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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
thorized to make the following
announcements of candidates,
Subject to the action of the Dem
ocratic Primary. _
For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Railroad Commissioner:
T. J. RANEY
T. E. WOOD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C CASEY
H. U. WILLIAMSON
JOHN S. GIBSON.
For County Judge—
W- D. McLAIN
JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
O. W. SCARBOROUGH
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW j
For Representative—
J. M. MAPAHS
W. M. SHAVER •" '7
J. U. AKD ’ -
R. T. SIMMONS
For Treasurer—
JOHN H- CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J. M. IVY
J. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J. M. BALCH n*' .
G. E. LAND i.
For Coroner—
HENRY GRANT
J. T. CRAFT
W. H NOLEN
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS.
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Justice of Pease—
L. B. HARRIS
H. C. NUCKOLLS
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
C. M. IVY
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.
Tot Road Overseer—
CLARENCE PENIX
CLAY ROBERTS
J. B. THOMPSON
BIRD TOWNSHIP
For Road Overseer, Western D.
R. L. HURLEY
MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Mayor—
JOHN P. PAUL
A. T. HUBLY
For Recorder
B. G. GRAHAM
H. G. BRANDENBURG.
For Marshal—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
GUS C. MARTIN
For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
For Aldermen First Ward—
T. P. UMSTED.
C. R. PATE.
JOHN R. LOFTIN, JR.
S. HEINEMANN
For Aldermen Second Ward—
W. B. GRANT.
W. H. SNETSER.
E. L. WATSON
0. I. HUBERT
SOUTH NEGLECTED
IN RECLAMATION.
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Millions For Arid Lands And
Not One Cent For Swamp
Lands.
News from Washington indi
cates that the neglect of the
South in land reclamation work
continues while the Far West is
getting more and more govern
ment aid and consideration.
The national government has
expended approximately $75,- j
000,000 on the reclamation of a
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land in the Far West. It has
spent nothing for the reclama
tion of the 75,000,000 acres of
swamp and overflowed lands of
the country, the most of which
are in the southern and central
states.
Secrtary Lane of the Interior
Department, which has the irri
gation work in charge, favors an
appropriation of $100,000,000
for additional work, but has said
nothing in favor of public appro- j
priations to aid in the work of
flood protection and the reclam
ation of the swamp and over
flowed lands of our section. i
With a southern man in the
President’s chair, a southern,
man as Speaker of the House,
and both Houses of Congress
southern in politics and the con
trol in the hands of southern
men, it seems a crime that noth-,
ing is being done for land re
clamation in the South and Cen
tral West.
Are our Representatives and
Senators asleep at the switch ? |
I The situation is all the more
pathetic when it is recalled that j
the reclamation of the swamp
and overflowed lands and their
protection from floods means
much more to the whole United
States than the reclaiming of a
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Orders booked for immediate or future delivery.
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^ and $1.00.69c
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100 misses dresses 12 to 14
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silks, ratines, brocaded flan- gf
nels, fancy striped in light 9l
weights in wool and cotton MS
dress goods.
Embroideries in all of the
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100 pairs of Queen Quality US
shoes composed of patent, **
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few million acres from the des
ert. It means many hundred
million dollars in annual crops,
the saving of more than a hun
dred million dollars a year in
flood losses, the prevention of
many deaths in floods and of
many more needless deaths and
inestimable suffering due to ma
laria and, other diseases caused
by the existence of swamps.
There is pending in Congress
a measure that would do for the
South and Central West all that
th'e Reclamation or Irrigation
Act has done for the arid West.
It is the bill (H. R. 8189: Sen
ate 7194) presented in the House
by Speaker Clark and in the Sen
ate by Senator John Sharp Wil
liams of Mississippi. This is
known as the Clark-Williams
flood protection and drainage bill
and is supported by the National
Drainage Congress whose next
annual meeting is to be held at
Savannah, Ga., April 22-25,1914
The Clark-Williams bill is not
in conflict with either the New
lands River Regulation or the
Ransdell-Humphreys Levee bills.
It makes immediately available
about $30,000,000 for flood pro
tection and drainage work, plac
ing the expenditure of this sum
in the Department of the Inte
rior. It is, in reality, an exten
sion of the Arid Land Irrigation
act to include flood protection
and drainage in the South and
Central West and to put all of
the country on an equal footing.
The Clark-Williams bill pro
vides that the Secretary of the
Interior shall make surveys and
plans for flood protection and
drainage projects; that he may
undertake the construction of
the work with the consent of the
land owners and states, the cost
to be repaid by a tax upon the
lands, assessed and collected by
the state authorities; or he
may turn the plans over to the
owners or states for them to car
ry into effect. It provides that
the Secretary of the Interior
may purchase the drainage
bonds issued by the state or
drainage district, at par, to sup
ply the needed funds. It pro
vides for co-operation between
two or more states in the con
struction of interstate drainage
or flood protection projects. It
provides for cooperation between
the Departments of War and the
Interior when the question of
navigation is involved.
In fact the Clark-Williams bill
will provide for the systematic,
comprehensive and speedy re
clamation of swamp and over
flowed lands and their protection
from disastrous floods. It will
be passed and the South will re
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ceive the consieration to which
this great and rich and largely
undeveloped and neglected sec
tion of the county is entitled.
But this will not be done until
our Southern Senators and Rep
resentatives awake to a realiza
tion of our interests and give
their support to Speaker Clark
and Senator Williams in procur
ing this or some similar bill
Are our representatives in
Congress asleep at the switch,
or is the main trouble with our
selves? If we want relief we
must speak in no uncertain
tones and demand it. That is
how the people of the Far West
obtained their appropriations.
We will continue to be overlook
ed so long as we remain supine
and complacent.
The U. S. Reclamation Service
has established every precedent
needed. Although the general
opinion is that the arid lands re
claimed by this Service have
been government owned lands
this is not entirely true. Of the
more than 3,000,000 acres so ir
rigated only about one-third are
government lands, the remain
der being the property of indi
viduals, corporations, Indians,
states, and even railroads- In
fact in some projects where mil
lions have been spent every
; acre is private land, the govem
jment advancing the money for
| the work and then doing it.
Bonds to the extent of $20,
000,000 and bearing three per
cent interest have been issued bv
the United States to provide ad
ditional funds for continuing
these irrigation projects, and
still more appropriations for the
same purpose are being asked
for.
Besides this the Interior De
partment has contracted with
the Pacific coast states, Oregon,
Washington and California, to
undertake additional irrigation
projects, the states and the gov
ernment each to bear one-half
the expense. Secretary Lane
has agreed to set aside $4,000,
000 from the reclamation fund
to co-operate with the state of
Oregon in the construction of
irrigation and power projects,
the state to appropriate a simi
lar amount.
The only reason why the
South is not receiving similar
aid in the reclamation of its low
lands is because the southern
representatives in Congress have
not demanded the necessary leg
islation; and the reason our
representatives have not made
this demand is because we have
not told them to make it.
Are our representatives asleep
at the switch, or are we the ones
who need awakening?
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There ia a structure which every hstitutiw b.g
itself. It is called character, and every act isasu
this stucture.
An institution, in order to have a good character
think honestly, act honestly, breathe honesty
people soon determine between the genuine an
counterfeit. They know the ring of the truT
and the base.
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NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
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