The courier-index., 1917-08-17


 15 and close Sept. 1. It is now in session and is we'll attended. Rev. F. E. Maddox of Texarkana is presi- dent. and will have the chair of the Bible; Mrs. Ella Hargrove Gather of Memphis, formerly of Little Rock, is dean; Ed Wiley will have charge of the department of vocal and in- strumental music; s. I. Conner, who will represent Robert Mantell in that celebrated actors farewell tour, beginning Sept. 15, will have charge of the department of dramatics and public speaking. Other departments will be supplied as occasion re- quires. It gives promise of being most successful institution. Wanted, cooks and more cooks. But no women need apply. The six teen cantonment camps of the new National Army will require the ser vices of 3840 cooks, and the Little Rock cantonment needs 24O. w. N. Trulock, of Pine Bluff, has been designated as chairman of the com mittee to provide the cooks for Camp Pike, where there will be 38,- 900 men assembled from Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi He is or ganizing the hotel men of the three states who will serve gratuitously and it is hoped thereby that enough cooks can be mobilized to meet the requirements.
 There are two classes wanted. Class A are cooks who are capable of giving instructions to others. and will be paid $125 a month: Class B are men who are competent te fry. roast, make stews, bake biscuits and pies. and make buildings, and will be paid s90 month. It does not necessarily mean that they will be expected to serve permanently in that capacity, but until the armies are organized. the draft men win go hungry unless patriotic men vol unteer their services as cooks for six weeks or more, to be paid at !, the rates named.
 An increase of more than 100 De. cent in the cost of print paper in the last year, and corresponding advance in the cost of ink, labor and everything else that enters into the makeup of a newspaper, does not appear to deter those who are qualified as moulders of rublic thought from embarking in the more or less uncertain business os newspaper publishing. There arc two new dailies here. the Daily Times, started last week in Argen- ta, and the Daily News. which is to be started in Little Rock in a few days. Then there is the Arkansas Volunteer, published for the bene- fit of the soldiers at Fort Logan Fl Roots. Here and there over the state new papers are starting up. all of the old ones are holding their ! own or making splendid progress in patronage and profits. There is an increasing number of type-setting machines all over the state, and it has gotten to be a common thing for country offices to use machines in their composition. The business as a whole is in good condition, and many editors and publishers are in- creasing their subscription rates to S1.50 a year.
 Women are rapidly taking the place of men in many vacations in the state. The man-power of the state ] IS being depleted hut commercial and industrial efficiency must be maintained. The Missouri Pacific has within the past few weeks em- ployed about twenty women in cler.- cal capacities in offices and shops in places where men have been employed and the number and du- ties of these common employees will be greatly increased. Tn explana- tion; General Superintendent Dean said that it is the policy to use women wherever possible. so that the men may be re-employed when they return from the war. So far, no women have been employed in manual labor in the shops and yards as many have been on the roads of the North, but even that may come.
 Many saw-mills of the state re-. port an increasing number of wom- en employees, in many instances ne- gro women being used in heavy work that has heretofore been done only by men.