The Springdale news., 1917-04-06
FROM THE PEOPLE

Il0t springs, IdfCn ~.
 Ed. NeWs;-On the 22nd of March l left home for an indefinite stay in Hot Springs for benefit of Will Din gle Who=is in bad health. If you think some observations made on the trip will be of interest to your read CTS here they are. If not you know the road to the waste basket.
 First: On the run from Spring dale to Fort Smith went forward into what l used to call the cattle car tthe smokerl and I found 6 lot of men reading newspapers, conversing in nice gentlemanly way, and few of them smoking cigars Not pro fane word did l hear, nor did see the least sign of man under the in- fiuenee of liquor. So different from the smoking car in former days.
 I asked why this change, and an sWered, the absence of red liquor, brought about by prohibition laws.
 stopped in Fort Smith a few
 
 there also. Not drunk man met on the street, very few policemen to be seen, just one or two at the most important street crossings Every thing seemed to be going on in de ceney and in order" The remainder of the trip was without incident worthy of mention
 When We arrived in the City of Eapors. the Baden Badena of America, I found t difficult to find room in which to lodge for the nigh. and when We fd the price was 70 much that We had to catch ear breath with a few short jerks before We would take or walk the streets ali night
 What is the matter? The city is full of people People of all kinds, sick people and well people. white and black, rich and poor, high headed and stiff necked that would not wipe their feet on you; and the lowly. beg ging mendicant There was only one character conspicuous for his absence and that was the booze fighter. I have been here now one week, and have not met a man who had q sign inhibition apparent The eosmopoi- itan hordes that are here now are for the most part Well-mannered peo- pie
 But why is the c.ty 50 full q pee pie just now?
 The races are on, have been fgr 3 month, and are to continue ter days yet-aH in violation of the laws of th.s great commonwealth. ask why is this to be pernittedo ls coterie of sports, some of whom re side here, and yet many others from other states. to be allowed to carry on unlawfA practices openly, in de fiance Of the law, with the conni- vance of not only the local, but the high officials of the state? That IS exactly what is being done, with not a sign of any effort to stop 1t.
 We need a chief executive with the grit of a Folk, ex-governor of Mis- soUri or a Grover Cleveland.
 It is said that when he was Pres ident there was a strike on the rail roads of the country and the strikers begun to interfere with the running of mail trains Mir. Cleveland said the mails must go If there is only one postal card to be carried from New York to San Francisco, and it take the whole United States army to escort that card on it's transconti- mental trip, that card must eo And the mails went.
 Whether l as an individual. CT a large number of individuals think a certain law to be good or bad 1t is our business to keep 1t, because it is the law and if we will not do t, all the adm nistration resources of the state should be called into action. if need be to compel obedience.
 There are several reasons why the will Of the people IS expressed II the law should be carried out
 Aside from the bad effect of the