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U.S.EMPL0YME1T
SERVICEISFREE
Supt. Mariner of U. S. Divisional Em
ployment Bureau, Has Blanks for
Civil Service Examination.
The Federal Board of Vocational
Education has addressed a letter to
the clerk of the local board, contain
ing information relative to locating
disabled men, who might take advan
tage of the training that is offered
them.
The United States Government
plans to put every disabled soldier
and sailor in a good job. The mes
sage of how this seemingly impossi
ble feat is to be accomplished is of
interest to every man in the service.
The plan is so soundly practical that
every man in uniform, who has not
been disabled through disease, injury,
or in any way, will be anxious to see
that his more unfortunate friends do
not fail to take advantage of the op
portunity offered.
Through the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Law, passed unanimously by
congress, and under the jurisdiction
of the Federal Board for Vocational
Education, the government plans to
do more for its disabled men in this
war than any other nation of all
times. The disabled man if he so
chooses, will be given vocational
necessarv to restore his self
supporting activity; he will be train
ed to become efficient in a chosen oc
cupation, in spite of his handicaps.
All expenses of providing educa
tion and training will be borne by
the government While the disabled
man is taking training his person ex
penses will be paid, and such allow
ances will be paid his dependents as
were received by him while he was in
active service.
Each disabled man may be placed
in a good job, either in his former
occupation or a new one, by the Fed
eral board. Whether he wishes to un
dertake special training or not, each
man who is entitled to compensation
under the War Risk Insurance Law,
may take advantage of the offer to be
placed in a job by this board. After
he actually goes to work on his own
account, his interests will be safe
guarded by the government under
the jurisdiction of the Federal Board.
The case of each man, who is en
titled to compensation, will be con
sidered with a personal interest by
expert representatives of the Feder
al Board. It is however, for each
man to determine whether or not he
wishes to avail himself of the liberal
government offer.
In dealing with the disabled men,
the Board will treat him throughout
as a civilian. He will be given ad
vice and assistance in choosing his
course of training. Every effort will
be made to train and place him in the
occupation in which he is most inter
ested, preferably his former occupa
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nor overcrowded. His handcaps will
be carefully considered, and the occu
pation in which he is likely to meet
with success will be chosen. He may
be trained for an entirely new trade,
if such a course is deemed advisable
after full consideration.
. Training will not be restricted to
any specific vocations but courses will
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CIRCUIT COURT NEWS.
Business today in the court room
was very quiet, only one crimin .1
case coming up for trial. The cases
were as followers:
State of Arkansas vs. Mat McNair,
selling liquor, Gustave Jones lawyer
for defendant; continued and set for
Monday of sedond week on account of
sickness of Mr. Jones.
The civil cases were.
Civil Case: Lizzie E. Gray and Er
win R. McGuire vs.M. F Hurley, Al
bert Stephens, Robert Price and Mar
shall Hatchett, for possession. De
murrer to answer filed. Attorneys
for plaintiff are Stay ton & Stayton
and for defendant attorney is Gus
tave Jones.
Mr. and Mrs W. H. Carouthers
have returned to our city and are
making their home here. For the
present they are with their sister,
Mrs. Aaron Keedy.
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CIGARETTEIBILL
IS limODOCED
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Which Would Repeal Present State
Anti-Cigarette Laws and Levy Tax
On All Dealers.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 11.— Senator
Walls of Lonoke introduced a bill in
the senate yesterday which would re
peal the present anti-cigarette laws
of the state and levy a tax on dealers,
both wholesale and retail who handle
the commodity. A provision of Sena
tor Walls’ measure, Senate Bill No.
291, prohibits the sale of cigarettes
to persons under 18 years of age, and
fixes a penalty of from $100 to $500
for violations. Licences would be is
sued annually to retail dealers, and
$4.50 of the $5 fee collected by the
county clerk would go to the common
school fund of the county in which
collected.
Wholesale dealers would pay the
county $50 a year, of which $49.50
would go to the common school fund.
Advocates of the measure say the
present anti-cigarette laws are not
enforced, and that the proposed law
would give the school fund new reve
nue, while the stringent provision
against sale to minors could and
would be strictly enforced. The bill
was read twice and sent to the com
mittee on public health.
Providing for more careful censor
ing of motion pictures before they
are exhibited in the state, Senator
Caldwell of Jefferson county intro
duced a bill, S. B. No. 287, in the sen
ate yesterday, under which a state
board of censorship would be created.
The proposed board would consist
of two women and one man, appointed
_ I* 0.1_v.Anwn Vxxr flia V
ior vx
ernor. It would pass on all films
before their exhibition, and would
-have power to prevent any exhibition
deemed bad for the public morals.
The senate Monday passed House
Bill No. 179 by Representative Knowl
ton, the measure under which cities
of the first and second class will be
permitted to levy occupation taxes
agreed upon by two-thirds vote of the
city councils concerned. The meas
ure was designed to give the larger
cities of the state needed financial
relief.
Where an occupation tax voted by
the city council is distasteful to the
people, an election may be held on
petition of 15 per cent of the total
number of qualified electors of the
city, and where a maiority vote
against the tax is cast the previous
notion of the city council is nullified.
The measure is now ready for the
signature of the governor.
Gov. Brough has signed the Mc
Gough bill to prescribe penalties for,
the desecration, mutilation or im-1
kroner use within the state of Ark
of flog, colors, or insignia of,
the United States or the State of Ar
Voncn«. The hill was signed on the
large table in the governor’s reception
l,oi1 whore the silver service for the
Battleship Arkansas is on exhibit,mv
Pens with which the bill was s,gned
woro proooptpd to various persons
who had keen instrumental in secur
ing the passage of the hill.
T?»oroaout«tives Llmhoeker. Wade
and Harris introduced a bill providing
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From C. M. Erwin to
Citizens of Newport
Hon. George A. Hillhouse, repre
sentative of Jackson County, has in
troduced a bill in the legislature, the!
effect, of which will give to the city of
Newport 60 cents out of every $1.00
jf Road Taxes paid by tax-payer of
said city on property located in said
rity for use on its streets.
Heretofore under an act of legis
lature the city has been getting 50
:ents out of each $1.00 of Road Taxes
paid on property in said city.
Recently a bill was passed through i
the legislature and is now a law di- J
riding the county into 4 road districts (
and Newport is in District No. 2. |
rhis bill provides that all the road j
tax funds and a per capita tax of,
£5.00 shall be paid in the treasury |
for the benefit of said district and the j
proponents of said bill represented to j
Mr. Hillhouse when the bill was in- j
troduced that the bill would not af- j
feet the city finances; in other j
words, Mr. Hillhouse put said bill i
through under the representation that
the city would not by said law be de- j
prived of its 50 per cent of its road,
taxes.
After this bill became a law, the j
officials of this city discovered that
the city will be deprived of all of its j
road tax and in the interests of the
tax payer of said city and common !
justice, they requested our representa- ■
Dive to introduce and pass a bill giv
ing to said city 60 per cent of its own
road taxes for its own use, thereby
ronceding and giving- to the district
for the benefit of roads outside of the
city 40 per cent of its own tax money.
Gn yesterday a call meeting at the
instance of W. D. Mciain of the
Chamber of Commerce was held, at
which time this matter was discussed.
The result was that the Chamber of
Commerce by every vote that was
cast except W. D. McLain, endorsed
the action of the city authorities and
recommended that the last bill of Mr.
Ilillhouse, providing that the city
gets its per capita tax and GO per
cent of its road tax, do pass and be
come a law.
I understand a petition is being cir
culated against this last bill becom
ing a law and a great many people
are signing it without really knowing
just what they are signing and this
is written that the people of New
port may be advised. If this bill does
not become a law Newport will have
NO FUNDS to do any work on the
streets and Judge McLain frankly
stated that he did not think it should
have any, at least for some time to
come.
I do not know what representations
are being made by the petition circu
lators, other Jhan the statement that
the last bill will keep the country
people from coming to Newport. Of
course that is not a correct represent
ation of the facts in the case and isn’t
the only one that has been made, and
those of you who have signed said pe
tition, if you do not want your streets
to grow up in weeds and the city to be
without any funds to do street work,
owe it to yourself and your city’s in
terest to see that your name is
erased from said petition or write to
Mr. Hillhouse at Little Rock the mis
understanding under which you
signed said petition. The city of
Newport only wants what is right
and certainly when it freely gives to
the county district 40 per cent of its
road taxes it cannot be said to be
unfair or doing anything to keep the
country people away from Newport.
Respectfully,
C. M. ERWIN, Mayor.
STRIKE IN SEATTLE SETTLED. I
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 10.—Seattle’s
general strike, the first of its kind
ever attempted in the United States, j
will end officially at noon tomorrow.1
Decision to call off the strike was j
reached at one o’clock Monday by the
General Strike Committee, composed
of delegates from all of the 130 “lo
cals” on strike. The resolution ad
vised all labor unions which returned
to work Sunday or today to go on
strike again until tomorrow noon as
a demonstration of the solidarity of.
labor.
Members of the various unions were .
thrown into confusion by this re-;
quest and it was considered uncertain i
whether it could be generally ob-;
served,' due to the lack of time for
calling meetings.
Following the decision of the Cen
tral Labor Council last evening, the ,
general strike is off in Tacoma to
day.
GERMMDICT
SLUMS PRESS
British Newspapers Devoting Much
Attention to the Attitude of Ger
many Toward Armistice.
London, Feb. IQ.—British newspa
pers of all shades of opinion are de
voting serious attention to the atti
tude of the German government to
ward the armistice conditions.
The Daily News Paris correspond
ent sends a dispatch from “authori
tative sources” in which he says his
informant told him that he believes
that Germany is not continuing to
demobilize. *
“She has now concentrated more
than 18 divisions under von Hinden
burg on the Western front, tne «ai%gg^
despondent quotes his informant, if§|l
saying. “We also bejiqye that G*K~ ®
many is keeping her troops Wider},|
arms on the pretext of economic n**^ g
cessity. German demobilization if
condition to our mobilization Mg*
therefore disbandment is impossibt*^ *
so long as Germany does not continue ||
to demobilize. >|
“Allied military authorities con- j|
sider the time has now arrived fo*|;
Germany to give , up her militantJjB
strength—that she be brought tOci
such a condition that she cannot re
sist later the conditions of peace now
being prepared. The allied theory al
ways has been that we shall frawi^'^ffl
conditions which Germany will have J|
to accent, and that there is nothing. *v
to d’seuss. except as regards details.'.’^
“For this reason Germany is try
ing to keen up her military strep«*tl» u|g
so that she can send a delegate to the
peace congress for a thorough mili
tary discussion on the peace condi- *.
tions imposed.
“On this poiont the French Nation- |
n] Socialist partv and its extreme |
left wing is strongly opposed to anv- a
tbmo- being done to save Germany
from the consequcpces of defeat. In |
this matter the French government
will be supported by the entire na
GOVERNOR PARDONS
W. M. PATRICK, s
Special to Tndependept.
Little Rock. Feb 11.—The governor
has granted a pardon to W. H. Pa
trick of Pulaski countv. who was con
victed in February. 1818. of a felony j
and sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary. It was stated at
office that the petition presented
his clemency was perhaji^
eft ever present§§gH "
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The Old Adage
“That a Thing is Cheap or Dear by What
You Get Rather Than What You Pay”
Was Never So True As Now
Our’s is .a Specialty Shop for Men where Quality more
so than Quantity is THE AIM.
Below is a list of a few of the representative lines
in Men’s Wear we take Pride in showing:
Kuppenheimer Clothes
Knox, Stetson and Hawes’ Hats
Clapp, Reynolds and Regal Shoes
Manhattan Shirts
Faultless Night Robes and Pajamas
Vassar, Cooper and Wilson Bros. Unions
Knothe Belts and Suspenders
Onyx Hosiery, Superba Cravats
THE STAR CLOTHING COMPANY
FRANCE INSISTS
ONSTRICTTERNS j
In Order to Place the Enemy Beyond
Possibility of Re-arming and 5
Renewing the Conflict.
Paris, Feb. 10.—The Supreme War
Council, in which Marshal Foch and''.®
other military commanders sit witb]#|||
ttie council of the great powers, Con-;||
tinued today the discussion of the
terms for the renewal of the German;-:.|||
armistice without reaching a decisfa»lt»ll
The league of nations’ commission f
practically completed the final driffe(t| ;
ofethat project, assuring its preaentn-vla ■
tion at a plenary session the latter;'! J
part of the week.
The diacussion of the armistice took
a wider range, including the failure ;
of Germany to execute some of tilt J|
clauses of the previous armistice thSFj
blockade and the use of enemy mer-rf
chant shipping. But the main iss^lBi
turned on a series of proposals
place the enemy beyond the possibll--J
ity of rearming and renewing i
From the French standpoint
menace of such renewal is not
and it is urged as a matter of fore<|| .
sight that suitable safeguards be ea- Vi
tablished. It is said these safeguard*;*
include the limitation of the p»odngiBr,:g
tion of field and heavy guns, and mM
exact accounting of heavy guns now | |
on hand, also some limitation of th* 'i
military organization which is to b*f|j ?
of police service. j
While some of the military cqai»a|
manders take the view that radical i
measures are needed to assure the l|||
lies, particularly France, against
lies, particularly France, againriHJ^ •
possibility of renewed, peril, M
views tend to place reliance on . i
nomic measures as the best means ml
averting any renewal of enemy ac- J
Besides the discussion of the armis- ™
tice terms. M. Klotz. the French mih*S .
later of finance, presented doeumenti|l
of the German General Staff showln«M
a systematic plan to destroy Fr4nffj||pB;....
industry, not only as a military niee**
urp. hut as a means to'promote Gar- J
man industrial interests. These
uments were referred to the > _
nomic Conference recent.1v estaWNs#^ •
ed. The discussion of the ;
terms will he continued tomorrow.