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THE DAILY COMMONWEALTH.
J. L. GILLESPIE, Editor and Publisher.
AFTERNOON ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE.
UNION ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE.
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GREENWOOD, MISS., AUGUST 8, 1917.
Another "world's biggest battle" is on.
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It's a mad slacker that's given away by his j
wife.
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Mighty glad it is not our job to say who b to be
exempt.
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Bryan says, "We must win..'
want to shoot.
Next thing he'll
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Hun U-boats are falling down in their Ameri
can information department.
The administration's not down on everything
German—sauercraut carries its 0. K.
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Note in the news that Rockefeller freed a wad,
but haven't seen any of it—have you ?
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Senators Gronna and La Follette are candi
dates for the "undesirable citizen" decoration.
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Foisoning a baby's milk is a mild crime com
pared with what Huns get decorated for doing.
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Congress can put a war tax on undistributed
corporation surpluses without touching a lot of us.
Miftniftitiftftft
To square with his name, Senator Gore should
be a fire-eating jingo instead of the mild pacifist
he is.
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Cheer up, ye "rookies," and think of the quick
jump of Champ Clark's boy to a lieutenant col
onelcy.
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Says 'Uncle Sam, "We'll lick 'em before talk
ing peace; then it will be the lasting brand of
peace.
tetetetetete, tetete
Shucks, while those Montana lynchers were
at it, they might have got more than one I. W.
W. Agitator.
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With the assistance of public sentiment, Wil
son easily killed the Congressional war commit
tee proposition.
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"British government facing trouble," says a
headline. Humph! It hasn't faced anything else
for three years.
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From the frantic way the price-boosters are
raking in the coin you'd think they had to pay the
entire war debt.
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One man appointed a member of Detroits' ex
emption board has not heard about it—you see,
he died last winter.
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Germans are the world's most credulous peo
ple, if they swallow the peace bunk their govern
ment is feeding them.
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Though they don't seem to have a chance,
those hold-up Senators keep on a-trying to put
one across on Wilson.
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Knowing it can't have peace, the navy's made
sure of plenty of canned peas by placing an order
for 5,100,000 pounds.
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No matter how the thermometer or the scare
news reads, keep cool—the thermometer, like the
Hun, is bound to drop.
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Our home enemies promise to give us more
trouble than the Huns if they are not promptly
and permanently squelched.
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Germany didn't get a very big army of Poles,
and what it did get it has disarmed, for fear they
would go over to the enemy.
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Some business men are willing to do anything
to help win the war, provided it will win them
more business and higher profits.
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Bob La Follette's blood must have thinned with '
his hair—Once upon a time he was ready scrap
per; now he's just a whining pacifist.
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When they make airplanes that will go one
thousand miles an hour, as they say they will, we
know one fellow who won't travel by one. j
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One Atlanta editor is doing his doggondest to '
see if Senator Hbke Smith has an ounce of cour-,
Bob La Follette must have heard something'
—he refused an invitation to address an anti-,
draft meeting. At least, his secretary says so. I
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Queer how many outsiders there are who know
better how war revenue should be raised than
those who are officially on the job.
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age-left, and Hoke hasn't yet resented it.
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For the 16,000 places in the second officers'
training camps to open the 27th inst., 72,914 ap
plications are in. Some fine draft material here.
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NO MONEY REQUIRED.
"It takes money to run a newspaper," observes
the editor of one of the weil edited contemporaries.
By the shades of Ananias, what an exagera- 1
Th editor who made that statement must has
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to run a new spaper, it can run w ithout money and
the editor who can't run one without money is a
pusilanamous cuss that ought to be run out of
A newspaper is a charitable institution, a in
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paper IS a child of the air and a creature of a of
dream. It can go on and on when any other con
cern would be in the hands of a receiver. cal.
It takes wind to run a newspaper;; it takes'
' gall ; it takes a scintilating, acrobatic imagina
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i tlon '. a P air of ten cent SOcks ' one whlte shirt and
a railroad pass to run a newspaper, but money, j ng
the very idea is revolting to the profession,
, Whoever needed money to run a newspaper? Kind
the medium of exchange to do the
business for the editor. When you see ,n editor
with money, watch him, he'll be paying his bills
and disgrace the profession. Never give an editor [kept
money, make him trade it out—he likes to swap.
Then, when you die, after you have stood et
around for years and sneered at the editor and his
little jim-crow paper, be sure instructions have
been left with your wife not to pay up your-back
dues on subscription ; the editor might use the te
money for paying his debts and then start a bank, .for
or build an automobile factory with the remainder. the
However, after she has read the generous notice
of your departure and emphasizing the great loss
sustained by the community (none but an editor
can put that lie over) she may be permitted to
send for three extra copies, but warn her not to
send 15c to the editor to pay for them. It would
overwhelm him. Money is a corrupting thing and
he knows it. What he wants is your "heartfelt
thanks," then he can thank the grocer.
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be a new man at the business. It don't take money
town.
begging concern and a highway robbery. A news
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Give all your job work to some out of town
shop, or better still, use the sationery sent you !
by some axle grease, patent medicine, or rubberj
ts concern. They make "suckers" pay for their j
advertising. Save all your free stuff for yourj we
home editor. He so much likes to set it up because |
it makes such spicy reading.
But money—scorn the filthy thing. Don't let
your innocent editor know anything about it.
Keep that for sordid trades people who charge
for their wares. The editor is supposed to give
his bounty away. He has a charter from the
State to act as wet nurse for the community.
He'll get out the paper somehow, and laud
the town and your business, and whoop for you
when you run for office. Don't worry about the
editor. He'll get on. The Lord only knows how
—but somehow.
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GREASE AND TANKAGE FROM GARBAGE.
The Secretary of Agriculture of the United
States has addressed the following letter to the
mayors of all large cities which have no reduc
tion plants for recovering valuable materials from
garbage :
"This department desires to bring to your at
tention the matter of the conservation of the
garbage in your city. At the present time there
exists throughout the world a shortage of both
fats and fertilizers materials,
promises to grow more serious as the war in Eu
rope continues. It is therefore a matter of prime
importance that all available sources of both of
these materials should be used to the best advant
age. Garbage contains on the average about 2
per cent, of grease and about 20 per cent, of tank
age, the latter having valuable properties as a
fertilizer material. Any method of disposal of
garbage in large cities which does not recover
This situation
both the grease and the tankage is uneconomic
and particularly deplorable in the present circum
stances. We wish, therefore to urge upon your
consideration the advisability of so treating the
garbage from your city as to insure the recovery |
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of its constituents. That this may be made a
source of profit to a municipality has been proven
by numbers of cities in the United States where
municipal rendering plants have been erected, and
in a number of others, private plants are now op
erating and paying dividends on trie investments.
We will be glad to furnish you with any further
information at our disposal on the subject, upon
request."
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Dr. W. A. Evans, of Chicago, who conducts a
"How' to Keep Well" column in a number of daily
papers, including the Memphis Commercial Ap
peal, recently interviewed a large number of sol
diers and sailors in regard to the new provisions
against drunkenness and venereal diseases em
ployed by and reputed to be presently employed by
the army and navy. The following is an excerpt of
his report of his findings ; "The soldiers and sail
ors with whom I talked say, all right, they will
stand for it, although they are not for it, but
they do object to being singled out. If they are to
be under prohibition they want the other fellow
to be under it- If prohibition promotes efficiency
and health in an army, 'as you fellows say it does,'
' it also promotes them in the men who clerk, sell
goods, work in factories, raise crops, argue in
court, and practice medicine. If women are to be
denied them, then they want theih denied to other
men - Venereal disease is as bad for men outside
we the army and navy as for men in it. They don't
j want to be singled out as exceptionally bad, wick
| ed, or weak. They do not want to be held up as
to ' especially in need of protective care. They want
to be treated just like the other fellow."
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After much labor and sweating, not to mention
quibbling, the conferees cut $64,000 of the "por*-. '!
out of the rivers an dharbors bill, which carries
I more than $27,000,000. It is to laugh. |
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That Senate team is rantankerous at times, but
driver Wilson has not yet failed to keep it in the
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CITY - PRODUCES - NEEDED - FORET
BEST
Supplments the Supply Raised by
1 Hull, Mass., August 7— This town
has a herd °t 325 hogs whl f h ar ®
turning the garbage into pork, and j)
providing a cheaper disposal of the vou
waste than was possible under the genera
former system of removal. The
piggery has been
in response to appeals for more meat W00(
production, and officials of the United w j tb
States Department of Agriculture and
of the Massachusctts Agricultural ed f
College report the system as practi
cal.
The town's Committee of Public or
Safety advanced money to buy substa
the young pigs, which were taken at
cost by citizens. The land for pastur- f a „y,
j ng an( i housing the hogs was given ; n
free, so the only cost was for two it
large hog houses. One man feeds and of
mana « es the entire herd ' , Each day ,
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inocu i ate d against cholera and
[kept under sanitary conditions,
When the hogs are ready for mark
et the unit cost of care and fee ' ing wd ]
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te is holding a surplus of young sows
.for breding, since it plans to continue
the syste ™' f ltizens , thls e *'
posal and recommends it for oth er
p]aces 0 f similar size,
Farmers Uses No Grain.
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pieces of silver for selling the most
| coupon books last month ' _ ,
Standing of contestants m Kandy
Kitchen's Automobile Contest August
1 , 1917 .
Miss Lucy Mitchell.
Mrs. J. T. Spivey.
Miss Rebeckah Weaver.
Miss Nora Anthony.
Miss Mary Ida Dunn.
Miss Ellen Christine Harding.
Miss Dollie Hill.
Miss Stella Moore.
Miss Nancy Davidson.
Miss Brooke Hunter.
Mrs. Turnage.
Miss Dolores Frazier.
Miss Mamie Prophet
Miss Cecile Stern.
Miss Jane Casey.
Miss Hugh Ella Quarlei.
Miss Vasti Madlock.
Miss Willie McConnico.
Miss Sallie Rush.
Mrs. C. D. Pepper.
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Miss Jimmie Smith.
Mrs. Alice Fields.
Mrs. W. R. Chandler.
Mrs. Thos Turner.
Mrs. Upshur.
Miss Vivian Zellers.
MISS LUCY MITCHELL AHEAD.
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it rankg rigbt a i 0 ng with the dailies ;
of citjeg num bering thirty and forty j
, thousand inhabitants. One is able
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to the following Lake resorts:
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them is by taking advantage of the
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MONWEALTH. If you wish to buy Z.
or sell anything, lost or found any j
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will find that your advertisements in i
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This section is always carefully read j of
by all of our readers. This class of ,
advertising evidently pays, or else this
part of our business would not be in
creasing as rapidly as it is now.
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NOTICE OF EXAMINATION FOftn
D. C. SCHOLARSHIP,
There will be
a competitive exaiai. '
nation for those who wish to contend
for the scholarship offered by the 1 1
Z. George Chapter, U. D. C, «hidj
will be held in the office of Count,
Superintendent of Education, J, j 1
Hughes, on August 17th and 18th The i
(applicants must be lineal deacendenti
of Confederate Veterans, and unable
financially to defray their own expen. !
ses.
Two lady examiners will be selected ]
to hold this examination, which wil l
be conducted according to the regnla- 1
tions governing the regular «« 111 % - 1
for teachers.
MRS. S. F. JONES,
President, J. Z. George Chapter Ü '
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