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Extracts From Letters From
Dr. Hugh McCulloch With
Army Hospital Unit in France
• T'non the request of the editor of
,he Courier-Index, Judge E. A. Mc
rulloch of Little Rock, has consented
n furnish this paper with some ex
tracts from recefat letters written by
nr Hugh McCulloch, who is with the
gt Louis hospital unit at a British
hospital base in France. The ex
tracts are from letters written by
nr McCulloch to his wife. Dr. Mc
Culloch formerly resided in Marianna
and his many friends will read with
much interest what he has to say
anout his experiences behind the
British lines in France. Incidentally
it may be mentioned that Dr. McCul
loch has the rank of captain. The
extracts follow:
France. October 18, 10 P- m .
I have made a very surprising
and painful observation today. Both
mv hands are badly frostbitten.
Monilav morning 1 walked down on
the wards where there was a heavy
fog and I got very cold making his
tories of examinations last night,
and todav my hands are badly swol
len painful and blistered. I cannot
Ket' my ring off and they are very
uncomfortable. Have done my work
today and am really not worried
about them. 1 have a great many
men with trench feet and hands,
and I know how they must feel, for
some of them are very bad.
Friday. 10:30 p. m.:
My hands are about the same to
day. itching and swollen, and I cer
tainly sympathize with the men at
the front—it must be terrible at the
front now. 1 do not see how human
beings can live there now. These
men come back, though, without a
word of complaint against anyone,
just cursing the mild that keeps them
from going ahead. You know they
have to lie out in shell holes full
of water three or four days at a
time and even if they had a dry
place It would not keep hack the
cold. We had an exciting time last
night—had an aeroplane raid drill.
I have about sixty shell shot pa
tients, some of them mutes. Well
as signals of drills come real bombs
were exploded and the shell shot
men got much upset, and at the mo
ment the bombs exploded two of my
mutes had their voices come back.
They said that almost involuntarily
with the explosion they had a desire
to speak and with the desire the
words came out. Today they can
talk all right, but none of them did
any more sleeping after the bombs
went off. They are very interesting
people to talk to. One boy was
blown up In the air about thirty-five
feet and wras conscious all the tlme^
he was up in the air and could see
the ground spinning around. The ex
plosion tore all his clothes off. but
his only Injury Is a bruised liver
and back where he hit the ground.
My hands are better, not so swollen,
and hv keeping them cold they are
fairly comfortable, but 1 cannot stay
where there la any fire, and I can
not wear gloves, for my hands get
warm and off they have to come.
If this war keeps up until next
year, which is very probable, and
it takes six months or a year to get
peace finally settled, and then a-,
year to get all the troops and sup
plies home, it will he 1921 before T |
can get home, and I believe It is
pretty close to the way it will be.
They say that it will take England
two years to get all of her stuff out
of France, just across the channel, j
ay nexi ran we win nave »nn »*
over here, and hospitals will be the
last to get out, for as long as one
stays there will be sick people to be
cared for. Of course, 1 am putting
the outside limit when 1 say 1921. i
1 bought some fresh English wal
nuts. They grow everywhere just
like our black walnuts do at home,
and are large and very good—,
much better than when they are
dried out as we get them in the
states. There are lots of horse
chestnuts, hut no eatable chestnuts.
The horse chestnuts are brought up
by the government and used in mak
ing explosives or some kind of mu
nitions. It is quite a stunt gathering
them for the government.
‘ We get fine white grapes, the kind
kind that, raisins are made from,
and still get good vegetables, es
pecially lettuce and little radishes.
tS°tober 21. Sunday:
Tlie papers have a whole lot about j
the Zeppelin raids. We didn’t hear.
anything of them except the warning
that they were out. I helped to en
toi-tain a hunch of Swiss Red Cross
people who had a staff of Colonels
showing them around, etc. They
spent some time on my ward. We
now have a Ford car for our unit i
which was given hv the Red Cross j
and Is to he used for the convenience
°f the unit, and not on official busi
ness.
October 27.
1 was up all last night. We had
a man who was bleeding from a leg
wound and all day we have been1
trying to avoid amputation of his leg.
tnis kept up until after three o’clock
i and nothing would stop the hem
nrage, so to keep him from bleeding
10 death we had to take off the leg
The thing that hurts me so much
h'day ia (hat (j,e future looks so
aark and impossible. I am no gloom
er than anyone; really I think T
4to more optimistic than some others j
here. But I want you to know what
we think over here so we can't
build any false hopes. Truly I can
not see the end of the war at all.
I am very sure it will run all the
next year in actual fighting. We
can hope for the unexpected but it is
a very poor policy. It is absolutely
impossible to wear anything but
woolen stuff over here. The only
cotton things I have are handker
chiefs. Those were Base Hospitals
that were bombed. It was supposed
that the airmen were after military
works nearby. That doesn't explain
sinking hospital ships or instances
like where they bomb hospitals in
daylight and turn the machine .guns
and shoot down doctors and nurses.
I am sending you a clipping from to
day's paper which is the first Ameri
can official communication. It will
probably be published in the papers
'at home. We have known this for
some time, and there is a good deal
else that I cannot tell you. You can
be very sure thht everything is go
ing very well with the American
troops over here. We are all much
depressed by the new Italian situa
tion. I feel sure that it will have
a good effect in America to show the
people that this war is far from won
yet, and that every resource we have
will be needed before the end comes.
We are apt to pay the same penal
ties that England and France are
paying all the time. In one dav’s
time the whole results of the Italian
summer campaign has been wiped
uui ana more 100.
October 30.
What do you think of the Italians
now—pretty tough luck, isn’t it?
We do not think that it will make
much difference eventually for with
out a question the war will be won
on the Western front with Ameri
ca and England working side by side
in the predominate part. If it fails
it is apt to prolong the war a whole
year, even more. It should be a
warning to the people at home of the
important part that we have to play.
November 1.
It is a cold rain and outside of the
window is a detachment of troops
marching by bound for the front and
every man singing as he marches
along in the mud. The roads are
bad. but not like they are in Flan
ders. The men who come back from
Ypres say the reason we do not g^t
more wounded men is because the
men fall into the shell holes and are
drowned, and if one doesn’t fall into
a hole he lies in the mud and dies,
for it is almost impossible for the
stretcher bearers to make four or
five miles through such mud. We
haven’t had a shnny day here for
weeks. I got some heavy wool shirts
from the quarter master. Think of
buying all wool for $1.75. Rouen is
a very gay place. The government
does all it can to encourage these
things for it has a good effect on
the people to keep them from get
ting dumpy over the war. My cold
is better and I am alright. When I
write you that-I am sick one day,
don’t worry for I am sure to be well
the next day.
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SEVENTY HEAD OF GRADE
HOGS SELL FOR1 $2,522.00
R. H. Zaue, one of the most pro
gressive farmers in Lee county, Tues
rlnv anlri SAvnntv hpnrl nf crnita hnpa
one year old and under, to Chas. G.
Taylor at 16 1-4 cents per pound.
The seventy hogs weighed 15.520
pounds, and brought $2,522. Mr.
Zane raised these hogs on his place
near Marianna on what was once a
poor hill farm. By following modern
methods of farming he has built up
the land and has been able to pro
duce some remarkable yields of hay
and grain on the soil. He is deeply
interested in live stock and during
the past few months has sold more
than $2,000 worth of hogs.
The lot of seventy hogs which Mr.
Taylor purchased Tuesday was sold
by him to E. L. Conner.
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MUST SECURE LICENSE
TO DEAL IN EXPLOSIVES
Under a new federal law regulating
the handling and sale of expolsives it
is necessary for individuals or firms
desiring to deal in explosives, other
than shells and cartridges used in
guns, to take out license. E. W.
King, county clerk, has recently been
appointed agent by the government
to examine all applicants who wish
to deal in explosives and he is given
authority to issue or withhold license.
Parties who are now dealing with
explosives or who contemplate doing
so are notified that it is incumbent
upon them to see the county clerk,
fill out the required blanks and sub
mit their applications to him for ap
proval or disapproval.
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MARRIED IN MEMPHIS
Word reached here Thursday that
Miss Ophelia Beazley, daughter of
Mrs. E. J. Beazley, Sr., of this city,
and Eldon Talley, nephew of M. E.
Newbern who has been here several
months employed with the Newbern
Grocery Company, were married at
the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis on
Wednesday evening of this week.
Miss Beazley went to Memphis to
spend the week end. and Mr Talley
also went to spend Thanksgiving with
relatives. It is expected the couple
will return to Marianna tomorrow to
Sunday.
FRENCH ARE GRIMLY
DETERMINED TO WIN
CONGRESSMAN GOODWIN MORE
IMPRESSED WITH THAT FACT
THAN ANY OTHER—RECENTLY
RETURNED FROM FRANCE.
Washington. Nov. 27.—Congress
man William S. Goodwin of Arkan
sas, with other members of the con
gressional party which has been on
a visit to the west battle front in
I Europe, arrived at the capital last
' night. Mr. Goodwin said:
“Nothing impressed re so much
as the grim determination to win of
the French people It is impossible,
to describe what they have suffered
or what an effort they have been put
ting forth during the three and a
half years. I saw tens of thousands
of her soldiers and believe less than
a dozen were seen to smile. Ameri
ca's advent into the war has made
a most salutary effect upon the allies
and they are looking with great con
fidence upon the wonderful material
and military strength of this coun
try. With Europe prostrate at the
feet of Germany we have come in
at the nick of time. We should cer
tainly have been the next victim of
Germany's mad race for world dom-1
ination."
Mr. Goodwin found many invita
tions from civic and other organiza
tions to deliver addresses on his ex
periences and address national meet-!
ings, but so far none has been ac
cepted.
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o RED CROSS REPORT o
(By Mrs. J. I. Morris)
On Saturday, November 24 the
local chapter American Red Cross
made a shipment to the Southwest
Division of the A. R. C. of 650
articles, consisting of the following:
Twenty one feather pillows and
cases, 24 bed sheets, 50 pillow cases, j
40 linen operating towels, 6 bath
towels, 54 triangle bandages, 53 ab
dominal bandages, 28 T. bandages, 13
suits outing flannel pajamas, 29 hos
pital bed shirts, 12 pairs foot warm
ers, 6 caps, 6 blanket bath robes,
103 pairs of wool sox. 25 wool sweat
ers, 32 wool mufflers, 11 pairs wool
wristlets.
What we have accomplished since
we began active work the last of
June.
On August 8th we made our first
direct shipment of base hospital sup
plies. consisting of 567 articles.
On October 25 we made shipment
of 1,204 atricles.
Our shipment of last week of 650
articles gives us a total of 2,421
garments and hospital supplies. We
have completed and sent in to head
quarters in five months the above
named articles.
On November 10 we made ship
ment of 186 Christmas packets to
our soldier boys in France. On last
Saturday a card was received stat
ing packets had been received, in
spected and at shortest possible mo
ment they would be on their way
to France.
Monday morning of this week Mrs.
Morris, Mrs. W. F. Felton. Mrs. Louis
Altman, Mrs. R. D. Jarratt, Mrs. W.
Howard met at the Red Cross work
rooms and packed four large boxes
of good things to eat for our own
Lee county soldier boys for Thanks
/4a «r mkrt n «>a a 6 f^A mn I
Beauregard, La. The boxes were
consigned to the following companies
Company 3, 114th Supply Train;
Motor Truck Company 3, 114th Am
munition Train; Company H, 153rd
Infantry; Company I, 153 Infantry.
The boxes contained fruit cake,
chocolate cake, candy, thirty khaki
bags of assorted nuts, raisins, figs,
dates, domino loaf sugar, milk choc
olate, chewing gum. cigars, smoking;
tobacco, shaving soap, writing tab
lets, envelopes and pencils, pickles,
jellies, jams and preserves.
Thursday morning team composed
of Mrs. P. It. Turner, captain, Mrs.:
Fitzhbgh, Sr., Mrs. Davis Plummer,
completed 7 bed sheets and 40
operating towels
Friday was devoted to checking up
the garments and getting them ready,
for shipment, and our good friend
Ned Yew'ell so kindly attended to
the packing and shipping for us.
When it comes to the packing and
shipping we would be at a loss to
know what to do if it wasn’t for
Mr. Yewell. who "so kindly comes to
our rescue and sees that the packing
and shipping is done in first class
order.
The following donations have been
received:
Mrs. Dick Hardin one barrel of
coal to heat our work room.
Mrs. O. L. Williamson one wool
sw'eater.
Mrs. N. J. Williams two pillows
and tw’o cases
Mrs. F R Dupuy. two pillows.
Mrs. Dr. 0. T. Chandler two pil-1
lows and two cases.
Mrs. Mays two pillows.
Mrs. N. O. Hopkins, Rondo, one pil
low and two cases.
Mrs. F. E. Zieger, Rondo, one pil
low' and one case.
Mrs. J. W. Noland. Rondo, one pil
low and one case.
Mrs. Lula Sutton Ramage, Rondo,
one pillow and two cases.
Mrs. Fred Hartley, Rondo, one pll
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ANNUAL RE-UNION
OF MANN FAMILY
DESCENDENTS OF MRS. VICTOR
IA MANN MEET IN PINE BLUFF
ON 79th ANNIVERSARY OF HER
BIRTH —ROYALLY ENTERTAINS
Pine Bluff, Nov. 30. More than
half a hundred members of the Mann
family, originally from Tennessee,
assembled here from several states
yesterday for a reunion and to do
honor to Mrs. Victoria Mann, 79
years of age, nee Wilson, who was
married to William Burkley Mann
at Brownsville, Tenn., on Nov. 2fi,
1856*. All who gathered here are de
sceudents of Mrs. Mann, who is now
busily engaged in knitting sox and
garments for the American soldiers.
Most of the members of the reunion
party reached here Wednesday, res
ervptions for 52 persons having been
mad ■ at the Hotel Pines. Thanks
giving day was spent at the Country
Club, where the party was entertain
ed pt luncheon. The union Thanks
giving service at the tabernacle was
attended in a body, after which the
annual reunion dinner was served,
this time at the Pines. Later the
visitors and their relatives wore
guests of the Lotus Cotillion Club at
a Thanksgiving cotillion.
—
W. B. Mann, wife and daughter.
Miss Pearl; Burk Mann and wife, and
John W. Mann and wife from this
city, attended the reunion at Pine
Bluff.
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Mrs. Ed Botnar, who has been the
guest of Mrs. M. E. Newbern, left
Wednesday evening for Forrest City
where she w ill visit her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. T. C. Merwin, for several
days before returning to her home
in Greenville, S. C.
Three Marianna boys are among
those who have finished the course
of instruction in the officers’ train
ing camp at Leon Springs, Texas,
near San Antonio, and all three have
been commissioned as first lieuten
ants They are Ewing McClintock,
Phillip Hassell and Jesse Johnston.
Lieutenants McClintock and Hassell
arrived here in time to spend Thanks
giving with home folks. Mr. John
ston will not reach Marianna for sev
eral d s. They will report to Camp
Pike on December 15.
The Marianna High School basket
ball team played the classes of 1912
and ’13, better known as the ‘Bill
ikens” and the “Dainties’’ on Thanks
giving. the high school winning by
a score of 20 to 4. Despite the fact
that the ex-team had not played in
four or five years, they, stayed with
the champions, and with a little
practice will show them how they
played in days gone by.
Mrs. Thomas Maddin Sawrie has
returned to her home in Nashville.
Tenn., 'after a pleasant visit with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Derrick.
Company A, Home Guards, meets
for drill work on Tuesday and Thurs
day of each week. The company as
sembles at the city hall and drills
at the city park. Company B meets
at the Elks Home on Monday and
Friday evenings of each week and
drills in the lodge room.
Hugh Mixon, cashier of the Bank of
Marianna, has been selected chair
man for Lee countv ro look alter
the sale of war savings certificates.
The secretary cf the treasury will
put or. the market *a issue of two
billion dolla- of certificates, bearing
four and a half per cent interest, re
deemable at the end of five years.
The certificates will be issued in
small denominations and may be pur
chased on the installment plan.
iu" aim uuc v c*ov ■
Mrs. Eula Copeland, Rondo, one
pillow and one case.
Robbie Lee Copeland, Rondo, one
pillow and one case.
Miss Ada F. Sutton, Rondo, two
bath towels.
Mrs. B. P. Meadows, Rondo, two
bath towels and shaving soap.
Mrs. W. F. Kirby, Rondo, two bath
towels.
Mrs. J. B. Lowe, Aubrey, one pair
wool wristlets.
Mrs. Eli Wagner cash $1.50 to
Thanksgiving packets for our Lee
County hoys.
Mrs. Dr. C. W. Taylor cash $5.
Mrs. Julius Benham $1 cash.
Mrs. Dr. W. S. Beaty $7 for wool.
On last Friday evening Mrs Beaty
and the ladies of the Vineyard Com-1
niunity Club gave a little tacky party.
The evening being bad weather, the
partv was not ns well attended as it
would have been had the weather
been pleasant Nevertheless, the la
dles made seven dollars and. Cod
hless their generous hearts, they sent
in the amount by Mrs Beaty and do
nated it to the wool fund to help buy
wool to be knitted into garments to
keen our soldier boys warm.
Three hundred and seventy mem
bers up to date. Won’t you help to
make this a Red Cross Christmas?
onl vone dollar a year to help furn
ish our boys with nurses, surgeons,
hospitals, medicines, and whatever
else they need across the seas. No
one in the United States today is too
poor to become a Tied Cross member.
What is one dollar a year, or a mil
lion dollars a year, to all the suffer
ings and hardships our boys must
endure before this war is won? Do
not delav, but join today, and with
your dollar a year, help to support
this great cause for humanity.
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Camel hump is regarded as a great
delicacy by the Arabians.
ALL DRAFTED MEN
TO BE CLASSIFIED
LOCAL MILITARY BOARD IS MAK
ING PREPARATIONS TO ENTER
UPON BIG WORK—ATTORNEYS
TO ADVISE REGISTRANTS.
Arthur Cotter. I)r. O. L. William
son and J. E. Stevenson, constituting
the military board for Dee county,
are making preparations to follow
out the government’s recent compre
hensive plan for classifying all those
subject to military duty under the
selective draft law. The task is a
stupendous one and in order that
the work may he effectively and ex
peditiously done it will he necessary
for many young men with clerical
ability to volunteer their services to
the board. The War Department
has appointed J. B. Daggett. Judge
E. D. Robertson and Burk Mann as |
special attorneys to advise all regis
trants on their rights. D. S. Plum
mer has been appointed chief clerk
of the board.
According to a recent order from
the War Department Issued to all
recruiting officers, no man who regis
tered for service and is eligible for
the draft may enlist after December
15, with the exception of medical
students, hospital internes, dentists,
dental students, veterinarians and
veterinary students, who with the per
mission of the surgeon general, mat
enlist in the Enlisted Corps of the
MaHIpaI Hatu) rtmont Mon urhn havA
been called for physical examination |
although they have not reported, are i
also ineligible for enlistment. A
similar order affecting the navy was
made some time ago.
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Kven before the revolution got well
under way and turned things upside
down, life in Russia presented any
thing but an alluring picture to an
American whose business interests
demanded that he make quite an
extended trip through the country.
An electrically lighted city of 75.000
whpre the best hotel did not furnish
sheets for the beds was only one of
the incongruities he encountered.
George H. Bingham, who was in
Petrograd at the time of the murder
of the monk Rasputin, writes of his
experiences in November Machinery:
About the middle of January I
left Petrograd, going to Moscow, Bri
ansk, Kief, Taganrog, Nizhni. Nov
gorod, and other towns; and on this
trip had some experience in war
time accommodations. In Taganrog,
a city of 75,000 inhabitants on the
Azo'f sea, l stayed at what was sup
posed ot be the best hotel in town,
which sported electric lights but
lacked even one sheet on the bed.
Most Russians carry their own bed
ding, but not having acquired that
habit, T had to use my fur coat to
sleep in. During my second trip to
Moscow' we began to hear of riots
in Petrograd; and as the situation
grew worse exaggerated reports of
the number killed were circulated.
In Petrograd everything was in
chaos; every hotel was guarded by
soldiers, each of whom wore a red
ribbon, and thousands more were
parading the streets with their red
banners proclaiming the freedom of
Russia. At one time there were
60.000 deserters in Petrograd alone.
The casualties amnnr the officers
of the army and navy during the
revolution were very heavy, but It
is said that many of them got no
more than they deserved, as the
average Russian officer treated his
soldiers like dogs. At Helsingfors
and Cronstadt. the headquarters of
the Baltic Sea fleet, 250 naval of
ficers were killed, including the
Admiral and Rear-Admiral. Some
statements of excesses committed
by the revolutionists that have been
published here may have sounded
like exaggerations, but I know that1
at Cronstadt the admiral in charge
of the Baltic fleet was arrested in !
his office, both arms and legH were
broken, and he was then taken out
on the ice, where a hole was cut, a i
rope was tied around him, and he
was lowered into the water until he
was unconscious, after which he was
brought back to the surface, fed
brandy until he revived, and lowered
again; this was continued until he
was dead beyond recall.
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$10.00 REWARD
1 will pay the above reward for the
return of my bicycle stolen from my
front porch Tuesday night. Bicycle
is light yellow color, "Speedway
Special’’ make. Lower bar from
sprocket w heel to front post w as
broken near top and brazed, leaving
it rough where mended and repainted
with yellow paint not quite same as
other. Double clincher tires.
J. W. JONES,
It Marianna. Ark.
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William E. French of Mayfield.
Kan., who owns a 400-acre wheat i
field, did not ask exemption w-hen
the call came to go to war, but only i
asked for time to finish planting I
his fall wheat. After he had finished
he reported and was sent to camp, j
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Francis J. Wallis, of Fitchburg, j
Wis., age 50, tried to enlist in the t
engineers corps, hut w’as refused be- j
cause of his age. He then sold his
property and bought $9,500 worth of ;
Liberty Bonds.
WORD AND WHITENTON
MAKE ANNOUNCEMENTS
FORMER OUT FOR SECOND TERM
AS COUNTY TREASURER, ANO
LATTER ASPIES TO SUPERIN
DENT OF EDUCATION.
W. W. Word, now serving his first
term as treasurer of Lee county,
announces In this sisue of the Cour
ier Index that he is a candidate fof
re-election to the office he now
holds, and L. Y. Whitenton. one of
the best known educators in the
county, announces his candidacy fof
superintendent of education.
Mr. Word has been a resident of
the county so long and is so well
known in every nook and corner of
this section that, he needs no intro
duction. As treasurer of the county
he has safeguarded the public fund*
and with his deputy, Hugh Mixon,
cashier of the Hank of Marianna,
he has kept the treasurer’s books in
splendid condition. The chief duties
of the treasurer are puteiy clerical.
Of course he must he a man of
proven honesty and integrity and
with a keen sense of responsibility.
In all these essentials Mr. Word
measures up to a high standard.
He believes the voters of Lee county
I.*. crlinl in founr him with a
second term because he has mad*
them a good treasurer, and he will
go before them and ask for their
suffrage solely on the record he hM
cade.
WHITKNTON FOR SUPERINTEN
DENT
Prof. L. Y. Whltenton. who asks t*
be nominated superintendent of edu
cation, has been actively engaged I*
school work for twenty-five years and
during the past sixteen years *•
has been teaching in Lee county.
He was an applicant for appointment *
as county superintendent to succeed
the late Thos. A. Futrall and had
hundreds of strong endorsement*
from the citizens of Lee county.
Soon after the governor acted upon
the matter hv appointing another
man, Mr. Whltenton announced h*
would be a candidate for election to
the position.
He believes his long experience
with the school conditions in Lee
with tht school conditions in Le*
county peculiarly fit him to give to
the county a constructive admin
isration in school affairs. He ha*
scores of strong supporters all over
the county who will be glad to assist
him In his ambition to become super
intendent of the county schools.
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DANGEROUS TO SHIP SOFT CORN
Washington, Nov. 26.—The United
States Department of Agriculture ha*
been advised that a large amount of
soft corn arriving at large grain
markets in the middle west is in
danger of spoiling. Owing to con
gestion of terminals at these point*,
railroads are unable to deliver corn
promptly to drying plants where II
can receive proper care. This cor*
is especially liable to get out of
condition while being held on trad*
during warm weather,
In order to prevent the spollag*
of such soft corn it is recommended
that until cold weather sets 1*
rarmers ana country snippern a«»y
the movement of such «oft earn
from the field unless conditions At
the point to which the com I*
shipped are such that the corn can
be given quick attention for con
ditioning.
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“DO YOUR BIT '
There are more deaths from tuber
culosis than from any other one dis
ease, and it Is also one of the chief
causes of poverty. Fortunately the
disease is curable and preventable
and not hereditary as was once be
lieved. But the public is not yet
educated as to how this cure and
prevention can be brought about.
The object of the annual sale of Red
Cross Seals by the American Tuber
culosis Association, a branch of the
Red Cross, is to care for those who
have tuberculosis and to prevent
others from infection The present
Is a time of unusual danger and em
ergency, for many soldiers will be
back from the training camps and
from active service Infected and the
community will have to care for
them. Ninety per cent of the pro
ceeds from the sale of Christmas
seals will be used by the Arkansas
Public Health Association for con
structive tuberculosis work in the
state, the other ten per cent going
to the national association to pay the
necessary expenses. The active drive
in Lee county will begin at once.
Our object and hope is to sell enough
of the seals in the countv to justify
our having a public nurse at least
part of the time to teach sanitation
and hygiene and assist in caring for
those afflicted with tuberculosis
throughout the county. We have
given liberally to all calls for war
service but none is more important
than the fight against tuberculosis,
and the seals cost only a penny each
According to the State Board of
Health. Arkansas now has 23.000
cases of tuberculosis, which it is
estimated cost the state more than
fourteen millions of dollars yearly.
Last year we had 2."60 deaths from
this cause while our saniforlutn at
Bonneville has only 140 beds. Very
little educational work has been done
in the state and our people are gen
erally ignorant of the nature of the
disease. Do your bit to help to edu
cate and care for them.
EMMA H CLARK.
Chairman County Comm,