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The Springdale news., 1919-02-28
JOHNSON

Hugh Liehlyter visited in Rogers last Sunday.
 Denzil Reese of Washburn. Mo, wis tied here Saturday and Sunday.
 Dick Webb moved from Stony Point to John Late's farm, north of John son
 Sunday was an ideal day for ko- dak work, and "snap-shooters were very numerous.
 MT and Mrs. Dick Crum of Heave- ner, Okla, are sojourning with John son relatives this week.
 Rev. Chandler preached here Sun day 4 Sanders of Springdale ac- eompanied him to Johnson.
 Jesse Luper and Eldon Maxey left recently for Okmulgee, Okla, where they will work in the oil fields.
 The Little Rock company of pros pectors are drilling over on the Me Guire land south of Johnson.
 Frank Johnson is arranging to re- turn next week to Kansas City where he will complete his course in an au- to school.
 Farmers are complaining of the freakish February weather which is delaying oat sowing by sending so many gales of rain and snow over the Ozark region.
 Mr. and Mrs. A Y. Boswell of Tul- Sd, Okla, have been visiting relatives in this vicinity for several days. They are on their way home from a visit in Florida.
 The old hens have been on a strike for months but are losing out since poultry prices have advanced, as the house wives are marketing large num- bers of them now.
 |. The bad weather Saturday kept a large crowd from attending the pie supper that night. but the road working fund realized nearly sixty dollars from the auction of pies.
 Mr and Mrs Chas. w. Thompson were down from Springdale Sunday looking as if they wanted to move back to Johnson. Charley was oui local postmaster for several years. Will Bennett and N Y. Hanks art doing the carpenter work on Johf Boswell's new tenant house which John is hurrying to completion before the coming of the boom which is bill cd for Johnson.
 Dudley Pearce is seriously i'll witt pneumonia at his home near Purdy Mo. Mr Pearee was our merchant and postmaster for number oi years and his many friends here vii regret to hear of his illness.
 Paul Settle returned home recently from long period of service witf Uncle Sam in various army camps Pauls command was on the Atlantic and was recalled by wireless wher the peace armistice put a stop t histl;ties.
 II. O Davis has been clearing q lot of old apple trees out of his farm They were part of the hill field or chard" which was once the pride ol it's owner. Dr. John Keeaey who de parted over the long long trail some years ago.
 D. E. Richer boarded the train hero Monday for Gravett, Ark. where ht goes to attend meeting of Bentor County fruit growers Mr Eicher is hustler and is now working witt the Agricultural Extension Division of the University of Arkansas.
 The Fruitmen's Union expect 2 fine crop of berries this spring, anC sho following parties are being en gagged to do the shipping work Sales manager, John E. Jones; Sales see getary. Frank D. Giles; Inspector, Y E. Wikinson Car loader. Witt Max ey; Crate salesman, S A. Luper.
 Mulkeepmo
The Springdale news., 1919-02-28
Accuracy Required.
INCOME TAX IS
 TRULY POPULAR

< "The payment of Income taxes ], | takes on a new significance , which should he understood by 4 every citizen. The taxation sys- < tem of this country is truly pop alar. of the people by the peo- :, | pie and fer the people Every citizen is liable 10 tax, and the l, amount If the tax is graduated | according to the success and for < tune attained by each individual , in availing himself of the oppor- tunities created and preserved + by our free institutions. The t method and degree Of the tax is < determined hy no favored class, < hut by the representative of the < people The proceeds of the tax t shoHid be regaraed as q national investment "-Eaniel C. Roper, < Commissioner of Internal Reve- < nue.
The Springdale news., 1919-02-28

to one volume each, 1884 pages for 1913, and 1546 pages for 1915. But in 1917 a sixty-day session, two vol umes were again necessary to prevent the publication of book that would be too bulky. However, the acts were not classified this time, but printed serially in two volumes, az gregating 2334 pages. There was total of 481 acts in 1917. Already this session, 104 acts have been ap- proved, and there are hundreds more on the way. There will be at least 800 acts this session, and a majority of them, large majority, consists of local and special acts for road, school and stock districts Never before has there been such a flood of bills to organize road improvement dis tricts, and all of them are long. It is predicted that the Acts this session will cover 5000 pages. Two books will be required, and it has been suggested that all of the special road bills be printed in one volume, and they will make as many printed pages as all the others. The suggestion has met with favor on the part of many members. It is pointed out that if the road acts were printed in one book, those not interested in that class of legislation would not be bothered in looking for other acts in great mass of special road bills.
 And speaking of road bills: The fever of good roads legislation was never so intense as 1t Is right now. The proJects are so numerous that 1t is difficult to keep up with them. No longer IS 1t a matter of thousands of dollars, but millions of dollars is now involved in the various projects. Pu- laskl county alone has a project that will mean the expenditure of about thirty million dollars. That's lots of money, but see what fine roads it will
 build, Probably one hundred million dollars Is not too high an estimate for the cost of the various projects that are under consideration. Under act of Congress, millions of dollars will come into the state from the Fed eral Government to assist in the building of the roads. If all the schemes are realized the next ten years will see Arkansas with the most complete and perfect system of i'm proved modern highways in the union. It is the culmination of d long period of educative influence. The Good Roads conventions and as sociations of other days are being erystalized into the actual highways of today. It is one class of local legislation that is not mis-direeted, if 1t is necessary to adopt this method Of securing that which might be pro vided for in a general law.
The Springdale news., 1919-02-28

Elmer Douglas, residing on rural route No. 3, Bentonville has been ap- pointed carrier on route No. ? at Si- oam Springs.
The Springdale news., 1919-02-28
LAX.FOS WITH PEPSIN

is the name of a Reliable aid Perfect Laxativc which soon relieves Sick Headache. Dizziness. In digestion. Stomach Trouble. Gas and Piles caused by Torpid Liver and Constipation. Always use Reliable Laxative in the treatment Of Colds, Grip and Influenza.
 LAX-F0S WITH PEPSIN is a Liquid Digestive Tonic Laxative excellent in it's effect on the System, both as tonic and as a laxative. It is just as good for Children as for Adults. Pleasant to take. Children like it. soc.
 Made and recommended to the public by Paris Medicine Co. St. Louis. Mo-. manufacturers of Groves Tasteless chill Tonic
The Springdale news., 1919-02-28
Foley Kidney Pills
A Tonic Laxative

that will remove the bile from the Liver and cleanse the Sys.en THOROUGHLY without gripping or disturbing tho stomach is truly Perfect Lax
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
THE KINGS VISIT

TING ALBERTS visit to Harris
n burg to-day is an historical
occasion comparable to such
days as when Washington, Lafayette
and Lincoln did Harrisburg the
honor of their presence. All of them
were great patriots, beloved by the
people, and so is King Albert.
Every war brings forth it's heroic
figures, and the conflict with Ger
many was no exception, but of all
those upon whom the bright light
of fame has shed its rays none
stands out more gloriousE than the
King of Belgium. He is worthy of
his title. He is a kingly king; a real
leader, a soldier and true patriot.
Democracy can pause to honor him,
not for his title but for himself.
Americans have little regard for
the trappings of royalty, but they
know a man wherever they see him
and they were happy to-day to pay
homage to the man of the hour in
Belgium, who did more to preserve
the principles of democracy in Eu-
rope from the destroying hand of
the Hun than any other man. In
honoring him we honor ourselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
Since Father Got the Gasoline Fever
(From the Kansas City Star.)

said, for a nice quiet, spin among
the trees, the clover and the bees,
DER country roads and lanes. He
cranked and cranked and cranked
some more; still Lizzie wouldn't
start. Neighbor Stevens came out,
asked father if he needed any help.
Father said the engine was just a
little frosty and would start in q
moment. 1t didn't though, until
Mr.. Stevens turned on the spark.
Still father looked wise-got in,
looked where to put his feet and
prepared to take a jump. After kill
ing the engine seven times, he was
off with q snort and smoking at the
rear like volcano in trouble.
About o'clock father called up
out at Twenty-ninth and Wabash
and said he might be late for sup
per, as he had run into another car
(not his faulO and was waiting for
repairs.
Well, father did get home for sup
per and the car looked but little
worse on account of the accident.
One wheel had to be replaced, also
n tire; the downspout on the north
east corner was badly bent and the
caves on the same side battered and
twisted.
After two weeks of these maneu-
| vers father seemed as earnest to
break his neck as ever: has bought
heavy overcoat, n pair of driving
gloves and we heard him telephon-
ing about tire chains; so it seems he
is going to stick to it through the
winter.
Chronology to date:
Cranked for ten minutes without
starting: a neighbor asked him If he
had any gas. He had none.
Attempted to run with his feet or
all three pedals at once.
Cranked himself red in the face
before switching on tho coil box
Killed a chicken on Blue Ridge
Boulevard.
Ran over dog at independence
and Blue. r.
Locked the steering gear. turned
around five times in a turnip patci
before getting car under control.
Hit n man at filling station at Fif-
teentk and Paseo.
Ran into another car at Twenty.
ninth and Wabash.
Hit by the Met" at Sixteenth an6
Troost.
Father says all he needs to COM
plete his Initiation is a broken arm.
PEN"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
Dances to Phonogrdph
[From Continental Edition of the
London MALL

[From Continental Edition of the
London MALL
A battered, war-worn cottage pi-
ano is on view in dealers window
in Paris. labeled: "Rescape-retour
du Front" Its case Is splintered
beyond all possibility of repair; the
keyboard barely holds together; the
candle holders, wrenched and twist
ed, hang from the sockets. 1t tells
an eloquent and forlorn tale of n
devastated home in some modest
street of n northern town, and no
doubt there are thousands of instru-
ments in n similar condition. But it
does not follow that piano dealers
are inundated with orders for new
ones. On the contrary, it appears
that many people will this year sup
press the piano they formerly hired
for the winter season. and will use
the phonograph in its place for their
impromptu dances. The Americans
set the fashion in Paris of dancing
to phonograph, an unheard of
proceeding before the war, and al
ready in the sociable Latin Quarter
there have been some impromptu
tangos to the wall of the phono-
graph.
The dancers supplement it's feeb-
Ter notes by stamping on the par
quet, like the peasants who mark
the rhythm of their bourrees with
the clank of their sabots.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
So Unfair of IrDin Cobb!
[From the Kansas City starl

[From the Kansas City Starl
Macon women were so provoked
by Irwin Cobb's article. "Oh, Well,
You Know How Women Are" that
several of them appealed to Edgar
White of the Republican to write
something which would shake Mr..
Cobb up and show him how little he
knew about women. Notwit hstand-
ing the fact that he is a bachelor
and therefore can write authori-
tatively - and fearlessly - about
women, Mr. White instead sent out
a girl sleuth to investigate Mr..
Cobb's charges. The part of Mr..
Cobb's article which particularly
incensed the Macon women asserted
that women have a habit of block
ing doorways and public passage
ways while they stop to chat. But
let the Republican tell the rest of
the story:
Our detective turned in her re-
port Saturday, as follows
Monday - At postoffice. Two
women waiting in entrance for an
other who was buying stamps. Had
to squeeze by Got my mail, read
III, ana nau TO squeeze past same two
women going out. Others had
to do same thing. Two steps would
have put them in clear. Tuesday
Two women holding confab in main
entrance department store. Joined
by two more. Shook hands all
around and st ood as if nailed Fri
day-Noon, at restaurant. Girl
stood with back to screen door
which opened outward, talking to
friend. Had to ask her to move.
and she frowned as if I had insulted
her. Saturday-At station. Girl
coming from chair car stopped on
last step blockading both lines"
The editor scanned the report
with grin.
Seems to be a clean score for
Cobb" he said. But that last item
Do you mean she deliberately stop
ped on the car steps, blocking egress
and ingress, because she met some
one she wished to talk to?"
She met me-" replied the ingenu-
Gus sleuth. 1T was an old friend
hadn't seen for a MONTH"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
Tanning the Wild Tdricdbs
philadelphia Evening Ledgerl

Philadelphia Evening Ledger1
Rules announced by the Public
Service Commission for the regula-
tion of taXicabs are favorable to the
taxicab companies and more or less
discouraging to the men who oper-
ate what are known generally as
wild cabs. The owner of wild cab
operates usually at night. He owns
his own machine and often wishes
he didn't. His aim in life is to get
all he can in the way of fees.
Under the new code taximeters
are requiredyin all such vehicles and
the owners must show that they,
like other common carriers, have
arranged to compensate passen-
gers in case of accident. The taxi
companies have already met these
requirements.
The regulations laid down by the
service commission are similar to
those existing. in other cities and
are altogether commendable from
the viewpoint of public safety. Be-
cause of earlier laxity the wild taxi
business has flourished in Philadel-
phia. Drivers often impose ex-
orbitant charges and their patrons
have had none of the guarantees of
safety made necessary under the
new code.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. Henry Van Dyke. the for
mer minister to Holland, is to. be
one of the speakers in Pittsburgh's
big meetings next month.
DIR. S. c. Black, new president
of Washington and Jefferson, used
to be a teacher in Toledo.
The Rev. DR.. M. G. Want, OF
Reading, has been elected head OF
the State Baptist Association which
has been meeting at Bradford.
John Brophy, of Clearfield
presiding at the miners meeteing al
Johnstown, is we'll known here, as
he has appeared at legislative hear
ings. 81,
Col. w. II. H. Morris, Jr.. m lie
tary instructor at Bucknell, is the
Youngest lieutenant colonel in the
Army and won the d. S. G.
Mayor A. T. Connell is taking
a very practical way to help soldiers
at Scranton. He asks them to write
him letters.
&C. C. Harrison. former proves,
of the University of Pennsylvania, |.
member of the committee OF
Philadelphians to meet the Belgian
King.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
A NEW CONFERENCE

= T is to be hoped that out of the
wreck of the Industrial Con-
ference at Washington some
program can be devised that may
bring employers and employees to-
gether on a reasonable basis.
Neither labor nor capital can af-
ford to be high-handed. Unques-
tionably the right of laboring men
to organize would be approved by a
popular vote of the country. Col
lective bargaining has been conduct
ed with more or less success for
years, and in some cases at least it
would seem to be the only means of
reaching satisfactory agreements.
Capital in many industries has rec
ognized this and has acted accord
ingly.
But if we go back into recent ne
gctiations far enough there arises
the suspicion that the employers
group was more opposed to the
closed shop than to labor unions. as
such, or to collective bargaining,
and there are many Americans who
are not employers who do not be-
heve in the principle of forcing a
man either into a union or out of his
job. Many hold that the union has
no more right to ask for a closed
shop and the dismissal of non-union
mon than fha on, nIovar Iac 20 AZ.
charge from his service men for the
reason that they are members of a
union. 1t is a rule, they contend,
that ought to work both ways, and
il this is the real bone of conten-
tion we may expect to see capital
unalterably opposed and labor un-
ions just as strongly in favor of it
and neither getting anywhere.
After all, the interests of the pub
lie are greater than the interests of
either capital or labor. What they
agree between themselves affects
every man, woman and child in the
country, and if one or both are not
fair and reasonable they may expect
to hear from the great mass of peo-
pie who are interested only in fair
play for all concerned, themselves
included.
If America is to stand. it must be
as land of opportunity and decent
treatment for all. II employers are
unreasonable, they must be called
to account. If labor is arbitrary il
must be brought to a place where
it considers not itself alone. but the
people as a whole.
The public has long sympathized
with labor. The efforts of It's lead
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
A National Strain That Is
Appreciated

[From Philadelphia Public Ledgerl
Governor Sproul has had occasion
several times recently to discuss the
question of the types of citizenship
that occur in Pennsylvania among
the large groups of those who are OF
alien origin. He has been pretty
emphatic at times as to the lacks of
certain naturalized and unnatural
lied elements, but he has not hesi-
tated to point out that while we
have some rather dubious nation
alities among us that show small in
clination to care for or respect
America, this attitude of indiffer-
ence is quite foreign to our Italian
citizens. Indeed, he has expressed
himself recently as considering that
we are under deep obligations to the
cultural value of the italian civiliZa-
ton as it is known to-day over there
and reflected in the so-called Italian
colonies over here. And he has
given proof, as it were, of his belief
by selecting one of the best known
of the artists of Philadelphia, Nicola
d'AscenZo, as a member of the State
Art Commission as a recognition of
the civic value of the leading Ital-
ians who view America as their
second home and whose real con-
Germ for the advancement of their
foster country is enhanced, not les
sened, by the affection they still re-
veal for the country of their origin.
In view of the curious unrest, for
instance. which has led the Russian
irreconcilables in New York to pa
rade with banners inviting deporta-
ton, it can easily be seen that the
patriotic attitude of the Italians over
here must come as a benson to
harassed executives informed from
all sides -f the uncertain attitude
of those to whom America has been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
TYPELESS PRINTING

VTTHEN the automobile first came
wv into being it was known as
"horseless carriage" and
now, We suppose. the accomplish
! ment of the Literary Digest in the
| printing of its current issue without
| type ushers in the new era of type
less printing" Ii the comparison
| printing without type. by means of
| photoengraving typewritten copy,
gains as rapidly in public favor and
is brought to as high a degree of
perfection as the automobile has
since the first akward carriages"
took their self-propelled courses
about the highways of the country,
We are due for such revolution
in the publishing business as the
world has not seen since the days of
the first movable type.
The present process of publishing
is cumbersome and complicated.
Books. as cheaply as they are sold,
are costly to produce. Every devel-
opment of the business has been
merely the improvement of old pro-
cesses. We still hold to the old
way of putting type into a stick,
then into form and printing from
the impressions therefrom; all the
other in-between matters of plate
making, cylinder presses and the
like merely being short cuts for the
sake of speeding up the process of
transferring type impressions to
paper.
If the typewriter can be made to
take the place of the typecase, the
typesetting machine, the makeup
man, the printer, the platemaker
and other workmen, the cost of
photoengraving, the specially pre-
pared typewriter copy will be cheap
by comparison. There are many
difficulties to overcome, many rough
places to smooth out and many i'm
projections to eliminate, but judging
from its first effort, which is at
airy Digest has hit upon a big idea
that is bound to grow in popularity
as printing costs continue to ad-
vance. Necessity is the mother of
invention" the Digest explains, and
apparently the publishing strike in
New York will not be without its
benefits, although of a far different
nature than those who are back of
it imagined when they quit work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-24
SeDen Ages Are Enough
ByB BRIGGS
[From Kansas City Star.

lOlil NdlStiS ivy SNeh'I
From the number of persons re-
ported to have had new glands and
things stitched into them it is APP
parent the quest for perpetual youth
is still on. Man never is but al
ways to be blest. Not having
achieved his ideals in his allotted
span of years it seems perfectly
feasible to him that if he could get
his life's note extended he could
make good on the second lap.
1t is much to be doubted. The
enjoyment and success of life never
have been particularly identified
with it's length. Byron, Shelley and
Keats died young. Walter Savage
rary but lived to be 80, propounded
this question toward the end:
rs it not better at an early hour
In its calm cell to rest the weary
head,
While birds are singing and while
blooms the bower,
Than sit the fire out and go starved
to bed!
Philosophy and experience will
applaud Landor's implied affirmat-
tive. It's a busy changeful world
and they who linger too long on the
stage are likely to find their well
heroes owe no small part of their
fame to the perspective lent by their
receding figures. If Napletons had
lived to be 100 and had fallen into
the dotage of the lean and slippered
panatloon there is reason to believe
he would have become q terrible
bore Think of him as a graybeard
loon holding up every passerby to
tell him about Waterloo, and not
telling the truth. Everybody would
run when he approached, and the
good -natured when caught would
soothe him with, "Yes, yes, Uncle,
you're right" and turn him gently
around and slip away while he diz-
lilly clutched the air.
Life is brisk and purposeful
business. No rain checks are given
out at the gate. We enter and make
what we can of it, but If we do not
move on after a reasonable enter
tainment we are apt to be jostled d
good deal. Others are crowding in
and pressing to the front, and they
all seem to feel they are entitled to
elbow room. Entitled or not, they
take it if they can. and youth and
strength will not be denied. Just
what kind of a world 1t would be
If the entrance doors remained open
and the exit doors remained closed
is shuddering question to contem-
plate. One thing is certain, it would
! be crowded. Persons who make q
point of swinging a cat by the tail
would be greatly inconvenienced in
the exercise of that pastime.
On the whole the advantages of
the present system seem sufficient.
The banquet protracted all night
makes for anything but a, festive
morning. The wise go home while
/ the music still throbs and the lights
are undimmed. 1t is better to be
! missed by going early than by over
| staying to have our presence unduly
| remarked.