the home news
Published every Friday at McCror.y, Ark.
WALTER W. RANEY, Ed. and Pub.
j b. SMITH, Associate Editor.
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ter August 26, 1915, at the post
office at McCrory, Ark., under
the Act of March 3, 1879.
Friday, June 15, 1917.
PUBLISHER'S NOTICE
As will be seen above, Mr. J.
B. Smith is associate editor of
The Home News. He is author
ized to transact business in all
departments of the office. Cour
tesies extended to him in his
work will be appreciated by him
and by the management.
Walter W. Raney.
Liberty Loan Bonds are for sale
at all banks. Buy one. Uncle
Sam needs the money.
Arkansas has shown an effi
ciency in reporting returns of
the registration that might be
tried out on future elections. —
Arkansas Gazette.
The" Kaiser had been told by
his spies in the United States
that our people did not want to
enter the war against Germany,
and had banked heavily on the
belief that our young men would
not respond to the call to arms.
Billy Hohenzolern now has an
other guess coming.
In 58 per cent of the territory
of the United States, colonial and
insular, women are exercising
full suffrage or have been grant
ed the right to vote for Presiden
tial electors, and still the Nation
seems to be moving along pretty
well, thank you. In the remain
ing 42 per cent^-seven States will
vote on equal suffrage within the
next two years. Some of these
will undoubtedly set their women
free. Thus does liberty grow!
Government statistics show
that one million bushels of wheat,
corn, oats rye and other grain
that should be used for human
and animal food are consumed
annually in the United States in
the manufacture of intoxicating
liquors. Think of it! One peck
lor each man, woman and child
in the Nation! Put to the use for
which God intended it, this would
Pot a considerable crimp in the
high cost of living.
REGISTRATION ANALYZED i
Full returns of the military
registration for Woodruff coun
ty, published last week exclu
sively in The Home News, when
analyzed, furnish much encour
agement to all good citizens and
forever give the lie to the very
few croakers who predicted that
American youth would not rally
to fight for their country.
In Woodruff county the total
registrantion was 1,994. The
War Department’s estimate for
the county is 2,005. Thus the
county is only eleven men short
of the required number. More
than this number failed to regis
ter for want of definite informa
tion and reasons other than cow
ardice or dislovaltv. These will
be given another chance. The
“slackers,” if we have any, will
be rounded up and forced to reg
ister or go to jail. This latter
class alone will be considered
“conscripts.” In the county the
negroes proved their loyalty by
registering a few more than the
whites and claiming exemption
in about the same proportion as
did their white neighbors.
The State at large registered
146,856. The estimate for the
State is 158,000, or about 11,000
more than the registration.
The registration in the entire
Nation was about 10,000,000,
with just about one-half claim
ing exemption from service for
any and all reasons. This means
that five million men between 21
and 31 have volunteered, for the
waiving of their claim for ex
emption proves conclusively their
willingness to defend the flag.
Even should all claiming exemp
tion receive it, the first draft of
half a million men will require
one in ten of these volunteers,
leaving a reserve force of four
and a half million men.
This is a better showing than
was expected and a bitter pill
for our enemies to swallow.
Farm Labor Supply
State Farm Help Specialist A.
D. McNair of Little Rock fore
sees a shortage in farm labor and
has issued a circular letter on
that subject, which will be of
benefit to farmers and farm la
borers. He says:
The European war has caused
a shortage of farm labor and this
condition will be worse when the
effect of conscription is fully felt
It becomes necessary, therefore,
for every one to take stock of
the amount of labor required and
the amount available. The Unit
ed States Department of Agri
culture and the several States
are now in process of solving
this problem and are trying to
bring farmer and laborer to
gether.
The plan proposed by the State
Council of Agriculture at Little
Rock is to have farmers who
want help and laborers who want
STRAYED!
GRAYS, ARK., June 13, 1917.
STRAYED—One light bay mare
mule about 5 years old, branded on left
shoulder with letter K. Tip of nose is
lighter than the rest of mule. Has a
small white spot near top of left hip,
about the size of a five cent piece. She
was raised near Newark, Ark. Left
Grays Monday, June 4,1917, going north
Was last heard from near Eight Mile,
Ark., east of Cache river.
I will pay Twenty Dollars reward to
the person delivering the above describ
ed mule to me at Grays, Ark.
J. B. POTTER.
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work enroll their names with the
County Clerk, wherever he will
undertake to do so, though in
some counties it may be some
other official, or some public
spirited citizen.
All farmers who want farm
help in Woodruff county may en
roll their names with County
Clerk Walter Jimerson at Au
gusta, Ark., and laborers who
want work may do the same.
In this way farmers and laborers
may get in touch with each other
and they can then make their
own arrangements.