Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-14

TOM BL0DGETT SAYS
 KILL PINE BLUFF.

For six years I have lived with in long range gun shot of Pine Bluff and for 15 months 1 have been a citizen of this Pineless Bluffless city. l It is the best town for oppor tunities I have lived in during the past 80 years. It has the great est bunch of live wire human be- ings in it I have ever seen, so great are the possibilities of a. greater Pine Bluff that it is dan gerOus.
 Just now when 1900 men are entering into a super-campaign for greater Pine Bluff, it is time to throw off all enthusiasm and look the cold naked facts level iii the face
 The almighty evidently called a council of his creation assistants in the dim light of creations early morn on the banks of the Arkan- sas and said "Let us finish this jcb by master touch of divine genius. Let us, on thi spot, work out a combination of fertile valleys and hills from which men with brains and punch, few thou sand years from now can make the center of great common wealth." "When the foundations of civilization are heaving, a gen. eration of master patriots will rise from this spot to stem the tide of bolshevism, anarchy and tyranny" The vote was unanimous and the great secret of the Gods was filed in the archieves of eternities safe ty vaults.
 On Noverber 1, 1919, the eter- nal recorder brought out the rec, ord that had been filed away many thousand years and called tha council together to see what men had done with the great fertile domain on the banks of the Ar kansas.
 A wireless came flashing thru the other day that bunch of men dwelling on this fertile spot had a hunch of the possibilities of the immediate future, with visions of sky scrapers, belching smoke stacks, Hitting interurban trains, humming factories, net works of railroads with high powered equip ment. great school buildings, parks and libraries, churches and thea tres.
 The Eternal council looked at r the wreckage of a shattered ci- vllization scattered on the shores of time, and the angry seas of human life boiling like great caldron, and listened to the hissing serpents of anarchy uncoiling damnaticn and destruction.
 "This Pine Bluff bunch can stem the tide if they get into the game, with the high charged bat teries of human endeavor hooked onto the great dynamos of the
 supernatural" That Greater Chamber of Commerce gang can drive down a cornerstone that all hell cannot budge if they set their
 heads to do it."
 The time has come when we . must cut out all this bunc about
 a Greater Pine Bluff or the wild
 fire of prosperity will take the
 Arkansas valley and sweep over
 the continent.
 Let's go back into our shells and
 put the brakes on and count our
 own pennies rather than allow mil
 lions to come to the community
 It will ruin the town to cut out
 factional strife and there won't be
 any fun in living, nothing to fuss
 over and it would be monotonous
 to have everybody happy and prosperous.
 If our man is not elected to the Chamber of Commerce let's stick cur thumb in our mouth and pout and kick out of the traces and
 let the community go to the dev- il. We can dam up the streams of progress with greed and per scnal selfishness so that it will take posterity hundred years to dynamite the debris out of the channels of prosperity.
 If we don't look out the dreams of the Gods will come true ana we will have the greatest city in the Arkansas valley. Brother knockers get together, work like thunder or our cause is lost and a great sun burst of happiness ano prosperity will break in on ou1 haunts of darkness and destruc- tion.
 The best and quickest. way to kill Pine Bluff is to throw fits and tear up things in general anc quit unless our particular favor. ! ties ride in the saddle.
 If we should stick together now and set pace for patriotism we might lead the way to industria, peace in America and save the na. tion from going to hell, and how guilty we would feel if we hac done so glorious deed as to save cur civilization.