Paragould soliphone., 1922-04-17

that DuSlnesS IS S1aQually uuC SUI that will mark the greatest era of '
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 Tie good cheer for the future
 Harding and from Secretary {
 also by John G. Lonsdale, president
 of St. Louis.
 "A National Message from an Arkansas Boy" was the subject of MT. Lonsdale's talk, and in his opening remarks he called attention to the fact that many times in his earlier career he had gone from Arkansas as one of the representa- tives to various organizations, eX- plotting Arkansas and it's resources and opportunities and affairs, but that this was the first time i'll his life he had been sent from a na- tional organization back among his home folks as representative.
 Arkansas has always been to me d land of hearts desire" said MT. Lonsdale. The kingdom of promise, with her 75 counties producing every bountiful earthly gift from diamonds to peaches. Even as boy roaming the pine-clad hills, the immensity of her undeveloped resources appealed to me, and now 1 begin to realize that capital must be interested as the handspring for of this marvellous lat ent wealth.
 Business Is Looking Up'
 Business the country over is looking up. It will be some time before any sales records will be broken, but those who look into the crystal of conditions can see much better times ahead. Pros perity doesn't travel en masse, and it doesn't follow out any time table schedule that I have ever seen Pros Derity is both a material and mcn- tai thing. There is no fanciful high-sounding ailmcnt that besets us. The handwriting on the wall of time is plain for all to sec, it reads, Work, work hard.'
 What's prosperity? Is it mans labor capitalized into the freest eX- change of commerce.? Find it when and where you will, you will never taste the sweets or enjoy the luxuries without work It's the real basis of existence, What makes prosperity? Business. What makes business? An exchange of service workers, farmers, business men, factory workers-all toilers. Money is only @ measure, not a l motive of business.
 Memphian Makes Address.
 George k. James of Memphis talk ed to the Arkansas bankers on the subject of "Credits,'' and urged that they strive together to stabilize the credits of the country. He said that it might appear strange to be urg ing bankers to co-operatiyely shut down on credits in a general move ment, but that it was as essential for the progress and prosperity of that area covered by Arkansas, Mississippi and West Tennessee, of which he was most familiar.
 "We of the South mortgage for everything" said Mir. James. "We are too prone to exercise credits We happen to want some money, and we run to the banker, and the banker lets us have the money too freely. Credit is very dangerous thing I am reminded that I heard 1t compared to morphiae, a very es- sential thing in the hands of the most skilled physicians, but very dangerous thing for general con Also, in another way, credit reminds me of the morphine, in that once you get it into your veins, it is hard to shake off.
 "In this section we do not raise enough cotton to pay for our beef and our food The farmer does not prosper. The mule that he drives gets more from the farm than the farmer gets. It is because of lack of application of intelligent methods 1 to farm work. Over at Russellville, Ark, there is the only school Il ever saw in my life l wanted to attend. Men go there and they learn lot About that school, II could See the intellectually beam ing in the faces of the fine hogs that were being raised. That school is teaching men how to make a sue cess out of farm work.
 We work three days and then borrow for the other three More work and less credit will make the south blossom as the rose"
 Would Modify Road Laws
 Col. John k. Fordyce of Hot Springs, member of the State High !, way Commission and chairman of