The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-12

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GREENWOOD, MISS, JULY IL, 1917.
If it happens in France, you'll know it-some
time.
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A skinner always bellows like a bull when
skinned.
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Has never failed in an emergency-the Am'r-
lean navy.
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Raising war revenue invariably raises-well,
something else.
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spies should be mobilized-in front of a bat
terry of machine guns.
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T. r. has no better opinion of a moral traitor
than OF the other kind.
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Our destroyers may not be classed as u-boat
chasers, but they are just the same.
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Our boys may be %"Sammies," but when
they have met the Huns they'll be Jammies.
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WIletner you 10 ~ SIllullHS, HIAinS VI oi"AE
ing, you'll have to come across with war taxes.
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In spite of belligerent talk, there seems to be a
lot of eligibles who prefer being yanked into the
army.
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We are strong for this new four-minute speech
idea, and most respectfully suggest its adoption by
Congress.
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If there be spies in the government depart
ments, as some are claiming, it should not be hard
to spot them.
Frequent kilograms Of the yellow editor to his
Washington correspondent: "Send a cabinet
split story"
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What soft coal barons called "a patriotic conces-
sion' Secretary Baker brands 'exorbitant, unjust
and oppressive"
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Trying to nag Wilson now being old stuff, those
ex- pickets might try 'hollering' to be allowed to
enlist in the army.
Another reason for being cock-sure of WIN
ming the war is that our commander-in-chief has
the winning habit.
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Teddy makes no bones of saying that all the
talking and reading in this country ought to be in
straight American.
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The P. O. D. can't make it too hot for treason
able publications-it was slow going after them,
but now is on the job.
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Remembering Farragut and the torpedoes, Rear
Admiral Gleaves must have thought, oh the
U-boats," if he didn't say it.
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The U. S. A. is the only warning nation that
permits launching of it's warships to be published.
Still we heard of a gagged press.
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Some progresser, Private Charles P. Taft,
alias "birdling," alias "fence buster" has contract
ed to take another title-bridegroom.
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You may honestly think that another man on
the job would do better than Wilson, but he is on
it and it is up to you to back him up.
Our officials, being humans like the rest of us,
have made and will make mistakes, but black.
guarding them won't help to win the war.
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Reports says Pershing's boys are up against
this problem: How many sweethearts is it per-
missable for a soldier on foreign service to have
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Honest editors in several states are telling
their readers how much ashamed they are Of hav'
ing helped to make Senators Of undeserving men.
There's a tip for the merchant marine in the
safe conveying of troop supply ships through the
nest of German U-boats. What has been done
can be done.
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And it is a matter Of pride to know that oul
army and navy has Pershing's and Gleaves
a-plenty, all of whom are impatiently awaiting
their opportunity.
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