The courier-index., 1918-01-25
with our soup for luncheon.

was to pick iury~-there were men who were professional jurors, and l almost anybody had time to serve. l Not so now. Officers find it most difficult to find enough men who have 1 time for jury service. Everybody has X work to do, important work, some do i ing the work of several men, and serving on juries is not a desirable | avocation.
 The professional juror may come back sometime, but for the next gen eration, busy with the radical re adjustment of things after the war, every pound of man power will be needed for the rehabilitation of the devastated world.
 ,! The nonessentials will have less | of a standing in polite society than ever before-more than ever before the world will become utilitarian.
 A period of intense construction must follow the orgy of destruction that has cursed the world
 The old order is passing, and there are many things familiar before the war that will have become only his toric on that glad day when peace is declared among all nations, and l the curse of Prussian militarism shall be wiped from the face of :, the tortured earth.
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 | Arkansas is experiencing the most severe winter since 1899, according l to the records of the weather bureau. Add to this the discomfort in many localities of fuel shortage that is unusual, and the conditions are not conducive to pleasurable memories. There was eight inches of snow on January II, and that night the temperature fell to eight degrees below zero-the lowest on record at the Little Rock office is 12 below on February 12. 1899. January IT, 1907, there was 14 cold. The normal snow fall for season is 5.7 inches, and many winters pass this scarcely any at all. For the first time since the oldest resident could remember, the street railway system was tied up for three or four days. Ice had formed on the tracks, sleet having preceded the snow. and snow blows and road scrapers could make no impression upon it.
 The second day part of Markham and Main streets was opened up, but the rest of the city walked, and everybody wished and longed even if they were crowded a bit. in rush hours, and got off their schedules occasionally.
 Business was demoralized schools were closed, many stores were closed early if opened at all Churches re- mained closed on Sunday. or had only one service Automobiles wheez- ed along deserted streets, or stuck up in snow drifts. Office forces shivered around disappearing-g gas stoves in down town offices, and then trudged home through the snow to shiver. Everything seemed to bear out the plaint of the pessimist tHdt tHt Nofiu was out Oi JOiHt, anyhow.
 After the stoppage of the street cars and the freezing of water mains and service pipes with no plumbers to fix them. the fuel short age was the most serious thing
 A majority of the people of Lit tie Rock depend on natural gas from Louisiana for heating and cook ing and in a season like this the pressure is too low to supply the increased demands. even with the industrials shut off
 The gas people has been advising the people to put in an emergency supply of other fuel, but few of them did so. and anyway coal and wood are about as difficult to get as gas, and the prices are beyond the reach of the poor man.
 What is the answer?
 There has been much suffering among the poor people of the city who have been unable to secure fuel Many have actually been forced to go to bed to keep warm.
 The people are not prepared for such weather.
 Arkansas is one of the greatest coal and timber states of the Union and there is enough wood rotting within five miles of the city to sup ply all the fuel needed for every body
 But there is nobody to cut it and no way to deliver it.
 So in the midst of plenty we suf fer, and take out our spite on the gas company, the water company. the coal dealers, the street railway the city administration and the kai- ser Has the individual himself any part of the blame to bear?
 We wonder