The Little River news., 1921-07-06
WILL GIVE SCHOOL ckILD-
 REIN AN OPPORTUNITY
Arkansas Advancement Association Will Give Every Child an OppOr.
 tunity for an Education.

tunity for an Education.
 Little Rock, July 5.-(Special(- 1.-The school children of Arkansas will be given an opportunity, through pamp- hlet to be issued by the Arkansas Ad- vancement Association, to inform them selves of ,eacts. concerning Arkansas, where- the name originated and what it means. The grown-ups are expect ed to learn from the children, so that every Arkansan will be supplied with the answer when asked by outsiders why, it is spelt Arkansas and pronoun- ced, Arkansaw. Preparing it's cam paign by which facts concerning Ark ansas will be placed before residents of every part of the United States, the Arkansas Advancement Association appeals to the State History Commis- sion and the Commissioner of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture for data.
 Secretary Herndon of the Arkansas History Commission gives information that is known to but few people in the state. Secretary Herndon says that Arkansas is from the Sioux Indian lan- guage and means downstream peo- ple" The Sioux tribes was the parent of the Quapaw people of Indiana. The Quapaw split up and one portion went down the Mississippi river to Arkan- sas, thereby getting the name of the down stream people" The Sioux word is U-gaky-pa and in an effort to spell it as pronounced the early ex- plorers wrote it in varous ways. Mar quette called it "Akansea"; LaSalle wrote it Acoesa; Pen1cant gave it the present spelling. General z. M Pike wrote it "Arkansaw." All of these men heard it pronounced by the In- dians and endeavored to write it potentially. The document granting Arkansas charter as Territory has the name written Arkansaw It is supposed that the final IS" came in an effort to form the plural, resulting in the "w" being dropped.
 The commissioner of Immigration of the office of Commissioner of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture, John Sr,oo11 hoo ;aA ho A,,vy oc Advancement Association with much valuable data concerning the resources of the state. Commissioner Small states that Arkansas has the largest acreage of strawberries of any state can claim the worlds largest peach orchard and the greatest number of native varieties of apples. He also shows that Arkansas surpasses Colo rado in the production of the Rocky Ford cantaloupes in quality as well as quantity. In 1920 Arkansas produced crops greater in value per acre than Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Teas and Oklahoma, and was excelled only by some of the East ern states where intensive truck grow ing and specialized farming brought the yield per acre to higher figures Considering the low price of land the net profit per acre in Arkansas ex- ceeded that of the Eastern states.
 The Arkansas Advancement Asso- citation is now organized in about 30 counties of the state and the prelimin- ary plans are being laid for an in- tensive campaign which will include in some form every publication in the United States. Buttons to be worn by Arkansans with the inscription, T Am Proud of Arkansas" upon them, have been ordered and will probably be ready for distribution in a few weeks. With every button will go a leaflet showing resources of Arkansas and the county from which the person comes so that questions attracted by the button may be intelligently answ. cred.
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