The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-19

It's Hooverise or be ostraclsed.
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New Russia is a two-fsted scrapper all right.
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To Judge by their actions, some Senators are
not dry"
Cheer up, Shorty" the army has plenty of
room for you.
Soon or late those l. W. WIS. must be taught
that they own no state.
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One American ship that might well be torpe-
doed without warning is the censorship.
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A state may be dry, but if it rains you will
get soaked if you haven't an umbrella.
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Col. Tiddlywinks and Col. Fluffy Rufles are
still commissioners, but both are hopeful.
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There are so few things it will buy that the
iitney may be ~relegated to the junkpile.
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Well, a lot of us can sympathize with the
u. S. Treasury, which is short of small notes.
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They say the price-buster is coming, but he
must be travelling on a mighty slow schedule.
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Compared with some Washington correspon-
dents Annanias would look like George Washing
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Germany's government has promised to re-
form in the fall, but it omitted saying of what
year.
T4,. 40 81 low, ~ v,hiob Tho noyuc-fokarc n |
not promise a cabinet reorganization or a graft
scandal.
Wheat is now around So a bushel when a short
time it was So. The flour milers, however, don't
know it.
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Talking of cooperating with the people while
constantly robbing them can't be expected to con-
vince many.
At last Emma Goldman is doing something
matchmaking shirts and overals in the Missouri
penitentiary.
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If Wilson and his cabinet discussed all the
lies printed about them, they would have no time
to give to the war.
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There is coal enough in the ground to last 500
years; but if prices remain at their present level
it will last forever.
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The l. w. w. wants Sc a day and six hours
work six days a week. That probably is at the
root of the trouble.
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The embargoes against Germany do not pre-
vent the importation by the kaiser of sundry ulti-
matums from ~neutrals.
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Kerensky stirred up the Russians to action
while frail and ill. The kaiser is at least glad he
wasn't a very robust man.
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One no longer hears much about the Turks
probably because by this time there are no more
Armenians left to massacre.
The war is being brought home in the family.
Every time sister Sue sits on a used monograph
needle she thinks Of bayonets.
Our advice to the government is to quit argu-
ing about whether to build wooden or steel ships,
but to construct as many of both kinds as posi-
BILE.
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Whenever a Commercial stock wire' wishes
to stir up some excitement these days it announces
that the kaiser has abdicated. But he kaiser
doesn't know it.
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Gen. Pershing won't be satisfied with his tour
in France until he meets His Honorable, the Gen.
eralissimo Won Hindenburg. That will be consid-
cradle Of a meeting.
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A, reader hits the nail on the skull when he
sends in this one: ION Mondays and Wednesdays
China is a monarchy. On Tuesdays and Fridays
she is a republic and on other days Of the week
she is neutral"
The national anti-whiskey legislation will put
thousands Of saloons out Of business in such sec