The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-02

Entered at Greenwood ~postofSce as s~econdcass matter
GREENWOOD, MISS, APRIL 2, 1917.
s Is your flag feeling the breezs
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This is the spring of discontent-to the peace
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Guns are trumps in the game the world is now
playing.
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Sioux Indians-3O,0OO of em-want to hit The
war trail.
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European rulers are beginning to wond:I if it
is catching.
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A mighty popular slogan-"Put none but
Americans on guard"
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Buying a pig in a poke has lost all element of
risk. No chance to lose now.
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Too many "'ifs" involved for any man to know
how long Congress will be in session.
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Life to national guardsmen has become just
one muster-in or out-after another.
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"Are women people?" is a query put up to the
us court by the massachusetts senate.
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It's a credulous alien who can be made to be-
lieve he can start trouble and not get into it.
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New York's gunmen% continue to do their shoot
ing without giving the other fellow a chaaue ~
shoot back.
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If all the. bont-to-he-pinched spy stories
materialized. there would not be prisons enough to
hold them.
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There has been little sympathy for the de-
posed car, and these stories Of his weeping fits
will lessen that.
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It's a self-rcstraining legislature that failed
to greet every important international happening
with a resolution.
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Should war make spreadeagleism popular, a. il
probably would, Bryan would have to get a brand
new stock Of dope.
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1t cannot be denied that Argentine's embargo
on exports OF wheat and -four makes a noise like
the Jingle Of German gold.
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Kaiser Bill says Won Hindenburg's retreat made
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trail military experts have called it.
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After the Hou 2 is organized a big prize might
safely be offered for a man willing to acknowledge
he didn't know all about it in advance.
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Adventurous girls are less enthused over en-
listing in the navy after they know they are VI !. t.
ed for typewriting and clerical work.
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Nevertheless, a lot of us will refuse to worry
over the assertion of an importer, that practit ally
no diamonds are now coming to the u. 3. A.
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Carranza is no Solomon, but he is given CREDIT
for sense enough not to permit any wholesale de-
struction of oil wells in Mexico by Germans.
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An exchange suggests that highwaynle1 could
make more money az respectable food spectators.
But that editors nutty. They're getting it al
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This Michigan legislature who wants a law
TO compel the re- istration of engagements to mar
il county court houses must have been thrown
downdhighty hard.
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Can a college abolish snobs? This question ~
asked by a leading weekly, but we don't see why
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aasMS abolition, when there are hundreds in actual life,
aMa1s well.
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Owing to pressure of sensational international
news, the yellows we're unable to give as much
space IS they would have liked to thai $1O0, 900
peazi necklace, lost. strayed or stos1 IN Los An
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When you see this we are thinking aEout you
and what you are thinking about. Trte, we didn't