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Miss Mahoney was reelected su-
preme president Of the association,
Mrs. J. A. Roger, of Erie, as record
Ell, and Miss Mary E.. Costello, of
Brooklyn, as treasurer.
During the year benefits were paid
a~ggregating $56,169. Collections in
twenty-seven years were ST., 400, 900
and disbursements $16,O00,0O0, in
round figures. The policies are for
$500 and $l00.-Catholic Morning
Star.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-09

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Daily Commonwealth.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-09

FOR RENT-One Groom resi s,s
modern improvements; "e' s..;r i
ington street; apply to Joe S's'''
Hotel Irving.
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MEMS STRAW HATS.
Final Clean Out Prices.

Final Clean Out Prices.
Choice Of any Stiff Straw Hat In
in stock, each ..."""........~--~-..~~SlM
All Soft Straw Hats ONE HALF price
5000 Panamas and Bangcock......$aee
$500 Panamas and Leghorns ...$25e
$3.50 Milons and Leghorns .....-.slD
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FIRST CLASS B00KkESfs.
employed, wants change. bes' a..
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WANTED TO BUY.

About II II. p. Steam Engine. Give
your best price in first letter. Ad-
dssss III LUNDY, Crussr, Miss.
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FOR RENT-Thres unfurnsna
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location 1 IL blocks from post onass'
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FOR RENT-5.room house, 49, 49,
lights and bath, three Dl0eA, ..rtA,
bushes. part city; $500 : h''''
Apply to A. r. Gardner.
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WANTED-To rent two OF w.
,nfurnished rooms; phone ia.
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Black Silk Hose at ...........pair 6se
Full fashioned, pure silk as long Is
rs dozen will last, black only and the
kind that will sell at s1.0o pair this
fall.
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FOR RENr-Nies once .0' pAs,.
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Capt. R. L. Foy was in Greenwood
today from Valley Farm on bNiness.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23
WHEN SPEECH GETS TOO FREE.

Squaring the theory of free speech
with the restraints which needs must
be put upon it in our present situa-
ton, appears to be puzzling question
tc some minds. If we believe in free
dom of speech, how free is this free
dom?
There is atothe' question: How far
could sp: ecE remain unchecked at any
time? Our freedom of speech is net
absolute, neither is our freedom in
amy other faculty, or indulgence. We
are free people; but that does MOI
mean that we are at liberty to follow
any wild impulse we please, to infringe
upon the comfort and dignity of others,
or to make ourselves nuisances in
either way
The trouble seems to be that the
right of free speech is misinterpreted
by certain lawless persons as giving a
right to Islander and right to attack
and pull down confidence in the gov
errment Speech is as free as it ever
was, but It never has been so free as
to permit persons to make themselves
offensive to their hearers.
In various communities steps have
been taken to protect the people from
mass meetings under the leadership
of unbridled and unbalanced agitators
who have desired to give expression to
their dissatisfaction with the govern
ment and throw out some of the gen.
eral quarrelsomeness of their DISPOSE
Itions. Taking definite steps to stop
such things becomes necessary, but
i il should be avoided when possible.
because the idea that speech is being
suppressed is one that is easily worked
into real mischief.
Exactly where liberty of speech ends
and license begins will always be de-
cided by opinion, and opinion varies
with the moods of the people.
The New York Times says: $50,
/ though liberty of speech is among the
finest of fine things, there is always &
but to be added" and for this reason
feels that general sympathy will be
with the appeal to the President for
definitions of treason and sedition large
enough to cover and penalize such
impugning of our motives and such at
tacks on our allies as have been going
on too long at too many of our street
corners.-Savannah Press.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23
cation vorwaerts:

cation Vorwaerts:
This may prolong the war until
Germany has been so beaten that
even our pan-Germans cannot
think of next time"
Suppose that a peaceably inclined
boy has bully down and is trying to
make him cry Enough ,'and the bully
says, All right, I'll say Enough now,
but as soon as my eyes heal I'll lay
for you and when I get a chance III
slip up behind you and smash you
with baseball bat" The chances are
the peaceably inclined boy would con-
tinue to trounce the bully until the
latter relinquished his desire to use
the bat at future opportunity. This
expresses in homely way, the situa-
ton as it is now. Defeat is certain for
the German Empire, and some of its
people are convinced of this, but they
are talkingly loudly about what they
will do on a more favorable occasion,
when Germany's enemies may be taken
one at time and whipped in detail
Clearly it is the duty of her present
to so trounce her that she will
be unwilling to retain in power the ell
ements of her people that cry Next
Time" The world will not be made
safe for democracy" if the German
is permitted to make peace
as preparatory step to clearing the
way for later drive against democ.
racy when the chances of success may
be much better. THE Day" was fail
ure; and there must be no Next
Time. Savannah Morning News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23
NO NEXT TIME"

Many Germans have their eyes now
or the Next Time" which apparently
has succeeded THE Day" as the motto
Of the Empire. Before the great war
began the eyes of Germans in high
places were fixed on THE Day" when
German armies and fleets would meet
tie enemy and send armed resistance
into oblivion. There were rousing
.toasts to it, tremendous preparations
for it, and when it came the German
armies set out to overun the world.
They failed and the German feet
failed and THE Day" as a motto that
can be lived up to is no more. A new
catchword has succeeded it. That
catchword is Next Time" 1t was the
big business of the world to see that
THE Day" failed, and it is now the big
business of the world to see that Next
Time shall never come
Gen. Won Libert is quoted as having
said the other day in a speech:
We cannot sign a peace before
we have the Flanders coast, a col
onial empire and maritime bases.
Should we not realize this now,
we must prepare to work for it
after the war in view of the next
war.
Naturally there has been criticism o.
this speech by Germans. There are two
reasons why they criticise it. One is
that some Germans are sure their own
happiness and prosperity will be serv-
cd if the Hohenzollerns are compelled
to descend from imperial power and
if indeed there is no Next Time" and
the other is that some of them thin;
il bad policy to talk of too much nov
OF German plans for the future, else
the Allies will make sure now that the
German Empire shall be left in no
condition to hope for the coming of
Next Time" This latter point OF
view is revealed by the German publ,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

i}us and barbarious Iegions whose laws
do not forbid their service abroad, but
which inspire their fierce and veteran
armies to deeds of conquest in every
cline.
WAS this contention maintainable,
the misguided men who for their pers-
onal case advance it might all too late
discover their fatal error They would
discover it in the flaming homesteads,
ii the devastated fields, in murdered
brethren, in outraged wives and daugh
tiers in their lands, their factories,
their merchandise, their stock, their
all, cody appropriated by the con-
queror, as his own; their institutions
destroyed; homeless, landless and beg
CARS to spend whatever interval of de-
Graded life remains to them in abiect
slavery to the conqueror.
Our Reservoir of Power.
But our organic law does not SO
shackIe the gigantic energies of the
great republic. After the enumeration
of the powers of congress among them
as we have seen, the power to raise
and support armies" in clause II of
article /, section 8, it provides the
power to make all laws which shall be
necessary and proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing powers and
all other powers vested by this consti-
triton in the government of the United
States or in any department or officer
thereof. Here is the great reservoi.
Of power to save the national exist
ence
1T is said that there is no express
power to send armies beyond the sea.
True; but there is no express power to
enact the criminal laws of the United
States; none to convey the public do
main; to build a transcontinental rail-
road; nor to construct the Isthmia
canal; nor to create the interstate
commerce commission; nor to declare
the Monroe Doctrine; nor to make the
Louisiana purchase; nor to buy Alaska,
nor to take over Porto Rico and the
Philippines This has all been done
under the great power to promote the
general welfare, just as the selectiye
army will be created under the law
here, assailed to provide for the COM
mon Defense
And beyond and above all, is the in
herent power of every nation however
organized to utilize its every man and
its every energy to defend its liberty
ard to defeat the migration to its soil
OF mighty nations of ferocious war
riors whose barbarous inhumanity for
three years has surpassed all others
since the death of Attilia, the Scourge
of God The writs are denied"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

And if it is true, as intimated by
Charles Edward Russell of the Ameri-.
-
can mission to Russia, that pro-Ger-
man agitators from the United States
are stirring up discussions among the
ex-#lbjects of the car, there should be
NJ protest made by this government If
drastic measures are taken by Ker
ensky to rid himself Of those thorns in
tie flesh.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23
Would Mean Defeat.

There remains to be considered the
contention that congress cannot en-
ploy the national army to be created
by virtue of this legislation in foreign
lands or beyond the seas. If this be
true, then indeed is our country i'm
potent. Then indeed must its people
suffer in their own homes, in their
cities and on their farms, all the nor
rors of invasive war It's military lead
ers must ignore the settled principles
OF their science, that the best defens-
i've is the most VIGOROUS offensive. The
keen swords of its sons instead of
flashing over the guard of the enemy
and piercing his vitals, must be hell
immoyable as if on an anvil to be shat
tered by the reiterated blows of his
hammer Deprived of ,our aid in the
field, successive defeats will VISIT and
crush our allies. Their lands con-
quered, their navies taken, we must
then in turn, solitary and alone. meet
en- our own soil the impact of victor
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

And now they have started brand
rev rookus in the land lately ruled by
one Nick Romanoff. Like bad case Of
hives the Muscovites are forever break
ing out in a new place
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

President Wilson is said to be con-
sidering a request from the National
Sheep and Wool Bureau to do away
with lawn mowers and install flock
0. sheep on the White House lawn to
keep the grass cropped short. Why
NOT tether out few of the lamb-like
paeifsts?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

Somebody down in the land of cactus,
bandits, horned toads and incipient
revolutions is grabbing off a wad of
Kaiser Bill's currency in return for
the consistent propaganda campaign
being prosecuted there to influence the
lower class of Mexicans against the
United States.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

Judge Speer hesitated not at all to
take advantage of his opportunity and
inform the Watsonites and other anti
drafters as to their exact position with
reference to law observance and patri-
otto duty.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23
The Strong Withstand the Heat of
Summer Better Than the Weak.

Old people who are feeble, and
younger people who are weak, will be
and enabled to go
through the depressing heat of sum
mer by taking regularly Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic. 1t purifies and
enriches the blood and builds up the
whole system coo.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

Another thing not to worry about is
the acrimonious debate now going on
in Gotham between the dancing mas
tiers Of the old and new schools, ovec
the introduction Of dance in which
the terpsichorean artists burst into
song.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

Britain's cabinet announces that it
viii consider the Pope's peace propos
ais in a benevolent and serious spirit, +"
bur at the same time indicates in plain
terms the suspicion that the proposals
SAVIOR too much of Teutonic origin
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23

Almost two and half million iron
crosses have just been awarded by the
All Highest" indicating that there is
not so much concern, after all, over
the shortage of metal in the German
empire.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-08-23
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Americas, Ga, August %, 1917

1t would appear to the average man
that the patriotism of the workers who
are now threatening to strike and par
alyze the nations preparations for
war, is decidedly open to suspicion.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-16
TROOPS BEING
ASSEMBLED IN
HOME CAMPS
No Orders for Embarkation
to France will be Issued
Before Aug. 5
SOME REGIMENTS
READY FOR SERVICE
Most Serious Shortage of
Equipment is in the Ar
tillery Line
CBy Associated Press.D

Washington, July Rehabilitation
of the national guard for war SER
vice began today.
While no orders for embarkation
for France will be given until Aug.
5, when the entire force will be for
mally drafted into the United States
army, there are indications that some
divisions will be regarded as ready
to board transports soon after that
date.
The first clause of President Will
sons proclamation providing for the
liberalization of the national guard
for the war became effective yester-
day. Under it IL states, including
Minnesota, North and South Dakota,
went on the federal pay roll from
that date.
Actual concentration of troops in
the home forces or state camps be-
gan today. Approximately one-half
of the total strength of the national
guard was included in the force as
sembling. The first step in their prep
aration has been to send to the ar
mories additional clothing for trans
portation to the divisional training
camps. Full campaign. equipment
will be issued at the big camp re-
ducing the amount of matter to be
transported with the troops.
Rapid progress is being made in
releasing national guard regiments
which had been in the federal SER
vices since the declaration of war,
guarding property. This work will be
taken over largely by civilian watch
men. The next step in the general
mobilization viii be the ordering of
divisions to the camp sites already
selected for them. A full supply of
tentages is available, department re-
-, aT4 VNyill
train as rapidly as the commanders
of the denartnaeats from Which they
come and 0f those in which their
camps are located. are prepared.
The most serious shortage OF war
equipment for the guards is in the
auxiliary. For training purposes the
big guns regiments undoubtedly will
continue to use the equipment they
have, supplemented by such addition
al ordnance as the regular service
can spare. 1t is regarded as prac-
tfcally certain that if the guard divi-
sions are sent to France at an early
date they will be equipped with fresh
artillery on their arrival there. Pre-
sumably their first war work will be
with the famous French seventy
fives."
Departure of the guardsmen for
France, it was indicated today, will
be governed by the shipping PROB
lem. War department officials regard
many divisions of the state troops as
virtually ready now for the intensive
training behind the fighting lines in
France which will prepare them for
their place in the trenches. There is
no reason why some elements could
not go forward at once, except for a
lack of transportation and the sub
marine menace.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-16
Fifteen States Have Not
Reported Completion of
Exemption Boards
NORTH DAKOTA ONE
OF THE DELINQUENTS
No More Details of Exact
Date or Method Have
Been Given Out
(Bv Associated Press.N

Washington. July 16.-On the basis
Of advices today from various states
where the organization work OF the
exemption boards had not been COM
pleted. war department officials said
the drawing for the army selective
conscriptiOn hardly could be held be-
fore Saturday at the earliest.
Fifteen states have not reported
the completion OF their exemption
boards organization.
The states which have not report
ed include Michigan. Montana, and
North Dakota.
The process followed by the boards
is TO file two copies OF their com
pleted and numbered lists of regis
trants as soon as the serial number
has been arranged.
No additional information as to
the exact date or exact method Of
the drawing was obtainable Satur
day. The method probably will be
announced on the eve of the drawing
and that will follow Immediately up
on receipt of official advices that the
last local board has completed It's
organization work and filed its list
Of numbered registrants with the
state authorities. There are nearly
1000 district boards TO be heard
from, but indications now are that
all will have reported by the middle
of the week and that the drawing
can be held. IL desired, on Saturday.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-16
OPENLY ADVOCATES
BREAK With GERMANY
Austrian Minister Sees No Hope For
Peace While Present Alliance
Continues.
CBy Associated Press.)

Zurich, July 16.-The Austrian
reichsrat was thrown into an uproar
Saturday when the former Czech
Minister Herr Paaschek declared the
hate of the entire world was not di-
rected against Austria, but against
Germany, and that Austria should
detach herself from her ally, says a
Vienna dispatch.
How are we to obtain peace" de-
manded Herr Paaschek, 'if we cling
to the German side. Must we con-
tinue to sacrifice our interests to the
expansion of Germany? Must we
continue TO submit to the German
miIitarism that has drawn US into
war?"
The speaker declared that Czech
deputies had been imprisoned for at
to bring about an alliance
of Austria with Russia and France.
and added that If they were to be
as traitors then all
CzechS who believed similarly should
be stigmatized.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-16
"A ~ 49, - III -~TF % = ~
FIFTH WEEK OF
FOOD CONTROL
BILL DEBATE
Senate Again Takes Up
Consideration of Admin
istration Measures
VOTE WILL BE TAKEN
KIT SATURDAY
Legislation May Finally be
Enacted Not Later
Than Aug. l
(Bx Associated Prsssl

Washington, July 16.-The senate
today entered on its fifth and prob
ably final week of consideration of
the administration food control bill
while the leaders conferred in a
further effort to perfect the measure,
in such q way as to meet the wishes
of President Wilson and to insure its
passage.
Under its agreement the senate
viii vote on the bill Saturday and
then the measure will be rushed TO
conference where an early agree
Tnept Is looked for. so that the legis-
lath nay be enacted before Aug. /.
Senate leaders today considered
drafts OF pfV 9sed changes designed
to compromise the shief point of
dispute in the Gore substitute, the
provisions restricting federal author
ity and providing for a food board
instead OF single administrator
Administration leaders are opposed
to these provisions. A fight may
also come over the question Of gov
ernment control over steel, iron, cot
ton and. other products.
It Is believed that In the end legis-
lation will be worked out limiting
goveI control, but giving sub
stana1 regulatory powers to food.
feed and fuel.
Debate on the food bin was re-
,sumed IN the senate with prospect
.of voting on the amendmeuts being
begun during the day.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-16
LINER ASHORE
near CAPE RACE
Passengers Are Safely
Landed and Taken to
st. Johns

st. Johns, Mid. July l6. - The.
Scandinavian American liner, kris
from an American port "a Halifax
TO Norway, ran aground seven miles
west Of Cape Race. on the southeast
ern coast Of Newfoundland. Il was
found necessary TO remove the pas
sengers, all OF whom were landed
safely at Portugal cove.
The liner lost her bearings during
the night In a heavy 1ainstorm, which
was accompanied by fog.
AS there is no accommodation at
the landing place for any large num-
ber Of persons, prompt measures
were taken TO have the rescued pas