Tlit Newark Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
By The Journal Printing Company
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Ark., as second class mail
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DEVELOPING KID POWER
The American people have
spent much money developing
the farm animals of the coun
try, but not until recently did
it occur to them to spend a
good deal developing the boy
and girl power.
But they are doing it now.
Minnesota state fair, for in
stance, is giving $15,000 this
year for premiums in the boy
a d girl competitions, also
including what is paid for
travelling expenses of these
young folks. It is a wondrful
investment. These competi
:orp will go home with a new
enthusiasm for rural life.
Every fair in Arkansas should
be doing much along this line
to arouse its young folks to
H e commercial possibilities of
a country career.
NEIBHGORHOOD FEELING
A newspaper writer tells of
the results that flowed from
the organization of a social
club at Clifton, Nebraska. In
many country' places there is
a tendency for ill feeling to
develop. In Clifton, since this
club has been bringing these
people together, there are no
enmities, no spiteful gossip.
The people meet each other
frequently, if there are any
minor disputes they adjust
them personally in this atmos
phere of good feeling. They
know each other so well, and
have so much pleasant social
life, that they have neither
time nor desire for the mean
spirit sometimes seen in small
towns.
STONE REDUCTION PLANT
Big Plant May Be Constructed
at Penter’s S'uff
The American Manganese
Company of Chicago contem
plates erection of a big stone
reducing plant at Penter’s
Bluff, and the development of
the stone resources on its big
acreage, it is said. E. C. Mc
Combs of Batesville says that
the cost of the plant and de
velopment probably will reach
$175,000.
The land comprising sever
al thousand acres reaches
from Penters Bluff to the vi
cinity of Cushman, and con
tains valuable beds of phos
phate, lime-stone, marble and
cement shale, as well as man
ganese. The company expects
to manufacture hydrated lime,
crushed limestone, pulverized
limestone for fertlizer purpos
es. and when the market is
such as will justify, mine man
ganese. It is probable that it
will also manufacture cement.
RECEIVE $4,000 ORGAN
Newport, Sept. 12.—The
Newport Methodist church has
received a handsome new pipe
organ, which is to be installed
at an early date. The organ
coat $4,000.
FILLING BIG TRESTLE
I ON WHITE RIVER D1V.
—
J Three Month* Will Be Requir
ed to Complete Work at
One Trestle
An army of workmen, three
work trains, two big steam
shovels, a train of tractors
with dump cart trailers and
approximately one hundred
big mule teams are at work
like an ant colony filling the
Georges creek trestle, 20 miles
north of Cotter on the White
River road. List & Gifford
of Kansas City, Mo., have the
contract which is the largest
raliroad improvement con
tract ever let in North Ark
ansas.
The bridge is 2158 feet long
with an average heighth of 50
feet. It was constructed when
the road was built in 1905 and
contains 1,200,000 feet of tim
ber, and has been very expen
sive to maintain.
The White River Division
runs through the Ozark moun
tains, connecting me plains
with the delta and when com
pleted had more high bridges
probably, than any other di
vision in the Middle West ori
South. The filling of the!
Georges creek bridge marks
the winding up of a bridge
filling program that has been
in effect the last four years,
30 high wooden trestles hav
ing been filled in that period.
The present contract involv
es the moving of 300,000 feet
of dirt, which is being moved
at the rate of 3000 feet a day.
When the big fill is completed
it will be 70 feet wide at the
top and 175 feet wide at the
base.
Besides the fill proper, con
siderable excavating has to be
done in order to get proper
drainage. At this time two
dreams pass under the bridge;
Georges creek and *Johnnys
creek. An artificial channel
is being cut from the latter to
the former, and the entire
flow from both streams passed
through a big steel span which
will be left in the center of
the span.
Besides filling the high
bridges heavy steel has been
laid on a considerable portion
of the division between Cotter
and Newport replacing a light
steel which was put down
wher the road was construct
ed. The north end of the di
vision is already equipped
with heavy steel.
The contract for the Georg
es creek fill calls for comple
1922.
DISTRIBUTION OF
PICRIC ACID
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture has some 12,500,
000 pounds of picric acid av
ailable for distribution. Pic
ric acid is a surplus war ex
plosive suitable for use in
clearing stumps and stones
from agricultural lands. It is
distributed for the purpose of
stimulating interest in land
clearing. Picric acid can also
be used for blasting ditches.
This explosive will cost
about ten cents per pound de
livered at Batesville. If you
are interested in taking ad
vantage of this opportunity to
get an explosive at a very low
price give your name with the
number of pounds wanted to
the county agent and as soon
as a car load is made up it will
be ordered.
J. B. DANIELS,
County Agent.
MOVIES in the SCHOOLS
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COLUMBUS (OHIOi JOURNAL
There has been a great deal
i)f talk about putting moving
pictures in the schools, and
a great deal of theorizing pro
and con. Lately, however,
some definite experiments
have been conducted, both in
New York City and Detroit,
to determine the actual worth
of picture insruction .In New
York children of the same
grade and approximately the
same ability were divided into
three groups. In Group A the
instruction was all oral; in
Group B there were 12 minut
es of pictures, followed by
oral instruction, and Group C
had oral instruction, followed
by pictures. Then came ex
aminations. Group B showed
the best results, passing 22
per cent higher than those
who were taught orally.
Group C did not do quite sc
well, but at that were 15 per
cent higher than Group A
In other words, motion pic
tures followed by oral instruc
tion showed the best results.
In Detroit the children wer<
divided into two groups, on<
taught by pictures only, with
out any preparation or expla
nation, and the other by ora
means only. Again the mov
ies scored. And a second ex
amination given four week
from the first lesson showe<
the movie pupils also superio
in a memory test. So it woul<
seem that the movies reall;
do help.
CONTROLLING HIS OWN PRODUC1
FARM AND RANCH
Notwithstanding the expen- <
diture of $250,000 by the :
Grain Dealer’s Association in *
an effort to convince the farm-:'
ers that it was foolish for
them to sign away their inde- |
pendence of action to the ;
Grain Growers’ Association,
up to August 2 nearly 7,000 j
farmers in the grain belt had <
placed names on the dotted 1
line. In many sections more;
than 75 per cent of the grain
is under contract and the num
ber of farmers who are wil- <
ling to chance the new scheme
of marketing is growing daily, i
In the South cotton growers
have displayed a similar inter-:
?st in their marketing organi
nations, and the America
Cotton Exchange, the centra
>rganization for several state
vith headquarters in Dalla.'
Adll probably control more eol
on than any two other organ
nations in the world.
The readiness with whic
growers have financed thes
>rganizations and turned ove
o them under contract th
products of their farms fc
Deriods of from three to fiv
r'ears is impressively signif
:ant.
In Texas alone, 40,000 farn
?rs have bound themselves t
deliver to the association a
he cotton they grow or com
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into possession of for a period
of five years. Therefore it is
to be presumed that producers
of cotton, grain and other
commodities either have faith
in their leaders or have reach
ed a point where they feel
that if nothing is gained by
the new venture, they stand
but little chance to lose more
than they have been accus
tomed to by dumping their
i products on the market at any
! price offered.
We have all heard of the
patient, long-suffering man,
found in nearly every com
munity, who always refuses
to resent insult or fight until
! he i3 backed into a corner,
! and then can whip his weight
- in wildcats. W ell, this is Mr.
. Farmer. Mr. Farmer is up in
| the corner and he is fighting
Cotton and grain speculators
"|mav have more to fear from
him because of his organized
I control of his own products
than they have from the re
ticent legislation passed by
i Congress and signed by the
^ i Presidest.
NO MORE BODIES TO PIKE
Distribution in Future Will Be
Through St. Louis
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Little Rock, Sept. 12—Head
quaiters at Camp Pike receiv
ed a message from Washing
tot. today stating that no more
dies of over-seas soldiers
w;ll be shipped here for dis
tribution.
ginning with the present
week, the bodies will be sent
from Hoboken by the Graves
registration bureau of the
quartermaster corps to St.
Louis and distributed from
dial point instead of Little
Rock. The change in distrib
uting points was made because
of the departure of the Third
Division for Camp Lewis
Thursday.
forget it
If you would increase your
happiness and prolong >0UI
life forget your neighbor’s
faults. Forget the slander
you have heard. Forget the
fault-findings and give a little
thought to the cause that pro
voked it. Forget the peculiar
ities of your friends and only
remember the good points
that make you fond ot them.
Forget all personal quarrels
or histories that you have
heard by accident and which
if repeated would seem a
thousand times worse than
they are. Blot out as far as
possible the disagreeable
things of life—they will come
but they will only grow larger
when you remember them,
and the constant thought of
the acts of meanness worse
still malice, will only tend to
make you more familiar with
them. Obliterate everything
bad from yesterday, start out
with a clean sheet for today,
and write upon it for sweet
memory’s sake only those
things that are lovely and
lovable.—Exchange.
SWEET POTATOES
BEST IN YEARS
Bald Knob, Sept. 15.—The
sweet potato crop here looks
the best it has in years and
indications are there will be
fully 100 cars for shipment,
over and above the home de
mand. Considerable interest
is being shown by farmers
in developing a crop system
that will mean several periods
of cash sales during a season.
Poultry also is receiving much
attention.
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l^ARKNESS is their stock in trade.
They work by stealth—unheard and unseen—
their movements cloaked in secrecy. It’s hon
est folks that seek the light. They are the
only ones who can risk it.
It’s the same way in business. The mer
chant who is not sure of his goods does not
dare to advertise. Advertising would hasten
the end of his business career—put him to a
test he could not meet.
The merchant who advertises, deliberately
invites your inspection. He tells you about his
product and then lets it stand on its own
merits. YOU ( AN DEPEND ON HIM. HE
KNOWS HIS PRODUCT IS GOOD.
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That’s one reason why it pays you to read
the advertisements. It is through advertising
that you are able to keep in touch with 'he
good things that progressive business men are
handling for your benefit and convenience.
Advertisements throw a powerful light
on the very things that concern you most.
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