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Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
Chamber 0f Commerce N/ill
 SOlDe MQnD Problems.

could have gown. It seems almost a
 crime for a farmer to send to Sears
 Roebuck for ham and bacon or to
 buy potatoes and butter in town, but
 hundreds of them are doing it. A distinct service and be rendered by our Chamber of Commerce in the way of developing and improving rural life and in cultivating closer re- lations between the urban dwellers
 and the agriculturists' rural commit tees can be organized for social de- velopment, excursions can be made into the country by the business men, farmers can be invited to join the Chamber of Commerce, rest rooms and market exchanges can be estab- lished. Through the Chamber of , Commerce pamphlets and booklets treating on grain growing, cattle,
 hogs, chickens and sheep and many other kindred subjects can be dis tributed to the farmers.
 The opportunity of the town lies in i the country. The country can get along without the town, but no town has ever or ever will be permanently prosperous where the soil is poor. There is but one road to permanent city building and that leads straight to the farm.
 Business is so sympathetic, so sen- sitive to crop production that the forecast of poor crops affect the mar kets of the world. The old style com
 mercial club with it's free bonuses and free factory sites is rapidly pass l ing away. Instead of grabbing busi- ness from each other, towns are look ing out into the country, out into the fields of growing crops. Here lies i! the opportunity for the great city. Strange as it may seem out in the country hidden in the fertility of the soil, cruanerirs fuffuw the dairy COW, the truck patch calls for canning factory, more corn means cereal mills, glucose factories and starch factories, etc.
 < Production, transportation and
 marketing are the three primary
 problems in agriculture as affecting
 any community. Each of these sub
 jects subdivides itself naturally. Un-
 der the head of production must be
 considered the amount of untitled land
 in the vicinity of our city, whether
 the right crops are being cultivated,
 whether there is proper amount of
 live stock on the farm, whether the
 production is decreased by slipshod
 methods or lack of sufficient finance.
 Under the head of transportation
 comes the question of roads-rail-
 roads adequacy of service and fair
 ness of rates.
 Under the head of marketing comes
 channels of trade, packing, shipping,
 assembling, commission dealing and business methods.
 There are the social problems of the farm: schools, churches, meeting
 places, associations and means of in structive entertainment.
 In conclusion, in this day of CO., operation and inter-dependance no man, no business and no community may stand alone. Our Chamber of Commerce must confer with and work with our neighbors that we may solve the vital problems that touch us all Therein lies the foundation Iof commercial organization work and every movement in which men work togethes.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
GOV. ROUGH WILL ADDRESS
 CONFEDERATE VETERAN6
Special to Independent.

Special to Independent Y
 Little Rock, Aug. 21 Gov: Brough[ has accepted an invitation to addrese the confederate veterans at Camp Ea. gan, three miles from St. Charles III Arkansas county, Thusday monings Aug. 22, in the interest of the GiFls Industrial Home, and at Pine Bluf1 that night. He will speak at the court house in Little Rock next Sun~ day afternoon in the interest of the Give-a- Bushel movement, and at pa- triotic rallies at Hope August 30, at Leoia, September 1, at Clarendon September 8, and at Magnolia, Sep- tember 15. He has been forced to decline, on account of the press of official business, the invitation of the national democratic committee to campaign several of the northern and. eastern states in the interest of the democratic senatorial nominees.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21

With the British Headquarters in France, Aug. 21.-German military leaders are worried over the pros meets of revolution in Germany Ludendorff in a captured secret or der directs that steps be taken quick " to suppress revolutionary utter ances of the men at home on leave, and admits that such utterances have been brought to his attention. He has ordered soldiers going home to be searched and prevent them from talk ing weapons.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
GOVERNOR WILL NOT
 INTERFERE WITH DEATH
 SENTENCE OF CAUGHRON

Special to Independent.
 Little Rock, Aug. 21.-Gov. Brough last night authorized the statement that he would not interfere Tn the case of Ben Caughron, of Polk coun- tv. who is in the death cell awaiting electrocution next Friday for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Chas. Kirk land. The officer was a member of Sheriff Fingers posse, and was kill ed by Caughron in battle with draft resisters at the home of Bob Harkey, who is now serving l6 year sentence for his part in the tragedy.
 The governor said that he believed justice should be tempered with mer- cy, and that he had on more than one occasion intervened to prevent the maximum penalty being inflicted but in these cases great public men aces like draft resistance were not involved; he said that he will SC long as he is governor use his off cial power to enforce rigidly the ma jestic law in preventing resistance te federal and state authorities in this hour of the nations supreme crisis He believes that an example shoule be made in this case that will serve notice to all draft tsresisters.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
TO TRAIN THE UNSKILLED.

Special to Independent
 Little Rock, Aug. 21.-The State Council of Defense has been called upon by the U. s. Employment Ser vice to aid in the campaign that is be- ing conducted throughout the country to provide unskilled labor for the prosecution of essential war indus tries. Orders have been received here that the "men must be provided for work at home and out of the state, and that this demand must be met, no matter what happens to private business, but the men cannot be ta- ken fom farms, railroads, or mines" The Arkansas quota has been raised to 387O.
 Not only does this condition exist as present emergency, but the gov ernment, through the establishment of a federal board of vocational edu- cation, with state boards co-operat- ing, proposes to provide for the fu- ture training of men and women for industries essential to the conduct of the war. The department of labor has estimated that f ,55ooee, see coo workers in less essential and dull trades must be trained over in war work. A report has been issued on "How to over- come the shortage of skilled mechan- ics by training the unskilled."
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
JOBBERS PREPARED
 TO FILL ORDERS FOR
 DS-THIRDS- -SIJGx RI

 The following has been received b Geo. B. Irby, Jackson county food a2 ministrator, from Hamp Willi1l federal food administrator for III ansas: Z
 Little Rock, Aug, 21. HE Dear Sir: # < z Please give notice through youx local press to the bottlers, soft dxinl stands, candy and all other { A z niazl- ufacturers, that many wholesale Gx1 cers and jobbers of Arkansas are 1lox prepared to fill all orders for second9 and third sugar.
 Merchants are warned not to these orders with granulated su(
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
YOUTHS IRE II
 BE CALLED LAST
(Bv The Associated Press.

Washington, Aug. 2.-A favor able report was voted by the house military committee today on the ad- ministration man-power bill with the amendment providing for youths be- tween the ages of eighteen and twen- ty, to be placed in separate classifica- tions to be called after men between twenty and forty-five.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21

(Following is the first of series of articles contributed by c. T.. Mari ner, business manager of the Cham Der of Commerce. MT. Mariner will follow today's article with others, which will deal with Chamber of Commerce activities, and everyone should follow him losely.Editor.)
 It is a self-evident fact that our Chamber of Commerce, through a strong agriculture committee and by the cooperation of the county farm agent, can do great deal for New port and Jackson county by an effort to help solve some of the many problems of the producers of the farm products. It is trite saying, but none the less tue that "agricul- ture is the basis of our prosperity
 The movement in the south for the last two years, that is of significance, is the campaigns of education for di-
 
 versified farming supported and fos- tered by Chambers of Commerce, es- pecially in Arkansas. For great many years, the agricultural ener- gies of this section have been devoted to growing of cotton almost exten- sively As a result of the one crop system it has become the custom to buy practically all foodstuffs from other states. Many millions of dol lars are spent yearly by the people of Arkansas for foodstuffs such as corn, oats, wheat, potatoes and other foods that can be grown abundantly here as well as in our sister states of the south. The necessity for growing more foodstuffs was forced upon the minds of the farmers by the sharp drop in the price of cotton, following the outbreak of the present war. The market fell from around cents to 6 cents and farmers who had planned to buy on a IA cent cotton basis, had to suffer and had no money to buy corn, hay and potatoes which they
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
(By The Associated Press.)

London, Aug. 21- Field Marshal Haig reports British forces launched an attack on a wide front north of the Ancre river this morning and that satisfactory progress is being made. Strong German attacks against Brit ish positions north and south of the Scarpe river Tuesday were thrown back.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
(Bv The Associated Press.

With the British Army in France, Aug. 21.-The British attack this morning extended from the Ancre river at Beaucourt to just north of Moyenville, distance of ten miles. The towns of Ahlainsville, Beaucourt, Moyenville, Courcelles and Achiet Pepetit were captured. German po- sitions along the important Dran- outre ridge in the Lys salient also were attacked, but the result is un- known.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
HARRISON HAS
 B|G MAJORITY
(By The Associated Press.)

(By The Assoclated Press.)
 Jackson, Miss, Aug. 21.-With re- turns from about thirty counties still incomplete, a tabulation of the vote in yesterdays democratic primary gives Congressman Pat Harrison a lead of approximately 10000 votes over the combined total of Senator Vardaman, the incumbent, and For mer Governor Noel in the. contest for the nomination for the United States senator.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
fBy The Associated Press.)

Paris, Aug. 21.-French troops have reached point not far from the village of Pontois, two and four tenths miles from Noyon, according to information reaching here this af- 1. tenoon. Latest advices indicate the allied pressure against the Germans is unrelenting.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21

Did you read that America is tho deciding factor? Coming from Lord Miner this statement is momntuous and America is not coming in she has come in-Ameriea la in. !
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21

captured Courcelles and reached Moyenville and Beaumont south of the Ancre in the drive which began this morning north of the Ancre, ac- cording to advices from the front.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
(By The Associated Press.)

London, Aug. 21.- Attacks made this morning by the British third ar my were under the command of Gen eral Bing.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
(By The Associated Press.

IBy The AsSOc1aJeu Fresss
 The steam trawler, Triumph; manned by sixteen Germans from " submarine which captured her yestsr- day, is being used to raid fishfnl banks off the Nova Scotia coe1fs Three vessels are known to have bee1l sunk, and the crews have arrived here.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
GERMAN U-BOAT
 TAKES TRAW[ER
(By The Associated Press.

An Atlantic Port, Aug. 21.--A Cor man submarine late yesterday seized the big fishing trawler, Triumph The crew, who reached shore, said they believed the Germans intended using the trawler as raider. A fisherman reported the submarine was playing havoc with a fleet of fishing vessels on the Grand banks. The Triumph was halted by the U-| boat, and the crew was permitted to take to their dories. Armed gunnen1 were then placed aboard.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21

Stamps are not for children only. Most of the squandering is done by the grown-ups.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
(By The Associated Press.)

Washington, Aug. 21 Strong forces of swift naval craft has been dispatched to the North Atlantic ocean, where Germans are aboard captured trawler and raiding q fish- ing fleet.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21
lBv The Associated Press)

Paris, Aug. 21.-The French con tinued to advance on the whole front between the Disc and Ancre rivers, says the official announcement, which also reports the towns of Carl5 epont and Cuth were captured. The French took ground west of Lassigny after sharp fighting.
Newport daily independent., 1918-08-21

(By The Associated Press.) London. Aug. 21-The British have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08
TT WILL BE A BETTER WORLD

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 6ClHE American pulpit has lost a
 picturesque and a militant figure
 in the retirement of pr. Charles H. Parkhurst of New York. For 46 years Dr. Parkhurst has hurled him. self furiously at the trenches of the devil. never surrendering and seldom having to evils which other men saw, but which the conventions of the pulpit prevented them from assailing, with the bluntness which was the reverend doctors. He made for himself nationwide name and his passing from the activities of the church platform will be felt in many quarters.
 The impression of the worlds morality which this venerable preacher takes into his quiet harbor of retirement is one dis tinctly optimistic. We might expect pr. Parkhurst, schooled in the rigid prin- ciplos and conventions of another day, to look gloomily upon the radical departures which later years have produced. But the opposite is true. After reviewing the great changes which have come to pass even in the past few years, the horrors of war and the blighting reaction against Christianity which has come out of Ger many, pr. Parkhurst enthusiastically builds up a striking offset. Under the pressure of diversity, the doctor says, the world is experiencing new spiritual birth We are again finding the sterner virtues which can come >only with a. holy pur- pose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08

campaign many man was found so far from "the madding crowd" that
 he had never subscribed to any war fund whatsoever or done anything in
 the way of giving up money to help win the war, who readily invested and invested literally as soon as the proposition was explained to him.
 Similar experiences will come to the canvassers for the War Savings Bonds. And they will have this ad- vantage: few citizens of Alabama, no matter how isolated their homes may have seemed, remained undiscovered by the Liberty Loan workers. The same people who in May bought bonds for the first time will be just as re- sponsive to Uncle Sam's appeal for raising two billion dollars by the War Savings method.
 Between now and June 28 every man and woman in Alabama must be solicited to buy a Baby Bond. Surely the number declining to do so will be a negligible quantity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08
MORE sNAPPY sTuFE

". P. s. in the Chicago Tribune. From Whispering Wires," in the Sat
 urday Evening Post)
 "Gute so,' snapped Stockbridge with choler.
 "Pll take the sace, snapped Drew.
 Drew stepped back from the table, fol- lowed the figure in somber livery down to the basement, where he snapped a number of orders into the phone
 "Yes, snapped Stockbridge. "Yes, show him up."
 The hutler," snapped Drew. Hello" he snapped. This is Drew. . "or was talking to one when he died" snapped Drew. "ENerybooy,' snapped Drew. "pirt" snapped Drew "Hhat's OUT man. he snapped to De- laney.
 The trouble hunter,'' snapped Drew.
 He won't talk, eh," snapped Drew.
 Out with it." snapped the detective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08
A SONG FOR THE SHIPS

| Caress the Seas with your myriad ships. America, my own! Nor /eep nor rest shall the builders know: Till ont of their hearts of oak shall grow. Like Galleons bold of the long ago. The Fleets of the Danger Zone! Oh, leal the true are your children strong. America, my own! And Hope is the rainbow arch that springs Of Iron and Steel and the Fires wings! Oh, Brothers of Men, how the strong heart sings As we weld the rivets home! Put out, put out. good seamen an. Good Builders. ply your trade! Never for us the slaver's rod,
 That we lick the dust at a despot's nod With power and will let the keels be laid And the builders shall be as scourg- ing haada
 In the battlchand of Godi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08
Proud nf Record

< T am very proud of the splendid rec ord made by Birmingham in the second Red Cross drice," said Morris w. Bush, acting field marshal of the drive, and was surprised when returned from Washington to learn that Birmingham had reached the s455, 600 mark Just after this total was reported to me by Bert Meadow, assistant chairman of the ex- ecutive committee, received check for s26oo and another for $500, while a num- Der of small amounts have been turned in and the grand total will approximately be s46o.o00. The Birmingham people have been most liberal in doing their part ir tha various activities and I feel sure they will respond every time they are called upon."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08
THE OLD-FASHIONED DOCTOR
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 N s THE shortage of doctors contin- A ues to make itself manifest in
 civilian life, it is being made clear to the most thoughtless that what the medical schools should turn out in great CT numbers and what the country needs is the good. old-fashioned, all-around general practitioner. In many ways the tendency of medical education of recent years toward concentration in the matter of schools and extreme specialization and standardization has not only reduced the number of doctors as a whole, but se- riously cut down those who cared for or were trained for general practice. It is now seen this practice was not altogether the wiser of courses The highest of standards for admission to medical schools, it may be said, should be main ton and advanced methods of preventive medicine; but with these high standards, which have had the effect of cutting down the supply of students, and there fore of doctors, it would seem as if some thing should have been done before the war to increase the attractiveness of the medical profession, and, what is more, instead of forcing the issue as to specialists give the general practitioner a dignity and opportunity which for a number of years have been denied him.
 As q consequence, the depletion Of the specialists, not only the surgical spec ialsts, by the war has left the medical profession available in civil life scant in numbers and with altogether too few who are indisputably general practition- CTS and truly understand the tart Of healing" For healing is an art, and it depends more largely than many think on individual equation plus the science O. medicine as it is obtained in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08
LUXE MLuKE SAYS

Wouldn't it be perfectly wonderful if a woman had as much confidence in her husband as she has in her baby? Be careful what you say. A funny
 crack often develops into bad break When you are handing out medals for
 Patience don't forget the Telephone Girl and don't forget the Bartender. Another daml: Once upon time a woman made date to meet her hus- band at o'clock, and she was there at , 0 cock.
 If man would listen to his conscience ha wouldn't have to pay q lawyer for advice. Tho trouble is that his con- science insists on telling him he is wrong
 when he is wrong.
 Why Goes fiat-chested girl spend as much money on dainty waists and corset covers as a well-built girl? | A noscv woman likes to visit cem- etery So she can get an opportunity to abuse some man for neglecting his wfe's grave. Ano she certainly finds lots of opportunities.
 | One reason why we are fond of dry hurnor is because most fellows spit all over you when they tell you funny story.
 Don't wait couple of years courting girl, young man. If she is going to l take you she will take you at the start, and you can save lot of time and worry.
 1 Somehow or other the pound cake made l by a newly married girl always tastes as if it hadn't been pounded enough. A wife knows that if her husband could get back all the money he has spent 1 foolishly since they have been married
 he would find even moro foolish ways
 of spending it.
 l Away down in her heart a woman be- lieves that some certain much-advertised pa tent medicine would do her a lot of good. but she is afraid to buy a bottle
 because ste knows her husband would
 laugh at her
 1 If a man happens to slip his wife 3 dollar more than her usual weekly al lowance he swells around with There l! air't many good feiiows-in-the-world-
 like-me' attitude
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08

schools, the hospitals and the daily prac- tice. For it is obvious that of six men. all having practically the same command or the same scientific education and in- formation, one or two will stand out as pre-enlinently able to use these scientific facts and apply them for the benefit of humanity. There are, indeed, students who are natural healers;' something very different, however. from the kind of thing that ouackery promotes under that name. Not only that. but largo number of students have a capacity for the simpler facts of medicine that play their part in healing, even if they have not the inclination or the time to go in for the laboratory or other specialties of hospital or institutional life that de- mand particular training and longer periods of preparation As it is, if the war continues, the great need of utilizing the general practitioner for all sorts ot service from which he is now cut off by the detailed specialization which rules will be pressed home on every one
 The medical educators. however, natu- rally are not blind to the situation. and to some of them what is happening will be viewed as case of "I told you so" At all events, as all schools and col leges are looking to their methods with view of determining their practical re- lation to the output, it would seem as if the medical schools are in need of some genius who will plan for them system which will turn out more old-fashioned doctors and leave the necessary special ization to be carried on by relatively small groups of laboratory workers, while the doctors serve the community as a whole and along broad and general lines. applying the hospital and laboratory facts by the bedside, in the home and in the office as occasion calls for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-08

By Ethel Watts Mumford. of The vigi-
 lanteS. Bless the Seas with your myriad ships. America, my own! Call them forth to the longing seas, F'laun. their sails to the urging breeze, And bring the Hun to his begging knees In his cursed Danger Zone Set the sails of your Outward Bound. America, my own For sure as ye send o'er the outward
 track, Ye shall bring your strong sons homins
 back To hearths and homes that shall know
 no sack
 Of the Hun and his Danger Zone. Put out, put out, good seamen all! Good builders. ply your trade, Never for us the sable pail, And Liberty dead in the Council Hall. By Ircn and Blood shall the debt be paid, Thst we owe for the lie and the dastard
 raid. The tortured child and the ravished maid, And the Hun trail oyer all.