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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1921
VOL. 20 NO. 43
EXPLAINS VOTE ON
PENITENTIARY BILL
Senator Bone Says Interests of
State Not Properly Safe
guarded in Law
To the People of the 6th
Senatorial District:
I take this method of ex
plaining to you and giving
some of the reasons why 1 vot
ed against the bill in the Sen
ate to abolish the Penitentiary
Commission. I do this because
I have received resolutions
from citizens of the District re
questing that I support the ad
ministration unconditionally. It
was claimed by the proponents
of this bill that it was an ad
ministration measure, and that
being true, I give some of the
reasons for opposing the meas
ure.
First, the bill which was
passed, repealed the present
Penitentiary Commission and
repealed that section of the
present law which prohibited
said board from employing any
of its relatives. I think this
part of the old law was a good
measure and should have been
left, and that the present board
created by this new act should
have been prohibited from
employing relatives to any po
sition relating to the Peniten
tiary.
The bill also repealed those
sections of the present law reg
ulating the Penitentiary Board,;
which provided for certain nec
essary employees, among
whom were the physician, as
sistant physician and clerk of
the Board, which are necessary
and provided that the Board
could employ such officers and
employees as it desired and al
so left it to the discretion of
the beard to pay these employ
ees any compensation or salary
they saw fit. In other words,
it repeals all that part of the
law which limited the number
of employees that could be
employed by the board and
the amount such employees
should be paid. It simply
throws dowrn the bars and per
mits the Penitentiary Board to
employ as many individuals as
they see fit whether relatives
or not, to positions in the Peni
tentiary and leaves it up to
them to pay any amount they
desire to pay them.
T. he act also repealed that
section of the law which re
quires the Penitentiary Board
to make a biennial report. It
also repeals that section of
the law which required the
Penitentiary Board to keep a
complete set of bocks showing
the financial condition of the
Penitentiary and to furnish
monthly reports of the expen
ditures of all funds coming into
the hands of the Board. Under
the law which was passed at
this Session, it will be optional
with the Penitentiary Board as
to whether or not they employ
any clerk tc keep any books or
records to show their transac
tions and the expenditure of
large sums of moneylhat must
necessarily come into their
hands. I do not think that it
should be left optional with
any board who is clothed with
the management of such an
imoprtant institution as the
State Penitentiary, to say
whether or not it shall keep a
record of its proceedings and
report same to the proper au
thorities.
The act also repealed that
section of the present law
which compelled the Peniten
tiary Beard to keep the male
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and female convicts separated.
This was a good provision of
the old law and if I had had
no other reason than the fact
that the bill repealed this one
| section, I would have opposed
it on that ground. Any Board
in charge of the State convicts,
should be compelled to keep
the male and female convicts
separated. Such action in re
pealing this section of the pres
ent law, is absolutely contrary
to the rules of all common de
cency.
The bill which passed also
repealed, that section of the
old law which provided that
State Officers, and members
of the Legislature might visit
the Penitentiary and see the
condition of affairs and how it
was being conducted. Under
the present law such officers
will be prohibited from visaing
the Penitentiary. Therefore,
we have a Board that may
place as many employees on
the pay roll as they see fit, pay
them any sums they desire,
keep no books or make any
reports of their transactions,
and also prohibit State officers
or any others from investigat
ing the Penitentiary and ob
taining information as to what
is going on.
The new Act also repeals
that section of the present law
requiring the Penitentiary
Board to make an annual re
port and file it with the State
Auditor, giving a detailed
statement of all moneys receiv
ed and sources from which re
| ceived, the expenses and pur
poses for which the moneys
were expended.
It also repealed that section
of the law which provides for
a Chaplain for the Penitentiary
It certainly should not be left
optional with any board in con
trol of the State Penitentiary
as to whether or not the unfor
tunates who are confined in
that Institution, should be fur
nished with a Chaplain, but I
really think that the propon
ents of the bill were justified
in repealing that section of the
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NEWARK DEFEATS
BATESVILLE SCHOOL
Newark High School Boys Win
in Basketball Over Bates
ville High School
Last Saturday the Newark
High School basnet ball team
went to Batesviile to play the
high school teams of that
place. The first teams played,
with the result that Newark
team won by a score of 32 to
28. The second teams did not
play, owing to Batesviile for
feiting the game.
The Batesviile boys were dis
satisfied because the referee,
Holcombe from Newa r k,
would not allow too much
rough play, and the officials
subsequently conceded the sec
ond team game, even after the
Newark referee and boys ask
ed them to select any referee
from the Batesviile High School
faculty or from students of
Arkansas College, who were
present.
BABY STOLEN BY APE
GROWS UP IN WILDS
Remarkable Story of Life and
Adventure and Meeting
With Beautiful Girl
A bey is born in the jungles
of Africa where the father and
mother have been cast ashore
by a mutinous crew who had
slain the captain of their boat.
The mother dies and the
baby is carried away by a huge
mother ape whose baby ape
had just died.
The boy grows up among
the apes—a sort of half ape,
half human being—until he is
20 years old.
The story takes the form of
a jungle melodrama, in which
every possible variety of thrill
is crowded into a Robinson
Crusoe setting. It follows the
adventures of a youth, who,
when a baby is taken from his
cradle by a huge ape and
biought up in the latter’s na
tive haunts. The boy is really
the son of a nobleman in Eng
land, and years afterward is
found in this wilderness by a
band of explorers who have
been put ashore in the same
place where Lord Greystoke
was marooned many years be
fore.
larzan is the heir to a weai
thy estate in England, and al
though he cannot speak Eng
li-'b, he has learned to devht
printed messages, and many
times he has teen the means
of saving sime member of the
exploring party, among whom
is a beautiful American girl
with whom he falls madly in
love.
In one instance he saves the
girl from a ferocious lion, and
the jungle romance takes
wings. Ihe story is as differ
ent as it is sensational, and
thrills are provided in abun
dance. You’ll be glad you saw
it. Royal Theatre, Friday,
February 31.
SERVICES AT BAPTIST
CHURCH OF NEWARK
Saturday, February 5th, 7
p. m. Subject: Justification by
Works—Not by Faith Alone.”
James, 2:24.
Sunday, 11:00 a. m. Sub
ject: ‘‘The Life of Samson.”
(The young man trusted his
secret in the wrong girl’s heart.
[Judges, Charpters 13 to 17.
Sunday, G:30 p. m. Devo
tional service. 7:00 p. m. Sub
ject: ‘‘Inspiration of the Scrip
tures.” (Is the Bible from
God?)
You have a special invita
tion to attend our services.
J. A. WILLIAMS, Pastor.
STORE BURNS
The store and entire stock
of general merchandise of T.
S. Ottinger at Moorefield was
destroyed by fire Wednesday
morning.
The entire stock was a total
loss, practically nothing being
saved except the books and a
few small articles. Only a
small amount of insurance was
carried. It is not known how
the fire originated.
See The Journal for first class job
printing.
CO-OPERATIVE SHIPMENT
At a meeting of the Inde
pendence County Farm Bu
reau, held in Batesville in the
office of the Chamber of Com
merce at Batesville Saturday,
the matter of shipping hogs
and cattle cooperatively was
discussed. A motion was
unanimously adopted favoring
such shipments. I was elected
shipping agent. If you have
hogs you want to ship, notify
me at once, giving number of
hogs and approximate weight.
I want to ship one car from
Batesville and one from Sul
phur Rock, Tuesday Feb. Sth.,
Call or write me at Sulphur
Rock.
J. H. JIMERSON,
Shipping Agent.
FARM BUREAU ELECTS
At a meeting of the Inde
pendence County P'arm Bureau
held at Batesville last Satur
day, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing
year.
J. H. Jimerson; president;
J. W. Scott, vice president;
G. W. Thompson, secretary; J.
M. Reynolds, treasurer.
The organization expects to
put on a membership drive In
the near future.
Every farmer should be a
member and a booster for the
Independence County Farm
Bureau.
FORM NEW TOWNSHIP
The petition of citizens of
the Paroquet neighborhood
asking for a new township was
heard by County Judge T. A.
Gray in county court at Bates
ville Tuesday.
Judge Gray granted the pe
tition and named the young
ster Vaughan township in hon
or of C. P. Vaughan.
1920 WAS GREATEST
CORN YEAR IN HISTORY
Total Number of Bushels Ex
ceeds Any Previous Year
in History
The year 1920 was the
greatest corn year in the his
tory of the country, according
to the records of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture. Be
sides growing a record crop of
3,232,367,000 bushels, the
farmers established a new rec
ord for average yield per acre
with 30.9 bushels, the second
time in history that the country
average yield went past 30
bushels.
ine area planted to com last
year was 104,601,000 acres,
which was smaller than the
area planted in eight other
years heretofore and 1,400,00
acres smaller than the area
which produced the previous
record crop of 3,124,746,000
bushels in 1912. Last year’s
crop was the third to exceed
3,000,000,000 bushels.
* Iowa, the country’s greatest
corn producing state, made an
average of 46 bushels to the
acre for the first time in its his
tory. The highest average
yield of any state was that of
Vermont with 47 bushels.
Maine in 1919 had the highest
average acre yield with 60
bushels. In the 10 years pre
vious to that time the highest
average acre yield has been
made by one of the New Eng
land states. Connecticut had
highest yield in six of the ten
years, Massachusetts in two,
New Hampshire in one, and
Vermont and Massachusetts
tying in one.
Olive Thomas
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From the Picturesque Sunny
South Through the Entangle
ments of New York Society to
the End of the Rainbow of
Happiness.
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