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The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Farmers of Benton county will put out very heavy acreage of tomatoes this year, and contracts are being signed with local canning factories. Last year the Holland-American Fruit Products Company put up 20 cars of canned tomatoes and paid the grow CTS S6.500. More than 400 acres were contracted for and the growers receiv- ed $10 per ton. This year the same price. will be paid, which is the high est ever known, and they wish to double the acreage. Local officers of the factory say they can handle all the tomatoes the growers will bring in at that price.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Perhaps the most important bill in troduced in the legislature during the past week was the public service com mission bill introduced by Senator Duty. The bill provides for a pub lie service commission of three mem hers who shall have control of all pub lie service corporations. The bill would abolish the Arkansas Railroad Commission.
 The commissioners are to be ap- pointed by the governor for six years. The common carriers would recon mend six men from whom the gov ernor shall select one. The boards Of trade. the chambers of commerce, the freight bureaus and other commercial organizations would recommend six from whom the governor shall appoint one. The other appointment is left to the governor. Each commissioner would receive 5000 a year.
 The commission is empowered tc appoint an attorney, whose qualified tions must be the same as justice of the Supreme Court The attorney would hold office six years and re- ceive S3,600 a year. The commission could appoint a secretary at a salary of $3,000 The commissioners would receive their travelling and other eX- penses incurred in the discharge of their duties.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Faulkner county will go strong for diversified farming the coming spring if the promises made to County Dem onstration Agent ]. w. Earlier are carried out. At a recent meeting of the Peanut Growers Association 107 additional acres were pledged to the cultivation of this plant, bringing the total to over 1000. Wheat, too, will come in for large acreage. and local supply houses are finding it difficult to keep enough seed wheat on hand to meet the demand
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

A case of smallpox was discovered In the camp of workmen at the Bache- Denman Prairie Creek No mine The patient was isolated and all the 30 workmen were vaccinated Capt Von Schraeder, in charge of the Red Corps of the United States troops sta toned here, has assumed charge of the situation
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

An effort was made in the house to
 kill the bill by Senator Smith of Union
 county, providing for the pay of ser. vices of convicts in the state peniten- tiarS, the principle of the bill being that the state should charge the con vict only for his board and clothes and pay the remainder of his earn. ings to his family. MT Belote oppos- ed the bill, as a measure that will make Arkansas refuge of the scum Of the criminal world, by insuring all law-breakers a pension for their fami- lies" He moved the indefinite post ponement of the bill, but this was op- posed by many members who thought the action would be discourteous to the Senate and that the bill should ba further considered on it's merits. The motion to indefinitely postpone was finally withdrawn and the bill allowed to go to the Penitentiary Committee.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05
To the Members of the General As-
 sembly Now in Session:


 sembly Now in Session:
 By the Act of Congress approved March 3, 1919, the Territory of Ar kansas was created out of that part of Missouri Territory adjoining the State of Louisiana, which covered practical ly the south half of the Territory of Missouri. The spelling of the new Territory in the Act of Congress is "Arkansaw." The Act was to go into effect on July 1, 1919.
 The year 1919 will witness the cen tenary of the creation of the Territory, now the State of Arkansas. Vast changes have occurred since then. What was then practically wilder ness, with mere handful of inhabi- tants, has become a great state with population sufficiently large to en- title it to seven representatives in the national House of Representatives. It's climate is unsurpassed; it is far enough south to escape the blizards and extremely cold weather of the North, and far enough north to be free from tropical heat Yet. with all these advantages, has the state grown in wealth and population as, with these great natural resources, it should? We must all admit that it has not. What is the reason? There can be but one answer. The outside world has not been informed of these great resources. How many people outside of the state know of the vast mineral deposits in our state, coal, zinc and lead? How many know that our soil and climate are such as to en- able us to produce everything that can be produced elsewhere in the United States, except tropical fruits? :?
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

The House Judiciary Committee re- ported adversely on the Jackson bill prescribing further duties for the al torney general and others in the en- forcement of the criminal laws.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

The Columbia Baptist Association ir it's convention at Magnolia unanimous ly passed resolution calling on the legislature to pass statewide prohi bftion bill.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Senator Edmondson is leading tn, fight in the Senate for the repeal O state aid to high schools.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

The Newberry statewide bill was read once in the Senate Tuesday af- ternoon, and motion to suspend the rules and read the second time was lost by the following vote:
 Aye-Bush. Cabiness, Carter. Da- venport, Futrell, Garrett. Greenhouse. Kendall, Overman, Ruff, Sims, Slaugh- ter, Toler, Yam. Wagner, White, MT. President-17.
 Nay-Adamson, Ashley, Burgess, Calvert. Collins, Duty. Edmondson, Ferguson, Going. Hamilton, Harris. Jones, Moore, Mccall, Owens, Smith, Smith, Wasson-1S.
 It would have required two-thirds vote to place the bill on it's second reading, and when the vote was an nounced Senator Greenhouse arose to a point of personal privilege and ask ed that it be spread on the journal that he protested against the delaying tactics of the opposition of the minor ity, which opposed prohibition meas. ures.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

The house Monday afternoon by a vote of 69 to r passed the resolution introduced by MT. Carruth of Bradley proposing an amendment to the con- stitution for graduated land tax. The following clause is added to the pres ent law on the subject of taxation:
 Provided further, that the legisla- ture may enact laws for graduated tax on incomes. and also for a grad uated land tax upon unimproved land in excess of 32o acres owned by one individual, corporation, corporation or partnership, or by one or more in dividuals. corporations or partnerships jointly or in common"
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

The equal suffrage amendment will not be submitted at the next general election, although the resolution pro viding for it's submission was passed by the senate, and had won victory in the house, with the chances good for it's passage. A motion to indefi- nitely postpone after it had been read the second time was defeated by a vote Of 67 to 25. It was then referred to the committee on constitutional amendments which reported that it do pass. It would have come up on Friday morning for third reading and final passage but on Wednesday the Federation of Labor filed with the secretary of state an initiated amend ment for curing defects in the present Initiative urd Referendum amend ment, by taking the limit off the number of amendments that may be submiJed at any one election.
 The filing of this amendment had the effect of killing further considera- ton of the suffrage amendment pass
 
 ated land tax amendment passed by the house, and any other pending amendments The three submitted will be:
 By the Department of Education To incr/se from to 12 mills the minimum school tax.
 By the LeSislature--To permit road districts to issue thirty-year bonds
 By the Federation of Labor-To amendment
 To vote on the motion to indefinite ly postpone tbe suffrage amendment, indicative of the sentiment in the house, was as follows
 Ayes: Brockman, Buchanan. Con- dray, Copeland of Izard, Creekmore, Dipboye, Dunlap, Gray. Helms, Hol- lensworth, Hooker, Jeter, Joiner, Jo. sephs, Jones of Washington, Lefler, Love, Nixon. Pierce, Stafford, Street, Thomasson, Wallace, Wilson, 25.
 Nays: Alexander, Angelo, Arm strong. Beeson, Belote, Bonnet of Ar kansas, Bennett of Poinsett, Bishop, Bland, Brawner, Burrow, Carruth. Ca zort, Collier, Copeland of Howard, CressweH Crump, Davis, Dowdy, Dunn, Ellis, Ffndley. Gentry, Griffin. Halbcrt Hatley, Hawkins, Holland. Hudspeth, Hudson, Humphreys, Johns. Jones of Pulaski King, Lewis. Little. Willard, Miller. Moses, Mosbey. Me Gill. Newberry, Nicks, Perkins, Plem- mons, Pollard, Pope, Reigler, Robert son, Rogers of Desha, Rogers of Lo- gan. RoreX. Ruble, Shaver, Shoffner, Steed, Swepston. Taylor. Teague, Ted ford, Waggoner. Walls, Williams of Benton, Williams of Cross, Woods, Yerger, Young, Mir. Speaker-67
 Not voting: Bell, Fair, Posey, Reid, Shouse, Smith and Suloer
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Considerable agitation exists in Cal houn county over the tick eradication question. The measure is being op- posed by some, while others are in favor of it. Petitions pro and con have been circulated and have been sent to Representative T. II. Pierce at Little Rock. It is generally under stood. however, that MT. Pierce is in favor of the measure and will bend his efforts toward getting Calhoun county cleared of ticks.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Fire at Conway destroyed the build. ing of the West Drug Co, POP North Front street Nothing was saved from the building. The stock of dry goods of Camp Brothers was damag- ed, and other adjoining buildings sur. fered. the total loss being about S20,000.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

motion to indefinitely postpone the bill repeating state aid to high schools was lost in the Senate by a vote of 15 to 20.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Opposition has developed in the house to any movement for the re- peal of the act creating the State Board of Health, or for the exemption of counties.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Hollenworth of Ouachita has estab- lished his reputation as the wit of the house.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

The Senate Judiciary Committee killed the Hollensworth House Bill, which permits the state law on num- Der of hours to be worked day to exempt Ouachita county.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Both houses passed a bill to pension Mrs. Elmira Waggoner of Marion county, widow of a Confederate sol dier. She is 116 years old.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

At regular meeting of the council contract was awarded a concern in Atlanta, Ga, to make a preliminary survey of the Town of Heber Springs and estimate the cost of complete waterworks and sewerage system to be installed during the spring of 1915 A crew of expert engineers will begin the preliminary work at once The people are more determined than ever to secure this public utility.
 The Crittenden County Bank and Trust Company. located at Earle Charlottesville. Marion and Turrell Ark, has decided to cease operations at Turrell because of the Baker Lum Der Company and the Crismore Slave Mills closing for lack of timber On ly small percentage of the patrons drew out funds, ard it will be satis factory to transfer all funds to Ma rion. the county seat.
 An application has been received by the comptroller of the currency tc convert the Planters Bank of Cotton Plant, Ark, into the First National Bank The bank is capitalized fol S35 1000.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

c. E. Benazon, local produce man. has purchased the Cave Springs Star. The editorial management will be turned over to Leo Blakely.
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

During the discussion of the suf. frage resolution in the house, Dr Bishcp asked MT. Gray if he ever ex pected to want to marry again, and he retorted, If do, it will not be one of these suffragettes."
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

Two former speakers were guests of the house last week, Hon. Jo Hard. age of Philadelphia, 1913, and Hon A. F. Vandeventer of BartlesviIle Okla, 1899
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

The citizens of Delight are making an effort to have a demonstration for Pike county. The Quorum Court refused to make an appropriation and the money is being raised by subscrip- tion
The Spectator., 1915-02-05

An amendment to the suffrage reso lution by MT. Dunlap proposed that il first be submitted to the women at a special election, and that no woman be required to reveal her age if it ex. ceeded thirty years.
The Washington times., 1915-12-15

that may be earned by a carrying
vessel, assures huge profits until
peace shall come-and no man knows
when that day will be. We are
building ships in that way of rush
and boom because the ships have to
be obtained, and under the circum-
stances there is no other way to OBJ
tain them.
But when the war is over we and
all the rest of the world must get
down again to shipping hard-pan.
American enterprise won't count for
much when man who wants to
build or buy or operate a ship can
do it at much lower cost anywhere
else and under any other flag than
here. American enterprise won't
count for much when all the mer-
chant fleets of all the maritime ma
tions of the world are again COM
peting for the carriage Of the Amer
ican foreign trade on freight-rate
basis which American ships, because
Of our costs of construction, costs of
maintenance, costs of labor, and
costs of everything else, cannot
touch without financial loss and
bankruptcy.
The Washington times., 1915-12-15
COMMERCE CHAMBER
BACKS SCHOOL LAW
Opposes Proposed Transfer Of
Control to District Com
missioners.

The Washington Chamber Of Com
inorce Is opposed to the proposal 70
give the Commissioners fun control or
INC educational system OF the District
rms fact was brought out at a meeting
fast night when a resolution was adopt
ed which states that the hest inter
eSts OF tho school children. the teachers.
anu OF the public require tho perma-
hcht preservation of the feature Of To-
cal representation i'm the administration
oi school government in the District.
and that We particularly commend the
provisions of the present law, vestinr
the power of appointment of the meir-
pers OF our Board Of Education in tho
Judges of the District Supreme Court.
as being well calculated to result in tho
creation of a thoroughly representative
board free from politics.
The principal address of tho evening
was made by Congressman Michael =.
~onfy or New York, who told the mem
Dcfs mat he would support the move
ncnt for nome rule in the District.
After sitting here this evening and
10 the needs ana affairs OF their city,
am unable to understand why you
should he deprived of your rights as
citizens: said Mr.. Conry.
Il believe YOU would have more on
terpf1se, more real civic spirit il you
had municipal suffrage, homc rule AMI
political representation in Congress. /
always have supported IL and will con-
| tinue 10 support it because | believe il
is Cne of the greatest principles of
democracy and in line with the spirit of
American republca nism."
The Washington times., 1915-12-15
YUAN Sill KAI AS EMPEROR

Assumption of the imperial crown
and dignity of China by Yuan Shi
kai marks that extraordinary China
man as one Of the most interesting
figures of modern times. When Ma
poleOn had risen TO imperial emf
nence in France and the time came
for his coronation, he declined to
have any other mans hand place the
crown on his head; instead, he him
self raised it from the altar before
which he knelt, and set the SYM
bolic gew gaw on his own head
Yuan ha2, at least in effect, done
the same thing for himself; and he
row assumes imperial authority
over vastly greater population
than even Napoleon ever pretended
to rule.
Yuan has had thus far a career
whose parallel is hard to find in all
the records Of tyrants, usurpers, and
conquerors. He has risen by dint of
a marvellous genius for political in
trigue of the strictly Oriental type.
He wormed himself into the conf
dence of the Manchus and then be-
trayed them; he placed himself at
the head of northern China, and
then forced the republican revolu-
tionists, who were of the south, to
make him President of the new re-
public by threatening to drench the
country in the blood of long civil
war unless he were given his head.
He promptly betrayed the republic,
murdered as many of its leaders as
seemed necessary in order to cstab-
lish his own reign of terror, and
finally has made himself EN-
peror,"
This latest step, Of course. could
The Washington times., 1915-12-15
sNoLAND'S LATE VOLUNTEERS

Far from proving that conscrip-
tion has not been necessary to the
military needs of Great Britain, the
ultimate success of Lord Derby's
plan to have an adequate number Of
men offer themselves for service
proves that they were willing to
volunteer only when if they did not
they would have to serve anyhow
by conscription; for that was the
alternative.
Furthermore, if it can be said
that Lord Derby has at last raised
the needed men without conscrip-
tion, it can also be said that this
result may have come too late.
All the hundreds of thousands
men who have flocked in recent
days to offer their services might,
under conscription, have been made
by now fairly we'll trained soldiers.
The year and third which has been
spent in getting these tardy enlist
ments could have been put into the
practical business of getting the
men licked into shape for war. None
Of these men will be fit 20 go to war
in any capacity next spring. None of
them will be first-class soldiers a
year from next spring.
Meanwhile the allies may have to
undergo the most terrific strain not
only in the Balkans but elsewhere
for lack of the trained and seasoned
troops that might have been avail
able at this very moment if it had
been possible to create them by con-
scription.
Conscription in time of peace
with no cloud in the sky, with no,
body dreaming that the interna-
tional weather will change, may be
a debatable question. But when d
country is actually plunged into
war, when its national existence is
threatened by it's lack of troops
both trained and unframed, there
ought never to be any question
either in Great Britain or in the
United States, of the right and the
authority Of the government to get
all the men it needs and to get them
Immediately. And if that means
conscription, then conscription let il
he.
The Washington times., 1915-12-15

not have been taken but for the sit
uation in Europe, which, engrossed
in it's own troubles. has been unable
to devote it's wonted attention to
China. There have been ample
warnings to the world that Yuan
was scheming for the throne; he or
ganized "public sentiment" in
favor of restoring the monarchical
form of government, and incidental
ly in favor Of forcing it upon him
self. The outside world was unable
to understand the steps in the de-
veloping conspiracy, because Yuan
tricked it, as well as his own people.
Many people, in as well as out Of
China, believed the usurper was be-
ing made tool by Japan, in order
to get japanese influence, through
him, into control of the ancient en-
pire. 1t is now pretty apparent that
this was an erroneous assumption;
the present cabinet of Japan, at any
rate, is all but unanimous in opposi-
tion to his pretensions, and Jap
anese interposition is very possible
development of the near future.
How completely the Old World,
and the oldest world, is demoralized
by the storm in Europe is suggested
by these conditions in the Far East.
Japan could, in ordinary circum-
stances, if given free hand by the
western powers, take care of China.
But Japan is the ally of Britain,
which may need her aid in India, or
even in the Nearer East. Japanese
intervention in China might be re-
garded as even less desirable than
for the Yuan regime to be permit
ted for time to go on it's way.
There is no possibility of crystal
lizing the international opinion of
those powers which have regarded
themselves as the custodians of
civilizations interest. China will
doubtless fall into civil war, the re-
publican movement may be expected
to reassert itself, and one of the
most horrible and unmanageable
features of a world in war may be
expected to display itself in China.
The Washington times., 1915-12-15
HOT AIR SHIPPING TALK

From newspapers and other in
huences that are fanatically opposed
TO any national protection of our
merchant marine the American pco-
pie are getting heap of talk these
days about the great boom in Amer
icsn shipbuilding. They are telling
us that all that was ever needed to
restore American shipping to its
former glory was for American busi-
ness enterprise to pitch in and
build, own, and operate ships as it is
doing now.
This is all hot air. Our shipyards
are working night and day to turn
out vessels under highly artificial
demand. No German ships are in
business. A very considerable per-
centage of the ships Of the allies
have been withdrawn from the
ordinary carrying trade. A very con-
siderable percentage of their ships
not thus withdrawn are devoted by
them to the transportation of muni-
tions and other supplies for them
selves. On all the Seven Seas there
is a ship famine.
We arc now building ships here,
almost regardless of cost, just as we
an running other industries under
forced draft, because the war, with
tks enormously high freight charges
The Washington times., 1915-12-15
Finds More Chances
For Film in Arizona
Than in All Europe
Franklin p Knott Gives Judgment After Motoring
10000 Miles in Old World-Lauds Autochrome
Work-Has Collection of Marvellous Pho
tographs.

"I have motored 1000 miles in Europe
on the hunt for opportunities to take
artistic photogra phs. and | am ready to
state that there are moro chances for
tho photographer I'm a square mile OF
Arizona or New Mexico than in all
Europe
. This is the verdict Of Franklin Price
Knott. artist. globe trotter, newspaper
owner and expert in the art OF colored
photography. who has come to WASH
ington to show his remarkable collec-
ton OF autochromcs before the Ma
tioral Geographic Society next Friday.
In color photography. Mr.. Knott be-
lievcs, the apex of any mechanical re-
production of nature has been reached.
Not COlored BY Hand.
Originally a miniature painter of note,
Mr.. Knott. as traveller who wished to
preserve some OF the picturesque places
and persons he saw. took up autochrome
work. and from a hobby it has grown
to the point where he has been recog-
nized by artists here and abroad as a
collector whose views are probably un-
cXcelled in their field.
An idea OF the difficulty with which
some of the views he will show here
this week were obtained Is indicated by
the fact that for six months he worked
to get the view OF the sunset at Santa
Barbara, and he travelled 200 miles to
get view at Nuremberg. which also
Will be exhibited before the National
Geographic Society.
The great feature of his pictures is
that they are not colored by hand, but
are actually color photographs, project
ed upon the screen from plates many
times larger than those usually used
thus giving an unusual depth and rich
ness to their colo-ing.
Added interest in the lecture is given
by the fact that In taking many OF
them Mr.. Knott was accompanied by
his wife, a daughter Of the late Senator
IIll OF Colorado. She made many
friends in Washington when her father
was in the Senate.
Solely Artists Work.
Mr.. Knott's pictures are taken solely
from the standpoint OF the artist He
has gone to many interesting places
where conditions were not favorable for
pictures of the sort he desired, and
passed on without taking any photo
graphs. With the selection made on
that basis the significant thing about
the collection he is to show here, he
states, is the fact that but eighteen OF
$50 were made IN Europe. The majority
of the others were taken in old Indian
villages OF our own Western States
In some of the pictures the light ef-
fects are frankly suggestive of Rem
brandt In others. by effective employ
ment of backgrounds. the artist has
achieved color effects of wonderful
richness and variety. Next to the West
ern States his favorite Photographic
hunting ground Is Algeria and Tunisia.