Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-03-01
RUPERT c. WRIGHT, Owner.
SOLIPHONE SUBSCRIPTION
RATES

RATES
One year, by mall. in county. S1.0O
Jne year. by mail, outside county 500
X months. by miai. outside
the Daily Press. published every
evening except Sunday will be mailed
to subscribers residing on rural routes
out of Paragould at the rate or $l.G0
The executive council Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor may deem
it is playing the part of wisdom
in launching a campaign fight
against the Volstead act for light
wines and beer but we are inclined
to the belief it is playing with a
buzz-saw. But if the nation must
experience another fight upon the
booze issue it might as we'll come
now as at any other time. The
champions of liquor may wager a
safe bet that it will be first-class
fight and they'll finish with a full
that they been
1.-The races"
Business authorities are liberal
with. their predictions that business
conditions in practically all lines
are showing decided improvement
an. that this month shows apprecia-
BILE increases over last February.
Many lines are approaching normal,
il the estimates OF the authorities
are to be accepted. Lack of ag-
gressive effort on the part Of retail
interests seems to be contributing
more to the spirit OF, pessimism than
any other source Of commercial af-
fairs.
Poplar Bluff has been favored
with another cross-country highway,
in addition to the Lone Star Route.
The latest hard road project ex-
tends westward from that city and,
It is announced, building Of the road
soon will be reality. Another
instance where the Federal gov
eminent will utilize acme of our
hard cash, paid in taxes, for the
building of highway while, we are
striving to get the stretch of the
Lone Star through Greene county
Maybe, some day-after it is too
latewe will realize what we have
missed by not permitting Uncle Sam
to help us emerge from mud-pud-
die. We certainly will not be as
able financially to build a highway
without Federal aid as we would
with it,
IL there's such thing as ''jazz
politics. the Republican leaders at
Washington certainly are playing it
In lively fashion in dealing with the
soldier bonus bill. Mr. Harding
is some jazz" leader.
s.
The Arkansas Advancement Asso-
citation in exploiting the virtues of
Arkansas to the outside world is a
capital idea. The plan should be
heartily supported. The motto: 81
Am Proud of Arkansas" should be
made to ring true; we should back
II up in reality. We should be so
very proud, in fact. to be thoroughly
ashamed to not give our school sys-
TEN the financial support it re-
duires to make it 100 per cent, and
to lend hearty support to the build
ing Of highways like the Lone Star.
These are real essentials that would
prove to the world that we are really
proud of the state and are justified
in the adoption of that motto. We
cant be very consistent champions
OF the state and continue to nav out
our cash in taxes to the Federal
government for use in building hard
roads in other states, doing without
those roads ourselves, and oppose
every move that tends to the better
ment Of our school system.
The Jonesboro Chamber of Com
merce, unquestionably one OF the
most progressive community com
mercial bodies of any city in the
Southwest, has announced its hearty
support OF the hydro-electric power
project OF the Arkansas Power Cor
poration. The members of that oody
nave subscribed for stock in the
company and the public OF Craig
head has been invited to partici-
pate. " Is planned to cause the
building Of transmission line from
the dam on Red River and thus
supply cheap electric power to Jones'
boro with the view to encouraging
the coming OF textile mills and
other manufacturing interests.