The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-28

ClidA IL liz hui VINO keeps IN the LANGUAGE a WOr(
which is never used in life.'
The Hungarian Soviet has provided for it's owl
run upon the rocks by fixing higher salaries TO
l'lntellectual workers and business n1en than TO
working men. The last named will not stand thi
ong before they uproriously submit that "equali
ty' is the accepted slogan of all forms of com
munism.
There are fortunes in tips, but they do not al
ways pile up as rapidly as desired. A concession
aire is suing the proprietor of a popular wayside
mn because of his failure to make 81, 500 a veal
out Of a hat-checking privilege for which he paic
$4,000 yearly.
1t is good to hear of nine hundred million
bushels of wheat, and the growers no doubt think
joyfully of the 1926 a bushel the Government as.
sures them. The only difficulty is the cost of the
peoples bread made out of wheat sold at such a
price.
A charitable but %forgetful women recently in.
Guided in a bundle sent to a needy family a shoe
IN which she had concealed $500 worth of dia-
lnonds. Banks with safety deposit boxes for rent
will hardly neglect to employ this excellent adver-
tisement.
Out of a population of only five million Aus
tralia sent 400, 1000 volunteers to the war, and the
casualties exceeded Is per cent, amounting to
BOT 900. Marked initiative as well as great brav-
cry and endurance are shown in this truly wonder
full record. I'D.
Germany is said lobe raising a Secret army, y
but all the same when her delegates meet the
peace conferees and are told where to sign they
will pull out their fountain pens and get busy.
j There's nothing else to be done.
The former king of Bavaria complains that
he has nowhere to lay his head. He ought to be
thankful that he still has a head, for that is more
than he would have had if the revolution had
come a century earlier.
In all the United States Cumberland County,
"a, stands alone IN the distinction of putting it's
quota over the top a week before the Victory
Loan campaign opened.
The Chicago Tribune says the American of the
future will have to keep a tobacco plant in the
back yard as we'll as a still in the cellar. But in
that case how will he manage about Government
inspection? -.
That air-mail delivery between Washington
and New York in one hour and fifty minutes
would have made our great-grandfathers discuss
Witchcraft.
Windstorms in the southwest are more deadly
than brainstorms, to say nothing of their des-
Effectiveness.
Hungary's bolsheviki have not gone dry, but
has ordered that habitual drunkenness be punish
ed by death.
Assurance that the booze bum would 20 with
the saloon would improve the outlook some.
Hope the too-many-cooks maxim will not ap-I
ply to the volunteer hunters for jobs for soldiers.
Oh, well, II Japan hadn't become peeved about
one thing it would about another. !
M9VhQ fnnUl1pS con'f ho hohh1oI but foch;ooI
is proving that ankles can be.
his losing prestige.
The typewriter is trying hard to be mightier
than the sword.
Some Paris correspondents will never ratify
the peace treaty.
Hot air is more effective in pipes than. from
the rostrum. |
Fashion changes-no book beer signs this sea-
son.
African golf is Broadway slang for craps.
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There is only one way to get anywhere-start.
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