The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-07
"A ropheoy--Arkansas Ten Years
 From Today"

From Today"
 This splendid, optimistic paper was read by Mrs Harry P. Christian be | fore the Lotus club at a recent meet | ing and was pronounced by the mem
 bers to be one of the best of the year
 Our State just on the threshold Of future, possessing more natrual en- dowments than most any other State
 in the Union, and development far
 in advance in many ways, can be Inothne short of optimistic in proph- ecy Every aspiring citizen is seri- Ionsly considering the making of 8
 better Ark Some are blowing bub bles of one kind-some of anOther-
 Just how many will materialize lies altogether in the power behind them; 1 Naturally with SO large an under taking there must be omissions and | errors, but with the splendid spirit of lofty idealism prevalent among our good people it is sure to come out a leader The future depends In measure on each individual. Each one sharing the bitter and the sweet. In striving to make it a brighter more beautiful place in which to live comes a consciousness that we are trying to render helpful service. To be willing to serve means something, to be abe to do individually, or col, lectively is the great end to which we strive.
 want-I wa1t--I want--is said to be the force which inspired William Blake to draw the picture of a lad der underneath which he wrote the words, "I want, etc He didn't know what he wanted, but he felt intensely the everlasting call for activity that lies within each of us, and is the basis of an ideal. | predict that the compu sory law of education will in way stimulate this call in our boys and girls-giying them intelligence, the second element in the formation of an ideal A knowledge of what they should do, what they should create, what they should attain, It will give them the mental equipment necessary to separate the true from the untrue-the good from the bad It will give them energy, intelligence and faith, which instilled in proper l balance will cause them to render l true accounts. It will give them vic
 tory over indolence, ignorance and | selfisiness, and they will become leaders, playing no small part in the Ibetterment of our state and nation l I predict a great increase in popula, tiol--not only from natural sources, but from immigration The available lands of Texas, Oklahoma and the
 West in general, having been taken, will naturally turn the tide of immi- grafton Arkansasward This means
 increased land values. l predict that
 the health campaign being waged by the civic league will be state wide.
 also predict that through this same civic movement our cities will be
 greatly beautiiied and purified having
 beautiful parks, schools, public play
 rounds lovely bouleyards, etc. l pre-
 dict pubic slaughter pens, also in
 cneration plants in cities whose population will allow, and complC.e c
 victory over everything of an un.
 sanitary nature. predict that
 through clubs and organizations as Ihas been done in some states, we will reach a great number of Hitter ate women and educate them, there by making them better able to train lup the coming generation, and make
 them capable Of voting intelligently
 when woman is given the right Of
 franchise predict the pensionins
 of mothers; this money 10 he used
 for educating the children. This law will be amply protected against cer
 tain classes who might possibly go
 into the child raising bu mess for
 profit alone, and in my mind it VIII
 do more to reach people who actual
 y need help than anything ever has. | Witl the modern schools of agri-
 culture doing so much to equip our
 boys for scientific farmers, I predict
 a great increase along these lines. They will insist on improved imple- ments with which 10 till their soil.
 and have a complete knowledge of
 how it should be done. predict
 many more mics of railroad. l also
 predict the completion of the Little Rock'Hot Springs Interurban, which
 will open a vast territory of ulde
 yeloped resources and bring increas- ed land values and prosperity. even go so far as to predict a board of censorship on the making of
 styles through which our slit skirt and transparent dress will sink into oblivion I predict that a great par' of the State will be furnished cleo tricity at a much lower rate by means of hydraulic power derived from our rivers The federal good roads bill will, 1t is said do more to reduce the high cost of living than any other one thing increasing the value of farm lands and bring to the various