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The Washington times., 1917-12-04
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The Washington times., 1917-12-04
LEGION OF HONOR
IS SENATE PLAN
FOR J.. S. SOLDIERS

Senator Owen Of Oklahoma today
was to introduce in the Senate a joint
resolution authorizing the creation Of
an American Legion Of Honor and
permitting men of the American army
and navy 90 receive war decorations
offered them by any nations engaged
in war against Germany.
Membership in the Legion OF Hon
or is to be conferred by the President
under approval of the Senate for
very distinguished services" Each
person honored by membership in
this legion is to be given a ribbon
and medal TO be designed under the
instruction of the President. The
membership OF the order shall at no
time exceed 200 persons.
The resolution further authorizes
the President to grant "the cross OF
valor" for conspicuous courage and
patriotic service in the military, ma
val or other services OF the United
States
The Washington times., 1917-12-04
GERMAN SOLDIERS TO
GET PAY INCREASE

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1.-The pay OF
German private so,dieTs is shortly to
be increased by oae-third, it has been
Announced in the main committee Of
the reichstag. according to Berlin dis
patches Non-commissioned officers
are to have their pay raised 20 per
cent
A motion was submitted in con-
mittee demanding the formation of a
committee Of inquiry to examine into
the prices for wal contracts, the eX-
ports to foreign countries during the
war and the formation OF war supply
companies
Herr Won Braun old the committee
that the oats supply was larger than
last year and that the war grain
supply department was entering the
winter with larger stores than it had
ever held before. There was no justi-
fcation, he said, for anxiety regard
ing the supply OF potatoes and OF
grain for bread.
The Washington times., 1917-12-04
NY. CAN SHUT SALOONS
FOR WAR, SAYS COURT

NEW YORK, Dec. "A unanimous
opinion that a State has the legal
power-during the war to close certain
saloons without waiting for orders
from the Federal Government was
given by the appellate division of the
supreme court in Brooklyn.
Under this decision, excise authori-
ties here said all saloons in the vi
cinity OF places in New York State
where ships are built, men encamped.
munitions and other war equipment
are made. and soldiers departing may
be closed by the State.
The Washington times., 1917-12-04

Sheridan. Montgomery, Ala, is using
camouhage to secure a girl correspon-
cent, when he writes Mayor Frank
Conley as follows:
Il have been having an argument
about this: A lieutenant in our COM
pany said no girl cared for a soldier
well enough to send him a picture OF
herself. a box OF candy, handkerchief
or anything like that, to a soldier less
in rank than a lieutenant. Now ]
would like to have you hand this to
some pretty girl in your town or a
pretty ranch girl. and tell her to
write to me and send her picture at
once. Would like to hear from you
and have your opinion on it, too
The Washington times., 1917-12-04
ANGRY AT SUGAR LIMIT,
HE ADMITS BOARDING

CANTON. Pa, Dec. canton. like
other towns. is suffering a sugar famine.
Into a local store walked a man and
demanded fifty pounds of sugar. He
He protested vehemently that so small
an amount would not last him till his
next trip over to town. The merchant.
Of whom he was a good customer. ex-
pressed regret. when the would-be buyer
replied. "Oh. well. am not 50 badly of.
I've got not less than 400 pounds at
home, but I thought / would get all I
could while it's scarce"
The Washington times., 1917-12-04
St. Louis Chemist Has
ANear- Gasoline Secret;
One Gallon for S Cents

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 4.-Gas con-
sumers and distributors are to-
day considerably interested in'
the announcement by J. V. Nevin.
treasurer and director OF a chem
ical company. that he has discov-
cred a chemical which. added to
12s parts OF water, serves all the
purposes OF gAsolene.
The cost OF the new gas, ac-
cording to Nevin. is only 5 cents
a gallon.
A discovery by an Eastern
chemist of a formula for making
a substitute for gasolene that
costs less than cents a gallon
is now being guarded by the
Federal Government The sub
stitute was proposed for subma-
rines ami every precaution lie
being taken lest 1t fall into the
hands OF the Germans. The
Nevin discovery may involve the
use of the same chemicals.
The Washington times., 1917-12-04
the POINT OF MEw.

I'VE should not judge b appsas-
ances." observed the sage. ~
You should think differently 81
you happened to be pretty giri.-
the Fool-Luke 8IeLaks.
The Washington times., 1917-12-04
PRIVATES' CAMOUFLAGE
TO GET CORRESPONDENT

DEER LODGE, Mont. Dec 4.-The
suspicion exists that Private Wesley
Thompson, of Company B, Eighth
Ohio, 10th U. s. Infantry, Camp
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03
DIZZY SPELLS
Relieved After Taking Two Bottles
OF Cardui, Says tennessee
Lady.

whitwell, Tenn.-Mrs. q. P. Cart
wright, of this place, writes: about
four years ago the dizzy spells got so
bad that when l would start to walk
I would Just pretty near fall. I wasn't
past doing my work, but was very
much rundown.
told my husband I thought Cardui
would help me, as a lady who lived
next door to me had taken q great
deal, and told me to try 1t. This was
when we we're living in Kentucky.
My husband got me a bottle and I
took 1t according to directions. 1t
helped me 80 much that he went back
and got me another bottle. + got .
whole lot better and just quit taking
It. I got over the dizzy SPELLS. III took
no other medicine at that time nor
since for this trouble. No. I've never
regretted taking Cardui.
felt Just fine when I finished the
second bottle"
Purely vegetable. mild and gentle
IN its action, Cardui, the woman's
tonic, may be the very medicine you
need II you suffer from symptoms Of
female troubles, give Cardui . trial
AL druggists. NC-1SS
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03
MANY CAVALRY HORSES DYING
IN FRANCE
(Bv Associated Press)

Wy HooOSi0SSN
Toulouse, France, July 2-Cavalry
horses have been dying in large num-
bers from a mysterious disease in
different regions of the south OF
France. The morality has reached
so per cent to 70 per cent of new con-
tigents arriving at Toulouse, Abb,
Bordeaux, Narbonne and Perpignan.
Horses apparently sound and well
when they are unloaded from the cars
die so soon after being stabbed that
it is impossible to treat them. This
situation dates from 1914, soon after
the declaration of war. The mortality
was greatest in the spring of 1917
and it is still alarming.
Horse dealers and veterinaries o,
Toulouse have been unable to account
for this strange epidemic Some vet
erinaries assume that it is an infect.
Gus influenza; others suspect that {
subtle means Of slow poisoning i:
practised on the animals while el
route from the farm to the c~avalr!
depot.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03
Remarkable East Indian Tree.

H~eN1aFkabIe East 1ndIAn TFo0.
A tree remarkable for its long tap
root, sometimes measuring "a feet and
descending to a vertical depth Of 81
feet, has been brought to notice by b
o. Coventry. 1t Is the land tree, which
forms small forests on the arid allu.
vial plains Of the Punjab. where the
rainfall is ten inches or less. and the
taproot is supposed to have developed
gradually as the ground-water level
was lowered by the lowering OF the
-tyers through erosion Of their bodA
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

Greenwood, Miss, June s. 1917.
To Whom It May Concern:
BY mutual consent the firm Of May
& Beaman, Contractors, in the City
of Greenwood, Miss, dissolved part
nership on the above date.
Neither one of the above named
irm, M. F. May or S. G. Beaman will
be responsible for firm debts after the
above date.
M. F. MAY,
S. G. BEAMAN.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

Bodies found IN strange P1aeeo-
4 strange ind was made by some
workmen recently while snssgoA a
Alterations on an old building in the
center Of Nuneaton. England. During
the course Of the work they mearthed
beueath the door . grayestons bearins
The names Of NJ people, some 4
whom died IN the lsatse half q ~
elGhtAenth ooutury.t
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

One effect of censorship Is an IA.
creased appetite for reports Of the In.
teresting but unconfirmed variety.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

DR.. Alexander Graham Bell says the
best thinking is done after midnight
Why, that's whom most people do their
forgetting. :.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03
To The Public.

Referring to the above dissolution,
Iwish to advise the public that l will
continue on my own account to do a
general contracting and building bus
ness, and will be pleased to furnish
estimates free on all work in that
inc. Will give prompt and careful
,ttention to all contracts given me,
md shall be pleased to have a chance
o bid on all kinds Of building con-
racts. N. F. MAY,
Greenwood, Miss.
Phones: Office 1T, Residence 521.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

A scientist claims to have discov.
cred the germ of idiocy. IT'S so plen.
tiful the wonder is 1t wasn't found be-
fore.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

One reason for the dye shortage
may be that so much OF 1t was used In
making up the new supply Of mems
shirts.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

Some young men apparently marry
and set up a home just to have some
place to remain away from at night.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

When a lady sues for $250,000 heart
balm and gets $3.50 there are strong
evidences Of a difference Of opinion
somewhere.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

With gasoline going up perhaps
some genius will invent an auto that
will run by clocxwork.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

II 1t were not for the modern fimsy
shoes lots of girls would never know
how wabbly their apkles are.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03
L. N. GROSS
721 Spring Street
LITTLE ROCK, ARK

1t Is pOsslh.s 70 disslpate without
the aid Of strong 1-hk: q good many
people eat that way.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

FOOD FOR CONGRESSIONAL THOUGHT.
The brilliant success of the liberty loan should
cause congress to ponder we'll the temper of the
American people as to ways and means for prose-
cutting the war.
1t is significant that while thousands of men in
the humber walks of life were making sacrifices
to subscribe to the loan, these same men and 9TH
err thousands were at the same time protesting to
the utmost against the action of congress in the
matter of war taxation.
No graver mistake could be made than to sad
die upon the people just at this time an onerous
schedule of taxation. The country is now in the
full swing of a campaign Of industry and produc-
ton that is going to require the use of every dollar
that every industry can muster. But while this
is true, there are billions not actively employed
that can be procured by the sale of bonds.
The bond issue is the fair and equitable plan
of financing the war. It affords the subscriber the
opportunity to do his bit without feeling that his
business is being cramped and hindered by an op-
pressive burden of taxes, just at the time when
he most needs all of the resources at his command.
The people of this generation must pay heavily
enough, in cash and blood. Those of the coming
generation should assume their share.
Bond issues will insure a fair and equal distri-
button of the expenses of the war.
There is no safer or saner method.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

Hungry Harold--An' den, lady, I lost
he old pal an v e since I've been
broodin' over me trouble an eatin' me
heart out wit grief.
Mrs. Goodsole-Eating your heart
out! Then you can't be as hungry -
you said at first. Beat 1t.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03
T. P. GORE ERUPTS G

T. F. Gore, the blind, Populist from Mississippi,
who, by some miracle slipped into the United
States Senate, from Oklahoma, made a vigorous
attack on the food control bill in the Senate on the
goth inst, during which TRADE he said, that it
strikes the farmer and will cause losses to the pro-
ducers this year of three quarters of a million
dollars in wheat, half a million in corn and will re-
suit in a famine next year through reduced pro-
ducton." Did you ever hear such a ~senseless
~effusion? The food control bill is intended to so
manage the situation as to eliminate the food
Spectator. 1t will do the farmer no good to get
$500 a bushel for wheat, $1.00 for corn, rs cents
for oats, and $500 per ton for hay, if he has to
pay $500 per barrel for flour, 10 to IL cents a
pound for sugar, 30 cents a pound for coffee, and
the Lord only knows what he will have to pay for a
few clothes and shoes.-Kosciusko Herald.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03
HAMSTRUNG AND STRANGLED

Not long ago a string of fourteen cars OF
potatoes, billed to the Chicago market, were dis
covered at a small town near that city, where they
had been side tracked and left to rot-at a time
when potatoes were selling for $500 a bushel.
For a number of years we have been learning
of the willful destruction every season OF such
commodities as potatoes, cabbage, melons, apples,
and other fruits when there was an opportunity by
so doing to force prices up in the interest of the
spectators.
These food pirates have purchased acres and
acres of fruit on the trees and then refuse to allow
them to be picked-kept them there to rot-in
order to keep them from the open market.
In other ways the campaign of pilage and loot
at the expense of the consumer has been going
merrily on.
Of course, merely to designate the perpetra-
tors of these outrages as robbers and pirates does
not a particle of good except to afford some slight
relief to our feelings. There seems to be nothing
the country can do to prevent these outrages.
But there SHOULD be, and if we mistake not
the temper of the American people, there soon
WILL be.
When the countries of Europe first adopted the
policy of government control of food stuffs we in
this country congratulated ourselves that we live
in a FREE country. Lately, however, we are
beginning to learn a few things-that instead of
freedom of which we boast, we are hamstrung and
s%trangled by a horde of p~iratcal food spectators
who have no conscience, know no law, and are
devoid of the first element of humanity.
With the proof before us that the people are
being systematically and outrageously plundered,
our congress has the monumental effrontery to
dawdle around and haggle over minor details while
the poorer classes of our population are being driv-
en- to distraction.
With such examples before us, the action of
Wilson in demanding food control by
the government-even dictator, if necessary
looks good to US. 1t will not keep the producer
from receiving a fair and just price for his pro-
ducts, neither will it injure the consumer. But it
everastingly put a crimp on the golden tail
of the remorseless speculator.
1t is time for congress to enact adequate laws
whereby the president can once and for all put an
end to this hamstringing and strangling of the
American consumer.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03
JUST WHY, HE DOESN'T KNOW.

Our Junior Senator seems to be opposed to ev-
,erything President Wilson favors. Just why this
is so we do not know; but it would seem that
under present conditions he would at least favor
a food bill when the consumers of the country are
being held up and robbed. Vardaman is justifying
himself with the idea that the farmer is getting
"a good price for his produce. True, and he is en-
titled to all he can get; but it doesn't stop there.
The price of wheat, corn, etc., usually advances
from so to 100 per cent. after it has left the pro-
ducers hands.-Kosciusko Herald.
,
Advancing 80 per cent to the contractors, as
proposed by Secretary Daniels, might help some
good firms, but it might also make some shoe
string contractors.
Booze can be barred by law. but not thirst. !
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

It is estimated that this year $3.50, 100000 will
be- spent for tires on pleasure motor cars alone.
The tire business has developed into one of wide
Importance in, America and the wear and tear on
tires keep > hugs industry busy,
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-03

omewhera.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19
rRAMMELL AMONG THE TARDY

1t is declared not only by our own
army staff, but by the war seasoned
generals of Europe, that the best
thing America can do to end the war
quickly is to build big airplane feet.
1t is conceded that America is par
ticularly well adapted to do this
work. A bill appropriating the mon
ey for this vast enterprise bill
framed on the advice of skilled mill
tary men, and approved by the presi-
dent, passed the House of Represen-
tatives last week. 1t went to the
Senate, and was approved by the
Senate military committee in less
than an hour. When the bill was re.
ported to the Senate objections were
raised, and it went over until next
week. And who were the DIRECTORS
They were Borah, Broussard, Cum.
Minis, Gore, Gronna, Hardwick, John.
son of California; Kenyon, LaFollette
Mcclellan, McNary, Nelson, Norris
Ransdell, Shields and Sutherland, ane
with them was Park Trammell Of
Florida.
1t is sorrowful thing for the stat.
of Florida that one of her senators
has associated himself with thes,
men, most of whom have shown the,
were far more concerned in annoy
ing and if possible thwarting the ad
ministration than in helping Americ;
to win the war.
The blood of more than one BRAY,
Florida boy will help pay for the in
cessant delays in Congress, and MI
Trammell will be responsible for hi
share of that blood.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

Tending" They Tor some of them
did great deal that was very offend
ing indeed. Many of them were
strike-breakers, many resorted to
petty thievery, some to highway rob-
berry and a few fired on the police and
killed one excellent and popular off,
Ger. But all these things did not
justify the people of East st. Louis
for mobbing the innocent as well as
the guilty and acting like horde of
Turks trying to wipe out an Armen-
ian community.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

Many people envy the journalist,
who has so good an opportunity to
uphold right and denounce wrong.
But if they knew how a journalist
feels when some friend, or perhaps
relative, does something foolish or
disgraeeful, and the time comes to
write about him as coldly and accur-
ately as tho he were stranger, they
might come to the conclusion that
farming or selling goods is a more
Pleasant occupation.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

A sensation in naval circles has
been created by the report that Ger
many is using American range finders
on its submarines and that it secured
plans of these devices from secret
specifications submitted to German
contractors by the American govern
ment in its eagerness to get con-
tracts for their manufacture as cheap
" as possible.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

The lumber men will do the big
gest business of their lives. The lum-
Der required by the government for
national defense within the next year
will total 2,OOO,0OO,0OO feet. Training
camps for the navy will require 20O,-
100000 feet; aviation schools 12O,-
100000 feet; Y. M. C. A. camp $780,
600 feet; packing boxes and crates
20O,0O0,000 feet; army wagons 25,-
100000 feet; gunstocks 10000, 900
feet; material for $500 airplanes g.
100000 feet.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

They are going to have an ice
cream supper for the benefit of Com
pany A at Fort Mccoy next Thurs
day night, and Ocala people are spec
cially invited to attend. This is a
good move on the part of Fort Nc
Coy. Why shouldn't every commun-
ity in Marion county which has one
or more boys in the company do
something like it. All working to-
gether, they could raise quite tidy
sum.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

New York men called to the colors
Under the draft will be trained at
Yaphank, L. /. Consequently they
will be called "Yaps." Name sounds
familiar to US. In 1892, when us and
Frank Huffaker helped put down the
Coal Greek rebellion, they called our
more or less gallant enemies, the
striking miners of East Tennessee,
"Yaps." They could shoot, too. Hope
the New York boys will never shoot
any worse.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

After Saturday, trains 81 and 38
on this division of the A. C. L., from
Jacksonville to st. Petersburg, will be
discontinued The morning and eve
ming trains between Jacksonville and
Leesburg will continue to run on their
present schedule.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

1t must be evident to all thinking
men that great and severe labor trou-
bles are ahead of this country. There
il little necessity for anything of the
sort. There never is a strike that
could not be averted by kindness and
reason on both sides. With all their
"frightfulness," the Germans manage
such things better than we do.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

The tragedy of Louis XVI. may be
repeated in Russia. "The deposed
Tsar should be tried publicly as the
greatest criminal in Russia" said
Vladimir Vourtseff, the Slavonic his
torian, in an interview obtained by
an American correspondent.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

If we could send Brussiloff fifty
airplanes with skillful aviators and
plenty of bombs they would be worth
more to him than one hundred thou
sand men. Certain we should be able
to supply two thousand planes by Oc-
tober.-Times- Union.
Not if that bunch of reactionary
senators can prevent it.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-19

A prominent coffee refining COM
pany in New York city announces
that it will give $25 to every girl in
its employ who gets married and has
boy, the money to be put in the
savings bank for him until he be-
COMES twenty years of age.