The spectator., 1922-03-21
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ArkdnSaS improvement ulStTlCIs have never defaulted on the payment of bonds or interest.
 Arkansas leading newspaper is the oldest paper published west of the Mississippi river.
 Arkansas laws are conservative with relation to foreign capital bridge, the longest single-span bridge and the longest concrete bridge in the world.
 Arkansas rate of taxation is ex ceptionally low.
 Arkansas supplies manufacturing plants all over the Uuited States, where excessive temperatures are pro duced, with fire-brick It has the greatest heat resisting properties of any clay known, standing test of 3,30S degrees without fusing
 Arkansas passenger train schedules show an average train speed equal to those of Eastern states, and these are exceeded by only six states.
 Arkansas is known as the state of beautiful churches,
 Arkansas is credited by noted church leaders as standing first i'll Sabbath observance.
 Arkansas is a fisherman's paradise. It's lakes and streams abound in game fish
 The poet laureate of Masonry, Fay Hemstead. is native Arkansas. Mas onry has known but two others, Rob- srt Burns and Robert Morris.
 Two of the three founders of the Sigma Nu fraternity were Arkansans.
 All executive heads of the $50,000,- 900 educational drive of the Southern Methodist church were Arkansas men.
 The only man ever invited to ad- dress the New York Lodge of Elks, not a member of the lodge, was an Arkansan.
 Arkansas was the first state to pass the Bone Dry Law.
 Arkansas has 1,5S4 square miles of anthracite and semi-anthracite smokeless coal It has been mined at the rate of 100000 tons annually and it will take $50 years to exhaust the supply. The annual output is valued at approximately $9,000.000.
 Arkansas stands seconu among the AS states in National Guard organiza- ton.
 There is no race suicide in Arkan- sas. Statistics show that births dou- ble the number of deaths.
 The Agriculture Extension Service of the University of Arkansas en- rolled 26.664 members in the Boys and Girls Agriculture clubs in 1921.
 A member of an Arkansas Corn Club holds record of 172 1-2 bush els of corn to the acre.
 There were enrolled in 192l, 3,446 men in field crop demonstration work under the supervision of county agents in Arkansas. They cultivated 30.1%4 acres, raised 25 different kinds of field crops and through the demon strations increased the yield $706,229.
 Arkansas laws permit the organi- ration of cooperative associations for the selling of farm products.
 There are 446 clubs for home dem- onstration work in Arkansas with g. 900 girls enrolled. and 332 women's clubs with S,SS1 members.
 All school expenses of 236 girls of Home Demonstration clubs were paid through money earned in club work.
 Arkansas is rapidly eliminating the fever tick. by dipping the cattle of the state.
 Authors of several of the best sell ing books of the year are Arkansas women
 Arkansas has supplied two chair. men for the National Democratic Com mittee, and the chairmen of the recent native Arkansan.
 Arkansas has supplied an attorney general for the United States, Angus tus H. Garland
 Arkansas men have been president of the National Bar Association, Ma tional Education Association, Ma tional Archaeological Society, National Good Roads Association, National Funeral Directors Association, Ma tional Association of Millers, Nation. al Independent Oil Mems Association, and many others.
 Arkansas men are operating heads of several trunk line railroads.
 Arkansas men are chief executive officers of several of New Works larg- est commercial and financial institu- tions.
 Many of the leading writers on scientific, social and economic prob lems are Arkansans.
 Arkansas is the native state of two celebrated screen comedians.
 Arkansans have been members of the Metropolitan Opera Comany and Little Rock girl has leading part in this years Follies.
 An Arkansas woman is listed among the successful scenario writ CTS.
 Arkansas has been represented at hA Ia