E INDENPEDENT
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THE GLUTTONOUS SLACKER.
There are two ways of doing a
thing. It can be done the right way,
and it can be done the wrong way.
If it is done right, very well—if it is
done wrong, it’s wrong.
There are folks throughout this
land who are yelling their heads off
for America and the allies. They
have bought Liberty Bonds, War
Savings Stamps, aided the Red Cross,
Y. M. C. A. and co-operated in other
departments of war work. All of
which is something to be proud of,
but nothing to boast about, as it rep
resents the discharge of one’s obli
gation to the cause.
But, when these persons turn right
around, go home and eat wheat on
wheatless days, they have transform
ed themselves into slackers, traitors
—and nothing else.
The government has issued food
rules, and every patriotic American
is observing them. Those not patron
izing these rules are not patriotic.
It may be that you don't like com
bread and believe you “can never got
used to the stuff,” but nobody enjoys
the work of being forced to combat
with a force that threatens the de
struction of civilization and Chris
tianity, either, but it has to be done.
Cornbread may tear your stomach
up a little, possibly, but the slimy,
ravenous and lustful hun would tear
you all to pieces if he could get at
you.
It is far better to do the right
thing and prolong civilization than
to do the wrong thing and shorten
your existence.
For instance, you eat wheat be
, cause you don’t like com bread. You
say to yourself that there are plenty
of others doing without wheat and
the little that you eat will not harm
the cause. Suppose there are a mil
lion other narrow-minded people in
the United States just like you.
The question of wheat is of much
greater importance than the average
person believes.
There should be some means of
branding the gluttonous slacker.
WHO SAID U. S.
TROOPS ABROAD
ARE HUNGRY?
Washington, April 21.— American
forces abroad and at home are get
ting the best food there is to be
found. It is under constant inspec
tion.
Here is what a force of 1,600,000
men require daily when in the field:
Beef, 1,500,000 pounds; bacon
225.000 pounds; ham, 210,000 lbs.;
tcmatoes, 135,000 cans; jam, 235»*
000 cans; tomato catsup, 35,000 bot
tles.
And besides all this jam the Sam
mies are eating tons and tons of
prunes, apricots, stewed peaches and
beans.
These enormous quantities of food
stuff are subjected to the closest in
spection, which begins at the source
and follows up to the time the food
is eaten. Every safeguard is em
ployed in this inspection, which is
conducted by the inspection branch
of the subsistence division of the
Quartermaster Corps, with headquar
ters here. .
Employes of Central Mine No. 6,
at Huntington, the largest coal mine
in the state, bought more than 69,000
worth of war savings stamps in ■
day. They instructed the cashier to
deduct a certain amount from their
pay envelopes each week and put in
instead an equal smtfunt of ttagjfl
stamps.
MANY CHANGES
ARE PROPOSED
Committee* Of Constitutional Con
vention Are Speeding Up Work
and Will Finish Soon.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 22.—The com
mittees of the constitutional conven
tion are rapidly completing their
work, and before next week it is not
probable that there will be more than
two or three committees left. Their
proposals, as they are agreed upon,
are referred to the Codification com
mittee to be whipped into shape, and
correlated as nearly as possible into
a finished document to be used aa a
basis for the consideration of the
convention in July.
Below are some of the more im
portant changes tha$ have been
agreed upon, tentatively, subject to
rejection, acceptance, or modification
by the convention:
All officers to have four year
terras, including members of the leg
islature, which shall meet quadren
nially.
That there shall be no restriction
on voting or holding office by reason
of sex.
That state-wide prohibition be
made so tight that there cannot pos
sibly be any leak in it.
That the state and municipalities
be permitted to issue bonds under
certain restrictions not yet thorough
ly worked out.
That property be classified as tan
gible and intangible for purposes of
taxation.
That the Initiative and Referen
dum be re-written and strengthened.
That the office of Lieutenant Gov
ernor be created.
That the attorney general, auditor
and secretary of state constitute a
board of pardons.
That absolute restrictions be placed
upon the enactment of local or spec
ial legislation, where a general act
is or may be made applicable.
That no change be made in the
present laws relating to improve
ment districts.
That the contract rate of interest
be reduced from ten to eight pel
cent.
That all state officers be subject
to impeachment for cause.
That the system of county councils
be substituted for quorum courts tc
have control of the internal affairs of
counties. f
IMPRESSIONABLE PER
SONS MISTAKE ETHER
FUMES FOR GAS BOMB
Paris, March 19.—(Correspondence
of The Associated Press)—Fumes of a
bottle of ether used to revive a faint
ing woman, mistaken for asphyxiat
ing gas from a bomb dropped by a
German air raider, caused the panic
at the Metropolitan Subway station
in which sixty dr more women and
children were crushed to death or
smothered during the Hun raid on
the night of March 11.
The crowd had remained outside
the subway station waiting to hear
the German bomb explode before
tf.king to cover. A woman in the
crowd feeling ill, her husband held
a flask of ether to her nose.
"What a smell” said someone. The
remark, overheard back in the
crowd, was taken to suggest gas.
From that step “asphyxiating gas”
was easy. In less time than it re
quires to tell it the report went
. • » i 1 __1 iL .. 1 1 ^ f La»mV\
uiruuKii uiks u i/****v w»v —
that exploded nearby was a gas
bomb. That caused a mad rush of
the crowd down the stairs of the
subway station against doors open
ing outward. In the press the doors
couldn’t be opened until a score of
children and two score women per
ished.
False lists of places where bombs
fell were circulated, these presuma
bly by agents of the enemy to work
upon the morale of each different
quarter. Fantastic stories were
spread about the German aviators
flying low enough at certain points
to fire with their machine guns up
on the fleeing people. The fact is
not a single German machine could
be seen clearly enough to idenitfy it,
yet the story worked upon the minds
of impressionable persons.
The conduct of the audiences in
different places of amusement may
be taken as indicative of the attitude
of Paris toward the raiders. Few
spectators left their seats when the
last raid was announced toward the
middle of the performance.
Sylvain, playing the role of the
old wine-grower in the “Noces Cor
inthiennes” at the Comedio Fran
caise, interrupted himself long
enough to say simply “I am told
they are sounding the alarm,” then
went on with his monologue. Be
tween the acts the spectators went to
the cellar but returned 'immediately
jfter iafpectUg oollmito#
of busts that had been taken there
for safety.
At the Folies Bergere the orches
tra played a different one of the na
tional anthems of the allies after the
report of each explosion and the au
dience sang those they knew. At the
Folies Marigny on the Champs Ely
sees a piece in which the atrocities of
the Huns is represented, enthused the
crowd by reason of the comparisons
with the work of the raiders.
At the Vaudeville, Galipaux, the
“Merle” of Chantecler, continued his
monologue after announcing the raid,
then passed the hat for the benefit
of the victims.
Throughout the raid there were
people in the streets in every quarter
in Paris. There were more than a
hundred on the Place de l’Opega
just outside the entrance to one of
the subway shelters. At every cor
ner people caught away from their
homes, disdaining offered shelters
and groping their way homeward as
well as they could, exchanged infor
mation as to where they were, un
able to perceive anything in the
pitch darkness.
All persons abroad had the right to
enter the first building they came to
and doors were opened at the first
summons, but the wayfarer in most
cases simply wanted to know where
he was.
Hundreds felt their way through
heaps of broken glass and climbed
over debris at points where bombs
had just fallen giving them the sen
sation of scrambling over a battle
field. Paris had become a part of
“the front.”
STOCK NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that, as
marshal of the city of Newport, I
have taken up the following livestock,
to-wit:
nOe light sorrel filly, branded
with small “H” on right shoulder;
wears No. 2 bell; colt is about two
years old.
One dark bay mare mule colt with
scar on left shoulder as if caused by
barbed wire, no brands; animal
about 2 years old.
The owner of said stock is hereby
notified to come forward and prove
ownership to the undersigned, and
Political Announcements
The Independent is authorized to an
nounce the following persons as can
didates for public office, subject to
the action of the democratic primar
ry, May 28, 1918.
FOR CONGRESSMAN
Wm. A. Hodges
W. D. Davenport
W. A. Oldfield
FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE.
Dene H. Coleman
FOR CHANCELLOR
(Eighth District.)
Lyman F. Reeder
George T. Humphreys.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
R. T. Simmons
Fred R. Suits
FOR COUNTY JUDGE
John A. Melville
R. F. Tyer
W. M. Tims
W. A. Mink
KOR SHERIFF AND COLLECTOR.
Terry Guin
J. M. Ivy
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
J. M. Balch
Garland E. Land
A. J. Garner
Z. D. Barber
Lehman Thomas
COUNTY TREASURER
W. D. McLain
Charles K. Coe
Geo. W. Grant
FOR COUNTY CLERK
J. F. Parish
Grover C. Nance
FOR ASSESSOR
D. J. Nance
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK
R. W. Bandy
FOR SURVEYOR
E. H. Bowman
FOR CORONER
T. J. Mooney
FOR CONSTABLE
(Union Township)
C. M. Ivy
Ben Sandmon
FOR ROAD OVERSEER
(Richwoods Township)
Mark Cole
(Bird Township, Eastern District)
R. A. Wilson
(Western District, Bird Township)
Walter Cole
(Jefferson Township)
J. D. Wyatt
Clay Roberto.
(Union Township.)
.. W. D. Runyan
FOR JUSTICE OF PEACE
(Union Township.)
Frank Fffcglfte.
that in default thereof I will on
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1918,
offer for sale at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, in front
of the city hall in the city of New
port, Arkansas, between the hours of
10 o’clock a. m. and 3 o’clock in the
afternoon of said date.
G. C. MARTIN,
313d lOt City Marshal.
Better to sacrifice luxuries than
sacrifice lives. Sacrifice the luxur
ies—Buy War Savings Stamps.
Merchants of Magnolia have agreed
not to deliver purchases in value un
der one dollar.
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War Savings Stamps
LIMIT CLUB
» LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE TA
KEN THE LIMIT—$1.000—OF
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS:
■
GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE
Mike Denton Dr. Joe Graham
Frank Farmer W. A. Billingsley
W. R. Harvey Alcorn Ferguson
A. J. Goetz S. W. Harvey
James Graham N. C. Wolff
Charles Greenhaw Dr. 0. E. Jones
Pickens Black Mrs. J. Collison
Tom Hutson R. B. Hocking
Helen Collison J. R. Holden
Miss Alma Morgan J. Collison
W. N. Dunaway M. O. Valentine
Chas. G. Henry Joe Collison
J. L. Bevens Marvin Hare
Mrs. A. J. Goetz Wm. Collison
Tom J. Gregg Forrest Bleakley
John F. Gardner M. A. Stevens
J. W. Lindley W. H. Murphy
W. B. Overstreet B. J. Best
Buddy Hunter J. W. Grubbs
Mrs. M. A. Dorsey C. E. Balch
Joe White Edw. Wilmans
R. D. Wilmans J. S. Wilmans
Mrs. Ella Wilmans Walter Hurley
S. Heinemann R. B. Hooker
Bud Graham Isaac Goldman
B. W. Jamison Mrs. L. J. Dunkin
Mrs. T. S. Stephens.
This Space Patriotically Contributed
to the War Savings Limit Club
By the First National Bank.
DON’T LET IT LINGER.
A cou"h that “hangs on” wears
down the sufferer, leaving him un
able to ward off sickness. Jos. 641
lard, 148 Fillmore St., Nashville,
Tcnn., writes: “I was suffering witk
a dry hacking cough and a pain in n*y
chest, but since taking Foley’s Ha«#y
and Tar Compound I have been re
lieved.” It soothes, heals and ewes.
— Walker’s Pharmacy.
Subscribe for The Independent. 1
M. W. of A. CLASS ADOPTION. '
On May the 1st, at Swifton a Class
Adoption will be held to be partici
pated in by the Camps of Jackson
county. Special Lecturer C. E. Ren
ner of Lincoln, Nebraska, will be
present, as well as a large attendance
from all the camps in the county.
Each member should make an effort
to be present.
Hubert A. Nicks,
dlt wit. District Deputy.
I
Why the Domes in the Cop
per Lining of a Copper
Clad Range?
! To make a dry air space next to the range body.
| The tips of these domes rest against the range body.
They hold the sheet of copper away from the range
body and leave a space for dry air like a thermos ^
| bottle. This not only keeps the body dry—but an
air space is the one best heat holder.
The little domes save a shovel of coal at every
meal—over a thousand shovels a year.
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