Show ARKANSAS RECOVERY f r fi rI i Compared with nations of Europe America is decidedly young Unless we have lost all allour all our youthful qualities during the past two years which is doubtful ul we can expect our nacional nacional na- na cional onal vigor and optimism now under a cloud clout to reassert itself later and out I sooner or pull pun us of the depression The remarkable remarkable remark- remark I able ability of American to come back can be illustrated bythe by the present example of Arkansas Arkan Arkan- j sas and and especially by the little I community of England in that state i iI I A few months ago it will be remembered when the drouth was wab upon the Middle l West all sorts of pessimistic stories came out of Arkansas It is true Irue that conditions were bad but it now becomes evident that predictions for the future were undoubtedly too tic It will be remembered how many of our busy statesmen asserted that Arkansas must have hava something like the dole that the state was in a bad way and never recover without without without with with- out assistance from federal treasury for feeding and clothing clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing the citizens of the ellou drouth th stricken belt Reports to the Department of Agriculture in Washington confirm the glowing picture of the change of ot conditions in Ar Ar- kansas Instead of devoting all their time and soil to cotton this year the citizens of the drouth stricken area paid some attention to the raising of food crops Clubs and civic organizations organizations organizations in various parts of Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas during the past winter vinter carried on campaigns urging urging- the people to plant food crops m 30 o that there would be plenty o o eat in the winter of 1931 32 The people responded and the result is that Arkansas people have food for themselves themselves themselves them them- selves and sonic some to spare for their less fortunate neighbors Even better is the fact that there has come a changed spir spirit t tand and that the people are now confident of the future As Mr Mr- Fountleroy put it All AU this i ir u- u aside from a bumper cotton crop Though cotton is now sell sel selling ing on the Memphis board at atthe atthe atthe the lowest figure since 1915 I and the prospect of a still lower figure is in sight the people I are arc not discouraged They are proud of their pardons and their then fields of hay and corn Best of all the people of Arcansas Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas cansas have brought about this improvement t in conditions S- S without relying on or any form of the dole It is true truc that money was borrowed for seed but the people are paying this i back many in fact ha have vc al- al realy repaid the loans The citizens of Arkansas have rei re- re Hed i after aftel all not on the Farm Falm Board or benefits from the pub lie treasury but on their own industry and fine American spirit The two United States senators and the Arkansas delegations delegations delegations del- del in Congress have a n aright aright right to be and doubtless are proud proud of the gallant and successful successful successful suc suc- fight put up lip against adversity adversity ad- ad by their fellow citizens during the past twelve months Well Vell the Red Cross took care of the stricken drouth regions and twelve months have rolled by Arkansas is again blooming like a rose Only a few v days ago writes Thomas Fauntleroy in an unusually interesting ar- ar I in the bunday New York ork I limes the little community 01 at ii England scene of bread riots a lew months ago held a country countrywide wide WIlle the occasion being the shipping of a truck truckload truckload t load of food from irom the people of ol Ithe the country to the unemployed in ill a neighboring Oklahoma com corn Mr 11 adds that the community has the most remarkable crops within I the memory of the oldest inhabitants inhabitants in in- habitants and and despair have given way to optimism optimism optimism and hope for the future |