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It is said the aurora occasioned a
jr sleepless night among some of our
people who were not quite sure of
just what it was.
If Sugar is still dealt out to the
housewives in small quantities, prob
|p> ably in order that the candy shop
f next door may enjoy business as us
* ual.
| v Husband makes a mistake when he
gets up in the morning feeling fine
Eg after a severe attack of blues. It
keeps wife from taking his next at
g| tack as seriously as she should.
|L It is said the candidates are divid
!•'" ed upon the advisability of a joint
canvass during the coming campaign,
■ owing to present conditions and the
time during which it would have to
be made. The columns of the Inde
pendent are open to discussion upon
: the subject.
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P O L iTICAL ANNOUNCE
MENTS.
The Independeftt is author!
ed to announced the following
|> persons as candidates for pub!;
-''office, subject to the action o
the Democratic party:
; Fur County Superintendent—
| ti. 11. Baleh.
f Garland E. Land.
A. J. Garner. .
Z. D. Barber
H. L. Thomas
j n. v v.-uiiuy treasurer—
'■ 'I' A.'ei.ain.
« Charles K. Coe.
Fur Congress —
P!> •• ■ > ■■■ ' lodges
W. D. Davenport.
VC A. Oldfield
For County Judge:
fe John A. Melville.
K. F. Tver.
VV. SI. Tims.
W. A. Mink.
For Chancellor (Eighth District) —
Lyman F. Reeder.
For Sheriff and Collector—
!v Terry Guin.
I J M. Ivy.
For Representative:
R. T. Simmons
Fo- Representative—
' Fred R. Suits.
For County Clerk:
J. F. Parish.
^ Crover C. Nance.
For Assessor—
D. J. Nance.
For Circuit Clerk—
R. W. Bandy.
For Constable—(Union Township)
C. M. Ivy.
Ben Sandmon.
For Road Overseer (Richwoods Twp.)
Mark Cole
For Road Overseer (Bird Twp., East
ern District.)—
R. A. Wilson.
) For Road Overseer (Western Dist.
• Bird Township)
Walter Cole.
T. J. Mooney.
AMERICA SPELLS
, BERMAN DEFEAT
Entry Into War Means Victory for
Allies, Says British
Writer.
CONTROL OF FOOT . WIN
Now a Case in Which “the Dog Haa
Begun to Bite the Pig," Says
Writer—Something Rotten
in Germany.
London.—How America’s entry into
I the war has hurt Germany is the sub
| ject of an interesting article in the
| Birmingham Post by Edgar Wallace,
| author and military correspondent. It
| is now a case in which “the dog hiss
| begun to bite the pig,” he says.
“It is ns well,” Mr. Wnllnce writes,
“to separate the causes of the present
German offensives from the circum
i stances which have made them pos
! sible. We know that the stagnation
| of the Russian front allows the Ger
| mans to employ in the west * troops
which, wTere the Russian army an ac
tive factor In the war, could not have
i been employed; we know that the Itnl
I ian has lost nearly 300,000 men in the
course of the fighting of the last
month; but neither of these facts ex-,
plains the German offensive plan. For
example, the push against the Isonzo
was obviously uninfluenced by Italian
losses—because they had not occurred.
The push against Italy was and is part
of the great scheme which would cer
tainly have been carried out even if
Russia had remained loyal to the alii-;
ance. I
"Reason Is ‘America ’
“The reason is summed up in the
word ‘America.’ I do not particularly
refer to the forces which America will
put into the field. The German gen
eral staff, I am certain, has no par
ticular fear that sufficient American
troops will be put Into the field next
year to secure a decision against Ger
many. I doubt very much whether the
German is worrying at all about what j
will happen in the field in the summer
of 1918. But he is tremendously con- (
cerned over what will happen in Ger
many between May and August of that,
year unless he can break the fighting ■
spirit of the entente during the forth;
coming months of the winter. i
“It Is no secret that Germany had
been drawing large supplies of food
and necessary raw material from
America, via neutral countries. Amer
ica supplied these articles in the way
of business, just as she supplied Brit
ain with material in the way of busi
| ness, an^ strictly in the way of busi
ness the neutral countries had been
passing on their imports to Germany.
“And so this jolly war might have
gone on whilst Germany’s credit
abroad held—only America came in.
She declared war, she called millions
of men, she ^organized her industries
to meet the'demnnds of war—and then
she sat down to take a good look at the
neutrals. And they seemed unneces
sarily bloated. They did their best to
engage her sympathy. And they had
little bread and potato riots just to
show there was no deception.
“But America understood. She-said
very simply. ‘Feed yourselves, you big
stiffs!’ (if the picturesque vulgarity be
allowed).
“In the old nursery rhyme, when the
stick began to beat the dog. the dog
began to bite the pig. If the neutral
has no food to ‘spare and cannot buy
any in America, the German cannot buy
food from the neutral. In fact, the dog
has begun to bite the pig. The neu
tral:; have no right to complain.
Something Rotten in Germany.
“So many millions of tons of food
stuffs which came to Germany once in
the dear dead days are not coming any
more. She is that much shorter of
food. We do not know for certain the
conditions of Germany’s food reserves.
That there is something rotten there
we know from the curious attitude of
Bulgaria.
“But if the German, with all the sup
plies he was securing from the neutral,
was short' in the spring of 1917. wlmt
will be his position in the spring of
19! 8, when the new American embargo
becomes fully operative? We think it
will lie fairly had. The German crops
were poor—as were all the world’s.
“Nobodjfbut a perfectly insane per
son or a statistician—who will believe
anything—imagines that the, world
shortage of food does not affect Ger
many. It does affect her very serious
ly It will affect her worst* this year
than it did last..
“Food is going to decide this war.
1 The fact that the German censor has
! closed down all reference to food dif
' Acuities and coal shortages is siguifi
I cant. The things that'Germans do not
j talk about are the things that matter.
1 If we are Witnessing the beginning of
' a series of offensives In the west and
: the opening of a new campaign, that
J campaign, as I have said before, is a
hunger offensive, and the plan dates
1 from that day when America decided
that it was a good idea to ration the
neutrals, but they would h^ve to find
the rations themselves.
“If my theory is sound and well
founded we should look to the collapse
of the war in June or July. I do not
•ay if the German does not break ns
in the field between now and August.
Be won’t break us In the field or. starve
is in our homes." _ l
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Red Cross Canteen Service, rucrddung Food to
American Soldiers c( Somewhere In the Southwest
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irict from Little Rock to Louisiana
was carried through the supreme
•ourt and stood the test. The U; S.
war department recently declared
the road a military necessity and the
government will aid in pushing con
struction of the road. 1
The North Arkansas Highway has
been surveyed from Little Rock to
Batesville and the State Highway
Department has completed the plans,
blue print and profile of the entire
road. This would have cost about
£25,000 if done by paid engineers.
But the commissioners have done the
work with the aid of the State High- ■
way Department at an expense of
only about $1,000, which has been
paid by the various counties. This i£
one of the few districts ever organ
ized that is practicably ready for con
struction work where the district it
self has not been out a dollar’s ex
pense.
The U. S. government has put up
$67,50o for its part of the cost of the
road through Independence, Jackson
and White counties, and it -is said
that Pulaski and Lonoke have money
enough to build all their part of the
road .
The counties through which the
road runs are as follows:
Pulaski, 17 miles cost $117,472.
Jackson, 28 miles cost $45,104.67.
White, 53 miles, cost $100,045.64.
Lonoke 12 miles, cost $27,246.26.
Independence, 34 miles, cost $51,
397.45.
From Newport the highway will
extend also up the Iron Mountain
through Tuckerman, Swifton, Law
rence county and on to St. Louis,
which will give Jackson two impor
tant roads to the north.
For the North Arkansas Highway
the commissioners are getting ready
to make assessments and lay them
before the respective county courts
for approval, and some minor legisla
tion is necessary before the project
is completed.
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1 ne workers or tne xcea i^ross canteen service aic aiway^ uu uic juu wuwi ^ ox*,
through a town. They prepare mounds of delicious sandwiches,>huge wedges of pie, and to top it j
off gallons of piping hot coffee for the soldier boys. This photograph shows a typical scene at j
a station somewhere in the Southwestern Division of the Red Cross when a troop train made a brief
halt on its way from somewhere to somewhere else with some of our soldier boys.
(Censored and passed by the Committee on Public Information.)
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NORTH ARKANSAS
ROAD DISCUSSED!
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the Louisiana line, another fiom Lit
tle Rock to Memphis, another from
Little Rock to Fort Smith, thus cov- i
ering all the state except North Ark
ansas. A bill drawn by the well
known law firm of Rose, Hemming- j
way, Cantrell and Laughborough
Forming a road district from Little
Rock to Batesville and Mammoth
Spring. This was only ten days be
fore the legislature adjourned amd
Mr. Raney took the bill to Senator
W. 0. Edmondson, who introduced
it in the senate and secured its im
mediate passage by the senate.
When the bill reached the house, a
number of difficulties were encoun
tered, among them being opposition
by the representatives from Pulaski,
Lonoke and White counties who
launched a fight upon the bill. T. J.
Raney went to the Little Rock board
of trade and secured the co-operation
of that organization which resulted in
lining up the Pulaski county delega
tion for the bill. The matter was
then taken up with the business men
■ of Searcy which resulted in a train '
i load of the leading citizens of that j
town going to Little Rock and lin-1
ing up the White county repjesenta- j
i tives for the bill, and the bill passdd
by a large majority.
After the passage of the bill, the
i railroads offered considerable oppo
! sition while it was awaiting the
governor’s signature. This however,
was of no avail and the bill was
signed and became a law.
A similar law creating a road dis
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