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The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-06-19

on the Job!


We in business to stay, and putting out any
"baits" Just to get you fooled into store.
Our stock selected with utmost care and as cheapy
is possible to buy quality considered which enables US
to offer you dependable line Of merchandise honest
price
We appreciate opportunity to serve you and show
you thru our store whether needs be in size Of ar
lies, $500 purchase We have only the best goods to
offer and only one price to all.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-06-19

The jefferson Highway will run
right thru Cove. The commissioners
have been here and it is practically
settled. See Cove grow.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-06-19
EDITO ORAL S .

Polk county can't be beat for crops
See our corn tossing and siiking out
ALREADY.
The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-06-19

Houses are very scarce in Cove. We
need men with money to build ten
new houses to rent right away.
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11

as democratic measure The bill drawn by Former Governor Simeon E. Baldwin provides full referendum to Stratford and Bridgeport with veto to each own and proya by a majority of those voting.
 It is such bill as may commended unless, indeed it to be argued that the citizens of Bridgeport trust ed to say what they want and what they do not want.
 The taxpayers of a city all who live in it. The man who direct conscious of his contribution but not more certainly required to make contribution The house, who buys article, when he so upon the house article. There captions but enough to affect the general
 just therefore, when great of money is to be exDended voters should be consued for all of them must share the cost. receive the benefits.
 The bill improved in many Appointments the commission approved by public power other than the commission public property the quantity of land be taken for taking satisfactory bonding reduced from five cent to three cent the profits has been stipulated pro rata according lists of the participating communities
 such shape that the General Assembly will be justified in passing it.
 The proposers project the Chamber of Commerce
 which includes actively of the competent men in Bridgeport.
 These assert that the of Bridgeport will great service to the city.
 They that it can be made self supporting.
 These questions will be determined at the ballot box reservation.
 The consider the facts ineIgently and dc what they deem best for the city
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OvERrHRoWN

r@ HE COMMUNIST government in Budapest is reported \ overthrown. Bea Kun, the foreign minister of the proearan said to be dead by the of sassnaion. At the moment it is not known whether the change been brought about by the conservative socialists the middle class party that is to say, the bourgeois
 In this struggle for position the several political groups will be destroyed in Central Europe before the institutions firmly fixed There however sion be unduly alarmed sympathetic The destruction by civil strife of comparatively few is not evil the destruction of millions of the process of
 Ultimately order must be restored. Stable governments will into being These governments will be organized primarily for the proeara that to for the greatest good the number But will be operated they always have been finally by those who wses and strongest.
 The order of society in Europe will not reign the incompetent but rather rule of those who system society has been be devised which will prmaneny maintain the least competent in control Such a society would be extingushed,
 The able of the European countries will be in control institutions made adaptable to the masses of the people.
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
ORGANIZING WAR VETERANS

IS INEVITABLE and that the veterans of the great shall organize Ultimately they must orga- into group the veterans of the Civil did Only in this way the soldiers have their maximum share in the direction of affairs Since this great organza tion will contain of all shades of opnion political reg it will undergo many interesting actions consequence of which the conservative ee men must become coored with radical of looking at things and the radical elements obtain stable method for advancing ideas
 Bridgeport among the first communities to start organization composed of returned soldiers The World Veterans of America which told in the col The Times to be consolidated with larger which will hold convention in May at St. Louis under direction committee of which Lieut. Colonel Roosevelt is chairman.
 There only drawback to this arrangement although that Lieut. Colonel Roosevelt has recently announced his dedication to life of politics Since in its organization of the World be
 political organization but must be organization devoted in nonparsan fashion to the welfare of the nation of the soldiers it follows that the head of such should be dedicated not to politics. but to the work of the the tasks that headshp will imply.
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
STREET RAILWAY REPORT

c URvEYING WITH eager eye - ticut the Street Railway Investigating Commission discovered two systems for the conveyance passengers through the public streets.
 It discovered trolley system long endowed with
 thousands individual citizens each operat- ing little bigger automobile, engaged in the same work, and in keenes competition, with the other
 The great monopoly with it's millions capitalization, the commission pronounces bankrupt consequences of its folly inquy ill fortune various suggestions.
 The of the monopoly should be forgiven.
 Its paving assessments should be remitted
 It should receive its bridges gift from the stae
 It should be excused from the duty operating its at points where it would wish not to operate them.
 should have the privilege of running tneys in compet- ton with the neys of the private citizens
 The competing jitneys the commission found enjoying substantial but humble prosperity The citizen often making little money they were carrying the public for smaller are and they assisting the processes try by getting the workers and from their places swift certainty.
 states monoposc bottle fed, incubator hundred million dollar baby up to be failure.
 The competitive, citizen owned humble jney business useful and This child enter prisng, self-supporting and useful.
 Confronted by this evidence, did the decide help the thousands citizens full and prosperous nes helping those who help hemseves
 Did the commission suggest that the taxes the neys be remted that the tney might operate trolley cars if they wished do so? Did it suggest doing with the unsuccessful trolley monopoly that the successful t neys might carry larger and better service?
 The commission did none of these things. It did things entirely different suggested quite seriously that the ought to regulate the itney out of business entirely out of business, regulate them to such extent that ley monopoly increase it's receipts S900OOO
 The commission in its good natured jovial generous thinking way terms this proposal "REGULATTON' not regulation at all, but DESTRUCTION.
 Cooy and calmly this commission of gentlemen, the state which mankind the first written constitution tecng in their enjoyment of lfe liberty and property propose the rotten decayed trolley of their distress by crushing lot of honest hard working Iz who have invested few dollars automobiles with which they furnishing their fellow citizens with peedy and economical service
 That there be doub of the deliberate purpose
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
PRESIDENT WILSON'S ILLNESS
HE ILLNESS of,Mr. Wilson proves that he

HE ILLNESS ofsMr Wilson proves that he too is flesh 1 and blood subject to the ailments of It quite easy thinking of the who entrusted with the settlement of the world that they different other able to endure and therefore be aided in their task but onyshouted a and abused that things may become harder for them to do.
 Undoubtedly like Wilson, Lloyd George Clemen- do rule contain energy than equal number of certain amount of viriiy of sheer physical power to large and take them in the aggregate than their fellows
 But the of physical probably very much greater than the normal The puts burdens upon iona leaders tending to outrun their strength Let those therefore, who not entrusted with the duty of guiding events make the task easier for those who have the duty surely will for the President work if he of enthusiastic undivided port
 To be the President knows that America is He it through such circumstances straw the League of Nations which stand in favor of the Covenant and by other
 The voice of acrimOny is loud The sound prejudice envy hatred Just as one murder takes in than deeds the comparatively triflng opposition the dent makes appearance out of proportion it's importance Let have in America not only solidarity but appearance of it. Help the President do his work Give him support
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11

would be substantially s3,oOO,OO or a little more than 1-9 per cent. on S157,117,900 Of capital stock.
 The annual compensation for the year 1919 will be increased to ST. 173, ,366.56 due to a restatement Of the company's income by the Interstate Commerce Commission and this amount will be still further increased by approximately s2OO,OO0 interest on the expenditures for improvement work for the year 1918.
 The expenditures for road inn provements for the year amount to s10,O74, ,O53.79, among which was the Thames River bridge which was com pleted and put in operation in Janu- ary of this year. To carry out the program of improvements the com pany arranged to borrow s10,OOO,000 from the director-generaI and s3,OOO.- 900 from local banks. The total short term indebtedness Of the comapny was S57,024, 900, of which S51,475, 900 was loaned by the government-s43,- = 96z, 900 to refund former notes and the balance 10 pay for improvements, S2.2SO,OOO was borrowed to make Liberty Loan subscriptions, and s2.- 995, 900 represents short term notes to local banks.
 During the year the company's equipment was increased by 1900 hopper coal cars and 90 Santa Fe type locomotives. For the comin g year the federal manager and the company have agreed that if funds can be secured on proper terms ap- proximately S7.oOo, 900 should be ex- pended 10 continue the program of i'm improvements. the principal items be ing the Cedar Hill Yard and New Ha- ven station improvements, engine houses and shops in he vicinity of Boston. new and improved bridges, signals and increased weight of rail. track material and the completion of the New Haven-New York telephone and telegraph cable line.
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
ANNUAL STATEMENT OF NEW YORK
 NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD R. R.

The statement of the affairs of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company for the year ended December 31, 1918, has been sent to the stockholders. The most striking difference from previous statements is the absence of operating revenues and expenses from the income account. The operation of the railroad during the calendar year 1918 having been performed by the Railroad Admins tration the revenues are received and the expenses are paid by the director general. For the information of stockholders the operating results and statistics for 1918 are inserted-as an appendix at the end of the statement.
 The corporation receives a specific rental of $17.095,S ,SS4.34, being the average annual railway operating in come during the three years ended June 30, 1917.
 The corporate income account shows that besides the rental received from the director general there is a total of other income of s5,5 562, 533.21, making a gross income of $22, 658,- 417.55. The expenditures, being principally rentals of leased roads, in terest on funded debt and interest on unfuTded debt amount to S2O, ,614 A. s92.12. This leaves a net income ap- plicable to the year of s2.043, 526. 43. Had the subsidiary companies which paid dividends in 1917 paid the same dividends in 1918, namely. S949.O0O, the income would have been s2,992.
 52543 This dividend income will come from the subsidiary com mpanies, all of whom have completed their r1n when he is in fund= to pay the rental due under the contracts and permits the dividends to be paid, but not hay ing been paid during the calendar year it could not be included technt- cally as a part of the income for 1918. The result bears out the prediction of the nagement that the net income
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
COMMENDS HEAD OF VOLUNTEERS Gen. Denekine Paid High Tribute By English
 Admirer.

London, April s.---cCorrespondenc
 of The Associated Press )---Generai
 Denikine, head of the Ruszian VoIun-
 teer Army, which is fighting DDlshev-
 ism in Southern Russia, is described
 by an English adulirer from Odessa as "A man of about 50 years with reg
 ular features and the fine presence of
 the striking Russian type. He gives
 one the impression o1 Deing a broad
 minded, high thinking, determined,
 well-ba lanced man."
 The Associated Press correspond
 ent met this Eng2ishman. whose name may not be disclosed at the British
 Foreign Office.
 Denihine. he said. is guiding his army and his Special Council"
 through dangerous shoals. but so far he has not encountered any reefs The Special Council he explained. is a legislative body which Is laying the foundation of a new All-Rus-
 sian government" He described it's members as reformers, ''au broad
 minded and determined to give Rus
 sia every possibility of gaining a place among the free nations of Europe" The Volunteer Army now number ing 100000 men and holding a belt reaching from the Black Sea to the Caspian he described as non-pontfcal Tt stands" according 10 the traveler for a united free Russia, for freedom of press and speech. and is aiming to bring about such conditions in Russia that an administrative government can be formed by the will of the peo- pie in a fair election"
 Denikine, the Englishman said. is supported by representatives of veri- ous political parties. including Cadets. Republicans, Social Democrats and the right wing of the Social Revolu- tionaries.
 Tn Bolshevik Russia" he contin- ued, there is only one party---the Bolshevik party. Healthy, progress
 siVS Socialists are now suppressed The Socialists realize that under
 Den!kfne they are working to form a
 progressive element in a stable gov ernment. They are in his army and
 in his Special Council All parties surrounding the council have learned by experience that possibly for time a dictatorship will be necessary in Russia to bring about that state of freedom which they have been wait ing for for years.
 All these political parties and the | army are looking to the Allies, D
 whom they held through all their diff
 faculties to help reinstate Russia as
 great nation. They are willing to fight. and they only ask for muni- | tions. technical aid and advfce.' A common purpose. said this ob-
 server. actuates General Denflxine and Admiral Kolchak, head of the All-Rus-
 sian government at Omsk. They are separated by stronEly-held Bolshsvik | territory and whether they will be | able to join ue-ce- aI an early data I he was una0cs -0 Say
 | Just before I came away" he said. | General Denikine remarked to me.
 It would be sweet to hear ths bells ringing in Moscow. But our task ie so heavy we cannc' march We can only crawl"
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
FOR NAKED OF PALESTINE

With the opening of the Mediter- ranean to mercantile shipping the Palestine Supplies Department. at No. 74-76 Fifth Avenue, New York
 City, Is preparing to forward 6S cases of clothing to the half naked Jewish populations of Jerusalem and la fra and the thousands of victims of Tur- kish oppression who are pouring into these cities from their captivity in
 northern Gailee. The shipment will go forward on April Q and will bring the number of garments already sent
 to Palestine by this department this
 year up to 22,69S, and 1,o3o pairs of
 shoes. These will be followed speed
 fly by other large shipm enfs.
 The Palestine Supplies Department which is one of the manifold actiVi-
 ties of the Zionist Organization of
 America, has under its Jurisdiction the 15O Hadassah sewing circles which make new garments for babies and women which carry on all-year- round campaigns for contributions of new and slightly-worn garments for both sexes Cooperating with the Department are the 1o6 chapters of the Red Mogen avid and the Fedora tionD of Palestine Jews.
 The news that shipments of gar ments to Palestine can now be made regularly has spurred all of the agencies of the Palestine Supplies De partment to renewed activity and drives have been started in a number of cities, and consignments of gar
 ments. intended for the poor of Paies- tine are being received by the Pales tine Supplies Department daily. These constgnments after being thoroughly inspected. repaired and ftrT1aiEated will go aftsrward to Palestine at regular intervals
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
START THE GARDENS

WAR separated those who and will gardens,
 1 from those who can't won't This is the season will begin his work. The weather is favor able; the reasonably to The best field for effort the people, whose habits not
 fixed who good suggestion and who under pleasure that be obtained well the solid profit the making management of garden. It this work should be under inspection, that there should be systematic methods of spraying seed supply will begin; that when begun, will not fail for lack of little expert supervision.
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
THE HEROIC 1O2nd.

U iO2nd Regiment of the 26h Division, which has a N fighting record second to not the regi- nent which organized originally almost entirely of Con- men, including many Bridgeport boys. the same the personnel is different The regiment composed 60 per of repacemen and but 70 per cent of the original membership
 supposed that all of the 60 dead The dead sufficiently the number these ve either recovered illness The story of the iO2nd will thrill the hearts } men or centuries to
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
REQUESTS TO CHARITY

T~ HE SETTLEMENT of the estate of Darius Miller may
 it to contain larger bequess to charity than any other will hitherto probated in Connecticut New Britain $75COO; churches $15OOOO; other institutions S6OOOO and the New Britain hospital provision which amount to $ 100000 The estate has value $3OOOOOO according to the local and time when appreciated might have value of $50OOOO0 trustees society," The their ruseehp becomes apparent when such made for public benefacton in the
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11

of the commission, read the statement of Oliver R. Bcwh and ithers, appendage to the main report.
 After discussing the is give the street railways the of delayed taxes remit ted contributions, amounting more than million dollars, Mir. Beckwith continues follows:
 Other relief of somewhat probemaeal nature is how ever recommended in the shape of REGULATION of the W neys
 "Whether that relief will be sufficient up the ad- donal S18OO0O (S9O00O0 year in order to out at the end of this time very much doubt.
 And very much doubt also whether relief by way tney regulation ought So be sufficient to much S9OO,OOO fer the Connecicut company"
 The Beckwith strs The proposition the tneys to the street railways doesn't entirely appeal him. If the neys must be robbed at least don't take away from them $90000O in single Continues Becwith ct a
 The evidence adduced before the commission to point clearly to the ultimate desrabty Of the bs tuition jitney, omnibus good many of the electric railway lines in operation
 Having this in view do not think that jiney reguIa ons called should be drastic the develop men of that transportation when conducted by Of reasonable moral and financial responsibility Beckwth perhaps remembers the days when ignorant men attempted to prevent the steam engine from being used He has cruples about completely crushing by legislative fiat industry that represents and better He compromises by avoring degree of sranguaton which will permit the patient barely to live. He wants to choke the ney owners, but not to death. He continues
 But regulation such has been recommended in the commissions report for the avoiding sudden transition from the present transportation by electric railway Ines and this for the a transition extremely likely effect putting transportation business before the method had developed sufficiently to place in those localities where the change might prop erly and with entire convenience be made.
 Here Beckwih ct as depart from such sincerity they had employed. The report recommends franchise to the railways to abandon their electric nes to operate m neys in their stead which clearly would have the putting the ney business into the incompetent hands that manage the trolley business and wouId png incompe ence incompetence hasten the dacadence of transport street railways.
 If such conspiracy against property get itself adopt by Assembly of Connecticut there will be hour in which citizen hereafter feel safe his his business. The state will have embarked
 crushing man, that another may live The  in the employment of crushing the competent that the incompetent continue to exist
 the disgraceul nature of this of proposals apparent but thing remains to be said
 When the taxes have been remtted, when the paving bridge assessments have been granted aims when the stree railways suspended their electric and operate ney at will when they receive all the of pauperism the neys have been crushed; then the aims | ficient
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
GOVERNMENT OPERATION A BOON

~ HE INCOME report of the New Haven shows how grate \ full the stockholders of this the which has taken lines The costly leases have been paid their large demand the overwhelming debt has received its there left equivalent to cent than 100000 othe stock few of government operation the New Haven stock might be worth something dad
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
THE PORT BILL

XXT HEN THE original Port Bridgeport drawn w The Times-Farmer pointed out of the which would need improvement before regarded
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
Total otal.........s1.s24.ao3.4s

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 It also claimed the reasonable ex- penses of the corRorate orgar!zat t.--- during Federal caatFaI and any saw ing in the cost of conducting the Fod- eral valuation due to the fact that such valuation was nearly completed.
 The company represented thac zJhese expenditures which the stock holders had made in keeping New England industries in operation dur ing the period of congestion. and in improving the property would be en- 1oyed by the director-general during the period of Federal control without compensation to them. If these claims had been allowed and the company been permitted to receive as dividends from its affiliated companies the amounts received during the test period, there would have been a net income of approximately S5,000.000 or a return of nearly 1-S per cent. upon the capital stock.
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11
BECKWITH ET. AIs~ WANT THE STATE TO LOAN THE STREET RAILWAY, S2. .OOO,OOO

The street railways have their ancient role They they in the beginning dangerous element in the life the Commonwealth. The private property confided to them been dssipated Wasefu and shameful The public property they receive the they will demand
 If they bankrupt and the commission says they are, let them into receivershp and be operated by the state
 Let the state acquire hem under the hammer public ownership let them be sold in the way private per- who will obtain them at price operate them inelgently afterWard
 The report of the commission ought to be termed report to encourage Bolshevsm Connecticut will not while is it's right mind commit such assault public and property the commission to investigate railways commends
Republican farmer., 1919-04-11

The company presented it's claim for additional compensation as fol- lows: Average annual excess
 car hire paid during the three year period. $1, ,492,061. Interest at per cent on-
 terest on the cost of
 additions and better ments amounting 10
 $7,214,o26.oS, to enable the company to obtain
 economies from the use of Santa Fe type of en- zines in hauling heavier trains .......... 4s2.s41.5s