The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-06

now who believe tnat ancient ding uosSo -
purpose and that ability to make a hvlng is much
better than full knowledge OF history we are
not sure that we agree with this IDEA, because IL
contains nothing that might develop character
and this we think should be the aim OF all school
systems. =
Don't know that the Kansas City judge who
decided that a married man who joined the army
was not guilty OF wife desertion meant to BOOST
enIstments, though that may be one OF the
effects. I
Cleveland is getting so much advertising by
having it's superintendent of schools $4,000 a
wear that other cities may be tempted into paying
theirs better.
In nominating the Kaiser for the Nobel peace
prize, as the "forefighter for the peace idea"
those Turkish educators must have meant to put
the emphasis on Fighter"
British railway passenger rates have been
lacked up so per cent, but the mileage graft
of Congress may operate to prevent a similar
Jump in the i. S. A.
A careful consideration of the problems OF
small boys, with whom we have never had much
contact, co~nyinces us that history is the best edu-
Gator known to man. /
We never begrudge a man any money that he
made himself, but we do sometimes wonder how
soon some people would have starved if it hadn't
been for pa and ma.
Somebody said the intense rainy season was
caused by SO much explosions in Europe, due to
the war, but if that were so we would have rain
almost continuously.
We see where some Wall Street operator clear
ed over four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in ten days. Would that we could do some such
piece OF clearing.
Sweden and Great Britain are still trying to
agree over the war measures, but there doesn't
seem to be much signs of an ending OF their
differences .
The Bethlehem Steel Company advertises that
it spent $500, 900 without beng able to make a
shell that came up to the fastldious taste OF the
navy.
A poor method of furnishing well-to-do people
is to fine them. The rich man can pay a fine with
out knowing it. He would remember road work,
though.
How the bunch of so-called independents in the
the next House will stand in public esteem will
depend on whether they play for self or for the
general good.
At a fire in New York 600 children marched
out in perfect order while 900 grown-ups stam-
peded down the stairs. Just a little training!
There was a time when a lecturer could get a
crowd out to hear a serious discussion of life and
its problems, but not in the days that are.
Gen. Wood wants to go after the War depart
ment with a sandbag and reorganize it" but Con-
gress hasn't agreed to furnish the ~sandbag.
This German diplomat who says it will end
the war in 80 days may only be trying to create
justification in the minds of horrorfed people.
Presumably the Washington broker who says
q clever man with ears open can always predict
what's coming considers himself clever.
Anyway, even the pretense Of recognizing in.
ternational law has now been dropped.
Stay-up-all -nighters don't care a boot what the
daylight-savers may do.
Germany's blunt statement Of intentions
seemed to call for a reply in kind.
In the U-boat zone is no place for a peace
dove.