The log cabin Democrat., 1922-03-22
COMMERCIAL CLUBS
 PROGRAM IS VARIED.
OIL PROSPECTS DISCUSSED
Monthly Meeting and Dinner of Or ganization Proves Both Interest
 ing and Enjoyable.

With program of talks on sub-
 Jects widely varied in their nature, the
 monthly meeting and dinner of the Conway Commercial Club last night
 proved at once the most interesting
 and enjoyable of any recently held.
 The relations of the farmer and the merchant, civic cleanup and paint up campaign, the care and prevention
 of youthful delinquencies and the county were some of the topics intro- duced at the meeting, which was also enlivened by fire alarm and motion pictures on poultry raising.
 After a delightful dinner had been served by the ladies of the Conner cial Club auxiliary and rising vote of thanks rendered them on the ex- cellence of the repast, Pres. V. D. Hill introduced R. J. Steele, secretary treasurer of the county Farmers Un- ion, who made an excellent talk, il- Illustrated by some enjoyable stories, on the relation of the farmers toward the business men, There are many barriers between the country and city, he said, but most of them are artific- ial and should be removed. He com plimented the business men of Con- way on the good spirit and harmon ious relations between them and their farmer-customers
 Rev. J. L. Shelby, pastor of the Methodist church at Vilonia, made an enjoyable talk, after which Mir. Hill introduced J. T. Beal of the Beal-Bur- row Dry Goods Company of Little Rock. Mir. Beal predicted that the south in general and Arkansas in particular are on the eve of an era of prosperity such as they had never witnessed before Conditions will re- main difficult through the remainder of the present year, he said, but he looks for a great business revival to begin at it's close.
 Mayor W. D. Cole spoke few min utes on the cleanup and paint-up campaign which is to be carried on in the city during April. He urged that all buildings be painted and be made more presentablle and that backwards be cleaned up thoroughly and front yards planted in flowers. He also condemned severely the practice of having tin cans and other refuse haul ed off by any except the city wagons, stating these are invariably dumped along streets and roads to give much trouble later as mosquito breeders The mayor also urged that the city be given cooperation in drive to get rid of flies. Careful attention to barnyarrds will reduce the number of these pests by 75 per cent, he said.
 County Agent T. M. Williams showed a reel of government films demonstrating the best methods ot poultry raising, which he has been in rural communities.
 At the request of the chairman Mrs. s. c. Smith introduced Mrs. Martin T. Faconer of New York, a repre- sentative of the National Committee on Charities and Corrections and one of the foremost authorities of the nation on penology and kindred sub- jects. Mrs. Falconer spoke of the inn portance of probation and supervision the youth as prevention of crime, urging that if more of this work were done there would be less need of prisons. Much if not most crime, she said is due to low men, tality and she said Arkansas should take steps to provide places for the care and training of feeble minded persons.
 President Hill then introduced H s. Lambert, prominent oil operator now located at Fl Dorado. Mir. Lam- bert was fortunate in securing a fourth interest in TOO acres of leases around Fl Dorado, of which 600 proved to be in the producing area. He does most of his travelling in his airplane, having come to Conway Tn his machine Monday. Yesterday he spent in inspecting several sections of the county and he said last night no one could tell what was lying under the ground except by drilling, but he believed the indications in the terri tory he had visited were favorable for gas and there was nothing to ln- dicate that oil might not also be dis covered. He said he had accumulated competency and was no longer ln- terested in "wild-catting", but he would advise that the citizens of Faulkner county pool their acreage, raise sufficient fund among them selves, purchase the equipment and employ competent drillers, and put down not less than five test wells. The cost of the drilling, he said, could be largely financed by the sale of acreage to oil men like himself, who would at once buy leases in order to have them in case oil were devel-
 oped. James M. Harrod, a former
 Conway young man who has been in
 the oil development business in Okla