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THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
front St., NEWPORT, ARK
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Our section will gain more ’
than it will lose in the decline of
cotton yield by reason of the
drouth, for Texas and Oklahoma
are evidently so short in their
production of the staple, that
many of our best authorities are
predicting 15 cent cotton before
the season is over. We can far (
better afford to sell our present j
crop on the market now, than a j
crop such as was promised one1
month ago by the entire South !
at the low prices that would
have inevitably prevailed as a
result of the record yield.
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Newport is interested now in
the extension of her trade terri-'
tory. Good roads leading to this j
city and a bridge over White ,
River are recognized as two es-1
sentials to our growth and fu
ture- If a bridge over White is
to be constructed, this is the
year in which it should be begun.
Good crops in Oil Trough bottom
will make liberal subscribers
from the land owners of the fer
tile bottom, that needs a bridge
for its development. A good
business for the merchants of
this city the present fall brings
money into the pockets of our
business men and the property
owners of our city. Surely the
time is propitious for favorable
action and the enterprise is not
too big for an aroused and ambi
tious city. The matter should be
considered by a public meeting of
our own and Oil Trough citizens.
More School Money Needed.
The financial condition of near
ly every special school district
in the state warrants the effort
now being made by an organiza
tion of the directors of the state
to secure from the next legisla
ture a change in the law allow
ing a higher maximum rate
than 7 mills.
Newport. Tuckerman and
Grubbs special districts in this
county are never able to meet
their current expenses for the
year without borrowing money
or allowing their warrants to
depreciate and this condition
holds good year after year with
no prospect of betterment
through higher valuations or
an increased rate. The former
route might be accomplished j
through the proposed empower-'
ing of each district to make its '
own assessment for the school J
tax. This method would prob
ably relieve some districts and
prove of little value in others.
By far the more feasible plan, j
would be to allow a district by I
vote of a majority of its elec- j
tors, to increase the school tax |
above the seven mills. Other j
states have had to face the issue
of better support of their public
schools and universities, and Ar
kansas ought to be willing to
Observe the vast sums of mon
ey required for our courts and [
penal institutions and let us j
rather be willing to support our j
schools liberally to broaden the j
opportunities of all our children j
whether rich or poor, thus pro- [
viding an educated citizenship ,
rather than stint our schools and j
lessen the chances of our child-'
ren by observing a penurious pol- j
icy that increases the burdens :
of the state in the upkeep of Her
courts, jails, penitentiaries and'
poor houses.
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The Main Roads First.
Even the road overseers have
troubles. They have fault find
ers to contend with some of
whom have real grievances, be
cause not all road work is either j
well selected or well performed,
but there are others who make
requests of an overseer, which
he cannot fulfill if he does his
duty and follows the law.
This is one reason, you need
men of backbone and stamina in
this office and they are not as apt
to be found in popular vote-get- j
ters and road overseers elected
under the present system as
contractors, whether they be
farmers or business men, who se
cure work under competitive bids
and have but one person to satis
fy, the engineer who must ap
prove their work, before the
same is paid for.
One of the chief advantages
under the contract system would
be that the main roads would re
'ceive first and most attention.
And even this ought to be secur
ed under our present road law,
which says that the overseer
shall work the most important
and largest traveled roads first.
We have it from a number of
|our road overseers that citizens
all over the county are very in
sistent that some roads, which
serve only a few, be given more
than their due portion of the
road funds and work, and these
requests make it hard for him to
follow his duty. These cross
roads must come second under
the law, which follows out the
theory of government in the
greatest good for the greatest
your Harvest money
is In this bank
Look at these two men. They have been to market their |
cotton. One put his money in the bank and the other did
; not. They were held up on their way home. The silly fel
i low who wanted to take his money home had to “deliver” B
| ; to the robbers. The other was able to give them the laugh fl
—his money was in the bank. .;1
ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST CO. |
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number. Be considerate of this
fact in your requests upon your
road overseer and thus help him
to use his road funds to best ad
vantage.
How Newspapers Help.
The Gazette desires to call at
tention of the people of Ark
ansas to the aid now being given
by the press of the state to va
rious departments of the state
government- It is a proper aid
and one the newspapers are glad
to give, but in calling attention
to it the Gazette also desires to
call attention to the effort made
in the last legislature to destroy
the newspaper business through
the Covington bill and to the ef
fort to take away from the coun
try newspapers certain public
printing which should go to
them not so much for the good of
the newspapers as for the public
good.
Until the state’s Bureau of
Mines, Manufactures and Agri
culture began using the newspa
pers the bureau was of little val
ue to Arkansas. Not only the
daily newspapers, but the week
ly newspapers in Arkansas, have
matter of interest to landowners
and farmers in almost every is
sue. It is valuable information,
but it is valuable only because,
through the agency of the news
papers, it can be given to the
land owners and farmers. The
University of Arkansas and va
rious other educational institu
tions are being, aided by the
newspapers of the state and
without the newspapers Govern
or Hays’ good roads plan would
have been a failure.
There are newspapers which
push the liberty of the press to
the verge of license, but there is
none such in Arkansas and there
are few such in this country.
The people generally realize the
good done by the newspapers
and should make lawmakers real
ize it- Publicity is the one and
only power capable of making
certain crooked men walk
straight. What thinking man
will deny that without the press
in the United States our scheme
of government would have been
a failure? Without publicity it
would have been possible for
conscienceless and scheming
men to take charge of our gov
ernment. The press is the last
and strongest bulwark of the
people.—Little Rock Gazette.
The Newspaper Job.
Many people believe that a
newspaper falls together with
out work or concerted action or
plan. Rev. McLeon, a Presby
terian minister at Passadena,
was of that opinion and asked to
be allowed to edit an edition of
the Passadena Star. The edit
or gladly accepted the opportuni
ty to go fishing, and the minis
ter took up his duties in the
newspaper office- This is how
he felt when he found himself at
the end of the task, which it
must be said, had been done
quite creditably.
“My time is almost up as I
pen this last line; my hand is
almost paralyzed, my brain is
befuddled and I am free to con
fess that I am right glad to va
cate the holy spot. Such a jum
ble of pot pouri! It strikes me
as the effort to bring order out
of chaos and to do it lightning
quick.
“I am reminded of the memor
able words: ‘The earth was
without form and void, and dark
ness was upon the face of the
waters. Never shall I criticise
newspaper men again. I shall
pray for them. They have my
heart’s forbearance, henceforth
and forever. They are the hard
est worked, shortest lived, poor
est paid brain workers on this
old world of ours.”—Publishers
Auxiliary.
John G. Erwin and F. P. Al
Albright of Batesvillg were here
ast night going to Little Rock.*
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A bank account will stop that little leak and putting off
opening that bank account is costing you possible savings
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