The Mena weekly star., May 01, 1919, Page 4, Image 4

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1^ Finding a Market j
for the Producer J
I1I7ITH0UT a market, agriculture could not be the
** basis of our national prosperity that it is. *
Marketing turns production into wealth and those p
agenoies that help farmers find profitable outlets are g
important aids to the country’s welfare. Stripped of &
all discussion, the function of the packers is to find mar- “
Iketa. Because of their success in doing this, Armour j|
and Company are today “The American Fanner’s Big- jg
gest Customer.” ®
Outlets must be maintained
tor normal supply. Foreign
sales must be developed for ex
cess yield. In & shortage of
any product, acceptable alter
natives must bo distributed to
relieve the need and to keep
markets ready when the yield
I* again heavy. Freeh com
modities which will not bear
transportation, and would thus
be unprofitable to produce,
must be packaged for reserve
nee elsewhere. There must be
manufacture and sale of ell by
I products. And these ere
among the services which Ar
mour end Company rendsr—
one of the economla reasons
why we handle food la so many
different forms.
i To perform ejfftdewflp, our
•afire system ho# to operate M
• whole. It will not function
piece-meal. Our preparation
plants, at points where foods
•re grown, would become
choked without our four hun
dred Branch Houses absorbing
production. Our Branches,
carrying the sereral days’ re
serve supply that makes users
well nigh Independent of rail
road uncertainties, must con
tinually wage a competitive
tight for sales. We must finance
produoera for the thirty, sixty
or ninety days necessary—pay
cash for raw products, and
then prepare, transport and
eell on oustomary credits. Our
refrigerator cars have to be
steadily carrying the supply J
forward to the tables of the S
nation. As the Interstate Com- 3
merce Commission in its report V
of August last says: A
“The carriers (railroads) of tj
the country could not so efTec- jj
tively handle the entire refrig- ig
erator car equipment as Is now j3
done by the Intervention of pii- |f
vate ownera. The meat packer g
could no more do business on Q
an economical and efficient a
basis without his private cars
than ha could without hie
modern equipped refining or
packing plant."
Marketing, however, does not
consist merely In taking what H
producers offer and selling it.
Scientific selling must begin
with the beet growing of those
foods the country most needs.
To this end our Farm Bureau
was Inaugurated—as a point
of contact with growers and -1
to help bring about a better M
understanding of mutual prob- §1
lems ^
And It is largely because A
Armour and Company are thus IS
continuously working to niar- 3
ket the products of the Amerl
can farm that you are sure of ^
eteady food supply. Under- j
standing this, you must appre
ciate that In asking your dealer '3
for Armour Products you are
lending your support to a sys- ■
tern that works to the country’s §
economic good and to your own y|
best Interest. >;
I ARM OUR COMPANY
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[WILSON HAS ROW
VI OFFHMFAMILY
Bren Democratic Leaders Would Have
Postmaster General Burleson Oust
ed—Alarmed at Inefficiency of
the Postal System.
Washington, April 23.—"While Pres
ident Wilson is abroad shaping world
peace his official family has become
mvolved in an old fashioned row, of
which Postmaster General Burleson is
the storm center,
A movement is on foot to force Bur
leson from the Cabinet—a movement
shied and abetted by Democratic
leaders, who blame the Postmaster
General for the unpopularity of the
administration. This has been evi
denced in various ways, but most con
cretely by the disastrous defeat of
the administration and the Democratic
party in the congressional election
last November.
President’s Advisers Alarmed.
The men behind the warfare on
Barleson include some of the most im
portant members of the administra
tion and closest advisers of the Presi
dent. They have become alarmed by
Urn evidences of dissatisfaction thru
oot the country with the increasing
inefficiency of the postal system under
lhe Burleson regime, by the muddle
produced by’taking over the telegraph
and telephone lines; Burleson’s arbi
trary consolidation and management
of the systems, and advance of rates,
and by Burleson’s clashes with or
ganized labor.
As chief political adviser of the
President Burleson likewise is blamed
for Wilson’s ill fated efforts to elect
Joe Davies to the Senate in Wiscon
sin by means of the “acid test” letter,
to put Ford over in Michigan first as
a Republican and then as a Democrat
and to elect a Democratic congress
last fall by means of the partisan ap
peal the president issued to the voters.
The World Turns on Wilson.
The New York World, ehief organ
of the administration, has lined up
with the Democratic element seeking
Burleson’s scalp, and is authority for
the statement that the president him
aelf at the first cabinet meeting fol
lowing the congressional election, re
proached Burleson for advising him
to issue the partisan appeal.
Defenders of Burleson accuse his
official enemies of seeking a sacrificial
goat in order to divert public atten
tion from their own mistakes and oth
er causes for the unpopularity. They
contend that Burleson had nothing to
do with the “acid test," which it is as
serted was framed by Davies and Jos
eph P. Tumulty, the president’s sec
retary; that he had nothing to do with
the scheme to elect Ford and that he
is no more to blame for the partisan
appeal last November than is Mr. Tu
multy, who assidiously read the life
of Lincoln in a vain search for prece
dents for such partisanship.
Wilson Admits the Blunder.
The World does not mention Tumul
ty, but, according to the gossip to
which it refers, the president observed
at that cabinet meeting;
“I have made the one irreparable
blunder of my career. The responsi
bility rests upon the Postmaster Gen
eral and Mr. Tumulty.”
As the first move kn the campaigr
to oust Burleson from the cabinet th<
World published a broadside of r
■k and a ball grilling the Postmas
^ter foT his administration of the pos
tal and wire services, his autocratic
methods, intolerance of organized la
bor, alleged tyrannical and merciless
treatment of employes and, incident
ally, harking back to the investiga
tion of the whipping and other cruel
treatment of the convicts employed on
the Burleson plantation in Texas.
Then, as if in fulfillment of the pre
diction of press censorship under gov
ernment wire control, the Burleson
telegraph chiefs declined to transmit
to World clients telegrams offering
this article for publication, on the
ground that it “appeared to be im
proper.”
Burleson Accuses Newspapers.
Today Burleson announced he had
ordered “all telegraph systems to sus
pend insofar as messages relating to
the Postmaster General are concerned,
their rules prohibiting transmission
of messages containing libelous mat
ter.”
The Postmaster General also issued
a statement accusing The World and
other newspapers and magazines of
seeking to get rid of him to pave the
way for repeal of the increased post
age on periodicals.^_
ROAD TANGLE UNWINDING.
Montgomery County Folks Evidently
All Together on One Proposition.
Special to The Star.
Big Fork, April 28,—Late reports
on the road fight in Montgomery
county indicate that the matter may
be adjusted more amicably than was
at first thought possible. The report
is that W. E. Womble, chairman of
the road ocmmission, and who, it is
j thought, was co-author, if not the or
i iginator of the special road act, has
called in the executive committee se
lected to carry on the fight and offered
i to allow the people affected a voice in
the matter.
Commissioners J. I. Strickland and
IH. W. Biggs have resigned. Mr.
| Strickland’s resignation occured at
I the meeting held at Black Springs and
he was lauded like a hero. Mr. Biggs’
resignation occurred later.
Unanimous ajirainst this measure,
j the people are said to be more of one
! mind and one accord than they have
ever been heretofore on tiny measure
j affecting so many people.
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A nice, pleasant purgative that also
has a genial stimulating effect in the
liver and stomach is one reason why
Prickly Ash Bitters is so well liked by
people who have used it. They find it
a good medicine for the whole family.
Price $1.25 per Bottle. Gunnels Drug
Store and Jackson Drug & Furniture
Co., Special Agents.—Adv.
He’s truly valiant that can wisely
suffer
The worst that man can breathe;
And make his wrongs his outsides,
To wear then like his raiment car
lessly.
— Timon of Athens.
Barbed wire cuts, ragged wounds,
collar and harness galls heal up quick
ly when BALLARD'S SNOW LINI
I MENT is applied. It is both healing
and antiseptic. Price 25c. 50c and
$1.00 per bottle. Sold by Jackson
I Drug Co.—Adv.
j Estray Animals Taken—I have taken
up at my place 6 miles west of Hat
field, the following animals: 1 black
mare, 2 bay mares, all branded “21”
on left shoulder; 2 mules, about 3
years old. G. H. Johnson, Hatfield,
Ark.—Adv. 18-4t
Pay for this ad and you may have
money you lost at Hoehener .Tewel
j ry Store last Friday or Saturday.—
(Adv. 18-11
For Sale—A brood sow and nine
pigs from registered stock. See J.
H. Cox.—Adv. p. 1. 99-3 wl
GOMPERS INJURED IN CRASH.
Taxicab, in Which Labor Head Was
Riding, Struck by Car.
New York, April 27.—Samuel Gom
pers, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, was badly injured
this afternoon when a taxicab in
which he was riding was struck by a
Broadway surface car and hurled 20
feet to the curb.
Surgeons who were summoned re
ported after an examination that two
of Mr. Gompers’ ribs had been frac
tured, his right hip sprained, and that
he had suffered severe body contu
sions. Despite his advanced age—he
is 69 years old—the surgeons declare
there is no liklihood of the injuries
proving fatal.
Mr. Gompers has been busy virtu
ally every minute since his return
from the Peace Conference, where he
served as chairman of the commission
on international labor legislation. He
had left his hotel for an hour’s relax
ation when the accident occurred.
As the taxicab crossed the Broad
way car tracks, at Thirty-first Street,
it was struck by a northbound car.
Pedestrians rushed to the wrecked
machine and extricated Mr. Gompers,
who was found to be unconscious. One
side of the cab was completely
crushed in and the wreckage had
pinned him against the other side of
the machine.
Shipping Strawberries in Car Lots.
Train No. 4 on Friday carried a re
frigerator car loaded with strawber
ries from the Horatio field, and billed
for Kansas City. Aside from the car
lot shipments, the trainmen report
that truck loads of berries are going
out of Horatio daily by express. This
same condition would have prevailed
in Mena next week if the proposed
strawberry farm had been started.
DELIGHTFUL
REMEDY FOR
LAZY LIVER
Calotabs, the Perfected Nausealess
Calomel, Sets the Liver Right
Without the Slightest Nausea or
Danger.
Feel mean, look yellow? Your liver
is out of fix! The poisonous bile is
being retained in your system. 'You
say I know calomel will set me
straight, but I hate to take calomel.
W’hy not try Calotabs, the purified
calomel that is as delightful to take
as it is beneficial in cleansing the liv
er, and purifying the system? Calo
tabs give you all of the valuable medi
cinal qualities of calomel but are en
tirely freed from the unpleasant and
dangerous effects. One tablet at bed
time with a swallow of water—that’s
all. No taste, no griping, no nausea,
no salts. You wake up in the morn
ing feeling fine, with a clean liver and
a hearty appetite. Eat what you
please—no danger of salivation.
Calotabs are sold only in original,
sealed packages, price thirty-fv e
' cents. The finest medicine in the
world for biliousness, indigest'a.
headache and constipation. So fine
1 that your druggist is authorised to re
fund the price as a guarantee that v n
• will be thoroughly delighted with Cal
S otabs.—Adv.
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MENA, ARKANSAS
sQitember I to 6
^ s/% aaa Cash Premiums to Be Given
^ m p U U U on Polk County Exhibits.
I Each community will be allowed to display
exhibits separately.
Contribute $1.00 or more to the Polk County
Fair Association and have your name includ
j ed as a working member for the Greatest
j County Fair ever held in Polk or any other
i S|
» Arkansas county.
1 H E. Manning, Pres. Ben C. Eastin, Sec.
| W. E. Watins, Vice-Pres. D. E. Dodd, Treas.
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| Plowing Demonstration
! with Tractor 1
| Saturday, May 3
C The farmers of this section of the country will have the op- S
portunity to witness a real Plowing Demonstration at Mena on
the above date, if the weather permits, by the Moline Universal
Farm Tractor, the tractor that is better adapted to this county
than any other tractor made today. This tractor will pull two
14-inch plows in this demonstration. g
Everybody invited to attend this demonstration, the first of
its kind ever given in this county. The field in which the plowing
will take place will be announced on that day, but will be on s]
the outskirts of the city, so it won’t be far to go. |
| Be Sure to see this demonstration, it may !
I prove profitable to you. |
Follows Husband In Death.
Mrs. Charlotte Jane Willard, widow
of H. M. Willard, died on Saturday at
her home on Ridge avenue, having
reached the age of 62 years. The
funeral services were held at the
residence on Sunday afternoon at 3
o’clock, and were conducted by the
Rev. F. F. Harrell of the First M. E.
church, South. Burial was in the
I. O. 0. F. cemetery. Mrs. Willard is
survived by her father, G. W, Pride
more, now aged 86 years and living at
Beldieu, Tex. She is also survived
by two sisters and a brother. The
brother, J. G. Pridemore lives in New
Mexico. The sisters are Mrs. W. J.
Houston of Joy, Tex., and Mrs. J. D.
Champion of Beldieu, Tex. The first
named, with her daughter, has been
at Mrs. Willard’s bedside all this
week, and her presence, it was
thought for a time, would win the
sister back to health.
YOU NEED
PRICKLY ASH BITTERS
To Cure
Constipation
and Bowel
Disorders
Farm and City Property
See or write me if you are in the
market for any farm land or city
property as 1 have some good bar
Rains.
J. P. PAYNE
Real Eatate . Mena, Ark
ALEX. PATON i
UNDERTAKER
and EMBALM KR.
Ree. Phone 181 - . Office Ml
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| May 7th to Aug. 2nd |
E Rural Schools are closing and |
5 many of the best teachers are |
s to study during the Spring and |
•E Summer months.
5 Ths courses of study here are c
E arranged to meet the needs ot ^
E teachers of rural schools.
E You are invited to aid in ex* s
E tending the best there is |
E education to the schools of the ;
| country.
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I STATE AGRICULTURAL |
| SCHOOL |
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Next to Beautiful Janssen Park
MENA, ARKANSAS
MEALS 35c
RATES BY WEEK OR MON
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Abstracters
Orders Promptly Filled
Office Circuit Clerk’* office « °»rt
Phone 107 :: Mena, Ari
LICENSED
AUCTIONEER
Phone 811F21 Route i. * ^
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Office hours 10 to 6—otner
by appointment. Phou ^