The weekly soliphone., 1915-12-17
BENTLEY RECEIVES
 LUCRATIVE OFFER
Government Wants to Put Demonstrator in Larg-
 CT Field.

in the Splendld work being done by < Thos. J. Bentley, farm demonstra- ;tor, will regret to learn that the fgovernment So highly values the
 ability of MT. Bentley that the dis
 trict agent, R. C.-.Davidson, is seri-
 ously considering transferring MT 1 Bentley to <, another county in I Northeast Arkansas where the sal ary is more nearly commenslirat te
 with the results achieved by MT.
 Bentley. This fact became known
 Wednesday in Paragould. When
 seen and questioned about the mat
 ter MT. Bentley admitted Mir. Da-
 vidson had. asked him to accept
 Works in another. county at a Sal
 ary of, $2,000 a year, but said lie had not decided yet to accept the Foffer. In fact MT. Bentley stated he preferred to continue his work
 in Greene county, but said he might be forced to take work else where in order to make more than a7 living out of his position He fsaid in nearly every, county in the state where the county appropria- ttfon for demonstration work is $1,- 1900, the price of county. scrip is much higher than in Greene coun- Fty:: Here it is hard to dispose of scrip at forty cents on the dollar. ] MT. Bentley says he can make a 1 living out of the salary offered him 1 here for next year, but he cannot get enough out of it to lay aside anything. He is in the prime of life now and says if he ever expects to accumulate anything he must do it now while his vigor and his capaci- ty to work is at the maximum. When the quorum court last year refused to make an appropria- tion for demonstration for 1915, a number of public spirited citizens voluntarily subscribed to a fund to pay the salary of the demonstra- tor. Approximately seven hundred dollars in county scrip was pledged. Of this amount $550 has been paid into the Chamber of Commerce- and turned over to MT. Bentley. More than one hundred dollars in scrip remains uncollected. Unless those who have subscribed redeem {. their pledges MT. Bentley will lose that much that is due him The small amount paid him in scrip, supple mented' with the, contribution made by the government, has barely en- abled .him@ to make living this year. Several letters have been. mailed to the deGnauents; but so far 'nos responses have been made. Tn. view. of the fact .that the con- structiye work done by MT Bent ley this year has far exceeded the results accomplished in any pre- vious year. and his salary has been Jess than he has been receiving, he naturally feels he would be doing himself and his family an injustice to turn down a flattering offer for adequate compensation.
 It has been suggested that inter ested. citizens in Greene county could do as citizens in some other counties have done-cash. the de- preciated scrip held by the agent at a fair valuation, but whether or not the people here who have been supporting public projects feel like making additional contributions in. this manner cannot be ascertained. plan is being followed in several counties where the price of scrip is low.
 MT. Bentley has concluded his work for this year and is now. en- gagged in making out his annual re- ports for the government. He will not again enter the work until aft CT the first of the new year, and at this time he does not know swheth- CT his field of activity will be in Greene or in some other county. The value of his services to the farmers and stockmen of this coun- ty is no longer a matter of Ques- tion. During this year he has vac cinated two thousand hogs against cholera and the market price of the animals saved runs into the thousands of dollars. He was the
 directing genius in the organization
 of marketing association that dis posed of more than a thousand dol lars worth of truck and garden pro
 duce that usually perishes because
 there is no local market for it. His
 work among the corn and pig club
 boys and with the older farmers
 has resulted in bigger and better
 yields and more material wealth to
 the farmers.
 It would be unfortunate if cir