The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-01

crop ls Sn0Ft ttllS season beyond precedent in Pulaski county, but the price is higher than ever before. and does not seem to have reached the top yet. The high price has been the salvation of the farmers, and has brought them more money than has many of the larger crops.
 An old river bottom darkey, W. N. Bailey by name, was relating his ex- periences the other day, and voun- teered the information that he reck- oned he had been growing cotton about long enough. He said he took bale Co the city the day before and sold it for Si97.i0, and had the seed left He also had ten bales more of the same grade of cotton, SO that he would clean up more than S2,000 on his crop this year.
 Well, uncle remarked the inter- viewer, with all that money, the next thing you do will be to buy an automobilen
 "Oh, shucks, boss, he replied with the air Of a born aristocrat, we done got one of them things all ready"
 It is true that the farmer, white and black, have more money than they have had in years before, and they are lifting mortgages. and buy ing automobiles, and importing purebred stock, and buying Liberty Bonds and things.
 The government work is also turning loose millions of dollars in the state. and almost every industry has felt the influence of this in- creasing prosperity. Students of economic conditions express the be- lief that if is permanent, and that il will continue even after peace is declared. This is based upon the fact that # will require several years for the European nations to restore even semblance of normal ity, and in the meantime, America must feed and clothe the greater part of the world
 Laborers are getting more for their work than ever before. the products of the farm are bringing a far larger return, there is an urgent demand in every industry for more tabor than can be supplied One of will continue to be felt, is the difli- culty of coming down from the high wage that has been set by the gov ernment. Negroes who have been making as high as SS or S9 a day will find it difficult to come back to wages anything like that which pre- vailed before the war. Peace will bring with fl many problems of re- adjustment as great as have been some of those which have confront cd the nation during the last two years. High prices cannot be main tained as they are nowhere must he change but it is not at all probable that this generation will ever witness another period of de- pression when cotton sells at cents pound. and common labor was glad to get 75 cents a day. Those were the days when billion dollar Con- qress was considered legislative eriminalily, and Sl0 a day wages could be hoped for only by bank presidents Now the country speaks lightly of hundreds of millions and bilious, and everybody and their cooks are buying siX-cyinder cars and flivNers. and merchants, and contractors and printers, and crafts men of all kinds are too busy for home life and church work. and money is being spent with a pro- fuseness that staggers economists.
 Arkansas is doing it's share in eV- erything that has been proposed for Inc support of the government and the welfare of the men who have been sent and will be sent Go the front Go fight our battles The first Liberty Loan issue was over subscribed. then there came the Red Cross and the Y M C. A. campaigns. the War Library campaign and now the state is in the midst of another Liberty Loan drive. The prospects for it's success are very brilliant for more and more the public is awak- ening to a realization of tlte seri- ousness of the war situation Bonds or bondage is the slogan thai Is bringing the truth home Co the peo- pie as it never has been before The people begin to realize that every dollar paid, every man enlisted, ev- cry garment knit every loyal at done for the government advances the conclusion of the war just that much.
 An there is no douhi aaout the stand that has been taken by tho people oi Arkansas in si't, war | would be impossible fer any people to stand more loyalty by the Presi- dent and his policies than have the citizens of Arkansas. Soon there will be 30.000 Arkansas boys in training camps. and by next sum- mer many of them will lay their lives upon the altar of world dem oeracy in far-away Flanders. But when the roll of patriots is called Arkansas will be among the first to answer here