The Spectator., 1915-05-14
STATE FARM LEvEE
 IN GREAT DANGER
IMPROVEMENT ALL WASHED oUT-FEAR NEW CHANNEL
 MAY BE FORMED.
RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MADE
No Estimate as to the Improvements Have Been Made-Says New Re
 vetment Should Be Built.
Little ROcI,.

Little Rock
 The Arkansas river had approached to within F feet of the first levee at one point on the states convict farm at Cummins, according to information received by Capt John T. Burkett of the Penitentiary Commission Major A. B. Putnam, in charge of the Unit ed States engineers office at Little Rock, informed the commission that the part of the river on which the state farm Is located is not in his jur isdfction and the commission at once applied to the office at Vicksburs for an engineer to visit the farm and re- port on what should be done. No further rains were reported in the Arkansas watershed, but it is feared that the rise predicted may cause the remaining 12 feet of bank between the river and the levee to be washed away
 The revetment work done by the Mississippi River Commission in 1910 was opposite the sandbar shown in the map. The jetties built by the levee board were located above where the center of the channel is shown II. the map. At the time they were built they were opposite the revetmcnt work All of the improvements made to keep the river In it's channel have been washed away and the bed is now several hundred yards south and east of where it was in 1910.
 Engineers who have inspected the situation have recommended that a system of jetties be built on the vest and south banks of the river at the bend to throw the current to the op- posite shore It is believed this would wash out the sandbar that has formed and return the river to it's channel of several years ago. The engineers also recommend that longer and more permanent revetment be built along the bank, where it approaches the levee. No estimate of the cost of these improvements has been made.
 statement reported to have been made at the meeting of the Arkansas Federation of Women's Club held at Fayetteville by Dr. J. R. Jewell of the University of Arkansas, in which he was quoted as saying 345,000 children in Arkansas are not enrolled in schools, was misquotation, accord ing to George R. Cook, state euperin- tendent of public instruction MT Cook said Dr. Jewell had written him to this effect.
 Governor Hays issued deficiency proclamation, giving to the state tax commission S1,500 for printing ara binding An item of S2,500 for the same purpose was vetoed from the general appropriation bill by the gov. ernor soon after the adjournment of the Legislature. The commission had asked for proclamation setting aside $2,200 for the purpose.
 One of the aims of the Minimum. 1 Wage Commission will be to inaugu- rate a closing of stores at o'clock [ on Saturdays, members of the com | mission said. Miss Mary H. Me Cal 0 of Little Rock was elected sec retary. Commissioner of Labor J. '. l Clary Is chairman and Miss Eva | Rechardt the other member of the ! commission.
 The State Game and Fish Commits sion met. but because of the absence of two Of its members. George Web Der of Texarkana and Dr. Horatio Wells of Monticello, adjourned to meet this week, when it is expected the commission will organize its forces throughout the state. The Arkansas Railroad Commission Issued orders to have the Frisco build a small passenger depot at Les terville, Randolph county. and a spur at Hatchie Coon. Poinsett county. Fe- titions for both orders had been re- ceived by the commission.
 Fifty-two applicants fer license to practice medicine, including two ne- groes. appeared before tho State Board of Medical Examiners With the exception of Dr. T. J. Stout, all Of the members of the board were pres ent
 Delta Logging Company Mellyood. Phillips county, capital s3,00C, arti. cles of incorporation filed.
 The State Highway Department will send corps of surveyors to Dallas county within the next two months to survey a route for 30-mile road across the county from north to south. Cou- missioner Owen said he had received no official request for the survey. but expected one would be forthcoming some time next week.
 The Baxter Slave Connary of