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|1)ME xm-.\V 187. - PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS
MPEOMISE plan
gains impetus
«dS-Vot^yo„Catt
Keaty Without Reservations
jg Certain.
tohingtoa, Nov. 18.—Compromise
wto rescue the peace treaty from
hreatened deadlock made such pro
1, today that its friends declared
l^d more than an even chance for
go far as it had taken definite form
ight, the compromise programme
led for a final vote Thursday and
inted toward acceptance of the re
lations of the foreign relations
mittee without the requirement
kthey must be assented to affirma
,jy by the other powers.
The way to compromise was opened
ithe group of mild reservation Re
iblicans, who served notice on the
®ublican and Democratic leaders
it they would not put up the bars
itirely to modification of the com
jttee reservations, but would stand
* against and defeat the administra
m’s parliamentary programme.
With this final announcement of
}W their deciding strength would be
Kd in the closing stages of the
ieaty contest, the mild reservation
's retired to the background. The
*sult was that Republican Leader
«lge and Democratic Leader Hitch
ock faced each other and laid all
heir cards on the table.
The conference between the two
saders brought no final decision as
othe language of a compromise rati
ication, but it did develop an agree
nent that the Democrats would have
he opportunity for which they have
ought to secure a showdown vote on
the question of unreserved ratifica
tion. This vote, Mr. Lodge said,
would be permitted before the roll call
on the committee resolution.
Another result of the conference
was the submission to Mr. Lodge to
night of a group of proposed compro
mise reservations with a view to mak
ing enough modification in the com
mittee programme already approved
by the Senate majority to enable the
Democrats to support the committee
resolution of ratification. On this
point Senator Lodge was said to be
insistent as he desired all compromise
efforts to be made before the vote
came on the committee measure.
Meantime in the Senate two more
reservations were added to the 13 al
ready adopted. The mild reservation
's supported them as the final quali
fications which they would help to
write into the treaty, but the Senate
NMed its session far into the eve
THE WEATHBR
Wednesday fair; Thursday fair and
warmer.
Maximum . 71
Minimum . 3g
ning, voting down numerous other
proposals in an effort to clear the
way before adjournment for work to
morrow on the ratification resolution
itself.
PURPOSES OF THE
COTTON ASSOCIATION
For the benefit of farmers and busi
ness men I will state some of the pur
poses of the Cotton Association to be
organized at the court house in Pres
cott Saturday, Nov. 22, at 2 o’clock
p. m.
To protect the interest of the cotton
producer and improve his condition.
To eliminate the middle man and
bring about a closer co-operation be
tween the spinner and the producer.
To promote the economic regulation
of cotton production to the end that
the supply shall be so adjusted to de
mand that the producer shall at no
time be required to sell his product
at less than a fair and reasonable
profit.
To broaden the markets for raw
cotton and to enlarge the uses for
cotton and cotton goods.
To improve and increase transpor
tation and distribution facilities.
To improve and enlarge present
warehouse facilities, thereby enabling
the producer to carry his crop or such
part of it as he desires at the mini
mum cost and at the maximum of
security and financiability.
To assist in the organizing of a fi
nancing corporation which will assist
in financing the cotton crop and thus
prevent the possibility of distressed
cotton, thereby stabilizing the market
and assuring profitable prices.
To maintain a bureau of publicity
so as to keep the producer fully in
formed as to all conditions bearing on
cotton.
L. J. Bryson.
APPLES, APPLES
A fresh car of apples, including the
Black Twig and a variety of eating
apples, has been received. Also apples
for canning, cooking and preserving.
If you will look my stock over, you
will buy. L. E. Mullins, the apple
man, West Main street. 18d6
If your digestion is bad, your
bowels constipated and you don't eat
or sleep well, you need Prickly Ash
Bitters, the remedy that men use
for cleansing the system. It purifies
and invigorates the vital organs, re
stores appetite, energy and heerful
spirits. Price $1.25 pet bottle. Wes
terly Drug Store, Special Agts. mwf
YOU NEVER KNOW
i what’s going to happen from one day
to another—that’s why this Bank ad
vises you and everyone else in this
community to save.
It’s the easiest thing in the world
to start a Savings Account, and this
bank will co-operate with you in every
way to help you create a systematic
habit of adding to it each week.
We believe you’ll like it once you
get started. No matter how large or
small your idle funds may be, bring
them to our Savings Department and
get the saving habit.
BANK OF PRESCOTT
Capital. $75,000.00
Surplus. $75,000.00
PRESCOTT, ARKANSAS
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FREIGHT EMBARGO
IS NOT PLANNED
Coal Production Has Increased
10 Per Cent—Railroads Are
Hit Hard—Passenger Trains
May Be Cancelled.
Chicago, Nov. 18.—The statement
of Walker D. Hines, director general
of railroads, that the coal shortage
has not reached a stake where a gen
era! freight embargo is necessary and
that coal production has increased 10
per cent since the strike was the most
encouraging news on the coal strike
situation today. Reports from prin
cipal coal producing states showed no
material change, but in some of the
outlying districts more mines were re
ported in operation.
Mr. Hines came to Chicago to at
tend a meeting of the American Rail
way Association. Before his arrival
regional directors had said an em
bargo was inevitable. But after Mr.
Hines laid his information before
them they agreed that the roads
would have coal to last another 30
days.
Coal is being produced in spite of
the strike, according to Mr. Hines.
Nonunion miners continued at work
when the strike became effective Nov.
1 and they produce 20 per cent of the
country’s coal. Since that time more
miners have gone to work, increasing
production to 30 per cent of normal.
“The country is using 20,000 cars of
bituminous coal a day,” said Mr.
Hyies, “while 11,000 cars are being
mined. This means we are eating
into our reserve supply at the rate
of 9,000 cars a day. Our supply will
last 25 days if production is neither
increased nor decreased. However, it
is being increased.”
Mr. Hines said regional directors
had been given authority to suspend
passenger rtains, if necessary, to con
serve coal, but they have no author
ity to place an embargo on freight.
“Before we shu tdown on freight
shipments most of the passenger
trains on the railroads throughout
the country will be taken off,” he said.
“Movement of freight is more vital
than the carrying of passengers.”
Only from 10 to 12 days’ supply of
fuel is advisable for railroads of the
central western region, according to
P. E. Clarity. In the northwest, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail
road has been hit the hardest by the
coal famine. This road had only 10
days’ supply on hand.
The suspension of many of the
smaller plants in the south is expect
ed in a few days. The railroad direc
tor in that region today issued an
order materially curtailing the sup
ply of coal to all industries.
The situation in Chicago is not ser
ious, according to T. W. Proctor, chair
man of the Chicago regional coal com
mittee.
“Chicago is in excellent condition,
he said. “Our utilities have several
months’ supply, as have our big indus
tries, such as the packers and steel
companies. The schools also have a
large reserve.”
The edict of the public service com
mission of Indiana, shutting off the
supply of coal to all non essential
industries, is t obe carried out rigidly.
All the streets in the large towns
have been short of unnecessary lights.
GOVERNOR FORCED TO
DECLINE POSSUM FEAST
Little Rock, Nov. 10.—Gov. C. H.
Brough' is passing up a possum feed.
He expressed the desire to partake of
the festive possum at the next annual
dinner of the Polk County Possum
Club, and now that the invitation has
come, he is forced to decline. The
invitation comes from Judge R. S.
Petefish, whom Gov. Brough appoint
ed a justice of the peace when a va
cancy existed a few years ago, upon
the showing that Petefish was the
champion possum catcher of Polk
county. The big dinner is to take
place in Mena Friday evening.
We are expecting another advance
on Valley Lumber Company lands
after first of the year. Now is the
time to get in on the present prices.
Moore & Martin. 11-8-tf
MANY NON-RESIDENT
HUNTERS LICENSES ISSUED
Little Rock, Nov. 19.—Arkansas is
getting more than its share of the
hunters this season. Over 800 hunt
ers’ licenses have been issued from
the office of the State Game and Fish
Commission, and most of these are j
for non-resident hunters. Thousands 1
of licenses have been issued for hunt- j
ers and for dogs, but the most of them
are made out by the circuit clerks on
blanks furnished by the commission.
The non-resident hunters come from
New York, Boston, Washington, Chi
cago, Buffalo, anti even from points
further away than these. Most of
these hunters come to the lodges in
East Arkansas, to be guests of people
who are members, and whom they
have entertained in the East.
ENGINEER SURPRISED AT
RICE DEVELOPMENT
Little Rock, Nov. 19.—Col. Henry
A. Allen, chief engineer of the Dixie
Power Company, a prominent con
sulting engineer of Chicago, and com
mander of the Seventh combatant en
gineers for over a year in France, was
in Little Rock this week looking after
the interests of the company. Col.
Allen was one of the consulting en
gineers on the Panama Canal.
“I was amazed by the magnitude
of the rice development in several
counties of your state,” said Col. Allen
“but greater still is the chance for
development. In fact, I would say
that it has not really begun. Our
company contemplates supplying the
rice fields with cheap power from the
dam we are to erect on White river,
but if developed to the fullest there
are not rivers enough in the state to
supply sufficient power for this field.
We hope to bring 50,000 horse power
daily to the rice fields, and more if
we can generate over our estimated
production of 100,000 horsepower,
and that ought to start the rice boom.
“Our project will not only supply
cheap power, but we will do what the
government has not so far succeeded
in doing—we will make the flow of
the White river almost the same the
year round. Our dam# will flood 150,
000 acres of land and impound so
much water that we will be able to
let it all out through the turbines, and
not over the spillway. This will re
lieve Newport of about eight feet of
water in the flood stage, and Clarei*
don of four or five feet. This will be
a great benefit to the property owners
along the lower White, for it will
render the present levee sufficient to
hold the river in its banks.
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LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN—
One sorrel Shetland pony, weight
about 500 pounds. Long mane and
tail, spot in forehead. 3 or 4 letters
across left hip. Left my place last
Monday. Any information leading to
recorvery will be liberally rewarded.
W. L. Britt, Boughton, Ark. 14d2
U. S. ACTS TO
AVERT FAMINE
Garfield Calls Miners’ Scale Com
mittee to Meet—Fuel Admin
istration Clothed With War
time Towers.
Washington, Nov. 18.—The govern
ment stepped to the front today to
force miners and operators to nego
tiate a new wage agreement and re
sume work in the bituminous fields
before the country is in the grip of a
coni famine.
Clothed with all of his wartime
powers as fuel administrator and act
ing by direct authority of the presi
dent’s cabinet, Dr. Harry A. Garfield
called a joint meeting of scale com
mittees, at which he was expected to
give formal notice that the time had
cmoe to resume mining operations on
a normal scale.
While the joint conference was set
for this afternoon, Dr. Garfield found
that a full attendance could not be
obtained, so it went over until to
morrow. Meanwhile word was passed
that the strike situation had reached
that point where action was regarded
by federal authorities as absolutely
imperative.
There was no evidence, as presented
to the cabinet, that the scale com
mittees, called here last week to ne
gotiate a new wage agreement, had
made the least headway. Reports
from the central competitive fields,
embracing the states of Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and Western Pennsylva
nia, strongholds of the United Mine
Workers of America, showed all the
mines shut down, and not enough coal
coming from nonunion plants in other
states to meet the normal demand by
several million tons.
Other reports, from widely sep
arated sections, brought the same
story of a rapidly vanishing coal
supply, with indications that hun
dreds of industrial plants would be
forced to close shortly unless coal
production was put back to normal.
In view of many of the officials the
situation was critical enough to de
mand drastic action.
Although he wuold not discuss the
nature of the statement he was pre
pared to lay before the operators and
miners, it was said on high authority
that Dr. Garfield was prepared to pre
sent the situation forcibly to the
chief representatives of the mine
owners and mine workers. There was
no intimation as to what direction
governmental action would take in
case the deadlock continued.
Steps taken by Kansas to operate
the mines under government author
ity and fear by both sides that other
states would do likewise were urged
as a strong reason for quick settle
ment of all wage disputes.
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