Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-11-28
GOVERNOR IS FOR ]. STRICT NEUTRALITY Will Not Officially Ask Ar
 kansas People to Help
 the Belgians. .@ V-T.- --s s50,0OO LIKE HODGES Hays Declares CondemHsd Murderer { Nc Different Mentally Than Tllous. E ands-Favors State Aid for . State Fair.
5o,oOo LIKE HODGES
(By A. w. Parks.)

Little Rock, Nov. 27.-No proclama- tion will be issued by Gov. G. W. Hays asking the citizens of Arkansas to aid the starving Belgians. Gov. Hays is not against individuals doing all they desire in this direction, but he does not think that the state of Ar kansas should recognize any country which is now engaged in the Euro pean war, more than another.
 "President Wilson has asked the people of the United States to refrain from expressions in which they side with any of the belligerents and if we i. were tc raise funds and provisions for Belgium, ignoring the other suffering nations" states. Gov. Hays, i've cer- tainly would not be maintaining the neutrality our great Democratic president has asked of us. If it was to make donations for all warning na- tions, it might be different but Arkan- sas may have to ask for contributions for herself if this diversified farming campaign is not successful. The Ger man citizens of Little Rock raised fund and sent it to the Red Cross so- ciety. an organization which serves all nations alike, and there were no strings tied to the lccal German con- tribution, so the wounded of the al lies may be treated with it instead of relatives of the subscribers. An ac- tion such as that might be sanctioned by proclamation"
 Amend Jim Crow Law.
 It has been some years now since the people of Arkansas have paid any attention to Jim Crow laws, so sue cessfully has the present one work ed. but there is a probability that the next legislature will be asked to inn prove upon it, patterning after the Texas Jim Crow law. In Arkansas, as we'll as Oklahoma and several oth- CT Southern states, there is no provi- sicn by which colored servants may accompany white passengers who have small children, in the capacity of nurse. Under the present law the railroads of the state are subject to a penalty every time a cOlOred nurse is permitted to ride in a white coach, no matter how great the need of her. The law is often ignored in this par ticular, and the railroad company IS reasonably safe from prosecution, for there has never been objection to the violation under such circumstances, but the companies desire the change so that they are absolutely certain. Sentiment being so strong in favor of the colored nurses accompanying their employers, there will hardly be opposition to such an act if it is pro- posed.
 Hays Believes Hedges Normal.
 Gov. G. w. Hays does not take the expert side of the Arthur Hodges case, he having a sys:em Of his own to judge the sanity of a murderer, and Governor Hays is not the least backward in expressing his mind, once he has gone carefully into a subject and considered it from all angles.
 Eff Arthur Hodges is insane, or even mentally undeveloped." says Governor Hays. then we have 50, 900 insane or mentally undeveloped men. in the state of Arkansas. "The men who have watched Hodges every day since he was brought to the penitentiary two years ago. do not be-