The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-13

GREENWOOD, MISS, JUL ID, IS1''
Baseball has pinch-hitters; our navy SUD-
hitters.
As things now look, there may be no spirits Of
1918.
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War can lap up a loan as quick as a cat can a
saucer of cream.
John Bull is an affectionate old guy-to those
who fight for him.
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RIGHT now insurance rates on the lives OF
spies are prohibitive.
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To a great many folks, patriotism consists in
unnecessarily raising prices.
Mighty glad Hoover hasn't asked for an ICE
less summer to help win the war.
It's claimed that James Jam will be unable to
qualify as a member OF the beerage.
Kerensky has a Caesar-like way Of talking to
his soldiers; also of leading them to victory.
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We went, we saw, and we shot off their peri
scopes. ana our guns are SILL oAnA AAs'
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Piqeonholes in government departments hide
much, but none are quite big enough to hide a
spy.
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Wonder what ails Tom Lawson that he hasn't
written Secretary Daniels, offering to find that
spy?
~ Y-.- Ill L. L,,,, coxoo%irna 1o,adly dis.
claiming responsibility for the doings OF East st.
Louis.
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Execution of a spy or two in Washington would
be the quickest way to put a crimp in the IN
dustry.
If the censors make Willie Hearst mad enough,
he'll start an airship line to bring his papers mil
itary news. ..lr'.
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Somehow reading of the antics of those Wash
ington pickets recalls the old New England duck
ing stool.
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The neutral nations are to discover that selling
American goods to Germany at a fat profit is nc
longer in style.
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Wilson isn't letting the spy-hunt take his at
tention off the bigger forgetting ready tt
smash Bloody Bill.
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Senators Chamberlain and ,Tillman have beer
making a noise like willingness to attend a lynch
ing bee, when a spy is caught.
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Herbert Kaufman wrote an item headed
"Flattery tells no truths" Somebody must hav'
been trying to fatter Herbert.
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Doctors tell us good yawns are excellent TO
the nervous system. Our nerves seem to nee'
such a tonic particularly on Mondays.
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Owing to recent home happenings, Boston ed
itors are less severe than usual in scolding com
munities in which riots are pulled OIL.
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Secretaries Baker and Daniels must envy Sec
rotary Lansing, who is taking a vacation, as the
haven't a chance to follow his example.
Americans are by nature impatient, but for a
that they would rather have military news delaye
a little than to have the lives OF our soldiers er
dangered by its premature publication.
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The fashion designers for men predict that tn
STYLES for the next Spring will be radical depa1
lures from those of the past. Maybe by tina
time all men will be wearing coats Of mail.
The Russian offensive in Galicia indicates ths
the Root mission to Russia has succeeded in n
suscitating the bear that was nearly as dead 9
a doornail.
Another swat for the calamity yowlers-Un
Sans farm loan business is booming. More ths
$12OOO,0OO has been loaned, and applications Il
about S1OO,OO0,00O more are being considered.
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City men frequently buy farms that they ha,
never seen. Never heard of a farmer buying cit
property sight unseen" The American yeoms
IA too s,1snicious of CITY slickers" to let tn.