DUD TOWN IS '
| ALWAYS SHUNNEC
Community With Such a Reputa
, tion Suffers as From a
.-TE Pestilence.
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RESTS WITH THE CITIZEN!
People Con Create and Maintain Proa
parity If They Will Keep Their
i_ Money at Home In Clr
! / culation.
i(Copyright, HIT, Wnltrn Newipapar Union.
, "Stay away from that town. It’s i
deed one.”
Do you want, that to he said o
your town? Of course you don’t, fo
/on Wish, as a matter of local pride, 1
or no other reason, to have you
own stand high In the estimation o
the world. But are you sure that yoi
are doing everything In your powe
to place your town in the posltloi
which you wish to occupy? That Is thi
question that every person should asl
himself or herself at frequent Inter
vals.
When things are running smoothly
when times are good, and when It 1
fairly easy to make a good living fo
the wife and kiddles, It Is so easy fo
a man to forget that these things di
not come to a town as a matter o
course, but are the result of th<
right kind of effort on the part of thi
.•ltlaens of the community. It Is si
easy for a man to grow careless ant
think that because this condition ex
lsted it will continue to exist withou
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other residents of the community
That Is why It Is Important for ever:
one to stop and think seriously onc<
In a while about what It would mem
to him If the prosperity that make!
life worth living for him should tak<
wings and fly away.
Nobody Loves a Dead Town.
Nobody likes to live In a dead town
No one even likes to visit a dead town
That Is why you sometimes hear tha
Warning, "Stay away from that town
It’s a dead one.” The town which has
the reputation of being a dead one suf
fers as if from a pestilence. Busl
ness men seeklug new locations wll
have none of It. The livo travellnj
'salesman, even, will glvo It a wld<
'berth. Those who live In It will gel
'away If they can.
When a town Is live and prosperous
local business Is good, real estate val
;ues are high and stable, labor Is It
demand and wages are good, the
; streets are well lighted, the residents
and their property are protected from
robbery and fire and good schools arc
'maintained for the education of the
children. When a town Is dead, there
is little money In circulation, store
buildings stand empty with “For Sale"
sign hanging on the front door, there
Is little employment for the laboring
man, the streets are dark, the schools
are crippled.
i What sort of town do you want to
live In? There is only one answer to
that question. You want to live In the
live town and enjoy all the good tilings
that come to the residents of such a
community.
Answer Easily Found.
The only question then is as to how
these prosperous conditions can be
created or maintained and It Is the
easiest thing In the world to find the
answer to that question.
xx iuo ycuyiw ui .u cuiuiuuuuj win
keep their money at home and keep It
in circulation among themselves, they
need have no fear of ever being com
pelled to live In a dead town. If the
people will patronize their own busi
ness men Instead of sending their dol
lars to the mall order houses, the
prosperity of the community will take
care of itself.
The local stores, to a very large ex
tent, make every town. The taxes
paid by the business men of the com
munity are the principal support of
the schools and public institutions. It
Is the taxes paid by the storekeepers,
to a large extent, that make possible
the public improvements, the fire pro
tection, the street lighting and the
many other things which make a town
worth living in. The mail order house
does not pay any taxes in the town
from which It gets Its money. It does
not help to support the schools or
che churches. It does not help light
the streets or maintain the fire de
partment It Is the aim of the mall
order houses to drive small town mer
chants out of business, so that the
people will bo compelled to send to
:ht cities for their merchandise and
they are spending thousands of dol
lars every month to accomplish this
purpose. If they should succeed, who
would pay the taxes that are now
paid by the local merchants? It’s a
certainty that the mall order house
would not pay them.
Issue Is Clear Cut.
Every dollar spent at home helps
to make the town a live one.
Every dollar sent away from home
to the mall order house helps to mnke
the town a dead one.
The Issue Is a clear-cut one and 16
squarely up to every resident of the
community, whether a resident of the
town Itself or of the country surround
ing it. The man who does not care
[whether he lives in a live or a dead
[town, if there Is such a man, need
waste no thought on the subject, but
the man who wonts to live in a live
town cannot get away from it. It Is
ap to him to make his tows a live one
HT t dead one. , .
'! YANKEE NURSES
lj SHOW METTLE
| Girls Behind the Men Behind thi
Guns Are Doing Great
Work.
; OVER 12,000 NOW THERI
. They Know They Have a Man-Size<
Job and They Are Tackling It in a
Man’s Way—Morale Ja
Perfect.
• London.—America has poured i
i veritable army of her womanhood Int<
war-torn Europe. To date over 12,OCX
f American nurses have been sent over
• Within the year there will be rigli
f here on the ground more than 24,(XX
• of these American “girls behind tht
! men behind the guns.”
i This Is the estimate of Miss Carrh
‘ M. Hall of Boston, hend of all Amerl
> can Red Cross nurses In Great Britain
i Of the 12,000 now here, betweet
’ 600 and 700 are working in Great Brit
• aln In the dozen or more America!
hospitals that have sprung Into lielnf
, within the past six months. The re
! malnder are staffing hospitals behind
the fines In France.
With the arrival of American sol
> dlers at Vladivostok came a contin
gent of nurses from the American Reci
1 Cross unit at Toklo, Japan. As hos
> tllltles and American casualties begir
1 there more United States nrmy regu
I lar nurses probably will be sent tc
Russia.
All Highly Trained.
All women sent over so far are high
; ly trained graduate nurses, bacteriolo
gists, dietitians and college trained
hygiene experts. The war department
[ In Washington has ruled that only
| these trained women may be sent over
for the time being, at least.
For this reason General Pershing’s
recent call for 5,000 girl workers with
the American army in France will be
filled by British Instead of American
girls. England’s women’s army, the
“Waacs” (Women’s Army Auxiliary
Corps) Is now conducting a nation
wide recruiting campaign here for
these British girl volunteers for duty
as clerks, chauffeurs, typists, orderlies,
telephonists, etc., with the American
army.
Practically every troop convoy
from the United States brings scores
more of these women experts. From
peace loving American homes that
have not yet felt the grim hand of
war these blue-clad Yankee girls, like
their big brothers, are plunging into
this maelstrom of war with a deter
mination and efficiency that has won
for them already the unstinted praise
of all the allies.
They know they’ve got a man-sized
Job before them, stripped of all the
so-called glamour of war, and they’re
tackling It In a man’s way. Up in the
field and base hospitals under shell
fire and valiantly braving air raid ter
rors, they’re “carrying on” untiringly,
J night and day, working unceasingly to
[ save the lives of our boys.
Miss Hall, who was one of the first
American nurses to arrive In France
immediately after the United States
decided to jump Into this job of wind
ing up the watch on the Rhine, was
witness of the sterling quality of
American womanhood In this wrar un
der fire.
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Morale Is Perfect.
“I was one of the first to come over
with the Harvard Base hospital unit.
No sooner were we landed than we
were attached to the British and hur
ried up near the first line to staff a
little tented hospital city near Cam
iers. There were two other American
field hospitals near us.
“It was a bright, moonlight night.
Our tents were shown up like a silver
city. At midnight the alarm sounded.
We leaped from our beds. There was
no panic. The hum of the Boche ma
chines was plainly audible. Suddenly
five deafening explosions told us they
had gotten our camp. It only lasted
about five minutes, hut in that short
time their five bombs dropped in a
straight line had nearly demolished
our camp.
“Tents containing American wound
ed were ripped to shreds, temporary
hospital buildings mowed down like
a pack of cards. Six soldier patients
were killed and a score or more in
jured. The morale of the nurses and
doctors was wonderful. Forgetting
self, they plunged into the work of
rescue.
“One girl, Eva Parmalee of Boston
was on duty in one of the tents most
badly hit. One bomb fell so near her
I clothing was ripped and torn by bits
of flying debris and pieces of sand
lodged In the flesh of her face. Un
( daunted, she carried on through it all,
rushing here and there aiding wound
i ed and assisting in *he work of rescue.
Not until it was all over did she no
| tice the state of her clothes or the bits
of sand in her face.”
WILSON NAME ON MEN’S GARB
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President Supplants King George V,
on Latest French Popular
Style Label.
Paris.—The name of President Wil
son has supplanted those of King
George V of England and of the late
Emperor Nicholas of Russia as a label
for popular styles in men’s wearing
apparel in the Paris shops.
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BUILDING
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I ROADS SAVED FRANCE TWICE
II Had It Not Been for Radiating System
I Germans Would Have Crossed
Marne and Reached Paris.
Good roads have twice saved France
in the present war, observes Farm and
Fireside. Had It not been for the radl
i atlng road system maintained by the
» French government, the Germans
, would huve won the battle of the
Marne and reached I’nris. The Ger
i mans had calculated on only three di
■ visions being sent out from Paris to
slop the Invasion. Instead, the excel
lent system of highways made it pos
sible for five divisions to he sent to
Repairing Highway in France.
this front. Again, .shortly after the ;
battle of Verdun started, the French !
railroad which was to furnish many of ;
the supplies to the troops was de
stroyed. The French government, how
ever. had a macadam road 32 feet wide
on which four lines of traffic, two in
either direction, were maintained. Day
and night 14,000 motortrucks carried
men and equipment.
The traffic never stopped. When a
hole was made in the road, a man with
a shovelful of rock slipped In between
the lines of trucks and threw the rock
Into the hole, then jumped, aside to let
the truck roll the rock down. Then an
other man would follow his example,
and so on until the hole was filled.
Trucks that broke down were shoved
aside and repaired alpiost instantly.
Had the French depended on their rail
road or on poor highways the Germans
would have won the Iwttle.
There are few places in which good j
roads will win great military victories.
But there are many places in which
they will win great victories in time of
peace. Whenever a crisis—military,
economic or social—occurs in the life
of a community, the condition of the
road is a significant factor in deter
mining whether the community will go
up or down, forward or backward. The
community with good roads Is the com
munity that will deliver the goods
when the necessity comes.
FEDERAL AID FOR HIGHWAYS
Under Terms of Act Secretary of Agri
culture May Deal With State
Highway Department.
Much misunderstanding seems to
prevail as to the means by which fed
eral aid in road building under the
federal aid road act of 1916 may be
obtained, says a recent publication of
the United States department of agri
culture.
“Many county officials and private
citizens," says the publication, “sub
mit to the department of agriculture
Inquiries or applications looking to the
obtaining of federal aid for a local high
way. To these inquiries and applica
tions the answer is Invariably made
that under the terms of the federal
act itself the secretary of agriculture
may deal only with the state highway
department of roads. Responsibility
for repair of roads upon which fed
eral aid is to be expended rests with
the state highway department."
ARMY TRUCKS INJURE ROADS
Enormous Cars Do Almost Irreparable
Damage to Highways, Improved
or Unimproved.
Every state highway, department
which has had experience with army
trucks knows that these enormous cars
do almost irreparable damage to all
roads, Improved or unimproved. This
is particularly true when the autos
move in trains, as is customary.
Annual Cost of Roads.
Road construction and maintenance
In the United States involve an an
nual outlay of over $300,000,000, a sum
which, if capitalized at 5 per cent,
would represent an investment of $8,
000.000,000.
Good Roads Essential.
Good roads are absolutely essential (
to progressive farming and satisfying
country life. The best farmers cau
not afford to live where there are no
roads and no means of marketing
what they produce.
PROPOSED NE# CONSTITUTION
Synopsis and Comments on Improvemeats Mads Over ths
Constitution of 1874.
AMENDMENTS.
Art. XX, Sec. 38, 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
publication to be at least sixty days prior to the election; a majority of those
voting at an election is necessary for the adoption of an amendment.
While more latitude is 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
under the Initiative and Referendum, but the Genera# Assembly
is still restricted to 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, the 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. m, 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 the
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. The 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 wras 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 j ust 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, 8ec. 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 en 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.
The business of the Supreme Court has more than doubled in
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-flVe years, and its adoption is
recommended by the Arkansas Bar Association. The article,
hv enmo nf +hp fcfnto’s nlilpst lnwvpvs rilnops tho iurlioinw
on the highest possible plane. The new judges will not be elected
until 1920. It has been said that a judge is supposed to be 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 propose* measure shall
be published thirty days before filing with the Secretary of State, which shall
be four 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 he 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
ai 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 lomoves 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 fet
system, ___ -- nfjfijiri
TIME CARD- JKk|
l Change in time Mi*«o«ri \
train*, effective 12:01 a m., 9«ia*3r’
| November 17th, 1918.
North Bound
No. 2 Fast Pass, (no »top)Ar.
No. 34 Local passenper, Ar. 10:88am.
No. 4 Fast passenger, Ar. 11:59 am.
No. 92 Local freight,
No. 30 Local passenger, ArS^®!^”-*
No. 6 Fast Passenger, Ar. 9:30 pi
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.
tNo. 5 Fast passenger, Ar. 5:55 am.
No. 7 Mail train (no passen- A
gers) Ar. 9:10 an.
No. 93 Local freight, Lv. 8:00 an.
No. 3 Fast passenger, Ar. 5:48 pif.
No. 33 Local Pas. Ar. 7:20 pm. ^
Leaves 7:46 _jn i
White River Division.
No 210 Passenger, Lv. 6:10 *i .
jNo. 254 Mixed Pas. and freight
Leaves 12:10 p: i.
No 251 Mixed Pas. and freight
Arrives 11:00 a i.
No. 205 Passenger, Ar. 7:80 p|u
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COMMITTEE ISSUES
FAIR PRICE LISr.
At a recent meeting oi tne xur
Price Committee/’ appointed by t$a
County Food Administrator, the fal
lowing were agreed upon
fair prices:
Wheat flour, 24-lb sacks-$1.58
Wheat flour, 48-lb. sacks-$8.11
Flour less 24-lb. lot---flVic
25-lb sack country meal-$1.28
25-lb. sack cream meal--$1.48
10-lb. sack cream meal-60c
Rolled oats, 22-oz. pks._15e
Rolled oats, 55-oz. pkg. -86c
Bread, 16-oz. loaves _n_-_
Corn starch, 1-lb. pkg
Rice, 1-lb _4
Navy beans, 1-lb_17%c
Lima beans, 1-lb. __20e
Pinto beans, 1-lb. _18c
Bulk lard, compound_ 80c
Bulk lard, pure_85c
1 %-lb. net wt. lard substitute—50c
2- lb. net wt. lard substitute_66c
3- lb. net wt. lard substitute_ $1.00 |
4- lb. net wt. lard substitute_$1.29
5- lb. net wt. lard substitute_ $1.60 I
6- lb. net wt. lard substitute-$2.00
8-lb. net wt. lard substitute_ $2.54 I
10-lb. net wt. lard substitute —$3.18
No. 10, pure lard, 1-lb._-_36c
No. 5-lb. pure lard, 1-lb._86c
Canned corn, per can_-_20c
No. 2 tomatoes _18c
No. 3 tomatoes__19c
Evaporated apples -21c
Evaporated peaches _22Vic
Corn syrup, blue Karo _80c
Corn syrup, 5-lb. blue Karo-40e
Potatoes, 314 c per lb. over peck lot*
Less peck lots, per lb.-M
These prices must be rigidly o|B
served and are in effect inynedifitejK
after publication. Imk
These prices will be changed frgHl
time to time as condition warrant. KJ
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE Bj,
for Jackson County.
PROTECT THE CHILDREN. M
Children are as likely to get
grip and influenza as groWn-upW
Foley’s Honey and Tar gives
relief from ell kinds nf cmurha. Hm
croup and whooping cough; covers!
raw, inflamed surfaces with a healing!
soothing coating; clears - air pss-l
sages, checks strangling, choking!
coughing. Contains no opiates.—I
Walker’s Pharmacy. (Adv.) flj
DON’T INVITE A COLD OR THE 1
CRH*. j!
If you feel “stuffed up,”
bilious, languid or have sick headac Hi
sour stomache, coated tongue, b®t
breath or other condition caused b®
slowed up digestion, a Foley Catha®
tic Tablet will give prompt relief. !■
is a gentle, wholesome, thorough®
cleansing physic that leaves l»r| ‘' |M
after-effects.—'Walker’s Pharma#.®
CUT THIS OUT—IT IS WORTH
MONEY. jl
Don’t Miss This. Cut this si®
enclose with 5c to Foley & Co., 28®
Sheffield Ave., Chicago, 111., writ!®
your name and address clearly. Y®
will receive in return a trial pac®
age containing Foley’s Honey a®
Tar Compound, for coughs, colds a®
croup, Foley Kidney Pills and Fol®
Cathartic Tablets.—Walker’s Pha®
macy (Adv.) IS.
FULL OF COLD; HAD THE GrI
Many will be pleased'to re^j|®
Lewis Newman, 606 NorthraiidS®
Charleston, W. Va., was restored tm
health. He writes: “I vvas dow!
sick and nothing would do me an!
good. I was full of cold. Had thy
grip until I got two 50c bottles o|
Foley’s Honey and Tar. It jg the be®1
remedy for grip and colds Ij®|
used.” —WTalker’g Pharmacy
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