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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31
OUR CRITICISM OF "HIs BRIDAL. NIGHT"

Although our opinion of His Bridal Night has not
changed one bit, and it won't be until it is played with a new
company, still it was not our desire in the notice which appeared
IN these columns last week to reflect in any way whatsoever
on the management of the Opera House. The management tells
us that the write-up conveyed in some quarters the wrong i'm
preston; that is, that they the management fixed the prices
of the show, etc. The writer thought that it was generally
known that all shows fixed their own prices and which feature
IS always covered in the contracts they make with the various
play houses over the country.
Another thing, the management may think that The Senti-
lei was taking a direct crack at the Opera House. This i'm
preston we also desire to correct, for if there is one in Grenada
who worked harder than the writer to get the Opera House
started the last time, we don't know who it was. The write.
sold quite a number of the $1,000 tickets for the opening per
Torrance, and if there is anything he could do to promte its
success now, he would gladly do it. Grenada. needs the Opera.
House, needs it badly, and it deserves the support and good
will of all loyal Grenadians.
Now With reference to this particular show, we would state
that had we been in the managers place we would most certain
y have booked the show for We would have, Just as they were.
been governed by the shows literature. And it was this same
iiteraturesthat caused us to be so disappointed in the perform
ance. The show came here in the class of the Lilac Domino :.
;Robin Hood, Al G.. Fields and others, and to some 1t may
have been as good. In our opinion it was not. and our criticism
was based on the class this show placed itself in. Had it come
here in the Billy Clifford class, we could have found no
criicism-E. L.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31
PRESIDENT WILSON RAISES HIGHER THE STARS
AND STRIPES

We cannot understand how any true American can feel
other than a patriotic pride in the way President Wilson is
carrying himself in Europe. Everything he has said and done
there has shown that he fully comprehends the magnitude of
the great task that the Peace Conference has before it. He has
shown that he realizes that he and those associated with him
have the affairs of the humanity of the civilized world in their
hands and that what they do measures the destiny for veal or
woe of coming generations. The President has shown that he
feels that American delegates not only stand for organized
government but for the fathers and the mothers, the sons and
the daughters, who make up governments. He has raised higher
the Stars and the Stripes and is adding new glory to the al
ready glorious record of our great Nation. If anything were
lacking to show that the cause of all the people was safe in
Woodrow Wilson's keeping, the President has doubly Demon
strated it since he landed in Europe. What has been gained for
America and for humanity by his presence there is enough to
put to shame those who criticised him about making the trip
and who have bounded his steps at every corner.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31
THEN AND NOW.

How viewpoints change. Congress has just voted the
small sum of 800, OOO, 900 to be expended in feeding starving
Europe outside enemy territory. This action upon the part of
the Nations highest law making body brings to mind President
CleVelands views ON a similar bill during his second admins
tration. A bill was passed by Congress to appropriate $50, 900
to purchase seeds for the drouth stricken district of Texas. Mr..
Cleveland vetoed the bill upon the grounds that it was violative
of the spirit of the Constitution at the same time accompanying
his veto with a check for $1,000 to start a public
subscription to purchase the seeds. We are inclined to the
view that Mr.. Cleeland was correct in his Interpretation of
the Constitution and there has been no change in our organic
law touching such matters since that time. Millions are voted
now with the ease a few thousands were voted and what is true
of the Congress is true of the people at large. This is a money
spending age. There must COME a halt somewhere down the
line, otherwise penury and want will. come to a large per cent
of our people which will mean riots and all sorts of social
disorder.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31
THE ARMENIAN AND SYRIAN DRIVE

The drive for funds to relieve the Armenian and Syrian
distresses begins next Monday, February 3. The Sentinel
takes it for granted that the reading public is already somewhat
familiar with the needs of these suffering people. The drive
was to have begun several weeks ago but was deferred on &C
count of health conditions. Those who should be in a position
to know tell us that no people were ever in creates distress; that
there were no people ever more brutally treated and that there
were never any people who's women and girls were the victims
of more cIueties than these for whom this plea is made. Let
our people consider we'll and each man give as he is able and
as Heaven smiles upon him
Grenada county's allotment is $4,000 and when that is
raised, those in charge of the drive should stop. We have
never been one of those who thought it wise to insist on amounts
beyond the countys allotment. however, this will perhaps be
the last drive for donations or gifts for war purposes. Help, you
can.
w. 3. Hoffa is county chairman, J. H. Brown county direct
or and 3. c. Adams, treasurer.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31
3s9, 221 900 more pounds of beef, lamb and pork in the refriger-

389, 90, 600 more pounds OF beef, lamb and pork in the refriger-
ators of the United States than at the same time last year.
There were ~48,881,634 pounds more OF lard in refrigerators
January l, of this year than on the same date 1913.
The big amount of food on hand shows the result of the
united effort asked by the Government for food production. "n
unity there is strength" .
:@ With this big surplus Of food stuff in the country, ii takes
no stretch of the imagination tOconclude that our people will
soon be restless in paying $2 for flour, 45 cents for ham, 35
and 40 cents for beef and similar prices for lard and sugar.
1t seems to be understood that the Food Administration
will shortly fix the prices on most of these articles for this year
Let it be hoped that there will be some downward fixing
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31
FOOD IN STORAGE AT PRESENT

But for the Food Administration there would now be a
great drop in the prices Of much food stuff. Europe has very
largely stopped buying from us because she can buy elsewhere
cheaper.
1t is authortatively stated that wheat can be bought in
Argentine today at S125 per bushe, and there are stored in
that country now, $50, 900, 900 bushels of wheat. In Australia
there are 200, 600, 700 bushels of available wheat and the price
is 81 Ia per bushel; India also has a surplus of O,00O, 900
bushels The price fixed by the. Government on our wheat is
So per bushel which, with freight and terminal charges, runs
to about. So. As per bushel, thus it can be readily seen that our
wheat will have no market abroad. Corn in Chicago is worth
about $1.25 per bushel while in Argentine the price is about
half these figures. As we understand, the Government is in
some way behind the price ofmeats and also sugar. Data, which
will hardly be disputed, shows that on January 1, there were
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31
WF.AT THE LAUGH INDICATES

In speaking of the laugh of Theodore Roosevelt, which the
New York Herald said was mo dry, nanny-goat chuckle ever
wrinkled the face of Roosevelt. He did not need to force laugh
ter to his lips. He gave wayto it because he had a genuine sense
of humor, easily and naturally. and it came not from his throat
but from his diaphragm, as does that of all honest men, that
paper gave the following meanings of otherlaughs:
"He who laughs from above his collar button does it with
some purpose; usually to conciiate a person on whom he has,
predatory designs. He whose laughter is SO loud and frequent
as to leave permanent lamentations 0 his cheeks is one whom
the wise distrust and shun."
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31

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THE OFFICIAL. ORGAN OF GRENADA co,JNrY
The Sentinel is authorized to announce the following as candidates
at the primaries to be held in Grenada County in August next:
For Sheriff: For chaneery Clerk:
Doean I'M Keeton
D. W. Beck
J. L. Richardson
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31

Gernany's African possessions which she has lost by the
was equal more than five times the area of Germany proper.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-31

The people of the United States raised for the Red Gross
and kindred organizations during the war approximately 81,
600, 900, 900.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16

Comic Opera Company at the Casino, Of
fering 'The Jolly Musketeer"; ellis Ex-
cellency the Governor" was at the EN-
pire, "The Man in the Moon" was at
the New York and "The Great Ruby"
was at Daly's.
How June has changed! To-day some
thirty theatres offer summer entertain
ment and prosper. In the Broadway dis
trict about twenty other theatres are
drawing crowds seven days q week to
vaudeville and motion pictures. Who
would have thought, twenty years ago,
that even silent dsama could draw ca
pacity houses on summers night?
AS we "give thought to Broadway"
these hot June days one idea, at least,
is modern. No sane man living in the
summer of 1899 would have gone into
a theatre on hot afternoon to cool off.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
Shall We Abandon the Air?

1t is an old and bad habit of America
to cast out it's own children as found
lings for other nations to bring up. The
Wright brothers could get no support
from their countrymen. So the greatest
invention of modern times, the aeropane,
born of an American brain. and first
aoft in American skies, was developed
and brought to military success by for
eign governments. When we entered the
great war we faced the gigantic hand-
cap resulting from this old stupidity.
We are face to face, threatened i'm
mediately, with a repetition of this blum
der. When the armistice was signed
the War and Navy departments can
celled contracts or authorizations for air
craft construction amounting to one
billion dollars This left high and dry
some $100,000,000 of capital invested in
good faith in the manufacture of air
craft. In the opinion of engineers COM
mercial aviation will not be self-support
ing for from three to ten years. The
question facing the industry is how can
this hiatus be bridged. If the govern
ment does nothing, there is little ques-
tion what will happen. The gap will not
be bridged. Once again America will
abandon the air.
Meanwhile, what are other nations
doing? France continued construction
on war basis up to March /, 1919.
England, pursuant to the report of a
Parliamentary Committee on Civic
Aerial Transport, is encouraging a re-
duced production amounting to 250 ma
chimes a month. This is in contrast to
America, where plants are already at a
standstill, with no orders in sight.
The problem calls for a broad crea-
tive policy. Congress should review the
whole situation as unit and authorize.
navy and army orders adequate to in
sure the development of commercial
planes on at least an equality with other
nations. There are ample practical uses
to which they can already be put-mail
carrying, forest and coast patrol, for in
stance. But that is not the point For
military reasons as we'll as for future
commercial uses, we must not abandon
the air. We have rcwon our old posi-
ton by squirt and at necessarily ex-
travagant cost. That position we must
retain, unless we are to insist upon being
again purblind and penny wise.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
The Army as a University

There is something very picturesque
and appealing in Secretary Bakers de-
script1on of the educational system es-
tablished by and for the American ex-
peditionary army. At Beaune real
university exists, with eleven full-fedged
subsidiary colleges and 1000 students.
In this all the liberal arts and sciences
are taught, the teaching being done by
outside experts and by officers and
doughboys. Moreover, there is a uni
versity extension course which enables
soldier or officer to study at distance.
Thus, the army in France is rapidly fit
ting itself for the tasks of peace. 1t is
receiving the professional education
which was open at home to relatively
few of it's members.
We have never known what to do with
an army in peace time But this fortu
nate experience in France has opened the
eyes of our military authorities. Mr..
Baker says that after the armistice most
OF the commanding officers could think
OF nothing better to do to occupy the
soldiers than "to drill them until they
nearly fell in their tracks," That was
the old-fashioned idea. The soldiers had
better one. They asked for vocational
instructions. And the army authorities
decided to give it to them
Here is fruitful suggestion for our
new military programme. The army, at
Its best, ought to be national training
school. The American objection to mill
tary service in peace time has always
been that it meant time wasted-that it
was deadening and monotonous. An
army service which offers the opportu-
NIFTY OF education, which gives man
capital to work on when he finishes it,
would attract instead of repelling. 1t
would be valuable investment.
The expeditionary army took kindly
to the university experiment because it
was national army which did not look
upon soldering as more or less per-
manent occupation. Soldering was a
temporary phase, as it ought to be.
An army based on the principle of
short service and vocational training as
we'll as military training is the army of
the future. Congress would ignore the
lessons Of the war, If 1t should decide to
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
The Kentucky Heaven

(From The Baltimore SUM
If a man wants good, comfortable, soul
satisfying smoke he should get a Kentucky
or Missouri corncob pipe and some natu-
ral-leaf hillside tobacco and 60 out into the
country to log farmhouse and sit in the
front yard under old oak tree, in his
shirt sleeves, with his shirt unfastened in
front and his suspendcrs down, close by an
old we'll of cool water with sweep anu an
old, mosscovered bucket. There he can get
the right kind of smoke, such as the deni.
zens of crowded, profteerng cities never
dreamed Of in their philosophy, while with
half-closed eyes he watches the curling.
fragrant smoke drift away and mngle with
the lazy, feeting clouds while he dreams of
home and heaven (Applause) ).-Robert Y.
Thomas, jr., Of Kentucky, in the House of
Representatives.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
Poland;s BECOMING
By Elias Tobenkin

OF the most primitive kind In these boarv
buildings people live family of six or
elght to room In the daytime these
dwellings, TEEN with people, but as soon as
evening falls all doors and windows are
boarded up and huge iron planks are thrown
across them, as if great fortunes Law there
Oh ROBBERS were on the outside.
1t is in Old Warsaw that the public mar
ket places, where the poor do their shon-
plng' are most numerous. Coarse black
bread sold in these market places for one
mark and 60 pfennigs a pound. Onions
were two marks a pound Meat of the
cheapest variety, six marks a pound A
pound of salt pork was eight marks. Here.
too' were the government depots where
bread was distributed at reduced nriccs
Hundreds of people, old and middle-aged
men and women, stood in line for hours
frequently there were fights for ones
next in line" those who stood farthest
IN line were likely to go without bread of
the supply was exhausted before their turn
came.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
Anarchy

In view of the assertion that the raid
on the headquarters of Martens, the
Bolshevist "ambassador," is illegal, the
following section of the Penal Code has
pertinence:
"Crlminal anarchy is the doctrine that
organized government should be over
thrown by force or violence 'or by
assassination of the executive head or
any of the executive officials of govern
ment, or by any unlawful means The
advocacy of such doctrine either by word
Of mouth or by writing is a felony"
How stands a Bolshevist emissarv on
this? Does he advocate or oppose the
overthrow Of bourgeoise government by
force and violence? What is the fair
inference to be drawn from his propa
ganda?
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
The Great Flight

The great flight has been made. What
Hawker failed so melodramatically to do
Alcock accomplished yesterday without
any melodrama. He annihilated space,
for he covered his course from New
foundland to Ireland in sixteen hours
and twenty-seven minutes-at the rate
of 120 miles an hour.
The Atlantic is now conquered. What
next? Secretary Daniels is talking about
conquering the Pacific After that the
record-making aviator will weep, like
Alexander, that there are no mora
worlds to conquer
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
June-Twenty Years After

Twenty years ago there might have
Seen point in remarking, "What is so
sare as play in June?" Files of The
Tribune reveal that back in June, 1899.
only five theatres were open. New York
vas less populous then, of course It's
weather was no warmer, however. al
though men dressed more warmly. That
was before Palm Beach had become
textile and while waistcoats were still
listed as essentials. In that stage theatre
going and ice skating we're still winter
sports.
4 Seasoned playgoers may recall these
attractions OF that period: Mrs. Leslie
Carter was playing in "Zaza," at the
carrick; Jefferson de Angelis had his
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
What of Switzerland?

Will Switzerland join the league of
nations? The answer is not written.
In May the Swiss government announced
|, that the peace conference had consented
to recognize the political and military
neutrality Of Switzerland. The Swiss
press interpreted this to imply the sur
render of economic neutrality. Switzer-
land would have to join in the economic
actions Of the league against recalcitrant
states, even though exempt from mill
tary cooperation.
Although the fact is nowhere expressly
stated, it is plain enough that both
French-Swiss and German-Swiss news
papers base their considerations on the
assumption that a joirt economic action
Of the league Of nations would probably
be called against Germany in the first
place.
The demand of the Allies that Switz-
erland participate in the economic
blockade planned for coercing Ger
many into accepting the peace treaty
aroused the misgivings of the entire
Neue Zairche, Zeitung characterizes the
demand as follows: "It means the ante
dated employment of provision of the
league covenant which has not yet gone
into effect. To comply with it would
mean surrendering our policy of neutral
ity maintained throughout the world
struggle"
The sentiments of the French-speak-
ing portion of the Swiss people are dis
closed by quotation from LIE Genevois,
Geneva newspaper: "The most fer
vent believers in the advent of the So
ciety of nations cannot ignore this evi-
dence pointing to the fact that the Paris
covenant does not establish real league,
not even an embryonic organization
from which it may ultimately develop
1t is not league Of nations at all; it
is league of some nations, or, funda-
mentally, an alliance pure and simple"
Consideration of the basic question
"to join or not to join" is resumed by
the Neue zarchcr Zeituug in series
of four editorials. The history of Swiss
neutrality is analyzed it's advantages
for the country's development are told,
and it is emphasized that this neutrality
was not enforced, passive, as in the case
of Belgium, but self-willed and active
the outcome of Swiss historic tradition.
Under modern conditions, however, the
paper continues, there enters into the
strict adherence to neutrality an un-
ethical trait, a shade of egotism. "All
over the world reason has understood
and appreciated Switzerland's neutral
ity in the world war; but heart and con-
science could not but realize the un-
ethical character of this neutrality in
face of the disaster that befell Belgium" :"
The issue confronting the Swiss peo-
pie, therefore, is that of harmonizing
their own ingrained interest, which is
continued neutrality, with the demand of
the growing international conscience to
share the responsibilities and burdens of
the rest of the world.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
Cripples Without
4 Hospital

But all Of Poland's misery is not in the
home; the street has a good share of it..
We had not made more than dozen PAGES
when we came upon an old man who was
dressing swollen foot in the open, though
it was cold, winter day. And as he had
no material to dress it with, he was Using
pieces of newspaper in place of cotton and
gauze.
"Why don't you go to hospital ?" he was
asked.
"They won't take me in," he replied.
There Is not room, enough there. They
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16
The Stare of
Morbid Eyes

There was tea given early in April in
one Of the most prctentious private palaces
in Warsaw, at which an American officer
was one of the guests. AS he was leaving
all elderly lady, we'll known Polish prin-
cess, asked the officer if he would not be
so kind as to see her to the hotel.
81 never leave the house unaccompanied
these days." she explained, as they were
walking to the gate. "You see the gray
morbid people that are continuously stink
ing back and forth in front of the palace,
always trying to get glimpse of this in
side, / simply cannot bear to face one of
these men alone. They stare at you with
their cold immoble yet calculating eyes;
Pm afraid of them"
"Why are the people here always so
gloomy?" I asked the porter at my hotel
day or two after l arrived in Warsaw.
Because they are always hungry" he
replied.
l had breakfasted we'll that morning,
two eggs, coffee with whipped cream and
what is almost unknown in the rest of
Europe-fresh white rolls. paid nine
marks for the breakfast. The porter
seemed to read my thoughts
"You must not judge Warsaw by the
hotel here" he said "They have every
thing in the hotel here for those who can
pay. About $4,000 or 10000 people in War
saw live we'll. They have everything to
eat that they want, and all they want The
war has not made any difference to them.
In fact, many of them were made rich by
the war. But if you want to see how the
DCOOle tn VU,r
Ola warsaw Is only stones throw from
Warsaw's most fashionable thoroughfare
the Crakowsky Square. Here there are old
orick dwellings, that date back to the days
OF Luther and the Pilgrims. Sanitation Ia
New-York tribune., 1919-06-16

Fifth Avenue merchants are protest.
ing against the continued presence Of
the Victory arch. 1t might be removed
eventually to the league of nations fut-
ure palace of peace, there to serve as an
example of what war can do to a tri-
umphant nation.