Newport daily independent., 1918-01-16
LEARNING TO BE AT WAR.

vowed Tn Jne gTedLeSt wal VI oii AAo- tory, he need only look about him to be disillusioned.
 Entering upon a new year, the fourth year of war that many said could not last longer than six months, we find all the world at death grap- ple, and Arkansas just as much a part of the general debate as though foreign foe were knocking at our oates at Texarkana, or the Missis- sippi river ports.
 All about us, and inextricably in- voIved in it, are evidences of the part we are playing in the worlds su- preme tragedy.
 So far-reaching is it, that the hum- blest home in the remotest corner of the state is touched at some point by it's influences.
 And even more intimately will these homes be touched ard saddened later when the casualty lists begin to come back from the bloody sham bles of Flanders.
 There are nearly 25,000 of the best young men of Arkansas under arms or enlisted in some branch of the government service that is charged with the winning of the war.
 And more are being called for, in- cluding the Fourth Regiment of vol unteers now being organized.
 They are in every branch of the service, and there are some already at the front facing the shrapnel and liquid fire and poisonous gases of the Mailman of Potsdam, and some of them wear upon their breasts the French Croix de Guerre.
 The people of Arkansas, in com- mon with the rest of the world, are learning the lesson of giving, and they are learning it well.
 They are learning that money is needed to win this war, as well as men and munitions, and that we must not give only our idle surplus but give until it means genuine sac rifice.
 They are investing literally 1T Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps, and guaging their invest ments by seven figures in the aggre gate.
 It would have been thought i'm possible few years ago to raise { million dollars for any purpose among the people of Arkansas.
 It is no longer a measure of aris tocracy to own government bonds everybody owns them, millionaire' and ch-diggers, bankers anC school boys, rich planters and rib bon-counter clerks.
 A year ago the state banks hele only $2,040 worth, now they have more than ten millions.
 The people are giving generously to the Red Cross, the Y. M. c. A war work, the Salvation Army Wal work, the Fatherless Children o1 France, the Belgian, Jewish and Ar menian relief, and other funds, anc they realize that many other de mands are inevitable.
 There are many war activities II Arkansas, aside from those men toned, that are engaging the atten ton of our people,-the State Counci of Defense with it's county auxiliar' ies, the Food Administration which is attempting to fix the price for staple food products and prevent profiteer ing, the Fuel Administration, whicl is assisting in a solution of the fue shortage, and the various government agencies, all of which are intimately concerned in the conservation of re sources to help win the war.
 Industrial plants have been requi sitioned far more than most people know for the manufacture of things needed in the equipment of our arm Ii S.
 Labor, and especially skilled labor of all kinds, was never so scarce, anc it is impossible to secure enough mer to carry on the average volume 1T some kinds of business.
 Women are being employed in vo- cations heretofore confined to men the Little Rock Street Railway Com nany seriously considers employing them as conductors, some of the rail- roads are already using them as yard and office clerks, they are doing some of the lighter work around the saw mills and in many other ways they