Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-24

Next ueSu"N VIII be oid clothes day in Pine Bluff.
 On that day members of thc Ra- ItarE club, acting at the request of the Red Cross chapter, will collect old Hclotles to be sent to the destitute of France and Belgium.
 Tbe collection is in charge of d committee headed by D. stanley Dreyfus, and automobiles will start from the courthouse a o'clock Tuesday morning for q thoro caa- iN9sS of the city.
 u is expected that several hundred suits of clothing, and two OF three l lhousand dresses for women and i children in addition to coats and ic!aaks. will be contributed for the benefit Of the unfortunates who are being looked after by the Red Cross society.
 Announcemant of the plans for the collection Of old clothing by the Ro- tarians was made at the meeting of the Rotary club at the Hotel Pines yesterday by stanley Dreyfus. The botarians volunteered some weeks ago for this work. Rev. H. A Stow ] ell, president of the local Red Cross branch, presenting the request on be half of the national society.
 Seven Hundred Gardeners
 Another piece of war work foster ed by the Rotarians which is pro gressins satisfactorily is the cuItiva- ton by children of war gardens R Thurman }.outhan. head of the clubs garden contest committee, reported that nearly 7G0 children had enroll ed, and are competing for the cash prizes offered by the club.
 The members of the National FId torial association will spend seven hours in Pine Bluff on June 10. ac cording to letter received from Frank Henderson, chairman of the Arkansas association's committee on entertainment and tour of the nation al bond, by George H. Adams, chair man of the Rotary committee. The editors will be taken to a cotton com press and the oak flooring factory No other industries will be visited because it is the desire of the state committee to avoid duplication and some other Pine Bluffs industries are similar to those the writers will in spect in other towns of the state
 
 at the Country club also will be giv- en the visitors, who will represent newspapers and periodicals published in all parts of the United States.This visit of the nations editors to Ark ansas is regarded as the greatest opportunity the state has ever had for obtaining. favorable pub licity, and it is estimated that the ad- yertising Arkansas will obtain could not he purchased for $l,00t000. Pine Bluff will benefit to the extent that it's advantages and resources are properly brought to theN attention of the editors.
 Will Aid Taxpayers.
 Meyer Solmson, deputy collector of internal revenue. now in charge of the office here, explained that his of flee Willcollect income, excess and special war and excise taxes, due by persons and corporations in the coun- ties of Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant. and that he will ever be ready to give assistance in preparing returns and information concerning the tax laws.
 Warren M. Taylor, manager of the Traffic bureau recently returned from Kansas City, told of the plans being made there for the entertain ment of the 5000 to 10000 Rotarians expected at the international con ventiOn in June; Howell Wastbrook discussed the flour situation, develop ing from Jefferscn's patriotic Under to the government of all wheat flour in the country for the use of the French and Belgians.
 In the absence of IT. Kemp Toney, president, attending federal court in little Rock, and Sam B. Russell, vice president, whose baby was i'll, Sol Klarberg, chairman of the entertain ment committee. was in charge of the program. Features of the meeting was the presentation of a badge to N. CUT THIS OUT-IT IS
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