The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1918-09-11
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS

At<kAlNcAc SlAlE NEWS
Colleges viii Open October 1st--
Many Items of Interest
! From Over State.
!; Little Rock, Sept. Especial to the
News.)-The University of Arkansas
and Hendrix College have announced
that the date for their opening has
been changed to October l. This is
to ensble them to make full prepare
tions for taking care of the Student
Army Training Corps. The prospects
are that the schools of the state will
have a very heavy enrolment the COM
ing years.
The following officers have been ap-
pointed for the Star City Home Guard:
w. A. Finch, Captain; r. N. Farrow,
! 1st Lieut.; j. G.. Finch. End Lieut..
Gov. Brough went to Hot Springs
yesterday afternoon to deliver an adj
dress to the National Baptist Conven-
ton.
| The Comptroller Of the Treasury
has asked for a detailed report of the
National Banks, at the close of bust
ness August 81. State Bank Commits
siorer Davis, however, dil not follow
the Comptroller in this ca, y, but ASIA!
on,.7 for al report of the 9rc1ting co.a-
rnittee of the bank at the close OF
business Sept. 10, to be made to the
Commissioner not later than Sept. 16
Mrs. leila Hargrove Gather of this
city has been working for several
years on the writing and compilation
of a book on Arkansas writer's and
liter ture. She has secured sketches
and oncerpts from the writings of sew
eral hundred Arkansas writer's, since
the early territorial days. When pub
Tished, this will form the basis of
valuable treatise on Arkansas litera-
ture which has not heretofore been
available.
There are now more than 1900 Ar
kansas men in the military, naval and
other branches of the nationai service.
With the new draft, it is expected that
this will eventually be increased to
more than 100000.
No less imperative than the need of
fighting men at the front is the neces-
sity of maintaining the agricultural
forces at home.
AS never before it is being realized
that the farm is the second line of
defense and when its effectiveness Is
reduced, and the morale of the farm
ing population in any WY threatened,
1.-THE reflex influence upon those at the
front is not conducive to the maximum
of military power.
It cannot be denied that crop pros
poets in Arkansas are not as favorable
as they are under normal conditions,
and yet they might tie much worse.
That the farmers M y make the best
of the situation and be better prepar-
ed for the next years demands, the
Government, operating through the
Council of Defense, and the Agricul-
tural Extension Department, is con-
Quoting all intensive campaign to en-
courage the sowing of wheat, rye, oats,
end other small grains adaptable to
winter growth.
At least ten counties of Arkansas
have reported to campaign headquart-
ers for the Girls Industrial! School
and Womans Reformatory, that they
have raised the amount they have been
asked for. Many other counties are
reporting a good portion OF their quo
tain hand, but majority of the coun-
ties have large rural sections, and the
bulk of solicitation there will be done
at meeting to be held next Sunday, and
reports cannot be secured from these
until the county chairmen can fccu-
mulate the district reports. Most of
the rural communities are displaying
a marked interest in the campaign
and State Chairman A. B. Poe is con-
fident they will come up with the
amount they have been Hbked for
In Pulaski county the campaign has
not been carried into the rural dis
ltricts as YET, but over $4,000 of the
l$25,000 assessed to the county has been
subscribed. The effort in Pulaski is
to distribute the subscriptions over the