The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-26

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GREENWOOD, MISS APRIL 2e, 1917.
Latest attempt to lower skinning prices
sharkskin shoes.
Americans have always stood the acid test
are built that way.
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If hot air would grow crops, a lot more men
would be prosperous farmers.
Our greedy price-skinners will exhaust the sup
ply Of skin, if they don't watch out.
As an enlistment enticing team, what a hum
mer Roosevelt and Bryan would make.
American dollars, always popular in Europe,
were never more so than right now.
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Wheat gamblers are too much absorbed in
winning to bother about bread eaters.
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Lloyds offer 10 to l the war will not be over
August /, which is our idea of a mighty safe bet.
Many good people have changed their minds
about the Importance of knowing how to handle a
gun.
Spots on the sun, you say? They are only the
marching hosts rushing to join the war of the un.
iverse.
Owners of unidentified aircraft would better
be careful where they fly, if they do not care to be
shot at.
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And the best thing about the wave of patriot
ism now sweeping over. the country is its lack of
hysteria.
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No, hanging out the flag is not the only way
OF displaying patriotism. The government needs
recruits.
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Sometimes men in Congress have been known
to be bamboozled by getting their home news from
the wrong sources. Il
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Whatever the government does is right"
says Bryan, and while the war lasts that is the
right dope for all of us. i
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There is balm for the timid in Admiral Jeli-.
COc OpLIIOH lila lew OCIlIidu O-OO0LS Will DC dUlS
to operate in our waters.
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Senator Kenyon doesn't care how much the
stuff costs-he has introduced a bill to increase ]
the tax on distilled liquors to $40 a gallon.
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While there is no such thing as a popular tax, I
it's doubted that a more unpopular one could well J
be levied than one on the peoples breakfast table. s
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The story is told Of Willie trying to wash the
family Ford in the bathtub, but papa ordered ,
Willie to take it in the kitchen, so that ma could {
wash it with the dishes. II
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In offering his farm and his services theron
to the government of Massachusetts, for the pro- t
duction of food, Tom Lawson isn't necessarily ex- e
pecting to become a %plowman.
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In the excitement Of the moment, don't forget IL
that the preacher will have a few words Of cheer a
for you on Sunday. II costs nothing and is worth
much-a spiritual bargain" az il were.
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Now that hogs cost so much more than form a
erly, it would be too much of a compliment to re-
fer to d certain species as a street car hog" the
value attached making him feel like q potato king. RI
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Engineering a separate peace with Russia
to be one Of the objects Of the Hindenburg
campaign-at least, it's the only object discernible pt
the naked eye or the general understanding. lii
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Col. Bryan, like Col. Roosevelt and the other
went to the white house and offered him sh
on the altar of his country. But where was wi
army Of 1000. 600 that was to spring up over
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III is BY no means certain that thu. proposed in m
srease Of letter postage from 2 to s cents win not
essen. instead Of increasing postal receipts. It is
matter Of official record that reducing II ~increas- tn
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