The Newark Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920
VOL. 19 NO. 48
TO PRESENT SCHOOL
PROBLEMS TO PUBLIC
MARCH 1 TO 7 IS PROCLAIMED
SCHOOL RALLY WEEK BY
GOVERNOR BROUGH
The week of March 1 to 7 has been
designated “School Rally Week” in a
proclamation issued by Governor
Brough, so that the people of the
st^te may have their attention direct
ly called to the “serious situation”
with which the state is confronted due
to the lack of adequate funds to meet
the growing needs of the schools.
Teachers, according to Superintend
ent of Instruction J. L. Bond, are
leaving the profession and are get
ting ready to place themselves in
more remunerative positions.
Governor Brough in his proclama
tion said that “it is a well known fact
that the teaching staff of the pubiic
schools of the state have been serious
ly depleted. School authorities have
been compelled to recruit from the
ranks and the shortage of teachers
has necessitated frequent changes ni
the school terms. There have been
in some cases long enforced vacations
and even abandonment of some
schools. Educational progress on ac
count of these conditions has been im
peded, and it behooves every true, pa
triotic, red-blooded citizen of our
state to bestir himself to see that the
educational progress and development
of our fair state is not further im
peded.
“Governors of other states have is
sued similar proclamations and the
thought and conscience of the nation
on this vital subject is being awaken
ed,” Mr. Bond said, “and it seemed
pertinent to these officials that the
people of this state, too, have their
minds directed to the situation as it
exists.”
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MRS. HESTER P. CARROLL
Newport, March 2.—Mrs, Hester
Carroll, aged 30, wife of Dr C. E.
Carroll died Sunday afternoon from
influenza She is survived by her
husband, three daughters and a little
son, also by her mother and two sis
ters, Mrs. E. L. Boyce and Mrs. Rich
ard E Riter, the latter of St. Louis.
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ARKANSAS LIGHT COMPANY
BUYS GOVERNMENT PLANT
Little Rock, March 2.—It became
known today that the Arkansas Light
and Power Company has purchased
the power plant at the government
picric acid plant at Little Rock for
$235,000 and will operate it as a part
of the company’s chain of plants in
this state.
It was also learned that the com
pany is negotiating for the purchase
of the plant proper to turn it into an
industrial center. The price is said
to be between $500,000 and $1,000,
000.
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NEW BUSINESS FOR NEWPORT
Newport, March 3.—Wright Broth
ers of Memphis, who bought fhe
property including store and fixtures
of the Newport Jewelry Company,
are having many improvements made
and have announced that they will be
ready for business in a short time.
They are to have a five and ten cent
store and will carry a big stock. It
will be one of the most modern hous
es in Newport and will be managed
by F. N. Wright of Blytheville.
THE COUNTRY EDITOR
High prices and war conditions are
working havoc with many of the
small newspapers of the country.
These located where the field is small
and cannot be enlarged are being
driven to the wall. Some are being
consolidated, others taken over by
stronger organizations, others just
close the shop and call it a hopeless
battle. In a prosperous Ohio City
last week a paper that had been run
ning 26 years quit the struggle and
will appear no more. There has been
a heavy loss all over the land among
the smaller weeky papers. These
little publications are of real impor
tance in their communities and their
passing will be a loss. They carry
the little familiar news of the small
communities and after a few years
become important institutions. There
are few who toil who put in longer
hours, w'ho do more varied service and
draw less in payment than the small
town editor of a weekly newspaper.As
a rule he is a booster, an optimist,
who helps every good movement, get
ting most out of the small store of
joy that comes to him from knowledge
that he helped push things along.—
Ohio State Journal.
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The Cotton Farm
ers* Cow
The farmer who prows so much
cotton that he has no room for a
cow is neglecting a chance to make
some easy money.
If he would follow the advice of
the American Cotton Association, if
he would plant fewer acres of cotton,
use carefully selected seed and ferti
lize highly,—
He would increase his production
of lint cotton per acre, thereby main
taining the standard of supply, but
reducing the net cost per pound;
He would have left acreage on his
farm to keep cows, to raise hogs, to
grow fruits and vegetables and
grains.
These would feed his family ard
give him enough extra cash so that be
could get for his cotton a fair and
equitable price.
Many sections of the South are
finding freedom from the all-cottr.n
system with its poverty and priva
tions, by keeping cows and diversify
ing their crops. These farmers bank
their cotton money as pure velvet.
This bank, first, last and all the
time, is for the program of better
cotton, higher prices, diversified
crops—and more money for all.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Newark, Arkansas
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GROWING DEMAND FOR
IMPROVED HIGHWAYS
REVISED ROAD BILL BEFORE
CONGRESS PLANS FOR NA
TION SYSTEM HIGHWAYS
Washington, March 1.—Modern
highway construction is not keep’ng
pace with the demand for modern
highway rolling stock. Motor-drawn
vehicles are being produced in num
bers far beyond the mileage of types
of roadbed necessary to provide eco
nomic operation. And yet, great as
the productive rate of new vehicles
may be, it is far below current re
quirements.
These afets bearing upon the na
tion’s highway transportation prob
lems are being emphasized in high
way development circles as addition
al reasons for expanding the activi
ties of the federal government in
highway construction. The measure
known as the Townsend bill has been
re-drawn and re-introduced in Con
gress. Henceforth it is to be known
as the national highway act. It now
embodies all of the features desired
by all sections of the country, and
in .its present form will be pressed
to definite action as firmly and con
sistently as legislative conditions will
warrant.
Two main objects, the construction
of a nationa highway commission, are
sught in the act. It proposes that the
commission shall establish, construct
maintain improve and regulate a ra
tional system of highways composed
of connecting interstate roads which
shall, by the most practicable routes
and with due consideration for the
principal centers of agriculture and
industrial production, afford ingress
into and egress from each state.
The proposed act also provides that
the commission may make all neces
sary surveys and maps in connection
with the establishment, construction,
maintenance, improvement, or regu
lation of the national system of high
ways, and may construct, maintain
improe and regulate any highway
w'hich is a part of the national sys
tem, or, in its discretion, may con
tract with any state highway depart
ment for such surveys or maps, or
for the constri ction, maintenance or
improvement of any such highway in
such state.
It is proposed also that the por
tion of the national highway system
in each state shall equal one per cent
of the total highway mileage used as
such in the state as ascertained by
the commission.
For the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of the act, it is proposed
to appropriate 150,000,000 which
shall become immediately available;
$75,000,000 for the fiscal year begin
ning July 1, 1920, and $100,000,000
for each of the three succeeding fiscal
years, in all $425,000,000, which shall
be aavilable until expended.
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ROAD NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that a peti
tion will be presented to the April
1920 term of the County court of In
dependence County, Arkansas, for the
establishment of a public road as fol
lows, to-wit:
Beginning at about the Southwest
corner of the Southeast quarter of
the Northwest quarter of Section El
even (11) Township 13 North, Range
4 West, thence running east on half
section line for about one and three
quarter miles to the line that divides
ranges 3 and 4 West, or the South
west corner of the Southwest quarter
of the Northwest quarter of Section
7, Township 13 North, Range 3, all
in Independence County, Ark.
Gien this the 26th day of February,
1920.
J. L. DAVIS,
J. M. GIPSON,
J. L. LANE,
W. T. BRUCE,
* J. B. BRUCE,
M. L. PICKENS,
C. P. PICKENS,
J. A. PAGE,
P. P. McPHETERS,
J. S. SIMS,
C. E. JIMERSON.
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ARKANSAS ROADS
Life on county roads reminds us
Of old Noah and the flood,
For both in front and behind us
There’s nothing but a sea of mud.
—Dierks Banner.
SHORT COTTON WILL
BE UNPROFITABLE
IF PRICES DECLINE, SHORT STA
PLE WILL BE DRUG ON THE
MARKET NEXT FALL
Farmers who raise cotton of less
than one and one-sixteenth-inch sta
ple are likely next fall to hit a hard
market, low price and weak demand.
This is the opinion expressed by H.
M. Cottrell, agriculturist of the Ark
ansas Profitable Farming Bureau of
the Little Rock Board of Commerce,
who urges that every Arkansas cot
ton grower shall plant the proper va
rieties and so fertilize and handle his
land that he will produce cotton hav
ing a staple of one and one-sixteenth
inches or longer.
At the present itme, there is a sur
plus of 6,000,000 bales of short staple
and low grade cotton in the United
States,” says Mr. Cottrell. “New
England, English, French and Holland
spinners use very little short staple
cotton. Southern cotton mills have
an abundant supply in their own vi
cinities. Russia, Germany, and Japan
have been buyers of staple too short
for American spinners. Russia is out
of the market. Germany has not yet
established a credit that will permit
her to buy much cotton. Japanese
buyers pay the lowest prices of any
purchasers in our markets and can se
cure enormous quantities of short
staple cotton in Texas and Oklahoma.
It is evident that the profits of Ark
ansas cotton growers will be extrem
ely small unless they produce 1 1-16
inch staple or longer.
“During the European war a great
many growers made large profits by
growing short staple and half varie
ties like Kink and Simpkins, because
there was an enormous use of this
short staple stuff for making muni
tions. Linters will furnish all the
material needed now for this purpose,
leaving no demand for short staple
except for the cheapest goods, and
that at the lowest price. There should
not be an acre of any variety of half
and half cotton planted this year on
any farm in Arkansas. The man who
plants it runs the risk of finding it
unmarketable except at a price below
cost of production; he lowers the
price of all good cotton raised in his
county and damages the state’s rep
utation for producing staple of good
length, strong fiber and low waste in
spinning.
lhe experience of hundreds of
farmers on hill lands in the past five
years has shown that a good strain
of Rowden cotton planted on thin
upland will produce seven-eighths to
one-incl. staple, and with the appli
cation of 150 to 200 pounds of high
grade commercial fertilizer an acre
the staple will be full 1 1-16 inch.
There may be other varieties better
adapted to other parts of the state.
Growers by investigation can find the
variety that will give a profitable
yield and a 1 1-16-ineh staple with
good crop management in their local
ities.
“A good grade of 1 1-16-inch staple
was quoted last week in Little Rock
and Memphis at $26 a bale more than
one-inch staple of the same grade.
There was an active demand for the
1 1-16-inch, and it was hard to find
a buyer for the one-inch stuff.”
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RENOMINATE NEWPORT MAYOR
Newport, March 3.—Claude M. Er
win yesterday was renominated may
or of Newport, defeating Judge W.
D. McLain by a vote of 197 to 55.
Gus C. Martin was nominated for
marshal, B. G. Graham for recoider,
C. P. Bandy for treasurer, Jesse E.
Williams and C. J. Saegner for aider
men of the First ward and Tom Hut
son and W. H. Snetser for aldermen
of the Second ward.
NEW DRUG CONCERN
Newport, March 3.—A new drug
house opened its doors for business
in Newport Monday of this week, and
will be known as the Owen Drug
Company. The firm has a splendid
new building, its fixtures and furni
ture being of the highest class. The
proprietor and manger is Thomas
Owen, for several years with the
Bevens Drug Company of Newport
and Helena.
THE PARDON MILL
(From the Hardy Herald)
Last week Governor Brough issued
a pardon to Oliver Rider, who was
convicted in the circuit court of Inde
pendence county last spring of killing
Lon Hatler at Cord and sentenced to
twenty-one years in the penitentiary.
The murder of Hatler was :io doubt
one of the most brutal murders ever
committed in this section of Arkan
sas. After shooting Hatler to the
ground, Rider walked up to the fallen
man, raised his hat and shot him
squarely through the forehead. Rider
then dragged the dead body several
hundred yards to the banks of Black
river, where an old cultivator wheel
was fastened to it and the body
thrown into the river.
In the trial of the case Rider did
not deny killing Hatler, but endeavor
ed to show self-defense, but this plea
collapsed when it was shown that
Hatler was not armed at the time,
but was a peaceable, lawabidhig citi
zen and was never known to carry
weapons. Rider’s reputaiton was not
so clear.
The case was appealed to the su
preme court, and that body affirmed
the decision of the cirucit court.
In this case Governor Brough did
not claim, as is usually the case, that
he had a great petition from citizens
and a recommendation from court of
ficials asking for the pardon of Rid
er. Instead his only excuse for grant
ing the pardon was that the only eye
witness to the crime, a man named
Pharr, whose testimony convicted
Rider, was found after the trial to
be an ex-convict himself. It ought to
be said in passing that Rider is a
leading man in his community, and
it is said he was never confined a day
in the penitentiary and that he never
even put on the stripes.
The reader of the daily papers
must have noticed that Governor
Brough is issuing a great many par
dons in the tail end of his administra
tion. The pardon mill is working
overtime, and we are free to express
the opinion that something is dead
up the creek and terribly rotten in
Denmark else executive clemency
would not be so liberally bestowed in
the latter day of Governor Brough’s
power to grant pardons.
In other words, to make the matter
a little plainer, the fellow who goes
to the penitentiary without powerful
friends and some of the root of all
evil is absolutely out of luck. But
you needn’t worry about the convict
GOV. BROUGH TO HEAD
ROAD ASSOCIATIONS
DEATH OF SENATOR BANKHEAD
MAKES BROUGH PRESIDENT
NATION ROAD ASSN.
The death of United States Senator
John H. Bankhead, president of the
United States Good Roads Associa
tion and the Bankhead Highway As
sociation Monday automatically made
Governor Brough the presiding offi
cer at the next convention of these
assciations, to be held at Hot Springs
April 12-19. Governor Brough is
vice president.
Senator Bankhead was the author
of the Shackleford bill through which
all federal aid for good rads is se
cured. The death of Senator Bank
head is a particuar blow to Arkan
sas, inasmuch as he was working with
the Senate for au additional appro
priation of $6,000,000 for good roads.
who has money and friends who have
influence. He will be back soon.
Every week Brough is pardoning
murders, burglars, bootleggers, forg
ers and other criminals of the woyit
sort. Now then if he would pardon
W. D. Crawford, convicted of wrong
ing young girls who were under his
care while he was superintendent of
the Odd Fellows Orphans’ Home at
Batesville the climax would be reach
ed and his record would be more com
plete. In our mind there is no doubt
but that Governor Brough would have
done this very thing long ago if it
had not been for the strong potests
that have gone up to him from all
parts of Arkansas against a pardon
for Crawford.
Governor Brough has announced
that as long as he is governor Craw
frd will not be pardoned.
But—
A citizen of Little Rock tells us
that no longer than one night last
week he saw W. D. Crawford, in civ
ilian clothes, in company with his
wife, parading about the lobby of the
Hotel Marion, in Little Rock, as free
as a bird, looking and acting as if
he had never been charged, tried and
convicted of one of the most repulsive
crimes that can be imagined, and one
which would not be committed by any
man who is very far removed from
the animal.
And so wags the world and things
in Arkansas.
.JSAVER OF SEED
THE AVERY SHAWNEE JUNIOR PLANTER
IS A PLANTER THAT WILL SAVE SEED because it will feed
just as many seed as you v/ant it to. If you plant your cotton
with the spacer wheel, it will also save chopping expense.
This planter has successfully met the requirements of the
most critical buyers in the cotton growing sections, for it is a
planter THAT WILL DO THE WORK year after year, and do
it as it should be done.
From a mechanical standpoint, the Shawnee Junior Planter
is a model of simplicity, and at the same time it gives the most
discriminating Independence Ciunty farmer every convenience
and adjustment for good planting under various conditions.
Come in or write for circular giving fuller particulars about
this planter.
C.W. Naxffeld Co
mm Batesville, Arkansas
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