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Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
- BIBLE THOUGHT I
I FOR TODAY
Bible Thoughts memorized, will prove n
priceless heritage in after years.

MASTER, THIS WOMAN was talkan
IN adultery. Moses commanded us that
such should be stoned: but what saw
est thou? He said unto them. Ue mat
IS without sin among Won. let him
first cast stone at her.-John S:4 =,
Z. u %
O DEATH, where is tby stingq n
grave, where is thy victorv9 Rut
thanks be to God which givetb ne tbe
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
I Cor. 10 80, 81. - '''''
THOU SHALT LOVE THE ToRD
thy God with all thy heart. and Win
all thy soul, and with all tby strangtb
ana with all thy mind and thy neigh
oour as thyself.-Luke O:27.
IHE WORK OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
Shali be peace; and the effect of rigbt-
eouSness, quietness and assurance for
ever AMI lay people shall owen in a
peaceful habitation, and in sure dwa,I 20 !
inss, and in quiet resting places :.
Isaiah 80: IL, is. p'''
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
At Maynard

The senior ediotr Of the Star Her
aid spent last Saturday at Maynard
where we mingled with a big per cent
of the star Herald family at that
place. Forty-seven new and renewal
subscriptions were received during the
day. most of which were voluntary as
we did very little soliciting. The peo-
ple of MAYNARD are loyal friends to the
paper and we were made to feel that
we were indeed welcome among them.
MAYNARD is always busy place
during the fall season and 1t is espec-
ially so this fall on account of the eX-
cellent cotton market there. The town
has two gins and both are being run
day and night and then cannot take
care of the demands. The average
receipts for the past two weeks has
been more than 100000 pounds daily
and there is much cotton in that sec
tion yet to be picked.
Saturday was the day on which j.
b. Weaver had advertised to give away
n number of premiums on merchandise
coupons and at the hour appointed
several hundred people congregated in
front of his store where the lucky num-
bers were called out and the prizes
awarded to the number of about fifteen.
There was no dissatisfaction express
ed, everybody apparently feeling that
the contest had been conducted fairly.
Weaver is a live wire and is doing
splendid business.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
Losing At Bung Hole and Spigot

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
is conducting an investigation to as
certain whether the farmers in its
district are growing proper proper
tion of food and feed crops. The in
vestigation no doubt will produce
much valuable information, but if its
sole purpose is to learn whether Texas
cotton farmers are producing the feed
their farm animals need and the food
stuffs their families require it repre-
sents needless effort. There is no need
for an investigation to prove a thing
that is as obvious as the Rocky noun
tains.
Neither Texas, nor any other South
ern state, is producing in its cotton
country a sufficient amount of feed
and food stuffs. The cotton madness
that ruined so many of our ancestors
still grips us. We deplete our lands
by the one-crop system, when we
might build them into better fertility
by rotation of crops With fewer
acres of cotton to cultivate more bales
can be made because the smaller acre
age makes intensive cultivation pos
sible. With fewer acres i'm cotton there
will be more acres for feed and food
crops. Cotton is a real money crop
only when the grower makes also suf-
ficient feed for his stock and a large
part of the food necessary for the
people on the farm. Under our present
system of farming, the cotton grower
sends a large part of the money he re-
ceives for his cotton to Iowa and
Kansas or some other state to buy
feed for his stock.
A conservative estimate of the sum
spent annually by Arkansas for feed
stuffs bought in other states is $780,
100000. And we are losing at both
the bung hole and the spigot. We are
depicting our soil, and thereby decreas-
ing the value of our lands, and we
are giving to other states a large part
of the money we receive from the cot
ton crops that deplete the sOil.-Arkan-
sas Gazette.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
Cy Adams Says

According to the last census there
were $4,000 farms in Arkansas; six
farms out of 100 had automobiles, and
one farm i'm $50 had water piped into
the house. Fifty to $500 will put
water in the kitchen on many farms,
See the county agent about getting
a carload of Pyrotol, the war explos-
i've, into the county. If you don't,
Missouri and other states are going
to get the benefit of all the distribu-
tion.
Your wife probably doesn't walk 100
miles and carry 90 tons of water for
the house, but lots of Arkansas wo-
men do, and a water system will save
them all the work.
l saw binder this summer that
was cutting its fifteenth crop, and
another one that sold for $4,000 that
was just five years old. One was
sheltered and one was not.
Why put off building, when there
is a big supply of sand, gravel, and
stone close by? Used with cement.
they are among our best building ma
terials.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
Every Street in POCd-
hOntdS
Has It's Share of the Proof That Kid
new Sufferers Seek.
Backache? Kidneys weak?
Distressed whit urinary ills?

Backache? Kidneys weak?
Distressed whit urinary ills?
Want a reliable kidney remedy?
Don't have to look far. Use what
Pocahontas people recommend. Every
street in Pocahontas has its cases.
Here's one Pocahontas mans expert
ence.
Let wm. Sage, carpenter, Pyburn
St, tell IT,
He says: Dull pains across my
back took all my strength and some
times l could get up out of bed.
was all in and had to quit work for
awhile. My kidneys were weak and
very active and my rest was broken
at night. l had heard of Doan's Pills
and decided to give them a trial.
Doan's cured me of the attack. Kidding
me Of the lame back and strengthen
ing my kidneys. Whenever my back
troubles me l use a few Doan's and
soon feel like my old self again"
G0c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn
Co. Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
Obituary
Resolutions of Respect

Hall Of Orient Lodge |. 0. o. f. 213
POcahOntas, Arkansas.
Whereas, the Almighty has seen fit
to call from among us our beloved and
esteemed brother, J. Il. Williams. who
has for several years been a faithful
member of our order.
Whereas, in the death Of Brother
Williams, our order has lost faithful
member the community a good citizen.
and the family loving father and
friend. and
Whereas, Brother Williams has left
a wife and eight children to mo ri
the loss Of their loved one.
Re it resolved by this lodge. that
we extend to the bereaved one, our
deepest sympathy and respect in this
trying hour, when their best friend is
called from the walks of man.
BE it further resolved, that n copy
OF these resolutions be given 70 tbq
family Of the deceased, COPY spread
upon the minute book of our lodge
and copy be Transmitted to the Poca.
hontas Star Herald for publication.
Done in open lodge this Oct q. 1924
Ben Johnston.
b. w. Williams.
E. 7. Harrison,
Committee
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
RED CROSS IS URGING J
BETTER-HEALTHB BATTLE
TireIeSS in Services Advancing
Cause of Freedom from
Human Suffering.

Not alone in preparedness for emer,
gencies, but In a tireless offensive
battle for better health is the Ameri-
can Red Cross nurse maintaining In
peace time the high tradition Of her
war service. AS in war, the same
self-effacing service for humanity
goes on its quiet, effective way con-
tent in its accomplishments, seeking
no public acclaim. Enrolled in the
Red Cross Nursing Service are 4o636
Of these missioners Of health, nearly
1000 carrying the message of finer
public health to as many communi.
ties and LOO teaching large classes in
home hygiene and care OF the sick.
Exactly 100 Red Cross nurses are still
on duty overseas, helping the struggle
forward toward the high standard Of
American nurse efficiency in many
countries.
In the Government services BIT en-
rolled Red Cross nurses are on duty
with the Army, Navy, Public Health
Service and the Veterans Bureau,
while the entire active enrolment is
maintained as a reserve for the Army
Nurse Corps and available to the
Navy in a national defense emergency.
Nine hundred nurses were added to
the roll the last year.
Red Cross nursing, however, has
perhaps its finest expression out in
the places laid waste by IRE, food and
storm, and in the back reaches far
from the centers Of population. In ev-
cry disaster the Red Cross nurse is
first called for. first to respond. and
the last to leave her post Of duty
among the suffering victims. In the
isolated sections OF Alaska, North
Carolina, Virginia, Idaho. and among
the bleak islands Of Penobscott Bay.
Me-. her ministrations are making
hard lives easier and working for q
brighter future for the children. Her
part in the human drama Of the time
Is increasingly important, although II
is subdued by the very nature Of her
work.
The policy OF the American Red
Cross to establish under Chapter con-
troll public health nursing services In
communities lacking such facilities has
been justified and this pioneering work
is everywhere endorsed by authori-
ties who are quick to take II over az
a proper municipal function and duty
OF taxpayers. The Home Hygiene and
Care OF the Sick program has further
penetrated into the schools as a den.
mite part OF curriculums. During the
year $4,000 school pupils took this
Red Cross course. Three telephone
corporations adopted It and graduated
go employe students.
As good health depends upon right
eating the Red Cross Nutrition Ser
vice continued to promote individual
and community health. particularly the
health Of mothers and children. This
service reached nearly 10000 persons
during the year and found work to do
for several thousand Red Cross volun-
teer workers.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
Advocates Hog Law
Water Valley, Ark.
October 2S, 1924.

Dear Editor:
I want to say to the citizens Of Ran
dolph county that we need a hog or
small stock law and l believe that
majority Of the people would like to
have such a law This law will make
IA compromise on the general stock law
and the people ought to be willing to
agree to that.
G. w. Wells said that 4-barb wire
fence had given good satisfaction
where it had been tried and that is
what / have wanted for five or six
years. / didn't think we could get
the general stock law Now let's go
to work and get the hog law or 4-wire
fence by petition. Get up one in each
township and when our representative
goes to the general assembly in Little
Rock next January, let him pass it.
Then Wen know how to build our
fences before crops.
am an old man, 40 years old, and
l think l know what the aged, poor
and the widows need. Now, we
have a good mast this time but the
years are far apart when a good mast
is on the ground. can see that the
hog law will make peace because they
are out on the acorns and not out in
the corn.
l say again, let's go to work and
get hog law that all will be satisfied
with. I'm not satisfied with the way
things are now. The hogs eat my corn
up, and root up my meadow.
Let's hear from all of you who have
written and others who desire to be
heard on the subject. We will start
a petition in Water Valley township
if the others will.
Yours for a better place to live in,
W. A. Cremeens.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
Red Cross Fighting
First Aid Battle
To Conserve Life

Reliable records establish the fact
that more than $4,000 accidental
deaths occur every year in the United
States. The records show that 206
American citizens are killed every
day; that 3S of these deaths are due
to automobiles, 35 to falls, 1s to
drownings, 16 to burns.
Facing such distressing sacrifice OF
life is the First Aid Service Of the
American Red Cross. fighting through
education and demonstration to instilT
a conciousness OF safety in the public
mind and teaching approved methods
which assure that competent hands
will ere for injured persons until the
arrival of doctors. Trained service In
the first few minutes is vital in
serious accidents and saves many
precious lives.
One OF the most encouraging signs
Of the past year is the record Of tho
Red Cross First Aid Insurance Car
No. which Travelled 800 miles along
trunk lines, stopping at 1877 places.
The cars staff of surgeons gave 911
demonstrations to audiences compos
ed Of 42,150 railroad men. 1900 high
school and college students, $4,000 In
dustrial workers. 1000 members Of
clubs, and nearly $4,000 policemen.
fremen. and other municipal en-
pioyes, total Of $4,000.
Red Cross First AID certificates
we're conferred upon 1885 persons
who took the course last year, an In
crease of 1000 over 1928. Telephone.
gas and electric companies, public
service corporations and other large
employers of the country adopted the
Red Cross course, and their team
contests everywhere were witnessed
by huge crowds with as much interest
as develops at popular athletic games.
In the Industrial field the growth OF
First Aid practice to fight to reduce
preventable accidents and unneces-
sary loss of life has received wide
recognition. The promise Of an un'
precendented advance in this hne
cause lies in the evidence Of the great
strides systematic instruction In First
Aid has made throughout the country
through the Red Cross Chapters and
the the work OF the experts In this
service under direction Of the national
organization.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
High Priced Feed

Those Of MS who have depenueu %
the North and Northwest Tor si"-i
and especially for corn, VIII DC sIl
ou,lv Handicapped these next t"ei,e
months. The American corn crop Is
short and the price high. Prices are
now ss per cent higher than Il ye"-
ago and corn for December delivery
66 per cent higher than a year "so'
Prices may go even higher-in lac''
will 90 higher, if unfayorable weather
nrovaiIs between now and the time me
western corn crop is harvested
With corn high in price, other grains
will 20 higher. Hence, there are TWO
things that we should do now TO pre-
vent us from having to buy any hlgh'
priced corn. oats, hay and other feeds
until next years crops are made.
The first thing to do is to save ~
the best condition possible all tne
feeds we have or will harvest TINS
year.
The second important thing that we
can do now is to sow grazing hay ana
grain crops this month and neXt-so"
more Of them than we have been sow
ing, and make better preparations 1or
them than we have been making. Fan
and spring grazing will save much
high-priced grain, and if the grazed
crops are of the right kind and abun-
dant, we may in this way overcome our
grain shortage to the extent OF one
third the quantity required.
The best grain we can produce early
next spring is oats. This crop will
give us grain for feed three months
before next years corn crop will ma
ture. Besides, oats make a better hot
weather feed than corn. We can have
oats at low cost from June until corn
natures, and then follow the oats
with corn or a dozen other crops, and
thus broaden our diversity and
strengthen our live at home policy.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30

The most difficult thing to do is tC
think. If anyone should doubt it, lei
him try IL some time.
To rise above prejudice, and passion
and personal interest and think sub
ject through to an inevitable, logical
conclusion, starting from an axiom and
keeping in mind only demOnstrable
facts and proved principles, ah, this
is feat.
Our fears, our hopes, our avarice,
our ingrained prejudices, our hatreds,
determine our opinions and convic-
tions more often than our reason. He
is big man who can separate himself
wholly from the narrOwness of person
al aversiOns and dislikes and the petit
ness of selfish interests and give a
clear, unbiased judgement upon an
issue in which he is more or less per-
sOnally concerned.
One of the sure signs that a person
is thinking in the terms of prejudice
and passion rather than of rational
thought is his quick descent in an ar
gument to the use of epithets and the
impugning of motives.
II is much easier to transfx your
opponent with an Opprobrious adjec-
tive than to disprove his argument,
much simpler to overwhelm him with
billingsgate than to contradict his
facts, easier to impute base motives
than to prove his logic fallacious.
So fundamentals calls the liberal
"anti-Christ" and mOdernist retorts
"old fogey." Republican calls the
Democrat radical and the Progress
sive red" and they return the COM
pliment by sneering illusions to Wall
Street. Our friends of the religious
press are sometimes eloquent in the
language of vituperation, and while
in one column there may be fearful
plea for tolerance and gentle sympathy
in the treatment of all questions
throughout the other pages the vocabu-
larry of abuse is exhausted,a b and the
epithets bigot, fanatic and liar are the
simplest and hndest.
But while there may be temporary
applause for the vehement editor who
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
To Avoid Poor Crops, Don't
Have Bare Soils

1t is surely well proved that cover
vent loss of soil fertility. The best
cover, of course, is a growing crop,
but any traveller through the South
during the winter months is struck
with the bare, washed, and weathered
appearance of our fields. There must
be some reason why the practical farm
ers of the South so seldom plant win
ter cover crops, but allow their fields
to remain hare throughout nearly half
the year. If It pays to keep some crop
growing on the land as nearly all the
time as practicable, why is it more
Southern farmers do not do so?
1t would appear that there is no
question about cover crop being bene-
fetal to the land, and the reason for
the absence of their winter cover
crops must therefore be that farmers
do not believe the benefits are sufiici-
ent to pay the cost and inconvenience
of getting them. But ON the other
hand. those who have tried winter
cover crops most are quite positive
in their claims that they pay. and
pay well. Naturally one is justified
in placing more confidence in the Opin-
ion of the farmers who have used
cover crops extensively than in those
who have used Them little or not at
all.
Cover crops for the land are obtain
ed at considerable cost and much in
convenience by the man who confines
his farming almost exclusively to cot
ton, or to any other single spring-plant-
ed field crop There are cotton farm
ers, however, who believe that cover
crop, even for cotton lands, pays, but
the majority evidently do not or they
would use them more. Who are right,
those who use winter cover crops or
those who do not?
Whatever may be the answer to the
above question, is can scarcely be
doubted that our bare winter soils and
the depleted fertility Of our cultivated
lands are largely due to our faulty
cropping system.
When our money crops are grown in
rotation, with the land one-half the
time in grasses. pastures, and fall
sowed crops. real progress i'm soil build
ing will be made. Until then, we will
I have bare soils in winter and poor
crops in summer
Until then we shall also have INSULT
cient livestock and insufficient feed for
those we have.
We need cover crops for the benefit
of the land, hut that object alone will
not bring them. When we combine
with the purpose of soil Improvement,
the purpose of winter grazing, more
feeds and more than one money crop,
then we shall make more progress to-
ward covering the land and keeping
it covered at all times. We don't like
the term winter cover crop" We like
better the terms, winter grazing crops"
and "fall-sowed crops" for feed or for
other purposes. And best of all, a
cropping system involving pastures and
fall-sowed broadcast crops in a rota-
tion with the row crops like cotton and
corn
There is probably no greater in
huence than our bare soils during
winter in the wasting of our soils. and
certainly nothing which does more to
give our landscapes a weathered and
ugly appearance in winter.-Progres
siye Farmer
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30
Editors Eye

We insist on foreigners becoming
posted in American law, but when
eminent lawyers disagree one wonders
how the foreigners may construe our
constitution.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30

Notwithstanding the fact that the
18th Amendment TO the Constitution
places men and women on a footing
of political equality, the Supreme
Court of Idaho has ruled that women
are not eligible to serve as jurors in
that state.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30

laws about him with the most mp
roarious verbal lashings, because the
populace always loves a fight III tne
long run prejudice, passion and hatred
must yield to facts and reason.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30

Include paint, whitewash oil
grease, and disinfectant in the list OF
supplies for the farm. 1t will make a
difference.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30

There were enough stay-at-homes IL
the last presidential election to havt
made new political party and de
feated the successful ticket by more
than million majority that it had
and still left about million stay-at'
homes sitting around the house
Those who attempt to ignore the
duty of citizenship-leave public af.
fairs for others to look after-have
only themselves TO blame If things
20 wrong. Let's vote on November 4,
Thrift is fast becoming a national
habit The first step in this direction
is to put yourself on cash basis.
The merchants and business houses
of Pocahontas are not capitalized to
loan money. Selling merchandise is
their business. When you ask them
to carry your account, it means a loan
to you of their goods, which represents
money. These accounts tie up his
working capital and increase his over
head cost of doing business. Accounts
should be paid promptly. Banks are
organized TO loan money. If you are
short of money to make the purchases
you need, make loan at your banl;
and pay cash for what you buy.
Ezra Meeker, who blazed the Oregon
Trail in 1852, driving an OK team from
the Middle West to the Pacific coast
has just completed the return trip by
airplane.
When he went West there were no
stage coaches along the route; no rail
road penetrating the forests and des-
erts. The airplane and the automo-
bile had only been dreamed of. And
perhaps these more modern means OF
transport would never have been
devised and perfected had not such
men as Ezra Meeker, pathfinder and
pioneer, employed to the fullest capa'
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30

city the thing at hand, emphasized the
need of better method.
Ezra Meeker retraces, in day or
two, the route which required months
to cover seventy years ago. Men talk
into simple device and are heard
halfway around the world. Seas are
crossed and recrossed in comfort and
comparative safety. And even great
er and better things have been ac-
compliShed by contemperdneous ac4
tivity.
AS men have been emancipated from
tedious plodding, they have gained a
clearer concept of their freedom. The
manner Of this deliverance has not
been accidental or merely evolutionary.
Thought, rightly directed, has been
the agency. This being true no one
can place limit beyond which such
development and growth shall not go.
A peculiar incident happened i'm the
campaign for membership in the Ar
kansas Democratic Club in Little Rock.
Solicitors were provided with member
ship applications which contained rul-
ed lines for dozen or more signatures.
Eight or ten of these came back with
"A Friend" opposite 81 subscription.
That so many would give 81 TO the
Davis campaign and desire to conceal
his identity was commented upon in
the club headquarters. An investiga-
tion brought to light that the friend in
every case was n Republican who stat
ed that he wanted to see Davis win,
because he stood for something con-
structive but that they would not
advertise their subscription by placing
their name upon the subscription
blank.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30

Sign the American Red Cross roll
this year for hunanity's sake.
Pocahontas star herald., 1924-10-30

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