The courier-index., 1918-05-17

has been making a vigorous cam l paign. MT. Jacoway is now on thu
 ground, and evidences of his cam
 paign are appearing in the news paper advertisements.
 Parenthetically, the candidates fol office are recognizing as never be ! fore the value of the newspapers as an effective medium for reaching the people.
 Somebody-we have forgotten his
 name for the moment-annOunced against s. M. Taylor in the Sixth, and Tillman Parks is opposing w. s. Goodwin in the Seventh
 There are hosts of district and county candidates all over the state. In some of these there is a great local interest being aroused, as in the contests for prosecuting attorney and sheriff and some other county offices in Pulaski county. There are sixteen candidates here for represen- tative, with four to be elected, and they are smelling the woods with all the vigor possible. Prairie county is entitled to the medal, it having no candidate at all for representative nobody seemed to want the office.
 A Little Rock boy, Will Skidmore. son of a former music dealer and teacher, has come to the front as one of the most successful writers In laborator, Benton Tunnah, Jr., who wrote the words, borrowed S100 to publish their first song. and now their songs sell for thousands.
 This is of course a private busi- ness matter, but. local rumor has 1t that some of their better songs, such as Pray for the Lights to Go Out" Somebody Done me Wrong" and Tt Takes Long, Tall, Brown Skin Gal to Make a Preacher Lay His Bible Down." have brought them from $5.0vO to $10.000 each, and have made the publishers $1O0,OOO or more. Some of these songs are be- ing sung by minstrels and vaudeville artists all over the country, and can be heard on the photograph records.
 It is only another proof of the fact that one can never tell what notables are developing among the boys and girls among us.
 John Gould Fletcher, who gradu- ated from the Little Rock high school a few years ago, is now liv- ing in London, and is recognized as the leader in the new school or poetry. Herbert Hoover, who Is con- trolling the food administration Tn America, used to carry cham with Prof. Banner in his geological sur yeys of Arkansas Cary Gray one of the great railroad executives of the country, is son of former superintendent of the school for the blind. and is native of Dallas county. Sam w. Reyburn, former Little Rock banker, who began his career by selling fruit to passengers on the train at Butterfield,> In Hot Springs county. as boy, is now al the head of the Associated Dry Goods Corporation of New York at a salary that is said to be counted in high digits of five places.
 While the country is responding in every other way to the calls TOT the support of the army, they are not neglecting the intellectual. A call was made for the donation or books for the cantonment libraries. Good books exercise a great hilu' ence over the morale of the troops. Donations have been made through out the country, and now the hprary at Camp Pike contains about 3O'ooO volumes.
 The people of Arkansas, in com mon with those throughout the Unit ed states, are proving themselves most amenahle to control. The con trol that is being exercised over a~