The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-22

He deserves your harshest censure for his many
shortcomings, principal of which was his rank fail
ure in raising a son.
The man who WINS a vacant lot adjoining
the one on which he lives and allows that lot to
run to weeds is literally burning up money. If he
is so ~eternally averse to gardening, he could cas-
lily keep a hundred or two laying hens thereon,
and within a year or two retire with a million.
But, then, only a cross eyed man can see the end
of his nose.
Fellow dropped into the local bank yesterday,
and after looking carefully in every direction
withdrew a valuable package from his pocket
and showed it at the cashier. "Put it in the safety
vault, quick, and give me receipt" he hoarsely
cried. The cashier ~gingerly unwrapped the pack
age, took one look-and tainted. It was a spud.
The old threadbare trick Of auctioning off an
been kicked into the discard. An egg commands
much higher prices.
If we have to raise a great army there will
be one grand rush to enlist, for soldiers are fed
on SPUDS AND BEANS.
And one can "hang out the flag" Of course.
But how many will follow it?
This censoring the American pres may be adj
vantageous, but it has it's drawbacks as well. Un-
der its operation even the widest of the yellow
can not scare up more than a dozen war
thrills day.
The kaiser is welcome to all of Carranza he
can swallow. We have too much regard for our
stomach to even want a nibble.
Plenty of exercise on the wood pile. Hop to it!
The government has subscribed $8,879,905 to
the &c., OO, 900 capital stock of the new Farm
Loan Banks. Even in the agricultural districts
the people showed little desire to take the stock.
While the farmers want the cheap money and
have flooded the banks with applications for loans
the tendency seems to be to let the government do
it all.
A well known preacher describes some music
he heard: "There was music-to commit assault
battery upon a perfectly good word-with it's
hammer and tongs, box-banging, whistle,
rasp and rattle and the whole vulgar volume of
smash and crash" The preacher must have heard
some that was playing around this town.
A prominent newspaper man shows that the
average cost of making print paper is only $33
a ton, but that in some instances the manufact-
urers have charged the consumers as much as
$3.50 a ton. It seems as if somebody ought to be
in prison about this situation.
The Baldwin works of Philadelphia have laid
off 1900 men because they are through filling an
order for 12-inch shells for the Allies. If we are
not mistaken they might as well keep the men
on their pay roll.
One thing the president did when he called
the extra session of Congress was to allow the
first woman congressman to sit in the House
eight months quicker than otherwise. We don't
mind the idea!
The Pennsylvania railroad had a record of
three years of operation without the loss Of the life
Of a passenger but one foggy morning last month
q passenger coach was telescoped and twenty were
killed.
Senior General Don Victoriano Carranza has
been duly and pompously elected president of
Mexico, but darned if we know which one Of 'em
he claims.
A dry Washington holds little zest for some
and they are likely to develop ser
ious affections in the throat, returning special
trips to specialists who stay in wet territory.
Uncle Sam never seeks a fight, and it has never
been profitable to push one on him,