The Little River news., 1918-10-12
SOME OTHERS AR LAGGING PAIN. FULLY, HOWEVER, SAYS
 HEMINGWAY.
PULASKI IS OVER TH 2 TOP
State Fortunate in Havina It's cuo.o1 increased Only 50 Per Cent ln- stead of 12o Fer Cent, as
 Some Were.

peace move should be a stimulant in. stead of being a deterrent, as the kaiser hoped, to the Fourth Liberty Loan, declared w. L. Hemingway. state chairman, upcn his return from St. Louis the first of the week.
 Germany sought to call the prcsi. dents hand in the middle of the loan campaign" said MT. Hemingway, but got called in short order. The presi. dent,- like the nation, will condu.: nc negotiations, binding or otherwise. With ruler such as the kaiser, for he knows that nothing is binding with the kaiser when the kaiser sees fit to ignore sle agreement
 "Tho only grounds upon which we can discuss peace with the Huns IS when the German Kaiser says he is defeated and wants to surrender. not to barter. We are having no trade With Germany controlled by the Kais er,- Hindcnburg and such. and want none."
 The war, MT. Hemingway believes, will be fought with a new vigor by the Allies troops as result of the kali ser's crude attempt to avert surrender. But with the Germans backs to the wall, it is going to be a struggle to down them completely. Unless they are downed, however, there will be a recurrence of the present world con- q qCyy0 ivycf ~,.e. can reconstruct his battered armies.
 Fifteen counties of Arkansas, MT. Hemingway said. had passed their quotas Monday, among them Pulas:I County and Little Rock. Several ol these counties went lover the top" with q rush.
 Honor Roll of Fifteen.
 The counties over the top are: North half of Arkansas, Bradley. Cross, west half of Clay. Desha, Lawrence, Greene, Lafayette, Lee, fIonroe, St. Francis, Saline, Baxter, Phillips and Pulaski.
 Some other counties, MT. fleming
 
 returns were discouraging. Many of them, however, this week began in- tensive campaigns which promised to put them over the top by the last of this week.
 Arkansas should meet it's $24,cO0,- 900 quota easily" said MT. fleming way.
 . While the quota for this State was about 50 per cent greater than its quota in the third loan. what about Missouri, with no per cent increase? What about Illinois with a 120 per cent increase? What about Tennessee with a 100 per cent increase?
 Little Rock Over the Top.
 Little Rock and Pulaski County. with more than one-sixth of the entire States quota, went lover the top" in just one week. Two-thirds of the Suota was raised on the tive volunteer days, and last Saturday night Liberty Loan headquarters announced that $4,- 2SO, 900 had been subscribed. The quota was $4,24O,O00. Work here is contin- uing, to reach a big oversubscription.
 After the volunteers came forward, the solicitors started out They had cards upon which quotas for every citizen had been printed, and when a citizen failed to meet his subscription, there had to be a lot of explaining and proving done.
 Every citizen was made to under stand that it was his duty to do his share.
 There has been a reaction from the cotton price fixing agitation and cot ton again is on the upward trend, and this, MT. Hemingway believes, will aid materially in. bringing up some of the backward counties.
 Eastern Arkansas showed to the front in the first week of the cam paign, a majority of the counties go- ing over the top being located in the eastern part of the State.
 To Paint Him Yellow.
 Getting back, to Pulaski County. there are several residents of the Cap ital City who have not come up to their quotas, or who have refused to sub scribe at all One is a pawnbroker, reputed to Dc one of the wealthiest men in Little Rock. He was assessed $50,00O. He offered to subscribe $15,000, but the subscription was refused. Then he went to bank which had not been notified of the assessment and sub scribed $10,000. This has been ord cred returned by the local organiza- tion
 Before long. the big blackboard at Capitol avenue and Main streets is go- ing to bear only one mans name. It will be that of the pawnbrollcr, and a orOupd if will ba a nice Dri31t frame