The Newark Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1919
VOL. 19, NO. 6
ORGANIZE NEWARK
COMMUNITY LEAGUE
CITIZENS FORM ORGANIZATION
TO WORK FOR BETTERMENT
OF COMMUNITY
The get-together meetings that
have recently been held in Newark
culminated in the organization Wed
nsday morning of a Community Lea
gue, the purpose of which is to pro
mote harmony and unity among the
people, to foster the spirit of pro
gress and to direct the united efforts
of the community toward the advan
cement and betterment of Newark
and surrounding country.
A public meeting was held at the
High School Auditorium Tuesday
night, at which addresses were made
by County Agent Leland Bunch, For
rest Jeffrey and Junius Case of Bates
ville, Chas. L. Mariner, Secretary of
the Newport Chamber of Commerce,
and J. L. Bevens also of Newport.
Mr. Mariner was the principal speak
er of the evening and made a splendid
speech on the subject of community
organization and its relation to com
munity progress. His speech in full
to n 11 I 11 1 e Vi ill in n ....liimn
Following Mr. Mariner's address,
a Committee previously appointed to
nominate a board of directors for a
local organization submitted the fol
lowing names for directors: E. R
Moore, Dr. V. L. Pascoe, C. M. Ed
wards. Dr. J. B. Roe, F. C. Hoyt, W
W. Jernigan, 0. F. Craig, P. S. For
tune, T. H. Dearing, B. A. Magnass
G. M. Fields, John T. Tharp, C. P
Vaughan, J. W. Sisk and Mrs C. M
Edwards. The nominations were rati
fied and the meeting adjourned.
The board of directois met at the
Mayor’s office Wednesday morning
and proceeded with the organization
by electing C. M. Edwards, president;
Dr. J. B. Roe, first vice president;
E. R. Moore, second vice president;
W. W. Jernigan, treasurer and John
T. Tharp, secretary.
T. H. Dearing, Dr. J. B. Roe, O.
F. Craig and C. M. Edwards were
selected as a committee on constitu
tion and by laws.
Chairmen of the various branches
of work to be promoted by the or
ganization were selected as follows;
Good roads department, C. P. Vau
!Khan.
i Industrial department, G. M. Fields,
i1 Publicity Department, O. F. Cra’g.
Traffic and Transportation, F C.
Hoyt.
Mercantile department, E. R. Moore
Civics lepartment, Mrs. C. M. Ed
wards.
Agricultural department, J. W. Sisk
Credit, C. M. Edwards.
Another meeting is to be held upon
the call of the chairman for the pur
pose of adopting a constitution and
by-laws and for more definitely form
ulating a plan of work.
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FAST BALL GAME
AT OIL TROUGH
One of the most enthusiastic ball
games of the season was palyed on
the Oil Trough field last Saturday
when the Newark Tigers met the
Elmo Gazinks.
The local team went to Oil Trough
with the itention of playing Oil
Trough, but having beaten Oil Trough
the week before they decided to try
the Elmo lads a rap.
Up to the first half of the sixth ;n
ning the game was decidely flop
sided, the the Elmo lads running in
eleven scores up to the last half of
the fifth when the Tigers had only
In the .sixth, the Tigers’ nerve rose
and they hammered the Gazink pitch
er hard. With three men on the bas
es. John Pascoe, the Tigers’ Ty Cobb
lost the hall under the Oil Trough
School house making a home run
which further increased the team’s ef
forts, and the Tigers batted freely,
running in twenty-one scores in this
inning.
The Gazinks scored only twice more
during the game and the Tigers ran
in four more, making a total of 27
for Newark and 13 for Elmo.
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DON’T FORGET TIIE DATE
Don’: forget the date < f the school
'election, Saturday, May 17. Don’t
1 forget the boys and girls when vot
ing for school tax on that day. Show
j-ycur interest in better schools by
I voting an adequate tax on election
; day. Don’t leave this matter to be
| looked after by someone else. Don’t
l forget the needs of your schools.
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NEWARK, ARKANSAS
THOUGHTS ON COMMUNITY BUILDING
EXPRESSED BY NEWPORT SECRETARY
Following is the complete text of
Mr. Mariner’s speech delivered before
the Community League meeting: at
the High School Auditorium last Tues
day night.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men:
Every citizen of a community,
farmer, laboring man, professional
man—each and all, owe a heavy debt
to their home town. Altogether too
many citizens are objects of charity
from their fellow citizens >n accept
ing community nrosperty and enjoy
mint without giving: value received.
The citizen who dres not desire to
live in a good community is far from
being a typical A.mrican. That man
or owman who is content to reside ’n
the isoiat on of a bankrupt commun
ity is in greater or less degree a pau
per in practice and possessions, par
ticularly in posessions of the larger
life which is only experienced in that
community where the social weatlh
is worthy of the present age.
A person who has no wish to boast
concerning his home town is abnorm
al; he is as deplorable as the man
without a country. Young men often
leave home because they cannot en
dure the humiliation of residing in a
community without anything to boast
about. Therefore a father who de
clines to associate himself with his
fellow citizens for a better commun
ity, may be unconsciously guilty of
driving his children away from home,
being an exhibition of animal life ev
en lower than that of a cat or dog,
which cling to their offspring as long
as possible.
I.et us suppose the existence a
mue city o: ten tnousand inhabitants,
without a church or school house, or
a libraiy, or a lyceum or any insti
tution of any kind for moral, intel
lectual and social culture of the peo
ple. Let us suppose this city to be
rich in material goods and in the fa
cilitie- for augmenting it. Would
property be safe in such a city?
Would vice be under control. Would
nun be industrious there? What
things in all the world would aid
most to the value of real estate and
personal property in such a city?
Would there be a man among its ten
thousand who could find a better in
vestment for his money than by pay
ing his share toward building five
churches and ten school houses and
endowing the public library and ly
ccum ? Such an investment as this
would double the actual market value
of all the property in the city. No
man could afford to place his money
at simple interest while such an in
' estment waited to be made. Any
man who permits institutions like
these to go begging in a city which
contains his property (and it might
he said Its labor) convicts himself of
jusiness incoinpetency, such institu
tions being a positive money-produc
ng and money-preserving power. It
isn’t benevolence to give money for
these insti’utions it is simply neces
sary that a man have the instinct and
foresight of an ordinary business
man.
The hour has come in hundreds of
'(immunities when the local citizens
mint sacrifice financially and with
thcr effort and energy to defend
heir social welfare. Many communi
ties might better mortgage their
ionics for industrial funds than buy
mtomobiles as is the prevailing prac
tire. The times are treacherous to
lie preser nation of hundreds of com
nunities firesides, and the call is
dear for loyalty and liberality in pur
se and personal effort by local citi
zens. The decay and death of com
nunity life is deliberate and self in
dicted—sucidal—for no power can
lestioy a community’s vitality if the
iome citizens are all loyal to local
nterests.
One cause for the dsappointment
md defeat of many commercial clubs
s that they expect to accomplish too
arge things before they are propar
* 1 to do so. Months and years of
raining me necessary before the best
•an lit lealized. The most effective
•ommercial clubs have been years
perfecting their organizations. Towns
should not overlook this element.
The fact is indisputable that the
most prominent men, both commercial
and professional in all wide awake
towns are actively engaged and >'n
terested in their commercial clubs.
No citizen can justify his conduct in
absenting himself from this line of
duty today. Some business men re
mark that they are too busy with
their own business to participate in
commercial club work. In this atti
tude they most greviously err. Mem
bership and activity in the local
chamber ot commerce is recognized
today as a department of one’s per
sonal business indissolubly connected
Declination to associate in a local
l board of trade is evidence that a cit
izen is an object or charity at *he
han s of those fellow citizens who are
together in team work for the com
munity.
The commercial club should domin
ate all local interests, public and pri
vate. Its province is to help church
socieJos, schools, factories and work
for the general welfare and the up
building of a community.
A town should never allow an op
portunity to celebrate slip by without
coining that event into advertising.
County fairs are excellent because
they develop unscheduled assets.
Indirect advertising is advisable
whenever possible. A good ball team
is a good advertisement for any com
munity.
Make the school the citadel of yiur
community. It should be the social
centers with varied forms of enter
tainment. Music, vocal and instru
mental, lectures, free as frequently
as possible, indoor games and kindred
attractions may profitably be pro
meted for the glory of your town,
and the commercial club should co
operate with the board of education
:o these ends, for example inspiring
a commerc.al club juniors. Address
es by reputable traveling men con
cerning their vocations are an asset
for a high school.
The best friend a young man can
cultivate is a clergyman. The latter
typifies the best in life, mental and
moral, and is valuable as a friend.
To attend a good church regularly
for ten years is the equivalent of a
good education. The just citizen must
concede the value of the church in
his community.
The proper civic spirt is really
what does things for a town. It
is the fundamental requisite in a
community for achievement. Con
seqeutly the intial effort of citizens
who desire to accomplish something
for their town should be expended
in cultivating a strong civic spirit.
The rejuvenation of a town has begun
when all citizens have caught the pro
per town spirit.
The statement is credited to a
western town that it has a “knockers
committee” and whenever any citizen
is heard speaking disparingly (knock
ing) concerning the town the commit
tee calls upon him and asks that he
desist or leave town.
Many towns are becoming financi
ally and socially embarassed by the
loss of local patronage to the oig
city mail order houses.
In a broad sense the big city mail
order store is the deadly enemy of
10.000 towns. Millions of dollars o'
property in smaller communities will
noi realize 100 cents on the dollar be
cause of these catalogue stores.
Already deteriorating churches and
schools attest their pernacious social
influence. Abandoned towns are in
evitable, due directly 10 the unjust
competition of the big city mail or
der stores, whose business taxed the
the city improvements and whose
owners give their donations and
greatest of all their efforts to the
cities in which the catalogue stores
aie located, thereby diminishing tax
es and imparing constructive genius
for a townV local welfare. The big
city store has already destrvoed com
munity prosperity in the city and the
mail order house is fast accomplish
ing the same results in the smaller
cities and towns.
First, the merchant is embarassed,
tjicn the newspaper publisher, the ho
tel keeper, the banker and other bnsi- ^
ness men of the town, the very influ
ences which have taken the leadership
and supported church and school, cel
ebration, baseball, lyceum, and in fact
have maintained the entire social
fabric of the community while the
farmer has been tilling the soil.
Sears Roebuck & Company do not
attend the funerals of their custom
ers nor do ‘hey send flowers, but the
home merchants do. Friends at wed
dings and funerals are more desira
ble than donations to soil fertility if
at the price of community embarrass
ment, which donations are insignifi
cant compared with the greater loss
of local social wealth.
Making purchases of the mail-or
der house is a species of gambling,
both as to price and quality, and one
cause for the public’s patronage of
these stores is to gratify this gamb
ling spirit.
One of the simplest and most fun
damental examples of loyalty to home
industrials and conservation of com
munity life is giving patronage to
home merchants.
Every community which will leave
its patronage with its home merch
ants will possess additional to what
it has today a factory or the equiva
lent of a manufacturing industry.
Local church people deserve the se
verest censure for their patronage
of the big mail order store at the
sacrifice of local business. At ev
ery Sunday eervice, no doubt, a larce
part of the wearing apparel of the
ladies present has been purchased
in stores other than local. A church
member has no community right to
send his patronage to mail order
stores and then to ask the home mer
chant to subscribe for the expenses
of the church. Why not get church
subscriptions from the catalog houses
patronized? How can the local mer
chants have any money to help chur
ches if the church members buy only
staplese, sugar, and sheeting from
them, and the profitable merchandise
clothing, etc., from mail order hous
es?
An effective way to create civic
spirit is to get before the citizens a
description of what other towns are
attempting and accomplishing. Most
Americans dislike to be trailing along
at the end of the procession, there
fore, simply to show a town that it
is a back number unless it awakens,
will usually arouse a new spirit.
The civic work being accomplished
by women in many towns justifies
devoting a few words to the oppor
tunity afforded them in community
betterment. In some towns the ladies
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DOCTOR AND DAUGHTER
KILLED BY FAST TRAIN
PAPERS GIVE DETAILS OF HOW
FORMER OIL TROUGH MAN
IS KILLED
Indianapolis newspapers received
here contain the following account
of the accident in which Dr. E. D.
Beard, a former citizen of Oil Trough
was killed near Indianoplis, as was
told in The Journal last week.
Dr. E. D. Beard, age 52, connected
with the City Hospital at Indianapo
lis, and Miss Mary Beard, his adopt
ed daughter, were instantly killed at
the Avon crossing of the Big Four
railroad nine miles west of Indianap
olis, when an automobile in which
they were riding was struck by train
No. 11, known as the Sonthwestern
Limited, running late out of Indian
apolis.
The automobile was carried a twist
ed mass of wreckage a quarter of a
mile or more before the train was
stopped. The bodies were placed on
the train and taken to Danville.
,1. H. McClintock of Indianapolis,
conductor, said persons living rear
the scene of the accident told him
the machine was driven directly on
the. tiack in front of the train.
In Beard’s pocket was found a card
reading: “In case of accident notify
Ed L. Patrick, 18-20 North Senate
Ave., Indianapolis.”
Dr. Beard formerly was a physician
at Brownsburg, moving to Indianap
olis about six months ago, after
death of his wife.
Dr. Beard was an interne at the
City Hospital. He was on duty be
fore noon and left shortly before noon
without telling anyone where he was
gong.
Mary Beard, age 18, the daughter,
had been a pupil since last December
■at St. John’s Academy It was learn
ed at the academy that Dr. Beard
called for his daughter shortly after
11 o’clock with his automobile. It
was understod at the academy that
they intended to go to Frankfort.
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For Sale.—Good piece of residence
property; five room house and two
lots located in best residence section
of town. Price $900. E. G. Magness
& Co.
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