THE HU 110 NEWS.
Published Every Saturday at Huttlg, Ark
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Saturday, August 1, 1914.
TOWN OiriCIALS.
Tne following are the duly elected of
ficials of the incorporated town of Hut
1 ff:
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. Cook.
Railroad Commissioner
W. F. McKnight.
Circuit Judge
C W. Smith.
Prosecuting Attorney
E. 0. Mahony.
Chancellor
J. M. Barker.
Representative
W. H. Helms.
Circuit Clerk
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. 3. Wood.
W. R. Richardson.
Constable
J. D. Nelson.
Foad Overseer
Walter McGowen.
1 >V0 DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL TRAITORS.
President Wilson has been great
ly annoyed by the action of Sena
tes Reed of Missouri. and Hitch
cock of Nebraska. These two sen
ators elected by Democratic votes
have lost no opportunity in delay
ing legislation in the senate and in
making trouble for President Wii
s;n wherever possible. Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, who en
joys that honor because Wm. J.
Bryan effected the political con
version of Nebraska and changed
it from a Republican to a Demo
o atic state, hates Mr. Bryan the
way a copper head snake hates a
black snake, and Mr. Hitchcock is
terribly pained because he cannot
h ive anyone appointed to office in
Nebraska that does not meet with
toe approval of Mr. Bryan.
Senator Reed of Missouri wanted
to name the postmaster of the
g eat city of St. Louis, which Pres
ident Wilson was willing for him
t ■ do, provided he named a good
man. But the only names tnat
Senator Reed presented were ma
chine politicians of the same grade
and calibre as Charles Murphy, the
Tammany boss, whom President
Wilson helped to demolish last fall.
Senator Reed also wanted Presi
dent Wilson to appoint other poli
ticians of this type, but the Presi
dent is not appointing political
grafters to office. It is fortunate
that tHfe good' Democrats of Ne
braska can have the privilege of
relegating Mr. Hitchcock to pri- ^
vate life this fall, and those in Mis- j
souri can decapitate Mr. Reed in
1916, so that these two traitors
I, ay be placed where they will no
longer be able to act as stumbling
blocks in the way of a progressive
administration.
BIG CROPS AND BOOMING BUSINESS.
President Wi'son is receiving
good news from every section of
the country in regard to increased
business activity and general pros
perity. The most potential factor
in this direction is the big crops
which are breaking a’l records this
year. The wheat crops amount to
about 950.000.000 bushels, which
is about 25 per cent greater than
our previous largest crop. John
D. Farrwell, of Chicago, who is the
head of one of the large wholesale
dry goods establishments, stated
to President Wilson last week that
prosperity is not only coming, but
has already arrived. President
Wilson has freely consulted with
many of the large business men of
the country recently and is learn
ing from them what is most needed
in the way of legislation to promote
healthy business and indust-ies and
he has received some useful sug
gestions from these sources.
There is not a provision in Act
No. 3, which, if omitted, would not
weaken the act and make it of less
service to the people, and less of
the power for public good. In fact,
some public men of Arkansas have
criticised Act No. 3 because they
say it does not go far enough, but
should include publicity of affairs
of school boards and other public
bodies. Be this as it may, thou
sands of thinking people in Arkan
sas are agreed on this proposition
that Act No. 3 will be the greatest
tax equalizer which has ever made
itself felt in this state. That
through the efficiency, honesty and
economy in public affairs its pass
age will promote and insure; it
will cause to be saved to the public
several times enough money to pay
the entire publication expense, ana
in addition to that, will confer upon
the public all the benefits that
arise from an economical, honest
and efficient administration of the
public’s business.
Those who believe in letting the
light shine into the public office and
upon public affairs and who believe
in knowing what public servants,
from state senator down to road
overseer, are doing and what is
becoming of tax money, and the
names of those seeking and get
ting unfair reduction of tax assess
ment; those, in short, who believe
truly that the public has a right to
know, are going to give Act No. 3
an overwhelming majority at the
polls in September.
We expect a good many of the
protests of depressed business con
ditions are coming from persons in
moderate circumstances who try
to support automobiles.
When their lands are restored to
the Mexican peons it will be nec
essary for them to get someone to
work them or things will be the
same as at present.
The Panama tolls are $1.20 per
ton, but the hat cleaners' tolls are
double that per pound.
Worry is worse than heat, says
an exchange. Take off your trou
bles and wear only smiles.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK * MONROE RY.
South North
5:25 a. m Huttig 3:23 p. m
7:47 a. m Monroe 1:08 p.m.
LOCAL.
Leaves Arrives
12:35 p. m. Huttig 11:45 p. m.
St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern
FARMERV1LLE * SOUTHERN RY.
North South
4:42 a. m.Huttig . 3:54 p. m
3:15 a. m. Farmerville 5:20 p. m
LOCAL.
10:15 a.m. Huttig 2:25 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
tArrives Tuesday. Ttiursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes -to Mon
roe
WOULD REDE
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 14
WILL PERMIT THE ISSUANCE
OF BONDS.
UNDER PROPER SAFEGUARD
High Rates of Interest for Capi'al to
Make Public Improvements Would
Be Obviated by this Act.
(From Arkansas Progress.)
The Insistent demand for a new con
stitution comes from the statesmen
aud thoughtful business men who rea
lize fully the handicaps or the present
fundamental law of the state.
The number or amendments pro
pped at the biennial elections indi
cate the crying need of relief from the
out-grown restrictions that are placed
upon our citizenship by the organic
law.
One of the most striking of these
conditions, inconsistent with the busi
ness methods of today, is the inhibi
tion against the issuance of bonds for
internal improvements by municipali
ties.
Twice has a majority or the people
voting on the subject declared them
selves in favor of removing this unjust
restriction, but both times they failed
through technicalities, the last time be
cause the Supreme Court decided that
not more than three amendments
could be submitted at one time, and
the bond amendment was the fifth.
Now representatives of the cities
and towns of the state, calling into
counsel the wisest legal minds of Ar
kansas, have re-drafted the Bond
\mf ndrnent which is to he submitted
again to the people at the September
election.
Ail reason onio ODjecnons Uiai were
offered to the amendment have bPPti
eliminated, the proposed measure has
been wholly rewritten and greatly
strengthened, and it goes before the
people with the support of tlie Greater
Arkansas Association whose member
ship comprises the municipal officers
and commercial bodies of practically
all our cities and towns.
Its provisions are carefully safe
guarded, so there need be no fear of
an abuse of the bond-issuing power.
It is all in the hands of the people.
The passage of the Pond Amend
ment will not fasten bonds upon any
one—all that it proposes to do is to
remove the prohibition from the Con
stitution so that communities desiring
i to do so may issue bonds for the pur
pose of making certain specified im
provements of a general character, un
der conditions that preclude all chance
of graft and juggling with the people's
money.
Only the superficial thinker will con
tend for a moment that the present
system of making public improvements
is at all adequate to the demands ot
our progressive municipalities.
The system is slow, cumbersome, ex
pensive, inequitable, and open more to
facilities Tor the unlawful diversion
of funds than some people imagine.
Burdens are now concentrated,
wrhereas justice demands that they be
equally distributed among all who may
profit by the funds contributed.
Under the present system cities
must pay high rates of interest ou
short-term accommodations, but
Amendment No. 14 provides tha" no
bonds or interest bearing evidence of
indebtedness in cities ot the first class
shall bear more than 5 per cent inter
est, and in cities of the second class
and incorporated towns not more than
ti per cent. Now 8 per cent is the
usual rate paid, and often it exceeds
that amount.
There is a mistaken notion in some
quarters that this amendment will he
oposed by the rural voter. There is
no tangible evidence that this is'true,
for as a matter of fact, Amendment
So. 14 does not in any way affect the
farmer or the man who pays his taxes
in the country.
That being true, there is no reason
why the farmer should oppose a meas
ure which the resident of the eity is
asking for—rather would he be ex
pected to give his aid in passing the
Bond Amendment as an evidence of
the greater spirit of co-operation exist
ing between the city and the country.
Even though the amendment he
passed, there is a certain procedure
fully set out in the measure that must
be followed before bonds are voted
upon a community.
"Provided,” reads the amendment,
“that incorporated towns of 1.0(H) or
more population, as shown by the next
preceding Federal census, or by a
census taken for that purpose hy the
municipal authorities of said towns,
and cities of the first and second class,
may issue, by and with the consent of
a majority of the qualified electors of
said municipalities voting on the ques
tion at an election held for that pur
pose, bonds or other interest-bearing
evidences of indebtedness in sums and
lor the purposes approved by such
majority at such election.”
The people of Arkansas have in the
past had just cause to look with suspi
cion upon anything bearing the name
of "bond,” hut the bogie of the past
should no longer affright the progres
sive citizen of today when methods
are suggest# i that meet the approval
of our most careful and patriotic busi
ness men.
UTTERLY IRRESPONSIBLE
By HARTLEY B. ADAMS.
Ciqely French put down the doily
she was embroidering and turned to
the young man perched on the ve
randa rail.
"It’s no use, Peter," she said. "You
just waste your breath asking. X like
you awfully well—that goes without
saying, or I’d never spend so much
time with you. Hut as to marrying
you—no! You’re too much of a child;
you've never grown up. And one
doesn’t marry children.”
Peter Glover grinned down at her
with that great patience of his, which
at times she found most exasperating.
‘‘I am an awful kid, Cicely," he con
fessed. “But that, doesn't hurt me,
does it? I read sorfiewhere once that
tire sort of a man to trust wras the
man with the heart of a little child.”
"It makes you irresponsible, Peter,”
, said the girl quietly. "I couldn't mar
ry an irresponsible man.”
Peter sat swinging his long legs and
thinking deeply.
‘‘So far as money and family go, I’m
a good match—eh?” he asked at
length.
"A perfectly good match, Peter,”
she agreed sweetly.
“And there isn’t some other chap, is
there?” he asked.
“You know there isn’t,” she replied.
Again Peter cogitated.
“If I wasn’t such a frightful kid—if
I was a little more responsible, as you
call it, not quite so light-headed and
a little less careless about things, I
might just barely possibly have a
show with you. Is that right?" he in
quired. ,
“You might under those conditions;,
but you never will be any different.
Peter. You're so utterlv irresponsi
ble.”
bay, would you put mo on proba
tion for a year?” he asked suddenly.
"I will, for just one year,” said she.
“Hut if at the end of that time you
haven’t made good, you're never to
speak of marriage to me again."
Peter let out a whoop, stooped to
brush her soft hair with his lips and
went down the steps.
A year went past, and when for six
whole months Peter had not failed
punctually to keep his appointments.
Cicely began to think he was really in
earnest at last.
It was a June day—just such a per
fect June day as that one a year ago
when he had urged his probation pe
riod upon Cicely.
“Tomorrow,” said Peter, “the year
is up. You haven't any excuse, now,
have you?”
“None,” Cicely laughed softly.
“May I bring you the ring—say at
three tomorrow afternoon.”
“Yes,” said she.
At quarter of three next afternoon
she went out on the veranda to wait
for him. The minutes slipped past. |
Three o'clock came, but with it no
Peter. Quarter past three, half past!
And still he did not come.
Cicely took the runabout and |
whisked angrily out of the yard. It
was all one to her now whether he
came or not. This was the first ap
pointment he had failed to keep in a
long time—but it would be the last
with her. He was just the old irre
sponsible Peter after all.
She was passing a farmhouse on the
outskirts of the village. She saw a
big black racing car drawn up to the '
fence. It was Peter’s car. Then from I
an appie tree near the stone wall she
heard voices, two childish voices and
another, which was Peter Glover's.
She slowed down the runabout.
Through the thick foliage of the tree
she caught sight of three figures in
the branches, Peter Glover perched j
there with two thin-faced little girls.
“And this," Peter was saying, indi
cating a limb above his head, "is the
upstairs bedroom.”
The runabout came to a full stop.
"Peter," said Cicely, “it's five min
utes past four.”
Peter snatched his watch from his
pocket. He looked at it ruefully.
“Good heavens!” he said, and slid
out of the tree.
1—1 n no idea it ivaa so late, said j
he, coining out to the car, “and today
of all days! Of course,” he fished In
his pocket and drew out a small mo
rocco case, “there’s no use offering
you this--now?”
"None whatever," said she coldly.
"You re just the satne utterly irre
sponsible kid.”
Peter gulped.
“1 don’t know how I nine to stay
here so long,” said he. “You see,
those two up in the tree are fresh-air
kids staying at the term here. The
people in the house get $■'! a week
apiece for boarding 'em. They don't
do anything else for ’em, but. just feed
and house ’em.
"They were sort of lost and fright
ened out here in the country. They
didn’t know how to play, either. I’ve
seen 'em as I passed in the car. So
today 1 stopped just for a moment to
show ’em how to play house in an
apple tree—just to make ’em a little
happier and contented. They look as
if they needed it. 1 didn’t realize I
was staying so long.”
He paused, half-ashamed. “This
isn’t an excuse,” he supplemented.
Cicely leaned toward him out of the
car. She was extending the third fin
ger of her left hand to hint.
"Please put the ring on. Peter,” she
said softly, “and then help me into
the apple tree. If you won’t grow up.
I’ll grow down to you.”
(Copyright, 1914, by McClure Newspaper
Colored Column
J. B. Frances left Sunday for
Hot Springs to attend the K. of P
Grand Lodge.
Revs. Black, Hardin and Cham
pion returned to El Dorado Mon
i day where they held quarterly con
ference.
Services for Sunday as follows;
Sunday school at 9:30 a. rn :
preaching at 11a. m. and 8 p. m.;
B. Y. P. U. at 5:30 p. m. Every
body invited to all these services.
A. G. Smith is visiting in Texas
this week.
Bell Driver is on the sick list.
Daisy High is improving from a
spell of sickness.
Violet Bradford has returned
from Shreveport. La.
Porter Halley visited
here Wednesday.
friends
J. R. Champan was a visitor;
! here this week.
Geo. Dobb, of Monroe, visited
friends here Sunday.
W. J. Scroggins returned Tues
day from El Dorado, where he had
been to attend the funeral of his
brother, who was killed while work
in the shops at that place.
Rev. W. C. Cook was here Mon
day.
Fred Daniels was at Felsenthal
Wednesday.
External Vegetarians.
Internal vegetarianism is common
I enough, but the external sort is ran*
It Is the latest beauty fad.
Internal vegetarians utilize vegeta
bles by swallowing them. The other
class apply vegetables to the skin
with, it appears, excellent results.
The red pulp of watermelon, accord
lng to external vegetarians, is a good
astringent and, applied daily, will re
move the most obstinate wrinkles.
Carrot water—rain water in which
gratid carrots have stood overnight—
is said to whiten and clarify consider
ably the muddiest complexion.
For removing sunburn and freckles
cucumber juice is recommended.
External vegetarianism offers a
number of recipes for making the skin
fresh and ruddy—among others toma
to pulp frictions, lemon frictions and
onion frictions.
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Notice is hereby given that the
I follow. n~ jo.nt resolution, proposing
1 an amendment to the Mate Cont-ti
| tution, was passed by tlie General
| sse.iibly at lis itguiar session of
11# 13, and mat the same will be
• submitted to the elet tors of the
State at the next general election,
to be held Monday, September 14 th,
I 1914, for adoption or reject, ion.
Proposou i\fo. 15.
That the following s hereby pro
posed as an amendment to the
j institution of the State of Ar
! kaiisas. and the same being eubniit
j te.l to the electors of the State
tor approval or rejection at the
next general election for Senators
I and Representatives, if a major.ty
| of the electors voting at such elec
tion adopt such amendment the same
j snail become a part of the Consti
tution of the State of Arkansas,
to wit:
That Section Fifteen (15) of Arti-’e
Five (5# of the Constitution of the Sm.e
<>1 Arkansas, as amended by Amendment
No. 1. declared by the Speaker of the
House of Representatives on February
. 10th, 1913, to have been adopted, he
amended so to read as follows:
“Section 15. The members of the Gen
| eral Assembly shall receive as their
j salary the sum of Seven Hundred and
i'lity ($750.00) Dollars, except the Presi
dent of tlie Senate and Speaker of the
! House of Representatives, each of whom
si all receive as his salary Fight Hun
dred and Fifty ($850.00) Dollars, for
tin- term of two (2> years; and in ad
! dition to such salary the members of the
: General Assembly shall receive five
cents per mile for each mile traveled jri
going to and returning from tin- seat of
government over the most d'rect and
practicable route. Said salary shall be
nayable in the following manner, to-wit;
Five • $5.00) Dollars per day for »he first
hundred days of any regular Boston of
ti e General Assembly; Prov? R»d. the
President of the Senate and Si ak<*r of
the Hoi'se of Representatives r ay draw
<$»:00) Dollars p r day for the first
hundrel days of any regular sessi n.
The remainder of tl»--ir salary shall ‘ m
1 ;• i• 1 to them quarterly on the ‘»rst d:tv
•»f January. April. .July and O dober of
the v* r following any recuta* session
of the General Assembly and ti*e Audi
tor of State shall draw his warrants In
favor of tlie members of tin- General
Assembly on said dates for th«* amount
of «alarv due each at that t*me and
mail same to the members at their re
spective r> stofflee addresses Vo mem
ber of either House shall rcco«ve any
salary or emoluments for his services
other than is provided for herein The
turn’s of all members of the General As
sembly shall begin on the day of their
election.
The above resolution was flH jn the
office of the Secretary of State on March
« 1913.
TCach elector may vote for or against
the above amendment.
Witness mv official signature this 19th
day of February. 1914.
KARDH \V\ HODGES.
Secretarv of Sts to.
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