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War Relief For Utilities Granted In
Other States—“The Price of Ser
vice Must Meet Its Cost.”
“The first and most direct relief to
the public utilities corporations can
be given by the State public utilities
commissions and municipal dnd local
authorities, with the broad-minded
. co-operation of the people generally,
understanding and necessities of war
and realizing that the more promptly
if its, burdens are accepted the sooner
they'will be lifted. It is essential that
forbearance and consideration be ex
ercised by the State commissions and
municipal authorities, and the corpo
rations also be permitted to make
such additions to their charges for
service as will keep in them the
breath of solvency, protect their own
ers against unjust loss, and give them
a' basis for ci^lit on which they may
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strain put on them by the govern
ment’s needs. The breaking down of
these corporations would be a Na
tional calamity.”—Hon. John Skelton
Williams, Controller of Currency.
In 1917 there were over 100 appli
cations for increased rates filed by
utilities in the United States—gas,
light, water, telephone and street
railway.
Hundred of cases are now pending
before, or are being heard by State
Commissions and City Councils.
_ Over thirty city-owned utilities in
creased rates in 1917.
Everyone of these increases was
based on these popositions:
“That the Price of Service Must
Meet Its Cost,”
Money honestly invested in the Pub
lic service is entitled to fair inerest
return.
Public utilities have been the great
est business sufferers from the extra
ordinary conditions due to the war.
Other enterprises have been pro
tected. The government has recog
nized the fundamental doctrine that
the price paid for a commodity must
meet its cost. Government contracts
are all on this basis. In taking over
the railroads this principle was recog
nizcd.
But public utilities have been forc
ed to face extraordinary increases in
labor, fuel and materials without any
increase in the rates. i.h:y have
been trying to operate with a nickle
now worth 2% cents.
Capital was shunning this field of
investment so important to the people.
Improvement had stopped. Service
was of necessity being reduced. So
State Commissions and City Coun
cils, after searching investigations,
J have exercised their rate making
| power to save for the people the pub
| lie servk.es on which they depend.
Arkansas Light & Power Company,
By H*. C. Couch, President.^
Dear Mr. Editor:
As this is a time when the minds of
men are open for suggestions as to
what course to pursue in evading this
terrible epidemic that is raging and
taking from us so many of our
! friends and loved ones, I would ap
preciate the opportunity of stating
Lin your columns a few facts based on
principles that we, as a nation, ac
cept as axioms.
First, permit mo to express my
disapproval of closing the churches of
Newport as a preventative against
I the spread of influenza. 1 felt at the
j first when our Board of Health put a
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if your Back hurts or Bladder
bothers you.
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guard constantly against Kidney trouble
because we eat too much and all our for* I
is rich. Our Wood is tilled with in k j
acid which the kidneys strive to filter
out. they weaken from overwork, become
sluggish', the eliminative tissues ellwand
j the result is kidney trouble, bladder
weakness and a general decline in health.
When your kidneys feel like lumps of
j h id; your back hurts or the urine is
! cloudy, full of sediment or you are
! obliged to seek relief two or three times
during the night; if you suffer with sick
headache or dizzy, nervous spells, acid
stomach, or you have rheumatism when
the weather is bad, get from your phar
macist about four ounces of Jad Salts:
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the acid
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to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys;
to neutralize the acids in the urine so it
no longer is a source of irritation, thus
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ban on religious services that they
were making a serious mistake, and
losing a splendid opportunity for re
minding the people of the claims of
! God and proving the worth of prayer.
' In the time of peril and sorrow men
need the consolation and anchorage
of religion. What, at the first, was
striking novelty, has come to be a se
rious thing. In the ban, the church
is if the same category with the the
time of general peril from epidemic is
shamed.
Newport has been taught for a
whole month that the chief need in
trade, business, money-making. Pool
atre. The cause of religion is
halls have been wide open, the depart
ment stores have been thronged every
day, industrial centers are just as
busy as ever. But not for one brief
hour in an entire month and begin
ning another month have the people
of God been permitted to meet in
their places of worship.
Is this glaring inconsistency char
acteristic of our materialistic times?
Because the Christian confession is
an intensely spiritual and personal
thing and not a matter of ritual and
outward form 1 believe that in this
general distress, the people should
i meet for prayer and Christian coun
cil.
I sincerely trust that the ban on the
churches may be lifted at once; that
at least/for a brief period of one hour
| and a half the t eople may be per
j mitted to meet in their places of
worship to seek God’s mercy and gra
cious help at this hour. There need
be no Sunday school or night service.
If we return to God He will be-mind
ful of us and send relief not only
from influenza but from the many
other dread things which menace us
in these serious times.
Read the 12th to 16th verses of the
7th chapter of 2nd Chronicles. In
those five verses of scripture may .be
found God’s prescription t’cfr ending
an epidemic, boiomon naa prayea in
the previous chapter (28th verse) as
follows: “If there be pestilence, or
whatsoever sickness there be, then
what prayer or what supplication
soever shall be made of any man, or
all thy people, when every one shall
Know Ids own grief and spread forth
Iris hands in this house, etc.”
In reply the Lord appeal'd to Solo
mon and said: “I hive heard thy
prayer and chosen this place for a
j house.” “If I send . pestilence and
i my'people called, by my name shall
humble i.u .11, hr 3 a im pray, I will
hear from Heaven aiid heal their
land.” ‘-Mini; eyes rha.l be open and
mine ears attend in to the prayer
made in’this price.” ‘I have chosen
and sanctified this house and min:
Lyes a: 1 m is heart shall be there
! perpetually.”
God tells His p op!e to meet in His
, house and humble themselves in
, prayer if pestilence is in the land, but
we say “Close the churches and om.it
public worship altogether.” Yet we
let the pool balls run wide open and
crowd into unventilated buildings and
gather on the streets. -
Is it not time that the people Were
hupiblrng themseiv 3 before God and
calling on Him for the removal of
this plague ?
W. C. Mitchell,
Pastor of the First Baptist Church,
Newport Arkansas.
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Nov. IS, 1918.
To-the City Board or Health of New
port, Aik ns u, and Everywhere
else:
I feel it. my duty as a Christian to
make this appeal to you in regard to
the closing of our churches. How can j
we expect God to help us in this
great and awful disease when we j1
have the doors of His churches closed I
and have neither Sunday school nor j
services on the Sabbath ? Doesn’t
the Bible teach us plain enough that \
we should go to God in times of trou- j
ble, with an humble spirit, and that
He will help ul. We know that He j
has the strength to do anything, how
ever impossible it may seem to us, if
we only have the faith and trust Him i
^nd do His will. I can’t believe that
God is pleased with us having His |
churches closed up. Close up every- i
thing else if necessary, but I plead
with you and beg of you to please
open up the churches and have Sun
day school and service for ^Chrst’s
sake, if not for our own.
Mrs. J. E. Gatlin,
Member of First Baptist Church.
BENCTEL.
We have had a sweetless Thanks- \
giving in this neck of the woods, but!
a most happy one. It takes more
than an empty sugar bowl to cast a
shadow over the sunlight of our glor
ious victory, so recently achieved.
Mrs. Pete Thoma is suffering from
an attack of influenza. Her condition
w'as so serious that Mr. Thoma had
his houseboat taken to Augusta in
order to be near their family physi
cian.
in Bradford with relatives and
friends.
E. D. Plant has just returned
from a business trip to Michigan.
The cooperage people has sus
pended operations at this point and
have moved the camp from the Jewel
Best ranch to the head of the bay,
just this side of Augusta. We un
erstand however that the work will
be resumed in the spring, as soon as
the weather permits.
The stork visited the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Shirley Thursday,
November 14 and left a fine girl.
Mother and babe are both doing nice
ly
Mrs. J. A. Gray spent the week end
in New’port.
Mrs. W. C. Hized spent a few days
in Newport with friends the first of
the week.
NOTICE OF STREET IMPROVE
MENT TAX.
The tax books for trie collection of
the special street tax on real proper
ty in Walnut Street Improvement
District No. 1, of the City of New
port, Arkansas, for the -third annual
assessment of said district, have been
placed in my hands. All owners of
real property lying in said district
are required to pay their tax to me
by the 1st day of December,
1918. If such assessment be not
paid by said date, action will be taken
for collection of said tax for the legal
penalties and cost.
Given under my hand on this the
29th day of October, 1918.
LOU MINOR,
158d30t. Collector.
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This car is fully equipped, has Red
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extra tire, cover and two inner tubes,
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Price—$1,800. Would cost,
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NOTICE.
LEVEE DISTRICT NO. 2: Jack
son County, Ark. The tax books for
the payment of the taxes for 1918, are
now in the hands of the collector, and
all persons, railroads and corpora
tions* owning property within the
limits of said district are notified that
the taxes may be paid from this date
until Dec. 31, 1918, after which date a
penalty of 26 per cent will be taxed
thereon.
That said collector will attend at
Jacksonport, Ark., on December 10th
and 11th, 1918, for the payment of
taxes.
C. R. Hite, Collector.
Newport, Ark., Nov. 5, 1918.
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I NOTICE OF BRIDGE TAX.
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The tax books for the collection of
the Special Bridge Tax on real prop
erty in Bridge Improvement District
No. 1 of the City of Newport, Arkan
sas, for the fourth annual assessment
! of said district, have been placed in
; my hands. All owners of real prop
j erty lying in said district are required
i to pay their tax to me by the 1st
I day of December, 1918. If such as
• sess'ment be not paid by said date,
! action will be taken for the collection
i of said tax for the legal penalties
; and co^t.
Given under my hand on this the
j 29th day of October, 1918.
LOU MINOR,
! 15§d30t. Collector.
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