The Springdale news., 1919-02-28
sT,TE CAPITOL NEWS
By Clio Harper.

hN ...,, Rock, Feb 24.-Who will v D De L'e'is st President pro-tem or . 'he the next That is the question just sew ss"'ss agitating the Upper House '' '"' General Assembly. ;nd;c.tions senao@i e@ inc younger members Of the the one ol 'ne ,rs to be in the lead, his 1Upg, e,iands claiming for nm S0",eth.rs othars frlenes s;f+een pledged votes. Others like lno o mt averse to accepting the sinor who @ts are Senators Bone, Townsend ssa1 honGr Montgomery. It is probable that ana 1ae+ion I will be quickly concluded the arosably s,btg not more than one ballot be- ing pip' required to settle 1t. 1t. roa,,o.+s . ing i'a aeeonnt of the many requests on an Gov Brough, who has be- mace . VI National figure, for speera"s conc campaigns outside the state, the ana cam not so empty as it has been n'aoi oma previous administrations. III Moncrief has been called uP- oeii'''N. ,..o1 fines to act as Governor, OH president Harry L. Ponder has anu ,a down the executive char tor neiu 1 days during the session of the Legislature. .f .ha .,o.,oar oot;vp and more progressive of nio' ,orbers.. general favorite, and ''. aa of admitted and recognized ,n;., He has had considerable
 @D aronce in Washington in public life. l.. I +ho losses of livestock on rail .eaa r;gbts-of-way, which the Council # National Defense is backing, IS onotber Arkansas idea, said Wallace Towrsend director of the Arkansas co,ncil of Defense Early last snr;ne while the Council was dis cnssing how 1t would assist in food . conservation, J. Smith Speed of Little pock member of the Council, called attention to the fact that large quantity of meat was being wasted by stock being killed on railroads. A stock conservation committee was inn mediatey appointed and a campaign to reduce the losses was started by the Council.
 "Thousands of letters were written to stock owners urging them to do all in their power to keep their stock off the rights-of- The rail- roads were called upon to cooperate by improving their fences and cattle guards and instructing engineers to exercise the greatest care not to strike stock that happens to wander upon the tracks.
 Mr. Townsend further said that when this campaign came to the at tention of the National Council in Washington, 1t immediately took up the idea, passed it on to all other state councils, and made 1t national.
 At the urgent request of the Nation al Council. the State Council is still pursuing the campaign vigorously. Although the War is over. America must still conserve food if t is to keep the pledge to ship 20,000.O0o tons of food to Europe this year. The stock owners of Arkansas can have great part in this conservation movement if they will use every eff fort to keep their stock off the tracks
 The response on the part of the stock owners and railroads has been most gratifying The State Council has on file thousands of signed pledges from stock oWne~e Fl over the state who agree to assist in this work On their part, the railroads have repaired and built fences and eatte-guards and in addition to call hg upon their section foremen and track workers, have, in some instances employed watchmen to drive cattle oil the tracks inside of town limits. the work has been eminentiy satis- factory, and the campaign will be can tinued.
 The Little Rock street building and repalr fund has been given d big Doost last week by the passage of a "'' through both Houses to abolish ifee labor on the roads of the country '"" substitute an annual cash pav- en' oi s4, to be paid into the road .und. Fifty per cent of the amount
 pe collected in Little Rock will be es'u ih'o the street fund and be used ssSiuSlvely in the building and repair s,, a streets This will mean about vi4'ooo year, whereas at present no more than sS,OoO, a year is being pen' I Little Rock has seven hun- m mics of improved streets. but s a.any Of them are in great need of ae epair' It is predicted that other ,s 1'.ies .' Will adopt the Pulaski coun- ,bo suggestion has been made that lq,o l Ae's of the General Assembly of Tba must be printed in two volumes int mors ors soluminous and are growing