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The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1919-10-09
MONROE COUNTY CENSUS
TAKERS CALLED FOR.

The Director of the Census,
Hon. Sam L. Rogers, announces
that $4,000 enumerators will be
needed to take the next census.
The work begins on Jan. 2 and
will last about two weeks in
cities, and a month or more in
rural districts. Rates of pay will
vary, depending upon the locah-
ty and character of the district
to be canyassed. The average
pay per enumerator at the CEN
sus of 1910 was about $40. At
this coming census it will prob
ably be not less than $100.
active, intelligent, and re-
liable men and women, not less
than 16 years of age, are need
ed for this task" said Director
Rogers, "and in a sense, this is
a call for volunteers.
Lester l.. Gibson, Supervisor
of the Census for the End Dis
trict of Arkansas, which in
cludes the counties of Gle
bourne, Fulton, lizard, Indepen-
dence, Jackson, Lawrence, Mon
roe, Prairie, Sharp, Stone, Ran
dolph and White, states that he
will need about 200 enumera-
tors for this district. Applica-
tons or requests 4 for applica-
ton forms shold be sent to him
before October Is. His address
is Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. AS
a test to their fitfulness for the
work applicants will be requir-
ed to fill out a sample schedule
and will be duly notified OF the
time and place for this test. So
far as practicable the place Sc
lected will be one which is east
ly accessible.
The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1919-10-09
WILL YOU BE
AMONG THE FIRST 100?

Get this, friends! #t#E~H
Within next ten days Argus will subscrip-
ton statements all subscribers asking and all to
to Dec 81, 1920
Already number of my gilt edge prompt coming
in and voluntarily paying UP till that date want to who
will be hundred to comply with this request
send out statements and collect
that I'm that my readers but understood this
that there many kind hearted friends who appreciate
what doing enough to send in their subscrip
tions without waiting send the statements.
Come on and help me out NOW, please
The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1919-10-09
ORIGIN OF PHILLIPS
GO. NEGRO TROUBLE
Deliberate Plan of Murder. The
Uprising Planned for Oct. 6
Fortunately PrematureIy
Disclosed. Hundreds in
the Plan.

The Phillips County race
war of last week is now a
thing of the past. The trouble
is over and the regular order
of things is on in the Elaine
country.
"The present trouble with the
negroes in Phillips county is not
a race riot. 1t is a deliberately
planned insurrection of the ne
groes against the whites, direct
ed by an organization known as
The Progressive Farmers and
Household Union of America,
established for the purpose of
banding negroes together for
the killing of white people. This
union was started by Robert L.
Hill, negro 26 years of age of
Winchester, Ark, who saw in it
an opportunity of making easy
money. He had been farmer
all his life, but lately had been
posing as a private detective
doing work in this and foreign
countries
"He started his first union
work in April of this year. He
organized the Ratio Lodge in
May of this year. He chose
Ratio because his mother hap
pened to be living there. He told
the darkies that he was an
agent of the government, and
because the senators and repre-
sentatives at Washington were
white men and in sympathy
with the white men of the
South, it was impossible for the
negrOs to get their rights that
had been promised them for
service in the army, and so the
government had called into eX-
istence this organization, which
would be supported by the gov
ernment in defense of the ne
groes against the white people.
He told them that it was neces-
sary for all members of the
union to arm themselves in pre-
paration for the day when they
should be, called upon to attack
their white oppressors.
Extortion Practiced
"The slogan of the organiza-
Continued on Page A
The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1919-10-09
CITY MARSHAL
RESIGNS OFFICE
City Council Holds a Special
Meeting on Friday Night. A
Full Council in Session.
Ben Flora Elected
Cotton Weigher.

The first full membership
present at city council fol-
many months was on Friday
night last at the special meeting
called by the Mayor.
Aldermen Tim Shuts, VIM.
B. Folsom, Jas. Gum, ST., Benz.
EmmOns, A. C. Huddleston, Gus
Rusher, City Clerk McCreight,
and Mayor Greenlee were pres
ent.
The first thing up was the
resignation of City Marshal j.
! D. Rodgers and then came the
election of his successor in the
person of Night Officer j. w.
Haygood, who was instructed
to cline up" a night man. Mar
shall Haygood was sworn in.
The election of a City Cotton
Weigher came up and found
two applicants, J. D. Rodgers
and Ben Flora. Applications of
both men bore the signatures of
l. Scholem & Co., Goldman Co..
Gazzola Gro. Co., L. K. Brown
and Brinkley Mercantile Co.
a funny situation, with no ex-
,planation offered. Ben Flora
was elected. Aldermen Gum,
Emmons, Huddleston, Rusher,
and Mayor Greenlee voting for
him and Aldermen Shuts and
Folsom voting for Rodgers.
The Mayor instructed the
re-arrangement of the standing
Committee Chairmanships plac-
ing Benz. Emmons as Chairman
of the Finance and VIM. B. Fol-
som ofthe. Improvement Com
mittees.
The council then adjourned.
The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1919-10-09
MONROE COUNTY
BAPTISTS CALLED
Great National Drive for rs
Million Dollars Now Being
Put Over. Monroe Coun-
ty's Quota is $4,000

The Baptists of the South are
hard at it pushing their cam
paign for seventy-five million
dollars for Missions. This cam
paign is being actively carried
on in IL Southern states and u
part of the District of Columbia.
This section has in it more than
three million white Baptists.
This menas that in order to
raise the planned amount of
seventy-five million dollars in
five years, the time allotted for
raising this amount, that each
Baptist must give $500 per
year for twenty-five years. The
seventy-five million dollars is
to be raised exclusive of current
expenses of the local churches.
Arkansas quota Of this
amount is three million two,
hundred thousand dollars and
Monroe county's quota is ten
thousand dollars. There are the
following Baptist churches in
Monroe county: Holly Grove.
Clarendon, Blackton, Bethle-
hem, Park Grove, Cornith, Phil
adelphia and Brinkley. This is a
great opportunity for the Bap--
lists of Monroe county to do a.
work that will put them on rec.
ord for doing things.
Rev. Roswell Davis, pastor of
the local church here, is the
County Organizer and Publicity
Director for this county. He
has been making a canvass of
the county and reports the work
as making some progress.
October is designated by the
campaign forces as Enlistment
Month, and November will be
Stewardship Month with Victor
Week coming from November
30th to December 7th.
These workers have been do
ing quite an extensive lot of
Publicity work, in the way Of
newspaper advertising, posters
and motion picture display.
Surely we are coming to new
day in religious activity when
people of various religious
creeds have learned to think
and do in large figures and
facts.
The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1919-10-09
SOMETHING NEW
COMES TO BRINKLEY
The Celebrated Garden Court
Perfume Made of 81 Ingre-
dents, and the Garden
Line of Toilet Articles
Now in Brinkley.

This has just been received
by McCreight's Pharmacy, who
are very fortunate in getting
the entire line of six articles for
the toilet use. The perfume has
thirty-two ingredients to form a
multi-blend of flower odors. So
balanced that none predomi-
mates so fascinating in it's dis
tinctive character as to be al
most irresistible. It is making
friends at $3.50 the ounce. 1t
lends it's charm to the five
other Garden Court products.
Second the Double Combina-
ton Cream which is all creams
in one, skin food, vanishing
massage and tonic. People al
vays said it "cOuld be done" "
But it is done, and now awaits
your Judgement. Next comes
the Talcum, which has a
smoothness that is almost in
creditable-the finest of mist
and all the facination of the
Garden Court Perfume. No
other at even twice the price
can compete. If every woman
could know how Garden Court
Face Powder can add to the
charm of her complexion, how
its delicate haze covers the inn
perfections and let's beauty
show throug, how it stays un-
I'll she washes it off. Meanwhile
everyone thinking its. her natur-
al complexion. Would mot sur
prise us to see this become the
eading face powder. It's a Won
der at any price, it sells for soc.
sYes Garden Court Cold
Cream is better than my long
Time favorite." "The cream is
better and the perfume, oh so
much finerw This is what some
n our feminine customers say
Of it. Our assurance that this,
IKE any other Garden Court
reparation, is indeed past COM
etltlon. The unique jar adds to
S attractions and is sold at
he remarkable low price of soc
Now last but not least comes
Pc Garden Court Toilet Water,
is SO concentrated that you
lght think it an extract. 1t is
course Identical with the Car
The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1919-10-09

den Coourt Extract except in
concentration. You will wonder
how we can sell it for $500 a
bottle.
Garden Court Products now
await you at McCreight's Phar-
macy.
The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1919-10-09
War Booms New York.

New York came out Of the world
war with immensely increased pres
aEc as a port, a manufacturing city,
and financial center. y
The Brinkley argus. (Brinkley, Ark.) 1883-current, 1919-10-09
kind-Heartsd Farmers.

One day little city girl came -
the farm, and when she saw wind
iaiI she said: ooh, see how good ilsc
farmers are to the pigs; they have
electric fans to keep them cool"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08
BoIsheviki Capture
More Russian Towns

London, Aug IA war office
communication issued tonight adj
mits the bolsheviki hold the town Of
Omega, on the north Russian front,
west of Archangel, strongly.
In southern Russia the bolsheviki
have recaptured Vladimirouka, but
they are rapidly retreating north Of
Kamyshin. The bolsheviki claim to
have occupied Aleshiki, five miles
cast of Kherson, but it is believed
the town is still in the hands of the
volunteers.
A bolshevik submarine has been
sunk in the Baltic sea by the Brit
ish torpedo boat destroyers Valor-
Gus and Vancouver, according to an
official statement issued by the ad-
miralty this evening.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08
Will Probe High Cost
Of Living in Nebraska
CONTINUED From Page One.)

an abnormal price criminal. |
hope the governor goes the limit. "
City Crippled, Says Mayor.
Mayor Smith voices the same
sentiment.
"The city" he said, "is crippled
for the reason that the only law
under which profiteers can be prose-
cuted, is that which pertains to con-
spiracy to raise prices artifiCially.
Unless it could be proved that there
is combination or conspiracy
among individuals artificially to
force upward the price of foods,
rents, or whatever the matter may
be, it was useless to press the case"
At the Federal building James H.
DAILY, chief of local Department of
Justice, held a conference Thurs
day with Assistant United States
Attorney Peterson concerning the
program to be adopted locally in
the hunt for hoarders and profiteers.
The department is prepared to
wage at once an intensive campaign
through the city and county.
THE entire machinery of the gov
eminent has been thrown into this
thing" Attorney Peterson said. eve
are out for a finish fight and only
hope that everyone who has a
shred of evidence against profiteer-
ing will come to this office with it.
We are prepared to punish as we'll
as vestigate."
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08
Rapid Easing Of H. C. Of L.
Looked for in Middle West;
Will Prosecute Pr0fiteers
Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri Officers Take Steps to
Bring Down the Cost of Food, and Are Hopeful
Their Efforts Will Be Crowned With Success

they are preparing to handle the
matter at once.
In Omaha, the city commission
authorized the expenditure of $l0,-
600 in buying food supplies to be re-
sold at cost to the public. At a
meeting of the commission, a sug-
gestion was made by two commits
sioners to order an investigation to
learn if prices were too high. The
mayor shouted, mot on your life.
l demand action now. Help the
people first, then investigate"
The mert-Hincke Milling COM
pany of Kansas City, with branches
in several states, has made reduc-
ton of 90 cents in the wholesale
price of flour, and they predict an
other drop of that amount. The
Southwestern Milling CO. of Kansas
City has dropped 40 cents. Other
mills either made slight decreases
in their wholesale prices. or else
sat tight" awaiting action.
Drop Won't Affect Bread.
On the other hand. the drop in
flour prices will have no effect on
the retail price of bread, according
to several Kansas City bakers. The
bakeries have a 60-day supply of
flour on hand. and until that is
used, no drop will be made in the
retail price.
Hogs on all markets west of Chi
cago have dropped, and will con-
tlnue to drop. Other cattle will
drop, because of the food agitation,
it is said.
A serious shortage of sugar, due
to several causes, faces this section
of the country, according to Kansas
City jobbers. The H. D. Lee Mer-
camille company, with branches at
Saline, Omaha and other cities, is
entirely out of sugar, according to
E. E. Euston.
Freight congestion, not only in
Kansas City but in other places, is
given as one of the contributing
reasons for the shortage. The yards
are congested with incoming and
outgoing freight and the condition
has been aggravated by the strike of
shopmen.
According to John c. Lester of
the Ridenour-Baker Co. the sugar
rehneries are unable to refine sugar
fast enough to fill orders.
An increase in sugar is predicted
by Mr.. Euston. who says:
THE price may 20 to IS cents
before the return to normal condi-
tons. We expect to pay SIS bag
for what we buy in the near future"
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08
No Railroad Embargoes
Are Issued in CHI; ?ago

Chicago, Aug. NO railroad en-
bargoes have been issued in Chi
cago as a result of the shipments
strike; 756 cars of live stock, the
approximate daily supply, arrived,
and all trains were running.
Officials of the Chicago district
council of the Federated Railway
Shopmen's union, who called the
strike, asserted that about 100000
men were on strike and would con-
tinue on strike until their demands
were granted.
As far as the grain crop was con
cerned. one railroad official said that
100000 bushels already had
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08

just received from the president
relative to the wage matter. 1t is
obvious that it is of the highest
importance not only in the interest
of the public but in the interest OF
the employees themselves that they
shall Immediately return to work.
The situation having been clarified
by the definite indication that con-
gress does not wish to take action
in the premises. the railroad admin
istration stands ready to take up the
wage question on its merits with
the duly accredited international of
ficers and their authorized commit
tee as soon as the employees return
to work" s,
The effect of the presidents de-
cision, it was believed, would be to
put sudden end to sporadic strikes
throughout the country, denounced
as illegal by union officials, but in
volving perhaps $4,000 men. 1t was
taken for granted also that the
menace of a general strike to compel
higher wages to meet increased liv-
ile SoStS llhCWlSC was lClllcN>u ~
the presidents action.
If Director General Hines orders
an increase in wages, since the rail-
road administration now is operat-
ing at loss, either an advance IN
rates or congressional appropria-
ton will be necessary to provide the
money. The ID principal railroad
unions in a joint communicat ton to-
the director general have suggested
the latter.
Asked rs Per Cent Increase.
Wage demands were submitted by
the 100000 shopmen last February,
but other pressing matters before
the board of wages and working
conditions affecting employees who
had not previously received con-
sideration delayed a decision until
July 10, and then the boaxd divided
three holding that the increases
should not be granted and three
holding that additional pay was
justified
The amount asked was Is per
cent. Conferences between the
officers and the director
general were arranged, but even be-
fore they could be held, men began
to 60 on strike, which led the presi-
dent to devote a considerable por-
ton of his letter to condemning
their hasty action which violated
all agreements.
Other unions also put in demands
for more pay, with the exception of
the engineers, who said they pre-
Ierred a reduction in the cost of
living.
Thre was no indication tonight
IS to how Mr.. Hines would proceed
to the settlement of the wage de-
nands. In view of the wage boards
previous consideration of the ques-
ion, it was believed that a new
tribunal would be constituted for
he purpose, with equal representa-
ion for labor, the railroads and the
public.
Plumb Issues Warning.
Warning that the laboring man
las reached that point where his &C
ivlties may cease because he can
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08
5000 Denver Shopmen
Vote to Leave Work

Denver, Aug. Six thousand
railroad shopmen in Denver will
strike at 10 o'clock Friday morning,
union officials announced today, fol-
lowing referendum vote of railway
machinists to strike. Ninety-six per
cent of the machinists, who number
1000. voted to strike tomorrow
Leaders of other unions persuaded
the machinists Wednesday to defer
the walkout until Friday, that a ret
erendum vote among other railroad
crafts might be taken.
Union leaders said today that in
their opinion there was no question
but all shopmen here would walk
out Friday. They declared the
strike of machinists alone would tie
up railway shops here.
Roads that will be affected are the
Denver &. Rio Grande. Union Pa
cihc, Motfatt, Colorado & Southern
and the Burlington lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08
PROMISE STRIKE
UNLESS MILITIA
IS WITHDRAWN
Representatives of AZ Union
Locals Of Chicago Stock
Yards Employees Issue
UItimatum.
(By the Associated Press.)

Chicago. Aug. Misrepresentation
of AZ locals of stock yards employees
voted Thursday night for general
strike Friday unless militia, police.
men and deputy sheriffs are with
drawn from the yards. More than
100000 persons are employed in the
stock yards.
A strike was virtually begun to-
day when hundreds of white men
quit their work after about 5000 OF
the $4,000 negro workers returned
to work under troop protection, fol-
lowing virtual exile of more than
week due to the race riots. Union
men declared their objections based
on the presence of the guards, and
that while they held no prejudice
against the negro's color, the ma
jority of the negroes were non
union. While union men said about
5000 men had walked out, packing
house officials placed the number at
about $50
Previous to the strike vote OF the
local representatives, officials of the
stock yards labor council held a.
conference with Judge HlsnuleI.
federal arbitrator in the stock yard
controversies. 1t is known that the
negro situation was discussed and
it is believed that the judges aid
in having the guards withdrawn was
sought
While the grand jury continued
to hear evidence in the riot cases
and voted indictments against q
more negroes, making total of 81
negroes indicted. thus far, there was
little evidence Of race feeling in the
riot zones. Two Mexicans were in
jured in the stock yards neighbor-
hood, both supposedly mistaken for
negroes.
A negro who was beaten during
the rioting, died Thursday, making
a total of IS dead
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08

With four states already taking
| steps for the prosecution of profit.
GERS in food products, and other
states expected to follow shortly,
rapid reduction in the high cost OF
living is looked for in the middle
west Immediately
Governor McKelvie of Nebraska
! has asked the state officials what
steps should be taken and will con-
fer with the secretary of state and
other officials next Friday. Gov.
Henry j. Allen of Kansas and At
torney General H. ]. Hopkins have
conferred and have decided to make
prosecutions under the anti-proht-
eering law, passed by the last Kan
sas legislature.
Iowa county attorneys will confer
at Des MONIES with Gov w. l..
Harding on the question of prosecu-
ton of profiteers, while in Oklaho-
ma City Gov. B. A. Robertson will
meet Oklahoma county attorneys:
Other steps taken by state off,
Gals include:
Attorney General F. w. McAles-
ter of Missouri has asked Clifford L.
Hilton, attorney general OF Mime
sofa and president of the Attorney
Generals association, to make the
high cost of living matter tor
special consideration of the state
attorneys at their regular meeting
in Boston, September 2.
A sweeping investigation of the
costs of meats and other foods has
been ordered by the Oklahoma State
Board of Agriculture. President J.
A. Whitehurst has ordered the state
marketing commission to conduct
the probe. Governor Robertson has
indicated a willingness to call
special session of the legislature to
take necessary steps in prosecuting
prohteers.
Combinations Blamed.
While the Nebraska governor is
said to hold that prosecution is a
matter of federal, rather than state,
action, he has taken steps to stop
prohteering within the state. He
says:
"Prohteering is largely the resul,
of combinations and agreements
made in connection with interstate
commerce, and these are entirely
beyond the control Of state authori-
ties"
Mayor James Cowgirl of Kansas
City has placed the distribution of
the army surplus food in the hands
of the Loyal Order of Moose, and
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08
20 Drown in Collision
Off Island of St. Pierre

Halifax. Aug. Twenty persons
are believed to have lost their lives
when the schooner Galia was sunk
last night in collision with the
British steamer War Witch. The
schooner is reported to have carried
crew Of at least IS and possibly
a dozen passengers, and only seven
survivors are named in wireless
messages from the steamer. The
collision occurred close to St Pierre
and is supposed to have been caused
BY the heavy fog.
The War Witch was bound for
North Sydney from Wabana, N, F.,
while the Gallia was on it's way to
st. Pierre from France. News of
the catastrophe reached here in
wireless messages to the agents of
the War Witch.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-08

not much longer stand the diminish
ing return for his work." was ex-
pressed today by Glenn E. Plumb,
counsel for railway brotherhoods. in
urging enactment by congress OF a
bill drawn by him for public owner
ship of railroads.
This gloomy view of conditions
was given by Mr.. Plumb near the
close of five-hour appearance on
the witness stand, during which he
charged systematic plundering OF
the transportation highways Of the
country, and denied that he. had
come forward with the Plumb plan
for solving railway evils at this time
in order to link it up with the high
cost of living, on which the nations
attention has turned. r
Mr.. Plumb apparently was cog
infant of the rumorS sweeping
through the capital ,that he had
picked an unusually propitious time
for presenting his bill, which organ
lied labor has claimed will help put
down the living cost through reduc-
ton of freight rates and elimina-
ton of private capital from every
transportation company in the
United States Except for the invi-
tation from Chairman Esch of the
house interstate commerce commit
tee conducting hearings on all plans
for railroad control, the Plumb plan,
he said, would not have seen the
light Of day uuail early fall.
Radical Change Wanted,
But it was while speaking through
the country in its behalf. the witness
declared. that he found all over
whelming sentiment for radical
change from the old system OF
railroad control. There was no
doubt, he said, of great industrial
unrest, due to the mounting cost of
living. Pressed for all explanation
of his statement that he would not
be surprised to see anything happen,
the witness said this did not mean
hating of business activities. great
of industry or a cata-
the feeling in the minds
of millions of workers was that
something had to be done quickly in
their behalf.
THE feeling of unrest" he de-
clared with earnestness, is aoentu-
ated by this ever-rising cost of liv-
ing, and the necessity of finding
some way to meet it."