PROPOSED.!,EGISLATIVE AMEND
MENT
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Number 14
Amending Sections 2 and 3 of Arti
cle 7 of the Constitution of the State
of Arkansas; providing that the Su
preme Court of the State shall be
composed of Seven judges one Chief
Justice and Six Associate Justices;
providing that Judges may sit in two
divisions, and otherwise providing the
manner in which the court shall sit
and shall render its decisions.
Providing for the selection and elec
tion of the two additional Judges.
FOR AMENDMENT NO. 14
AGAINST AMENDMENT NO. 14
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Number 14
Be It Resolved by the Senate and
House of the Representatives of the
State of Arkansas, the Majority of
Both Houses Agreeing Thereta:
That the following is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of the State of Arkansas,
and the same being submitted to the
electors of the State for approval or
rejection at the next general election
for Senators and Representatives, if
a majority of the electors voting at
such election adopt such amendment
the same shall become a part of the
Constitution of the State of Arkansas
to-wit:
That Sections 2 and 3 of Article
7 of the Constitution of the State of
Arkansas be amended to read as
follows:
The Supreme Court shall be com
posed of seven Judges, one of whom
shall be styled Chief Justice and elect
ed as such. In the consideration and
decision of cases, all Judges lay sit
or the Court may be divided into two
divisions, and the decision of each of
said divisions shall be the decision of
the Court. The Chief Justice shall
assign three of the Associate Justices
to each division and he may change
such assignments from time to time,
and the Associate Justices may inter
change with each other by agreement
among themselves. The concurrence
of three judges shall be necessary to
a decision in either division. When
the Court is sitting in banc, the Chief
Justice shall preside, and the concur
rence of four shall be necessary to a
decision. The Chief Justice shall al
lot the cases to the divisions, and he
may order any case to be decided or
reconsidered by the court in banc.
The Chief Justice may sit in either
division, and shall preside when *o
sitting. The Judges of each division
shall elect a presiding Judge for that
division, who shall preside when the
Chief Justice is not sitting in that
division. If the Chief Justice is ab
sent from the Court, the senior Judge
shall perform his duties.
The Governor shall appoint the
two additional Judges provided for
herein, one of whom shall hold office
until his successor is elected at the
general election for State officers in
1922, and qualifies, and one of whom
shall hold office until his successor i3
elected at the general election for
State officers in 1924, and qualifies.
Approved by the governor and filed
in the office of the Secretary of
State, January 17, 1917.
Each elector may vote for or again
st the above amendment.
Witness my official signature this,
the 24th day of April, 1918.
[Seal] TOM J. TERRAL,
Secretary of State.
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PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE.AMEND
MENT
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Number 15
Providing credit of state may be
iloaned and indebtedness incurred to
an amount not exceeding two per cent
of the assessed valuation of property
in State for the purpose of providing
funds to be loaned upon the security
farm lands within the state, or mak
ing farm loans, providing Governor
Secretary of State and State Land
•Commissioner shall constitute State
Land Hoard having authority to sell
bonds in name of State, place money
in State Treasury and loan money to
bona fide purchasers of farm lands in
.Arkansas and prescribing manner in
which such loans shall be made and
repaid; delegating to the Legislature
the authority to provide for the car
rying out, administering and safe
guarding the provisions of this am
endment; providing all provisions of
the Constitution of Arkansas in con
flict with this amendment be repealed
FOR AMENDMENT NO. 15
AGAINST AMENDMENT NO. 15
He It Resolved by the House of Rep
resentatives and the Senate of the
State of Arkansas, the Majority of
Doth Houses Agreeing Thereto:
That the following is hereby pro
posed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of the State of Arkansas,
and the same being submitted to the
electors of the State for approval or
rejection at the next general election
for Senators and Representatives, if
a majority of the electors voting at
such election adopt such amendment,
the same shall become a part of the
Constitution of the State of Arkan
sas, to-wit:
Section 1. Notwithstanding the
limitation contained in Section 1 of
Article 16 of the Constitution, the
credit of the State may be loaned and
indebtedness incurred to an amount
not exceeding two per cent of the
assessed valuation of all the property
in the State for the purpose of pro
viding funds to be loaned upon the
security of farm lands within the
State, subject to the limitations here
in contained.
Section 2. The Governor, Secretary
of State and State Land Commission
er shall constitute the State Land
Board, which board is hereby author
ized and directed to issue and sell
or pledge bonds in the name of the
State to be known as the “Arkansas
Farm Credit Bonds” in an amount not
to exceed two per cent of the assess
ed valuation of all the property in the
State, and to place the proceeds in the
State Treasury in a fund to be known
as the “Arkansas Rural Credits Loan
Fund.”
Sec. 3. Said bonds shall be issued
in denominations of $25.00, $100.00,
$500.00 and $1,000.00 and shall be is
sued in series of $10,000.00 or multi
ples thereof drawn to mature in not
more than thirty-six years; nor shall
said bonds be sold until applications
from bona fide purchasers of land ag
gregating $10,000.00 have been filed
with and approved by the State Land
Board. Said bonds shall bear inter
est at the rate of four per cent per
annum, and shall be exempt from tax
ation by the State of Arkansas, or
any of its subdivisions.
Sec. 4. Said State Land Board is
authorized and directed to loan the
moneys in said Arkansas Rural Cred
its Loan Fund to bona fide purchasers
of farm lands in Arkansas, upon notes
secured by mortgages or deeds of
trust constituting first liens on such
farm lands in amounts which shall not
exceed seventy five per cent of the
appraised value of such lands. The
credit of the State shall not be loan
ed to any person to purchase more
than 80 acres of land, nor land valued
at more than $50.00 per acre. Nor
shall a loan of less than $200.00 nor
more than $3,000.00 be made to any
purchaser of land.
Sec. 5. Such loans shall not be
made except to owners who "operate”
and “occupy” lands mortgaged and
shall be made for the following pur
poses: (a) The payment for lands
purchased; (b) the purchase of live
stock and other equipment, and the
making of improvements which in the
judgment of the board will increase
the production of such lands or add
to their value as a farm home in a
degree to justify such expenditure;
and (c) for the satisfaction of en
cumberanccs upon such lands, which
in the judgment of said board, were
incurred or assumed by said applicant
for the aforesaid purposes.
Sec. G. Every applicant for a farm
loan shall state clearly in his applica
tion the purposes for which such loan
is desired and upon its approval by
the board this statement shall be
deemed a part of the note or contract
under which the loan is granted. But
no failure to apply such funds to the
purposes stated in said application or
enumerated herein shall invalidate a
loan when once made, nor shall any
thing herein contained be deemed to
prevent any farm owner from selling
or leasing lands subject to such in
cumbrance; but if he shall violate
his said contract by applying the
moneys borrowed to purposes other
those stated in his applcation or enu
merated herein, or if he shall lease
such lands or sell them -to any per
son not fullfilling the conditions and
purposes provided herein, said board
is authorized and directed to require
the repayment of said loan upon six
month's notice, and said note or con
tract shall contain a clause providing
therefor.
oec. i. Duen loans snail be repaid
with interest accruing in annual in
stallments on the amortization plan,
such installments being fixed at such
sums as will cover the interest rate
and will liquidate the debt in a period
to be agreed upon between said board
and the applicant, said period to be
not less than five nor more than thn
ty-six years; but any debtor may
liquidate any part or all of his indebt
edness in amounts of $50.00 or multi
ples thereof upon any amortization
payment date.
Sec. 8. The rate of interest on
loans shall be five per cent per an
num; provided that no Farm Credit
Bonds shall be sold for less than par;
and provided further that the board
shall require each applicant to pay
an initial charge of 1 per cent of the
loan granted, the minimum charge to
be $10.00 to cover the cost of apprais
al and examination of title.
Sec. 9. All surplus funds accruing
from the operation of the system of
rural credits herein provided for, af
ter paying interest accruing on the
aforesaid bonds, and all operating and
other expenses arising from the ad
ministration of said system of rural
credits shall be placed in the State
Treasury and become a part of the
fund to be known as the “Arkansas
Rural Credit Reserve Fund.” Said
Arkansas Rural Credits Reserve Fund
shall be loaned on farm lands in the
manner herein provided for the Ark
ansas Rural Credit Loan Fund, and
the interest accruing from the loans
made from the said Arkansas Rural
Credits Reserve Fund shall be added
to it and become a part of it. The
said Arkansas Rural Credits Reserve
Fund shall be irreducible, except that
it may be drawn upon to reimburse
the State for loss in the administra
tion of said systemof rural credits.
Sec. 10. The Legislative Assembly
shall provide in such detail as it shall
deem advisable for the carrying out
and administering of the provisions
of this amendment, and shall provide
adequate safeguards against the use
of such loans as an aid to the pur
chasing and holding of lands for the
purposes of speculation. Such safe
guards shall include clear definitions
of the terms “operate” and “occupy”
used herein. In the absence of such
legislation and subject to the same af
ter its enactment the State Land
Board shall proceed to administer said
system of rural credits under rules
and regulations provided by itself,
but subject to the provisions herein
contained.
Sec. 11. The provisions of the
Constitution of Arkansas in conflict
with this amendment are hereby re
pealed, in so far only as they conflict
herewith. The provisions of this
amendment shall be self executing,
and shall take effect and be in op
eration 60 days after their approval
and adoption by the people of Ark
ansas.
Approved by the Governor, and fil
ed in the office of the Secretary of
State, March 17, 1917.
Each elector may vote for or again
st the above amendment.
Witness my official signature this,
the 24th day of April, 1918.
[Seal] TOM. J. TERRAL,
Secretary of State.
Why We Fight
No. 2
Because Germany’s Law Is the Law
of the Jungle and Her Doctrine
“Might Is Bight'
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By CLARENCE E. SPEED
Secretary of the War Committee of the
Union League Club of Chicago.
We are at war with Germany be
cause Prussia dominates Ger
many, apd from the days of Freder
ick the Great, Prussia’s law has been
the law of the jungle, her doctrine
“Might is Right" and her policy, in
dealing with other nations, one of rob
bing the weak and terrorizing the
strong. Germany lias grabbed terri
tory and exacted tribute from her
neighbors, and finally, her greed tie
coining greater, lias looked out over
more distant lands, und has commit
ted herself to a policy of world domi
nation which menaces the continued
free existence of every nution which
will not submit to her will.
Germany’s policy is not an acciden
tal one. it has been carried out with
remarkable singleness of purpose
from generation to generation of
Hohenzollern rule, from the time
of the Great Frederick until to
day. Germany’s atrocities are not
accidental. They are a deliber
ate, well thought out part of this
Hohenzollern policy, which was to
break down the resistance of her op
ponents, not only by fighting and de
feating their armies but by killing,
torturing and terrorizing the civil
populations.
The German rulers committed them
selves to the doctrine of the survival
of the fittest. Through generations of
teaching they made the German peo
ple believe that they, and they alone,
were the fit.
We have the words of the GermaD
rulers and German warriors and Ger
man leaders of thought for all of this.
More than that we have the perform
ance of German officers and German
armies in conquered lands to prove it
Let’s start with Frederick the
Great in presenting the evidence
This monarch, who earned his sou
briquet through despoiling his neigh
bors, rather than through any real
qualities of mind which he showed
said, in a letter to his minister, ltud
ziwill:
“If there is anything to be gained
by It, we will be honest; if deception
is necessary, let us be cheats. Oat
takes what one can, and one Is wrong
only when obliged to give back.”
Tills philosophy, applied to present
conditions, means that Germany was
right when she took Belgium, and will
be wrong only if she is not able tc
hold it.
From Frederick the Great to Bis
marck is a long jump in the mattei
of time; but we find the Prussian pol
icy unchanged. Speaking before thi
military committee of the Prus.siai
Chamber of Deputies in 1862 Bis
marck said:
“Not by speeches and resolution!
of majorities are the great question;
of the time decided, but by iron an<
blood."
Then, with blood and iron, Trussit
went out and despoiled Denmark oi
territory in 1861, beat and robbed Aus
tria in 1866, and finally, in 1870
brought France to her knees and tool
her richest provinces.
Here Is what the present kaiser told
his troops when, In 1900, they were
about to depart for China to put dowr
the boxer uprising:
“Use your weapons in such a waj
that for a thousand years no Chi
nese shall dare to look upon a Germai
askance. Be as terrible as Attilla’s
Huns.”
Coming on down to the present wai
we find a German minister accredited
to a neutral state far across the sea—
one which one would think should be
free from the entanglements of world
politics—writing home to ills govern
ment, in a state paper, advising the
sinking of two ships from this neutral
nation, in such a manner that no trace
be left. Dead men, he believed .tell
ao tales.
It was Baron Luxburg, minister pleni
potentiary to Argentina, who wrote
tills amazing dispatch on May 19,1917:
“I beg that the small steamers Oran
and Guazo . . . which are nearing
Bordeaux ... be spared If possi
ble, or else sunk without a trace be
ing left.”
This telegram was Intercepted In the
United States and published. It sent
a thrill of horror around the world.
Chancellor von Bethmann-IIollweg is
a true disciple of Frederick the
Great, Bismarck and Ills royal mnster.
In n public speech on January 31,1917,
he said:
“When the most ruthless methods
are calculated to lend us to victory,
swift victory, they must be employed."
So they were used, and are being
used today. They Include sinking of
hundreds of neutral ships, tin1 burning
of cities, tlio deliberate devastating
of the fair lands of France, the ravish
ing of women, the enslavement of
workmen and the murder of little chil
dren.
Horrors such as these are told in de
tail In “The Prussian System,” by F. C.
Walcott, who, for a long time, was en
gaged in behalf of America In trying to
get food to the Poles whom the Ger
mans were deliberately starving by
the hundreds of thousands so that they
might not cumber the land which the
Germans intended to occupy.
Knowing all tills, can the American
people talk of any peace byT negotia
tion? Can they stop this war until
this mad dog of nations is freed from
the military rulers who teach frightful
ness from the cradle, and will only
seize a respite now to prepare theui
Jelves for further conquests?
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CERTIFICATE PLAN IS BEST
U. S. Treasury Certificates of Indebt
edness Highest Form Com
mercial Paper.
Secretary of the Treasury William
G. McAdoo has made an appeal to all
bankers, whether or not they be mem
bers of the Federal Reserve Rank, to
buy United States Treasury Certifi
cates of Indebtedness up to 2Vi per
cent of their total resources for each
issue.
The bankers are requested to mai;^
this calculation not on the figures
shown in the latest published state
ment, but on the footings made on the
day the subscription is placed.
The Certificates of Indebtedness are
offered only to bankers. They will bo
offered semi-monthly until the open
ing of the Fourth Liberty Loan Cam
paign. They draw per cent inter
est. They constitute commercial pa
per of the very highest order—the
obligation of a borrower supreme in
integrity and resources, a security
available for rediscount, salable in the
market, security for Government de
posits, an asset which is a compliment
to the conservation and patriotism of
its owner.
Each bank taking its share of the
Certificates of Indebtedness will have
prominently displayed an official an
nouncement, numbered, showing this
fact. Patriotic men and women should
demand their bankers to show this
participation announcement, and in
sist upon it.
Women in High Position.
Princess Henry of Battenberg, is the
only woman governor in the British
; empire. Her domain is the Isle of
Wight. She is the youngest daughter
i of the late Queen Victoria, and the
mother of the present Queen Victoria,
; consort of the king of Spain. Incl
j dentally, Princess Henry is one of the
! richest of the British royalties. She
j has been governor of the Isle of Wight
; and also of Carlsbrook castle, the hls
| toric fortress there, for 19 years, since
; the death of her husband. Prince Hen
; ry Maurice of Battenberg, who for
merly held these posts.
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RA.AJiRS A I, A PATRIOTIC
Are Proving Their Loyalty in Aiding
Government to Finance
the War.
The splendid spirit of patriotism
manifested by the bankers throughout
the Eighth Fedorul Reserve District
in previous Liberty Loan Campaigns
is being more than maintained in the
preliminary campaign for the Fourth
Ixian that began June 25. when the
first series of $750,000,000 of United
States Treasury (' rtiflcates of Indebt
edness was offered to the banks.
No more patriae and intelligent
body of men than the men comprising
the banking ole: lent exists anywhere.
They make a d«» p study of finance.
They watched the mistakes made by
Germany and our Allies in financing
the war, and they do not hesitate to
place the stamp of approval on the
methods adopted by the United States
; Government to avoid repetition of the
mistakes.
This plan of Certificates of Indebt
edness spreads out the demand that
will be made this fall on the country
at large for the Fourth Loan, and the
money that is realized from raw mate
rials and labor will go through the
channels of commerce and return to
the country for reinvestment this fall.
The certificates form the basis for
a system of credits which will relieve
tl*; country of a great strain It would
experience if the certificate plan had
i not been adopted.
PRELIMINARY CAMPAIGN
_
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Offering of Certificates of
Indebtedness.
Bankers throughout the Eighth Fed
eral Reserve District are entering
heartily in the Government’s plan to
dispose of the $760,000,000 United
States Treasury Certificates of Indebt
i ed*ess.
The quota for the St. Louis District
is $30,000,000, issued June 25. Similar
offerings of t-he certificates, not to ex
ceed eight issues, will be made every
tw>> weeks until the Fourth Liberty
j Loan Campaign. Then these short j
i term certificates, maturing October:
j 24, may be turned in for the long-term
Liberty Bonds.
By the banks taking the certificates
: at each offering, the money goes into
j the hands of the Government, it is
expended for raw materials and for
labor, is thrown bad: into the chan
nels of commerce a*d may be used j
ver and ovi r, and the people not
made to feel the drain that would be
felt if the entire amount were raised
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