The Little River news., 1922-02-22
Writes Of Little
 River County

ing the ever welcome News and en- thusing myself with it's concentrated thought and energy, many pleasant thoughts present themselves to me-, especially of the many happy days spent in and near Ashdown. And when I read of those good people with whom I then associated, it al-. most makes me wish that I was back there and could live them all over again. But, that I know cannot be, for those days have passed and gone, and relentless time is rapidly usher ing me along down the meandering stream of life as the lettering school boy is urged along the flowery path way of knowledge by frequent ap- plications of the birch.
 q shall never more roam over those verdant hills and through those live ly valleys with the sweet, little school girls as once did where wild flow CTS bloomed and the birds sang their Sweetest song, which blendde with the songs of the songs of the babbling brooks as they flowed gently down the hillsides were increased in. For with me the monday sun has long since passed the dividing meridian, the day is far spent and the evening shadows are fast growing, for he is now rapidly descending the western half of the beautiful blue vault of the great celestial sphere and soon he will be seen sinking below the western horizon, far beyond the distant hills.
 Then the flowers will wither and the songs of the birds and of the bab- bling brooks will be like the lulla- bies of a dear old mother, thing of the past.
 But We are all journeying a long at the same rapid rate and each day finds us one day nearer our final places of abode.
 But, as for me, am reasonably well contented with my lot, as We all should be. I find good people at EMcFerrin, too, have good school and am getting along splendidly with it, am working with good school board, the members of which are broadmind- ed, educated and refined men, and splendid county superintendent who is far from being narrow minded, un- educated, egotistic and self-conceited as some under whom I have worked, whose weakness and inability proves detrimental to the upbuilding of all schools superintended by him.
 Being county superintendent be- comes more and more a man-sized job. Men of intelligence for school directors, qualified and broad minded men for county superintendents. The cooperation of teachers and patrons are the necessary prerequisites to the success of any school.
 "All these things We have in Miss issippi county, but there is one thing that neither my family nor I can have. and that is good health. For this req son when my school closes here in May. l think now l shall move with my family to northwest Arkansas, where l have bought Us a home and where a school board has offered to contract with me for two years.
 There too, l expect to find good people and much more healthful climate, for l do not think a more healthful place can be found than some parts of Arkansas, and when my folks and friends "back home" ask me about the health and the so- clety or Arkansas, as to health I tell them that l do not think there can be lound more healthful place any where than some parts of Arkansas and as to that they need not have any more fear in Arkansas than in Tennessee, for though they may dwell among the lofty hills of Tennessee and breathe the pure balmy air of the beautiful spring mornings and drink from the fountain head of tho pure crystal streams, death finds and claims them just the same.
 AS to the society of Arkansas. I tell them there is none better any where than the best of Arkansas. I dlHer with MT. Parker, the gentleman from Missouri about the society of Arkansas. We have the class of peo- pie he spoke of everywhere as to that. even in Sunny Tennessee.
 'Of course we all love our native state best of all but that does not make it best of all
 Il am a native of Tennessee and dearly love that dear old state. and my love for her cannot bo axnrassoa