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The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
CARING FOR THOSE
WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND

Because of her continued absence
from school and the fact that she lived
In rather an undesirable neighborhood
and was on the streets all day a school
teacher recently brought to the atten-
ton Of the Home Service department
Of the Red Cross the story of a girl Of
ten years whose mother was nj and
whose only other relatives were two
brothers, one in camp and the other a
youth OF seventeen whose earnings
seemed 10 be The only means of sup
port for the family.
The Home Service worker called,
found the mother very IN and needing
hospital care at once. Arrangements
were made for the mothers care and
also for a home for the girl IN the
country where she would receive real
home training and love- The mother
grew worse and died soon afterwards.
The sevenfeen-year-oId boy enlisted.
The boy in camp had not known that
his mother needed his help. hut vas
glad to contribute from his uav when
the true circuma ances were made
known. The gig IS now ID the coun-
Try, going school and Is receiving
aiioiments FROM both 0f hef brothers
and Is weil cared for she is under
Die watelfa care Of the Home Service
WORKERS and comes to them often for
counsel.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

Of holes are thus bored. and y y
weather becomes colder, pegs are u'N
TO I'll the holes not needed, thus sIn
mating the danger Of cold ar dsn
circulating in the hives.
The kind Of protection Just de'ss
d. II made at home. VIII not CO.
UGH. and will more than pay iaw
time and trouble in the lIls's'm \
amount OF surplus honey s'a''"
next year.
Write for Bulletins on See Ns'p"s
Farmers Bulletin 1915 viii g's's
directions concerning the oes' ~ y
DDS for packing bees. Farmers !, \ !.
letin No. SOB win tell how to oais \, !
strong colonies, and Farmers Du.s ~.
No. 447 will give directions i'' =. =.
ferring bees from the old tune - =.
and logs into movable frame N !
which are necessary Il the Oee' =
be properly handled. -
People interested IN Dsss !. -. "a
feel free to get IN touch WIN =
er al the Extension once, Va'''
of Arkansas. at Fayetteville
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
RIGHT FUNNY ISN'T IT.

Among the big headlines Of some
ct the larger papers viii be found
some announcing that Presient Will
son is to eat out of mess kit Christ
mas. Then the story goes on to make
much ado because Mr.. Wilson de
manded "the same sort of tools as
those used by the common soldier.
II is strictly all right for the pres
iasHt Of the United States TO partake
of a meal with one or any number Of
soldiers or sailors, or any other res
pectable citizen in public or private
life It is also all right for him to
eat the same food and use the same
tools" as the other. That is just SEN
sibie American citizenship-democ-
racy But il makes us stirred" to read
the effusions of some snobbish or
would-be sensational writer-news.
paper or otherwise who plays up
such an affair as tho the President
was cordescending to come down off
q high pedestal to mix with the com
anon herd.
And then final touch to show the
story cabled all over the word is
this: @He will have a formal lunch
with General Pershing later"
If folks generally believed the
President had any of the spirit shown
BY the writers-or that he ate Christ
mas dinner with the soldiers just to
put on a show and get such publicity,
he soon would lose his standing with
the American people, and he should
But, so far, it is believed the stuff
is the product of a bunch of news
hungry correspondents.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

During these Christmases, when
men In the trenches and on mined seas
sing carols when our country CLOVIS to
its uttermost boundaries with the sym.
Dol of the Red Cross; when the most
earthbound look for awhile at the
crosses and the stars-new under
standings. new slmplicities, new will
ingness for service come to very many
men and women.
And as our soldiers and sailors who
went out young and strong and singing
the Long, Long Trail and "Oyer
There" now come back crippled and
disabled, Americans are seeing more
and more their own part and response
bility in reconstruction. This work
means teaching the blind to see, CIV
ing movement TO the psralyzed, power
to the remnants of arms and legs to
do full duty, the chance Of health to
the tubercular, light to minds be-
logged by shell shock.
Our government. the Medical De-
partment of the Army and the Ameri-
can Red Cross, from the time of our
entrance In the war, have been work
ing out the tasks preparatory to this
reconstruction, which is the key-word
to their usefulness and happiness.
The work itself is already begun In
the hospitals where our returned men
have been brought
This has meant the equipment Of
hospitals, the recruiting of the doc
tors and nurses and the formulation of
plans for training for sccations, which
means independence, replacing activi-
ty for inactivity.
For this physical reconstruction in
our military hospitals at home, our
government, through the Office of the
Surgeon General. is asking for recon
structIon aids This hospital service
is open to hundreds, indeed thousands,
Of women who as wives OF men in the
service have been technically barred
from other military hospital service.
They are needed az once and may
learn full particulars regarding train
ing, qualifications, pay and so forth
by writing for information to the Office
Of the Surgeon-Generai, Division Of
They are civilian employees Of the
Medical Department Of the Army, and
their work comes under one Of two
classes -either the distinctly physical
reconstruction which has to do with
massage, electrosherapy. dydotheFapy
and mechanotherspy or the occupa-
tlonal work which will prepare the
men 70 take up the regular vocational
training for which we often hear the
word re-education."
The Federal government has charge
Of this work Other agencies working
under government control viii help.
TIE American Red Cross. especially,
will supplement- #, and through its
Home Service has assumed the obliga-
ton to assist every soldier or sailor
and his family whenever they need
aid or counsel from IL.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas" is the CHEEKY
greeting to be heard on every hand,
and sweet it is. 1t is the greeting
that, like the season, brings out the
very best in our hearts-in human ma
tire Il causes US 80 rejoice with
those who rejoice and, too, brings us
eloser-so much closer-to those
whose hearts are tried by adversely
and by sorrow.
And this is the Christmas Spirit at
its very best
As whole there have been few if
any Christmas days on which there
has been cause for more general re-
joicing BY the people Of the United
States, and even the world, than that
Of 1918. 1t is a period for great re-
5oicing over battles won, over glori-
Gus victories over wrong and victor
lbs for humanity. But these have
been gained by bitter losses, by va
SAINT places in thousands upon thous-
ands of homes. The bitter contest is
over; we have won, and we rejoice
The toll Of blood and suffering and
life has been paid, and our hearts
ache over the price for the worlds
veal.
And, putting aside the great world
affair-coming nearer to our own
everyday life, we see about us the
happy, care-free faces. the happy
homes, and, with scarce the turning
Of head or the lifting of an eye, the
sorrowing faces, the stricken homes
Of those who are our friends, our
neighbors, our fellow citizens. On
some of these the hardest blows have
fallen---the stern realization is be-
fore US. And then, perhaps, we may
know where the die of fate is cast
and where aching hearts but await
the final act and the writing Of the
record. And this, of certainty, is
burden heavy to bear-one that tries
day and night, the bravest, truest
souls.
All these things go on day by day
and year by year. We come to looE
upon them, as in truth they are, as
but the passing events of the life Of
the world. Perhaps, even, we may at
times grow eailous and thoughtless
of them.
But Christmas time, with its CHEEKY
salutations, its smiles and laughter,
by the very fullness of feeling en-
gendered. brings these other things
TO mind-it makes US akin to the lives
and sorrows as well as the joys of
others, and it is one of the finest,
most glorious experiences of our
earthly existence.
Long live Christmas-an may this
Christmas, 1918, bring a plenty of
the riches of love and cheer and cour-
age to our hearts-fit US the better to
DO our part in the things that count
for most both here and hereafter.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

ed FOR centuries to the introduction
Of something new in styles for WON
en-. One change that may come "a
Arkansas because Of the war is re-
sentiment that win force a law tax
ing dogs.
For months one Of the greatest
questions had been the feeding of
the world and this question quickly
brought inquiries as to why Arkan-
sas did not raise more sheep. The
answer is the dog. Because Of the
demand for food more Roadway to-
ward a dog tax IN this state has been
made within the past few months
than ia all the years before that
Arkansas has existed
The elimination Of worthless dogs
is a work that should meet little OPP
position. but there is and win be
much opposition to it. It may be that
the next legislature will enact a dog
tax law. If such law is not enacted
By the next legislature the agita-
ton should be kept up until we have
the law.
With the world crying for food
Arkansas raises 1000 dogs to every
one sheep. There are large areas in
Arkansas where sheep could be rails
ed easily and profitably il were
not for the roaming ours.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
a POSER FOR MOLLY.

Margaret Mcguire, writing in the
Ladies' Hcme Journal, has seen the
awakening of the strange unsocial
people living child-like in rude huts
amid rude surroundings, eating rude
food" she has ''rudedn them so much
them so much that you them SO much
that you have visions of poverty and
squalor, in the Ozarks of Arkansas.
She thinks the training of their sons
as soldiers is going to be the saliva
ton. As we are one of the rude
residents Of the Arkansas Ozarks.
we resent the manner in which Irish
Maggie talks about us. True, the res
idents of the interior sections are
not endowed with all the refinements
Of life, but the readers of Miss Ma
CURES article should not be led to
believe all is ignorance and poverty
in the hills. There is plenty of pow
erty, God knows, as there is in New
York and Boston, with its cultural
centers, but these people back in the
hills own their own places, and in adj
dition fly Red Cross flags, exhibit
Liberty loan emblems and w. S. S.
badges. True it is, their boys will
come back from the war with the
SLOUGH taken out of their walks, an
added sparkle in their eyes, a new
idea of discipline and bodily cleanli-
ness. But will not the bank clerk out
Of the big wealthy bank in New York
have the same experience; viii not
the law clerk out of the corporation
law offices undergo the same evolu-
ton; will not the Yale. graduate who
has been the iistless man about town
come back with spring in his step.
an erectness of stature and keen
ness of the eye that he never be-
for enjoyed? Why should Molly o.
take the columns of the great week
ly and pick on we defenseless Ozark
Arkansans and tell what benefit the
war has been to US and make no men
ton of the others. We presume the
answer is that we are such a rude"
people.-Rogers Press.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
WALKING.

OF all the tonics the wide world
over, none is so good, so sure to bring
results and so invigorating as the ex-
erci5e of walking.
To walk one must be in and out of
doors and it is in the out of doors
that we find health.
If you don't believe that this is
true join the procession Of men and
women who walk.
Dc you ever watch them as they
go to and from their work?
There is something about walking
that does one good mentally, as we'll
as physically.
Sometime, when you are depressed
when the little world about you
seems all topsy turvy and wrong and
you can't find your rose eolored
glasses-leave your tasks and get
out Of doors.
Walk and walk-and walk.
You'll find your vision clearing;
you'll find the problems looming
less huge on your horizon; you'll find
certain hopefulness and buoyancy
that you seemed to have lost.
Walk all you can and as often as
you can. Turn your steps from in
town streets to the faraway roads
where there is only blue Of Gods
perfect sky and the soft blending of
colors all about you and the fresh
air to breathe with no noise except
the occasional song of bird or the
singing of the wind through the tree
1t is a tonic for ones soul and mind
as well as ones body
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
BEES MAKE BIGGER
AND BETTER CROPS
Arkansas Would Benefit From Mora
OF the Honey Producers.
BY J. v. ormand. Special Field Agent
In Bee Culture, Exte 1sion Division,
University of Arkansas.

by ). V. Ormand. Special Field Agent
In Bee Culture, Exte asion Division,
University of Arkansas.
Recent investigations show that
bees increase the fruit and cotton
crop by carrying the pollen from one
tree to another in the orchards and
cross pollenating the flowers OF the
cotton plant This makes full fruit,
ing more possible. according to w. ].
Besrg, State Entomologist. with the
College of Agriculture Of the Univer.
sity OF Arkansas.
People throughout the state can well
anord to keep bees for the work they
DO In the orchards and fields. but they
should also realize that bee keeping
is the only business in the world In
which the raw material for the manu-.
featured product can be obtained with.
out cost. Bees collect the nectar from
flowers and make honey, and If given
proper care and attention they viii
Yield a nice cash income The outlay
necessary for supplyisg the proper
equipment and protection IS small.
Winter Protection Necessary.
Winter protection among other
things is absolutely necessary for the
best results. With the ordinary meth.
DDS OF wintering bees, the colonies are
very much reduced, and the early
spring is spent in strengthening them.
AT the same time, the bees nae up
the nectar from the flowers which
would make white honey, and conse.
quenty the surplus which most of the
Arkansas bee keepers get comes from
the later flowers, and this usually pro
duces dark honey. White honey could
easily be produced il tile bees were
given proper protection during she
winter. It Is rue that in Arkansas
bees must have winter protection. and
as a general rule they should he pack.
ed before Thanksgiving. but il they
are not already packed II Will pay to
do so before freezing weather. In
packing, the usual method is to place
four hives back 20 back on a small
platform, upon which sides and wa
ter proof top can be fastened. Good
dry sawdust four inches underneath.
ak Inches On the sides and eight
inches on the top of the hives win fur
nish ample protection.
In order to permit the bees to get in
and out of the hives, two boards nail
ed close together, but giving ample
room for the passage of a bee, are
placed from the entrance of the hive
In such a way as to come in contact
with the inside OF the protecting box,
thus forming sort of tunnel This
gives the bees passageway through
the sawdust which Is beneath and
above the tunnel.
Openings made by boring holes on
the outside of the box covering the
hives enable the bees to pass from
the tunnel to the outside. A number
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
THE RED CROSS MAN.
By Jeanne Judson

4 BY Jeanne Judson. !
+ The Red Cross man was here !
+ today, !
+ He seems to know some magic !
way !
OF being everywhere; !
X In Paris when a chap Is broke. !
4 He passes out a Yankee smoke, !
+ And at the front, he's there ,
+ He gives US something hot to !
4 drink, !
4 He seems to want TO make us !
4 think 4
We're happy and at ease; 4
= He keeps as busy as can be, 1
: Just working FOR my mates and 4
me, 4
y His method sure does please. !
e And though he doesn't tote ,
gun, !
: We know he's wish Us everyone, !
+ Till duty sets US free; !
, His wheeled canteen Is far more ,
y fair 4
: Than any iol,s er palace rare. I
4 We drink his health in tea !
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
rs INJURED IN FIGHT.
Farmer Said TO Have Been Assaulted
With Sledgehammer.

Texarkana, Dec. go. B. Whit
fridge, aged so. a farmer who lives
near Buchanan, about five miles
southwest of Texarkana. was brought
TO the hospital here last night with a
broken jaw and bruises on the head
and body said to have been inflicted
with a siedge hammer. w. G. Gibson,
tenant farmer, was arrested on a
warrant charging aggravated assault,
but was released later under $500
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
TRIBULATIoNs CONTINUE
Aerial Maii Service Between Chicago
And Gotham Difficult.

Chicago, Dec. 19-The tribulations
of the New York-Chicago air mail
service continue.
Pilot mike" Eberbole broke a pro-
peller and one wing Of his machine
in landing at Ashhurn field yester-
day, and hence could not start with
the mail this morning.
X viii take several days 20 re-
pair the damage, it was stated at
the postoffiee this morning.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

Hospital scarchers are being sent By
the American Red Cross into all the
hospitals along the front Their task
is TO supplement the necessarily mea-
ger reports sent by the Army to the
families OF the killed and wounded
with more detailed letters. II is the
human touch that makes the whole
world kin.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

Little Rock, Dec. 24.-Gov. Brough
IS working on his message, and has
been asking for suggestions from the
heads Of departments. He will make
number Of very important recon-
mendations to the Legislature, and it
IS expected that he will touch at
length upon the question Of the de-
feat Of the proposed new Constitu-
ton.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
The Difficulty.
Prom the Los Angeles Times.

From the Los Angeles Times
Two girls were conversing in a
Paris tearoom.
'I'm going to learn teaching" one
of them said.
Teaching" cried the other; why,
I'd rather marry a widower with six
children than be teacher"
An, so would l." sighed the first.
ssbut where's the widnwar 7v
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

Tue WAR AND THE DOG.
From the Arkansas Gazette.

II has become trite to say the war
has changed the world. The changes
have been 80 many and so rapid that
t il impossible to keep up with all Of
them They range from the overturn-
ing Of governments that have exist
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

A portable kitchen, installed by the
American Red Cross on the exact spot
where Joan OF Are was captured, pro
yided tea, coffee and other refresh
ments to 1o,eoo soldiers and civilians
daily.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

The Public schools closed for the
Christmas holidays Friday afternoon
and the pupils win have q vacation
until Monday December 30, when
studies will be resumed.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26
LACK OF IMPLEMENT sHs aSrss
ARKANSAS 100000 LAST ss'"

The lack Of impIenen shsOs =. i
Arkansas farmers sa,oOocOO a.. I'm, In
and this does not take into c s.o,D y
a ,ion ' ne I tremendous losses from =. !
proper care 10 avoid UNI 49, ~, ssr Il
ana tear. which VIII so'
100000. nrogidsd ~
49, -ens;, 4 H-:aeinDs' 4.
val, ,,i s, -. .os metal s unless s. v
t s0ou 'o'I anu IS impo ~ Ass,.s
o house ne machinery !. '. !. ID
p y LAR taat liberal soat. s :. ID ID
ana oil be applied All wo, ,ns pps
should be creased and onss AK br
bottoms. cultlvator shoss'', ,sls til
row blades planter and ss,I als \
furrow openers should y .ssl1slIob .
prevent rust A good COP, '''. I'D y
made by mixing axle sfs. mi s D
bricating oil until a thlel ,,,a 4 by .
aimed, p,ioees 4 liberal apDli'a''' ~, B;
material will keep moisture = 40 gsTs
tho metal wearing paf's .s - luusl
rust. Where paint has ~, aerts.
from the wood or me'si .svsr r
sud be repainted wne'' 4 d y
f'f N'l s,nnlements " sts
ground in the sheds. o,t
well placed viii do the ~ - sIptsr =
A little care during ,A,,srs sna
certainly save many uo sOrins
great deal Of trouble ne11
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

For Sale:-Poland China pigs. See
j. P. Eubanks, drayman, Mena, w-5-1
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

bond pending hearing, which is set
for tomorrow.
The Mena weekly star., 1918-12-26

GASOLINE ENGis ! ~. 8
Something extra goOu .,.rs inqa'
and 9 h. p. For parIie's ss,ics
Of v. w. St. John at Star
The Ordway new era., 1918-11-01

pilass es ansausas. D.Oau,. Cadn-
The Ordway new era., 1918-11-01

zaans 81 a,rranaa.- Denver. coaa-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-04
FINANCIAL NOTES.

At meeting OF the Mercantile Trust
and Deposit Company James NJ Wade
was appointed assistant treasurer: Harry
Rronnsr. president OF Missouri Pacific.
and j. !. Baskob. vice-president of &c, I.
du Pont de Nemours Company, were
elected directors.
The net earnings OF the Federal Min
ing and smelling Company for May were
tlal.S7t.
An analysis Of the ten year G per cent
gold bonds OF the Union Pacific Rail-
road has been prepared in pamphlet
form by the bond department OF the
Equitable Trust Company
l., Brooks Leavitt has become as:
ISOLATED with Paine. Webber n Co. OF
New York. Boston and Chicago. as man
aser Of the bond department In New
York
e. F. Graham. vice president OF
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. has been
elected yice-presideut OF Hooking Valley
Railway, the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
way Of Indiana and the Chesapeake and
Ohio Northern railway.
The Anaconda Mining Company pro-
duced In June $500, 900 pounds OF cop
per. Last May production amounted 10
2s, 400. 900 pounds OF copper.
The Miami Copper Company produced
in June +692,b6l pounds OF copper.
against b.l0O.l0s pounds In May.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-04
NEW CERTIFICATES
ISSUE OVER QUOTA
New York District Leads in
Ovcrsubscriptions to $780,
100000 Series.
Specinl Despafch to TIVE Sun.


WASHINGTON. July 3.-The largest Of
fering Of Treasury certificates Of indebt-
edness ever made by the United States.
that OF June %. when the banks were
asked to take $4,000. 900 worth as the
first of bimonthly series OF the same
amount. was oversubscrihed by greater
margin than any other issue In history.
AS has frequently been tho case the
New York Federal Reserve District led
in the oversubscription. Six districts
failed TO make their quota, but New
York with the largest quota of $751;
900, 900. subscribed $312,si4.5oo, an OK
cess of S61.S44,5o0.
The Boston district fell under its quota
and the Philadelphia district Just made
its quota. Cleveland. Dallas, Chicago
and st. Louis made UP the balance Of
the oversubscription.
The issue Just closed was tho first ono
made In anticipation of the Fourth Lib
erty Loan which is to be foated In the
autumn. The subscriptions show the
banks to he in excellent condition. for
they have Just cleared the last loan. and
during the subscription period 70 the
certificates were required 10 meet the
demands created BY the heaviest tax
payments in history.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-04
OLD METALS.
tations nominal--crnts q poundl
CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE.

Stocks closed strong in a dull mar
ket to-day on the Consolidated E>x-
change. Final quotations were around
the high for the session and substan-
tial net gains were registered by the
active securities. Prices, following "A
recession Immediately after the OPEN
ing, rallied and held firm throughout
the day, moving whiting narrow limits.
Trading was restricted and the market
In the afternoon very dull Realiza-
ton sales developed at intervals, but
had little effect on values. Copper
stocks were In good demand, due to the
announcement of an increase in the
price OF the metal by the Government.
The result was sharp advance and
closing prices showed gains of point
or more In the entire group. Steel
common was strong, closing at the high
for the day, with gain OF point
Trading In liberty Loan bonds was
active.