THE NEWARK JOURNAL
Published Weekly
O. F. CRAIG
Editor and Publisher
Liquor Organ
Becomes Peeved
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The Arkansas News, the of
ficial “juice-harp”' of the liquor
interests during the recentcam
paign for Act No. 2, seems very
much disgusted because nobody
has noticed the alleged fact
that it was the first newspaper
to suggest a law against ship
ping liquor into the state.
There are probably several
reasons why they havn’t, first
and foremost of which is the
fact that Ihe News is badly
mistaken about its being the
first newspaper to suggest such
a law.
A law of this kind was ad
vocated by The Journal and
other papers before the Ark
ansas News ever came into
existence, and when the News’
present editor was too busy
trying to keep liquor in Ark
ansas to even think of suggest
ing such a law.
Possibly another reason why
no public comment has been
made upon what the News has
said is the fact that such a sug
gestion, coming from the News,
is so inconsistent as to be un
worthy of notice.
To command any respect, a
newspaper must be consistent
in what it advocates, and
when the chief liquor organ of
the state begins advocating a
bill to prevent liquor being
shipped into the State, the peo
ple at once conclude that there
is some ulteror motive behind
it.
The large cotton buyers of
Rock Cotton Exchange, have
begun a movement to encour
age the growing of long-staple
and higher grades of cotton in
the state this year. Because of
the increasing demand for
long staple in the manufacture
of automobile tires and fine
cotton goods, dealers believe
long-staple prices will be even
higher next fall than this. The
exchange has secured an op
tion on 400,000 pounds of seed
from long-staple cotton grown
[on one of the state farms which
brought the highest price this
season, and buyers are endeav
oring to secure options on seed
from all the best cotton bought.
The seed will be furnished to
planters in exchange for the
seed they have saved for plant
ing next spring.
The report of President J. C.
F utrall of the State University
shows that 33 per cent of the
students attending the Univer
sity are residents of Washing
ton county. The University is
costing the taxpayers of Ark
ansas entirely too much to be
maintained for thespecialbene
fit of Washington county. It
should be moved to some more
central point where it would be
easily accessible from all parts
of the state, and it will never
accomplish the good work that
it should do for the people of
the entire state until it is more
centrally located. The Journal
hopes the present session of the
legislature will provide for its
removal from Washington
county.
Pulaski County proposes to
form itself into an improvement
district to issue bonds for the
purpose of purchasing a cam
pus and erecting modern build
ings for the State University, if
the legislature will pass a bil*
for its removal to Little Rock.
Under this plan, the removal
of the University will not cost
the state a penny and the state
will receive the campus and
buildings as a gift from the
people of Pulaski county. The
University ought to be more
centrally located and the offer
made by the people of Pulaski
county should be accepted by
the state.
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A bill for a uniform system
>f text books is one that should
be given attention by the pres
ent legislature. The people ot
Arkansas have suffered much
at the hands of the SchooliBook
Trust and are entitled to relief
in some form. A state printing
plant for the manufacture of
text books is a rather expen
sive way out, but if relief can
not be secured otherwise, let
us have a state printing plant.
Fifty-four persons were
lynched in the United States
during the year 1916. Fifty of
the victims were negroes, and
four were white. Three wrere
negro women. The greatest
number of lynchings occurred
in Georgia, where 14 persons
were lynched. Texas was sec
ond with 9 and Florida thirc
with 8 lynchings. Four lynch
ings occurred in Arkansas.
The official figures show
that in the late Presidentia
election, the Socialist vote was
about 150,000 less than in
1912. This fact is not very com
forting to a few wind-jammers
who are always ready to pre
dict that “Socialism is bounc
to come in this country soon
er or later.”
When you feel like cussing
us for something that appears
in this paper, just let ’er rip.
We know then that you read
the paper, even if you have to
borrow it.
The knocker is one fellow
who never pays any attention
to the eight hour law'.
Quickness of wit is some
times best displayed by keep
ing silent.
HIS PANTS SET
THE HOUSE AFIRE
eralls in a closet of his home.
That night his house caught
fire and burned to the ground.
His family escaped because
their dog was a light sleeper,
and they managed to save their
night clothes.
It cost him $2,625 to find
out that a pair of greasy over
alls hanging in a closet could
ignite by spontaneous combus
tion. 1 hanks to the country
and city newspapers of Ark
ansas, thousands of Arkansas
people are reading the fire
prevention warnings sent out
from time to time by the Ark
ansas Actuarial Bureau and
there is already an awakening
as to the ease with which hun
dreds of thousands of dollars
of annual fire loss in this state
could be averted,say those who
are spreading the gospel of
fire-prevention. They call at
tention to the fact that the pub
lic pays for this loss; not the
insurance companies. The less
the fire loss the less the insur
ance rate in a given state.—
Southern Construction News.
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WINDSTORM DOES
MUCH DAmauc
One person was injured ana
damage to the extent of prob
ably $50,000 was caused by a
violent windstorm which pass
ed over a portion of Clay coun
ity Thursday evening about 7
o’clock. At Success several
business houses and homes
were blown down. Ren Legate,
the only person injured, was
slightly hurt when the store
of Carl Fix was blown down.
Corning and Walnut Ridge
suffered none fnMn the storm.
At Dardanelle the storm
blew down a negro church and
several small buildings, but no
one was injured.
Two persons were seriously
injured and several sustained
minor bruises and three small
houses were blown down at
Danville.
MORE BUFFALOES THAN
HOGS IN N. Y. CITY
Mr. Editor.—I see in your
paper I got today that you had
1 been feasting on buffalo stpuk
and you think they are about
to become extinct. I don’t know
so much about that, they seem
to be more plentiful than hogs
here. I see a great bunch of
buffalo browzing around here
in the city and I haven’t seen
a hog. However, if you want
any more steak just send an
egg and the teabone will be
forthcoming. Subscriber,
New York City, Jan. 3, 1917.
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WINtMtSHintNlSk:
A Central State University
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With educational possibili
ties today greater than any
other Southern state, comes the
natural question, "Will Arkan
sas make the most of her op
portunities?” We believe our
grand commonwealth is awake,
and we also believe the time is
ripe to strike for a compre
hensive educational system
which will make Arkansas a j
real leader, instead of a trailer.
Arkansas voters heartily in
dorsed at the recent, an amend
ment to the Constitution, per
mitting counties to increase
their tax levy for school pur
poses to 12 mills. As most coun
ties voted in favurtof the amend
ment, it stands to reason that
these counties will avail them
selves of opportunity to secure
more funds by voting the in
creased tax.
With practical lylevery school
district in te state provided
with ample funds, modern
school houses will appear and
districts which have held but a
few months of school each year
will have full terms. With
these additional facilities for
educating Arkansas young
sters, will come the natural
desire for a higher education.
True, the majority will consid
er themselves fortunate to
have had advantage of the
neighborhood schools and go
from the schoolroom into the
world, but how about those
who demand a chance to con
tinue their studies?
What is Arkansas going to
do for them?
Is the state going to otter
to them the alternative of at
tending its institution situated
up in one corner of Arkansas,
or their going to educational
institutions of other states?
Does it not seem an absolute
necessity, that Arkansas pro
vide itself with an institution
of learning which will com
pare favorably with those of
other states, if not excel them?
And should not such an institu
te so localed'that it "is 'easy^'ot
access to the entire people of
the state?
The Commercial is in no way
opposed to the University ot
Arkansas in its present location
nor does it wish to handicap it
in anyway, but it does favor a
real university, and it'believes
that one of the centrally locat
ed counties of the state will
erect one. The time is certain
ly coming when Arkansas must
have a centrally located Uni
versity, though when it does
come, the present University
should be maintained as a
branch institution.
The Commercial is firmly
convinced that one of the cen
tral counties of the state could
well afford to contribute $1,
500,000 or $2,000,000 to be ex
pended in buildings for a great
er, and grander University of
Arkansas. The Commercial de
sires to propose to the legisla
ture that in its coming session
it permit the counties so fav
ored as to be obliged to such
a contest, through their geo
graphical location to bid for
the privilege of Decoming the
home of the University of Ar
kansas. It has been suggested
by a financier, that anyone of
the counties near the center
of the state could well afford
to organize itself into an im
provement district, levy an as
sessment of five or ten per
cent of the property valuation
and donate the proceeds to a
new university, to be main
tained by the state.
Should this plan be approved
by legislative action, the bill
should go further and provide
a Board of Trustees or a Uni
versity Commission to select
the location and erect the
buildings. Such a board should
be composed of the leading
citizen of each of the seven
Congressional districts. If the
selections were wisely made
there would never be intima
tion of politics in the institu
tion.
A university in the center of
the state with $1,500,000 in
modern buildings and equip
ment, would equal that of any
state in the Union, and we are
confident there would be 2,
500 or 3,000 students enrolled
the first year, with represen
tation from evei-y county in
the state instead of the '600
now attending the institution
at Fayetteville.
With thousands of school
children demanding, an oppor
stifution for higher education
we cannot begin too soon to
prepare for them. The safe and
sound solution is to build a uni
v ersitv that will be a credit to
the state and we believe there
\'ill be some lively bidding on
the part of central counties
who want to give the state a
1 niversity if^they are permit
ted to do so. Let’s let ’em bid
and profit all around.—Pine
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The Newark Journal