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

The call to arms does not mean that every
male citizen is expected to shoulder a gun and
march off to war.
During these trying times, when the war lord
seems to be ruling the world, and ultimate hunger
confronts the people, the humble IMAM with hoe
is lust as much a good soldier as the brave
Young lad who enlists in the army, and goes forth
to uphold the stars and stripes.
The one is absolutely dependent upon the other
and since our lives and liberty are at stake, both
are essential for the sake Of humanity.
The first requisite to insure success as a soldier
of agriculture is soil fertility, and a very effective,
as well as perhaps the cheapest, way to build up
the land, is by the liberal use of crushed agricul-
tural limestone.
After thorough tests by expert biologists, and
being convinced that this Limestone contained an
unusually high per centage of calcium phos-
phate, the State of Mississippi established a large
Limestone Crushing plant near Okolona, which,
through the use Of convict labor, is supplying all
Mississippians with this h yh-grade fertilizer at
the rediculously low price CT sixty cents per ton
f. o. b. Okolona.
In addition to the low price, and as an in
centive to get the farmers to build up their soil
a special transportation rate has been put into ef-
feet by the State Railway Commission, conse-
%quently, Agricultural Limestone can be transport
ed over the M. & O. or Southern Railways within
a radious of two hundred miles, for from twenty
seven cents to one dollar per ton, according to
distance, and over connecting lines at slightly ad-
vanced rates.
For exact freight rates to your city, or
any other information, kindly address the State
Limestone Crushing Plant, Okolona, Miss.
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NEGROES IN DOUBTFUL STATES.
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Several of the mid-western northern states are
doubtful in presidential elections. Ohio, Indiana
and Missouri, for instance, can't be claimed by
either the Republicans or the Democrats until the
votes are counted, In the case Of Ohio, OF course
this is only true in the last decade or so, as in
McKinley's day there was no state more staunch'
lily Republican than Ohio.
In the last election Ohio went strongly fol
Wilson; and the electoral votes of that state, with
those of California-another doubtful state
clinched the election.
Since the last election some 10000 negroes
have emigrated from southern plantations to Ohio
the same number have gone to Indiana; and the
same number have spread over Missouri and Iowa
More than that number have emigrated to Illinois
These negroes and their wives will vote Re
publican almost as a body. Their votes undoubt
eddy will prove a tremendous factor in the mex
election in Ohio and Indiana, as well as Missouri.
They may hold the balance of power.
For instance, it is said the 5000 negroes il
indianapolis have for years held the balance o
power in Marion county, in which indianapolis j
situated; and Marion county has frequently he'll
the balance of power in the state of Indiana.
This situation probably will be duplicated il
the doubtful states mentioned. According to GU
constitution, a negro's vote count as much as tn
vote of the white man, and in the north their vote
are not eliminated. If the states mentioned shoul
happen to hold the balance of power in the ma
! tional election-like Ohio did in the last-th
votes of these negroes who have emigrated mort
may be the deciding factors as to the presidents
result.
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