The Mena weekly star., 1921-04-07
w. C. T. U. COLUMN Bertha Kelly, Press Supt. Emily Barnard, Pres.
 Mrs. Jennie Fite, Sec'y. Mrs. Bennett, Treas.
Legislative Resume

" Hio" that MT. wade IS pure minded man and if legislators or any other men compromise office clerks this evil should be prohibited. The sale of liquors is preferable to the sale of souls. sGovernor McRae is the right man in the right place, if he did allow the license to sell cigarettes After trial of high licenses he may advocate prohibition of the sale of these little health destroyers.
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 Women are to hold office on equal terms with men.
 women will be equal guardians of their own children.
 Parole IS defined and provided for and placed under the supervision of State Commission of Charities and Correction. Amendments to the Juv- chile court law makes it possible to keep a girl or boy in our industrial schools until their conduct and health condition warrant sending them home. Boys and girls be good, so the proba- ton officer will not take you to Little Rock.
 The age limit is raised and juries are excluded because of their wrong conditions in sensational cases, es- pecially of girls where "release" is mistaken kindness.
 Dlstilling was made a felony.
 A $500 appropriation for a negro industrial school for boys and S120O appropriation for caring for one blind baby was made.
 The penalty for bootlegging was raised to five years.
 T. R. Jones. ST.
 When the municipal finances of Mena showed too much in the fred" ten years ago, the citizens picked Tom Jones, Sr., as the Moses to lead them out of bondage. They elected Mir. Jones mayor. When he entered the of flee the city was approximately $6,O00 Tn debt. At the end of Mayor Jones' term of office all the debts had been paid, numerous improvements were made and city business was on a cash basis. Now that the city is again in debt, about four times as much as in 1911, the citizens are again calling on Mir Jones for help. He is to be elect ed mayor next Tuesday without oppo- sition, fact in itself that shows bet ter than words the esteem in which he is held in Mena.
 Mayor Jones has lived in Mena and vicinity for quarter century, more than half of which as been in the city itself. He lived at Dallas before there was a Mena and also was in business at Rich Mountain. This length of resi- dence helps to clear understanding of local needs.
 The age of Mayor Jones is mat ter of doubt. The official record shows that he was born in Alabama 68 years ago, and stranger meeting him for the first time agree this was about the right figure. However should the same stranger see Tom on deer hunt in the mountains, or in camp along Mountain Fork, or en- gagged in his fav6rite indoor sport of billiards, he would be apt to conclude that appearances are sometimes de- captive. But should the same stranger see Mir. Jones after the Mena Trav- elers had lost particularly close game he would most certainly think from the looks of T. R's face that the mayor was runner up for Methusalah. By the way, that R" in the next mayors name stands for Rand, an honored title in the Old Family home A free library service was provided. Emergency and biennial appropri- ations for our commissioners of char ities and correction as well as for the other institutions which belong to the group. Girls and boys industrial schools and the state farm for women).
 Among other measures of interest to us in brief is a resolution asking Congress to appropriate $250,000 for United States Public Health Serv- ice hospital at Bonneville was adopted. A bill transferring S1S0, GOO from the public school fund to the penitentiary fund were among other penitentiary measures passed The penitentiary board was abolished and an honorary board was appointed with one woman among it's members-Mrs. Laura Con nor of Augusta.
 The legislature defeated the bill to abolish the highway department and spent much valuable time in repeating road bills that had been passed at a special session.
 s3,60O appropriation for the ex- pense eff licensing the sale of cigar cites.
 We have not yet heard of any ap- propriation for the erection of homes for superannuated or decrepit tillers of the soil, or common laboring men or women who have no home nor any income. No appropriation is needed to unite the loose knot of matrimony. 1t seems this knot gets smaller and looser all the time. We call it divorce. If man and woman are made one, which one are they? If man has his rib tied to him. it is his own rib. Woman that will not willingly share all troubles and poverty to save her name, is not wife even in name. God says, "She was given as helpmate." So our legislature should see that the rib clothes itself and children by dis obedience to law. When woman makes future laws that knot will be an everlasting knot. And an examin- ation of mind and body will be neces- sary for license to wed. We have known women to marry seven times. Now she knows she represents just one rib. Suppose now that each hus- band had been married seven times. We wonder how much change in her appearance with six extra ribs. We know he would not be the image of his Creator. Our w. c. T. U. meeting will be held on the second Tuesday in April, led by Mrs. c. P. Michael at the home of Mrs. Fields. once Dr. Regards residence.