The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-26

Course Teddy knows the FIRST duty OF 0 soboler.
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Minority leader Jim Mann has q near-revolto on
his hands.
Lloyd George has earned an additional title
strike settler.
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Bows, you can do your registering by mail, but
not your soldering.
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Warm weather without being hot would indeed
be ideal warm weather.
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The sooner Congress gives Wilson what ne asks
for the more popular it will be.
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Buy a liberty bond and your claim to be helping
to win the war cannot be questioned.
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And by the way, where is Gen Coxey? Doesn't
he want to lead q division in France?2
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Only one sure way for the Senate to- stop exc
cutiye session "leaks"-drop executive sessions.
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In spite of countrywide knocks those suffrage
pickets still hang around the White House gates.
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In war, an ounce Of cooperation with the gov
eminent is worth more than q ton of carping criti-
cism.
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When we consider the present status Of world
peace we wonder if the people on Mars ever acted
that way?
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In LeAore county soil-tIlers are speeding up
spring operations; the same thing is being done
on the west front.
One occupation in Greenwood that should new
er be abandoned-the art of making foresight as
good as hindsight.
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Don't fail to register and answer the ques-
to know his exact age.
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If there is a country without a food crisis, it is
missing a fnet lot of world advertising by not
stepping under the spotlight.
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AS a lot Of men see il, posterity is due to get
sufficient benefits from the war to make it fair
for it to pay its share Of the cost.
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That old song, THE Night Has a Thousand
Eyes, must also refer to the eyes of our potatoes
just getting wise enough to look around.
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Food administrator Hoover serves without pay
and asks for volunteer assistants-opportunity fol
those who've been using the hammer on him.
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Somebody should slip it to the war correspon,
dents to invent some other phrase to substitute
for "bitter fighting and desperate fighting"
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Garard blames women for the high prices o
foodstuffs. The former ambassador had better
watch out. Blaming things on the women nevel
makes a man popular nowadays.
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Ordering a regiment of veteran marines to g
with Gen. Pershing was paying a deserved homo
to a branch of the service that has always bee,
among the first on, the fighting line.
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"a committee left for Washington to protes
against the emergency war taxes" was the con
GLIDING sentence in q business item. What avail
eth protests when patriotism 10 essential?
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Immediately after Uncle Sam announced tn
loan Of $1,000, 900, 900 to Russia, provisional gov
eminent officials stirringly announced that Russi
would fight to the finish. Money seems to max
the mare go, even in Russia.
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We are dubious over all this talk about "selec
tive CONSUMPTION" It has completely demoralize'
our Sons Of Rest. A number Of them have actual
" gone to work, and others are seriously consider
ine 4 life Of toil-untl the war is over. Thus on
IN one our cherished institutions are being smash
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WHATS IN AN ADJECTIVE.
A writer has put these things in the sam
class:
A friendly poker game; 'one' drink;
HAPPY marriage; . perfect" day.
Add others to suit yourself; and don't forge
~ Adjectivss.