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UNITED STATES TO
SEND MILLION MEN
REQUEST FOR $50,000,000,000
FORESHADOWS IN'CREASE.—
DOUBLE THE FIRST
QUOTA.
Washington, July 24.—Plans work
ed out in Congress for raising war
revenue were overturned today by an
nouncement of forthcoming addition
al estimates for war expenditures ag
gregating more than $5,000,000,000.
principally in anticipation of assem
bling a second army of 500.000 men
under the selective draft.
Secretary McAdoo, at a special
meeting of the Senate finance com
mittee. revealed that the War De
partment alone is preparing esti
mates to cover additional expendi
tures of nearly $5,000,000,000, and
asked the committee to hold up the
$1,670-000,000 war tax bill until the
detailed estimates of all departments
are submitted. The committee agreed
to the request and pigeonholed a re
port on the measure which it had
planned to submit during the day.
The new estimates, including $500,
000,000 additional for the shipping
board and $100,000,000 for the Navy
Department, are to be submitted to
the committee late tliis week. Then
there will begin another revision of
the war revenue measure, probably
resulting in an increase in the bill’s
cross tax levy by from $350,000,000
to $1,500,000,000. Additional credits
may also be authorized in the form of
bonds or indebtedness certificates^
Besides the additional sums need
ed for the American war programme,
Secretary McAdoo told the Senate
committee that the $3,000,000,000 au
thorized for loan to the allies prob
ably would last only unti’ October,
and that about $2,000,000,000 for their
further assistance would be needed.
Provision for this, however, is not
planned in connection with the pend
ing revenue legislation. It probably
will be considered at the next session.
The secretary made no recommen
dation as to what part of the total
should be raised by taxes and what
part lay bond issues or other credits.
It was reported, however, that the
Treasury Department would favor
raising $1,000,000,000 more than had
been planned in taxes, making the
tax bill total $2,670,000,000.
Announcement Unexpected.
As to the tax sources to be tapped
to meet the new estimates, the com
mittee for the present is at sea. Mr.
McAdoo’s announcement came entire
ly without warning and more than
one committeeman expressed himself
as staggered by the size of the forth
coming estimate. The first disposi
tion was to turn the new taxes on
war excess profits and incomes.
“There are many great sources of
revenue open for a great and rich
people like ours, ’ said Chairman Sim
mons, but he would not predict what
the committee would do. A meeting
will be held immediately after the
new estimates are submitted. At to
day’s meeting a resolution was adopt
ed calling for submission of new esti
j aiates by all departments, so that the
whole war expenditure programme
may be considered in connection with
the pending war tax legislation.
The $5,000,000,000 army increase,
j Secretary McAdoo informed the com
i mittee, is largely to provide for the
' second draft army of 500,000 to be
called while the first 500,000 are un
der training. The $5,000,000,000
would provide for expenditures until
July 1, 1918.
During today’s debate on the rivers
and harbors bill Senator Smoot pre
sented statistics to show that appro
priations of the war session already
aggregated $9,226,000,000. so that the
new estimates would raise the total
for the first year of the war well
above $14,000,000,000.
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Will Continue Trains.
Little Rock, July 24.—Tentative
plans of the Missouri Pacific to dis
continue two local passenger trains
beweent Little Rock and Clarksville
and two between Russellville and
Frot Smith were abandoned Tuesday
morning, railroad officials notified
•MrttvtLrtMn rtf fli a A o n □ a □ Ro ilrnti.l
Commission.
The trains were among 10 the rail
road recently announced it contem
plated discontinuing as a conserva
tion war measure. Both trains were
ordered operated by special acts of
the Legislature.
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U. S. Holds Arkansan.
Paragould, July 24.—Rube Sherer,
residing in the Haliday neighborhood
six miles north of Paragould, was ar
raigned before Justice Hayes today
on a charge of violating the espion
age law. Witnesses testified that
Sherer had said the transports on
which Gen. Pershing’s men crossed
should have been sunk. They alleged
many other remarks against the Uni
ted States government.
Justice Hayes held Shere to the
federal grand jury under bond of
$500, which he made. A warrant has
been sworn out for Tom Shere. his
brother, who is charged with a similar
offense.
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PAGE’S WEEKLY LETTER.
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That New Warehouse and Gin Re
gulating Law.
Little Rock. July 25, 1917.—Farm
ers and business men should know
more about the new marketing and
gin regulating law' passed by the last
legislature and now being put into
effect. It is practically the same
law that has been in operation in
Texas since lj)14 and its prime ob
ject is to facilitate the preparation
storage, care and marketing of farm
products. Cotton being the chief
product of the Arkansas farm, special
provisions are set out in the new law
with reference to the ginning, pack
ing. storing and marketing of cot
ton. The regulation of the ginning
of cotton is incidental to a more im
proved method of warehousing and
marketing o? cotton.
The law provides for a system of
bonded warehouses and contemplates
that through the operation of bond
ed warehouses the bulk of the cotton
crop, if not all, will be eventually
warehoused. The warehousing of cot
ton is the first essential step in an
intelligent and business-like commer
cial method of handling and market
ing baled cotton. It is folly to un
dertake a system of warehousing and
marketing our great staple crop of
cotton unless the system is complete.
Any system that is complete and
operative and beneficial must em
brace a proper and uniform prepara
tion of the product for the market.
This involves the ginning and pack
ing. which the new law undertakes
to regulate to the end that there may
be an intelligent, systematic method
of moving the product through the
organized channels of trade with the
least amount of loss, waste or in
convenience.
Perhaps the greatest gain will be
made through a system of classing
and grading to be conducted by the
State Department of Agriculture in
co-operation with the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. Expert Gov
ernment cotton graders will class and
grade all samples of cotton submit
ted to this department. When the
owner of the cotton gets a report
from us giving the grade and classi
fication of his cotton he can turn to
the daily paper and see exactly what;
his cottton is worth. This service
should enable the producer to market
his cotton with a full knowledge of
its value and the saving will reach
an average of $5.00 a bale. It is pos
sible under the operation of this law
for the farmer to drive his load of
cotton to the gin and have it ginned,
and when ginned to settle for his gin
ning and sell his seed on the spot. He
can then take his bale of cotton to
the warehouse and get his receipt and
take it to the bank and put it up as
collateral and borrow money to pay
his store account, if he wishes. He
can then send his sample to our de
partment and get it classed and grad
ed by a government classer in ac
cordance with government standards
accepted by the cotton exchanges.
When he gets his card giving him the
grade and classification of his cot
ton. he can look in the paper and see
what his cotton is worth. He can
then go to his local cotton buyer and
sell his cotton and settle with the
bank like a business man without
having to hauhhis cotton to town over
bad roads. If he is not offered the
value of his cotton he can hold it or
look for another market. This would
eventually simplify the handling and
marketing of cotton and bring the
producer to the position he is entit
ma in the transaction, that
of being the master of his own af
fairs.
A copy of this splendid law, put on
the statute books by Arkansas farm
ers, with instructions and blank forms
for the organization of local ware
house associations will be sent to any
farmer or citizen upon request made
to John H. Page. Commissioner of
Agriculture.
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Poison Plot Suspected.
Little Rock, July 24.—Belief that
poisoned court and adhesive plasters
were distributed here, the plan be
ing the same that was discovered in
Kansas, caused a warning to be is
sued by the Arkansas State Council
of Defence Tuesday afternoon.
Durand Whipple, secretary of the
council, said the discovery was made
Tuesday afternoon when specimens of
the plaster were brought to the coun
cil's office. The plaster turned over
to Mr. Whipple is to be given a chemi
cal analysis to determine whether it
has been impregnated with poison.
Plasters were offered for sale by
peddlers, who, when unable to make a
sale, gave away samples. The plas
ters were in a package, unsealed,
bearing the name of an old drug con
cern.
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Those Patient Germans.
Amsterdam, July 23.—The Sunday
edition of the Weser Zeitung of
Bremen, under the caption, 'Only
Patience," places the net monthly
losses through the submarine opera
tions, after deducting new construc
tion. at 700,000 to 750,000 gross tons.
From this the newspaper comes to the
conclusion theoretically that in 45
months the last merchantman will be
sunk. It adds for its readers’ com
fort. however, that England must
give in much earlier, because it al
ready has been obliged to withdraw
; tonnage from the navy for mercantile
purposes.
Milwaukee is to have women bar
bers.
CRITTENDEN FARMER
KILLED BY NEIGHBOR
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Fl'ED SAID TO HAVE CAUSED
FATAL SHOOTING NEAR
EARLE.
Earle, July 22.—Theodore McCull j
lar. a farmer living seven and a half j
miles south of Earle, shot and instant- j
ly killed J. R. Scott, a neighbor, this [
afternoon, with a shotgun. Follow- |
ing the shooting he came to town and
surrendered to officers, who are hold
ing him for a preliminary examina
tion which will be held Monday mom
ing.
Little is known of the shooting,
which is said to be the outgrowth of
a fued which existed for some time.
McCullar will say nothing of the af
fair. but his attorneys intimate that
he will plead self-defense at his hear
[ ing. Both the men were past middle
age, and each of them had a family
of several children.
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Diplomacy.
Jerome S. M’Wade said of the
1 management of children in a recent
[Sunday school address:
‘Diplomacy succeeds best with the
[little ones. A lad of nine came puf
fing and rosy in out of the cold the
other ni&ht and said.
“Pa, I'm tired. I’ve sawed enough
wood for this evening, ain’t I? I'm
awful tired.’
i “‘Tired?’ cried his father, looking
| up from his paper with an air of sur
prise and disappointment. ‘Why. I bet
j your mother a quarter you’d have the
I whole pile done before supper.’
‘‘‘Did you’ shouted the boy?, tak
ing up his bat and mitten again.
“ ‘Well, you’ll win your money if
the saw holds out. Nobody ever bet
on me and lost.’
“And he rushed back to his hard
task again, his eyes flaming with en
thusiasm.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Keeping Irish Potatoes.
“Many persons here, as well as my
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the keeping of Irish potatoes, both
early and late.”
The keeping of potatoes that have
been dug in early summer is a diffi
cult matter unless on has cold stor
age at hand. By being spread out
on shelves in a totally dark cellar and
rotten ones carefully removed from
time to time, they will keep for some
time, but hardly into winter. The
late crop, dug in cool weather, can be
kept without difficulty. The condi
tions are total darkness and a tem
perature only a degree or so above
the freezing point. About 35 degrees
is as warm as they should get. Or
they can be buried in heaps of 25
bushels and covered with enough
earth to keep the frost from pene
trating.—Progressive Farmer.
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Heating Plant Burns.
Fayetteville, July 22.—The heating
plant of the University of Arkansas
was partilly destroyed by fire, which
originated from unknow causes, about
5:30 o’clock Sunday morning. Only
a section of the building was damag
ed and much of the valuable machin
ery was not touched. The heating
plant is located in one end of the
shops. The loss is estimated at
about $5000, and at the most under
$10,000. and is fully protected by in
surance. The apparatus and building
will be repaired at once, said Presi’
dent Futrall today.
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