The Mena weekly star., 1918-02-07
| ABOUT ARKANSAS | PEOPLE and DOIhGS
 By Clio Harper, Special Little Rock Correspondent.

Little H0ck, Jan. 2o.-lt IS aiready being recognized by those posses sing any foresight that there must come a rehabilitation of the world, after the war, that will be more than commensurate with the era of destruction that has thrown the world into an orgy of blood and ruin these three years and half. One of the striking phases of this rebuilding process will undoubtedly will be the greater stress that is to be placed upon good roads and energy-co highways. Ar kansas will be among the leaders in this movement, for the decades of theorizing and resolving are is- suing in actual construction meas ured by millions of dollars.
 Great local as we'll as national |iimpetus will be given this moye- ment by the annual meeting of the annual Good Roads Association. which will meet in Little Rock on April i5~f9 This is the convention which Governor Brough was in strumental in bringing to Arkansas. when he attended the annual ses- sion in Birmingham last year. Gov. Brough is yice-president of the organization and Senator Bank head of Alabama is president. J. A. Rountree, of Birmingham, who has been making a tour of the state. in the secretary. Mir. Rountree wis., ited Little Rock, Fort Smith. Bonneville, Hot Springs, Hope. Tex arkana and several other points in the state, and found everywhere a most encouraging spirit of cooper atlon, not only in the work of the association, but of the Bankhead Highway Association.
 Gov. Brough will extend an invi- tation to the governors of all the states to attend the meeting of the association in April; Secretary of State Tom J. Terral will invite all the secretaries of state; State Au- ditor Hogan Oliver will invite ali the auditors of state; Commission CT John H. Page will invite all the commissioners of agriculture: Highway Commissioner w. B. Owens will invite all the highway commissioners. This should in- sure a very large and representa- tive attendance.
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 The propaganda heinz conducted by the New York World against the adoption of the Prohibition Amend ment is being resented by the press and people of the south, and the fact that 1t has swept the great west and made inroads upon the in- trenched liquor interests of the north and east proves that it is not wholly provincial in it's tendency. The world is openly charging that Democracy has been betrayed by the south and that Prohibition is new sectionalism that the south and west is seeking to impose upon the north and east.
 The yelled threat is made that If the south is determined to go ahead with this insensate policy then the southern Democrats will have again taken themselves out of the Democratic party and must abide by the consequences, whatev- CT these may be-"
 The World even raises the bogie of the fith and 18th amendments and adds that If the south is de- termined to have a centralized government that regulates the per- sonal habits of the American people 1t must accept centralized gov ernment that regulates negro fran chise and all that pertains thereto.
 In the face of history. the Worlds charge of southern domination o1 the present Congress" would be amusing if it were not a serious re- flecti0n of the attitude that seemh to be assumed by those who are thus making a last despairing effort to retain the power of the saloon distillery and brewery interests un- der the old spacious guise of per sonal liberty"
 | The time-wOrn threat of reduc- tion of representation of southern Democrats continues to be made by the World and it's followers, but il frightens no one. The Prohibition Amendment merely furnishes g pretext for hauling out the ole skeleton to leer it's bony jaws toward the people of the south.
 Prohibition. national as we'll as local, is inevitable. and the pulit- ger interests are deceiving them selves and doing the whole coun- try, once more strongly united ir the bonds of common purpose. ir- reparable injury by this bald at tempt to stir up sectionalism prej- udices and animosities.
 Can they not read the handwrit- | ing on the wall9
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