The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-23

Uncle Sans draft lottery beats lottery Of love.
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If you win, it's strategy; if you lose it was a
boner.
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This DR.. Michaelis has a name like a Russian
fortress.
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With $4,000 flyers on the job, We'll see who
bosses the air.
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Lemberc seems to have more "keys" than any
other city on earth.
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The I. w. w. acts as if it used to be a part OF
the Mexican army.
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Japan's war profits are so large that it is no
country for a peace advocate.
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It's a toss up whether the war or the Danbury
hatters' case will end first.
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The fellows who are exempt would make fine
performers in the home guards.
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Latest grub scare-claim that the corn crop
is "a per cent. below last years.
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The winter wheat crop has evidently come
back and showed up the pessimists.
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Members of the l. w. w. have one objection to
the army ration-it includes no BOOZE
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BY putting the numbered slip in capsules there
is no doubt how the country will take the draft.
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The draft machinery is constructed for rail-
road time but has been moving with stagecoach
speed.
Quite a lot of us beat the Council Of National
Defense to wearing out old clothes before buying
new.
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The Daniels-Bak %anti-vice crusade has the
Philadelphia officials and ward politicians on the
run.
Thomas W. Lawson is now in John D. Rookie
feller's class-threatened with arrest on account
of the tax laws.
We have a notion that it will be easier to make
a law to draft ~aviators than it will be to make
capable flyers of them.
In most cases, it is big profits, not sympathy,
that tempts ~neutrals to try to smuggle contraband
stuff to Germany.
The railroads wanted a Is per cent. freight in
crease. to which the coal operators naturally OBJ
jected. See the point?
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It's known to all that the wartime penalty for
spying is death, and the government need not hes
itate to impose it.
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Of course Gen. Pershing is enjoying the honors
paid him, but those who know him best are sure
he'll enjoy the fighting more.
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Our idea of a nice easy life for a German SOL
der is to be captured and given three near-square
meals a day in a prison camp.
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Ex-Attorney General Understands, Damn
the KAISER" is a companion slogan for Waiter
sons, ITO hell with the Hohenzollerns."
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England shows no signs of weakening. Sew
eral thousands of its expert golfers have consent
ed to pitch hay for farmers during the war.
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There is a "proponderating American note"
in French fashions this year, it is said. Possibly
that is because most of our French fashions are
being imported from New York.
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Some enterprising souls are laying bets that
the war will be over by fall. That's a short time
in which kingdom can take a fall, but as democracy
it keeping up with the times, it is moving fast.
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Retailers meeting in Washington have decided
on abolishing the delivery Of goods ION approval
Hereafter a person must buy or let it alone. Re-
turn Of goods has caused much loss and lost mo-
ton.
While one section Of the country is "dying
for rain" other sections will be swamped with
water from on high. If Mr.. Edison could invent
something to control nature we'd forget the SUBJ
marines.