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Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11
SPECIAL NOTICE.

The Government is now investigat-
an Advance in a few days hence. We
have authorized our Mr.. T. p. Price
to book orders from this date on the
present prices, subject to such prices
as the Government may fix.
Phone 81. BERNICE COAL co.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

If you can't be a booster, make
room for somebody who can and
will. Don't be an obstructionist.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

Stop! that creaking rim-we have
Tugs and bolts for all cars!
KIMBROUGH AUTO CO.
Call 11-o92.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

FOR SALE-Thoroughbred Rhode
Island Red eggs. $500 per setting
See me at Hoffman's Variety Store
L. B. Felts.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

The American Legion has no Pres
idential candidate, but it does not nee
essarily follow that it will not have
one.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11
WANTED.

WANTED LOGS.
We want to contract for logs deliv-
ered on cars to u mill, Greenwood,
Miss. Address communications to
Churchill Milton Lumber Co., Green
wood, Miss, or leave call for repre-
sentative at Reiman House, Green
wood, Miss.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

FOR SALE-1O Tons of 100 per
cent proof Weber 40 Cotton Seed.
Holland Delta Cotton Co., Itta Bena,
Miss.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

FOR SALE-Two-story modern up
to-date residence; 208 Henderson ST.;
Phone 493.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

FOR SALE-3OO bushels Whippor-
will Peas. $5.75 per bushel f. o. b.
Philadelphia. Henderson-Molpus Co.,
Philadelphia, Miss.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

FURNITURE REPAIRED - All
kinds furniture refinished. I have
few finished. Carpenter and Cabinet
Maker. A.. Rappadopulos, Carrollton
Ave. Furniture Factory third house.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

WANTED TO RENT-Four or five
room house, prefer near school. Pos
session wanted by April 1st. See c..
w. Telfair at Herman's Store.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

WANTED TO BUY Second hand
egg cases complete, with filters and
flats. No. II. Swift & Co.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

FOR SALE-A few tons of pure
Foster Cotton Seed, carefully selected
and ginned on private gin. Sacked
and stored for planting purposes be-
fore the fall rains. Phone No. SO.
Barnwell Bros, Greenwood, Miss.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

WANTED-Position as private sec
rotary or stenographer. Experienced.
Best of references furnished. Phone
SO.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

FOR SALE-Barge 18x43, only us
ed two trips on river, but have M use
for it. Well built and a bargain for
quick sale. Address R. H. Weir
Webb, Miss.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

BLANK FORMS-Rent, Share and
Lease Contracts; Abstract Blanks;
Notice Of Protest; Promissory Notes;
Collateral Notes; Nurses Records
Posted Sign Cards, For Sale and For
Rent Sign Cards at The Daily Com
monwealth Office.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished front
room for gentlemen only. Call phone
348.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

We have two of the best cooks
n Greenwood.
Handy Kitchen.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

COTTON SEED FOR SALE-20
tons first picking Polk Cotton Seed.
$3.50 per ton. Wade & Wagner, Green
wood, Miss.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

FOR SALE-Few tons of Express
Planting Seed. Apply to ]. D. Asher,
II North Popular, Greenville, Miss.
Greenwood daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1919-1926, 1920-03-11

LOTS FOR SALE-In Itta Bena
Miss: Lots IL and IS, Block s., Kim
brough Addition West of Delta So
Apply to J. l.. Gillespie, Daily Com
monwealth Office, Greenwood, Miss.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
condemn the one side without con-
demning the other.

condemn the one side without con-
demning the other.
The company impedes building
construction by denying steel to
builders who hire only unionists. The
labor unions likewise impede build
ing construction by refusing to work
on jobs where non-unionists are en-
ployed. Both thus agree that it is
permissible to dictate to the builders.
The power to break the deadlock is
in the hands Of each of the parties.
Neither avails itself of it.
In one respect, however, the COM
pany may claim that it is the more
tolerant. Much as it's officers dislike
unions, they do not deny the right Of
their employees to join the unions if
such be their personal desire. But
the unions, more thoroughgoing in
exclusiveness, say in effect that if a
worker does not join a union he is to
be jobless-at least is not to have an
opportunity to hammer steel in New
York.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
Repudiating Any Alliance

The admission of Austria and Bull
garia to the League of Nations, thus
recognizing them as proper guar
dians Of the general peace, taken to-
gether with the selection Of China as
a member Of the leagues Council,
brings out the contradictory and
mutually destroying demerits in the
leagues constitution.
To many the league appeared as
merely a camoufaged alliance, with
power perpetually placed with the
five great powers which were to con-
stitute majority of the leagues
Council. The Assembly was rated
as little more than a debating So
ciety or a decorative establishment
created to f1atter the smaller powers.
Many parts Of the covenant obvi-
ously supported this view.
But there was another possible in
terpretation derived from other parts
of the overwhelmingly, that the
Assembly was the real source of
power, and that the Council, as an
executive committee, was chiefly it's
agent. And that, such being the case,
the league was a loose one and not an
alliance.
The Assembly during the sessions
at Geneva has been proceeding on
the assumption that it is the boss
of the league. In many ways this
has cropped out. Instead of the
league being conceived of as a piece
of machinery to guarantee the in
tegrity of the Peace Of Versailles, as
President Wilson argued it was, and
that hence it was necessary to inter-
twine the league and the peace treaty
proper, the Geneva delegates are
going ahead as if the Versailles
Treaty is no particular concern of
theirs.
The admission Of Austria and Bull
garia is symptom Of this spirit
Likewise is the selection of pacific
and powerless China as a Council
member. 1t looks as if the AS
sembly purposes to control the Coun-
Gil, rather than to be controlled by
the Council. Here is an issue which
may destroy the league altogether
through internal combustion. 1t is
unlikely that the great powers in
any real way will conide the pro-
lection Of their vital interests to
powerless body wherein France has
no more weight than Hayti.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
A Mutual Lockout

It can hardly be said that Mr..
Grace, Of the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration, added greatly to the sum Of
human knowledge by his testimony
before the Lockwood committee.
1t appears that the labor unions
and the steel company, moved by
similar motives and acting according
to similar principles, have estab-
iished mutual lockout against each
other The unions will not sell their
labor to concerns employing nom
union labor. The company will not
eell its steel TO concerns which dcny
10 non-unionists chance to get jobs.
Boycott Is thus met with boycott.
II is difficult. II not impossible, to
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
The Willard Committee

In their protest against the State
Departments refusal to wise the
passports Of four persons who were
designated by an unofficial commit
tee to investigate Irish conditions
ten Senators Of the United States
say:
"The government Of the United
States has placed no obstacles in the
way of British and foreign missions,
commissions and committees, official
and unofficial, coming into this coun-
try, for all kinds of purposes"
That is to say, it would not, for
example, be considered Objectionable
should a committee of Britons
whose members were publicly com
mitted to give judgment against us
come here to Investigate" American
lynchings. Or if, in Civil War days
we had welcomed a foreign commit
tee which espoused the doctrine that
secession was right of all commu-
mites under the principle of self
determination. The nonsense con-
tanned in the statement of the ten
Senators is too palpable to need
further demonstration.
That the Willard committee.
brought together by a gentleman
who during the war was not rated
as hostile to Germany or as friend
ly to Great Britain, is partial does
not seem open to question. An ad-
vertlsement published in The Nation,
Mr.. Wizards publication, on No
vember II, asking for contributions
to support the committees work, re-
ferred to Ireland as a place "where
murder and incendiarism have been
adopted as methods of police
power" Further evidence of bias is
seen in the conspicuous neglect of
the committee to ask De Valera to
appear before it to answer questions
iciatIHR 10 tne sums OF money raised
by him here, with particulars of how
much had been spent and for what
purposes.
NO country has stood more firmly
than our own for the doctrine that
who enters its gates is it's own
affair. The British government hav-
ing indicated that the advent of q
committee which had prejudged the
case was not agreeable to it, our
State Department, by it's own prece-
dents, was bound to take the action
that 1t did. Nor is the propriety Of
such action clouded by the circum-
stance that the committee, plainly
out TO make all the trouble that it
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
Back to the Frontier

The four guests Of the Hotel Astor
were doubtless somewhat taken
aback when three burglars dropped
in upon them in the shank of the
evening--with crowds round about
and policemen pounding the pave
ment under the window. But they
were surely not amazed. To be
burgled or blackjacked or robbed Is
cne of the minor and expected Incl
dents of life in our great city under
the Hylan-E -Enright regime. Even
synagogue has no immunity, it seems
by yesterdays tidings.
The only difficulty of the situation
is that our splendid citizenry is not
prepared for its task. Out West, on
the frontier, certain portion of the
local processes of keeping peace and
order is delegated to the sheriff. But
the bulk Of the obligation rests upon
the individual, who is armed accord
ingly. Now here in New York
which had once reached the ameni-
ties Of civilization, but which has
now backslid under the rule Of
Messrs. Hylan, Enright & Co-the
individual is utterly unframed to de-
fend himself, and, what is more, is
forbidden by law to equip himself
against attack.
So what we suggest Is that pend
ing the end of Mr.. Enright and Mr..
Hylan the restrictions against con-
cealed weapons be removed and
every one in New York be placed on
an equality with the burglars and
highwaymen. When Mr.. Enright
disappears we can return to our life
as civilized community. Until that
happy day let US face the fact that
we are frontier town; that every
man must help himself, and that
neither a church nor a hostelry is
the least protection against the min
ions who at the present moment rule
our metropolis.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
can, has hypocritically pretended
that one of it's objects is to establish
better relations between the two
English-speaking nations.
The Equal Sexes

That fundamentally conservative
streak in the French nature is visi-
BILE in M. Carpenters explanatory
sorrow over the femininity Of his
first offspring. "Never mind, 1 will
make her champion tennis player"
he cries, with the infinite Gallo tact.
But his heart speaks louder than his
words. Fate has played him a mean
trick, he conceives, in delivering to
him girl baby.
When M. Carpenter becomes
champion Of the world, we hope that
he will achieve a wider outlook.
There are still folk in America who
hold by his preference for a male
child. But the tide is against them.
Bold spirits will actually be found
to prefer a daughter-how many
old families, on their uppers through
masculine extravaganza, have not
been rescued through the advent of
daughters In the movies" A rich
marriage is all very we'll for a
daughter, but a good engagement in
the films is even better.
These things move rapidly-n1ore
swiftly even than the arrival of q
new prizering champion. A male
child was the thing in days when
maleness was the one sure road to
success and glory and a bank de-
posit. Much has changed since then.
Daughters have learned to vote and
do most things that were the peculiar
property of sons. To the victors
belong the spoils. Prospective par
ents. male and female, can face the
future with tranquil heart. We
toast Nine. Carpenter with a will,
and offer her the fluctuations of the
equal sexes.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
Remember the Postman
D the Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May l ask your readers whose
name comes at the head Of their Christ
mas lists? The names of my two post
men come at the top of mine, and as
they get only 1900 a year I know
what is most acceptable.
If you are quite rich and live on the
east side of the avenue, where only your
butler ever comes in contact with the
postman, you can do gracious thing by
democratically going to the door and
making your offering in person. If you
are just rich and live on the Drive,
where your mail Is always handed YOU
by the slave who runs the elevator. Won
may have to make a little effort. but.
believe me, it will be more appreciated
than any other Christmas gift If, like
me, you live in a walk-up house on the
Heights, you simply listen for the bell
and trot down stairs with your money
and Christmas card in an envelope and
some little personal gift on the side, and
you'll find it quite worth while.
Remember that the patient postman,
with a bag often weighing over seventy
pounds, brought all those Christmas
checks and cards and gifts, and perhaps
up to date you never gave him tenth
of what you give the hat check girl, who
scorns you, or the head waiter, who is
richer than you are. E. p. r. f.
New York, Dec. 12, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
In the Worst of Us"
the Editor Of The Tribune.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial of the 11th en-
titled "1n the Worst Of Us" is
splendid argument for the abolition of
capital punishment. 1t appeals to the
sober judgment rather than to maud
lin sentiment.
While you warn against hero worship
Of the men who went to the electric
chair at Sing Sing-fve of them within
an hour-you commend the courage
which met death pluckily and gayly.
Your plea is that human nature "at
its worst shares something of the glory
of the best"
1t seems TO me that with that
premise there is but one conclusion
for any thinking man: namely, that
human life must not be deliberately
taken. But could there be anything
more coldly deliberate than such a
death? AS you say there was no hope
in that Sing Sing room" Even our
criminal law distinguishes the taking
of life in hot blood. If my closest
friend were murdered | would insist
upon an unrelentng search for the
murderer and would feel that the
majesty of the law was outraged until
he was in prison. But would it give
me any satisfaction to sit in that room
IN Sing Sing and see the poor wretch
face death and die? Is there anything
majestic about the law in that scene?
The electric chair does not prevent
murder. If it did there would be one
argument in favor of it. As it is there
is no argument in its favor and the
Legislature should abolish it. Life I'M
prisonment is the logical punishment
for murder-and it leaves room for
mercy in case that "som thing" you
speak Of shall develop toward "the
glory of the best"
FERDINAND H. PEASE.
New York, Dec. 13, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
"Seein' Things at Night

To The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: We believe in the spirit Of your
editorial titled as above, as you will
note from the children's verse herewith.
which came through the mist in 1913:
THE GRAY GOBLIN
a great gray goblin galloped high.
" hirled by the night wind up the sky
une Inc wind was blowing west by south,
When the moon hoped out OF the goblln's
mouth.
How the goblin waH glaring!
How its yellow eyes were staring,
ana its mouth was all aglow with yellow
mere. with lions head a-creeping
And With name like flames a-leapinr
might. Ola ''
IN It's mouth. grown bright and brirhtrr
opened IKE biting fighter,
opened wider than tiger or a bear
mhd the moon Jumped out instnnter
hi Amen r,io ',n mane grew scant and scan,er.
Al hpicccs you could zee the goblin t.ar
ROW the wind blew up its whiskers,
a Ana tne happy stars-gay friskers
lWinkled through It's faint and nin,sv g.
irg harl "''''"S NY
For all goblins are really
M,sty things and only "feely."
Al they ever. ever do Is lust 10 ncsrs
80 the goblin was burstod
was sure 1t would be worsted
cause the awful things are mevsr yroyr
M. W. GREER.
New York, Dec. IL, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
Daylight Saving by Zones
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Permit me to express my verv
decided approval of your editorial
titled daylight Saving by Zones" J.
A. c. has suggested the correction of
the one feature of daylight saving that
has perhaps aroused the greatest
amount Of criticism. If the reform
contemplated by ]. A. C. can be effected.
1t is almost certain that the splendid
scheme Of daylight saving will receive
universal approval. The elimination of
the first and last months at present in
cluded In the daylight saving observ-
ance will do away with its most objec-
tional feature. to wit, the necessity of
the earl, risers commencing their dav
before sunrise. This applies with equal
force to the business man or woman as
well as to the workingman in getting
to work. G. NJ e
Newark, N. j., Dec. 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
A Republicanized City

1t is reported that the city enroll
ment taken in October will show
Republican preponderance of about
10000, against a Democratic pre-
ponderance of 1924 a year ago.
Senator Harding's plurality of
100000 was swollen by tens of thou
sands Of Democratic votes and by
the votes of the unenrolled, but the
October enrolment shows the num-
Der who rate themselves Republicans
and are eligible to participate in the
Republican primaries next year.
But this remarkable overturn
hardly means that New York has
become deep-dyed and permanently
Republican. A Republican Presi-
dent of the Board Of Aldermen was
elected in 1919 by the narrowest of
margins. On local issues also party
lines are cut across. Our state laws
purposely separate municipal elec-
tlons from state and national cleo
tions. The fact that the city has
become temporarily Republican
shouldn't therefore mislead Republ;-
can leaders into assuming straight
party victory in the mayoralty cam
paign and the pushing aside of the
wise policy Of the past under which
the party has SO often cooperated
with other groups to secure city good
government.
The next good government nom;-
nee for Mayor will have to carry the
Republican city primary, unless some
other method of selection is substi-
tuted by the Legislature. But he
may or may not be a Republican on
national issues. 1t would be taking
useless risks not to try to bring all
who have helped in the past to elect
competent city officials into line for
general anti-Tammanv ticket.
Governor Smith carried the city in
November by huge plurality. He
may be Tammany's choice for
Mayor. 1t would be hard to defeat
him except through an alliance If
all the friends Of good administra-
ton, not in the interest of a partv.
but IN the interest of the community.
The people are sick OF Hylanism.
The prestige given to the Repub.i-
can party by the 1920 enrolment
and the city's vote, except for Gov
ernor, couldn't be put to better use
next fall than in effecting a CON-
bination Of forces which would make
impossible the election of any Tam
many or Hearst Democrat.
Many times the local Republican
organization has committed itself 20
the doctrine that a municipal cleo
tion ought to be non-partisan
affair, and the wisdom Of departing
from this approved principle is
highly doubtful.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-17
BY
Heywood B7oun

tremely sentimental portrait of the
great Russian which has grown in our
minds. Gorky admired him too trc.
mendously to love him, although he
cannot resist romantic outbursts.
Il once saw him." writes Gorky, "as
perhaps no one has ever seen him. I
was walking over to him at Gaspra,
along the coast, and behind Yussupor's
estate, on the shore among the stones,
saw his smallish, angular figure in a
gray, crumpled, ragged suit and crum-
pied hat. He was sitting with his head
on his hands, the wind blowing the sill
very hairs of his beard through his
fingers; he was looking into the dis
tance, out to sea, and the little greenish
waves rolled up obediently to his feet
and fondled them as if they were tell
ing something about them selves to the
old magician. 1t was a day of sun and
cloud, and the shadows Of the clouds
g1ded over the stones, and with the
stones the old man grew now bright
and now dark. The ooulders were
large, riven with cracks and covered
with smelly seaweed; there had been a
high tide. He, too, seemed to me like
an old stone come to life, who knows
all the beginnings and the ends of
things, who considers when and what
will be the end of the stone, of the
grasses of the earth, of the waters of
the sea, and of the whole universe.
from the pebble to the sun. And the
sea is part of his soul, and everything
around him comes from him, out Of
him. In the musing motionlessness of
the old man l felt something fateful.
magical, something which went down
into the darkness beneath him and
stretched up like searchlght into the
blue emptiness above the earth. as
though it were he, his concentrated
will, which was drawing the waves to
him and repelling them, which was
ruilng the movements Of cloud and
shadow, which was stirring the stones
to life. Suddenly, in a moment of mad
ness. felt, is it possible he will get
up, wave his hand, and the sea will be-
come solid and CLASSY, the stones will
begin to move and cr.' out, everything
around him will come to life, acquire a
voice and speak in their different
voices of themselves, of him, against
him? | cannot express in words what
felt rather than thought at that mo-
ment; In my soul there was joy and
fear. and then everything blended into
one happy thought am not an or
phan on this earth, so long as this
man lives on it,"