Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-06
PRODUCTS STATE
 DIAMOND MINES
 TO BE EXHIBITED Display of Arkansas Gems Will Be Included in "Ar-
 kansas on Wheels"
JURORS ASCENDING
 IN COURTS ESTEEM
Tendency Today Is to Regard Them as Citizens Whose Honor May Be Re. lied UpOn-POOl Tables Not Gamb.
 ling Devices in Meaning of Law.
tBy Clio Harper.)

Little ROCK. May 3.-Ine cltlZenS of the Northern and Eastern states are all to be classified as from Mis- souri, since they are to '''be shown" by the next Arkansas-on-W Wheels ex- cursion that the stase actually has diamonds. Chas. s. Stifft, of Little Rock, who is interested in the dia- mond mines of Southwest Arkansas, will accompany the train to Washing ton. D. C., and other points, taking with him an exhibit of Arkansas diamonds, that the skeptical may be convinced. pr. c. H. Brough, our next governor, has accepted an invi- tation to be one of the party, and Mayor c. E. Taylor, Little Rocks live wire chief executive, is also endeav- bring to arrange his affirs so that he can go. Every county is to be given an oppoy tunity to have representa- tive on the train to be limited to two from each county. except Pulaski which may have five.
 The efforts that have been made at times in the past by aspiring polltl- clans to use fraternities and assocla- tions of various kinds to further their political ambitions is being general ly frowned upon by all lovers of far play. Some organizations will not tolerate such use of membership pri- vileges, and the membership of others is discountenancing it most effective ly. The Farmers Union has set hign standard of ethics on this subject, and other organizations might do we'll to follow it's example There is a dis position in many organizations to take action that will effectually prevent any clique or individual f.Om using the asscciation 10 further their own political sch mes.
 'Let us hope that higher order of politics and political methods will be the order of the future" says one who has been close observer of af- fairs. "and that certain political meth ods injected into recent campaigns will be forever tabooed."
 There is a tendency on the part or courts to rely more and more upon the honor of jurors. and not to treat them SO much like the criminals whom they are called upon to try. The fed tTdI COuTlS are oCIIA> StA OAS SH ample in this respect for they do not shut ur jurors at night, keeping them from all communication with the out side for fear of contamination. They are permitted to separate, with the admoniton that they are not to dis cuss the case with any one. and that is all.
 Last week the Arkansas supreme court passed on case that had been appealed because. for one aEe:e1 error, the attorney for the plaintiff had given one of the jurors cigar, and that another attorney in. the case was present when a juror was given cold drink. Counsel for the other side held that this was contamina- ton of the jurors to such an extent that a new trial should he granted. The attorney who gave the juror cigar testified that he did SO "as ac act of courtesy, as he had frequently done before. and that he had no thought of influencing the verdict, and did not thing his conduct was so