The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-09

To the thirsty it will be the dry war.
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Golf link crops will feed no soldiers.
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The Senate is rum dry, but not bone-dry.
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On the chautauqua circuit Hoover would turn
'em away"
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Some optimist-the correspondent who cabled,
submarine danger over"
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Well, the sliding war tax on incomes at least
resembles the incomes of most of us.
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If Argentina gets much madden it will pitch
in and try to lick Germany all by itself.
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When everything else has been conserved the
conservers will operate on each other.
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Prices that apparently rose of themselves re-
qufre hard hammering to get down again.
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Though the death of old H. C. of L. has been
announced, there are many doubling retailers.
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It's going to be almighty hard for some folks
to economist enough to live within their incomes.
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Cooperation as interpreted by some men is
getting all the cream and leaving the res; tor 9TH
erS.
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"Help win the war; is a good slogan, even
if some slick g~rafters are utilizing it for personal
gain.
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STA that he could probably get man appointed to
office.
There is an object lesson ahead of the Japs
who say the U. S. A., will not be a material factor
in the war.
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Some official visits will be quieter-to conserve
powder, the War department has ordered salutes
cut out. -
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Spain's army is on top, and martial law rules,
which may be only another way Of saying Alfonso
is still boss.
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Congress need not fear to adjourn when it has
passed all the war bills-Wilson can be trusted
to conduct the war.
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All the foreign embassies in Washington have
increased their stats, but that hasn't increased
the attendance at pink teas.
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A cavalrynan in Alabama was so anxious to
get his gun to work that he shot, and seriously
wounded, a railroad conductor. |,
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While the administration is considering air.
craft plans, a Washington correspondent has
fought and won the war with them.
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May be something in the story that Congress-
woman Rankin will run for the Senate-she's
taken to seuthing around the government depart
ments.
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The %springing to arms in response to the
Presidents call for enlistment in the regulars
might have been more springly and still not have
had to be tied down.
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The Washington police seem to have beaten I
Congressman Howard, Of Georgia, who has intro. I
duced a bill to prohibit picketing with banners
any public building.
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Because we are England's ally is no good rea-
son for mixing up in its numerous home contro. I
versies, many able American editors to the con- {
trary notwithstanding. 6
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We might, with advantage, ~inaugrate a train +
ing camp for those wild asses who are continually
telling the government how to do things they t
couldn't do themselves. t
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Dividing them into drafted and exempted is, r
we fear, going to cause as much crashing of !
teeth as Billy Sunday predicts for the sheep and j
goat stunt Of judgment day. It
Cutting out the Hobbies for this that and the
other side issue could be a long step toward win
ming the war, but, alas, there are no signs of the b
abolition Of the Congressional lobby. |r
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It seems that the New York Tribune, once e