The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-11-22

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the most autocratic government since the time o
Pharaoh" Lord Sydenham avowed that "ther
was an uneasy feeling in the country that the sub
marine menace was more serious than the authori
ties were willing to admit"
The government held that the admiralty hat
been ~singularly successful in the destruction O.
enemy submarines, but admitted that. the diff
culties in dealing with the menace had increased
The last two weeks has developed an astonish
ing quantity of election experts who had it figur
ed out several weeks ahead of time. That is true
but did you ever meet them beforehand?
Though the christmas ship" with $3.50, 00C
worth of supplies for starving Syrians will not
reach them until late in January, it will be sure to
get a holiday welcome.
Important, it true-the American Railway As.
ISOLATION says our railroads are 108,01O cars shy
of the number Of cars needed to move freight on
hand.
Anyway, the Pittsburgh woman who became
a great-grandmother three times \ in one day
didn't raise her grandchildren to be race suiciders.
= Hi Johnson's hold on California is as strong
as Bob La Follette's on Wisconsin, but it doesn't
necessarily follow they'll be senatorial buddies.
Price jumpers will be sure to utilize the de-
crop estimation Of the Department Of Ag-
to swat the consumers some more.
Can't help feeling a bit sorry for the New
Yorker whose wife asks a legal separation on the
ground that he was jealous of her bull dog.
Well you can't blame the two Delaware SOL
diers on the border whose votes selected two
home officials for being a little bit chesty.
John D. hasn't yet approved Hank Ford's idea
of putting "dry Michigan's breweries to turning
out denatured alcohol for automobile fuel.
This years tobacco crop tops the record by
~, 0OO, 900 pounds, and it's contraband to the al
lies, yet it isn't expected to be cheaper.
One of Washington's winter sports for visit
JlS WILL OC p1ShAuS CAAV AOoSA0 tAAS NUPASOA S"A
leries by their facial expressions.
AS near as understand it, Venizelos didn't
set up a new Greek government to depose the
to boss him.
Producers and consumers sea the question of
an embargo on. exports OF food stutfs
from f~arapart viewpoints.
Drawing a fine line-asking the supreme court
to hold that the Mann white slave law applies only
to commercialized vice.
Faulty as the electoral voting system is ad-
to be, considered from all angles no bet
ter one has been evolved.
In saying the strike order is still in effect,
are the leaders of the railroad brotherhoods try
ing to scare anybody?
Bryan hasn't O. KID the claim of women's Or
CARNATIONS, that the pacificists, with their little
olive branches, did it.
A London paper praises the wonderful work
lone for the allies by Understanding the four
egged kind.
Sir Sam Hughes, late Canadian minister of mil
tia, wasn't a gutter by choice, but from necessity.
Soon or late there'll be a demand too strong
o monkey with for regulation that regulates.
Sure, everybody knew Thanksgiving Day was
oming before Wilson officially proclaimed it.
Absenteeism is going to be politically costly in
he next house, or we miss our guess.
Some folks claim to have the notion that VIII
on is going to sub for Santa Claus.
No matter who claims the credit, the silent
otter knows who did il.
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