The Springdale news., 1917-04-27
STATE NEWS LETTER
By Clio Harqer)

being threatened by former Governo Hays, who, as a citizen and tax-paye is seeking to enjoin the State Treas urer from proceeding with the issu ance of the proposed $750,000 in no tes. Judge Hays insists that he i actuated only by his interest in tht taxpayers of the state, to prevent thi: big debt being saddled upon them He says that some one must protec the people in their rights, and so long as no one else had undertaken tht work, he had volunteered his services His suit will be heard this week, anc will be taken immediately to the Su- preme Court, whatever the decision of the lower court may be
 Judge Hays contends that the pro- posed note issue is unconstitutional He does not deny that the indebted ness he seeks to avoid has already been created, and has offered no way out of the dilemma if the courts should sustain his contention. The proceeds of the notes may fall short of meet ing the states requirements in put ting it upon an absolutely cash bass, but if this expedient Is not adop: ed, the obligations will pile mountains high, and heavy discounts will contin- ue to be paid for everything pur chased for the states institutinos. The inhibition against the issuance of interest-bearing evidences of in- debtedness is the ground upon which Judge Hays suit is based, but the supporters of the administration h- nancial policies are confident the state will be able to sustain it's position and save the credit of the state.
 There are some popular newspaper stand-bys that move in cycles. Just now it is Mother Shipton's Propheej, which concludes with the cheerful pre- dietion that
 ''The world to an end shall come
 In eighteen hundred and eighty-one "
 The fact that it did not does not detraet in the least from the almost uneanny fulfllment of every other long-distance prophecy made in the famous piece of doggerel. When this gets started, it has to go the rounds, just like Senator Vests oration on a dog, the letter written by Jesus Christs own hand" Joaquin Miller's great poem, My Mouse by the Side of the Road" which is credited more often to Sam Walter Foss, or some body else, and the story of who it was that really started the war.
 Then every once in while some no- vice antiquarian breaks into print with story about having a copy of the Ulster County Gazete of Janu- ary 1, 1900, containing an account of the death and funeral of George Washington. As, matter of fact there are hundreds of copies of the paper in the country and they are all reprints. A large number of them were printed during the Philadelphia Centennial, and flooded the country as originals. It is probable that there is not a single copy of the original left anywhere.
 These things only show how ideas get possession of folks and how diff cult it is to shake of an agreeable fiction.
 The proposition to make former Congressman T. C. MeRae, of Pres colt. president of the Constitutional Convention is meeting with general favor. He is recognized by all as one of the states brainest men, whose long experience in Congress has pe- cularly fitted him to preside over the deliberations of the convention. The general average of the convention is superior to the average aggregation of men of equal number. They are for the most part mature men, stand ing high in their profession or call ing, representing all shades of opin- ion, except, possibly, the ultra-eXtre- mists. It is just such 0 body of men as might be expected to be delibearte and pains-taking, carefully weighing all questions from every angle, and dependable in safe guarding the rights of the people.
 There will be many questions be fore the convention which it will not be easy to adjust, such as the issu- anee of bonds, the financial question equal suffrage, and several others but like that of prohibition, public sentiment will largely sway the deilb eration of the convention. And th' public is being educated. The people are learning to discriminate in mel and measures, and notwithstandlns what some may consider to be mis takes on their part, the people ma. be depended upon now about as wei