The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-09
THE SOUTH'S OPPORTUNITY.


THE sOUTHs OPPORTUNITY.
Every year the South imports $500, 00O, 00(
worth of foodstuffs from the north. Yet thu
south is favored with such a salubrious climate
that three crops a year are possible. The entire
$500. 900. 900 worth of foodstuffs that the south
imports from the north can be raised in the south
And in these days of food emergency, with mot
enough to 20 round" the nation would be better
off if the south did more of its food raising-and
so would the south.
The southern planter should raise his own
corn, potatoes, garden truck, pigs, dairy cows.
With the application of sound business methods,
efficiency. industry and energy, it is possible that
this 5000. 900, 900 worth of produce could be raised
in addition to the regular cotton crop. That
would mean the utilization of every acre Of idle
land, of course.
It is absolutely necessary for the south to raise
these diversified crops. It will help the south and
the north; the south would be more prosperous
than ever; the north's teeming industrial popula-
ton would enjoy more reasonable prices than Is
otherwise possible.
The south this year has a wonderful oppor-
tunity Of plunging into a virtual new business
with every prospect of making it pay big
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Since eggs and potatoes Rave coined the avia-
ton CORPS, the "Uncle Toms Cabin and EAST
Lynne" companies have a better chance to get
back in the small towns ard compete with the
movies.
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One expert says the war will last three more
years another says it will be over in three months
The only safe bet is that it will end sometime.
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This is the time of the year when a lot of
chickens begin their career in order to stand up
and be executed later in the summer
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Here is a wise utterance: "The characteristic
defect of deliberative bodies is lack Of delibera-
tion," says R. w. Woodward.
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Most medicines advertise their successes but
not their failures. Merchants likewise and ditto
for the newspapers.
"We can't prevent people from amusing them
selves badly" says Jane Adams, unless we show
them a better way"
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1--WE should cooperate with America" says
Baron Shibusawa, whose supply of capital is
almost limitless."
"New York City need have no fear being at
tackled by submarines" says the Canadian Sir
Sam Hughes.
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ut is not the wickedness of war that impresses
me" says Rev. H. W. Pinkham, "but it's damned
foolishness."
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In 1916 the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals in New York City killed
$685. 47 cats.
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President Wilson thinks 1T is much less of an
advantage to write history than to try to enact
it." a.
1.-THE church is drifting away from spiritual
ity,' says Secretary of State Robert Lansing.
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We are all very modest when we speak Of our
own faults, but modesty isn't virtue then.
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Some boys who walk the streets all day get
{ tired if their parents want an errand run.
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In these times there is nothing else for the
telegraph editors to do but to go crazy.
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The people of the county are interested in good
roads 80 are the people in the towns.
Don't think, however, that the only day you
can be q fool is on the first Of April.
Did you ever know a man who started trouble
back out when the crisis camel
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The price Of everything is going up. If we
don't look out wen do It ourselves.
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Advertising is q good thing but it dosen't
furnish brains for q business.
The censorship Of reports and rumors would