MEN PRISONER;
LIFE IS SAVED
One of Those Weird Romances of
i the Sea and the
War.
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YANK DOCTOR CHIEF FIGURE
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Favorite Bomb Shelter Wrecked While
He Is Captured by Germans When
on Voluntary Mission of
Rescue.
I American Bombing Base.—Dr. Albert
M. Stevens of New York, medical ofli
'cer at this base, owes his life to the
fact that he was taken prisoner by the
(Germans, while Dr. Ilarry .T. Donley of
■Chicago, successor to Doctor Stevens,
assistant surgeon, owes his liberty to
jthe fact that Doctor Stevens is a pris
oner.
It Is one of those weird romances
iof the sea and war.
j Word was flashed to the bombing
jhase one afternoon that a seaplane
was down on the surface of the water
|ubout thirty miles off the coast. A
[fast motor boat, ready for such emer
gencies, was sent out. A surgeon al
ways accompanies such expeditions.
jDoctor Dooley in ordinary eireumstan
jres would have gone. But Doctor Slev
Ons was Just, retiring from t lie post,
ami he thought the trip might do him
good.
Y‘i think I'll go,” he said to Doctor
ifooley. "It v ill be my lust trip and
v the journey will be something of a re
lief.”
He jumped Into the boat and was
off. There were six others aboard.
They reached the stranded seaplane in
a little under two hours. The flyer’s
men had got her into condition again
and were just ready to start off. They
left the motor boat and landed back at
the base in trend time.
Shelled by Germans.
It was dark. The surgeon, seeing
what he thought were lights of a town
near the base, headed the motor boat
In what he supposed the correct dircc
rtion. They surged through the light
«ehs for an hour or more. They ap
proached close to the supposed home
lights, when suddenly the scream of
a shell was heard coming straight at
them. Jt exploded directly in the hack
of the boat. A second shell dropped
> about two hundred yards in front.
l,The Germans are shelling us,” call
ed one of the men.
“Where are we?” asked the skipper.
They were under German guns. The
lights they thought their base lights
had been far off. They had been steer
ing straight toward German-held
ground.
i, “Xump into the water!” commanded
f the surgeon.
The men went overboard. Half a
minute later a shell struck in the cen
ter of the boat. It blew a great hole
In her and sank her.
A strong current was running up
the shore. Doctor Stevens and one oth
er man, being strong swimmers, head
ed for the nearest point of land. They
reached the bench. They were drag
ging themselves through the surf and |
Jinci just reached the shallow water j
Vheri a squad of German soldiers ,
marched down the sands with drawn
bayonets and commanded:
“Surrender! You are on German
territory!”
Doctor Stevens and his companion
surrendered.
Meanwhile the other five men were
irvinp to make land. Two of them
headed down with the current, look
ing for any chance to make land. The
other throe attempted n shorter cut
by swimming the current at an angle.
One of this trio was drowned. The
other two got to land and were cap
tured by the Germans. The two men
who were left swimming in the purrent
were in a weakened condition when two
British officers ashore made them out.
*The Britons jumped into the surf,
swam out and dragged the men ashore.
They ran to a telephone and called
the bombing base.
“We have two of your men suffer
ing from exposure and exhaustion.
. *i heir boat was sunk by Germans and
l vo of the men taken prisoner,” said
t ue voice.
Germans Raid Base.
Maurice M. Moore of Washington, D.
jumped into the camp Jitney and
started for the place where the res
cued men were, lie had to drive over
exposed roads, hut he made the up
journey safely, his car loaded with
blankets. lie took the men aboard
and started home. Suddenly shells
began exploding in front of him and
back of him. But through the canopy
of bursting shells the little jitney made
(speed safely for more titan five miles,
getting In without even a scratch.
Meanwhile the German bombing
'plain's started to raid tlie base. The
(sound of exploding bombs dropping
inround the air base was heard by Mr.
(Moore even before the automobile was
near home.
“Where is Stevens?” asked the ex
ecutive officer, as tlie car drew up.
“Taken prisoner by the Germans, *
was the reply.
“Well, I guess lie is lucky at that.
His pet place, in which he always
stands when tlie raiders come, was
blown to pieces half an hour ago.”
“We„, have been wondering who is
the luckier of the two—Stevens or
'Iiooley,” said the executive officer;
“Dooley for not being captured or
(Stevens for not being killed.”
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ROAD-BUILDING ROCK TESTED
Value of Material Gathered in Many
States Given by Department
of Agriculture.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Results of physical tesls in 1910 and
1917 of loud-building rocks are given
in Bulletin 070, recently Issued by the
United States department of agricul
ture. This bulletin supersedes the de
partment’s Bulletin 537 and supple
ments Bulletin 370, which gave the re
sults of the more common physical
tests of approximately 3,050 road
building rocks examined prior to Janu
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Repairing Road—Cheapest and Best
Way Is to Attend to Holes and Ruts
While They Are Small.
ary 1, 1910. The rock tested came
from ujost of the states. In a number
of cases, in addition to other tests, the
crushing strength of the rock also is
given. The bulletin also contains a
complete record of all the crushing
strength tests made by the office prior
to January 1, 1916.
The average crushing strength of
granites and gneisses lies between 20,
000 and 21,000 pounds per square inch,
according to data in the bulletin, and
the average crushing strength of lime
stones and dolomites is between 18,000
and 19,000 pounds per square inch.
Granites, gneisses, schists, sand
stones and quartzes should not in gen
eral be used in the wearing course of
water-bound macadam roads, it is
stated, and shales and slate should
nsver be used In this manner. Cement
ing value tests, therefore, have been
discontinued on these materials.
MOTORCAR IMPROVES ROADS
Farmer in Secluded Rural District
Keeps Highway in Good Condi
tion Without Effort.
A friend who spent the entire sum
mer and some of the fall in a secluded
rural district was telling us the oilier
day about how the farmers kept tlieir
roads In good shape ip the section in
which he was sojourning, says a writer
in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“There aren’t any state roads In that
part of the country,” he says, “and no
brick or macadam. But the farmers
keep the gravel and dirt roads In ex
('Client snape. wnenever my utuuiuru
took a trip to town, or anywhere, he
used to hitch a road drag to his motor
car. Then the car would pull the drag
along the mile or two that he was in
terested in keeping • ’>. He would
unhitch the drag and ave it by the
wayside. On the way home he would
pick up the drag where he left it and
drag the other side of the road going
back. And he’d make a round like
that almost every time he took the
car out.”
CULVERT GUARDS ARE URGED
Particularly Serviceable at Night in
Preventing Accidents—Railings
Painted White.
Because unguarded culverts on coun
try highways are frequently the cause
of serious automobile accidents* par
ticularly at night, special pains is now
being taken in me iy parts of the coun
try to place railings at the ends of
such structures, together with suitable
guards either side of the approaches.
An excellent example of such an im
provement is found in the substantial
concrete guards on a highway in Michi
gan. The short lengths of fence are of
wood and are painted white to match
the concrete and to add to their con
spicuousness. particularly at night.
Value of Good Roads.
The value of good roads is now rec
ognized everywhere, but few know
how easily and how cheaply they may
be had.
Need Country Roads.
People in towns need country roads
ns well as paved streets, for their liv
ing comes originally from the land.
Thanks to Motorcar.
Thanks to the pushful, pervasive
motorcar, American road building hns
“got a move on” at last.
CALLOUS AMID
HORRORS OF WAR
Grewsome Sights of Battle Fail
to Shake Nerves of
Yanks.
QUICKLYADAPT THEMSELVES
Admiration of French and British Vet
erans Is Aroused by Conduct of
Americans on Bloody Bat
tlefields of France.
With the American Army.—The cal
lousness and steady nerves of fresh
American troops in recent advances
have gladdened the hearts of veteran
British and French who have observed
them, as well us filled with pride their
own officers.
The horror of warfare is more ap
parent during an offensive when an
army is advancing than at any other
time; even during a defensive action
in a retreat. Attacking troops advance
over the enemy’s positions, dotted with
dead and dying, then dig in and fight
among the corpses and maimed. Often
in a counter-attack they are temporari
ly thrust back a few yards, and there
dig in and fight again, this time among
the bodies of their own fallen com
rades.
When their advance becomes deeper
and tlie enemy’s retreat more general,
as in Von Boehm’s retirement from the
Marne to the Vesle, the terrain be
comes even more ghastly. A wide belt
of country is littered with dead men
and dead horses. The advancing army,
eager to maintain contact with the
enemy at all times, has no time to
bury orr burn these corpses, respec
tively. The supporting troops follow
1I1J4 mi me auvtiua* guuma ututa n*c
and eat among these grewsome sights.
Never Feasect, Them.
Fresh, untried Americans, who had
not seen the frightfulness of war, al
though they had been trained in its
artifice and had been in the line in
quiet sectors, traversed the ghastly
country like veterans, never turning
a hair at the sight of dead, friends
or foes, even when they came upon
such sights as Reddy farm, Bellevue
farm, Cierges, Scringes et Nesles and
Sergy.
In these places, particularly the
first two mentioned, the bodies of the
Prussian Guardsmen were literally
lying in heaps, for these picked troops
had been told to maintain their
strong point positions uniil death, and
in most «nnscs they followed orders.
The dead were in the distorted posi
tions that indicated how tiie end had
come fo them. Those killed in ma
chine-gun pits were smashed to bits,
the effect of Band grenades and bombs
which American advance guards had
tossed in among fhem after working
round their flanks and getting in be
hind them/
Occasionally ene saw German snip
ers «r machine gunners sprawled flat
on the ground at the foot of a tree
after they flad been shot out of their
camouflaged positions among Ms foli
age. The most sickening sights were
where bodies of the enemy had at
tempted to make stands in ditches or
beside sunken roads and had been
trapped by American enfilade machine
gun fire. Xhe deadly automatic rifles
had ripped through whole lines of
Germr »\ and investigation frequently
showed that every man’s body was
pierced by seven or eight bullets and
that frequently the same bullet passed
through three or four men. These
corpses looked like heaps of rags or
discarded uniforms and equipment, so
uuonj urn uicj uuc auvsiuv.*..
No Trace of Nt-vousness.
But, despite all, the Americans
marched forward, stopped three or
four times a day for meals, and then
made camp, and slept at night amid
the horrible surroundings without ever
doing more than showing a surprising
preliminary interest in the matter. If
they saw a eprpse in khaki they looked
it over closely to see if they knew who
it was. Only occasionally did they
have time to inter it; that was left to
the burying parties that followed them
up. As they walked through woods
and fields to get water or supplies, they
implanted rifles* bayonets down, in the
ground to mark the spot of every dead
American they discovered.
But there was no trace of nervous
ness and no evidence of any of the
men worrying or brooding over the
fate of their fallen comrades. The
corpses were entirely impersonal to
them and never rattled even the new
est recruit. «
The doughboys showed no back
wardness about appropriating Luger
automatic pistols, the most prized
souvenir to be had, from dead Bodies,
nor did they hesitate to pluck off well
camouflaged helmets from the pates of
Hun cadavers.
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* “JERRY" NEW NICKNAME $
J FOR GERMAN SOLDIER $
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if *
if It’s Jerry now, not Fritzle. *
* It has been noted recently In J
it soldiers’ letters tiny the pet
* name for the enemy among the- J
If Yankees in France is “Jerry.” ¥
* At the beginning of the war *
if the name was applied only to ■¥■
J German aviators, but it is rap- J
if idly being adopted for all of the ♦
J troops. i
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1 PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION
Synojisis and Comments on Improvements Made Over the
Constitution of 1874.
AMENDMENTS.
Art. XX, Sec. 33, provides that not more than three amendments to the
Constitution may be submitted at any one time by the General Assembly;
; all proposed amendments shall be published weekly for thirty days, the last
j publication to be at least sixty days prior to the election; a majority of those
i voting at an election is necessary for the adoption of an amendment.
While more latitude isv given, it will continue to be a some
what difficult matter to amend the Constitution. No limit is
placed upon the number of amendments the people may submit
tinder the Initiative and Referendum, but the Genera# Assembly
is still restrietecWio three at any one election. Since amendments
can be submitted at only sixty-day sessions, there can be but
three offered every four years by the Legislature. However, the
people may submit any number every two years, since general
elections must continue to be held biennially on account of the elec
tion of members of Congress. Considerable saving is provided in
the cost of publishing proposed amendments, tire time being re
duced from six months to thirty days. By providing that the
final publication shall be not less than sixty days prior to the
election at which the vote is to be taken, ample time is given for
the most thorough circulation of the proposed measure, and for
the voters to familiarize themselves with its provisions.
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QUADRENNIAL ELECTIONS.
Art. Ill, Sec. 12, provides that “the general elections shall be held quad
rennially, on Tuesday following the first Monday in November, from and
after the general election held in the year 1920.” Other provisions fix ihe
terms of the various State, district, county and township officers at four
years, except that Justices of the Supreme Court shall be elected for terms
of eight years. Tbfe terms of Chancellors are reduced to four years.
This is a popular reform, especially when considered in con
nection with Sec. 1, Art. VI, which provides that no one of the
state officers “shall be eligible as his own successor, nor shall he,
during his term of office, become a candidate for any other office.”
This gives a public official a reasonably long tenure, the same in
effect as that which now prevails through the unwritten party
law of a second term for an officer whose services are satisfac
tory. In some years there have been as many as nine elections—
primary, general and special—and the people have been kept in
an unnecessary political turmoil. There was somebody constantly
“running for office/’ An officer was scarcely more than inducted
into one office than he began pulling the wires and building his
fences to succeed himself or to be promoted to some other. It
was not the fault of the man, but of the system. This has had
a tendency to build up political machines and perpetuity in office
holding. This will be impossible under the new provision. A
state officer will serve four years and then he will step down and
out, and he cannot spend the time for which he is paid a salary
in campaigning for another office. The prohibition of succession
and becoming a candidate for any other office does not apply to
county officers. The chief advantages of the new system will be
that one-half the expense and worry of frequent elections will be
eliminated, and political machines will be removed as a menace to
good government.
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MINORITY REPRESENTATION.
Art. Ill, Sec. 18, provides that one member of the State Board of Elec
tion Commissioners, and Art. XX, Sec. 25, provides that on all public Boards
and Commissions appointed, there shall be at least one member of the most
numerous minority political party.
This is an assertion of political justice in keeping with
the spirit of genuine democracy. It recognizes citizenship above
partisanship. It is just and fair to a large element that would oth
erwise be denied participation in the conduct of state affairs. The
doctrine that official salaries are political spoils, and that all ap
pointive officials and clerks are political spoilsmen, is vicious and
dangerous. Demonstrated fitness, efficiency and integrity are to
be the proper qualifications for service.
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THE JUDICIARY.
Art. VII, Sec. 2, provides that the Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief
Justice and six Associate Justices, and that it may sit in two departments
and cn banc, and shall always be open for business. The two additional jus
tices shall be elected at the first general election after the ratification of
the Constitution. Their term shall be eight years. Other sections provide
for the complete system of Circuit, Chancery, County, Municipal and Juvenile
Courts.
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fifteen years. About 600 cases is the court’s annual capacity under
high pressure, and the judges have found it impossible to prevent
congestion, even by working day and night. The plan has been in
operation in California for twenty-f/Ve years, and its adoption is
recommended by the Arkansas Bar Association. The article,
framed by some of the state’s ablest lawyers, places the judiciary
on the highest possible plane. The new judges will not be elected
until 1920. It has been said that a judge is supposed to Pe a
judicial race-horse, having to keep up with the docket regardless
of the number of appeals. The nine judges of the Supreme Court
of the United States hand down an average of thirty opinions each,
annually, while the five Arkansas judges write an average of 125
each, annually. The final decisions of a court of last resort cannot
be corrected. Life, liberty, property and reputation are all in
their hands. Their opinions become fixed rules and precedents for
all time. It is impossible to overstate the great importance to the
people of giving the Supreme Court judges all the time required
for the decision of cases, and the preparation of opinions in a man
ner that comports with the dignity and responsibility of a tribunal
from whose decisions there is no appeal.
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INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.
Art .V, Sec. 1, provides for the Initiative and Referendum for the State
and municipalities. Eight per cent of the legal voters may propose a statute
and 10 per cent a Constitutional amendment. The proposes measure shall
be published thirty days before filing with the Secretary of Stale, which shall
be tour months before the election. Six per cent of electors may order an
election upon any general act, the petition to be filed within ninety days fol
lowing the adjournment of the Legislature. A majority of votes cast on the
subject shall be sufficient to enact or repeal an act, but a majority of all
votes cast at the election shall be required to adopt an amendment. Two
thirds of each House may declare any act an emergency measure effective
at once. The provisions apply to municipalities as well as the State, but no
measure may be initiated in any municipality unless the law-making power
has first refused to enact it. The Governor or Mayor can not veto initiated
acts. The law is self-executing, and no law may be passed restricting the
people’s rights thereunder.
This is the Oregon system, with some improvements dictated
by experience. It makes a long step forward in popular control of
legislation. It is a great improvement over the old Constitution.
It removes present restrictions which limit the number of Con
stitutional amendments that may be submitted at one election to
three, and allows the people to initiate any number. It is safe
and sane, and gives ample protection and safeguards to the rights
of the people. It embodies the best experience of the country on
the subject and will doubtless prove to be one of the most popular
provisions of the proposed Constitution.
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Prosecuting Attorneys, hereafter to be known as District
Attorneys, are to be placed on a salary in lieu of the present fee
system. _ . _ ... __
j TIME CARD.
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i Change in time Missouri Pacific
' trains, effective 12:01 a ,m., Sunday,
| November 17th, 1918.
North Round
i No. 2 Fast Pass, (no stop)Ar. 3:55s£m
-No. 34 Local passenger, Ar. 10:35am.
' No. 4 Fast passenger, Ar. 11:59 am.
-No. 92 Local freight, Lv. 11:00 afiiA
' No. 30 Local passenger, Ar. 8:25 pm.
No. 6 Fast Passenger, Ar. 9:30 pm.
No. 18 Fast Pass. (Hot Sgs.
Spl.) Ar. 10:05 pm.
South Bound.
No. 1 Fast Pas. (no stop)Ar. 1:52 am.
•No. 17 Fast Pas. (Hot Spgs.
Spl.) Ar. 4:55 am. #
.No. 5 Fast passenger, Ar. 5:55 am.
No. 7 Mail train (no passen
gers) Ar. 9:10 am.
No. 93 Local freight, Lv. 8:00 am.
No. 3 Fast passenger, Ar. 5:43 pm.
No. 33 Local Pas. Ar. 7:20 pm.
Leaves 7:45 pm.
White River Division.
No 210 Passenger, Lv. 6:l0 am.
No. 254 Mixed Pas. and freight
Leaves 12:10 pm.
No 251 Mixed Pas. and freight
Arrives 11:00 am.
No, 205 Passenger, Ar. 7:30 pm.
COMMITTEE ISSUF,S
FAIR PRICE LIST.
At a recent meeting of the “Fair
Price Committee,” appointed by the
County Food Administrator, the fol
lowing were agreed upon as being
fair prices:
Wheat flour, 21-lb sacks-$1.58
Wheat flour, 48-lb. sacks-$3.11
Flour less 24-lb. lot-614c
25-lb sack country meal-$1.28
25-lb. sack cream meal-$1.43
10-lb. sack cream meal_60c
Rolled oats, 22-oz. pks. —:-15c
Rolled tiats, 55-oz. pkg. -35c
Bread, 16-oz. loaves _10c
Corn starch, 1-lb. pkg-10c
Rice, 1-lb - 14c
Navy beans, 1-lb_1714c
Lima beans, 1-lb. -20c
Pinto beans, 1-lb. -13c
Bulk lard, compound _30c
Bulk lard, pure-35c
114-lb. net wt. lard substitute—50c
2- lb. net wt. lard substitute-65c
3- lb. -net wt. lard substitute-$1.00
4- lb. net wt. lard substitute-$1.29 .
5- lb. net wt. lard substitute-$1.60
6- lb. net wt. lard substitute._jf_$2.00
8-lb. net wt. lard substitute-$2.54
10-lb. net wt. lard substitute —$3.13
No. 10, pure lard, 1-lb-36c
No. 5-lb. pure lard, 1-lb-36c
Canned corn, per can -20c
No. 2 tomatoes -18c
: No. 3 tomatoes _19c
! Evaporated apples -21c
| Evaporated peaches -22 V&c
! Corn syrup, blue Karo -80c
Corn syrup, 5-lb. blue Karo-40c
Potatoes, 314 c per lb. over peck lots
Less peck lots, per lb.-4c
These prices must be rigidly ob
served and are in effect immediately
after publication.
These prices will be changed from
time to time as condition warrant.
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE
for Jackson County.
PROTECT THE CHILDREN.
j Children are as likely to get the
I grip and influenza as grown-ups.
! Foley’s Honey and Tar gives quick
i relief from all kinds of coughs, colds,
| croup and whooping cough; covers
j raw. inflamed surfaces with a healing
j soothing coating; clears air pas
! sages, checks strangling, choking,
i coughing. Contains no opiates.—
! Walker’s Pharmacy. (Adv.)
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DON'T INVITE A COLD OR THE
GRIP.
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If you feel “stuffed up,” bloated,
| bilious, languid or have sick headache,
| sour stomache, coated tongue, bad
breath or other condition caused by
slowed up digestion, a Foley Cathar
tic Tablet will give prompt relief. It
is a gentle, wjjolesome, thoroughly
cleansing physic that leaves no bad ^
i after-effects.—Walker’s Pharmacy.
! CUT THIS OUT—IT IS WORTH
MONEY.
Don’t Miss This. Cut this slip,
enclose with 5c to Foley & Co., 2835
Sheffield Ave., Chicago, 111., writing
vour name and address clearly. You
will receive in return a trial pack
age containing Foley’s Honey and
Tar Compound, for coughs, colds and
eroup, Foley Kidney Pills a*nd Foley
Cathartic Tablets.—Walker’s Phar
macy (Adv.)
FULL OF COLD; HAD THE GRIP.
Many will be pleased to read how ^ n
Lewis Newman, 506 Northrand St./
Charleston, W. Va., was restored to
health. He writes: “I was down
sick and nothing would do me any
good. I was full of cold. Had the
grip until I got two 50c bottles of
Foley’s Honey and Tar. It is the best
remedy for grip and colds I ever
used.” —Walker’s Fharmacy. (Adv.)
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