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'Members of the Associated Press.
'' The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication of
•n news dispatches credited to it or
not otherwise credited in this paper
ind also the local news published
herein.
All rights or republication of spe
cial dispatches herein are also re
served.
There Will be a wonderful develop
ment of Arkansas during the next
few years. No section is more liable
to development than this, of which
Newport is the principal point. It
requires organization on the part of
business men to bring improvements
to a section. With a Chamber of
Commerce Newport will be able to
make the most of the changes that
will be brought about during the
coming few years. For that purpose
a mass meeting of citizens is sched
uled for tomorrow night at the court
house. You are invited and urged
to attend. Be a party to the devel
opment of a new era.
Since there is to be a roundup of
loafers and vagrants, it is hoped the
movement will have a good effect in
Newport. It is stated there is an el
ement of colored men on the lake
front that indulge in nothing except
idleness and debauchery, and com
plaint has been made of the immoral
conditions that obtain among this
class of people in that section of the
city.
Have you purchased your war sav
ings stamps yet? These stamps are j
the greatest bargain ever offered the J
American people; and when one;
fails to obtain a supply of them he j
overlooks an opportunity to make a j
paying financial investment.
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Governor Brough will not call a
special session of the legislature for
the reason that .many members will
not forego their per diem to sit
through the assembly for a few days.
These members should not be asked
to serve for nothing, and it does not
become a state so great as Arkansas
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If you are with us, be
among the 300 Boost
ers at the Court House
Wednesday at 7:30p. m.
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;o ask them to do so. The obvious
;hing now to do, we believe, is for
the prohibition forces to join hands
and create a fund to defray the ex
penses of the session. However, this
should not be necessary, for the voice
of the people has spoken on the sub
ject of a special session, and the gov
imor would make no mistake in plac
ing the state to the necessary ex
pense.
WOMAN POLICE FORCE.
Associated Press Dispatch.
Washington, March 5.—The War
department has established a woman
police force.
With more than a million and a
half men already in khaki, and mil
lions more awaiting the call to the
colors, the department has turned to
ance in disposing of a vital wartime
problem.
Thousands of young women have
the so-called weaker sex for assist
gone to the vicinity of the military
camps. To see that these girls are
protected from dangers, the depart
ment’s commission on Training Camp
Activities has appointed fifty-five
women deputy sheriffs to do scouting
and patrol work. In all parts of the
country the women are on duty under
the supervision of especially estab
lished Girls’ Protective Bureaus.
Girls actually resident in the vicin
ity of the camps are protected. Run
aways are restored to their parents,
and amusement places are scruten
ized carefully. The work offers an
opportunity for the officer to exer
cise discretion, sympathy, and a
knowledge of human nature that par
ticularly are her own.
These women are trained sociologi
cal workers and so peculiarly equip
ped for efficient service. Their duties
are intensely personal in character
and are concerned chiefly with indi
viduals. Although co-operating close
ly with the military authorities and
local police, they wear no uniform,
badge or distinguishing mark of any
kind.
“Often”, says Miss Maude Minor,
chairman of the committee on Pro
tective Work for Girls, “the women
protective officers find girls in the
vicinity of the camps who are attrac
ted by the presence of the uniform.
Some of these are girls who have an
swered advertisements and who ar
rive in camp cities with insufficient
funds; others are runaways from
their homes in nearby aities and
country towns. A girl resident of
the town, who is disposed to resist
discipline, is taken to her home by the
woman officer and her mother warn
ed of her danger. The officers also
visit nearby amusement places to
discover young girls who seem to
need protection and to see that local
oidinances are obeyed.”
To place an advertisement in the
Independent is to carry your message
to the attention of the wise house
wife who needs your wares and de
pends upon the Independent to keep
her posted.
SOLDIER AND SOCIAL GLASS.
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It is a punishable crime to sell in
toxicating beverages to men in uni
form or by any means whateoever tc
supply them With intoxicants in theii
camps or in public places, but it it
not a punishable crime to offer a “so
cial glass” to a soldier guest in a pri
vate home. The latter practice has
been denounced as contrary to law,
although the law does not forbid it, j
and the misconception has now been
cleared away by the following an
nouncement of Attorney General
Gregory:
“Alcoholic liquor, including beer,
ale and wine, either alone or with
any other article, shall not, directly
or indirectly, be sold, bartered, giv
en, served or knowingly delivered to
any officer or member of the mili
tary forces, except when adminis
tered for medical purposes by or un
der the direction of a regularly li
censed physician or army surgeon;
providing that this regulation shall
not apply to the giving or serving of
such liquor in a private home to
members of the family or bona fide
guests."
The department of Justice does not
find it necessary to follow the soldier
into his own home or when he is a
guest in the home of a friend, and
there are two obvious reasons for
this. No soldier is likely to drink to
excess under such circumstances, and
not to permit such a passing of the
social glass would limit the freedom
of the citizen’s home to an undesir
able extent not demanded by the pub
lic need of war time.
TRY TO CONCEAL LOSSES.
Paris, Jan. 19—(Correspondence of
the Associated Press)—Germans are
trying to conceal their airplane losses
and augment those of the Entente
Allies, according to French officials.
Their last communique on the subject
said that “in December the enemy
aerial forces have lost 119 airplanes
and nine captive balloons. We have
lost in aerial combats 82 airplanes
i and two captive balloons.”
French authorities report that in
December the English brought down
65 German machines and the French
41, making a total of 106 instead of
84 admitted by the Germans. The
French claim of enemy machines does
not include 35 German machines
which were seen to fall but the loss
of which has not been officially con
firmed. The- combined British and
French aerial losses during Decem
ber were 43 machines instead of 128
claimed by Germany. Of these Brit
ish lost 32 and the French 11.
The German “camouflage” in the
communique is found the words
“in aerial combats.” It is pointed out
that the Germans forget to include
the number of their machines brought
down by anti-aircraft guns of the Al
lies while they claim as losses all al
lied machines seen to fall within their
own lines and many of which are vir
tually undamaged.
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WE ARE STILL
BOOSTING
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AND believe that, with a Chamber of Com- '
merce of 300 members, Newport will double
its population in five years, and that means
more business and more money for all of us. So get
in the band wagon and help organize one of this
kind on a business basis by business men at the j
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I! Court House Wednesday night at /:;>U. You will I
not be able to forget the day if you will look and
! listen then.
j We are still the Biggest and Best and Lowest Priced ;
! Hardware and Implement House between Little Kock
I and St. Louis, but with the Chamber of Commerce
j we intend to grow 50 per cent in three years. Help us.
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I Hardware Co. I