The Dermott news., 1914-03-12

| petual youth may not be al some time brought about by the oombl- nation Of mechanical invention and chemistry.
 Berkley, the spiritual philoso- pher, years ago wrote Thesis, 1 holding that nothing material really existed while Hegel and Kant, the transcendental phiIoso- phers, essentially maintained that the World had existed tor count less ages, and as lt grew older and grew wiser we would of necessity grow better until idleness, crime and vice would disappear from the earth without the intervention of law that people would do right because II was right. Either hypothesis would reach the same end. If Berkley be right, we neither love, enjoy or er-only imagine so. If Kant be right, we will grow wiser and better until perfection be reached and hunger and want and evil no more exist.
 But you, the Bankers, the back CTS ot the builders, at last hold the keys of destiny. The world de mands it's 'ould pro quo you must furnish the means to enable progress; without you everything stops.
 Now few words as to who and what We are We who are receiving you Dermott, the Beautiful
 The following facts were kindly collated for me by MT. DilIInder ot the Board of Trade and the health officers of the City; nrtNutl lut urNgHfGI-
 THE WONDERFUL :
 Dermott owns and operates her own Water-works with the purest deep water we'll in the South.
 Dermott owns and operates a splendid Electric Lighting Plant.
 Dermott has a hne Sewerage System.
 Dermott has more than hTe miles ot Concrete Walks.
 Dermott ls the healthIest City in the State, with death rate of less than nine per thousand during the last three years.
 Dermott has two Hotels, the cost of building and ,qu4ppine be- ing over SI5o.ooo. l he ale not Ioqualed by any other city of four times her population.
 Dermott has spent m the last yearln building and improvements more than half a million dollars.
 permott has built in the last year more than 100 homes al an average cost ot more than SIooo.
 Dermott's population has doubled Tn the last years.
 Dermott has SIX mills employing HOO men, and paving out from the Dermott offices se5, 900 cash per month.
 Dermott has a wholesale house that has done a million dollar bus mess two wears in succession.
 The gross income ot the Iron Mountain Railroad through the Dermott station IS more than half million year; that IS why we have a S4o, 1000 Depot.
 And gentlemen, in accomplish ing all this, she has levied and col lected only three regular municipal taxes during her corporate ex- lStance of over I years. Watch Dermott Grow.
 ptrmott Is situated ln Chlcot County, and ChICot county pro duces more cotton per acre than than any county in the nlted States. average taken from Census Report.
 Chicot County made a gain of 70 per cent m population between loco and IQIo according to the Census reports.
 ChlCot County made an average income for every acre cultivated m 1910 of S2o.IS, while Missouri, Indiana. Ohio and Illinois made no more than SI-. b2.
 The average value of products made gross return ot seven times mote on the investment m Chicot than any other county in the Mlssstsstppl valley.
 Now FOR A PERFECTION
 predict that in few days, for years are but AS days. m relation to the advancement ot the world at present:
 predict that II will be but a short time until the second great [ |