URGE INCREASE IN
COTTON ACREAGE
SHOULD INCREASE YIELD PER
ACRE BY USE OF
FERTILIZER
LOW YIELD UNPROFITABLE
The 1920 Census Shows That The Av
erage Yield Of Seed Cotton Per
Acre For Arkansas Was
Only 510 Pounds.
Little Rock, Ark—Farmers should
lower their cost of production by in
creasing yields per acre because low
yields are unprofitable and should
not be tolerated, it was said by Loy
i£. Hast, agronomist for the Southern
Soil Improvement Committee and sec
retary of the Arkansas Profitable
Farming Bureau of the Little Rock
Board of Commerce.
"The 1920 census report shows that
the average yield of seed cotton per
acre for Arkansas was only 510
pounds,” said Mr. Rast. “This means
only 170 pounds of lint and 310 pounds
of seed. Many planters who have
kept careful records say that it costs
not less than $30 per acre to make a
crop of cotton This average yield of
170 pounds of lint cotton per acre at
18 cents per pound amounts to exactly
$30 or enough to pay for the cost of
production, the only profit being
money obtained for seed which, at
$36 per ton. amounts to only $5.95
per acre. Or to subtract the value of
seed from the cost of production, it
is easy to figure that lint cotton costs
14-1 cents per pound to produce. Since
according to this report, 510 pounds
of seed cotton was the average pro
duction per acre, it stands to reason
that many farmers produced less than
this amount which must necessarily
have been grown at a loss.
“It Is a well recognized fact * by
those who have used commercial fer
tilizers that an increase in yield of
from one to three pounds of seed cot
ton can be expected for each pound
of fertilizer used. In other words, an
application of 500 pounds of a high
grade fertilizer per acre will give an
Increased yield of at least 500 pounds
of seed cotton Therefore, the farmer
who has produced 510 pounds of seed
cotton per acre without fertilizer
could expect a yield of 1,010 pounds
of seed cotton per acre by using 500
i pounds of. fertilizer. This would,
under normal conditions, gin out 337
pounds of lint and 673 pounds of
need, but to obtain this increase, the
farmer would have to spend $9 per
acre for fertilizer, allowing himself
fl for applying the fertilizer and
charging $3.75 for picking and $1.50
for ginning the extra yield produced j
against this crop. These items, when
added to the original cost of $30 per ;
acre, makes a total expense of $45.25 j
per acre. Using the same values for
seed and lint, as in the former case,
the seed from this fertilized crop
would be worth $11.77, thus making
the lint cotton produced by the use
of 500 pounds of fertilizer per acre
cost only 9.9 cents per pound and
leave a net profit over and above
the cost of production of $27.13. In
the former case without fertilizer the
cost of producing seed cotton was
6.8 cents per pound and the increase
yield obtained as a result of the use
of fertilizer would cost only 2 cents
per pound ”
Huntsville-—The drama “At the
End of the Rainbow," was Riven at
Hindsville recently by the eighth
grade of the public school.
Marianna—Director R. P. Klingst
has announced that :he Fifth Regi
ment band will give a public concert
in the City Park on Easter Sunday.
The band was organized last fall.
Earle-—Vaccination of 500 hogs as
precautionary steps and distribution
of 1,550 settings of pure bred eggs
and 15 pens of pure bred chickens
formed the important work of E. S
Baifentine, county agent, and Miss
Flora Ferrill, demonstration agent, in
Critendon county for the last two or
three weeks.
Earle,—Application of Dr. W. P.
Hicks, Crittenden county health offi
cer. to attend the clinic of the U.
8. Public Health Service in Hot j
Springs in April, has been approved |
by the Surgeon General at Washing-1
ton.
Paragouki.—The postal employes
and families, about 65 in number, gave
a banquet at the Y. M C. A in hen
or of A S. Snowden, who has served ■
five years as postmaster, and Hersch- J
el Neely, who Just assumed charge of i
the local office.
I
Waldo.—Thieves entered the store |
of Rhea & Waldrep here last week
and got away with merchandise val
ued at about $125. The loot consisted
of men's and boys’ clothing. Officers
have arrested several negroes as sus
pects.
Huntsville.—R, E. Porter has pur
chased Horseshoe Ranch, a 900-acre
tract between Delaney and Crosses,
froth Walter Q. Barron of Fayette
for $12,500. He also bought 900
adjoining the ranch, uud will
f '""SIentire tract in apple trees.
Huntsville.—J. 8. Crnmpacker ot
Combs is setting out 36 acres of
strawberries.
Huntsville.—Harry Thomas of Clif
tv was thrown from a horse recently
and broke an arm
Huntsville.—John Patrick has
bought the handle factory at Crosses
and has greatly enlarged the business.
Fordyce—A revival will be opened
April 16 at the Baptist church here
to continue indefinitely.
Huntsville.—E. B. Plummer has re
established his taxi line between |
Huntsville and Eureka Springs.
Pine Bluff.—Elzie Tols, negro, aged
50, of Rob Roy, suffered a broken
thigh when a horse kicked him.
Mountain Home.—The Rev. H- E. ,
Wheeler of Conway has opened a
Sunday School Institute here at the
Methodist Church.
Huntsville— R M. McCullough of ;
Kingston will seek the Democratic
nomination for tax assessor of Mad
ison county.
Marianna.—The Rev. Johu S- Ze
ran will conduct a revival at the
Christian church here, continuing un
til April 16.
Camden.—Andry J. Perry of Wash
ington township, county surveyor sev- j
oral years ago, has announced for the
same office at the coming election.
Walnut Ridge—Deposits aggregat
ing $1,306,466.85 were reported by
Lawrence county banks at the close
of business March 10, 1022.
Huntsville.—Several hundred acres
of strawberires are being grown in
the vicinity of Spring Valley. Farm
ers of that vicinity also will set out
30,000 grape cuttings this year.
Earle.—Large crowds are attending
each service of the revival at the First
Presbyterian church, conducted by
the Rev. T H. Watkins, evangelist.
Synod of Arkansas.
Hermitage—The Hermitage S. I.
A. gave a play recently entitled, "The
Great Pumpkin Case.” The money ;
realized will be placed in the fund to
be used in continuing school a month
Camden.—Ouachita Presbytery of
the Southern Presbyterian church
was convened at the First Presbyte
rion Church here Wednesday, April
12.
Earle.—The Rev. P- S. Rogers, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church at
Ackerman, Miss., has accepted a call
to the pulpit of the First Church at
Earle.
Camden.—The Church of Christ haa
begun a revival with Evangelist
Brooks Stell of Delight in charge.
Hugh Hogg of Stephens directs the
song service.
Ozark—Patrons' Day was observ
ed Friday at Pleasant View consoli
dated school. 10 miles west of Ozark.
An old-fashioned spelling bee was a
feature.
Searcy.—The Galloway College sen
ior memorial fund, raised annually
by the graduating class, was Increas
ed by $150 from the “Follies of 1922,”
given recently.
Van Buren—Clark Porter of Paris
has purchased the Royal theater here,
now under the management of W. T.
Stockton Mr. Porter assumed man
agement April 11.
Sparkman.—A heavy wind struck
this seciton recently causing damage
to several small houses in the Pine
Grove vicinity. There were no cas
ualties
Conway.—The City Council has com
plied with the request of Mayor W.
D. Cole to reduce his salary from $75
to $25 per month. The move waa
made for the protection of the city
in the future, Mayor Cole said
Mountain Home.—The biggest fruit
crop in several years is promised for
Baxter county this year Plums are
in bloom now, and peaches will be
in a day or two. Practically every
bud i sa live one, and unless they are
killed later the trees will be loaded
to the breaking point.
Marianna.—Members of the Baptist
church have purchased from Henry
Pilcher and Sou of Louisville, Ky., a
pipe organ, the contract price being
$5,500 installed. The organ will be
installed within the next few months. |
Mena.—John B- Ogden, a well
known Mena young man, who has
been practicing law at Idabell, Okla., |
has returned and formed a partner
ship with City Atorney L. N. Bur
nett.
Walnut Ridge —Since the rainfall
of the last few weeks, Turkey creek
ditch, which flows diagonally through
the towns of Walnut Ridge and
lioxie, is out of its banks and is back- j
iag Into the yards of some residences.
Many homes near the ditch are sur
rounded by water.
Arkadelphia-—To perfect the orga
nization of the new Farmers Union
Gin Company, those interested met at
the mayor’s office here April 8. A
temporary organization was formed
with officers as follows: S. M. Craw
ford, vice president; W. S. Meador,
treasurer; Claud Wilson, secretary
Fayetteville—Members of the Am
erican Legion, Lynn Shelton Post,
expect to move Into the old quarters
of the Criterion Lodge on the thlrtl
floor of the Ozark building on Nortk
College gvenue. toon
Newly elected village officers of I »es Lao
ship, Berk- county, I’a., which probably will
York, a leading figure in the Pan American
X. D—all women. •_*— Birthplace of 1 mniel Boone in Exeter town
lie made a Boone museum. .*1—Mrs. Frederick \nn Lennep of New
Conference of Women in Washington this month.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
British and French Premiers Giv
en Votes of Confidence on
Genoa Policies.
FORMER MAKES GREAT SPEECH
Russians Warned Partial Recognition
Depends on Good Echavior—Dc
Vaiera Trying to Upset Irish Free
State—Prcgnss of the Cca1
Miners’ Strike.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
HAVING triumphed over his ene
mies with a vote of confidence—
372 to !>t- in the house of commons,
Premier Lloyd George, instead of re
signing, has gone to Genoa to lay be
fore the economic conference his plans
for the regeneration of Europe. On j
the same day ns the British test Pre- |
mier Poincare laid his foreign policies
before the French chamber of deputies,
end they were approved by a vote of
4S4 to 78. Whereupon lie also decided
to attend the conference as soon as his |
official duties at home would permit.
Both the British and the French have
been growing more hopeful daily that
good and definite results will come
from the Genoa meeting.
Probably Lloyd George never made ^
d more effective speech than that which !
preceded 'he vote of the commons. He
spoke for an hour and a half, setting
forth eloquently the conditions that his
country and Europe generally face, and
replying with humor and keen satire to
the attacks of his opponents, who fre
quently joined in the applause. De
fending the limitations placed on the
scope of the conference, barring the
discussion of revision of boundaries
and "? reparations, he argued that no
one of his hearers would wish to go
hack on the clauses of the treaty of
Versailles by which Alsace-Lorraine
was restored to France, Poland resur
rected and the independence of the
Slavonic populations of Austria-Hun
gary recognized. Nor, said he, was
there any use criticizing the repara
tions, since to niter these would simply
transfer the burden from Germany to
France, England and Belgium, but
mainly to France. He asserted France
should not be asked or expected to
forego the right she won at such cost,
or tii submit to ti c judgment of a
conference in v/Mch not only her
formcr enemies but also neutrals are
represented. Germany's ultimate ca
pacity to pay ho added, must not be
Judged by her capacity at this moment.
Discussing 'he main theme of the con
ference. the c. t-..')ll?h:neut of peace,
credits, currency, exchange, transports
and the machinery of international
trade, the premier dealt largely with
Russia and said he believed its pres
ent rt.h rs had been brought into a new
frame of mind by the famine and
would now recognize the conditions im
posed and accepted by civilized com
munities, acknowledging Russia’s debts
and promising *o •■ease their attacks
on the Institutions of other countries.
He pledged that there would he no
full diplomatic recognition of the
soviet government until tiio powers
should I)o entirely satisfied that Russia
was r. ally endeavoring to carry out
the terms of such an undertaking.
Mr Lloyd George may have been
o' er-optimisllc about the repentance of
the Russians. The soviet delegates
became more and more cocky as they
made their way toward Genoa and In
Berlin they arranged for close co-op
eration with the German delegation,
reached an economic understanding j
with Chancellor Wlrth and Foreign j
Minister Itathenau and made agree
ments with the representatives of Ger
mar industry and finance.
Rntbennn explains that hi« accord
with the Russians is due to the posi
tion taken by tlie allies on tlte repara
tions. Among the recent demands
made on Germany hv the reparations
commission is the payment of 00,000.
OOO.tM10 marks in Increased taxation.
T! is demand. It ts said, the German
government haR rejected, claiming it
Is nn Invasion of Germany’s sovereign
rights.
tro-.li fira • to It
to her debtor nations in Europe by
notifying them that they must begin
paying interest on their debts to her
next October, or make some new ar
rangement then, so that Itritain can
pay the interest on what she owes
'lie United States. The French believe
this will cause the whole matter of
inter-allied debts to be brought up in
the Genoa conference.
i ——
M ICHAEL. COLLINS and his pro
visional government of the Irish
Free State are facing a critical situa
tion and it is a debatable question
whether they will survive officially.
This despite the fact that the British
government is assembling large bodies
of troops to go to their support in
case of necessity. It is believed De
Valera and the radical republicans are
planning the establishment of a mili
tary dictatorship, and continuous raids
and outrages by republican hands lend
support to this belief. Murders, am
bushes and seizures of arms are of
daily occurence, and in northwest Ire
land it is said large districts which
had supported the Free State have
gone over to the republican camp. As
was intimated in these columns last
week, the peace pact between the
Free State and T’lster is quite ineffec
tive in restoring peace to the island.
Catholics and Protestants, Free Slaters
and republicans, are in never ceasing
conflict, and when they cannot do
better fbe Irish get up “private rights.”
CHARLES, ex-emperor of Austria
Hungary, who died of pneumonia
ar Funchal, Madeira, may have left a
legacy of trouble for some of ills
former subjects. On the receipt of the
news of his death, the royalists of
Hungary got busy and started a move
ment to declare his son Otto, nine
years old, king of that country. The
legitimists in (he parliament planned
to introduce a measure for Otto's im
mediate return to Hungary and his
education under Hungarian teachers.
There is no likelihood that a majority
of the Hungarian people would favor
restoration of the I lap-burg dynasty,
nor that the allies would permit it.
Opposition to the allied plans
for reviving the Turkish empire is
growing in Greece. Thrace and Smyrna,
especially protest against being re
stored to the sultan, the former de
manding the status quo and the latter
autonomy. The Thracian deputies in
the Greek chamber have wired to
President Harding, Secretary Hughes
and the chancellors of other nations
that “the Greeks in Thrace would
sooner die than return to Turk
slavery." London hears that the
Greeks of Smyrna are ready to revolt
and set up tin independent state rather
than have the land turned over to
Turkey. They have an active com
mittee in London and are raising
money among Greeks everywhere. It
is believed the leaders in this move
ment may use Smyrna as an excuse
for a coup to return Venizelos to
power in Greece.
A I.THOUGH efforts to bring about
agreements that will end the
foul miners' strike are continuous, it
funnot be said that they are meet
ing with any conspicuous success. The
house committee on labor is taking ttie
lead in these efforts and through its
chairman, Representative Nolan, In
vited the miners and the bituminous
operators of the central competitive
field to a joint conference. The opera
tors of western Pennsylvania and
southern Ohio already had refused to
take part in such a conference, but
President Lewis of the mine workers
said the men would accept the invita
tion if sufllclent tonnage was repre
sented. Then declinations were re
ceived by Mr. Nolan from practically
all the other groups of operators,
chiefly because they felt a conference
of fragments of the central field would
he unavailing. Resides, they asserted
they hud been and still were willing
to meet the miners of their own states
or districts for separate wage settle
| ments.
1 In the anthracite field the conditions
were more promising, for the miners’
and operators’ subcommittee was in
continuous session in New "Wirk and
both sides were submitting their enses.
Iji non-unionized regions n good
i many mines were in operation, but the
' union organizers were busy and
1‘tniined to have made large gains
there. This the operutors disputed.
The ir«al nuilnrltv of the striker* *re
enjoying their period of leisure and
making plans for extensive tishing and
camping trips. In Kansas the industrial
court ordered that the present wage
agreement be continued for thirty
days, and the Southwestern Coal
Operators’ association agreed to this.
The operators declare that the ulti
mate goal of the union miners is the
nationalization of the coal industry,
and of course they oppose this, though
they are not aide to confute the asser
tion that the industry is, as Secretary
Hoover says, one of the worst function
ing industries in the country. It is
always in a chaotic condition, as re
gards both production and distribu
tion. When President Lewis went be
fore tlie house committee to present
the case of the strikers, he said the
miners could see no permanent solu
tion of their difficulties without na
tionalization of the coal mines. Put
questions brought out that while he
would favor tlie establishment of a
governing hoard to bring about
stabilization of the industry, control
ling the production, distribution and
price of coal, he would oppose the
creation of a tribunal with power to
tlx wages. Naturally he did not get
far with such a one-sided proposition.
ON'R THOUSAND AND SIXTY
FOi'K bodies, last of America’s
dead to he brought from the ceme
teries of France, were landed last
week at Brooklyn and the heroes were
honored with a solemn parade and im
pressive funeral ceremonies at the
army base there. Prominent army and
navy officers, high representatives of
the government, governors of several
states and many other disfinguished
persons took part, and President Har
ding sent a message and a wreath.
I\' THE presence of President and Mrs. j
Harding, cabinet members, high gov- '
emment officials and arctic explorers,
a handsome memorial was placed
Thursday on the grave of Rear Ad
miral Robert E. Peary In Arlington
national cemetery. Following a sug
gestion made by Peary during Ids last
Illness, it is in the form of n huge
spheroid of granite, representing the
earth, with the North pole, which he
discovered, marked by a gold star. The
memorial was unveiled by Admiral
Peary’s daughter, Mrs. Edward Staf
ford. who has born in the Arctic re
gions and was long known as the
“Snow*Baby.”
PRESIDENT HARDING has not yet
vielded to the demand that lie Rive
specific reason for the sudden dismis
sal of Director Wllmeth and till di
vision superintendents of the bureau
of printing and engraving, merely
stating that it was for the Rood of the
service. Emils A. Hill was made di
rector and a committee began check
ing up the stock of the bureau. Re
port* that there had been a wholesale
duplication of Liberty bonds were at
first denied, but biter Mr. Hill ad
mitted there might be basis for the
rumor. This bureau cleanup started talk
of impending wholesale dismissals in
other departments.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
DENBY has taken official notice of
the activities of certain treasonable
societies “having their origin in for
eign countries” and lias warned the
officers and men of the navy to be
ware of their “sinister propaganda to
undermine the morale of the navy and
to Insinuate Into Its personnel ele
ments of disloyalty and disorder.”
EI’RESENTATIVE TINKHAM of
1' Massachusetts, a consistent op
ponent of the Anti-Saloon league,
made a hot attack on that organiza
tion on (he floor of the house, denounc
ing Its p°Rtlcal activities and charg
ing it and its subsidiaries have fre
quently violated the federal statutes
by making false returns. Readmitted It
would be useless to ask a congressional
inquiry because the league controls
congress completely, and therefore he
made n public renuest that the Depart
ment of Justice ^ivestlgate the facts
he had submitted
The latest display of the power of
the Anti-Saloon league was the pas
sage by the house of a hill for the de
portatlon of aliens who violate the
prohibition and narcotic laws. Severnl
members protested that the hill merely
made the United States safe for Amer
iean boot-leggers, but It went throoft
bv a rote of 222 to 7S
declares that house bill
FRUSTRATES BASIC AMERIC
AN POLICY
JAPANESE NAVY IS SUPERIOR
Underlying Principle On Which Size
Of Navy Must Be Determined ,
is Its Reiativc Strength To
England And Japan.
Washington—The proposal of the
House Appropriations Committee for
a navy in 192:5 of 67.000 men and
G.356 officers was vigorously attacked
today in a minority report signed by
five Republicans and one Democrat,
and in statements issued by Repre
sentatives Britten of Illinois and Mc
Arthur of Oregon, Republican mem
bers of the House Naval ( oinmittee.
A reduction of the naval forces of
the United States to the extent recom
mended by the committee would ig
nore the basic naval policy set down
by the arms conference, the minority
report declared, asserting that au en
listed personnel of 80,000, with 6,000
apprentices would be necessary to
keep the United States abreast of
Gr. at Britian and ahead of Japan.
Representative Britten said that If
the bill “had been framed by British
and Japanese delegates" with the in
tention of wrecking the American
navy, “they could not have more delib
erately reduced the i nited States to
a third rate power.” while Represent
ative McArthur said a canvass he had
made gave him hopes of the adoption
of an amendment providing 80,000
men
“For the first time in its nmcory,
said the minority report fL’ed by six
members of the Appropriations Com
mittee, “this country' has adopted a
naval policy. It means equality with
the strongest. If that policy now is
disregarded by adoption of the navy
bill, we will sink to the rank of a
third rate naval power, with little
voice in any future world councils.
No one doubts that the potential su
periority of the American navy was
the controlling factor in the negotia
tions of the recent conference. Had
our delegates negotiated a treaty that
placed this country below Great Bri
tian and Japan in navy strength, they
would have been denounce as trai
tors—not a single vote of the senate
would have been recorded in Its fa
vor—yet this bill proposed to place
this country in that very position."
The report was signed by Repre
sentatives Tinkham of Massachusetts,
Vare of Pennsylvania, Wason of New
Hampshire, Magee and Husted of
New York, Republicans, and Galllvan
of Massachusetts, Democrat.
“The underlying principle on which
In future the strength of our navy
must be determined is its strength
in relation to Great Britian and Ja
pan,” the report said. “This is the
policy of the 5-5-3 ratio, that is. equal
ity with Great Britian and 5 3 of the
strength of Japan.”
Plan To Utilize Lignite
Rt. Paul, Minn—Development of
Immense lignite fields in North Da
kota will be launched shortly by a
corporation composed of Rt. Paul.
Minneapolis and Des Moines men. it
was announced by Carl Jager, St.
Paul chemist, who is one of throw
heading the project
Landslide Is Noted
Hood River, Ore.—What is believed
to be a landslide of considerable pro
portions is visible on Mount Adams in
Washington, across the Columbia riv
er from here.
Mountainside Sliding
T>os Angeles-—A landslide about 1ft
acres across in area is moving down
a mountainside near the head of To
pango Canyon, about 20 miles from
here.
No Duty On Petroleum
Washington. D. C.—The Senate Fi
nance Committee has voted against
including a duty on petroleum Im
portations in the fourthcoming tar
iff bill, it has been learned.
Greek Princess III
Athens.—Princes Elizabeth, wife of
Crown Prince George, is seriously 111
of typhoid fever.
To Advise Orangemen
Belfast.—Maj Gen. Arthur Solly
Flood has been appointed military ad
viser to the Ulster government. It
has been announced. The general hag
a distinguished military record. HI
served in the Boer war and the Ell
ropean war, notably in the Gallipol|
campaign
D’Annunzio At Parley
Genoa.—Gabrielle d'Annunzio is
participate in the coming inter
tlonal economic conference as th
representative of Italy’s seamen
Americans Are Attacked
Cairo, Egypt.—Advices received he
are to the effect that Kussell Heed (
New York, his wife and child
several other Americans wore fli
on by a party of bandits while
toring from Jerusalem to Jerl^
None of the party was Injured.