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State- News' Briefs > The town of Williford, in the north- Wm part of Sharp county, has been Ipoorpo rated. The Home Mutual Benefit Associa tion of Fayetteville, a mutual insur ance organization, has been incorpor ated. The state,, .highway commissioner has advised sheriff’s and collectors, and automobile owndts, that automo bile license tags cannot be sent by parcels post, unless postage to cover is sent with the application. There has been some complaint that when sent by express, the owners must pay 26 or 80 cents in addition to the cost of the license. The commission ad vises that there is no provision for the state to pay the cost of transmit ting the tags. Information has been received from Oklahoma City of distinguished hon ors that have come to a former mem ber of the state house clerical force, G. R. Stirman, now practicing law at Paul’s Valley, Okla., who made the highest grade in a class of 57 appli cants for admission to the state bar. His grade was 1452. Mr. Stirman is a young man who came to Little Rock as a stenographer in the office of Agricultural Commissioner Phillips, serving through his administration and that of his successor, Clay Sloan. W. A. Conaway, tax agent of the Cotton Belt railroad, called at the of fice of the state tax commission Wed nesday and announced that he had been instructed to secure a statement of the amount due the state on the FFFF y F F FFT WTTTFFTVTWW WT W 'W'W W W’W ' | Hu^h Wyllie j The Plumber Located Next Door to City Fire Department. I ; I will be glad, and will readily furnish estimates on ; I Plumbing. My 22 years of continual experience en- ; ; ; ables me to understand thoroughly the Plumbir g < II Business. Repair work solicited. Quick Services ; • with Reasonable Charges. Cali Phone No. 103. I ■ • < ! HUGH WYLLIE X-Mas Gifts There is nothing so nice or more appreciated than a nice Portrait of yourself for Christmas Presents. Nice Calender given away with each Dozen post Cabinets while they last. Come Early and b« in ———————— theß&byShdW. All Eaby I Q I pictures made from now ,1 K |.Puf|C until Dec. 20th will be W showed at the Gem The- Phatairanker trc after X-Mas. Unde Sam Wants Young Men Stenographers We can prepare you to pass the examination Get in line now and be ready for the next examina tion. * t We also teach Bookkeeping, Banking, Railload- Ing, Telegraphy, Typewriting, Penmanship. DAY AND NIGHT SESSIONS Batesville Business QoHe^e Batesville, SHt. bb—s m Boosts franchise tax, which was last Monday sustained by the United States su preme court. The company has re sisted from the first the payment^ this tax, provided under the act o? 1909, and the accrued amount with penalties is now about $43,000. Mr. Conaway said it would be paid within the next ten days. Five pardons and remissions of fines were granted Wednesday by Gov. Hays, as follows: L. B. Wilson, convicted in April, 1914, in Polk county of illegal sale of liquor, and fined S2OO and costs, fine reduced to SSO, on condition that al', costs be paid. George Pickier, convicted in the 'mayor’s court at Taylor, Columbia county, of assault and fined SSO and osts, fine reduced to $lO on condition that costs be paid. John Hicks and Sam Carson, cor victed in Logan county and fined $5 for breach of the peace and $1 i ” simple assault, relieved of fines on presentation of receipt given by the sheriff showing that the costs, amounting to $177.25, had been paid. Lizzie Shelton, a Lee county ne grees, convicted last April of man slaughter and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. She attempted to kill her sister, Rose Foreman, and the petitioners say: “There is some doubt as to the real intention of Lizzie to kill her sister, as it happened in a scrimmage be tween Lizzie and Rose and Rose’s busbard. They fell on the floor dur ing a part of it, and it is not impro bable that Lizzie did not intend to stab her sister.” ion mu sut «Ilie canon's ' MOUE FLEECY STAPLE MUST PAY RANSOM INTO THE COF FERS OF WAR. Nation Ring* With Cries of Stricken Inc'jatry. By Peter Radford. Eeeturer National Farmer.' Union. King Cotton has suffered more from the European war than any other agricultural product on the American continent. The shells of the belligerents have bursted over his throne, frightening his subjects and shattering his mark ets. and, panic-stricken, "the na tion cries out “God save the] king.” People from every walk of life have contributed their mite to-; ward rescue work. Society has danced before the king; milady decreed that the family ward robe shall contain only cotton goods; the press has plead with the public to “buy a bale"; bank ers have been formulating hold ing plans; congress and legisla tive bodies have deliberated over relief measures; statesmen and writers have grown eloquent ex pounding the inalienable rights of “Uis Majesty" and presenting schemes for preserving the finan cial integrity of the stricken staple, but the sword of Europe has proved .mightier than the pe i of America in fixing value upon ’his product of the sunny south. Prices have been bayoneted, val ues riddled and markets decimat ed by the battling hosts of the eastern hemisphere until the American farmer has suffered a war loss of $460,000,000. and a bale of cotton brave enough to enter an European port must pat a .ransom of half its value or go to prison until the war is over. Hope of the Future Lies in Co operation. The Farmers’ Union, through the columns of the press, wants to thank the American people for the friendship, sympathy and as sistance given the cotton farm ers in the hour of distress and to direct attention to co-operative methods necessary to permanent ly assist the marketing of all farm products. The present emergency pre sents as grave a situation as ever confronted the American, farmer and from the viewpoint of the producer, would seem to justify extraordinary reljef measures, even te the point of bending the constitution and straining busi ness rules in order to lift a por tion of the burden off the backs of the farmer, for unless some thing is done to check the inva sion of the war forces upon the cotton fields, the pathway of the European pestilence on this con tinent will be strewn with mort gaged homes and famine and poverty will stalk over the south land, filling the highways of in dustry with refugees and the bankruptcy court with prisoners. All calamities teach us lessons and the present crisis serves to illuminate the frailties of our marketing methods and the weak ness of our credit system, and out of the financial anguish and travail of the cotton farmer will come a volume of discussion and a mass of suggestions and finally a solution of this, the biggest problem in the economic life of America, if, indeed, we have not already laid the foundation for at least temporary relief. More Pharoahs Needed in ’ Agriculture. Farm products have no credit and perhaps can never have on a permanent and satisfactory basis unless we build warehouses, cold storage plants, elevators, etc., for without storage -nd credit facili ties, the south is compelled to dump its crop on the market at harvest time. The Farmers’ Unions in the cotton producing states have for the past ten years persistently advocated the con struction of storage facilities. We have built during this period 2,000 warehouses with a capacity of approximately 4,000,000 bales and looking backward the results Caahasaa. Mias Lettie Dobadn went to Batas- VIU. Friday ahoppfag. sc John Callie moved hero from An derson Monday. A. G. Albright of Sulphur Roek came hero Monday to visit He daugh ters, Mrs. E. M. Reaves and Mrs. Jordy Brentop, T. F. Bbdt who has been at Curio for several ways looking after baai nem interests, returned home Bwndhy. would seem encouraging, but looking forward, we are able to house less than one-third of the crop and warehouses without a credit system lose ‘X) per cent of ‘thbir usefulness. The problem is a gigantic one—too great for the farmer to solve unaided. He must have the assistance of the bank er, the merchant and the govern ment. 1 A In production we have reached the high water mark of perfection in the world’s history, but our marketing methods are most primitive. In the dawn of his tory we find agriculture plowing with a forked stick but with a system of warehouses under gov ernmental supervision that made the Egyptians the marvel of civ ilization. for who has not ad mired the vision of Joseph and applauded the wisdom of Pharoah for storing the surplus until de manded by the consumer, but in this age we have too many Jo sephs who dream and not enough Pharoahs who build. RAILROADS APPEAL RESIDENT The Common Carriers Ask for Relief—President Wilson Di re At.ention of Public to ' Their Needs. The t mittee of railroad ex ecutives, 'deal by Mr. Frank Trumbull, 'presenting thirty five of the ding railroad sys tems of the nation, recently pre sented to President Wilson a memorandum briefly reviewing the difficulties now confronting the railroads of the country and asking for the co-operation of the governmental authorities and the public in supporting railroad credits and recognizing an emer gency which requires that the railroads be given additional rev enues. The memorandum recites that the European war has resulted in general depression of business on the American continent and in the dislocation o f credits at home and abroad. With revenues de creasing and interest rates in creasing the transportation sys tems of the country face a most serious crisis and the memoran dum is a strong presentation of the candle burning at both ends and the perils that must ultimate ly attend such a conflagration when the flames meet is apparent to all. In their general discussion the railroad representatives say in part: “By reason of legisla tion and regulation by the Fed eral Government and the forty eight states acting independently of each other, as well as through the action of a strohg public opin ion, railroad expenses in recent years have vastly increased. No criticism is here made of the gen eral theory of governmental regu lation, but on the other hand, no ingenuity can relieve the carriers of expenses created thereby.” President Wilson, in transmit ting the memorandum of the raii- I road presidents to the public, characterizes it as “a lucid state ment of plain truth." The Pres ident recognizing the emergency as extraordinary, continuing, said in part: “You ask me to call the atten tion of the country to the imper ative need that railway credits be sustained and the railroads helped in ev*rv possible way, whether by pnvate co-operative effort or by the action, wherever feasible of governmental agencies and I am glad to de so because I think the need cry real ” The conferene vas certainly a fortunate one fur the nation and the President is to be congratu lated for opening the ^ate to a new world of effort in which everyone may co-operate. There are many important problems in our complex civili zation that will ield to co-opera tion which will not lend them selves to arbitrary rulings of commissions and financing rail roads is one of them. The man with the money is a factor that cannot be eliminated from any business transaction, and the public is an interested party that should always be consulted and happily the President has invited all to participate in the solution of our railroad problems. Miu Maude Benton went to Bates ville Wednesday shopping. George Rogers went to Batesville Wednesday looking after business. 4 Mrs. N. A. Shell, who has been vis iting relatives at Batesville for sev eral days, returned home Sunday. Mrs. Mathews of Pineville came here Wedi esday to visit her son, G. W. Mathews. Mrs. Luther Arnold of Newark came here Monday to visit her dangh ter, Mrs. Clarence Adana. ’ A HOTSPRINGS, ARKANSAS The WORLD’S GREATEST Health and Measure Resort r«ord for cwm ta-etod. the. deWcmttratlM ‘to woa<!.rtal effleo / of the Hotel. Mdhoardios-bouw to.uttevery po hot Huntiae. a»hta<. end boetiog wltM, nwda ud th. U-U‘to Why m .ben you haw th. *hlh wondor of Iba World I. 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