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POLITICAL ANNOUNCE
MENTS.
The Independent is authoriz
ed to announce the following
persons as candidates for public
office, subject to the action of
the Democratic party:
For County Superintendent—
J. M. Balch.
Garland E. Land.
A. J. Garner.
Z. D. Barber
h H. L. Thomas
For Congress —
Wm. A. Hodges.
W. D. Davenport.
For County Treasurer—
W. D. McLain.
Charles K. Coe.
Flor County Judge:
J John A. Melville.
R. F. Tyer.
W. M. Tims.
W. A. Mink.
For Sheriff and Collector—
Terry Guin.
J. M. Ivy.
For Representative:
R. T. Simmons
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APPOINTED COUNTY EX
AMINER OF SEVIER COUNTY
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 16.—J. G. Moore,
principal of the DeQueen public
schools, was yesterday appointed
county examiner of Sevier county, to
succeed George W. Lewis, who re
signed to enter the Y. M. C. A. war
work. Mr. Moore is a graduate of
the University of Arkansas.
Our neighbor city of Jonesboro is
'aving “troubles also, as well as
£*S**c''#ef-/of us. The fuel administra
| tor and the mayor have ordered all
stores and places of business to close
every afternoon at 5 o’clock and the
public schools will be closed for a
week in order to save fuel.
FOR S ALE I
Have a number of used l ords,
Touring Cars and Roadsters,
also one Chassis for l ruck,
^ at prices much below new cars,
which means a substantia! sav
ing to any buyer.
1 Ford,Touring Car, with Stromberg
carburetor, which means a big sav
ing In gasoline; l’restolite tank for
lighting; tires in good condition;
body ami power plant in COOft
good shape. -POUU
^ 1 Ford Touring Car, motor and pow
er plant in good condition, £n 7T
well tired and worth ... I \J
1 Ford Roadstsr. motor overhauled,
bodv ami fenders in good condi
tion; well t'red and is d*Q CH
worth . .T>£OU
1 Ford Chassis, power plant all <wer
f hauled and in good $200 j
Can Supply Roadster or
Touring Car Body.
P. H. VanDyKe!
Newport. Arkansas
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LEARNING TO BE AT WAR.
If there remain in the mind of any
citizen of Arkansas any lingering
doubt about his being personally in
volved in the greatest war of all his
tory, he need only look about him to
be disillusioned.
Entering upon a new year, the
fourth year of a war that many said
could not last longer than six months,
we find all the world at a death grap
ple, and Arkansas just as much a
part of the general debate as though
a foreign foe were knocking at our
gates at Texarkana, or the Missis
sippi river ports.
All about us, and inextricably in
volved in it, are evidences of the part
we are playing in the world’s su
preme tragedy.
So far-reaching is it, that the hum
blest home in the remotest corner of
the state is touched at some point by
its influences.
And even more intimately will
these homes be touched ai.d saddened
later when the casualty lists begin
to come back from the bloody sham
bles of Flanders.
There are nearly 25,000 of the best
young men of Arkansas under arms
or enlisted in some branch of the
government service that is charged
with the winning of the war.
And more are being called for, in
cluding the Fourth Regiment of vol
unteers now being organized.
They are in every branch of the
service, and there are some already
at the front facing the shrapnel and
liquid fire and poisonous gases of
the Madman of Potsdam, and some
of them wear upon their breasts the
French Croix de Guerre.
The people of Arkansas, in com
mon with the rest of the world, are
learning the lesson of giving, and
they are learning it well.
They are learning that money is
needed to win this war, as well as
men and munitions, and that we
must not give only our idle surplus,
but give until it means genuine sac
rifice.
They are investing liberally in
Liberty Bonds and War Savings
Stamps, and guaging their invest
ments by seven figures in the aggre
gate.
It would have been thought im
possible a few years ago to raise a
million dollars for any purpose
among the people of Arkansas.
It is no longer a measure of aris
tocracy to own government bonds—
everybody owns them, millionaires
and ditch-diggers, bankers and
school boys, rich planters and rib
bon-counter clerks.
A year ago the state banks held
only $2,040 worth, now they have
more than ten millions.
The people are giving generously
to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A.
war work, the Salvation Army War
work, the Fatherless Children of
France, the Belgian, Jewish and Ar
menian relief, and other funds, and
they realize that many other de
mands are inevitable.
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Arkansas, aside from those men
tioned, that are engaging the atten
tion of our people,—the State Council
of Defense with its county auxiliar
ies, the Food Administration which is
attempting to fix the price for staple
food products and prevent profiteer
ing, the Fuel Administration, which
is assisting in a solution of the fuel
shortage, and the various government
agencies, all of which are intimately
concerned in the conservation of re
sources to help win the war.
Industrial plants have been requi
sitioned far more than most people
know for the manufacture of things
needed in the equipment of our arm
i s.
Labor, and especially skilled labor
of all kinds, was never so scarce, and
it is impossible to secure enough men
to carry on the average volume in
some kinds of business.
Women are being employed in vo
cations heretofore confined to men—
the Little Rock Street Railway Com
nany seriously considers employing
them as conductors, some of the rail
roads are already using them as yard
and office clerks, they are doing some
of the lighter work around the saw
mills, and in many other ways they
ore taking the place of men gone to
war.
The increased cost of all commod
;ties. everything we eat and wear is
to familiar to everyone to require
repetition—all due to the war.
Cotton has gone to a higher price
*-han at any other time since the Civil
War—again the war is the cause.
We have meatless and wheatless
days, and lightless nights, we can
' uy only a few pounds of sugar at a
time, we are tagging our shovels to
save fuel, we have Hoover dresses,
and beltless coats, and cannot eat
crackers with our soup for luncheon.
Yes, Arkansas is in the war; if you
doubt it, look about you.
10.000.000 JOINED
RED GROSS IN BIG
8OUTHWE8TERN DIVISION LED
OTHER 12 IN UNITED STATES
IN NUMBER OBTAINED.
GRAND TOTAL NOW 22,000,000
Fifth of Entire Population of This
Country Belongs to the Great
“Army Behind the
Army.”
One-fifth of the entire population of
the United States belongs to the
American Red Cross.
Twenty-two million persons consti
tute the Army Behind the Army.
Sixteen million new members were
added as a result of the Christmas
membership campaign. Six million
citizens of the United States already
were members.
Ten million new members was the
goal set for the Christmas campaign.
Six million more than the required
number were obtained, 3,260,000 of
these coming from the Southwestern
dirision, which was made up by the
states of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and Texas,
The Southwestern division led the
other 12 divisions of the Red Cross
both as to the number of members ob
tained and from a percentage basis.
Wonderful Achievement.
The wonderful achievement of en
rolling one-fifth of the entire popula
tion of the United States as members
of the Red Cross is leBs a triumph
than it is a call to greater service, ac
cording to Henry P. Davison, chair
man of the War Council of the Red
Cross, who pointed out that greater
service and sacrifice must be the
watch word of the 22,000,000 mem
bers of this, the greatest organization
of Its kind the world has ever known.
Davison recently said in a telegram to
George W. Simmons, manager of the
Southwestern division of the Red
Cross:
"The latest reports available Indi
cate that the Christmas drive for 16,
000,000 new members for the Ameri
can Red Cross has resulted in the ad
dition of fully 16,000,000 name* to tts
rolls. This number, added to the more
than 6,000,000 members before Christ
mas campaign, makes the total pcoe
ent enrollment fully 22,000,000.
"This Is a magnificent fact—an ex
pression not alone of the patriotism
but of the fine sympathy and idealism
of the whole American people. >
"The Red Cross War Council con
gratulatee and welcomes every new
member of the America* Red Cress.
Likewise it congratulates the officers
and old members of tire organization
who have given unstintedly of their
time and effort to make this member
ship campaign a success; but the
wonderful achievement of enrolling
one-fifth of the entire population of
the United States as member* of the
American Red Cross is leas a triumph
than it is a call to greater service.
“The Red Cross ds not merely a hu
manitarian organization, separate and
inline! from others, but it is the mo
bilized heart and spirit of the whole
American people. The American Red
Cress is carrying a message of love
and sympathy to American soldiers
and sailors and to the troops and cl
vilian population of our allies in all
parts of the worlfl. It is seeking to lay
a, foundation for a more enduring
peace. As we stand on the threshold
pf a new year in this hour of world’s
iragedy, there can be but one thought
n the minds of the 22,000,000 mum
pers of the American Red Cross, and
shat is to serve and sacrifice as never
peforo.”
WHAT THE VICTORY OR
DEFEAT OF GERMANY
MEANS TO AMERICANS.
(Contributed by Garrett P. Serviss to
the National Security League’s cam
paign of Patriotism Through Educa
tion.)
The most fatal blindness that can
come upon any man is not to know
j his enemy when he sees him; to mis
take a smiling villian, with a dagger
concealed in his hand, for a friend.
Such moral cecity has often been the
disastrous product of simple, kindly,
good-nature; of an indisposition to
either do evil or suspect it in others.
The same thing is true of a nation,
and particularly of a republic like
ours, founded upon democratic ideas.
Out of this kind of blindness the
United States has suddenly found it
self aroused, and forced to tare the
scales from its eyes. The German
Kaiser’s empire has been our secret,
smiling foe almost from the time that
the king-loving Bismarck prepared
its foundations. Its covert enmity
has grown more bitter every year
since William II, with a rattle of his
sword, and a call upon the “Old Ger
man God”, the god of war and battle,
ascended his throne as a divinely
chosen representative of supreme
power over men, transmittei$')|J|jg|
editary succession from ?a robber
baron of the Middle Age ant;_
pathy was as natural as iaf 0f a se_
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cret law-defier to an upright judge,
for the autocrat in Berlin and his
supporters knew that their principles
of government were in dealy opposi
tion to the new law of liberty en
lightening the world. The aversion,
the concealed purpose, could not
always be kept from peeping out.
It peeped out in Manila Bay, in
1898, only to shrink before .the
steady eye of Admiral Dewey. It
peeped out in Venezuela, when there
was a Roosevelt on guard. It peeped
out in Mexico, in the Pacific, and, as
we now know, at many times and
places which escaped notice at the
moment. Like a crawling serpent it
crept into our very house, and hid
itself there, in the form of spies, un
lecognized in their disguise of false
friendship.
But “der tag” came, black with
violation of treaties, horrible with
outrage and murder, making of sea
and land a charnel-house into which
were mercilessly thiown old men and
helpless women, young girls and In
nocent babes, while the world was
hurled backard toward the chaos of
barbarism in order to put “Deutsch
land ueber Alles;“ to enthrone the
German Kaiser over all human pow
ers, and to extinguish the torch of
freedom for mankind. These extrav
agant-seeming words tell nothing but
the sober truth. The last three years
have so opened the eyes of men that
no language can exaggerate what
they behold.
Can any intelligent-liberty-loving
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for? Is it possible for him not to
comprehend 'that we must fight, and
fight with all the strength of our
arms, and all the determination that
steeled Washington at the beginning,
and Lincoln in the middle period, in
order to preserve the cause of dem
ocracy and human rights? In God’s
name, let none of our countrymen be
so blind as 'to doubt that an unde
feated Germany now would mean, in
the near future, an America “bled
white” to fill the depleted arteries of
the gorgon of military conouest and
autocratic rule that is sucking the
blood of half-prostrated Europe.
Let us all fight, in whatever way we
can; let there be no word but
“fight,” until the foul spirit that
brought on this abominable war, and
abased us all, has been laid dead!
STATE PENITENTIARY
ACCOUNTS ARE BEING
THOROUGHLY AUDITED
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 16.—State Comp-j
troller Reynolds is making a thor- j
ough audit of the accounts of the |
State Peni tentiary, back to 1913. He j
has been engaged on the work for j
the last three months, and says it
will take two months more.
TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL
FILED IN SUPREME COURT
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 16.—Walker V.
Powell, who was convicted June 21, j
on a charge of conspiracy in connec
tion with influencing legislation dur
Tng the last legislature, has filed his
transcript on appeal in supreme
court. He was fined $100 and sen-'
tenced to one day in jail.
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