The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-08

Little Rock. Oct. % Al this time it may be predicted with almost a certainty of realization that there will be no new constitution written this year Speculation has given away to actual commitment on the part of a majority of lhe delegates who favor organizing and taking a recess until sometime next summer. While there will be some strong op- position te this program. it will be so strongly supported that there is little doubt of its being carried out It is understood that Governor Brough will favor il. and that at the proper time he will issue an official statement possibly in the form of a when it assemblies three weeks from message to the convention itself today. One of the arguments to be advanced in favor of such course will be that il will be more practica- bic Co organize and appoint commit tees, who shall in the interim work out the various phases of the pro- posed constitution. These commit tees would by research, investigation and frequent consultation greatly facilitate the work of the convention when it should reconvene by pro- viding something upon which the convention could deliberate, rather than go bIindIy at the drafting of an organic law which must stand for the next fifty years or more. Spe- cial interests are not likely to have much consideration in this conven- tion-it will be concerned in the drafting of an instrument that shall serve the whole people impartially.
 The women of Little Rock are knitting for the soldiers knitting socks, and sweaters, and wristlets, and other articles of clothing for the boys in camp and trench. They are working thru the Red Cross and independently, by communities and individually. They are knitting at home and on the street cars, in au- tomobiles and social gatherings, on the railroad trains and while wait ing for their meals in cafes, and some of the pastors have told them that it is perfectly proper for them 10 knit in church on Sunday. It is the cause that appeals to them. Thousands of garments are being made for the soldiers in Little Rock. and the enthusiasm of the service is spreading to the women of rural communities. Red Gross headquar- ters down town are filled every day with scores of earnest women mak- ing garments for the soldiers and thus the actualities of the war are being brought to every household.
 In Little Rock more old debts are being paid, more mortgages are ge- ing lifted, and notwithstanding the insisient demands for economy and conservation people have not lived so well in years. No one who is able and wants to work need be without employment. Not only the millions that have been turned loose hy the government but tho unpre- eedented high prices for the pro- ducts of the farm have brought to Inc country a flood of money Ev- eryhody is sharing in the general prosperity, and altho living prices are abHorinaliy high the resources of the people ware neyer se great
 With cotton selling at B cents, and many holding for i5 or 90. the farm CTS are at last coming into their own. And they deserve it. They have gotten the worst of 1t too long, and now out of the welter of war and it's consequences must come a better and brighter day for all.