Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-24
CHRYSANTHEMUM
CULTURE Offers
LARGE PROFITS
Little Rock Episcopalians
Preparing to Entertain
Synod of Southwest.
(By CLIO HARPER)

Little Rock, Dec. 24.-There is an
industry in Little Rock with which
few people are familiar. That is the
growing Of Chrysanthemum for the
market. This popular decorative flow
err thrives here under glass, and their
culture is growing rapidly. During
the present season the three leading
nurseries of the city have raised a
total of 10000 blooms, which have
found ready sale at an average of
So dozen, representing value of
$500.
| Jack Walker, United States inter-
nal revenue collector, is mailing ou;
an important circular relative to the
payment of federal tax on theatres,
billiard rooms, etc. These taxes must
be paid on OF before Jan. 81, 1917.
The remittance should be made as
early as possible to avoid unnecessary
delay in the issuance of the special
tax stamp. Proprietors of theatres,
picture shows, ETC., are required to
pay tax ranging from 1925 to $50,
varying with the size Of the town and
the theater. Pawnbrokers must pay
$25, brokers $15, proprietors of cir
cuses $50, and proprietors of bowl
ing alleys or billiard rooms $3.50 for
each alley or table. A penalty of so
per cent of the tax will accrue after
Jan. l, 1917.
The law requiring dealers in manu-
featured tobacco to pay a tax OF $3.50
per annum has been repealed, and no
remittance need be made to cover tax
for the sale of manufactured tobacco.
Little Rock Episcopolians are act
lively engaged through numerous To-
cal committees in making elaborate
preparations for the entertainment of
the fourth annual synod of the Prov
ince of the Southwest to meet here
January 1919. This is one of the
most important church conventions Of
the year and will bring together a
large number of bishops, representa-
tive clerical and lay deputies, Wom-
ems Auxiliary missionary women, and
Sunday school teachers from Arkan-
ssas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma,
Texas and New Mexico. One of the
will be the holding of school of re-
ligious methods.
take an active lead in the Arkansas
Profitable Farming campaign, which
will have for its purpose meetings il
all rural localities to show the plant
err the fallacy Of planting all cotton.
Plans are now being perfected for a
monster campaign next month, and in
this the public utilities of the state
will take leading part. The South
,ro.+or,, To1orrorl, &, To1ophopo com,
pany has informed the directors of the
campaign that it's lines are open to
them at all time. and instructions
have been given that on the day when
meetings are to be held, the operators
at the exchange nearest the meeting
place call every rural telephone sub
scriber, tell him of the meeting and
insist upon his presence. This will GER
tainly get the speakers crowds wher-
ever they go.
Bills are being drawn by the Anti
Saloon league, to be introduced early
in the legislative session, for the fur
Their restriction and regulation of Ii
quor shipments into the state. This
is in line with the movement started
by Randell of Louisiana in congress,
to prohibit the use of the mails in the
solicitation of liquor orders.
! The bill which the Arkansas gen.
eral assembly will be asked to pass is
modelled after the law now in effect
in Mississippi. 1t restricts shipments
| of liquor in various ways, and pro-
hibits the circulation of advertising
matter for LIQUOR houses, through the
medium Of newspapers, picture shows,
or otherwise. 1t also provides that
town or city councils may by ordi-
nance provide for the inspection of
liquor shipments by freight, express,
or otherwise, prescribing a fee for
the same. As conditions now exist,
the saloon has only changed it's To-
| cation, to some point outside the
state, whence it solicits business by
mail, and makes delivery by freight
or express without paying any rev.
enue whatever. The prevalent senti-
ment seems to be in favor of making
the prohibition laws of the state IL
lquor-tight This will he the attitude
of the administration, and it is be-
lieved that the general assembly will
be "dry' by a large majority. There
is no talk of an effort to secure re-
peal of the Prohibition law, since
the overwhelming defeat of meas
ure of that character by the people
in the recent election. The sentiment
is that there must be no halfway en-
forcement of the liquor laws, and that
Arkansas must be made what the PEG.
pie are demanding-bone-dry.