The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-06-05


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GREENWOOD. MISS JUNE 5. 1917.
Money fights as well as talks, and usually
wins too. "a
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Many a drink sold for soft has a hard Stick
in its midst.
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Shouldn't be greatly surprised by a spy-lynch-
ing somewhere.
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God help poor old Spain, if she had another
friend. or two like Bloody Bill.
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Americans not engaged in licking Germans will
soon be licking war tax stamps.
Teddy hasn't gone to war yet, but he's had his
River of Doubt officially put on the map.
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Doc Wiley is more ready to ~criticise Hoover
than to volunteer to help him without pay.
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Bet a cooky somebody gets jagged for monkey
ing with the administration Of the draft law.
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Germany still claims to be banking on it's u
boats, though it must know they'll all soon be
junk.
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As we are arranging to send negro troops to
Europe, why not also send a regiment or two Of
Indians?
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Don't hear any more Uncle Sans not having
q friend among the nations, now that he has loans
on tap. sFf4
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War weather and fuel shortage do not seem to
belong together, but right now the Pacific coast
has both.
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From what's printed, Washington's corps Of
Controversies are having a high old time with the
ship question.
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Should Russia get cold feet, the allies may use
Japan's army to fight Germans in the far east,
and they know how.
Germany and Austria may, Of course name
aking for Poland, but that doesn't mean Poles will
have him-not by a jugfull.
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One bad thing about rigid censorship is that it
lessons confidence. For this reason alone it should
be applied as lightly as possible.
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McAdoo says everybody he's seen is ready to
pay war takes cheerfully, but, Of course, there
are quite a lot Of people he hasn't seen.
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Though he protested hard, ex-Congressman
Vic Berger didn't make a dent in Secretary Lam
sings policy toward peace-hunting socialists.
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Cheer up, We know-it-alls; Congressman Emer-
son, Ohio, has introduced a bill appropriating
$4,000 to establish a" bureau Of ideas" in the
War department.
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C-ongresswoman Rankin won her first fight
with her maiden speech-for the employment of
women so far as may be practicable in making the
countrywide food survey provided for in the food
control bill.
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Casualties on the western front have been low
for q few weeks, but our automobile casualties are
always with US, thanks to the Driver Without
Brains and q goodly assortment of Ungarded Rail-
road Crossings.
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What is to become of the American girls who
married, titled Russians? Of all the horrors Of
war. this must seem to be the worst to these fem
mine hearts. Without titles, just think what
these girls have on their hands?
The Stockholm peace conference of Socialists
win amount to very little. If the German Social
lists attending it could be induced to begin a disin-
tegrating agitation in their nation, however, the
results might be worth while in the interests of
peace,
II has not gone unnoticed that the flood in
~terests'' Of the nation have not been slow to give
congress advice. The gentlemen in Washington.
however, should not lean too heavily upon the rec
otnmesdafions IL these interests, but should con-