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THE HOME NEWS
Published every Friday at McCrory, Ark.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub
Subscription $1.00 per Year ir 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, January 14, 1916.
Political Announcements
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Congress....$15.00
Prosecuting Attorney. 15.00
Circuit & Chancery Judge. 15.00
State Senator. 15.00
Representative. 10.00
Sheriff, Clerks & Judge... 10.00
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Surveyor. 5.00
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NOTICE—The price of an
nouncement MUST invariably
accompany copy for announce
ment, or request for insertion of
same, otherwise the announce
ment WILL NOT be inserted.
For County Clerk
We are authorized to announce
Walter Jimerson
as a candidate for County Clerk,
subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic primary, 1916.
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Grape vines are seldom attacked by
scale insects, so that there is seldom
any need for spraying them with
strong lime-sulphur during the dor
mant season. When in leaf, bordeaux
mixture gives the best results.
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Ii‘ you have never used a pure-bred
bull in your herd, make the necessary
investment or patronize the pure-bred
bull your neighbor may own. The re
sults will convince you that a pure
bred sire would be a profitable invest
ment.
Grain is very high this winter and it
may be hard to resist the temptation
to cut down just a little on the dairy
rations. This is poor policy. It is no
more profitable to stint the milk cow
than to cut short the ration of the fat
tening hog.
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The horse will not do his work so
well, the cow cannot produce her best
results nor the hog fatten if every
time a human being shows himself
the poor dumb brute must figure on
how best to dodge a biff in the head.
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Many farmers often have lame hogs
and do not understand the cause of
this undesirable condition. Either the
hogs have been compelled to lie in a
damp bed, or in a place so cold that
t iey have been forced to pile up to
oeep warm. Either condition is more
an likely to bring on rheumatism.
Lady Bank Director
The stockholders" of the Bank
of McCrory met Tuesday night
in annual session and elected the
following board of directors: E.
T. Wherry T. A. Jeffries, W. B.
Fakes, H. W. Jernigan and Mrs.
S. A. Pettit.
The above lady enjoys the dis
tinction of being the first of her
sex to be elected to a place of
this kind. The regular annual
dividend was declared.
John Greer and family moved
Monday to Jonesboro where he
will engage in farming.
Burrow Hardin of Jonesboro
spent the first of the week here
the guest of Hansford Rhodes.
Lost: Gold medal with “T. J.
Fakes” engraved on back of
same. Finder please return to
T. J. Fakes and receive reward.
Adv
Messrs H. W. Jernigan, T. A.
Jeffries, J. C. McCrory and W.
B. Fakes and wife attended the
fourth annual meeting of the
Arkansas Stock Growers’ Con
vention at Little Rock this week.
Mrs. W. W. Raney spent this
week at Newark, the guest of
Mr. R. M. Galloway. She was
accompanied by Mrs. W. D. Hin
son who will remain there
another week the guest of her
parents.
J. W. Mullens, the popular
manager and salesman for the
wholesale grocery of Mayo &
Robinson of Jelks, is spending a
couple of weeks in Hot Springs
for his health. W. N. Dunehew
is serving in his stead while he
is away.
Tom D. Patton, a former judge
of this county but now a resident
of Danville, is now a candidate
for prosecuting attorney of the
Fifth judicial circuit. He will
be remembered very unkindly by
the people of Woodruff county
and many will rejoice at his
defeat.
Attys. F. E. Wilson and J. F.
Summers, Circuit Clerk L. W.
Winfree and County Judge A. L.
Hutchins were here today at the
first term of County Court ever
held in this city. Court was held
here in the matter of dividing
the McCrory Special School Dis
trict. Only testimony was heard
and the Court will render a de
cision later when it convenes
at the court house in Augusta.
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I OUR PUBLIC FORUM
F. C. Howe
On The Advantages of Free Ports
Mr. F. C. Howe, Federal Commissioner of Immigra
tion, who is one of the best American authorities on
marine commerce, in discussing the relation of free ports
to the development of sea trade said in part:
“Ships will go hundreds of miles out of their way to
avoid ports surrounded by a tariff wall. The only way,
therefore, for a country with a tariff to compete in the
shipping world with a free-trade country is to establish
free ports at strategical points along* its coast line. Ger
many has done so, and in a comparatively short period
has built up a carrying trade which before the war was
seriously threatening England’s supremacy. Hamburg,
one of the three German free ports, now ranks as the second greatest seaport
in the world, its total foreign commerce in 1913 being only $6,000,000 under
that of New York.
“The free port would offer great opportuqity for financial operations, now
made possible by the recent currency act. It would stimulate international
banking, and would tend to shift the financial center of the world to this
country. And America, by the logic of events, has become the natural center
for the world’s financing, just as London became that center several centuries
ago, when it shifted from the cities of the Netherlands. But the financial
center will only move to this country when it becomes a clearing house of
goods as well as of money. For credit the world over is created by currently
created wealth in transit or change „o that our financial expansion is depend
ent upon the opening up of American ports to the clearance of the wealth of
the world. A port should not operate to yield a return on the investment,
but. to develop the prosperity of the country.” In recapitulating the advan
tages, Mr. Howe brings out the importance of the free port in developing our
shipping and linking us with South America, Asia ajid Africa, and then con
cludes:
“The most important gain is the direct gain to America. It will cheapen
commodities by bringing great quantities of goods to our doors for importa
tion or export, as trade needs demand. It will stimulate the growth of export
ing houses, which can hold goods for an indefinite period without payment of
tariff dues (often equal to the cost of the article itself) for disposal to meet
the trade demands of the whole world. It will upbuild international cyedit
and shift to America an increasing and ultimately a predominant share in
international exchange.
“Finally, America is the natural country to be the counter of the world.
Its seacoasts face every other continent; it is the greatest of all reservoirs
of raw materials and foodstuffs. In iron and steel and standardized produc
tion it is in a position to compete with the world. But international trade
(and this is always overlooked) must be reciprocal It cannot be one-sided.
And credit balances cannot for any prolonged period be paid in gold. They
can only he paid by exchange of wealth.”
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Prof. Gillette of the Colorado Agri
cultural college says: “Careful tests
have proved that it requires from six
to ten gallons of liquid for the treat
ment of a single large apple tree for
the calyx spray. This will enable the
orchardist to make a fairly close cal
culation as to whether or not sufficient
material is being used to get the best
results.’’
Earl Winfree returned Sunday
from a few days’ trip to Jones
boro and Memphis.
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