THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front St„ NEWPORT, ARK.
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ter.
Tomorrow is school election
day. Come out und vote for a
seven mill tax levy.
The Newport Special School
District needs a seven mill tax
if we are to have schools next
year. Don’t take it for granted
that this tax will be voted, but
discharge your own personal re
sponsibility in the matter by
easting a ballot in support of
our public school system.
With a new and modem school
building and better equipment
for the other buildings, let ev
ery voter in Newport special
school district manifest his in
terest and pride by voting to its
support that necessary tax of
7 mills.
Practically every special school
district in the state is voting a
seven mill tax. The majority of
the country districts are do
ing the same. Newport district
voted a seven mill tax last year
and will surely do so again. Good
schools canriot be maintained on
less, and jrn this district, running
practically one year behind on
its revenues and with a bonded
of $45,000, the
upon which must
/ *ven mill tax is ab
solutely necessary if our pub
lic schools are to be maintain
ed the coming year. For the
welfare of your schools and
city, your children and our fu
ture citizenship, let every vot
er respond and leave nothing to
chance by the overwhelming a
doption of a seven mill tax.
The educational, moral and re
ligious welfare of our children
and citizenship of tomorrow' is
dependent upon your action at
the polls tomorrow. Pledge your
loyalty and support of our
greatest democratic institution
—free schools— by voting for
a seven mill tax.
T. P. Umsted and Dr. H. O.
Walker are the members of the
present school board whose
terms expire this year and their
names have been submitted for
re-election upon petition of a
r
considerable number of repre
sentative citizens. Both have
served the district loyally, faith
fully and intelligently; have sac
rificed much of their time for
the welfare of the schools and
manifested a laudable interest
j in their duties and trust. We
| feel no hesitancy as a newspaper
in commending them to the vot
ers as worthy of endorsement.
j Commencement Exercises To
night.
I The commencement exercises
of the Newport High School will
' be held this evening in the new
school auditorium, commencing
at 8 o’clock sharp and the public
is invited to attend.
A crowded house should greet
! the class of 1913, for an excel
lent program is promised. The
graduates this year are Misses
Lela Beattie, Rowena Campbell.
Eva Paul Melvin, Fay Smith.
Clarice White, Messrs. Robert
Harris and Fred Inman.
PROGRAM FOR EVENING.
Music.
Salutatory — Miss Rowena
Campbell.
Class History—Fred Inman.
Piano Solo, “Narcissus” (Ne
vin)—Miss Clarice White.
Essay, “Danger of Woman’s
Suffrage”—Miss Fay Smith.
Class Prophecy—Miss Eva
Paul Melvin.
Vocal Solo, “Roses in June”
(German)—Miss Ellen Jones.
Declamation, Speech of Pa
trick Henry—Robert Harris.
Piano Solo, “Rhapsodie Hun
groise No. 2” (Liszt)—Miss Ro
wena Campbell.
Valedictory—Miss Lela Beat
tie.
Presentation of Diplomas—E.
L. Boyce, President of the Board
of Education.
Neither flowers nor other
presents to be presented on the
stage.
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Education A Handicap.
1 Andrew Carnegie, like numer
ous other successful men of our
i day, is inclined to think there
are no roads to success but his
own road.
By all means, he says, in effect,
I be industrious, and honest, and
loyal; but—don’t go to college
i if commerce is to be your chos
j en sphere. A man with a col
lege education, the iron master
| says, is lost to commerce. He
has wasted three or four years
on the lives of “old ruffians who
lived 2,000 years ago,” and has
lost precious time.
In the main perhaps Carnegie
is right, and in view of some of
the revelations concerning high
finance which have been made in
the late years, the fact that a
college training rrtay unfit a man
for business is highly creditable
to the colleges.
It might be worth considering
that if educated men may gain
nothing from business, business
has much to gain from educated
men. The brutal animal greed
; that enters so largely into gen
1 eral business might safely be
sacrificed to higher and more hu
mane instincts.
j Business success ought to
mean more than mere selfish ac
1 cumulation. It ought to mean
the basis upon which civilization
and human progress and'the wel
fare of the mililons rest. This
full meaning can never come to
an ignorant man.
He who is pleased to ignorant
ly wallow in his own accumula
tions and to regard his achieve
ment as superior to that of men
of better brains, but less wealth,
let him look to the hog for his
own superior according to his
own standard of judgment.
But Carnegie forgets that his
own success would have been im
possible but for the higher edu
cation of other men, whose
brains he smelted in his scien
tific department of steel.
And then he forgets, too, that
even for the business man there
are higher and better things in
life than business and pitiable
and less than fully human is he
who has not the breadth and
clearness of vision to see them.
Education develops caution
and an indisposition to take
risks. It also develops sensibili
ties that may be so finely at
tuned that the possessor of
them is apt to go a long way a
round to avoid a shock to them,
and thereby loses the race —
some ignorant man with narrow
vision has seen nothing but a
short cut across, has promptly
taken it, and is complacent in a
success that a finer mind might
be ashamed of.
And so far as society is affect
ed in its other grave concerns
than money making, the more
educated it is the more certain
it is of progressive triumph over
organized greed, corrupt finance,
bossism and graft.
Don’t let’s forget that educa
tion has brought us up—at least
a little way—from the early bus
iness conditions under which the
biggest human brute with the
heaviest club freely took his
choice of the cocoanuts without
regard to right or reason. —
Memphis News-Scimitar.
WELL TOLD.
By A Resident of Newport.
The following has more in
terest for Newport residents
! than it otherwise would have be
cause Mr. Brown is one of our
selves, a citizen of Newport. If
it prove of assistance to but one
person in Newport, it will have
been well worth the telling.
Joseph F. Brown, farmer, R.
I F. D. No. 2, Box 91A, Newport,
I Ark., says: “I have used sever
al boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills
and I am in a position to say
that they can be relied upon to
do good work in cases of kidney
trouble. I suffered off and on
j for several years from kidney
complaint. The kidney secre
tions pased irregularly, the flow
usually being too frequent and
obliging me to arise at night.
Dull, heavy pains seated them
: selves in the small of my back
' and when I stooped, sharp twin
, ges darted through me. I went
from bad to worse until I ob
tained Doan’s Kidney Pills at
Walker’s Pharmacy. The con
tens of a few boxes cured me.
I still take this remedy occasion
ally as a kidney tonic.”
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States»
Remember the name—Doan’s
—and take no other. (adv.)
The liw of speculation.
i3t« men are given to taking profit*
while smaller men are laying a baste
for proflts cnat may er may not be
ihw-n. The lew or the fishes la the
sea appiiee in speculation. The b!(
and the Uttle fish have their respec
tive missions, and the small onee are
safe when the large onee are not
hn*-_.-y.
GET READY
FOR YOUR
Summer
VACATION
There are a great
number of resorts
in the North and
West along the
Rock Island
Lines
It s not too early to prepare
Let us help you
■ ■■ —.
Write to
AS. B.
OAT
Assistant General Passenger
Agent,*
a baidfaccount
makes the difference
To buy your own farm—or slave for another man
from early morn till late at night, is the question you
should answer right now. A bank account makes the dif- |
ference. Start saving today. We will help you to pur- j
chase the farm.
Come and let us tell you HOW.
ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST CO.
U. C. V. SPECIAL TRAIN TO
CHATTANOOGA
For the accommodation of Confederate Veterans
and friends the Iron Mountain will run a special train
from Little Rock to Chattanooga via Memphis and
the Southern Railway.
Leave Little Rock,2:00 P. M., Sunday, May 25.
Arrive Chattanooga, 7:00 A. M., Monday, May 26
Round trip tickets at very low rates will be sold May
23-26, inclusive, with return limit June 5. Upon pay
ment of 50 cents limit may be extended to June 25,
1913.
Pullman Fare, Little Rock to Chattanooga:
Standard, Lower B erth_i_$2.50
Tourist, Lower Berth_1.50
Reclining Chair Cars and Coaches without additional
charge—See that your ticket reads
IRON MOUNTAIN
Via Memphis and Southern R. R.
Reservations and information
may be had upon application to
local agent or
F*E- schroeder
Assistant General Passenger
Agent
LITTLE ROCK
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SOONER OR LATER "^B
There comes a time in the lives of mo.-r perI
money in the bank would be a great
source of satisfaction. ■
Instead of idly wishing for such an account .0mJ
why not begin NOW with this bank and HAVE J
We welcome the accoun t whether large or small. I
|TheFai ters Bapj
-of NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
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plumbing fixtures now offered in an exten
sive number of designs for her approval
are all graceful, beautiful and yet cor
rectly fashioned for their purpose.
These fixtures of 'Standard" manufac
ture and guarantee when installed by us
make the satisfactory equipment.
W. R. Whitten
McLain Bldg. Phone 15‘
The Ideal Laundry
C. H. WALTON
Proprietor.
Washingcalled for and deliveret
to all parts of the city.
Phone 150.
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Big stock of Imported and Do- ets ,,
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Liggett’s Hamilton’s, Alle- Combs, Sponges,
gretti s Candy—always fresh. Fine Knives and Razors.
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