FIFTY THOUSAND
SION FOB LAND
8oidters In Camps Organizing Farm
ers' Forums Are Being Aided
by Army Y. M. C. A.
Farmers’ forums composed of sol
diers desiring to establish homes and
farms on land provided by the govern
ment are being organized in the mili
tary camps of the Southern depart
ment, comprising Texas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico and
Arizona by the educational depart
ment of the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A.
Groups of soldiers comprising tht
forums meet regularly in the Y. M.
L. A. buildings and discuss the ques
tions involved in their efforts to ge
lands in various states and the wajv
and means of developing the lands
after they get them. Literature from
the department of the interior and
the agricultural departments of the
states being studied is obtained and
a digest of it given to the groups by
different members.
S. N. Craig, representing the depart
ment of the interior, has been largelv
instrumental in formulating the plan
of operation followed by the soldier
farmers and farmers-to-be. A series
of addresses was given by him in the
camps of the Southern department in
the “Y” buildings, during which he
outlined the course to be pursued by
the government in assisting soldiers
to locate on unused government land^
in various states.
More than 50,000 soldiers hav<
signed the applications for the gov
eminent land which will be availabh
after congress ljjjjis passed the bill con
taining the recommendations of Sec
retary of the Interior Lane, accordim
to Mr. Craig.
“It is gratifying that so many oi
the soldiers have indicated their de
sire to take advantage of the oppor
tunities to be provided under the pro
visions of the new law.” said Mr
Craig. “The ultimate success of th<
plan depends upon the follow-up work
that will be done by the farmers’ fo
rums in the various camps being or
ganized with the aid of the Y. M. C. A.
loaders.”
(’amp Travis, San Antonio, Tex., or
ganized the first farmers’ forum.
DEMOBILIZATION ~
OF “Y” MEN NOW
AT A STANDSTILL
Only 400 Remain In Southern Depart
ment—Activity on Mexican
Border.
San Antonio, Tex.—Demobilization
of Army Young Men’s Christian asso
ciation secretaries in the Southern Mil
itary department has about reached a
standstill for the present, according to
J. H. Eekford, departmental supervisor
of personnel. About four hundred
wearers of the Red Triangle remain in
the six states composing this depart
ment. more than six hundred having
been released since the signing of the
Rrmistice. It is believed that, with
the numerous camps in the department
demobilized down to practically the
smallest possible -working force, cou
pled with the demands of the reghlar
army men and the returning soldiers
from overseas, there will be a need for
at least four hundred secretaries for
at least several weeks.
Seventy secretaries are serving the
towns and outposts along the Mexican
border, this phase of Y. M. O. A. ac
tivity having been materially enlarged
since the armistice. Apparently 2,000
miles of border territory is now being
covered, the greater part of it by itin
( i>> V -bt deliv< i v ■ :;rs. in v. hi eh
boobs, stationery, portable motion pic
ture machines, athletic equipment., In
a number of the •isolated villages where
troops are stationed the Y. M. C. A.
hjit is the <*nly entertainment feature
and the soldiers share their prlvfleges
with the civilian populations. Every
border outpost is now being reached
by the “Y” men, and the work will con
tinue as long as there are soldiers to
serve.
Y. M. C. A. ENLARGES
WORK IN RUSSIA
Doubles Personnel in Non-Bolshevik
Sections — Large Sums
Being Expended.
An urgent cable has been sent from
Vladivostok to the Y. M. C. A. na
tional war work council headquarter?
in New York requesting that 200,000
feet of up-to-date English comedies
and dramas and an enormous reper
t<nre of Russian titled films be rushed
to that part in addition to 725 reels ol
committee on public information edu
cational films.
In response to appeals made by the
Omsk government and other allied
authorities, the Y. M. C. A. has doubled
its personnel in non-bolshevik Russia
and has enlarged the scope of its work
proportionately. There are now 91
American Red Triangle workers in
Siberia and 50 on the arctic front in
European Russia. In addition there
are more than twice this number oi
Russian and Czech secretaries.
The national war work council is
now expending $150,000 a month foi
Y. M. C. A. work among allied and
American troops in Siberia, and ac
additional $50,000 a month among the
troops in northern Russia.
NEW EXECUTIVES
OF ARMY “Y” HAVE
UNUSUAL CAREERS
Charles Kurtzhalz, newly appointed
executive secretary of the southern
department, Army Young Men’s Chris
tian association, and Fred B. Apple
get, whom Kurtzhalz has selected as
his associate in control of all “Y” ac
tivities in the states of Texas, Okla
homa, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mex
co and Arizona, which states compose
he southern military department,
have records of unusual and varied
•chievement before becoming eonnect
d with war work. Both were for
merly associated together at Camp
cfke, Ark.
Mr. Kurtzhalz, who succeeded H. H.
Simmons, prominent banker and real
state man of Hillsboro, Tex., as ex
cutive secretary, has been a mission
ary in British West Africa and Ja
maica as well as a city Y. M. C. A.
s
EARLE L. KITTRELL
Graduate Veterinarian
(Deputy State Veterinarian)
0
Augusta, Arkansas
Office Phone 16 :: Home Phone 40
AVWVXUv
BULLVILLE NEWS
Always be on the elert, for
Mack and his Chrevolet be
cause you can’t tell whether
he is ging or coming.
Miss Rural Ross has been se
riously ill for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Clark
left last Saturday for Texas,
which they expect to make
their future home.
Oh, Boy, if you want to get
the long green, come to Bull
ville. The farmers here have
all got it in the-grass.
Mr. Everett’s baby has been
seriously ill for some time.
If anyone has a cotton crop
they want to trade for a hay
field, please notify.
Mr. E. Shadle said there is
always more room for one
more if oyu want to work.
If you see anyone that wants
to work send him to Mr. Mr. j
Varfelt, his month hand got
in the grass. s
COTTO INDUSTRY
The foreign marketing, export
ing and financing corporation
will necessarily revolutionize
the cotton ndustry. A . new
south will emerge. The south
ern farmers will come nearer
into their own. Instead of
Liverpool and Wall Street cot
ton gamblers, speculators and
manipulators fixing and con
trolling the worlds cotton mar
ket the cotton producers thro*
the foreign marketing, export
ing and financing corporation
will control thp market. The
incorporators of this gigantic
jcorporaton will be composed
of southern farmers, mer
chants, bankers, business men
and professional men. This
one hundred million dollar
corporation will have a big lot
to do in changing the south
from what it is in the cotton
ndusry into wha it ought o be.
By a concerted action of thp
coutliern farmers, merchants
bankers and business men we
will be able to usher in a new
era for the south. Let the
south pull together and more
prosperity will inevitably fol
low.
DEVIEW NEWS
Hen Tom Jackson, our very
handsome and knightly dray-1
man, donned his best fried I
shirt Sunday afternoon and:
hied him forth to the home of
his lady love. Once ther h
saw her safely to the bug*
and handed her in, that done
he jumped in beside her and
stepped on the gasoline He
would like to know the guv
who is always croaking V
takes a Ford to get a girl these
days.”
The Eworth League went
across alright Sunday night
and we were mighty glad to
see our “Hen House Angel”
Oscar Chappell join. Maybe
we can sleep with both eyes
shut now.
Among tfre visitors to our
fair city Sunday we note Miss
Effie Jones, Messrs. Forrest
Greer, Lewis Chappell, J. E,
Sullivan, Tom Jeffries, and F,
J. Henderson. J
We are indeed glad to have
once more in our midst, Mrs.
J. G. Wilson, who for some
time has been in thp hospital
at Memphis.
We have heard that there
will be another tax on automo
biles, that gasoline has gone
to thirty cents, tha diamonds
have gone to fifty cents, that
there is going to be another
war, that girls are all getting
stuck up, that there is a war
tax on marriage licenses, now
how the duce do you expect a
fellow to get married in the
face of all this?
THRIFT TEACHING
DEVELOPS CHARACTER
Surely noting is nothging
more than t he fundamental
principals of saving. Surely
nothing can develop stronger
that the self-denial which will
be necessarily be practiced b
learning the principles of
economy. Surely nothing »■
oords a better opportunity of
teaaching the practical Pjn*
ciples of patriotism than that
which is afforded by the use of
War Savings Stamps in teach
ing thrift in the schools of on
country. %
IT IS ALL GONE NOW
Samuel L. Kramer, Box 95,
dlersville, Pa. writes: 1
dney trouble for two y
id had a terrible backac ■
hat is'all gone now after
g Foley Kidney WJ and
el well again.” When J
dneys are overworked, we
1 diseased, the waste nia ^
maihs in the system a
uses pains in the back, r
atism, lumbago, stiff J ..
re mucles, backche.
idney Pills get results U
lickly and are tonic
jaling and soothing
ood for bladder trouble»
ed Cross Drug Store.