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The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16

or seriously injured by spending sew
en- billions.
All that is needed is that money rails
ed by public taxation should be raised
justly and spent wisely.
Let those carry the load of taxa
ton that have the strength to carry
it; let no public money lent to the
allies be squandered in shameful,
criminal war profits for ammuniercr
makers or trusts.
Let the business, the normal buying
and selling of the country go on
there will be no real trouble, financial
or otherwise, in the United States.
By all means let us increase pro
duction and efficiency.
Let us use waste land and put to
work hands that have been idle.
But officials must not at the same
time talk of increased production and
advocate a cowardly parsimony that
would strangle the buying power, de-
stroy commerce and production stimuli
taneously.
Hard times and panics are caused
by sudden violent cessation of buy
ing.
If the citizen does not buy from the
merchant, the merchant cannot buy
from the manufacturer, the manufac-
turer must discharge his employees,
and you will have the very hard times,
depression, fear and stagnation that
the country should most carefully
avoid.
To stop the circulation Of money in
the community, to discourage buying
and selling is like stopping the cir
culation of blood in the human body.
The good citizen, while doing his
duty and working faithfully will con-
tinue his life as usual, buying and en-
couraging his fellow citizens in bus
mess, going to the shops, the theaters'
giving to his family the things to
which they arc accustomed, helping TO
carry the country along in the normal
prosperous channel.
The life of a nation is a running
stream; it must not be stopped, frozen
by fear or damned up suddenly by
those who preach false and harmful
economy.
We are going to win this war if we
proceed intelligently and prepare en-
ergetically.
We are going to be just when the
war is over.
We are going to come out Of it, as
we went into it, not quite so rich, but
still the richest, most powerful nation
in the world.
They are foolish who try to make
the people a body of timid children,
suddenly changing their lives and in
juring the country's entire business
structure.-From the Denver Post,
May 3rd 1917.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16
MoBILIZING LABOR TO MEET
FARM NEEDS
Effective Campaign Begun in State to
Distribute Surplus Labor Where
Most Needed-Answer When
the Call Comes

While the farmers Of the state have
been urged, during the past few weeks
to make plans for greatly increasing
their crop production, the leaders in
charge of the movement have not
overlooked the fact that serious la
bor problem viii be developed by this
increased planting.
An ambitious plan is now being
worked out whereby every available
"hand" in Colorado will be listed and
pledged to the cause so that groups
of workers may be mobilized quickly
at given point whenever the need
manifests itself.
The smallest unit Of organization
will be the neighborhood, the plan
being TO make each community as
nearly self supporting from q labor
standpoint as possible by arranging
for the shifting of the available labor
A labor committee will be appointed
in each neighborhood whose duty it
will be to make a survey Of its com
munity, calling upon all men, boys,
and girls to volunteer for work when
they are not busy on their own farms.
Individuals will be asked to state when
they will be available and If they can
not so forecast their time, to report
to the committee when a dull time
comes in their work on the home farm.
Thus it is hoped that the available
labor in a community can be so shift
ed as to meet the demands Of the
neighborhood.
Next to the neighborhood commit
tee will be a township committee,
which will function in the same man
ner in relation to the township as
does the neighborhood committee.
The next unit will be the county,
with a committee with similar func-
tions.
A summary Of the results Of the
surveys in the various counties will
be sent TO a state committee appoint
ed by Governor Gunter, as will also
summarized reports of the labor sit
uation from time 10 time. 1t will be
the duty Of the state committee to
attend to labor problems of state
wide Importance and to shift the sur
plus labor available in different sec
tions of the state to districts where
there is a scarcity.
The state Of Colorado, through its
agricultural college and the ways and
means committee appointed by Gov
ernor Gunter, and the national gov
ernment are cooperating in this work.
The agricultural college and the ma
tional government are represented by
w. E. Foard, specialist in farm man
agement demonstrations Of the exten-
sion service, who is a member Of the
state committee and in whose hands
has been placed the task Of supervis-
ing the survey and carrying out the
provisions Of the plan in the rural
communities of the state. Mr.. Foard
is already in the field on this i'm
portant work.-Colorado Agricultural
College News Notes.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16
CHORUS:

George cablcd then for Uncle Sam,
His friend across the water,
He said I'll make your cousin Bill
Behave just like he oughter.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16
THE CALL TO ARMS
Prowers County Young Men Who
Volunteered TO Take Officers
Training Called 10 Fort
Riley

a number Of the young men of
Prowers county who took the exam
ination at Colorado Springs and pass
ed were called last Friday to Fort
Riley, Kansas, for three months mill
tary training before being enlisted rs
officers in the army to be drafted next
September. A delegation Of six lef.
on No. y Saturday being composed Of
W. c. Wcager, J. f. Brownlce, Harry
ConwelI, Donald Williams ard Frank
Strain, St George Creaghc.
A large delegation of friends and
relatives were at the depot to see
them off and the newly organized city
band and the rifle corps and delega-
tion Of old soldiers and business men
marched to the depot to bid them
farewell and godspeed
Several more have left since, Allen
Robinson going Sunday morning and
Jesse C. Johnston joins the engineers
in a few days. Others have passed
examination but have not yet been
called to the training camp.
The editorial fraternity Of the coun-
ty is now represented at Fort Riley
also. Roswell II. Cochran, the en-
terprising editor Of Meablogy at
Hartman, was one of TIC first 70 hear
his eountry's call and passed the ex-
animation at Colorado Springs. He
is now at Fort Riley but hopes to be
able to continue his work of editing
the entertaining little magazine dur
ing the months he is located at Fort
Riley.
Recruits continue to come in from
Prowers county to Company d and all
branches Of the regular army and
navy. Those enlisting since our last
report arc as follows.
Ernest F. Kuglcr, Marion, Kans.
Hugh Gribbcn, Granada, Colo.
Roscie Duggor, Br.ssol, Colo.
John V. Scoggin, Lamar.
Lloyd W. Jet, Eads
Amauual J Over,on, Gray, Okla.
Emicl II. Vagher, Granada.
Walter Allen, Gray, Okla.
Edward A. P3dget, Gray, Okla.
James r. Juliusson, Gray, Okla.
Charlie B. Bordcwick, Blail C.
Lloyd L. /. Long, Bristol.
B. Arthur Robbins, Hartman.
Luther L. Marshall, Lamar.
All the above named have enlisted
in and left for Company d, Isl Sep.
BIT Colo. Inft at Rifle range near
Golden. Francis Steele, local boy,
was enlisted as hospital apprentice in
the U. S. N. and has left for Chi
cogc. This is a complete list of re-
cruits for the different branches Of
the service enlisted in the last week,
besides the 90 that have gone before,
making 100 as sotal for Prowers
county since tho call fer volunteers.
Our citizens were glad to sec that
the band was able to make u credit
able public appearance last Friday.
Nothing adds more to public meetings
and especially patriotic ones than a
fine band The new one proved the
past week that it is equal to most any
occasion and was of great assistance
on Monday evening at the Rcd Cross
meeting
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16
Are We Going to Force Depression
and Hard Times on the Nation?

This country is not bankrupt, and is
not going to be bankrupt.
But is can be seriously injured by
officials and others who join in the
chorus: "Save your pennies, don't
spend a cent; hoard your money"
Such advice would mean hard times
and bad times, depression, business
stagnation, real national misfortune.
The total income of the United
States amounts to Fifty thousand mil
lion dollars q year.
The prosperity of the United States
donends on keeping money in circula-
tion and keeping business going.
nation with an income of fifty
billions a year cannot be bankrupted
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16
EVERY PERSON IN COLORADO
CAN HELP PRODUCE AND
CONSERVE FOOD
There's An Opportunity for Everyone
No Matter What His Walk in Life.
Are You Doing Your Bit?

Every person in Colorado can help
solve the national food problem.
The responsibility does not rest en-
tirely on the farmer. Bankers, busi-
ness men, Lawyers, doctors, bookkecp-
ors, clerks, mechanics and even boys
and girls can all help.
Bankers can help by making It pos
sible for the farmers to get money
easily for extended farming opera
tions.
The business executive who has had
experience in organizing large work
ing forces of men can render excel
lent service in helping mobilize the
food production resources of the state.
The merchant can help by extend
ing generous credit where it is needed
and where the reason is actually that
of using funds for increased food pro-
duction.
Seed dealers, implement dealer S,
and harness dealers will find an op-
portunity for service in making it
easy and convenient for the farmers
to get the things they have to sell
under terms which will make it pos
sible for them to proceed with the
work at once.
And all of us, big or little, can
help in the actual production by plant
ing and tending a garden. If we can't,
for any reason, do this, let US finance
eou,a fa1loyv Who can
Let's do our bit"
But production is not the only thing
to be done this summer in order to
solve the food question. Food must
be saved. No smallest portion should
be wasted. And here, again, all Of US
can help.
In the first line trench in the food
conservation campaign are the house
wives of the state. In the kitchen,
where the food first enters the house,
is the place where the greatest econ
omies can be practiced.
No scrap of meat should be thrown
away. Convert them into soups, hash,
or croquets, ard utilize every bit Of
the fat and grease so that every ounce
Of nourishment is extracted.
Boil potatoes in their jackets. Ex-
periments conducted at the North Da-
kota Agricultural college recently re-
vealed the fact that one-fifth Of a Civ
en- quantity Of potatoes is wasted
when they are peeled raw. Besides,
q large part of the nourishing prop
critics of the potato lies directly be-
meath the skin.
Save small pieces of bread, unfit
to serve on the table, and convert
them into puddings or dressings for
meats.
Prepare now for the summer vege-
tables. See that your kitchen equip
ment is in shape and definitely plan
to can every vegetable r9ised in your
garden this summer over and above
what are needed for immediate con-
sumption.
If there is fruit on your place, can
every bit of it you do not eat.
Plan to store such vegetables as
will keep without canning, so they
may be saved for winter use.
Keep some chickens and feed them
such scraps as simply cannot be con-
verted into human food. If they pro-
duce more eggs than you can con-
sumo, save them by putting them into
a water-glass solution.
Are you doing your bit ?"
Colorado Agricultural Collegs
News Notes.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16
CHORUS:

Our navy never has been beat
By any other nation,
But Bill he seems to think that he can
Lick the whole creation.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16

(By Geo. f. Case)
Kaiser Bill is very sick. He needH q
bitter potion;
So Uncle Sam is going to take a trip
across the ocean.
CHORUS:
Brave Jack Tars will man the boat,
They are very handy,
You bet your neck he'll get Bills goat
For Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Bill has certain cousin George across
the channel.
He thought he'd cure Bill in six weeks
But Bill is hard to handle.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16
CHORUS:

When Uncle Samuel gets BilPs goat,
He'll jump into his dory,
And Bill will yell his head most off
Hurrahing for Old Glory.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16
CHORUS:

When Uncle Sans dog noses Bill,
He then will write q treatise.
We think he'll find the trouble
Is chronic militaritus.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07
A COMMUNITY CLUB, SUGGESTED

letter from California by Prof w L. Ferguson formerly of this city, it in this weeks ARGUS unusay inter- estng and Pm hoping that Monroe county citizen will read it.
 Prof Ferguson formerly Superintendent of the Public Schools of this city and since leaving Monroe home the Golden West has frequently written interesting ARGUS His remarks concerning the efforts of the united effort communit building the part that the people and think oA Just it strange Prof Ferguson why Brnkey people do appreciate the and importance of united eortat city buiding been thousands of others who have watched Bnkley for the 30 with all of the wonderful natural advan and compared slow with other Arkansas inviting and which have out-stripped the march progress It is dsheartenng times the fellows who anxiousy hoping and working for bigger brighter better Brnkley But with a have much be proud of We Brighter, Better Brnkley if it is much But we have hopes of even this.
 Eve just returned from visit thro many pretty of South and reach home I'm believing that the pree little beauty spot in the of little park or plaza of any town have
 So by this you have brighter, better Brnkley' and Pm hoping that at distant day that business merchants and citizens may understand that will have BIGGER Brnkey if will but ALL unite in big effort to SERVE
 There are just few have spent entirely for themselves looking only for the dollar and trust and these very building community
 be hoped that they will light and that there will be change their that the effort hamonze and unite doing real team work, will be possible.
 NOW is the build bigger cty-we altogether pull to that end
 Community Club composed progressive citizen the north end of Monroe merchants mechan s lawyers doctors factory bankers etc. with the evelope and improve county spread sunshine the homes and lives of people, suggestion how the matter of organization should best be accomplished.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07
Get Ready

Now is the time that your hens will mould orNshedtheir feathers. This prrcess is very,slow and Ma ture should ,Be assisted. B. A. Thomas Poultry Remedy will help your'hens to moult causing them to shAd earlier and be ready,to lay whenNeggs are high estin the winter. If this reme- < dy does not make good. we will
 Andrew Flora & Co. N
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07

73.3 Gin on left, large barn on
 right 73.7 Straight ahead over levee
 and jog right TAO River on left 76.4 Turn left to boat landing
 on west bank on Mississ-
 ippi River, north of Mem-
 phis, Tenn. LATER Continue down bank of river driving under new bridge and thence between the 2 bridges to the run of" approach on to drive way of bridge.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07
5 ) Reward
FOR TWO HORSES

One mare, about 12 years old,s gray with only one eye andI brand on shoulder. One sorrell horse, about 12 years old, blaze face with four white feet.
 Strayed from my home Smiles south of Brinkley Last seen about Aug. l. Stock bovght in Kentucky aboutaa year ago and supposed they are going back in that directioa. Write me at B1inkley, Ark. if you have any information con corning the above stock and call and get reward when stock is recovered.
 J. L. HILL.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07

avoid road to left 61,8 Cross Drainage Canal on
 Concrete bridge 61.9 Store on right 62.4 X road, straight ahead 63.4 X road, straight ahead 63.9 Store on right $50 EBONY SPUR Straight
 ahead 66.0 Cross Iron bridge, store on
 right and left 66. 4 Gin on left 67.I Elderwood Farm on right 68.3 Cross Drainage Canal on
 Iron Bridge 68,7 Brick School House on
 right 6S.9 Garage on left 69.O Cross Railroad. MARION
 Straight ahead 69.l End on street. turn right
 at Blacksmith Shop and
 jog left beside Lake 69.5 Straight ahead, follow Lake .7l.5 Small Store on right |72.4 School House on left TAT Negro Church on left 72.9 Cross Drainage Canal on
 Iron Bridge
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07
Brinkley's First Bale Todd

At 9 o'clock this morning thN first load of cotton of the seasos passed down the streets of Brink4 ley, grown by N. w. Winkfeld a colored farmer, on Mrs. G Otis Bogle's farm west of Brink ley.
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07

house full in a very large churg building and his audience was perfect silence from beginniS to end of his discourse. And, E the way the Los Angeles papes tell us that Billie Sunday begiE a siege or series of evangelist meetings in Los Angeles neE Sunday in big tabernacle ths have built there for him. H son, George Sunday, made a b| ginning there last Sunday, t| gether with other forerunner1 They have been making gres arrangements for the meetingS Many of the preachers ars church workers have been enlis' ed to aid in the meetings. Ina be able to tell you of some of hS success thare 1 saA. sS. lin Sundsv c@s-o,,1 so zv'S-~
 Angcicsl EExsfai. r. Billie cEains to be a patriot as well as preacher. But adieu
 ,e" w. L. Ferguson. E
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07
A LITTLE SERMON FOR TO-DAY
Behold IhaDe refined Chosen thee in the fuyuace of faf7iction-Isa. xiDiI 70

thee in the fuynace of af7icton--Tsd rfput 10 ~ Re patient suffering soul hear thy cry.
 The trial fires may glow, but I am nigh
 l see the silver and and will refine
 Until My image shall upon 1t shine
 Fear not, for m near, thy help to be;
 Greater than all thy pain, My love for thee
 H. w. C. ~ OD takes thousand times pains with than vY the artist with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many coors of circumstance, to bring into the form which is the highest and nobest in His sight, if only received His gifts and myrrh in the right spirit But when the cup put away and these feelings stied unheeded great injury is done to the soul than ever be amended For heart ceve in what surpassing love God gveth this myrrh yet this which ought to receive souls good suffer to pass by in sleepy indifference and nothing comes of it. Then come and complain: Alas, Lord dry, and it is dark within me I tell thee dear child thy heart to the pain and will do thee good than thou vert full of feeling and devoutness
 J. TAULER
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07
OVER GREAT MEMPHIS
 BRIDGE IN AUTO
Wednesday Witnesses For- nal Opening of Greatest Cansilevee Bridge in World at Memphis. Argus Motor Car
 Crosses the Big
 Bridge.

Wednesday marked the for maj opening of the big Memphis bridge over the Mississippi to vehicles.
 Thousands of cars passed over the bridge on opening day, cross ing back and forth between Memphis asd Arkansas, and it was the pleasure of the writer to drive the ARGUS motor car over on that day. It required just about 3 minutes to make the run across the great bridge which is closely guarded by U. s. soldiers and armed officials. The long bridgeway drive. ex- tending from the river bridge several miles across the bottoms to the leyee will not be finished until about Sept. 18th and hence a run off" has been prepared and vehicles drive on and off of the bridge down the railroad dump via a road which extends back to the river bank and to the levee by the old Marion road way.
 The ARGUS motor drove out of Memphis Thursday morning, leaving the Chisca Hotel at 6:25 : clock, crossing the big bridge. at 6:35 and to the ARGUS office in Brinkley at 1I::27 with stops agregating 20 minutes or an actual running time of 4 hours and AZ minutes from the Chisca Hotel in Memphis to the ARGUS office in Brinkley. SmThe ARGUS car was loaded with 7 passengers and the usual quota of suit cases. thermos and lunch outfits, grips, etc. The opening of the >bridgeway drive via the levee to the Mili- tary Road in Crittenden county on Sept. 18th will shorten the route by at least 5 or 6 miles and consequently lessen the time. The drive I made yesterday with time out of Memphis is giv- en by request of a number of Brinkley auto owners, as follows: Leaving Chisca Hotel 6:25. Cross bridge 6:35.
 Across levee enroute to Marion 7:O1.
 Marion 7:2O.
 Ebony 7:35.
 Widener 9:45.
 Forrest City 10:05.
 Wheatley 11:12.
 Brinkley 11:N.
 The reverse log of the Mem- phis Air Line Route from ARGUS office to Memphis as made by the ARGUS motor car, Dr. F. I. Murphy at the pad, is given be- low.
 Miles
 GO BrinkIey Post Office, go
 north on Main St. l-2
 block, turn right. O.2 Cross Railroad tra ks.
 Station on left. O.8 Straight through X roads,
 Slaughter pens on right
 and left.
 10 Turn left.
 I.2 Turn right and cross small
 bridge.
 1.9 Turn left.
 2,5 Turn right. Railroad on
 left.
 Al Cross wooden bridge, A Negro church on right. 50 Turn left, cross railroad
 and turn right across
 bridge.
 5.4 Cross railroads. Depot on
 right.
 5.6 WHEATLEY Stra al g h t
 ahead. Railroad on right. 68 Rice field and pumping ~ station left. Railroad on
 right.
 "A Rice field and pumping
 station on left. Railroad
 on right.
 7.6 Straight ahead. Follow
 Railroad.
 s.4 Straight ahead. Follow
The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07

l9.5~ Jog left and right with
 road 20.4 Railroad on left 20.6 Turn left to railroad 20.8 Cross railroad. Turn right
 and follow R. R. Tracks, 21.5 BECKS- Straight ahead 22.6 REDFERN SWITCH.
 Straight ahead 23. 1 Straight ahead. Railroad
 on right 25. 1 Turn left. Go I-2 block and
 turn right 25.5 Cross railroad tracks 25.5 FORREST CITY After
 crossing track go straight
 ahead 1 block, turn left 1
 block, turn right. Garage
 on left. Straight ahead
 through town 26.0 Jog left up hill, 26.4 Fork. Turn right. 26.6 Jog right to Railroad, R.
 R. track on right .27,5 Cross railroad track. turn
 left R. R. track on left 28,8 Cross Concrete bridge 4 29.0 Railroad bridge on left .29.8 Cross railroad track and z;g-zag with road into 300 MADISON 30.2 End of street, turn left 30.4 Turn right 30.5 Cross steel bridge and turn
 left 31. 4 Fork, turn right and zig
 gag with road to R. R. on
 right 32.2 Pass under railroad trussel
 and turn left 32.7 WIDENER 32.8 Cross railroad track
 Straight ahead 33.7 Straight ahead. avoid left
 hand turn 35.8 Straight ahead 36.0 Fork, turn left, church on
 right 36.5 Lake on left 37.0 Gin on right. cross lake on
 wooden bridge and zig gag
 with road 37.9 Turn left, avoid road
 straight ahead 38,3 Turn left, cross wooden
 bridge 38.8 River on left 39.0 2 story store on left, jog
 right 39.2 Fork, turn left 39.7 Church on right 4O.2 Blacksmith shop on right 4O.S River on left All Straight ahead, and jog
 left with river 41,6 Fork, turn right 42.3 End on road, turn left -42.7 Fork, turn right 43.1 Cross wooden bridge and
 jog with road 44.7 Straight ahead, avoid right
 hand road 46.4 Cross wooden bridge and
 jog with road 47.O Cross wooden bridge,
 Straight ahead 47.7 Cross Railroad at Patterson 49.7 Cross Drainage Canal on
 wooden bridge and jog
 with road SOY Cross Drainage on wooden
 bridge 5I2 Cross railroad track .5t.7 Cross Drainage Canal on
 wooden bridge 52.9 Black Fish Lake on left 53.5 Cross Lake on wooden
 bridge .54.l Cross Drainage Canal on
 wooden bridge 56.O Cross Drainage Canal On
 wooden bridge 57O Cross Tram road SIP Cross Drainage, Canal on
 Concrete bridge 58.3 Cross Drainage Canal on
 Concrete bridge 59.5 Cross Drainage Canal on
 Concrete bridge 61.3 X road. straight ahead