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Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
HOW TO WIN PROMOTION.


Roger W. Babson, noted business observer and
expert, has just spent a month visiting factories
great and small-department stores, publishing
plants and other great business establishments
In every case he talked to their owners or general
managers. The most important question he put to
these men was:
what quality do you like best in the men who
work for you? How do you pick men for promo
ton?
Listen to the answers he got:
1--WE promote those who are most interested in
their work"
1--WE pay for enthusiasm and not for time"
"We pay most for new IDEAS"
"Those who like their work are the ones who
get ahead here"
Enthusiasm, imagination and initiative are
the qualities we want
Do you get to the eternal limit of what this
means? 1t means simply that
America is just as democratic as ever! Glory
Babson did not get such answers as the follow
ing:
eve like to promote gentlemen"
"We prefer to give the best places to the own
ers' and bosses sons
High places in our business are reserved for
men with money!
No such answers were given at all. Everywhere
these big business men wanted qualities for pro-
motion that any young man can have if only he
makes the effort.
If you like your work you are i'll line for pro
motion.
If you have enthusiasm, they'll pick you, my
boy.
If you think-use your brains-they will push
you straight up the ladder.
It's all up to you. 1t doesn't matter whether
you are of loWly birth or wear a sWallow-tail or
an overall. And you don't have to have a college
education.
In a word, it's equal opportunity and equa
rights. America the paradise of the common man
In giving publicity to the information he pick
ed up on his tour, Babson has done an immense,
ly valuable service to the people of the country
and his story should be blazoned across this lane
in box car letters.
Oh, yes; and don't fail to tell the Bolsheviks
about it.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
FORCED TO GET EXCITEMENT
English Court Clerk Is Given Eight
Months in Jail for Altering
Postal Drafts.

London.-Here is a young man who
cannot get enough thrills out Of life
without being dishonest. And even
dishonesty o Eases to lead a
thrill to him.
James Walter Evers, twenty-six, for
merly a clerk at the admiralty, plead
ed guilty at the Old Bailey recently to
forging and altering naval postal
drafts worth s7,1OO. Pleading for
leniency, Evers said:
During the greater part Of my life
I have been afflicted with an e%xtraor-
binary lust for excitement and thrills.
While this longing for excitement has
often led me into dangerous and trou-
blesome adventures, it has never made
me commit a criminal offense until
nOw I swear when I conceived this
scheme my main thought was the ex
element. I left off going to post Of
fees because 1 found myself going into
them mechanically and getting no
thrill of excitement in handling
forged drafts ver the counter. 1 had
200 more drafts In my pocket"
Evers was sentenced to eight
months Imprisonment.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
DAUGHTERS OF THE HORSELEECH.

According to the Wise Man, ''the horseleech
had two daughters, crying Give, glVe!' Since
his day there has been a large increase IN the
family, and the name of the daughters has been
changed to Legion. On every side their chamor-
Gus voices are raised in a frantic chorus for more
and more and ever more of the things which men
esteem of value. The working people demand
more leisure and higher wages. The college pro-
fessors and teachers of schools are demanding
larger salaries; the women are crying for a Wld-
er sphere in public life; the soldiers are clamoring
for a bonus for fighting for their country
The most impressive thing about it is that no.
body seems to be eager to earn an increase by eX-
ira effort. All parties desire it as a gift. 'The
horseleech hath ten million daughters crying,
Give, give!' They ask it as a free donation, not
as an aims, of course but a sort of natural right.
One can hardly keep from thinking that mul-
titudes of people are becoming like tramps at the
door of the public kitchen asking for "hand outs.
1t would be a tremendous relief to hear these
daughters of the "horseleech' stop their cry OF
'Giver for a while and ask the Government IN
particular, and society in general, what service
they could render without a penny pay. 1t IS a
tremendous relief, indeed, to hear the voices of
some of the veterans of the war lOud-ifted IN pro-
test against the vociferous demand of others for
a bonus. "Such a bonus as they call for would be
simply thrown away cries honest Walter Burns,
of Greenhurst1 "Thc satisfaction of having fought
for his country ought to be sufficient reward for
any %so'iisr, h declared
"Aboa ben SAdhem, may his tribe increase!
Somehov or oaher, this eternal and pretty near
ly universal clanlor for more almost makes one
long for the good old days of the war, when the
masses of people desired to give something to the
country instead of taking something from it.
What the plain and unsophisticated citizen,
who earns his daily bread without so much as a
whimpor, cannot understand, is, who is finally
going to do the giving when everybody insists or
doing the getting!
The above is an editorial from the Cincinnati;
Times-Star which contains much good food fol-
thoughtful consideration at the hands of every
good American citizen, and we hope all our read
ers will give it a careful perusal.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

The somwhat staggering figures that
have just been issued relative to the
public debt which the United States
government has incurred since the be-
ginning of the war might appall, We're
it not that the world is getting so used
to thinking in billions, where it used
to think in hundreds of thousands, re-
marks Christian Science Monitor, that
it has ceased to allow such trifies as
an extra billion or two to JUS it IN
duly. 1t is interesting, however, to
speculate on what the feelings of the
founders of the republic would have
been had they been told that well
within the century and a half after
they had labored to establish the gov
eminent ON a stable basis, that gov
eminent would be so firmly intrench-
ed as to be able to borrow $24,S24,-
$4,000 from the people, within a pc
riod of two years, and cause scarcely
more than passing comment.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
BOY, ID, SAVES GIRLS LIFE
Grasps Her by Hair and Pulls Her
Out Of Sewer Into Which She
Had Fallen.

Notwithstanding toward the
corner of Wright street, at the Penn
s%ylvania railroad crossing in Mana
yunk, at dusk, Howard C%lampher, four
teen years old, saw a little girl just
ahead of him suddenly disappear. He
stood for a moment in establishment.
As there has been considerable talk
about spirits of late, he at first was
disposed to believe the little girl had
vanished in some mysterious way.
But a cry made him run to the cor
ner. There he found the lid off a
sewer inlet. Peering down into the
hole he saw the head Of a child. She
was struggling In four feet Of water,
The boy reached down and was
able to grasp the little girl by the
hair. In this way he was able to lift
her until he could catch hold Of her
arms and raise her to the street. BY
that time she was half drowned.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
THE MAIL ORDER HOUSES.

Much has been written about the mail order
houses but they continue to do business. Their
method of doing business is legitimate and no one
has a right to ~criticise them or their patrons. We
believe in patronizing home industries and trad
ing at home for we know this is necessary for the
development of the country. On the other hand,
there is no use and it is not good business policy
to 'cuss' the mail order houses on general prin-
ciples. Their success can be summed up in one
word-advertising They give the service and
they advertise their wares to the world. By so
doing they gather in thousands of dollars that
should help enrich the home community. Few
people patronize the mail order houses through
preference; they do so because they think they
get better bargains than from home merchants.
In some instances, this may be true but thousands
of dollars are sent to mail order houses for articles
that could be bought from home merchants for
less money. The mail order man advertises; the
home merchant must do the same thing or bust
ness he should get will go elsewhere and money
that should help in the development of the home
community will help swell the mail order mans
bank account.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

a man named Jackson, employed at
the refinery. She said ~"JacksOn's wife
was seriously i'll, and wanted him to
return at once" Barr went in search
of the man, and when he returned to
the boiler room the woman was not
in sight.
Detecting the odOr of something
burning, the fireman examined his
boilers. He noticed a fire-box door
open and fastened to investigate.
Mrs. Hunt vas lying on the blazing
Goals, her head in the open doorway
and reaching with one hand to pull
the door closed after her.
Barr seized the woman and dragged
her from the firebox head-first. Most
of her clothing already was burned
and falling from her body. Barr
dragged the m out of doors and
rolled her in the snow, extinguishing
the blaze. Then he turned in a call
for ar ambulance.
Mrs. Hunt is thirty-eight ear old
and has three children. Her husband
died six years ago. She is said to
have beer confined In a sanitarium.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

must have zone to sleep shortly after
the substitution occurred. for there
was not a sound out of ii on the trip
from New York to Bridgeport. The
two bags were so much alike that
Mr.. Rohland did not notice The sub
stitution until he got into his home.
When he opened the bag the baby
was awakened and began Justify to
test its lungs. The -four hours in the
bag had apparently not hurt 1t a bit.
In the bag Mr.. Rohland found a
note from the child'S mother. This
explained that the baby was eight
weeks old, had been baptized and that
the mother had been deserted by the
child'S father. The note further stated
that the mother was leaving New York
for California.
Mr.. Rohland thought things over for
a while and then notified the police
and the Bridgeport hospital, which
took the baby in.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
W Hat is
"SPRING
FEVER
Be Fair With Yourself. Spring Fever
Is Not Just Mental Contrariness.
LOOK TO YOUR BLOOD
Take PeptO-Mangan, That Famous
Blood Tonic. Sold in Both Liquid
and Tablet Form.

Feel fit this Spring. Feel as fine
as the weather. Don't browse and
dose over your work, lose valuable
time, or blame yourself for a condi-
ton that with many people is as in
evitable as Spring itself.
Remember how in the old days they
took sulphur and molasses? That
was to clear up the blood. For in the
Spring the blood is likely to be slug
gish, weak, and clogged with poisons.
It needs halp.
Why be handicapped unnecessarily !?
Why not be vigorous and red-blooded,
full of "pep" and enthusiasm?
Pepto-Mangan is a blood tonic-a
blood builder and purifier-that has
become q standard in the past thirty
years. Prescribed by physicians when
people are run down and anemic.
Give the children Pepto-Mangan
They, perhaps, need it the most. To
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
SWITCHES BAGS;
HE GETS BABY
"Broken Blossom" Wishes Infant
on Stranger-Babe Is
"~AccompIice."

Bridgeport. Gonna New York girl,
calling herself a "broken blossom" the
mother of an eight-weeks-old baby.
abandoned 1t in the Grand Central sta
ton in a lever way that permitted
her offspring to enter the home Of Q
well-to-do citizen of Bridgeport, In
known to himself. Only he did not
keep the baby, but turned it over to .
hospital.
The baby's mother. unable to sup
port it and unable also to give 1t q
name, put her child in a large travel.
ing bag, gave 1t a fresh bottle Of milk.
and when the Bridgeport citizen-Rob-
ert F. Rohland-placed his own bag
on a ledge of one Of the ticket win
dows in the station while he bought =
ticket. the mother snapped bags.
The baby. warm in the bag and hav-
ing all the nourishment it needed.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

safeguard their health, and because
Spring days are important ones in the
school year. Spring Fever" remem
Der, is real, not fancied, and is usual
~ due to sluggist, impure blood.
Your druggist has Pepto-Mangan in
both liquid and tablet form, just as
preferred. Equally effective. Make
sure You get genuine Pepto-Mangan.
Ask for "Gude's" and look for the full
name, "Gude's Pepto-M angan", on the
package.-(Adv.)
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
OUR UNFINISHED TASKS.

1t is rather remarkable In q way
how few persons seem to care about
he unfinished tasks they have under
taken from time to time n yet, OBJ
served from another angle, it is the
most natural thing in the world for
instinct not to think of unpleasant
things, and the sting of conscience
may be we'll counted as one of those
~disagreeable factors in life from
which we shrink. The end of the
year., perhaps, is as good a time, as
any, if not a better time, In which
to contemplate the many unfinished
duties and slurred over tasks which
make up so large q part of everyone's
record. 1t may be true that when we
first undertake the accomplishment OF
a certain duty u intention is to see
1t through to the end, but alas, for
the frailty Of human nature No soon
er do we enter Upon the performance
of some special duty than we begin
to tire of it and are easily called
away by the alluring prospects of some
other task which promises better, or
more appealing, or even quicker re-
suits, says Charleston News and COu-
rier. 1t may De hat when we leave
one task unfinished in order to attempt
the accomplishment of another we
fully intend to return to the first and
complete it. But again human nature
fnterfereS and we yield weakly to re-
peated calls that draw US away to still
other fields Of work. 1t may be also
that there are persons who under
take many tasks at the same time
without counting upon the almost GER
tain shaping of conditions to interfere
with our work.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

The first woman barrister in the
United Kingdom has just been ad-
mitted to the London bar. But the mil
liant s~uffragettes will get little of the
credit for the great advance of women
in Great Britain. Such is the fate OF
all pioneers who do the rough work.
take and give the hard knocks and
smooth the way for those who not
only enjoy the fruits of their sacrifice,
but also get all the credit
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
TRIES TO BURN
SELF TO DEATH
Crazed Woman Rescued as She
Tries to Close Firebox
Door.

Bradford. Pa.-Seeking to kill her
self by roasting to death, Mrs. Jessie
Hunt crawled into a firebox at the
Kendall refinery. Prompt action of
Charles A. Barr, stationary fireman
on duty at the plant. thwarted Mrs.
Hunts attempt at self-deStruction. She
Is in a hospital. suffering from severe
burns.
Mrs. Hunt gained admittance to the
boiler room by an ingenious ruse. At
three o'clock In the morning she
Knocked at the door Of the room and
told Mr.. Barr that she was looking for
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

The people of Mississippi want
improved public highways, but
they are going to be more par
ticular about the class of mater
ial used in road construction in
future. Most of the money here
tofore expended on bodybuilding
has simply been wasted.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

that under ancient laws, never re-
pealed, they are liable to be whipped
and sent to prison as rogues and vaga-
bonds for trading in French bonds.
The laws of former days are interest
ing as curiosities and as marking the
advance of civilization, but it is a
touch of their own absurdity to keep
them on the statute books, to be re
vived at a moments notice.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

Nj improvement of Jerusalem will
not involve the destruction of it's his
toric features, it is announced. This
of the modern iconOclastic refOrmer
in removing places sacred to all Chris
tan tradition. It would seem a near
sacrilege to rob the Holy City Of the
associations which connect it so close
religion.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
Sought Death in River;
Found Water Too Cold

Truance William Francis, ap-
parently bent on suicide, jumped
into the Delaware river from an
ice foe at Chester, Pa. He dis
appeared from sight, arose to
the surface, ducked a couple of
huge ice cakes, went under the
surface, bobbed up once again,
ducked more ice cakes and then
gave up his suicide quest in evil
dent disgust. He climbed upon
the ice field, shaking as with
ague, and made for the shore,
getting away before a boat could
reach him.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
Bride, Stricken at Altar
Died Hour After Ceremony

Death a an unbidden guest
at a wedding at Apponzell, Swift
zerland, and struck down the
bride Just as the priest asked
her if she accepted "this man for
husband"
She was hurried to a hospital,
still robed in her bridal gown,
but died an hour later, a victim
Of a form Of sleeping sickness,
which was the sequel Of an at
tack Of influenza.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

When the majority does wrong, It
does not do so because it has the right
to dc wrong, but because it has the
power to do wrong. No matter what
the majority does, when it is wrong it
is just as wrong as an individual is
and will pay the penalty.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

With hair tonics debeveragized, the
public will soon be able to know
whether they will prevent or cure bald
ness or not. Up to this time, hair
tonics have not had a fair show as
hair tonics in dry territory.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

The diamond mines of South Africa
are going to be controlled so as to fix
diamond prices the world over. Good !
Why not go a step further and have a
strike in the diamond mines? For
heavens sake give us one strike the
rest Of the world can afford.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

Confidence is being generally re-
stored. If you don't believe it, ask any
of the eight managers in the American
league what he thinks about his
chances in 1920 for coping the pen
nant.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

While you are selecting that big cotton acreage
this spring, to the sacrifice of plenty of corn land,
it might be we'll for you to remember the Pink Boil
Worm is just on the other side of the Mississippi
river, and that the weevil is not a circumstance to
him in the destruction of decentralization Coun-
ty Journal.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

Moving-picture addicts are worrying over the
delay in the presentation of the films depicting
the Michigan rum rebellion" Can it be that the
operators hand shook as he watched the hero des-
troying the cask of homemade wine?
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

The British ministry loses no op-
portunity to lecture the people that
there is no easy road out of their fnan-
cial troubles, but that the only remedy
is steady, honest work and the fullest
possible production.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

What with making out an income
tax QUESTIONABLE every few months
and explaining to various investigating
commissions between times there is
rich these days.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

Alaska Is booming as a coal pro-
Queer. She dug out 1906 IONS last
year., or so per CEN more than ever
before, and this is felt as only a be
ginning to do a coal business. The
work of mining occupied $50 men for
254 days. No five days work a week
stinting on that production.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

That Italian poet is the most trou-
blesome and turbulent songster of
modern times. No American poet has
ever been able to irritate the world so
much and our poets are naturaI-born
irritants.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

A London doctor suggests floating
hospitals of airplanes Tor tuDefcular
patients. From q medical standpoint
this might be a good idea, but eco
nomically there would be difficulty in
the way Of overhead charges.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

More than a billion pounds of sugar
were exported this year, while there
is a scarcity at home. The people of
this country are proverbially generous,
but they ought to be allowed to have
a say themselves how far they shall
be self-sa criicing.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

There never have been so many
bank robberies as during the past year.
ligence among the nations predatory
hordes. The smoothest thieves are
those who leave the banks alone and
rob smoke houses or p%rofiteer.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

American charity will clothe more
than q million destitute children in
Europe, this winter; but then it is the
European adults, not the children,
who sheer at Yankee dollar-madness.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
LEARNING FRom MARINES.

The British have learned much from
the inSentiveneSS OF our marines in
Haiti. 1t will be remembered that the
marines found that it was vastly saw
ing of shoe leather and Gods patience
to not follow on foot after the bands
Of robbers. The ingenious eathe
necks'' are equal to every occasion and
every cline, and have devised a much
better way, says National Tribune
They took possession Of old iron pipes.
filed them with a high explosive to
Which was attached a fuse, and then
dropped these directly into the rob-
Der nest from airplanes. The quieting
effect upon the robbers was magical.
Their hidden strongholds in the noun
tains were no longer im%pregnable and
no marine had to sacritice his life
by being ambushed in the narrow
passes. The British have for years
had trouble with the A~fghanistan
tribes who have raided the more peace
full lowlands. OF late these have been
very annoying to the British trains.
The British have now started air
planes flying over the retreats Of the
banditti, dropping bombs upon them.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

Hawaiian natives stopped the flow
black rooster into the crater. You will
note that they were not SO prodigal as
to waste q hen.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing
or reputation of any person, firm or corporation which
may appear in the columns of The Commonwealth will be
gladly corrected upon its being brought to the attention
of the publishers.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

There's no fOol-of either sex
quite so pitiful as the one that mar
rfes for money. Even the money IL
rarely Forthcoming.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

Let production be your slogan,
and the high cost of living will
soon be a matter of history.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-17

Bathing in the snow is a common
but that doesn't make us feel any
warmer toward the Russians right
now.