Newark
Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1919
VOL. 18, NO. 43
PLAN GOOD ROADS
FOR ENTIRE STATE
flan Fifteen Million Dollar
Bond Issue to be Paid For
By Auto Tax
Plans have been outlined at
■ Little Rock for a bill to be in
troduced in the legislature em
bracing a comprehensive sys
tem of good roads for the en
tire state.
It is proposed to draw up a
» bill authorizing a bond issuotbi
$15,000,000, secured by the
Estate automobile tax. The plan
is somewhat similar to the bill
introduced Monday by Sena
tor Hester,except that it would
extend the system to the entire
state instead of confining it tc
two highways. It is estimated
that this amount will build 1,
000 miles of good roads, which,
by extending the system in con
junction with the road improve
ment districts would provide
4.000 mile? of hard surface
roads.
The automobile tax would be
raised to $20, which would be
a permanent tax until all the
bonds provided for by the act
were paid out. The tax would
be paid into the state treasury
and kept as a special fund,'the
proceeds devoted exclusively
to the improvement of high
ways as the State Highway
Commission might direct, but
insofar as practicable, distri
buted among the several coun
ties in proportion to the license
tax paid by them.
It is estimated that there are
50.000 automobiles in the state.
A license of $20 would produce
an annual income of $1,000,
000, which would pay- 5 per
cent interest and leave a sink
ing fund of $250,000, and the
increase in the number of au
tomobiles in the state within
1 the next five years would bring
1 the income up to at least $2,
000,000 a year, which would
create a fund sufficient to re
tire all bonds within 20 years
or less and at the same time
provide a fund for maintenance
of the roads.
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Doings in the State
Legislature During
the Past Week
Mr. Thompson of Indepen
dence has introduced a bill to
abolish th? office of inherit
ance tax collector, and provid
ing for the collection of inheri
tance taxes by the prosecuting
attorneys.
To amend the divorce laws,
prohibiting a divorced person
re marrying in less than one
year.
Mr. Bone has introduced a
bill in the senate providing for
a stock law in certain portions
of Independence county.
Both houses have passed a
bill by Mr. Talkingtcn to pro
hibit the shipment of liquor in
to the state for any purpose.
Mr. Yates of Sharp county
has introduced a bill to tax all
life insurance policies at their
surrender value.
Gov. Brough has signed the
bill to change the time of hold
ing primaries to the second
Tuesday in August.
A bill has been introduced
by Mr. Holloway to require all
life insurance companies doing
business in the state to invest
70 per cent of their net earn
ings in Arkansas.
To provide for recording in
each county of the certificates
of discharge of soldiers and
sailors in the recent war.
To require all dealers in live
stock to keep a record of all
stock traded and sold.
The man with
be£arv by
his first
earnirv^s
in the
Bank.
morve^
some of
It all started with the first deposit. His bank
! account grew until he was comfortable. Then the
;; convenience of paying his bills by check enabled
*;; him to keep his accounts straight and save time and
! worry. Happiness was the result of seeing it grow
; and all of a sudden he realized he was a man of
; wealth. You can accumulate money, too, if you
will only put that money you have in your pocket
! RIGHT NOW into the bank and keep adding to it
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first national bank
NEWARK, ARKAty£A*
WRITES OPEN LETTER
TO EARLE BEST
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—
Minister Thinks There Should
Be Thousand Boys Like
Him In the County
My Dear Earle.—While I do
not know you personally, I feel
I am justified in addressing
you this complimentary mes
sage, onthe basis that I knew'
your grandfather, and know
your father, and have known
him for forty or fifty years.
I want to ask the plain, com
mon sense question, Why are
there not 1,000 boys in Inde
pendence county doing just
what you are?
They have the same condi
tions of soil, sunshine, rain,and
so on, then why are they not
doing as vou have done, and
thereby getting the great ma
terial benefits you are receiv
ing?
Your grandfather was w'hat
we called a good farmer, and
he was, hut he did things by
muscle and hard licks. You are
using your mind, and improved
methods, and you do more in a
day than he did in a month.
He followed the method of
robbing his soil, year by year,
until he killed it. You take a
fine yield from the soil, but
you give back to it more life
than you take out of it. So vou
are doing tw'o fundamental
things, reaping a fine harvest,
renewing your soil and getting
new' ground without “clearing
it,” as was the custom when
your grandfather rented a
piece of “new ground.”
But he w'as not to blame. He
; w'ent to the end of his know'
I ledge. But men and boys of to
-day w’ho are piddling at £arm
1 ing, as many are, are simply
sinners against themselves and
their golden opportunity.
But some of my old friends
land kindred may ask, “Jim,
what kind of meat hath our
Ceasar eaten, that he has
grown so fat?” Just the kind
that Earle Best is producing in
his phenominal record as a far
, mer.
baw, old hayseed, hitch up
old Beck and Jude and drive
' up to that old rotten straw
| stack and scatter it over your
starved land and feed it a lit
tle, and see if it doesn’t pay
you back one hundred per cent.
Spade up that good load of
manure down there in the cor
ner of the lot, and do it like
wise and watch the big ears of
corn grow where nubbins and
shorts have been all you have
gotten for ten or twenty years.
You should visit the Bohe
mian settlement in Yell county
and see how they have made
the old red hills bud and
bloom. I saw it, and it is mar
velous. This settlement is near
Dardanelle. These “Bo’s” came
in there not many years ago,
bought up the old poor, red
hills, and gulleys and began
the work of intensive farming,
and now the hills have chang
ed thier color. Now these peo
ple are the best depositors in
the Dardanelle banks.
But, enough. Go to it Earle,
do your biggest and best, and
prosperity will he your reward.
I hope to see one thousand
boys at it as you are. Why not?
JAS. F. JERNIGAN,
Reyno, Ark., Jan. 27, 1919.
BIENNIAL REPORT ON
PEN POPULATION
Total of 2,639 Persons Serve
Terms in Pen During the
Past Two Years
The biennial report of the
Penitentiary Commission cov
ering the number of prisoners
confined in the penitentiary
during the past two years, was
issued at Little Rock last Mon
day and contains some inter
esting figures.
The total number of prison
ers sent to the penitentiary dur
ing the past two year period,
was 2,639. Pulaski county fur
nished a greater number of
prisoners than any other coun
ty, the total from that county
being 122.
Jefferson county furnished
the second largest number,
with 108; Sebastain was third
with 61; Crittenden fourth
with 55, Desha and Philip fifth
with 44 each. Faulkner county
was represented with nine.
Marion and Newton are the
only counties not represented.
There are 92 convicts in the
21-year class, 72 in the 24-year
class, 69 each in the 22 and 26
year class, and eight in the 51
year class. Above the age of
60 there wTere 94.
There were 695 prisoners
sent to the pen to serve cne
year terms, 195 for two-year
terms, 132 for three-year terms
and 89 for four-year terms.The
number serving 10 or more
years is 137, and 30 having 21
year sentences. There are 38
life-term prisoners, and one
who is serving a sentence of
indefinite length.
As to occupations, the far
mers led, with 522; common
laborers furnished 331, cooks
44, machinists 28, and carpen
ters 23. Three preachers, one
legislator, one dentist, one ma
gician, and 21 automobile dri
vers were incarcerated. An un
dertaker, 13 housekeepers, 18
porters, cne nurse and nine
laundry workers also were ser
ving sentences. The most fre
quent crimes were: Grand lar
ceny, selling liquor, burglary,
forgery, murder in the second
degree. Four hundred and
eighty seven were convicted of
grand larceny, 232 for selling
liquor, 134 for burglary and
grand larceny, 110 each for
forgery and second degree
murder.
Thirteen men were impris
oned at the state institution to
be electrcuted. Six were elec
trocuted during the tw'o years
covered by the report, six were
commuted tc life terms and one
was granted a new trial.
In the matter of religion
Baptists led wuth 510, Meth
odists came second with 217,
Catholics third with 42, Chris
tians fourth with 41. Sixty-five
were high school gradutes, 15
college graduates and 363 had
common school education.
There w’ere 714 w’ho could nei
ther read nor write. Single per
sons were in the majority, 787
to 635.
The commissioners estimates
that it wll requre appropria
tions amounting to $575,000
to cover the operation of the
institution during the ensuing
biennial period.
HELP PREVENT THIS
ENORMOUS WASTE
Enough Cattle Killed on Rail
roads Last Year to Help
Feed An Army
22,000 head of live stock
killed!
6,000,000 pounds of food
and leather wasted!
$2,000,000 in money lost
This was the toll in Arkan
sas in 1918 as result of stock
straying on railroad tracks!
Enough food was thus use
lessly wasted in 1918 to feed
400,000 people for one month.
And millions of our allies could
hardly get enough to eat.
The war is over but America
must still conserve food. Her
pledge to the allies this year is
20,000,000 tons of food—two
thirds more than last year.
The National and State
Councils of Defense are con
ducting a nation-wide cam
paign to keep stock off rail
road tracks and thus stop this
useless waste of food.
The railroads are co-operat
ing by improving their fences
and cattle-guards and engi
neers are exercising special
care to prevent striking stock.
Stock owners can reduce
this enormous waste by keep
ing their stock off rights-of
way. People living near rail
road tracks can help by keep
ing right-of-way gates closed.
If you let your stock stray
on railroad rights-of-way you
may be indirectly responsible
not only for loss of food but
also for a wreck that may re
sult in the loss of human life.
Conserve human life; con
serve^, food ; conserve leather,
by keeping stock off railroad
tracks.
SPEEDER IS WRECKED
BY SPIKES IN TRACK
Tonk Galloway Has Narrow
Escape When his Speeder
Leaves Track
Tonk Galloway of Paroquet
had a narrow escape from
what might have been a fatal
accident while coming to New
ark on a railroad speeder Tues
day afternoon.
At a point near the old Ball
& Peters spur, someone had
driven heavy pieces of metal
between the joints in the rails
of the main line track.
The pieces of metal were sev
eral inches long and protruded
five or six inches above the
top of the rails.
Mr.Galloway was on a gaso
line speeder and was running
about 20 miles an hour when
his car struck the obstruction.
The car was thrown some dis
tance from the track and Mr.
Galloway struck the ground
some ten or twelve feet away.
Both his legs were badly bruis
ed and he was painfully injur
ed in one side. He was dazed
by the fall but succeeded after
some time in getting his car
back on the track and came on
to town. He discovered after
the accident that pieces of iron
had been driven between four
cr five joints in the railings.
No one lives near that point
and the mischief cannot be ae
couted for except on the theory
that some one did the deed
purely on mischief bent.
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