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s The Memphis Commercial Appeal, a
fjhpwspaper that always has the inter
f, asfcxof the entire south at heart, has,
Iflklong with many good newspapers
gin Arkansas, voiced the necessity of
- Governor Brough calling a special
1 session of the legislature for the pur-!
By^ipae of remedying the defects of the
l|‘:bone-dry law or to draft a new law
; that will stand Up. The appeal for
|, the governor to take this step is be
!<*' coming stronger every day. Already
^tl»0 ill effects resulting from the leak
If in the law have become visible in ev
Plgsrv section of the state, and we be
, lieve a majority of the people would
KaaiMftion the action of the governor
: in calling the legislature in special
jp We may be able to survive the win
I term but ^ome of the incoming poetry
Ipbn the subject is gradually wearing
g| away our frame work.
Jackson county is producing a
%. mighty fine bunch of, office seekers,
; and every week brings out a new hand
shake. Next to bgtng elected, the
pJMurd st tasfe-these candidates have to
i face isJCaming the feminine grip.
"'TKere’s a certain art in it, men, and
||tfee man Who masters this art proba
* hly will be the one who .lands a lot
votes. Besides being the master of
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her own vote, the average woman is
master of her own household, and
when she starts to take an interest in
politics, she’s liable to carry the whole
family for her favorite candidate.
Not that the women will fail to , size
you up generally, Mr. Candidate, for
they will; but you will find there’s
something to this handshake, and
you’d better get on friendly terms
with the wife again and polish up a
bit.
Announcement is made of the dis
covery of a wholesale plot of the In
dustrial Workers of the World to de
stroy industries and shipping on the
f acific coast. When these German
sympathizers are caught they ought
to be lined up and shot and receive
the treatment they deserve. They
have been royally entertained by this
country long enough.
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The Arkansas Gazette is so well
established in the world that it is no
longer necessary for exchange editors
to credit articles from that paper
with anything except Gazette, and the
old lady is so well known in some sec
tions that some of the editors feel
that to give any credit at all is un
necessary.
Three hundred hens owned by Mrs.
E. S. Dunlap of Fulton county, Mo.,
earned $1,082 for their owner during
1917. Each hen laid an average of
140 eggs during the year.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of the follow
ing persons, subject to the action of
the Voters at the city primary in
Newport, Wednesday, February 27,
1918.
For Marshal—
Abe Ballew.
G. C. Martin
For Recorder—
B. G. Graham.
For Mayor—
E. L. Watson.
For Treasurer—
C. P. Bandy.
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Fifteen Men From Arkansas
Were on Torpedoed Ship
According to information which has
been sent out by the war department,
15 Arkansas men were aboard the
Tuscania when she was torpedoed by
a German submarine. The list of
survivors has not yet been announced.
Lieut. John H. Sutton, reported
aboard the ship when she was sunk,
was born at Holly Grove, and is a
graduate of the Second Officers’
Training School at Leon Springs,
Texas. He is a brother-in-law of O.
G. Stegman, 1004 East Ninth street,
and his wife is now living with her
brother’s family. Following is the
list of Arkansans:
First Lieut. John H. Sutton, Jr.,
Little Rock, 100th Aero Squad.
Private William E. Bennett, Rog
ers.
Sgt. Thomas M. Clanon, Tyronza,
13th Aero Squad.
Private William E. Moore, Hope,
20th Engineers.
Private Lee F. Jackson, Celite, 20th
Engineers.
Private Lee O. Shull, DeQueen,
20th Engneers.
Corporal Russell H. Rowe, Lepanto,
20th Engineers.
Private James R. Politto, Hunting
ton, 20th Engineers.
Private John Richardson. Junction
City, 20th Engineers.
Sgt. Max W. Friend, Fort Smith,
20th Engineers.
Private Grover C. Edington, Mil
ner, 20th Engineers.
Corp. Nathan B. Short, Stephens,
20th Engineers.
Private Horace Cox, Rebcll, 20t'n
Engineers.
Private James L. Carter, El Dorado,
20th Engineers.
Private Edward L. Anderson, Bige
low, 20th Engineers.
The list does not include the names
of Lieut. Shelby M. Saunders of De
Queen and Private Velvin R. Herndon
of Lewisville, who previously were
reported to have been on the Tusca
nia. Lieut. Saunders reported his
rescue in a cablegram received here
Thursday by his sister, Mrs. F. W.
Hamilton, 521 Palm street.—Gazette.
General News in Brief Paragraphs
After directing that $9,000 be giv
en to each of his sons, Bertrus B.
Templin of Wabash, Ind., inserted a
clause that $l,OOo should be deducted
from the sum for the son who used
tobacco in any form.
The service flag on £he state peni
tentiary at Salem, Ore., has 16 stars
on the field of white. Sixteen con
victs have been paroled for war ser
vice, after they had proved their
faith by being model prisoners.
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Because he declared that “85 per
cent of the American soldiers are
bums,” Frank Brunei', a railroad ma
chinist, of Waterloo, la., was painted
yellow from head to foot by fellov
employes. The company approved
the action by discharging Bruner.
The requirements for Uncle Sam’s
soldiers and sailors during the year
will be about 70,000,000,000 cans of
food. Figuring each can at 5 inches
in height, they would reach, end on
end, more than twenty times around
the earth.
Congressman Eugene Black of
Clarksville, Texas, recently returned
to the treasury at Washington,
$150.16 left over from his quota for
clerk hire, thereby establishing a pre
cedent and startling treasury depart
| ment officials.
In an unsigned letter received by
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
was $108 in bills and a note saying:
“I am deeply repentant for having
defrauded the government out of this
sum.” The bills were found later to
be counterfeit.
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To save paying four cents war tax
H. M. Kirschner, merchant of Eliza
beth, W. Va., paid his railroad fare
in short jumps, instead of buying a
continuous trip ticket. At Parkers-*
burg he was found guilty of trying to
avoid the tax, and fined $80.
So scarce are negro men laborers
in the vicinity of Mobile, Ala., that
women are being employed in saw
mills, in veneering plants and box
factories. They are said to be effi
cient workers. Some are receiving
$1.25 a day and others even more.
After dressing himself in his best
clothes and making all arrangements
for his funeral, J. I. Eaves, an elec
trician of Birmingham, Ala., com
mitted suicide. He left a note to his
brother saying he expected to find
better living conditions in hell. “If
this is life let me stay in hell always,”
he wrote.
George Arbucklc, a laborer of St.
Paul, Minn., found a pocketbook con
taining $1,000 belonging to John
Kroener, a jeweler. When he return- j
cd the currency the jeweler looked at
him in contempt, tossed a quarter to
the honest man, and said: “Take this
money to buy a rope, and go hang
yourself for a fool.”
While Joseph Daldamus of New
York City tramped the streets trying
to buy coal at any price, his wife and
two months old babe stayed in bed to
keep warm. When Laldamus return
ed with 50 pounds of coal his wife met
him at the door and said something
was wrong with the child. He drew
back the cover and found that the
baby was dead.
CALL AN EXTRA SESSION.
The people of Arkansas should not
stand quietly with their liquor laws
as they are construed by the recent
decision of the supreme court.
The Commercial Appeal is not
criticising the decision of the supreme
court. If the law was faulty, if it
: did not reach the end sought, the su
preme court was, under its oath and
under its conscience, bound so to de
clare it.
Now, when men seek to accom
plish certain things in representative
governments, the means of the ac
i complishment should be according to
the law. It is necessary for the con
tinuance of the government by law.
The governor of Arkansas should
call at once an enxtra session of the
legislature and have legislation
passed that will prohibit the importa
null U1 UV^UUi ilivu out
sonal and private use.
The right to bring in wine for sac
rament or to bring in alcohol for arts
is clearly distinct from bringing great
-quantities of liquor into the state to
be used for the purpose of moderate
or immoderate drinking.
It would be better to have liquor
sold under a license system in the
state of Arkansas than to have a law
prohibiting its sale or manufacture
in the state, but providing for it to
be imported for boozing purposes.
Men of legal ability ought now to
prepare a bill which will cover the
faults ascertained by the supreme
court, get the governor to call the
legislature, and enact it.
There are a good many good things
come out of Arkansas into Memphis
and West Tennessee, but we want no
liquor coming into Tennessee from
Arkansas, and nine-tenths of the
people of Arkansas at present want
no great quantities of liquor going
into that state from other states.
And in times of national peril the
country is not sufficiently strong in
man power to permit even one per
cent of its men to impair their use-,
fulness by weakening their physical
and moral fiber because of drinking.
—Memphis Commercial Appeal.
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FIVE-COUNTY MEETING.
There will be a meeting in Bates
ville, Tuesday, February 5th, of the
consuls, clerks, deputies and mem
bers of the M. W. A. of Jackson, In
drpendencet Sharp, Stone and Izard
counties. During the afternoon and
night, there will be five reels of mov
ing pictures run, showing the great
work the M. W. of A “Life Saving
Station” is doing—fighting and cur
ing the White Plague. A motion pic
ture of facts—not fiction. Every
citizen should make an effort to see
these pictures. They are different
from the ordinary. 251d5t wit
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registration notice.
Notice is hereby given that all Ger
man alien enemies are by the govern
ment required to register, and such
aliens residing within this community
are hereby notified to call at the post
office in Newport, Ark., omeither the
4th, 5th, 6th, th, 8th or 9th days of
February, 1918, within the usual bus
iness hours for the purpose of REG
ISTERING.
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