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THE INDtPtNDENT
AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
Editor and Publisher.
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Arkansas, ns second class mail matter.
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%riththc government in the
©ujse of America for the
period of the war.
EXPENSES MUST BE
LIMITED TO THOSE
THINGS ESSENTIAL.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 28.—“The time
has come from the standpoint of con
servation of labor when all must lim
it our expenses to those things which
are essential.”
f This is a message that came yes
terday to the State Council of De
fense from Washington. ,
The assistant director general of
the U. S. Employment Service said
in this message:
"Our war industries are suffering
severely for lack of skilled mechan
ics. It therefore becomes a burden
Upon the conscience of every person
who employs a chauffeur to deter
mine whether such employment is
necessary or merely for the gratify
cstion of personal pleasure.
"Moreover every owner of an au
tomobile should realize that every
time he spends $'> for automobile ac
cessories supplies or repairs he is in
effect determining whether working
energies of the country shall be de
w~ \S>ted to winning the war or to his
own personal use.”
ig,. There is vigorous condemnation of
1 those employments in which men
should not be engaged. The mes
sage continues:
"We may well face the facts. Much
' work .essential to our program is be
ing seriously retarded by lack of un
skilled labor. In this situation it is
obviously wrong to have able-bodied
men continuing to sell candy, cigars
•nd like articles, to be doing work in
shops and stores which might with
reasonable effort on the part of the
Use Grandma’s Sage Tea and
Sulphur Recipe and Nobody
will Know.
The us© of Sag© and Sulphur for re
storing faded, gray hair to its natural
color dates back to grandmother s
time. She used It to keep her hair
beautifully dark, glossy and attrac
tive. Whenever her hair took on that
dull, faded or streaked appearance,
this simple mixture was applied with
wonderful effect.
But brewing at home is mussy and
out-of-date. Nowadays, by asking at
any drug store for a bottle of “Wyeth’s
Sag© and Sulphur Compound," you
will get this famous old preparation,
improved by the addition of other in
gredients, which can be depended up
on to restore natural color and beauty
to the hair.
A well-known downtown druggist
says it darkens the hair so naturally
and evenly that nobody can tell it has
been applied. Tou simply dampen a
sponge or soft brush with it and draw
this through your hair, taking one
strand at a time. By morning the
gray hair disappears, and after an
other application or two, it becomes
beautifully dark and glossy.
Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Com
pound is a delightful toilet requisite
for those who desire a more youthful
appearance. It is not intended foi
the cure, mitigation or prevention ol
disease.
employers be entrusted to wo1
and to be dancing attendance, attend
ance in clubs, barber shops, soft
drink establishments, bowling alleys,
dancing academies and elsewhere.”
CALL FOR 5,050 UNSKILLED
LABORERS IN ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Aug. 27.—Maj. R. B.
Keating, in charge of the U. S. gov
ernment Employment Service here,
reports that he now has calls in Ark
ansas alone for a total of 5,050 un
skilled laborers, of whom 2,500 are
for Picron and Camp Pike alone.
There is an unlimited demand for
common labor outside the state for
essential war industries.
Maj. Keating has been authorized
1 by the Employment service to re
cruit 1,000 men in Texas and 1,000 in
Oklahoma. One of his deputies, W.
H. Harper, is now in Texas, with
three assistants recruiting men.
DRAFT BOARDS GREATLY
DISORGANIZED BY WITH
DRAWAL of Examiners.
.Special to Independent
Little Rock, Aug. 28.—The organ
ization of the Provost Marshal Gen
eral’s office for the physical exami
nation of draft registrants has been
greatly disturbed recently by the
withdrawal of medical members of
draft boards for other duties. The
most serious drain was due to the
commissioning of medical board
members in the Medical Reserve
Corps. During July, 106 physicians
were lost in this way. In view of the
enormous task of examining 14,000,
000 men in the next few months, the
request has been made that the com
missioning of medical members of
draft boards be discontinued for the
present.
I Moore’s
Air Tight
Heaters
For soft coal, coke or
Most Economical j
As clean and easy to
regulate as a Ba.e
Every user is a boos
ter, ask vour neighbor.
Samples now are d s
Make your selection
now as stock is limit
ed and no more to be
had this season.
Three Sizes
Three Finishes
AVERA rURMTURE STORE
NAME GUNS BETSY AND ELSIE |
Yankee Artillery at the Front Follow E
Gallant Custom of French E
Cannoneers.
Following a gallant custom of the z
French artillery, the boys of Battery jj
B In one of our own F. A. regiments, z
decided to name their guns after those z
whom they considered the outstanding s
figures among the patriotic women of z
American history. z
Many were named but two were 3
chosen. The first, according to Stars Z
and Stripes, France, was Betsy Boss, i 3
who, in her little house In Phlladel- . 5
phia, made for General Washington z
the first American flag. The second | E
was Elsie Janis, who, in the little huts E
of France, made the first hit of the E
A. E. F. | 5
“These guns are of the railway nr- E
tillery," the captain says, “and among E
the most powerful in France, and the :
names selected are now painted on the . E
carriages, where they will be constant 3
Inspiration in the future, and, we hope, 3
a credit to their namesakes.”
One of these two namesakes, who 3
probably never thought of herself as 3
a figure in American history at all, is 3
just back from a tour of the front 3
where she had a good many thrills, in- E
eluding the thrill of finding her name 3
in divisional general orders. ! E
There she delighted one of the bands E
by turning drum major throughout a E
long march, cheered up some yoUng E
German prisoners by talking to them E
in their own tongue, and came away E
much pleased by the news that Elsie E
Janis II had just raised merry h- E
with a German machine gun emplace- E
ment. E
WEARIED OF CONSTANT BPAY |
Spaniards Make Offer to Exchange E
Mules for Something That Has
More Musical Sound. r
A little while ago it was reputed E
that the army mule in France, inval- =
liable for transport, was making him- =
self obnoxious by his propensity to —
bray when in close proximity to the s
enemy. And now, according to ad- —
vices received by the National Piano j
Manufacturers’ association, the Span- EE
iards are anxious to dispose of their 5
mules to us and to obtain in return ~
pianos and other musical instruments. E
Evidently what Wordsworth calls EE
“the hard, dry see-saw of his horrible E
bray” is no better relished by the E
esthetic consciousness of the Iberians E
than by the valorous gentlemen of E
France. It is doubtful whether even S
an implacable futurist in music like z
Leo Ornstein or Arnold Schoenberg ~
derives genuine satisfaction from the Z
student cantatas and blatant oratorios -
of the mule. Some colics have de- “
tected a resemblance between the j
voice of the bagpipe and the mule’s -
spontaneous lyricism, but this is a r
libel. i |
With patience one can detect a
definite melody in the Scotch pibrochs
and strathspreys, whereas mule music '
like the world in the making, is with-,
out form and void. As long as Spain
is not at war she can afford to dance ■
the fandango and play the mandolin. I
When by the logic of events she is |
swept out of her neutrality into bel
ligerency and has to haul cannon and\
wagons, she will wish she had the >
mule.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Mascagni and the War, i
Pietro Mascagni, the celebrated com- j
poser, once told how the opening i
Chorus of “Cavaleria” was composed
on the night of February 3, 18S9, when
his first child was born. That son,
Mimi, is now, or was recently, driving
a motor-truck for the Italian army;
and a second boy, Pino, became a pri
vate in the engineer corps, blowing up
Austrian barbed-wire barricades. On i
a visit to the young soldiers Mascagni
saw his first battle.
“This is indeed music,” he wrote. “It
seems as if all the big drums in my or
chestra had been multiplied by a mil
lion and suddenly gone mad.”
The composer gave open-air concerts
in the trenches, on one occasion at
tended by the king of Italy, and he
set himself at work on a great patriot
ic symphony, designed to be a musical
apotheosis of Italy’s “war of redemp
tion.”
Mine Wrecks Garden.
While sitting on the hock porch of
her home, Mrs. William Doimetsch of
the 700 block, on North, Bromley ave
nue, Scranton, Pa., saw t lie rear por
tion of the yard sink into a mine work
ing, exposing numerous mine props,
while a short distance away a similar
settling exposed men at work in the
mines. In each case the gardens have
dropped about 15 feet. The home of
Matthew Scott has escaped damage,
but the earth on all sides has sunk,
making the residence appear as though
on an island.
Few streets in the city are suffering
worse damage from mine caves than
Bromley avenue. Gardens, posts, trees
and sidewalks have fallen in.
She Knew Him Best.
It was an after-supper party on the
porch.
For days on just such occasions,
Oldman Gabon had been making sour
remarks regarding the money the ad
ministration is spending to remain
sane and conduct a war at the same
time. Sometimes Oldman C. brought
out a little hammer and rapped on
the porch swing.
“I wish I wuz in Washington where
I pouhi take a rap attum,” he said,
“I’d show them some things.”
“You," pined his wife. “Oh. yes, you,
who cannot even make our poodle dog ||
behave.” "
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| The Dye Question
| We have not been do- I
1 ing this work for the past |
1 two years owing to the |
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1 dye trouble having dis- 1
= to **/*&**' £
| continued it.
| Now that everyone has
| been asked to save all articles in clothing owing to
| shortage of same, I feel that it is my duty to do my
| bit as far as possible and have decided to dye two
| colors this fall Black and Blue Navy. I will be able
1 to do this work after September first and will try to
| get the best out of any work given me.
I Of course the dyes we get new are at the best uncertain, but
I owingjo so many plants cutting the dyeing out and there be
ing such a demand l will take i
up the two colors only as the i
handling of a variety would l
be more than we could do at s
present, and anyone having |
apparel that they want dyed i
either color I would be glad to s
give any information regarding \
same and appreciate your pa- \
tronage, assuring the best at- i
tsntion possible, §
W. A. BarRer |
2/4 Front St. Phone 190 =
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