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$100,000 ON BOYS OF ARKANSAS f
The State Executive Committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Arkansas proposes to
spend $100,000 for work with our men and boys during the coming year. Already it renders service to
the Railroad Associations, college associations, Hi Y clubs, city associations, industrial associations and
county assocations. It proposes now to emphasize and enlarge along the following points:
1. Boys work. 2.County work. 3. Sex education.... 4. Industrial work. 5. Negro work
They need therefore, ten district secretaries, four boys work secretaries, two lecturers on sex educa
tion, six for special staff work including state secretary college secretary, industrial secretary, negro secre
tary, county secretary, and a business manager.
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Through these men and the programs they will build, the committee will get the message of the Y. M.
C. A. to every boy in the state. Through county, district and state conferences for boys, state conventions,
summer training camps and summer training schools, this will be rapidly and efficiently accomplished.
The Y. M. C. A. has a message for every boy in Arkansas.
The Y. M. C. A. has a plan for every county in Arkansas.
This movement is a systematic, effective plan to help save the cost of boy delinquency. A few factors
that help contribute to this delinquency are—Ignorance, Untrained leadership, Social impurity, Rural dis
content, Inefficient Christian endeavor.
The state committee of Maine is now entering upon a campaign for $350,000 to be used along simil
iar lines to our own state committee.
The Y. M. C. A. is one of the biggest agencies in the United States giving itself to helping bring to
our rural life a bigger and better outlook. While the government advanced agricultural education and
prosperity, the Y. M. C. A. would aid by enabling human interest and moral principles to keep peace. If
the city-minded live, the rural-minded must remain. Our greatest opportunity as well as our greatest peril
lies in the problem of rural development.
Carl Vrooman, acting secretary of the Department of Agriculture says, “I strongly favor placing of a
Young Men's Christian Association Secretary in every county in the United States.”
Presdent Wilson says, “We can judge the progressiveness of a community by its interests in the Y. M.
0. A.
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The law of self-preservation has been sufficiently active to keep the average man from giving until he
was very severely wounded; financially speaking.
The bank deposits will verify the statement.
This is not a stunt or an occasion, but a constructive statesmanlike program we are building.
Our Campagn Week Begins March Third. The Eyes of the World are on Arkansas. This is proved
by a dispatch Published in Paris last week and shown below. Let every citizen do his duty.
WHAT ARKANSAS WILL SPEND
Little Rock, Ark., Sunday—The State Directors of the Y. M. C. A. have ^announced that more than
$100,000 will be expended on the Arkansas boys by the Y. M. C. A. during 1919—New York Herald
James B. Dickinson
Caughey E. Hayes
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STATE CHAIRMAN
John L, Hunter
STATE SECRETARY
STATE TREASURER
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YOUR SEED CORN
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In some parts of Arkansas j
the corn crop of last year was j
a failure and where there were
fairly good yields the grain in
most instances is of poor qual
ity and shows the effect of the
severe summer drouth. This
means that good seed corn for
spring planting is going to be
scarce. If Arkansas is going
to have a good corn crop in
1919 the farmer must have j
good seed, seed suited to the!
climate and strong in german
in ating quality.
Farmers who have their seed
put away should this month
test every ear for germination
and reject the ears that fail to
show vitality. This is a simple
process. Every school boy
should know how to germinate
grain. A wet cloth and a
warm temperature will sprout
the seed in a few hours, and
by the sprouts you may know
the ears from which the grain
came. A bulletin on the test
ing of seed corn and the selec
tion of varieties may be had by
writing to the College of Ag
riculture at Fayetteville.
Where there is a scarcity of
seed corn the farmers of the
community should get togeth
er and arrange to order in car
lots so as to get the best price
and the best freight rates. It
is going to be difficult to get
good native seed corn. The
Extension Division, College of
Agriculture, Fayetteville, the
U. S. Bureau of Markets, Lit
Rock, County Agent, and the
State Bureau of Mines,* Manu
facture and Agriculture will
assist the farmer in locating
supplies of good seed corn.
JIM G. FERGUSON,
Commissioner.
PUMPKIN BEND NEWS
J. R. Daniels has brought
society in his home by pur
chasing an Edison phonograph
and a dozen records.
O. T. Burgess sold his 30
cent cotton for 25 and a quar
ter.
Miss Elise Smith of McCrory
is teaching our school this ses
sion. She has about 75 pupils
enrolled and the people are
well pleased with her teach
ing.
A large crowd was enter
tained at O. T. Burgess' Thurs
day night by good music, all
seemed to enjoy themselves
very much.
Jim Armstrong was a pleas
ant visitor in the Bend Friday.
We have new neighbors in
Pumpkin Bend. Mr. Tuck and
family. We are always glad
to welcome strangers in our
community. <
Chas. Taylor is back in the
Eend from Memphis where he
spent the winter months, t
Mr. J. M. Brooks has just
arrived home from White
County where he bought a car
load of cattle for the Marcn
wind to blow off.
There are several new buiw*
ings going up and lots of n®_
grounds being cleared in tn
Bend.
We cannot understand tn
sad expression on the face
one, Mr. Elmer Holt Thursw
night unless he had lost n
snuff box. ...
The measles are still ragi»
in the Bend.
Mrs. Margaret WilliamS^
of Little Rock, arrived the W
of the week to take charge
the county demonsration w
in this county. She will ^ .
her headquarters in McCror.