the home news
p- bli hed Friday at McCrory, Ark,
WALTER W. HANEY, Ed. and rub
S«b.criptlon $1.00 per Year in Advance.
Entered as second-class mat
ter August 26, 1915, at the post
office at McCrory,- Ark., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friday, Feb. 2, 1917.
Tomahawk Is Interred
Earle W. Hodges, late Secre
tary of State, and one-time can
didate for Governor, is a good
loser. At a meeting of the press
association last week, he said
that Dr. Brough is making such
a good governor that he is al
most sorry that he tried to beat
him. Gov. Brough responded
with a felictous expression of
gratitude for the support Mr.
Hodges is giving him in progres
sive measures for the good of
the state, ‘ ‘and all goes merry
as a marriage bell.
But that is the impression that
Gov. Brough is making upon the
whole state. He is “making
good.” He is rising above petty
politics as his friends predicted
he would. He sees in the gov
ernor’s office something more
than an opportunity for personal
advancement by processes of
trimming, and back-firing, and
wire pulling, and side-stepping.
Principles have been elevated
above personalities, and progress
above preferment. None had
opposed him more bitterly than
did Mr. Hodges, arid the attitude
assured by his former antagonist
is indicative of the attitude of
many others.
The state is being given a new
lesson in practical politics. It is
a primer lesson for many who
had graduated in the old school,
whose curriculum consisted in
the teaching of the policy, “Get
all you can and hold all you get.”
Gov. Brough is not insensible of
the rewards that are due one’s
riends, but personal * rewards
must he subordinated to the com
mon good. , r ... '
Gov. Brough started right.
ls message was a master-piece
o state-craft. It was not hastily
rown together to tickle the
ancies of his hearers. It is a
ocument that represents the
.of ^search in political econ
Sy ln Arkansas andotherstates.
e asktd the advice and assist
anc* suggestions of students
government all over the United
t an^ correlated the best
ese in the crucible of his
own powerful intellect. The re
sultant document was what Rep
resentative Norfleet of St. Fran
cis called “a chart by which fu
ture governors may steer the
ship of state.” The wholesome
legislation he outlined in the mes
sage was enough to keep the
legislature busy for six months.
There were some who had said,
as they said of Woodrow Wilson,
He is a school-teacher and
school-teachers are never practi
cal.” But here are two school
teachers who have shown them
selves to be intensely practical.
They may be idealists to some
extent—all great thinkers are
that—but the greatest achieve
ments of the world consist in the
realization of ideals. The ideals
of yesterday become the indis
pensable practices of today. For
years Dr. Brough was a teacher^
as well as a student of economics
in its application to governmental
problems, and he came to the
office well equipped for the task
of putting into effect the deduct
ions he had made through his
long course of study.
One of the primary lessons he
is trying to teach the politicians
of the state is that the prevalent
opinion of politics as a “game”
is wrong. It is a science,—the
science of good government, and
not a rough and tumble wrestling
match to see who can get the ad
vantage and grab the most offices
and “fat jobs.” His first official
act was a rebuke of that system
of spoils. The Senate had de
clined to receive the recess ap
pointments of Gov. Hays. A
time-serving politician in the
Governor’s chair would have
eagerly seized the opportunity
presented to accept the vacancies
thus created, that he might pro
vide places for numerous friends.
It was the thing that was ex
pected of him, because so many
others had done it. It was a
part of the political game of “get
and'keep.” But Dr. Brough was
differently constituted. He let
it be known in unmistakable
language that it was his desire
that the Senate should receive
and consider on their merits the
appointments of Gov. Hays. The
Senate and the whole state awoke
with a start. Truly, something
unusual had happened. Here
was a new cnora sixuck in me
afiretime jangling discord of state
politics. ' “Surely,” said an in
credulous public, even yet loath
to believe,- “surely, here is a new
way to pjay the game of politics. ”
And so, in every issue, is he
“playing the game,” or, as he
prefers tor. say, applying the
wholesome principles of assured
science to the government of the
state? He considers it a big
business institution to be run on
business principles, in which per
sonal politics can have no part.
All factions and parties are be
ginning to realize that Arkansas’
first school-teacher governor is a
statesman in the truest sense of
the word.
Dr. Thompson, Dentist, of
Wynne is in the city and will re
main all next week. See him
about your teeth. It Adv
Mr. L. E. George, of Beebe,
building inspector for the Iron
Mountain Ry. Co., was here
Tuesday visiting his son, Doc, at
the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. R.
Piercey,
Mr. Glenn Harris has pur
chased 180 pecan trees which he
will plant on 15 acres of his farm
south of town. Glenn says that
he does not care for a pension if
it necessitates his going to war,
but that he hopes the above will
prove to be a resource to him in
his older days far more remuner
ative than any pension ever paid
to any patriot.
Mrs. S. E. Lewis of Cherry
Valley arrived Wednesday for a
three weeks’ visit to her daugh
ter, Mrs. S. E. Fountain.
Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Dye and
two children of Augusta motored
to this city Sunday spending the
day with Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Powell.
Riggs Bros, have sold Ford
cars recently to the following:
Dr. J. R. Piercey of McCrory, C.
Hixon of DeView, E. H. Wilson
of Grays and J. C. Parson and
Rudolph Robertson of Howell.
Mr. J. W. Morgan of Bullville
who moved to Checotah, Okla.,
in November returned Tuesday
and is looking for a place with
the intention of moving back.
He says that this is the best
country he ever saw for a poor
man. We will be glad to wel
come Mr. Morgan home and
here’s hoping he finds a good
place as he is a good farmer.
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