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The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23
INDIA IN H WAR.

We have all heard how America won the war,
how England won the war, how France won the
war, as well as how greatly the valor of Italy con-
tributed, but we had heard practically nothing
about how India won the war until Rustom Rus
tomjee, former editor Of the Oriental Review,
came to this country and told his interesting
story. The facts submitted by this highly intel
igent native of a far land show that India really
played a great and important part, her soldiers
Bearing the brunt of the fighting in Mesopotamia
and Palestine, campaigns which not only put an
end to Turkey but seriously weakened Bulgaria
md fastened the collapse of Austria and Germany
oy cutting them off from the food supplies of the
Cast. Mr.. Rustomjee says India contributed two
million soldiers to the various theatres of the war,
sending half a million to Mesopotamia alone. In
LA also gave two billions in gold as "a free gift
or the prosecution of the war.
midas loyalty has been as remarkable as her
service. The vast and densely populated country
,ad the chance of centuries to revolt against Brit
sh rule, and money was sent both by the Ger
mans and the Sim Feiners Of Ireland to foment
'ebellion, but a little handful considered the tenn
;ation for a moment, the great bulk of the people
# all races and religions having "self-determin-
I'd" according to Mr.. RustoInjee, to remain under
enlightened British rule until they are prepared
or self-government, which they are now gradual
iy attaining, having representatives already in the
highest councils. Though himself a Parsee of the
1oroastrian Or fire-worshipping faith which came
rom Persia, Rustonjee is tolerant of the other
aces and religions. He shows this in expressing
he hope that St. Sophia in Constantinople-a
Christian church prior to the Turkish conquest in
453 will not be taken from the Mohammedan
because that would result in 'holy war" and great
dc odshed.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23
THE VOYAGE OF THE SAVANNAH.

Savannah, Georglas oldest city, is shortly to
celebrate in a series of pageants several of it's
historical events, including the hun
dreth anniversary Of the sailing from it's river
front of the Savannah" the first vessel propell-
ed by steam and sail to cross the Atlantic. The
ship sailed on May 26, 1919 and reached Liver
pool on June %, later extending the voyage to st.
Petersburg and everywhere attracting great, Won
dering and admiring attention. It is related that
the excitement attending her departure from her
home port was far surpassed by the sensation
caused by the Savannah's arrival in Liverpool,
where she "entered the harbor belching black
smoke from her solitary funnel and with her sails
furled presenting an unprecedented spectacle"
Although it was regarded as too hazardous for
the Savannah to rely wholly on her engines and
steam power, it is said her side wheels drove
her through the water during no less than 18 days
of the voyage.
The Savannah was under the command of
Captain Moses Rogers who II years before had
taken the famous Clermont of Robert Fulton or
her maiden trip up the Hudson river. The mod.
ern reader would naturally expect to hear that
the first steam-propeffed ship sailed from New
York, Boston or Philadelphia, and this calls atten-
ton to the fact that the Southern ports of Savan.
nah and Charleston were of much greater rela-
tive Importance a century ago than they are now.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

We have just taken the agency for
Laflore County for the famous Miller
Tires. We have in stock the cords as
rell as the fabric. We also, carry a
ull line of the Falls Evergreen tubes
IS well as their castings, and a full
linz of accessories, oil, gas etc.
We have put the garage under the
management of Mr.. Herbert Feaster
with Mr.. H. f. Schappel as shop fore
man and we have an entirely new set
of mechanics and promise 4he public.
prompt service.
We solicit a share of your business
and Ire ready to serve you at any
time. Telephone 227.
COMMONWEALTH GARAGE.
N. E. Wainwright, Prop.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

Our doughboys lover there seem to have dis,
cussed many things in their hours of leisure: One
of their debates just reported had for its subject
the education of boys. 1t appears that there was
no objection to women teachers at the prope,
time, quite contrary, but the sentiment was "un.
animous' that when the time comes to make {
man of the boy-from the beginning of Adde'S
cense on for four or five years-male teachers
should be the makers. All men of knowledge anc
experience of life will agree that the instinct Of
our soldiers in this particular is sound.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Sales
women to sell securities in Texas Oil
Co., that is fortified by $4,000 acres
Of leases in practically every proven
field, and guarantee a II per cent div
ldend quarterly on wells now flowing.
set in the field at one for big re-
turns. Apply to Southern Securities
Exchange. Office Planters Hotel, Gre
NADIA, Miss.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

The Germans persistently seek to convey the
impression that they accepted the Presidents
general proposition and laid down their arms. The
peace propositions in ID points were. published ir
January of last year, the Germans began their
greatest drive in the following March, and in No
vember they surrendered to Foch because they
knew they were hopelessly beaten and wanted tc
save their country from invasion, precisely as
Hindenburg indicated in a letter to Chancellor
Prince Max. They would have no right to com:
plain even if the nations sitting at Paris should
abandon every one of the fourteen points.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23
v-sHAPED BADGE
LIKE SERVICE BAR
FOR NOTE BUYERS
VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN HONOR
BUTTON TO BE WORN ON
LEFT SLEEVE,
STANDS FOR DUTY DONE
Civilian Supplements the Soldier and
Both Served Their Country
In Need.

, - Within q few
q !: & {: !. i. !: ! ! i !: !: J: i: ! i: I: J: !: !: !
~a~ days, or on April
~A Fl, you will see
many persons on
the street wearing
a strange button
%&H with a big "V''
0og~ pinned on the LEI
~ sleeve. It will ex-
cite your curiosity, perhaps your criti-
c1sm, but ere long you will be wearing
one too if you are the sort Of man we
think you RI
The w" stands for the chevron Of
service; it also stands for Victory, and
it sSands for the v (Fifth) ard last
loan needed to pay for the greatest
victory ever won by force of arms. 1t
is a badge OF service-service rem
uered by the civilian. When you see
& mar wearing this badge you viii,
know the wearer has done his duty to
MS country, just as you know the
doughboy who gave his service to his
country did his.
h soldier wears his service stripes
OIL is left sleeve. The emblem is the
chevron, the same as the W" OF the
Victory Loan Honor Button. The
thought in each instance is the same
soldier or civilian has done that which
his country demanded, and the serv
Ice is shown by the emblem, always
appearing on the left sleeve.
Each supplements the other. The
soldier could not have done his duty
had not the civilian done his in pro
viding the sinews Of war-money.
Nov that the soldiers duty is lone
ne is entitled to wear his badge Ct
honor. AS soon as each patriotic
civilian has done his duty by subscrib-
ing to the Victory Liberty Loan he
will be entitled to wear on his sleeve
The ~" button badge OF honor.
This round button badge is not
large, with white characters on
blue background, it will be worn only
by those who have actually bought Of
b Victory Liberty Loan, and have In
vested their money with Uncle Sam.
who never failed to meet an obligation.
financial or moral.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

Those who seem to think that a disbanding
army must be coddled and taken care of indiv-
idually ought to be encouraged by the report o.
one of Chicago's largest employers of labor that
returned fighting men are far more efficient thar
before. Out of 500 returned %doughboys in his
employ 81 per cent do Infinitely better work.
SO per cent "show little change" and only a PEI
cent are less efficient.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23
TO GET BACK TO NORMAL.

Interesting suggestions are contained in the
replies of % industrial groups, comprising 4,40O
members of the National Association of Manu-
facturers, to a QUESTIONABLE concerning present
business conditions and methods of returning to
normal conditios after the changes brought about
by the war. Present obstacles to a return to nor
NAL conditions and desired prosperity are named
in the replies and these in the form of sugges-
lions as to what should be done are summarized
as follows:
Stop wartime extravaganza; return the rail-
roads and the wires to the owners; modify taxes
on industry; let the Government bear the losses
on wheat; the foundation of good prices; abolish
war-period regulating agencies; let increased pro-
duction justify high wages; have the Government
pay its war bills; inaugurate public works; edu-
cate the public in the elements of economics"
. Whether these demands or suggestions fully
cover the ground or not, whether all of them are
the right and needed remedies or not, they repre-
sent the mature opinion Of many of the leading
minds Of the country, and as such they
are worthy of the close attention and study of a
reassembled Congress-. Obviously the need Of the
more immediate Importance is the removal Of war
conditions. Such 3 removal will set business free.
when not unduly hampered, will, in our
country ut least, take care Of itself.
e
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

Prof. Roman of Syracuse university expects
the prohibition of tobacco soon to follow that of
liquor and says reform will then move on tea and
coffee, but he submits that these latter drinks
ought not to be legislated out of existence until
palatable substitutes are invented. The inconsis
tent professor overlooks the fact that substitutes
are never invented until the need is pressing.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

Counsel of the New Jersey woman going to
trial as a common scold objects that a conviction
would involve the expense of a ducking stool. No
doubt those who have suffered at the hands of
the defendant (or her tongue) will take up a col
lection if the State is too poor to provide the
needed instrument.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

Ex-senator Bailey calls the President "a So
cialist" and declares that there is mot a Democrat
in the Cabinet" In response it has been asserted
that there are very few Democrats of the Bailey
type and that the country is to be congratulated
upon the fact.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

The political mixups of these times are with.
out a parallel. There are Democrats who abom-
mate President Wilson. There are Republicans
friend of Roosevelt: "Wilson is one of the coun-
try's few great men. He is a principle; he is like
a line written on the sky"
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

The American army of occupation naturally
wants to come home, but the Belgian and French
are in no hurry. They are not far from home and
after all their countries have suffered at the
hands of occupying Germans it is no doubt a
keen Joy to them to be in a position to make a
once insolvent and cruel enemy toe the mark.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

North Carolina is mad att Virginia because
the 'fair women of the former, while travelling
through the latter, are subjected to the %indignity
of looking on helplessly while rude hands tear
through their suitcases of lingerie in search of
bottles of whiskey! Enforcement of prohibition,
as it's friends seek to have it enforced, is no picnic.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

1t is gloomily predicted that war taxes and
high prices may convert many garages into chick
en- houses. Well, there are not enough chicken
houses and there were more automobiles before
the war than the people who owed for them could
afford.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

FOR SALE-One of the best pay
ing businesses in the city. Good rea-
son for selling. If you haven't got
100000, don't answer. Address j. J..
% care Commonwealth.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

Those who denounce it as "a league to preserve
the British EMPIRE call to mind the arguments
put forward during the earlier part of the great
war by persons in our midst plainly in sympathy
with the German lust of world-dominion who, rec
ognizing the chief obstacle in the path of that
lust, continually sang to the tune of England We
Hate"
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

Of course some of the aliens leaving the u.
S. are a good radiance, but among the one thous-
and a day officials say are going back home must
be many who would make good Americans and
whose labor will be needed a little later.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23
TENTS.
Primary Election 1919

For Governor
HON. A. H. LONGING
For District Attorney
4th Judicial District
WILLIAM T. WYNN.
Of Washington County:
J.. M. FORMAN.
Of Leflore County.
For Representative
". M. WILMINGTON
W. S. BARRY
o. F. BLEDSOE, Jr.
For County Attorney
MEANS JOHNSTON
M. F. PIERCE
For Sheriff and Tax-Collecto1
w. 8. VARDAMAN
s. l. BROWN :
J. =.
E. II. CRIPPEN
SAM COLEMAN, JR.
For Chancery Clerk
ROY BEW
A***&
For Circuit Clerk
CHAS. v. WILLIFORD.
G. SHARKEY PATE
B. P. CHATHAM
For Supt. of Education
J. R. HUGHES
L. S. ROGERS
For Treasurer
T. E. WILLIAMS
R. M. HIGHT
***
For Tax Assessor
j. E. DENNIS.
J. r. PROPHET
For Supervisor, Beat One,
H. L. WALTON.
For Supervisor, Beat Two
H. Y. FRASER
For Supervisor, Beat -Four
W. P. KIMBROUGH.
J. Z. HALEY, SR.
= $3.50
For Supervisor. Beat Five,
w. G.
Justice Of the Peace, Beat 3
R. III. HICKS.
A. w. EVANS
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

Lenine is said to admit that Bolshevism is
%ruinous, it's good fruits being available only
'some generations ahead A mighty poor in
vestment, then, even from the king of the Bolshe-
visits point of view.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

Will history repeat? Every war won by allied
powers has been followed by quarrels over spoils
In the present case, thank goodness, the u. S
asks nothing and is not likely to be q party to any
quarrel.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

FOR SALE-Good Jersey Cow
young calf. Apply to T. E. Williams
Carrollton Avenue, City. :
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

FOR SALE-Hupmobile, run about
l year, in first class shape, new tires
Barrett's Drug Store.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23
CLASSIFIED ADVS

STOLEN-Ford Touring Car, 1919
model, brand new. License Tag No.
23995. Motor No. 2946558. Inside
facing torn out of right rear door.
Reward $500. R. E. Mathews.
Greenwood, Miss.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

FOR RENT-Two rooms, electric
lights and water. Phone 80. 9OS
Carrollton Avenue.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

WANTED-By May 1st, Small neat
house, or three unfurnished rooms
tlrst-Class references. Call Book
keeper, Henderson & Baird Hdwe. Co.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

neutrality-suspicious. Saleslady
for Dry Goods Department. Only
e with experience need apply. F.
Goodman Dry Goods Co.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

You can keep your stomach strong
bowels regular and kidneys active BY
using Prickly Ash iBtters. It is . nee
essary condition to maintain the
health of the body. Price $1.25 per
bottle. oBnd's Drug Store, Special
Agents.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-23

FOR SALE-1O Mich Cows. Good
Stock. Jersey and Holstein. G.. A.
Chatham, Avalon, Miss.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-02-13
s. TIE FOR FIRST
PLACE IN SHOOT

Kansas City, MP. Feb. 12.--Five
men tied for first place here today in
the shoot for the interstate amateur
White Flyer cup at the 18th annual
mid-winter trap shooting tournament,
and i'm the shoot-off Charles Watson,
Of Philadelphia, won. George Nicho-
lai, Of Kansas City won today's 1875
target race with 1872 breaks. he 125
target race, unfinished yesterday, was
won by Frank rOeh. of Vancouver
Washn., whose 124 remained high.
Watson also won the interstate ANA
teur White Flyer event at fifteen
targets with a run of thirteen.
Billy 'Hoon, Jewel City, Iowa, in
completing today the '25 target race
unfinished yesterday by 20 shooters,
got "a of his last % targets for a
score of 1873. He could have tied
roeh with run of rs for first honors.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-02-13
FREE BRIDGE ROAD
Committee WILL
MEET SATURDAY
Plan to Get Legislation Through Thi.
Session Ii Approved.

A meeting of the Free Bridge road
committee appointed some time ago
by Mayor Bloom will be held at the
Chamber of Commerce Saturday night
for the purpose of considering the
plan of taxing all automobiles So a
ear for a number Of years as was sug-
gested to the committee by Mayor
Bloom in a recent letter, for the pur-
puse of rebuilding the Free Bridge
road.
This committee will meet with
Senator Caldwell, and if the plan
meets with approval it IS thought that
the Senator, will try to get the legis-
/ lation through the legislature.
1t is stated that a road district
must be formed in order to sell bonds,
! and the Secretary of the Chamber OF
Commerce stated yesterday that if
the plan suggested by Mayor Bloom
meets With the approval of the COM
| mittee, a mass meeting of the prop.
erty owners On Barraque street will
, be held probably Tuesday might.
| The committee appointed by the
Mayor, which for 2 better name might
be called the Free Bridge road com
mittee, consists of aldermen w. C
Mcbride. J. A. Clement, w. c. Niece.
! Lee, and j. F. Mcintyre. E. B
F., Bloom, 7 J. Collier, C. M Brummi
and Il. H. Gadberry
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-02-13

nation through the newspapers that
his better half had presented him with
"a little Cash." He went on to say
that as result he would have still less
cash in the future, and the more Cash
he had to Keep, the less cash he would
have to spend" Combining a birth
announcement with an advertisement
strikes one as the last word in enter
prise, and Mr.. Fox, poultry dealer,
who inserted the following notice in
the papers, should be congratulated on
the novel way in which he commended
his wares: Another little Fox found
it's way into my establishment between
ten and eleven last night; but notwith-
standing its arrival there will be no
diminution in the number or quality
of the geese for which my establish.
ment has long been famous. Remem-
Der that the old Fox is always Gun.
ming in securing for business the
plumpest goose"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-02-13

I'M width and 1919 feet long, not in
Guiding the rear porch projection. 1t
Is typical modern city design. Liber-
al use is made of double doors, full
glazed, between the several rooms,
while the stairs, partly open to the
dining room, make an interesting de-
tail. Six good rooms with bath are
provided.
There are three good sized rooms
beside the sun parlor and a spacious
hall on the first floor. The living room
is Ii by 16 feet and is connected with
the hall on the side and the sun parlor
at the front by double doors, thus max
ing it more extensive, especially in
summer when the doors to the sun par
Tor will be left open. A fireplace and
windows, which occupy most of the
outside wall space, are attractive fea-
lures of the room.
The stairway is open both to the liv-
ing room and dining room. The latter
is II by 131a feet.
Opposite is the kitchen, 91a by 111a
feet. There is a good sized pantry,
while a door leads to rear porch.
Three Bed Rooms.
The second floor contains three bed
rooms, the bath room and a sleeping
porch, which is over the sun parlor.
The sleeping porch is 7h by 16 feet,
the same as the sun parlor. Along
the front of the second floor are two
bed rooms, each opening into the hall,
while at the rear is the third bed room,
with the bath adjoining. Wf
FromEth description it will be. seen
that the house is an attractive one on
the interior. All OF the rooms are sc
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-02-13
EXPRESS COMPANIES
LOST IS MILLIONS

Chicago, Feb. 12.-Exrress company
losses through theft and lost pack.
ages amounted to nearly $lS,O0O,OOO
last year. according 20 statement
today by William Gourley, general
agent of the American !! Railway Elk
press CombanyF Careless, wrapping,
poor paper and Irvine, ne said, often
caused exposure of contents of a
Package and brought loss through
theft that otherwise would not have
happened. Fully eight percent or
personal baggage that goes astray, he
added, does SO because Of old marks.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-02-13
CHINA IS WILLING
TO GIVE SECRETS
TO PEACE COUNCIL
(B The Associated Press


Paris, Feb. 1.-THE Chinese dele
cation to the peace conference has
been advised that there has been many
ment from members representing both
the northern and southern provinces,
Jdema nding FULLER information con-
corning Japanese and Chinese rela-
tions as laid before the conference
The Chinese delegates say they are
ready to submit all secret agreements
with Japan to the council of the five
great powers, which probably will
consider the matter at the end of the
present week.
In addition to the secret agree
ment between Japan and China relat-
ing to Shanting province and
Tsingtao. the secret agreements be
tween Japan and other powers made
since the. beginning OF the war and
before China became belligerent
have been asked for by the big five
council.
Great Britain, Italy and France
are reported to have entered into an
agreement with Japan similar to the
Lansing-Ishii agreement published
by the United States. The American
agreement was made public in 1911
Immediately after Viscount Ishii, now
ambassador to the United States, but
then on a mission to that country, re-
urned to Japan and before China's
| declaration Of war on the centra
| powers. The agreement acknowledged
Japan's special interest in China be-
cause of Geopraghical propinquity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-02-13

Farther down, on the slope OF the
HILL was the we'll with its
moss-grown
Bucket, fastened with iron, and near
it a trough for the horses"
The piece of ground at Grand Pre-
on which is the we'll of Evangeline,
together with the old willows, has
been bought by the Canadian Pacific
for the purpose of preserving it for
posterity.
Before he died last year, Philippe
Hebert, the greatest of French
Canadian sculptors, was engaged on
a statue representing Evangeline
leaving the land of her childhood and
looking back in sorrow.
Philippe Hebert was himself an
Acadian and, although a perfectly
happy exile in Montreal, entered into