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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
JEFFERSON FAR
AHEAD IN GOOD
ROADS BUILDING
County Has Constructed
More Than 100 Miles of
Macadam and Concrete
Pixies, and Is Building
More.

Jefferson county has constructed
more than 100 miles of concrete and
macadam roads, and is building more
all the time. Work on several con-
tracts is now progressing, and plans
have been prepared for the building
of As miles of good road in that part
of the county lying north of the Ar
kansas river. The work under way
and contemplated will bring Jefferson
county's investment in modern high
ways to more than one million dol
lars. not including the amount put
unto permanent steel and concrete
bridges during the administration OF
County Judge c. NJ. Philpot, whose
policy has been to build for perma-
nency instead of making temporary
repairs.
These good roads radiate from Pine
Bluff like spokes from the hub of a
wheel, reaching into practically every
section of the county. With the COM
pletion of the system of roads north
of the river there will hardly be an
acre of land more than a few miles
from a pike. -.
Several of the roads already built
connect with macadam pixies in coun-
ties adjacent to jefferson, thus AFFORD
ing all-the-year-'round roads from
Pine Bluff to other town in Southeast
Arkansas. From the interest being
shown in road building in neighborlng
counties it is safe to predict that be-
fore very long it will be possible to
reach every community in this sec
ton over highways traversible at all
seasons and in any kind Of weather.
The Alexander road law has given
great impetus to road building, as it
provides for the creation OF road I'M
provement districts upon petition OF a
majority in number acreage or -vaiu-
alton. A proposed amendment ito the
constitution to he voted on in the No
Ivember election will. if carried, result
lin the building of hundreds OF miles
of permanent roads in sections where
assessed valuations are insufficient TO
permit the formation Of road dis
tricts. and will do SO without increase
Hin taxation. This proposed amend
(ment provides for the Pleading OF the
|reveneus derived from the three-mili
road tax for permanent road improve
ment, when the voters Of the county
approve. This will permit the issu-
ance of bonds. by counties for high
way building. The increase In valua.
ton is expected to. bring in additional
revenue more than sufficient to offset
1.-THE interest charges and maintenance
[of roads. -,
Hundreds OF thousands of fertile
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17


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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17

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Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
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$50 BUSHELS IRISH
POTATOES TO ACRE

Five hundred dollars from two acres
t Of Irish potatoes is quite good re-
land produces silage the same year.
S. L. and L. G. Bobo, residing on
rural mail route No. ], harvested from
two acres of upland 500 bushels Of
Irish potatoes. which they sold in the
local market for 81 per bushel. After
digging the potatoes, they planted sil-
age crops, which are now being cut.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
Continued on Page q
AVERAGES IS BUS.
CORN ON 40 ACRES

An average of IS bushels of corn
70 the acre was obtained from a tract
OF 40 acres by Peter Winter, residing
on rural mail route No. 1. Mr.. Whit
ers achievement is considered par
tlcularly creditable because the tract
was considered "poor hill land" On
me same kind of soil, Mr.. Winter pro-
ouces one bale Of cotton to the acre
not only this year, but every year.
ne attributes his success to his meth
ods' working in accord with the fed
ereral farm demonstration service.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
Hall. Million Acres In Jefferson Are
/ Reclaimed.

OF the 100000 acres in nine
counties Of Southeast Arkansas re-
claimed in the last few years. 100000
are in Jeffe son county. The remain
der is located as fol:owg: !:esha,
100000 acres; Ch:cot. 2aG,n00 acres /;
Lincoln 100000 acres; Mississippi, g.
100000 acres; Monroe. 100000 acres;
Crittenden, 100000 acres; Arkansas,
10000 acres.
A number of great drainage pro-
jects are now under way. When
complete they will add millions, OF
rich acres to the cultivatable area of
Southeast Arkansas. increasing the
value Of the agricultural output OF
the section, and tbs, wealth Of the
people here.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17

acres in jefferson and adjacent coun-
ties are being reclaimed by drainage
canals, more than 200 miles of canals
having been excavated. The results
have encouraged continuation of the
work and onlya short time will
elapse before practically every acre
in this county will be thoroly drained
and placed in, cultivation. Another
effect of drainage is tosabolish the
breeding places of the mosquito, and
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
Nine COUNTIES
Spend 10 NILS.
TO Drain Land
More Than 100000 Acres,
Once Held Worthless,
Producing 500 or More
Annually in Cotton and
Corn.

Nine counties of Arkansas have ex-
pended since 1907 more than 100000
600 in retaining 100000 acres Of
Land
practically worthless before the
drainage systems were constructed,
today the greater part Of this acreage
is the most productive in the South,
some Of it yielding from one to two
bales of cotton to the acre, and from
SO to Is bushels of corn.
Before being drained. this land was
considered hardly worth paying taxes
upon; today it is selling for from
$50 to 500 an acre, and, at that,
there is not any frantic desire to sell.
Nor should there be when long staple
cotton is bringing around "a cents,
and seed $4S ton.
The return from an acre of land
producing one bale of long staple cot
ton such as this land produces,
amounts to $149 from the cotton crop
alone Approximately 1900 pounds OF
seed cotton are required to yield 500
pounds of lint. At present prices, the
return is:
500 pounds of lint at rs cents
per pound = .-.....-.........,..........-.$1 25
1900 pounds of seed at $48 per
ton "a
1888
Total receipts ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. $14a
The cost, including interest. of
producing an acre Of cotton
is approximately ................... It
Gross profit ................. 1874
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17

improve health and sanitary condi-
tions.
County Engineer Tells of Work..
Discussing recently the progress
made in Jefferson county in road
building, levee and drainage work,
Hugh H. Humphrey, county highway
engineer, a member Of the engineer
ing firm Of White. Humphreys &
iTovey, said:
1.-THE topic which has been assigned
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
Come to q Good Country.


Jefferson" we are not asking thai
you cast your lot with an exhausted
section; but with a section and a
lamity or real adversely; section
and a people who are enjoying the
greatest prosperity, and whose pro-
ducts for continued success were new
er better.
In this issue Of The Graphic, sew
eral thousand copies of which are to
be circulated among those of other
states who visit the ARKANSAS on
Wheels" train, facts relating to con-
ditions in Jefferson are told, and spe-
cific instances are cited to show
what has been accomplished, and
what is being achieved. While JEFF
ferson county will always produce
immense quantities of cotton-because
its soil is peculiarly adapted to grow
ing superior quality Of long staple
which brings premium prices-the
land will produce practically any
crop grown, and the yields will equal
If not exceed, the yields of land cost
ing four, five and six times as much
The rainfall is abundant: disastrous
druth unknown. A crop failure has
never occurred. Hogs and cattle can
be fed on green pastures the entire
year. Two, three and four crops can
be grown on the same land in one
year, as farmers here have proved ;
the hill land is high and we'll drained :
the bottom lands are healthy, and
are being made more so by the exca-
walton of canals, retaining hundreds
of thousands of fertile acres. This
land will produce 500 or more in
cotton or corn annually.
Values Rapidly Increasing.
Land values in Jefferson county
have increased rs per cent in the past
II months, and are still ascending,
1t will not be long before land that
can now be purchased for from So to
$50 an acre, depending upon character
and location. will double and treble
in value. The United States census
bureau shows that Arkansas valley
farm land increased 1873 per cent in
value from 1900 to 1910, demonstrate
ing that this land is the best possible
investment.
The assessed valuations do not &C.
curately portray the value of proper
W IN Jefferson. Real estate is assess
ed for about $8,5OO,OO and personal
property for about $8,OOO,OOO. Prop.
erty is supposed to be rendered for
assessment at a so per cent valua-
ton, but the truth is that the assessed
valuation is not more than 20 per
cent of the actual value. The tax
rate is 1920 per 500 value. The tax
valuation, this including a seven-mill
school tax.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17

Seventy three bushels Of corn per
are was the yield obtained by E. B
Toney on hill land. situated along the
famous Dollarway pike from Pine
Bluff to Little Rock.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17

to me is one we'll worthy Of lengthy
consideration. but in this paper l am
merely going to outline in a brief
manner, the improvements that have
been effected during the past few
years, and attempt to show that JEFF
ferson county has her head we'll up
in the lead in improvements and pro-
gress which is justly benefiting this
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
Nature Sowed Rches in Jefferson Arkansas Reaps and Wealth
WEALTH OF THIS
SECTION BROUGHT
SETTLERS EARLY

Even Quapaw Indians Plac-
ed Greater Value on JEFF
ferson Land Than on Re-
mainder of Their Terri
tory-Values Incre ase
Ever Since.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-17
FOLK
| MOST PROSPEROUS
| OF ANY PEOPLE
with Cotton and Other
Crops B ri n ging Bi g
Prices, Everybody Is Pos
sessed of Wealth., and
Money Circulates Freely.

This has been a great year for
Jefferson county, with its population
4 of more than $4,000 contented, pros
porous people. The war in Europe
and the establishment of statewide
Enrohibition failed to injure in the
slightest degree the interests of JEFF
ferson county and Pine Bluff.
Leading all counties in Arkansas
in the value of its products. Jeffer-
son just now is literally trolling in
wealth." due to the high prices be-
ing paid for it's famed long staple
cotton and the cotton seed. And be-
.ause the farmers are growing more
sof their own needs, they are sending
less money away for grain, hay ana
other feed and foodstuffs. Consa-
Equently, the people of Jefferson coun-
lty are better off financially, and ev-
cry other way, today, than they have
been in years. Only those familiar
with the continuously prosperous con-
dtion of this section can fully ap-
preciate just what that statement
means.
| Many farmers have received enough
for this years crops to pay for the
land on which they were grown
They have paid their debts, and, with
barns filled, are buying implements,
autos, horses, mules, vehicles, furni-
ture and clothing as never before at.
this season. All lines of trade in
Pine Bluff are brisk, the merchants
only complaint being they can't get
the goods they want fast enough.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03

The fourth member of the All-Amer.
lean team should, of course, be special
list on song conducting. To him falls
the brunt of the work between the
halves, and it is almost essential that he
should have had glee club experience,
together with a certain knowledge Of
music.
For this important post | am select
ing McSwithin of Lehigh because of hi
speed in an open field. Given a clear
space in front of the cheering section
he is the fastest man on the grapevine
step and lateral arm-swing of any man
| have ever seen. He can take song
which has fight" rhyming with vic.
tory tonight" in it and make perfec.
paan of success out of it, even though
the score stands 41-0 in favor Of the
opposing team. He can bring out the
words "wow-wow-wow" or "ruh-ruh-
ruh," which form the motif of the col
lege song and send them hurtling across
the field into the teeth Of the rival
stands, simply by repeated snappingOf
the forearm in the direction of his
chorus and a shout of Come on now.
Everybody in itw or Make this a good
one now, and remember, don't stand
until you come to the lines Stand, stand,
stand for Uic--tOr-y. Now, ALTO
GETHERw | therefore feel justified
in selecting him for this post.
This, in a way, completes the makeup
Of my All-American team. There may
be other men more deserving of places,
but there weren't any whose pictures
were in our files, and we have to have
pictures to go with our selections.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03
Questions a Man Won't Ask

suggested trip to Coney Island. Being in
the spirit for new and untried adventures they
ferried over from the Battery to Brooklyn.
The young wife, not having become acquainted
with her husbands dislike for the question
mark, suspected nothing when he remarked
that they would walk to the subway 1t was
a cool spring evening, and they strobe briskly
through the streets lined with factories. For
fifteen minutes they walked Not kiosk was
in sight.
"We may be going in the wrong direction,
dear. Why don't you ask" suggested the wife
"Oh, it's only couple of blocks now" he
replied cheerfuly.
On they walked. The evening breeze grew
more redolent with Limburger cheese and Ger
man brew and the sidewalks swarmed with
children Of the tenements. But no subway
Let's ask some one," the wife nudged the
guide Of the party.
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the Brooklyn Bridge for snap-shotting
tionists. The tourist found his way to Park
Row and broad stairway marked ITO All
Brooklyn Trains" There his intuition failed
him. He looked up the stairway, then furtivey
at the men who lounged against the iron rail
ings in the square. Finally, he sided up to a
man buried in a home edition.
This the entrance TO the bridge, isn't it?"
he inquired tentatively.
"Yeh," nodded the man without glancing up
from the war news.
Then after pause:
Brooklyn Bridge, eh?"
"Yeh."
a long silence.
TRAINS run across the bridge, eh?" This
tourist was a field for knowledge. The man
glanced up from his paper.
Brooklyn trains do" he replied briefly, look
ing at his questioner. Walk up those stairs"
Thanks"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03

Here we are at a car line. Therell be a
in minute" fenced the husband.
Five minutes elapsed.
ask some one or I will" threatened the
wife.
"Oh, very we'll" This with a bad grace. He
approached a Greek newsboy.
Subway? Huh. Fourteen blocks. Coney
Island? Street car-four blocks down, five
over" smile of irony curled the thin lips of
the newsy. But the sightseeing party reached
Coney Island forty-five minutes later.
Stroll into the Grand Central or Pennsyl-
vania stations any day and lose yourself in
the spirit of the occasion Stand few feet
away from any red-capped official and listen
carefully. What do you hear? Any masculine
voices inquiring whether the sis leaves as
scheduled, or whether the Black Diamond Ex-
press. an hour overdue, is making up time?
Not one. The man at the bulletin board faces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03

TN PICKING an All-American team
of cheer leaders for 1916 the ex-
IN pert is confronted with wealth,
one might say, of material. There are
some fifty colleges and Pittsburgh Uni
versity, all playing football on large
scale. and each one putting forward
from one to four cheer leaders to COM
pete for the honor of being selected by
this department.
But as there are only four places on
a team Of this sort, nice discrimination
on the part of the expert is necessary
to avoid doing an injustice to the big
advertisers. In this selection, then, /
will consider the various points which
90 to make up good cheer leader, and
under these subheads consider the can
didates in order of their weight.
In the first place, cheer leader should
be Judged on his ability in other lines
of exertion before his ability to lead
cheers. By this | mean that it is alb
solutely necessary for cheer leader
to be in a position to wear the college
letter on his sweater. If necessary give
the leader his letter ca OficiO, provided
he cannot have won it in some other
sport.
After the letter the following attri-
butes must be considered: Agility, grace
of movement, reach, proficiency in toss
ing the megaphone to one side at the
beginning Of the cheer, and vocal timbre.
With these in mind, in addition to the
other qualities which shall mention,
| have made the following selections
for my first All-American team:
For left end | have chosen Robert
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03

a fire of feminine questioning all day and most
of the night, but the travelling salesman and
the broker starting on a business trip never
bother him. Clutching timetable in one hand
and keeping an eye on the blackboard they
trust implicitly in the sixth sense they claim
as their birthright.
One of the most prominent railroad officials
in the East admitted the truth of this charge
against masculine travellers in public state
ment not long since.
Railroads spend thousands Of dollars every
year to maintain information bureaus in va
rious stations throughout the country" he de-
clared But they are almost exclusively for
the use of women. Similar institutions in
hotels and other public buildings cater alto
gether to feminine patronage. Abolish every
information bureau in the country and the
masculine population wouldn't miss thing. 1t
is simply that mans mental vanity is so
great that he won't be caught asking questions
about directions. He thinks he is supposed to
know how to get about and acts accordingly"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03
II Is Not the Easiest Thing in the World, as There
Are-Ruh, Rub, Ruh!-Many Candidates and
Only -Four Places, but EOery-Wo'0,
Wosy, Wow!-Et1or Has Been
Made TO Be Fair
Bv ROBERT C.. BENCHLE1

vailed even Nijinsky, the famous Rus
sian cheer leader. | have seen the
Michigan leader, apparently boxed by
substitutes on the sidelines, leap high
into the air and with deft gesture OF
the index finger draw from his cheer
ing section perfect salvo, sometimes
two salvi, of applause. | have seen him
handle the Michigan locomotive a
clumsy oratorio at best, with a dizziness
of forearm movement and an utter alb
sence of physical effort which trans
formed it into veritable octave vol
ume of sound with deckled edges.
In choosing Bennett have not over
looked Abbot, of Harvard, whose work
in an ordinary year would entitle him
to a place on the first team, but whose
baseball training proved handicap
when compared to Bennett, as it made
him prone to a certain awkward and up
ward stretch of the right arm, doubt
less the result of reaching up after high
line-drives during the baseball season,
and in view of this slight technically
| have felt that Bennett, whose double
arm reach and sternum stretch is with
out flaw in its symmetry, deserves the
precedence.
also want to mention Wainwright,
of Colby, whose balance work, espe-
cially on the extreme left swing, en-
titles him to a place on the second team
Had his cheering section been larger
and his assortment of cheers more
adapted to his build, | think that he
might have forced me to give him a
place on my first team. ! look for great
things from Wainwright next season.
At the other (right) end | have no
hesitation in placing Newton, of Brown
Any one who has seen him execute the
wide, torsal dip, with the accompany
ing left-to-right stretch Of at least
seven-foot arc, will not question this
decision. In the Brown-Yale game, on
a strange field and in the face of strong
wind, he repeatedly, or, in other words,
time and time again, skirted his end for
long gains, thereby placing his cheering
section in position to push the yell
across. His handling of the megaphone
also was nothing short of remarkable;
in fact, it aCds remarkable in the Har-
ward game, facing Harvard's second
string cheering section land, by the
way, consider this very unsportsman-
like attempt on the part Of Harvard to
save the Threats of their regular cheer.
ing section for the Yale game). On the
same Saturday Yale was using her first
string cheerers against Princeton, with
the result that duringthe following week
it was only by the constant use of sprays
and troches that the Yale men were
brought into any condition at all for the
Harvard game, and even then there was
a distinctly ragged rendering of the
lower register in the Yale Alma Mater:
"The Undertaken Song" Yale ought
either to change her cheering schedule
or Harvard should do the sportsmanlike
thing and let her first string cheering
section get all hoarse on the Saturday
before the Yale game also.
In this connection, | cannot, as a
sporting writer with space to fill, re-
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body from expressing their approval OF
the vigilance of the officials. Although
many leaders surpassed him in agility
and pose, none, think, gave evidence
of such repression and latent power on
the defence as Leblanc. | have there
fore given him the place over three or
four others who might otherwise have
been more serious contenders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03
Another long silence.

Another long silence.
ANY other way of getting across the
bridge?" II was the tourist again.
"Sure. Surface cars-cross the street."
grunted the man.
Silence.
"Those the only ways to get across?' the
vacationists voice sounded appealing.
Walk" said the man shortly. promenade
over there"
ooh, thank YOU" beamed the tourist with
look of infinite relief. That's what |
looking for" He patted the kodak want to
take some pictures" And he darted out be-
tween the trucks and trolleys He had been
spared the humiliation of asking point blank
how to walk across the bridge.
The wife Of newspaper man who lives in
The Bronx estimates that the sum total of
steps she has wasted during brief married
life through her husbands aversion TO asking
his way has amounted approximately to the
distance from New York TO Chicago on foot.
Soon after their honeymoon her husband