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* - - This paper has enlisted
tvrLh the government in the
cause of America for the
neriocl of the war.
THE FARM LABOR SITUATION.
Already the farm labor -situation
has become acute. In two or three
weeks it will grow more serious. Un
less help is available there will be a
notable shortage of crops by reason
of the fact that crops cannot be
planted and much of those that are
planted cannot be cultivated.
In Newport and probably ’every
other town and city in the United
States there are loafers who are do
ing nothing. They should possess
enough decency and patriotism at
this time to go to work. If they do
not possess these attributes, they
should be made to work.
GORING THE GERMAN OX.
After the Germans had murdered
women and children in France and
England in their air raids and had
justified these murders as part of
their policy of frightfulness, allied
airmen dropped a ton or so of bombs
on Karlsruhe, capital of the Grand
Duchy of Baden.
Did the residents of Karlshuhe
grit their teeth and say they could
stand it for the Fatherland? Did
they say to the German government,
“Your foolish brutality has come
back to us, and though we must die
because of your stupidity, we shall
die like brave men?” They did no
thing of the kind. They called to
gether the Chamber of the Grand
Duchy and passed a resolution re
questing the Imperial German gov
ernment to obtain a general agree
ment for the cessation of hostile air
raids on places outside the zone of
military operations.
It makes a lot of difference whose
ox is gored.—Gazette.
SWIFTON.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Harvey, Mr.
and Mrs. James N. Moon, Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Altman, Gladys Dukes,
Claudia Smith and Katherine Smith
attended the annual school contest at
Newport Friday.
A number of new residences are
planned for Swifton to be built dur
ing the summer and fall . Swifton is
enjoying a steady growth.
Sydney Harvey has completed a
large barn on his farm north of town,
replacing one destroyed by the heavy
snow storm during the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wiles visited
relatives in Tuckerman over Sunday.
G. W. Evans, of Batesville, was
the guest of his sister, Mrs. S. G.
Montell Friday. Mr. Evans was en
route home from Jonesboro, where
he attended the Arkansas State Sun
day School Association.
J. D. Pope, of Searcy, was here on
business Saturday.
Mrs. W. R. Harvey and Miss Mae
Shell visited relatives in Batesville
Saturday and Sunday.
Ben Parsley has been quite sick
| with an attack of malaria for the
past ten days.
Mrs. George H. Banks, of Newport,
canning club agent for Jackson
county, was the guest of Miss Gladys
Dukes Monday.
Rev. G. W. Noe, of Sulphur Rock,
who assisted Rev. M. A. Fry last
week in the meetings at the Metho
dist church, returned home Monday.
SUGAR AVAILABLE
FOR CANNING ONLY
Food Administrator Issues Certifi
cates W hich Must Be Signed By
Purchaser of Sugar.
County Food Administrator E. L.
L. Boyce has received the following
communication: '
Enclosed you will find form cer
ticate to be used by all retail mer
chants in your county for the sale
of sugar for Canning Purposes Only.
Please see that Your Merchants
Order a supply of these certificates
Immediately. They will not he per
mitted sugar for canning unless they
have these certificates.
I am instructed by the United States
Food Administration officials at
Washington to use every precaution
to conserve our supply of sugar.
When not purchased for canning pur
poses, sugar must not be sold in
quantities of more than five pounds
for city trade and ten pounds for
country trade.
The Person who buys sugar under
the pretext of canning and makes
false statement in this respect to get
a larger amount of sugar than other
wise entitled to is a traitor to the
Government. If you find cases of
this nature you should arrest such
guilty parties on the charge of hoard
i ing. They will be subject to severe
[ penalty.
j I am depending on the loyalty and
| the patriotism of the people of the
1 state, which has never yet been ques
tioned,, and which has never failed, to
comply faithfully with these sugar
regulations. If the good housewife
wants- sugar for canning, she is now
entitled to it by filling out one of the
enflosed certificates the merchants
will have on hand. Promptness in
merchants getting out these certifi
cates will be greatly appreciated.
Hamp Williams,
Federal Food Administrator for Ar
kansas.
SUGAR CANNING CERTIFICATE.
h_1918.
I hereby declare to the United
States Food Administration that I
desire to purchase from
(City or Town) -
(County) -
an amount of-lbs.
of sugar for my use for preserving
end canning purposes only, and that
I shall return any surplus not used
for this purpose. I declare on my
Honor that the foregoing is a true
j „nd faithful statement.
Signed ----
Address -
Merchants, Attention— Stee that
signature is plainly written. At the
end of each week return these signed
certificates to me.
This is important.
Edwin L. Boyce,
U. S. Food Administrator for Jack
son County.
i
Merchants who have from time to
time been writing their county food
administrators as to what they may 1
charge in order to realize that “fair
margin profit” the government is j
willing they should make, could find J
no more better guide than the fol- I
lowing statement made by Herbert !
C. Hoover, food administrator for
the United States, during the course
of an address to members of the
Pittsburg Press Club last week:
"I do not believe that any person
in this United States has a right to
make one cent more profit out of any
employment that he would have made
under pre-war conditions. I do not
care whether this refers to the farm
er, the laborer, the manufacturer, the
middleman or to the retailer; to me,
every cent taken beyond' this stand-1
ard is money abstracted from the j
blood and sacrifice of the American
people.”
The statement made a profound
impression and was received with a
storm of applause that proved that
the newspaper boys endorsed what j
Mr Hoover said. Continuing on the ,
same thought, he further stated this:
“I do not believe that extortionate
profits are necessary to secui"e the
maximum effort on the part of the
American people in this war.
“If we are going to admit that the 1
government, in order to secure the
supreme effort of its citizens in pro- J
duction must bribe them with money
to this extra exertion, we have ad
mitted a weakness of Ameriran
chararter, of American ideals that
puts us on a plane below German
Kultur.”
PAGE’ MARKETING BULLE
TIN MAKES APPEARANCE
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 27.-—Page’s
Farm and Marketing Bulletin is a
new publication which has just made
its initial appearance. It is a four
page, four-column paper, to be pub
lished semi-monthly by the Depart- j
merit of Mines, Manufactures and
Agriculture, for general free distri
bution. Twenty thousand copies of
the first issue have been printed.
Mr. Page announces that “it will |
provide a means of direct contact
with the farmers and that part of
the public to be served by the depart
ment, and will be the means of fur
thering the work and establishing
closer relations and a stronger co- I
operative spirit between the depart-1
ment and the farmers and general
public.”
War Savings Stamps
LIMIT CLUB
* LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE TA
KEN THE LIMIT—$1.000—OF
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS:
fw&S?
mi savtoos stamps
UIUU rv THU
OKITED 3TATE*
OOVE&NMZNT
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 -atriotically Contributed
to the War Savings Limit Club
By the First National Bank.
Harry Says:
Your Bov Can Now Be Dressed—
Just as Correctlv as His Father
Never before has this been possible. Had went to the tailor’s be
cause he knew the value of made-to-measure garments. The kid had
to be content with “ready-made^.”
Now—it’s all different! For the wonderful Majestic System of Tail
oring makes it possible for the boys to wear PERFECT FITTING
—up-to-the-minute suits and overcoats—at no greater cost than Eg
that of good ready-made clothing.
w REMEMBER—the successful man is the well dressed man—and the ■
boy of today is the man of tomorrow. Start him on g
the road to success NOW by instilling the GOOD I
CLOTHES idea into him.
Just bring him to our itore—TODAY and look over our style book.
The scores of smart styles—the hundreds of beautiful serviceable
fabrics—at moderate prices— will be a revelation to you.
HARRY G. BRANDENBERG I
The Merchant I
k
FOUR=MINUTE MEN
WILL TELL TRUTH
Government Speakers At Theatres
and Elsewhere Will Carry Truth
of War Situation.
The truth, the whole truth and U)
thing but the truth is to be given to
the public by government speakers,
according to instructions contained
in the News Bulletin of the Four
Minute Men issued during the speak
ing on the Third Liberty Loan. No
oblique views with a view to creating
certain impressions are to be toler
ated for this, according to the Bulle
tin, is contrary to the policy of the
Committee on Public Information.
The Four Minute Men Bulletin says:
“The truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth”—that is the
kernel of the messages the Four
Minute Men are asked to convey-to
the American people.
The truth about the war, we be
lieve, is such that it need but to be
spread clearly in order to convince
<Vtr\ nnhlip wa rmicit. <rht. nn
Those who do not so believe should
not attempt to convince others.
Yet we receive letters frequently
from prominent speakers asking us
to “play this up” and to “stop telling
that,” generally with an oblique view
toward creating some desired “im
pression.” This is not in accord
with the policy of the Committee on
Public Information,, which aims to
give the public all the facts except,
as authoritatively stated, “news of
tangible benefit to the enemy.”
Our cause were weak, indeed, if
we needed to bolster it up in the ap
proved Prussian fashion by hiding
of facts, statements of half truths,
exaggerations and sophistries. Oui
cause is strong in so far as we car
afford to be frank and open, and the
speaker who is frank and open,readj
to concede the contra-facts, willing
to admit doubt wherever doubt right
fully exists, and making no claims
beyond authentic, authoritative
knowledge, is powerful, because he
stands on ihe rock of fairness. His
honesty shines through his words.
At no time should our audiences
be led to feel that government speak
ers appear before them to implant
thoughts skillfully designed to cre
ate some “desired impression.” The
public should realize rather that the
a
government sends its representative
to state indisputable facts.
To impress others with our hon
esty we need but to be honest. Then,
honesty is the armor, frankness and
fairness are the weapons, and the ^
champion of the Right becomes in
vincible.
NOTICE.
Owing to the high cost of every -
| thing and advances in supplies we
are compelled to raise our pi'iccs
1 which will make shaves 20 cents, all
hair-cuts 40 cents, all tonics 20 cents;
jail other work wili remain at same
price. This goes into effect Monday,
| April 29.
The Union Barber Shops of Newport,
j 6d3t.
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Better to sacrifice luxuries than
l sacrifice lives. Sacrifice the luxur
ies—Buy War Savings Stamps.
NOTICE. <
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All contractors are hereby notified
that the scale of wages, for Unior
No. 188, of Newport, Ark., shall be
as follows, carpenters 50c per hour,
joiners, 65c per hour, 9 hours to con
stitute a day. This is to be in effect
on and after the 22nd day of May.
1918.
A. M. Ballew,
4d6t 2w2t. President,
Use the columns of the Independ
er.t. They will carry your business
talk into nearly every home in New
port.
For Sale—I have one house and lot, •
four pool tables, cue racks, pool balls,
and complete equipment, together
with two gasoline lights for lighting
purpose which I will sell cheap. AH
jin good condition. Call or write
i\V. Stoker, Grubbs, Ark. 5dl2t 2w2t
Mielielin Tests
'
The Experience Test
No. 4
j EXPERIENCE has a great deal to do with workmanship and quality,
j I In considering tires it will pay you, therefore, to inquire into the
I experience cf those who make them. ; >
Michelin Invented the Pneumatic
! Automobile Tire
■
! Back in the early days of the automobile industry, Micnelin invent
| ed the pneumatic automobile tire. Since that time the House of
| Michelin (founded in 1832) has concentrated on the production of
i pneumatic tires only, and today has factories in the L nited States,
! France, England and Italy, with selling branches in every country
| in the world. Thus the scientific brains of the entire globe have
j been and are at Michelin’s disposal.
This unequalled Michelin experience is reflected not only in the
quality of Michelin Tires, but also in their price—for though Mich
elin Tires are the best that money, brains and experience can pro
duce, yet they are also modera te in price. >
BARKER $ DAUGHERTY AUTO CO.
Newport, AtK.
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Special in Our Women’s
Section
You will find a most complete assortment
of beautiful Coats, Suits and Dresses in
our ready-to-wear department specially
priced for Saturday and next week’s
selling.
The Suits are new spring models, all
f well tailored, colors are navy, taupe,
green, tan and grey; sizes 16 to 44,
materials are of poplin, serge, chiffon
cloth and French Velour. These
suits are garments that formerly
! sold for $27.50, $30.00 and $35.00
but for quick selling they are special
ly priced in one group at
19.75
I
The coats are beautifully made big j,
collar effects, with or without belts;
many new shades, tailored by the
leading New York manufacturers, :
and are specially priced for the week
at $13.95, $16.95 and *
19.75
When You Say SilK Dresses j
We Have Them I
Just received a shipment of Dresses bought from one of the |
leading New York costume houses at prices that will sell them. f
I They come in Georgette, Crepe de Chine and Silk. Patterns are
plaids, stripes and solid colors, in hlue, gray, tan, pink, old rose,
helio'rope, brown and many other color combinations. These .
Dresses can be worn for street, afternoon cr evening, and we
Iwoold like for you to stop in and look them over, whether you
buy or not. Always glad to show you.
They are priced 'or quick selling at
13.95, 16.95, 18.95, 22.95, and 24 95 I
HEINEMANN