The Springdale news., 1917-10-05
SPRING VALLEY

V q Nr. Bettis of Oklahoma.
 Miss Grace McCullom has been dan eerously i'll for the last week. Dr. Bearden of Sonora has been attending her
 When the frost is on the pumpkin
 and the fodder's in the shock,
 Henry Cogar lands at Ruf's just as
 regular as a clock.
 Joe Homesley moved onto his place the early part of the week, and Thos. Means moved into the Homesley house which he bought some weeks ago.
 Never has there been as great a crop of cane for syrup grown in this country Mills are running in all parts of the neighborhood, molasses being 60 cents a gallon at the mill. Beg your pardon, Mr. Editor, but did not read what you were going to do to Harp Mountain. l don't care what you do to it, you can't make it any worse It is sorghum season, and I don't get to read anything but the Burk Shed and Spring Valley items sometimes, so 1 hope you'll excuse this oversight of an important item of news. Cor the benefit of our Spring Valley correspondent=W are pleased to say that when we get that road improvement district organized and that good road built through Spring Valley to the Madison County line Harp mountain will have lost it's ter TOTS. and he can come to Springdale in that flivver of his without going into low.-Ed.)
 hope E. A. C. will meet with sue cess in his road work. Many of us in this neighborhood will help in any way needed Don't be afraid of get ting up too much money. If few thousand surplus shows up it can be used on the rural route, Hickory flat hill and the lane between Albert Mor ris and Jessie Vaughan. Negotiating the latter road is like travelling along the pod of horizontal auger. I've been trying to find an old McGuffey's fourth reader so could read the les son How a fly walks on the ceiling" I might get some ideas that would be of value in enabling me to traverse the above mentioned roads.
 MT Whitford says 1 offered no proof of my contention that our government is not founded upon the Bible. The Constitution is the fundamental law of the land and it expressly says. We, the people, do ordain this Constitu- tion," etc. We are now engaged Tn the greatest conflict of all time in or der, as President Wilson says, that "the world may be safe for Democra- cy. That, too, against a government whose head said Considering my self an instrument of the Lord, with out needing the views and opinions of the day 1 go my way" As student of the Scriptures, the only place with ing their pages where it is recorded that the people had anything to say about their government, as l remem- Der, is when they wanted to make Saul king contrary to Gods will, as the prophet said. A democracy is where the people rule through the ex- pressed will of the majority, which may or may not be according to the Bible. As for Franklin, he tells us in his autobiography that he was a confirmed skeptic. It is known that he was a Voltaire deist, like Thomas Paine. Your quotation, MT. Whitford, no more proves that our government uses the Bible as a foundation, than it does the Koran. A prayer from Franklin would in all probability have influenced the deliberations of the constitutional convention about as much as an invocation from Celsius would the discussions of the Reich stag