter
est for the use of six hundred dollars
for five vPars would erpial. on the
same basis, the sum of $666.66 inter
est on $1,000.00 for five years.
On the other hand, when proposed
Amendment No. It has been passed, a
municipality, by the sale of a low in
terest bearing bond for that amoit’".
could realize' $1,000.00 cash, and la
ter pay annually the sum of $50.00
for interest, or $250,00 interest in the
five years. The difference between
$060.66 and $250.00, or $116.66, repre
sents the amount per thousand dollars
which the present law places as a
burden on Arkansas cities and towns
and this is one of the burdens which
proposed Amendment No. 14 will re
move.
Carried in 1912.
Some persons may think that the
bond amendment which was proposed
fw'o years ago failed before the peo
ple. It did not fail, in fact it was car
ried by a majority, of 23,000 of the
votes cast on the subject, but it was
later rendered inoperative by a de
cision of the Supreme Hourt, which
declared that not more than three
j amendments could he submitted at one
| time. Inasmuch as the Rond Anend
i ment of 1912 was the fifth amend
) ment proposed before, the people, in
; point of time of filing, that amend
ment was one of t%' two which were
rendered inoperative. In the present
Instance, proposed Amendment Vo. II
was the first amendment initiated an/I
filed, and No. 14 will have the first
place on the ticket in consequence.
Rural Voters Not Antagonistic.
Many rural voters have the idea that
since municipalities only ere affected
the voles are not needed from those
who do not live in cities or towns.
Such is not the case. If such voters
do not vote on the amendment at
all, in eypct their votes w ill he counted
against the amendment. It is nece>
sary to carry the aninviinent bv a ma
jority of all of the votes cost at the
election. Therefore, if a voter for any
reason, casts % ballot at the election,
and fails to vote on thp amendment,
his vote will he counted against the
amendment. Although the matter
may not directly confer# the rural
voter, and his property will not he nf
feeted one way or ^notlv'r if bonds
should he issued h" the rifles and
towns, yet the people of the eities and
towns, who are the ones directly af
feeted, do want.- the amendment pass
ed. Therefore, the rural voter should
be willing to vote for the amendment.
Instead of against It. or instead of
passing althogether item No. 14 on the
ballot.
Hot Sprlngr New Era.—Just so long
as present methods exist by which
cities and municipalities are compelled
to raise fut ♦ or public improvements
just so long will there be stagnation
an* lack of nubile spiritedness in the
matter or civic advancement.
The passage of this amendment,
to allow cikies to issue bonds will
lay open all the way for a greater
VrUausas, for certainly the advance
ment of the cities of the state will
means the progress of the common
wealth at large.
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Notice iB hereby given that the
following joint resolution, proposing
an amendment to the Mate Consti
tution, was passed by tilt General
Assembly at its regular Session of
19)3, and tiiat the same will ue
submitted to the electois of the
State at the next general election,
to be held Monday, September 14 th,
1914, for adoption or i ejection.
Proposed Ante-dmeat Jfo. 15.
That the following is hereby
posed as an amendment to
Constitution of the State of
Kansas, and the same beinb submit
ted to the electors of me State
lor approval or rejection at t:.e
next general election lor Senatois
and Representatives, if a major, ty
voting at «ich eiee
arriendrnent the same
part of the CoiiBti
Siatc of Arkansas,
pro
the
Ar
of the electors
tion adopt such
shall be< oine a
to tion of the
to-wit:
That Section Fifteen (15) of Article
Five v5j of the Constitution o. the st«..e
of. Arkansas. as amended by Amendment
No. 13. declared by the Speak- i of me
House of Representatives on February
10th, 1913, to have been am pted. be
amended so fe; to read as fol.ovvs:
“Section 15. The member^ «n the Gen
eral Assembly shall receive as their
salary the sum of Seven Hu:. Ired and
Fifty ($750.00) Dollars, except t »e Presi
dent of the Senate and Speaker of the
House of Representatives, each of whom
shall receive as his salary IF ht Hun
dred and Fifty ($£50.00) Dollars. for
the term of two (2) years; and in ad
dition to such salary the members of the
General Assembly shall re- >ve five
cents per mile for each mile traveled :n
going to and returning from the seat of
government over the most d rent and
practicable route Said salnr shall he
payable in the following main.
Five i $5 00) Dollars per day f«.
1 undred days of any regular .
the General Assembly; Pro
President of the Senate and :*
the House of Representatives
>ix ($6.00) Dollars per dav to*
hundred days of any revula1
The remainder of their sa’ar\
raid to them quarterly on th*
of January. April. July and (
the year following any re cub
of the General Assembly, and
r. to wit:
the first
"'Sion -.f
led the
ll C Of
ay draw
the first
session,
shall he
‘‘i,st day
tober of
session
he Audi
tor of State shall draw' Ills w •
favor of the members of th■
Assembly on sab! dates for f*..
of salary duo each at that t
mall same to the members at
spective p< stofflce addressee,
her of either Mousp shall re
salary or emolumerits for hi
other than is provided for !i *.
terms of all members of the f?.*
sembly shall begin on the day
election.
The above resolution was ffj.
office of the Secretary of State <
6. 14H 3.
Fach elector may vote for or against
the above amendment.
Witness mv official signature this 19th
dav of February. 1914.
KART * R W HOD J FS.
(Seal) Secretary of Stats
,-ants In
General
amount
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services
In The
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of their
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n March
Some Large Property Owners
Are Able To Wield An Undue
» Influence Over Tax Officials
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the tax books
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NOBODY WILL BE THE WISER,” IS THE ARGUMENT USED BY THOSE WHO DEMAND WRONGFUL
CONCESSIONS—PUBLICITY WOULD GIVE OFFICIALS A WEAPON AGAINST THIS CLASS.
Is there anybody in your town that
the above cartoon calls to mind?
Is there a man who assesses his <
stock of merchandise at $",,000 and ad
vertises his $50,000 stock” for sale at.
a big reduction when bargain time
rolls around?
Is there a man who sells his build
ing for $15,000 and pays taxes on it
at a $5,000 valuation?
Don't blame your assessor too much
If there is. Possibly he put a fair
valuation on this and all other prop
erty when he assessed it.
Maybe the Board of Kqualfzation |
was not thorough'y informed an to
values and they may have lowered the
assessor's figures. Perhaps when an
angry owner complained that his prop
erty was assessed at more, than his
neighbor’s whose property was worth
more than his own, the county jnrfg-e.
■ lowered the complaining citizen's as
sessment and lowered it too much.
•Maybe there is a great deal of In
equality in tlie matter of assessments
and tax-paying. As this article is pre
pared for state wide circulation and
apears in every county in the state,
perhaps the local tax officials will not
ti ke undue offense at the suggestion
ttiat in some counties where this ap
pears KOMB ONE LARGE TAX-PAY
KH may be able to wield such an in
fluence that his property is assessed
at a shamefully low rate as compared
with his neighbors, you and you, and
you, and the other burden bearers.
Whatever the conditions are In your
county Act No. 3 when it becomes a
law, will require that any changes in
assessments made by the hoard of
equalization or the county judije. after
the assessor lias done his work, must
be published in the county newspaper.
This will give every person who
pays taxes an opportunity to know just
what is being done by would-be tax
dodgers. It will give the county tax
officials protection from the citizen
of influence who doesn't hesitate about
using coercion in his own interests,
lie can no longer use the argument:
"Nobody will be the wiser," for when
Act No. 3 passes, everybody will be
wiser.
The cost of publishing these in
creases and decreases will vary in dif
ferent counties but taking 1913 as a
basis the average cost per county is
186. This cost will annually reduce
just as assessors become more careful
and tax-dodgers quit dodging. Don't
you think Act No. 3 will put enough
unassessrd property on the tax books
to reduce taxes and more than pay
its own way?
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