The courier-index., July 27, 1917, FIRST SECTION., Image 2

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WILLIAMS STANDS FIRM
BEHIND THE PRESIDENT
MISSISSIPPI AN REFUSES TO
PRESENT PEACE RESOLU
TION.—DOES NOT FAVOR
PEACE.
Washington, July 24.—Senator John
Sharp Williams, whose support
of the administration and whose loy- |
alty to the cause of his country have |
not wavered in a single instance since
the Congress declared "that a state
of war exists between the United
States, and the imperial German gov
ernment,” has refused to present to
the Senate a set of resolutions in the
shape of a memorial signed by a num
ber of citizens of Webster county,
Miss., asking that Congress repeal the
selective draft act and declaring in
favor of negotiations with Germany
for the restoration of peace. In his
letter to J. B. Scott of Embry, Miss.,
Senator Williams said:
‘I send the papers back to you be
cause I am not in sympathy with
your position, and I advise you to
send them to some senator or con
gressman who is in sympathy with
it.”
Elsewhere in his letter to Mr. Scott
enator Williams said:
‘‘I do not believe that this is the
time to talk peace because I do not
believe there could be obtained a
peace advantageous to the world un
til Germany realizes that she cannot
whip this fight. She has not yet real
ized it. The minute she comes to her
senses I am in favor of negotiating
peace with her and in a general way
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aioriK trit; tines ui ywui ihchiumhi,
with "two exceptions. If you mean by
no ‘forcible annexation of territory’
that the country of Schleswig-Hol
stein should not be restored to Den
mark; that Alsace and Loraine should
not be restored to France; that the
people of Bosnia should not be per
mitted to align themselves with the
Servians—people who are co-racial.
co-lingual and co-related with them
—that oppressed Poland should not
be taken from Prussia and Austria
and set free; that the gallant people
of Bohemia should be left to the ten
der mercies of the Hapsburgs. and
that Turkey should still be left in
possession of her territory in Europe
and of the Christian Armenians, to
oppress and slaughter and rape them,
then I emphatically do not agree to
your first proposition.
“Concerning the second proposition,
if you mean by ‘no punitive indemni
ties’ that Germany shall escape ‘scot
free’ without paying one dollar for
the barbarous and ruthless destruc
tion of property and life of civilians
in Belgium—a neutral country who
had committeed not even an alleged
provocation, but was simply walked
over and destroyed—then I do not
agree with you about the second pro
position.
‘‘I would advise, therefore, that you
have your petition presented through
somebody who is sympathetic with
your views. I want to fight this fight
to a finish—to a finish which shall se
cure for democracy a place on the
globe, and when we make peace with
Germany I want the treaty to be
signed by those representing the
German democracy and not by a
member of the house of Hohenzollern
which house has announced that
treaties are but scraps of paper, and
which therefore cannot be trusted, a
house which has made a pride of
breaking its publicly pledged word of
honor and whose word of honor there
fore can never be accepted again.’’
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Mustaches are becoming popular in
the American army because shaving
the lip takes up too much time.
Raise Better
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By using a Registered
Duroc-Jersey Male. I am
j offering a limited num
) ber of pigs of both sexes
; that were sired by Reed’s
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; of a $1,500 boar) and by
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Prices Furnished
Upon Request
J. W. REED
Marianna, Ark.
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USING LEFT-OVERS
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How to make the most of left-over
food is often a puzzling matter to the
housewife who is straining every ef
fort now to avoid waste in the kitch
en, and yet every bit of left-over food
has its use, even the meat bones.
These can be cooked up slowly to
gether with scraps of left-over meat
and a little bunch of soup greens.
Then add carrots, potatoes and what
ever bits of vegetables may be on
hand. Season with pepper and salt
and you have a good soup. If the
bones and trimmings are cut from a
steak before broiling they can be used
for soup. Rice, barley or noodles are
good additions to meat soups. Re
quest your butcher to send you the
bones from the rib foast which he
cuts out after weighing—those make
good soup.
Left-Over Fish.—Break cold fish
into flakes and mix w’ith left over
potatoes. Add salt and pepper, fry
in hot drippings, either in cakes or
in shape of an omelet.
Veal Salad.—An appetizing salad
can be made from cold roast veal or
lamb. Cut meat into large dice and
arrange in dish on a bed of lettuce,
place cold boiled peas, well drained,
upon veal in a mound and use the
mayonnaise as an inner border be
tween the peas and lettuce.
Fried Spinach.—Cold spinach can
be thoroughly mixed with the poached
or boiled eggs that are left, sprinkled
with pepper and fried in hot drip
pings.
Potatoes.—Put cold mashed pota
toes, mound shaped, into baking dish
Make incisions with a knife around
mound and press a bit of butterine
into opening#. Cover entire top with
hutt.erinp or a well beaten earc
bake in hot oven until nicely brown
ed.
Left-over boiled potatoes can be
cut small and fried, with or without
onions. When nicely browned add
one or mdre eggs well beaten. Stir
well, form into oval shape and browm
lightly.
Corn and Potatoes.—Mix cold corn
with an equal part of cold boiled po
totatoes, chopped. Stir about in
saucepan with a spoonful of hot drip
pings and when thoroughly heated
serve at once.
Cecils.—Chop any kind of cold meat
fine and to every pint of meat add
one egg, two teaspoonfuls butterine
two teaspoonful breadcrumbs, one
tablespoonful chopped parsley and
salt and pepper to taste. Stir over
fire until heated through. When cold
form into btlls and fry in hot drip
pings.
Puffs.—Chop any cold roast meat
and season with pepper and aslt.
Mash potatoes, form into paste with
an egg. When cold roll out and
dredge with flour. Cut in circular
shape, put meat mixture on half and
fold other half over like a puff.
Pinch edges together and fry in hot
drippings.
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Scoop.
An editor in the Far West drop
ped into church for the first time in
many years. The minister was in
the very heart of the sermon. The
editor listened for a while, and then
rushed to his office.
‘‘What are you fellows doing? How
about the news from the seat of
war?”
‘ What news?”
‘‘Why, all this about the Egyptian
Army being drowned in the Red Sea.
The minister up at the church knows
all about it, and you have not a word
of it in our latest. Bustle around, you
fellows, and get out an extra-special
edition."
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We have installed an auto delivery
service for the convenience of our
patrons. We are on the job from
f’ve o’clock in the morning until the
regular closing hours in the evening.
We will appreciate it if you will con
tinue to cive us vour meat orders
early. We’ll do our level best to sup
ply you with high grade packing
house products. H. B. Shumacker. *80
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Dell Postmaster Short.
Jonesboro, July 24.—Charles J.
Banks, merchant and postmaster at
Dell, Mississippi county, was held by
United States Commissioner E. P.
Mathes here today on a charge of be
ing short in his accounts as postmas
ter in the sum of $552.49. When ar
raigned he admitted his guilt and
stated that he was saving funds to
make the shortage good. The sum of
$28? was found at his home by Post
office Inspector Floyd Elliott, who
has been working on the case for
some days.
The records of the money order de
partment were entirely destroyed,
it being done, according to the state
ment of the Inspector, in order to
cover his shortage. In default of the
bond of $1,500 Banks was committed
to jail. He is 37 years of age and
has a wife and five children. He has
been postmaster for three years.
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Editor Courier-Index: If I lived in
the country I would raise geese, but
if I lived in town I would not raise
them because they are a pest to the
neighbors and town. They are about
as filthy as hogs and make a_great i
deal more noise. Why cannot our j
municipal officers place them in the
class of the hog and pass an ordin
ance keeping them up. There an1
many that suffer from their depreda
tions. A GOOSE.
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0 Colored Schools in Arkansas, o
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Public and private schools for
Negroes in Arkansas are described
in the report on “Negro Education"
just issued by the U. S. Bureau of
Education, Department of the Inter
ior, Washington, and in a special ab
stract for the State. For each school
the following information is given:
Location of school; name of principal;
character of work; ownership and
control; attendance; teachers; finan
cial condition. The descriptive sketch
of the more important schools is fol
lowed by specific recommendations
looking to the future development of
the school. The facts for the indi
vidual schools were obtained by a
field study of Arkansas and the other
Southern States covering a period of
nearly three years.
Besides listing the private and
higher schools for Negroes in Arkan
sas and other Southern States, this
Federal report on colored schools an
alyzes the provision for education by
the States; discusses means and
methods of education for Negroes;
describes building and equipment for
typical schools; and attempts tot give
specific aid to public and private au
thorities interested in.Negro educa
tion.
The Arkansas section oft he report
shows that there are. according to
Census ifgures. 443,000 colored peo
ple in Arkansas, fqrming 28 per cent
of the total population. It is pointed
out that these 433,000 colored people
constitute 37 per cent of all persons
engaged in agricultural pursuits in
the State, and that the number of
farms cultivated by them increased
35 per cent between 1900 and 1910, an
increase exceeded only by Oklahoma
and Georgia. As farmers renting
and owing land, they have charge of
more than two and one-half million
acres of Arkansas soil, and, if their
work as farm laborers be taken into
account, they undoubtedfully culti
vate a afr larger area.
The problem before the colored
schools of Arkansa is indicated by
the fact that illiterates are still 26
per cent of the colored people 10
years of age and over, and 17 per
cent of the children 10 to 14 years of
age. Such a degree of illiteracy is
declared by the report to be ‘certain
evidence of extensive waste of econ
omic resources and human energy.”
Public provision for colored and
white children in Arkansas is com
pared on the basis of the amount ex
pended for teachers' aslaries and the
number of children of school age.
‘‘The public school teachers in 63
counties of Arkansas received $3.
043,400 in salries in 1912-13.” says
the report. ‘‘Of this sum $2,587,462
was for the teachers of 199.717 white
children and $445,938 for the teach
ers of 93310 colored children. On a
per capita hasis this is $12.95 for
each white child and $4.59 for each
colored child. Arkansas shows a per
capita expenditure that is consider
ably higher than States who Negro
population forms a larger per cent
of the total.” The inequalities be
tween the figures for white children
and those for colored children are
Greatest in the counties along the
Mississippi River and the Louisiana
border, where the proportion of Ne
groes in the total population is larg
est.
Private schools for colored pupils
in Arkansas number 26, according to
the report. They have a property
valuation of $376,000, an annual in
come of $62,000. and an attendance
of 3,103 pupils, of whom 2 586 are in
elementary grades. me
schools are almost entirely supported
by denominations. Only 10 of the 20
schools are classified as having an
important part in the educational ac
tivities of the State. It is pointed
out that some of the remaining
schools may be justified on denomi
national grounds, but the majority
are so hampered by small income or
poor management that the State re
ceives but little benefit from them, i
One of the most urgent needs of ^
the colored schools in Arkansas is
trained teachers. The report declares: J
‘‘The supply now depends almost en
tirely upon the secondary schools,
many of which are private institu
tions. Of the private schools, how
ever. only four offer even fair pre
paration for teaching, while two oth
ers do some teacher-training work.
To supplement these facilities, an ef
fort is now being made to develop
county training schools. These schools
are county centers at which some
secondary and industrial training
may be given to those who plan to
teach in rural sections. Through the
co-operation of the Slater Fund and
the General Eduation Board with the
State department of education, four
of these institutions are now main
tained. As yet. however, their work
is almost entirely of elementary
grade. They have probably been more
successful in Arkansas than else
where because of their location in
small towns rather than in remote
rural districts. The small town has
made possible the combination of ru
ral interests with the larger school
income, better traveling facilities
and more boarding accomodations for
pupils from a distance. The pupils
in the graduating classes of all the
| schools offering teacher-training sub
jects in 1915 numbered only 125. how
ever, an annual output obviously in*
adequate to meet the need for teach
ers in a State with over 440.000 col
ored people and 1,900 colored public
school teachers.”
The report summarizes the educa
! finnol anVinnls of Ar
kansas as follows:
1. The strengthening and exten
i sion of the elementary school system.
1 The only agencies able to supply this
need are the State, the county, and
the local public schol districts.
| 2. The increase of teacher-train
ing facilities. To this end secondary
schools with teacher-training courses
1 should be provided, more summer
schools and teachers’ institutes should
be maintained, and the private schools
should co-operate with the State de
partment of education by placing
more emphasis or. teacher-training
courses in accordance with state
school so that it may supply; the need
for teachers of industry and agricul
ture.
3. More provision for instruction
in gardening, household arts, and
simple industries. In developing this
work, counties should realize the pos
sibilities of the Jeanes Fund Indus
trial supervisors.
4. More instruction in agriculture
and in the problems of rural life, so
that teachers and leaders may be de
veloped for a people 86.6 per cent
rural.
5. The increase in the number of
industrial high schools in towns.
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Co-Operation.
Bursting into the boss’ private of
fice. the errand boy, black with rage,
blurted out, “The chief clerk kicked
me this morning for being late. I
ain’t going to be kicked by no clerk.”
The boss, glancing up from his
heap of letters, thundered back,*“You
don’t expect me to do everything my
self. do you?”
I STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF f|
The McClintock Banking Col
(Not Incorporated) B
Marianna, Arkansas I
At the Close of Business June 20th, 1917. 8
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts -$165,236,10
Overdrafts - -•—- 609.72
Furniture and Fixtures - 1.319 40
UNITED STATES BONDS . 55,00000
CASH ON HAND AND IN BANKS. 193,870^30
TOTAL --$416,035^52
LIABILITIES
1 Capital Fully Paid -2 50,000.00 ^
Surplus--- 10,000.90
Undivided Profits - 3,817.00
DEPOSITS .-. 352,218.52
TOTAL -----.$416,035.52
We hereby certify the above statement to be correct
W. S.McCLINTOCK.
R. L. MIXON.
D. S. CLARK.
Not Condensed.
An Irishman, passing a shop where
a notice was displayed saying that i
everything was sold by the yard,
thought he would play a joke on the
shopman, so he entered the shop and
asked for a yard of milk. The shop
man. not in the least taken aback,
dipped his fingers in a bowl of milk
and drew a line a yard long on the
counter. Pat, not wishing to be !
caught in his own trap, asked the
price.
“Twelve cents,” said the shopman.
‘All right, sorr.” said Pat. ‘‘Roll |
it up; I’ll take it.”
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Sensible.
Jones was observed to be paying no
attention to the instructor who was
telling a large class in agriculture
how to protect plants from frost, so
the instructor said sharply:
“Jones, tell the class which is the
best way to keep the March frosts
from the plants.’’
“Plant them in April, sir,” was the
ready reply.
Hard-Shelled.
The boy assistant to the ship’s
steward was ordered by his master
to see if the eggs, which were on the
stove, were soft or, at least, cooked.
The boy stuck a fork into one of the
eggs and said to the steward’s hor
ror. “They are still hard, sir.”
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Obvious.
"Tommy, why w-re you late to
school this morning?” asked the
teacher.
“The bell rang before 1 arrived.”
The Source of Profit.
“Did you make the money you ex
pected raising chickens?”
“No. After a little experimenting
I decided that the way to make the
money is to raise chicken feed.”
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