THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front St„ NEWPORT, ARIL
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Daily—Single eepy, § eenta; per
week 10 centa; per menth, 40 eenta;
Ct year, |4.50 in advance, by carrier
City, by nudl in eenntry.
Weekly—|i.00 per year, payable la
lijim
Catered at the poetefflee, Newpert,
Arkanaaa, aa tecond-claaa mail mat
ter. -
The Oiling of Streets.
Cities of our class as well as
the larger ones of the country
have found from experience that
oil sprinkling serves all the pur
poses of water sprinkling and
more at a very much less cost to
the property owners or resi
dents.
For twenty-five foot fronts in
our business section the rate is
50 cents per week or $2.00 per
month and in the residence sec
tion the same rate applies for
the fifty foot lots. In a six
months season of sprinkling, the
cost runs $12 per lot.
In the oil sprinkled cities of
Missouri for comparison, the
cost of two applications, which
is amply sufficient forthe season,
is $2.50 to $3 for the fifty foot
lot. The oil costs 3 cents a gal
Ion and to reimburse the city for
the cost of oil and putting it on,
the residents along any oiled
street are required to pay $2.5C
to $3 for the season’s service!
Two applications are necessa
ry for both the macadam ant
the dirt streets, and the results
are much more satisfactorj
than from water sprinkling ant
at a cost of only one-fourth.
Oil prevents the whirl of thi
I automobile from carrying th<
I fine dust off of a macadan
I street and thus adds to its life
It keeps the dirt street fron
taking lip so much of the rain
fall and thus keeps it in bettei
condition. You don’t have th<
mud part of the day and perhaps
the dust the other- You don’
have your streets cut up as thej
are when the water sprinkling i;
too heavy. You rid a street o:
the blinding glare the sun wil
give a dirt or rock road anc
about the only drawback yoi
have through the oiling is th(
fact that long skirts will catch r
portion of it and the shoes wil
carry it into your homes unless
care is exercised.
But upon the whole, the oi
sprinkling has so many advan
tages and its cheapness provides
for a more general use than th<
rates upon water sprinkling al
low. Perhaps it is too late this
season to consider the plan, bul
we suggest it now that the coun
cil and residents may give il
consideration before anothei
season brings again the dusl
problem.
Time To Act Is Now.
Newport has already securec
an appropriation and site for :
handsome government building
but wherever you go am
find government buildings cost
ing from $30,000 to $70,000, yoi
|\ find a variety of designs. Yoi
find cities that are proud ol
these structures and cities thal
have been disappointed in whai
* they secured.
From a government architect
who superintends the construe
tion of these buildings, we lean'
that the department at Wash
ington has a number of types ot
buildings all costing about the
same amount of money but vary
ing greatly in appearance and
material used.
This architect says that the
Greek Doric type of building
which is faced entirely with
stone, has met with far more
popular favor of all designs.
His advice in getting such a
building was to put your money
more in the appearance, in the
stone and leave out the brick ev
en if the building was made
much less fire-jroof.
Government building? are a!
ways apart from others on a
large site, there is little risk in
fire and the cost ought to go into
appearance and beautiful, per
manent styles of architecture
for this very reason. The de
signs for these buildings are se
lected by the Treasury depart
ment at Washington and before
the choice is made, it is a well
known fact that one’s congress
man can secure the ear and aid of
those officials.
Why not investigate this mat
ter now, for once the choice is
made, we would have no alterna
tive except to accept graciously
what was offered. Our congress
man Mr. Oldfield secured this
appropriation and his cordial
friendship for and interest in
our city are too well known to be
doubted. The proper parties to
lay this matter before him are
our city officials and our im
provement organizations and
the time to do so is now.
Future Gambling.
Those who have grown rich
and who are making money by
gambling in cotton futures have
all of a sudden become solicitous
of the welfare of the poor far
J mer, and especially the members
of those gambling institutions
called cotton exchanges, and
they are flooding the country
with literature to the effect that
if cotton buyers are not permit
ed to “hedge” the farmers will
be ruined.
But there is no hedging in
other commercial pursuits,
which seem to succeed on the
1 whole rather well. The mer
chant who lays in a large sup
ply of goods and arranges to
stock up his store six months in
advance has no way to hedge
against either a change in fash
1 ion or commercial depression
' He has to take his chances. It
1 is the same in every other busi
ness. Those who have cotton to
sell for future delivery can do
so under the proposed law just
as they do now, providing they
actually make the delivery, and
making the delivery is not sc
difficult.
I Irish potatoes, for instance,
I are a necessity of life. They
are traded in on exchanges, but
entail actual delivery. \They va
ry in price from 40 cents to
$1.50 a bushel, according to the
inevitable laws of supply and
demand. For want of a future
board the consumption of pota
toes is not lessened, and thus
the same conditions would be
true of cotton without a future
board.
Cotton mills cannot spin fu
tures. They must have the ac
tual cotton. In New York, for
[instance, they have several
thousand bales of dogtaiied cot
ton that has been tumbled about
from one to another for manv
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years, and this is offered to any
i purchaser of futures who de
[ mands actual delivery.
The grade of cotton dealt in
; is never delivered, and is never
| obtainable, and the gamblers do
• | not make if necessary to have it
done. New York alone trades
in about 75,000,000 bales annu
' ally, and delivers to consumers,
j approximately, one-quarter of
I a million bales each year. A
person may buy strict middling
j or good middling on the New
j YorkCotton exchange, but when
j it comes to actual delivery he is
tendered dummy or dope cotton
that is kept on hand to evade the
law.
In spite of all that may be
said against it the pending
measure in congress would be a
great saving to the country.
Thousands of people who make
a living by sending out daily tel
egrams and letters intended to
influence the market in what
ever way will serve their inter
ests would probably be driven
into some other kind of busi
ness. But the trading in the ac
tual commodity would not be in
terfered with, because people
would continue to raise cotton.
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spinners would continue to spin
it, and the great human family
would continue to wear it just
as is now being done. As has
been heretofore admitted such
a radical change might tempo
rarily produce unsettled condi
tions, but the saving would be
so great, and the burden taken
from the cotton industry so
considerable, that very soon the
beneficent effects of the change
would be felt and admitted.—
Memphis News-Scimitar
Mending Others* Morals.
The Pharisees are not all dead
yet, and the “holier-than-thou”
conceit still exists on earth.
An American suffragette has
aroused the ire of the women of
Germany by saying to their
faces, in Berlin, that it “ought
to be the mission of the Ameri
can women in the fatherland to
lift German women out of the
i mire of immorality in which
’ they live ”
Naturally the German ladies
' who had been invited to attend
the meeting and hear the speech
were displeased.
But the insult is not to the
Germans alone, nor is it an un
common one.
Every self-assertion of moral
superiority is an affront to all
propriety and an Insult to all de
cency.
rr» n . . _,_ v _
JL i tic vjrciiiiaii vyumcu nave
some customs that in this coun
try are not to be approved. But
so have American women many
customs that would not be toler
ated in Germany.
Neither people has any right
to judge the other. There are
temperamental differences not
possible to analyze and under
stand.
It is as rank phariseeism to
day as ever it was to set oneself
up as a model of morality and
judge others’ forms and customs
without having felt their vital
> forces.
Mending the morals of other
people is pleasant business, but
I not very profitable.
Enormously greater results
may be obtained by striving to
j mend our own.
I This rule applies to suffra
| gettes and to nations, as well as
it does to individuals.
The American club women
who are in the business of mor
al-mending need not as yet go
abroad to find material to work
upon. They have not yet fin
ished their job at home.—Mem
phis News-Scimitar.
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Making Mistakes
You are making a mistake if you are not keeping a bank
account. Depositing your money and paying out by
check will help you to get ahead; shows where your mo
ney goes, that you might save; best receipt possible, and
keeps you from paying bills twice. There are lots of
reasons. Why not start today?
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The dollar mark is the on ly mark that is recognized in all
lands. Money rules the world. You can be one of th*
rulers if you open a bank account. Only the habit of saV
ing secures chi s'dollar mark—the mark of the worlds
most successful men.
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