The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-29
SOME OBSERVATIONS.

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fresh and attractive the rest OF your natural life.
You can clean up today, and there will be some
thing else to pick up. If you leave it, and keep on
leaving accumulations from day to day, it is only
a question OF a few weeks when that neglected
appearance is in evidence wherever you look.
And that is bad for this city. 1t is bad for the
health and the pocketbooks of the city. 1t is bad
every way you lock at it. But five minutes a
day will change all of this. 1t will keep your
place a bower OF ~neatness and beauty, and it will
instill a pride and contentm2nt in your heart that
will make you feel like another person.. Try it.
You will feel better, and your place will look even
more so.
WE NOTE, though, that some people who get
out on the street and below the loudest for civic
Improvement are the one who could best put in
their time cleaning up the : own back yards. We
do not want to disparage the preaching of civic
improvement-far from it, But we do want to ad-
vocate practicing before I eaching. The indolent
and Indifferent man sits n his own rubbish and
tells his neighbor what toedo, while the energetic
and prideful man goes head and does 1t and
thinks in his mind what a worthless cuss the con-
stitutionally 'tired' ore is. By the law of human
nature you must be one OF the other. Which looks
best to you? Which is best for the community?
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II NOW TRANSPORTS that while Count Won
Bernstorff was shedding tears over the agony Of
parting from his good American friends, his fel-
low conspirators were as busy as bees IN Mexico,
getting control of the finances of that unhappy
country and putting its munitions plant on a firm
basis. A few thoughtful people foresaw some
move of the kind, but as often as they opened
their mouths in warning they were met with the
parrot-like cry Of "iingo"-the last defense OF
an indefensible position. Now we will pay the
price of our folly.
ONE BY ONE our delusions are shattered.
We used to hear the sage advice of the economist
tell US to eat dried apples for breakfast, drink
water for dinner, and swell up for supper" But
the impossibility of any economy in the menu
can be seen when we remember that apples are
five cents each. Economy! Fortunately the fel-
low who coined that word is dead, and has no
means of knowing what a delusion it is today.
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IF OUR FOREFATHERs could come back to
earth they would want to get right OFT again.
This is no place for them. High prices VIC
bankrupt them, leg shows would blind them,
political rottenness would stagger them, and the
greed Of gold would ~nauseate them. No, this is
no place for our forefathers, good honest souls
that they were.
A FEW DAYS AGO he was Car of Russia,
~autocrat of all he surveyed. Now he is just plain
Nicholas Romanoff, shaking in his boots for fear
they will not leave him even his worthless life.
In time perhaps, he may degenerate into "Old
Nick" which forsooth, might be quite as appro-
pirate as any name he could bear.
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This. YOU know, is only "as we observe it."
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JUST BUSINESS.
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We know persons who become quite in
dipnant on receiving bills or statements from
business men because they think such things re-
fleet on their integrity and credit.
This is foolishly wrong. The bill or statement
is universally employed by business men to keep
their customers informed as to the condition of
their accounts. Only in rare cases is any ques-
tioning of credit intended. In fact the great ma
iority of business men become curious and a oft
indignant when no bill is sent.
Persons who are sensitive about this sort OF
thing will find they can spare themselves much
disapreeable ill feeling by accepting the same at
titude.
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What has become of the old-fashioned man
who used to spend a few days in this season haul
ING out the surplus potatoes that had accumulated
in his cellar. so they wouldn't sprout? If his son
has any spuds left he is employing heavily armed
guards to protect his premises from food rioters
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"Do you know" confided the lovely creature,
~ would convert my flower garden into a potato
garden this summer, only last year father dug
our potatoes before they went to seed, and they
say the seed this year is so high that | really don't
feel that l can afford to buy any"
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II is reported that French surgeons have been