The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1920-12-09
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Tandy Myers of Hatfield, while a
visitor in Mena Saturday, announced
that next year he was going to try
out ribbon cane in Polk county, having
made arrangements to get a supply
of joints from relatives in Alabama.
There are two stalks on exhibit at club
headquarters now, having been
brought from the Texarkana District
fair, one having been grown in Sewer
county and the other in Little River
county
The Saturday Evening Post of last
week has strong editorial of the
subject, What Every Lawyer Knows"
While the subject is handled in a gen
eral way the message that it brings
can be given local application The
central thought is this axiom: THAT
for the most part our statutes are en-
forced just as rigidly or just as laxly
as the prevailing sentiment of the
community dictates" Making local
application of this theory, public SEN
timent is blamable if we have unsani-
tary alleys, weed-covered vacant lots.
bad streets, broken culverts and 9TH
er things that detract from the 100
L per cent condition that ought to pre-
vail in Mena. Cigarettes ar sold con-
trary to law, dipping watts are dyna-
mited, and moonshine whiskey is
made and sold largely because there is
mot a crystallized public sentiment
against those things.
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The incessant rain Monday morn
| ing did not deter w. H. Akard from
coming in from his farm mile east
of Mena to see what he could do in
helping with the preliminary arrange
ments for the District Pet Stock and
Poultry Show to be held in Mena Dec
ember 49, Ia and Is. In addition to
helping in the work, he announced to
the finance committee taht he would
give So in special prizes, SIS for the
best pen of White Wyandotte chickens
on condition that no less than five
pens of this breed are on exhibit and
one dollar for the best plate of dozen
eggs.
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s. G. Rigney, here from Texarkana
last Saturday, was on mission to buy
sweet potatoes in car lots. He is the
representative of an association that
is endeavoring to supply the western
market with Arkansas grown stock.
His offer on Saturday was $1.25 per
bushel, he to furnish the crate, which
to the grower, after paying the stor-
age and curing costs, would net 81
per bushel. Mr.. Rigney did not Sc
cure car load in Mena for the reason
that not that many are for sale at
this time, tho his trip here demon
strates that il we raised sweet po-
tatoes and other truck crops in car
lots there would be a market. Feed
ing the world is still the problem of
the age, and Polk county can secure
prosperity by doing its part to solve
this problem.
Two citizens, both interested in var
ious business and industrial enter
prises in Mena and community, met at
club headquarters one day last week
Both are leaders in the community,
giving freely of time, thought and
money to every forward movement,
whether it be religious, charitable or |
civic. Both are students and observ-
ers of economic conditions, so the top
&c for discussion was the present de-
due to deaation of the cur
rency and the consequent reaction on
prices. The one, perhaps differing |
from the other, and !
possibly by reason of his business be- |
ing more closely effected by present |
was inclined to the theory
that now is good time to sit still, and |
If possible retrench all along the line /
1t was his idea that retrenchment /
should be carried to the extent that not /
only should no new enterprises be I'M I
dertaken, but work that had been be- /
gun should be stopped, and that in !
stead all effort should be centered on |
cashing in on outstanding obligations |
and for the present incur no new oes
The other, more optimistic, but |
recogizing no less the seriousness of |
the conditions thru which we are pass
ing, hitched his chair closer to his /
friend, and with eyes beaming and /
head erect insisted that now is no time
to be pessimistic. In the last three /
years, he suggested, was the time for
the American people to have thought
about retrenchment, and to have had
a vision Of the day of reckoning that
is now upon us. He pointed out the |
calamity that would come if the pro- I
gram of the first would be adopted
as the general rule of action. Coming
close home to Mena, he suggested,
that there was never a better time
than now to take advantage of the one
really great asset that Mena has.
That is to set about to solve the hous-
ing problem in such way that Mena
can invite and urge the hundreds Of
people of the south, who during the
summer months want to get away
from heat, malaria and mosquitoes.
TO come to Mena to enjoy the climatic
conditions that are delight to the
summer vacationist, and to be ready to
offer the people Of the north during
the winter months a refuge from the
bitter cold, the SHOWS and billiards.
Well, said the first, s'if that Is what
you want to do, | am with you"
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+. w. Tomllnson recently brought
to the Office some raspberry canes
which were covered with some sort of
scale. The scale was so thick and the
ravages had advanced to the stage
that the canes would soon have been
destroyed While the identity of the
pest has not been established, it is
safe to say that it can be effectively
with dormant spray OF
ime- sulphur solution or with scala
.ide, and il that is not done this win
er the plants viii surely die.