The Mena weekly star., 1920-01-15
EARLE HODGES
 HAS SANE VIEW
Secs No Reason for Running for Gov ernor Of Arkansas Unless Needed to Save the State"--W Alcohol
 Orgy Reaches Bear State.

Earle W Hodges. who ran for Gov nrn0r once, has the right idea about q. He said one evening last week, just Aofore he left for California to manage a campaign for Jewish Relief for the aext six months, that he has had no sertous intention of getting into poll tics again so long as he is doing we'll elsewhere
 ~If there should be an Irresistible demand from the people that should return and run for Governor, I might consider 1t, said he. If they can find DO one else who wants the job, and agree upon me as the only one who can save the state. I shall be glad to sacrifice my own interests to the ex- tent of four years service. Since my return rom the West. however, 1 am told that there are several others who are willing to accept the office if it E handed 10 them, Really, however hagent either time. money or inclina- aion to run for Governor now I am on any way out to California to raise Ei 900 900 for Jewish Relief, and then < am going up into Oregon and Wash sngton to raise another million, so you see have no time to give to raising a campaign fund to run for Governor" Tae wood alcohol orgy is spreading all over America and is reaching Ar Kansas The Government Prohibition enforcemenf forces are giving this species of insidious law violation con siderable attention. Numerous in- stances have come to the attention of the officers where wood alcohol is being sold deliberately for beverage purposes Ignorant negroes are fre- afently the easiest victims.
 lt has been suggested that there should be regulation requiring drug gfsts and others who handle wood alcohol to color it so that 1t can be readily recognized as poison and not ss q beverage. In it's natural state it books so much like alcohol that it can act he distinguished from it. This Is what makes 1t so deadly If there were law requiring it to be colored green or some other agreed color, atere would be fewer deaths from it's ase.
 Wood alcohol has distinctive value ss q fuel and in the industrial arts, but ss a substitute for that which inebri- stes but does not kill, it is a rank failure And there should be some 9eans of preventing the ignorant from drinking the poison.
 The campaign for the collection of . fund to carry on the anti-tubercu- iosis campaign of the Arkansas Public Health Association has been tagging somewhat. but 1t is proposed to keep X gp until something nearer the goal Aas been reached Some of the coun- ties have done practically nothing while others have almost reached aheir quotas. In Jefferson county. the business men of Pine Bluff, through ahe Rotary Club. have agreed to get Sehind it and see that the full amount ss raised Appeals are being made to sther counties to complete their cam paigns
 One of the most important branches sf the state government, that reaches more people in a helpful way is the Experiment. of Mines Manufactures and Agriculture. No Department has grown rapidly during the last few years, unless it is the Department Of State Lands. Highways and Improve ments. Primarily charged when it was fsrst created with the watchful care snd safe guidance of the important sndustries of mining. manufacturing and agriculture, a work that has fur afshed a wide and interesting field aDr the gathering of statistics and the publication of information regarding ahe states natural resources, this de- eartment now embraces the following Divisions of activity:
 Feed Inspection Service.
 Fertilizer Inspection Service
 Warehouse and gin regulating ser skce
 Chemical laboratory
 Crop reporting service, in co-opera- si0n with the United States Bureau of Crop Estimates
 Immigration and Information ser. ssee
 Cotton grading and classification SerHice. in cooperation with the Uni ied States Agricultural Department
 Nursery Inspection, under the State Psant Board
 Museum of Arkansas Products, at ehe State Capitol