The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-01-12

THE GRENADA SENTINEL
O. F. LAWRENCE, Editor and Publisher
w. w. WHITAKER, Associate Editor
ELLETT LAWRENCE, Business Manager
GRENADA, MISSISSIPPI
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- THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GRENADA COUNTY
Utilize the present; the past is gone and the future has moi
gotten here.
What There re is ), just st as good At your door as at ANYBODY ese's
vision. AN '1
We have some people whose lives and actions are like a
y Gap-the are ever looking for something from without but
"snng to do nothing from within.
The farmer, merchant. banker or other business man who
some one else is hugging a delusion that will awaken him only
"nen ne tails over a financial precipice.
The State Supreme Court has before it the right of the
little towards settling or simplifying our tax problems. Maybe
n Will DO so If allowed to continue to exist.
Our subscription "honor rolf is prepared from the stubs
assistant editor and business manager and not being a i q hnr
familiar with the whoness of the many names, they made some
errors as to prehXing titles.
Reference was made in The Sentinel of last week to the
mighty satisfactory sale of Grenada county hogs in the st. Louis
market and the fact that there wa but one sale that beat them,
maj beng from Iowa. When it is remembered that Iowa has
i1ng peen oeVotlng itself to hog raising and that the hogs from
n1so state al w We're slightly older than those offered by our Mr..
better than the great northwest in this important industry.
The United States Senate passed a bill Tuesday MAXINE
IT a violation of federal law to sell or manufacture intoxicat;n9
nquors IN the District of Columbia after Nov. l. next. The vote
q 20 o. 10 - against. vi the vote ter. Democrats cast %
and the Republicans n. OF the vote against. % were cast Nv
democrats and 10 by Republicans. Both of Missssippls Sena-
s"s tG.eo lor the Dill. Who would have thought such action
favorably on the bill. VIII "'
aMe note from the daily press that Gov. Bibo is seriously
warranty ring an extra session of the legislature to pasS a law
n make the shipment of liquor into Mississippi impossi- =
Ole rms mas been revolving in the Governors mind nc doubt 4
since the decision handed down by the U. S. Supreme Court |
nonday sustaining the ,Webb-Kenyon law which forbids the
Shipment of liquor into those states which have laws against IL l
we nope the Governor will not make the call. We are in
thor0ugh sympathy with the non-shipment idea but it is a mat Z
ter that can wait until the legislature meets a wear hence III
law will suffice until then. We do not think that \
mere Is such a great moral exigency pending as will Justify the \
expense OF an extra session. 4
The United States Supreme Court handed down = decisior 4
Monday which struck the liquor interest of the country between \
ids ana sent 1t staggering along down the road to the pest 4
uDuse' d place u Whlch It's rights will not be disputed. The Il
"ebb-kenyon act, which grants to states the right to forbid \
h?u3r shipments was declared constitutional. John
oaIieycorn is beng hit from Dan to Beersheba. from Maine to h
from the Lakes to the Gulf, from Cape Cod TO Kala. i
nazoo, from the internal regions to breakfast. Let the good 4
proceed. There is nothing mean in whiskev a 20 hnt 4
10 use cleateS more deVlltrY IN men than the courts and the i
churches and all other moral influences car get ont for a
i Is one OF the main tools of the dive keeper. the weapon of the 1
ing pohuclan and the raiser of more HI than any other Hmm. h
sied agencies in all the world combined.
A REMEDY.
Did you ever hear Of a man taking a newspaner a lono =