Dera chan,
Bellefonte, Pa., September 6, 1918.
mma
WE WILL NOT FORGET.
“We cannot bid you go—nor bid you
stay;
With lips that
_ grown wet
We seek some word, but this is all we
say,
‘Good luck—God bless you—we will not
forget.’
tremble and with eyes
You pass us, splendid in your untried
youth,
That thus defies a Kaiser's
power—
But woe to them, ay, bitter, bitter, woe,
Who brought us to the partings of this
hour.
pomp and
Still on you pass. God bless you and
good luck.
The flags fly out, brave music fills the air,
And heartbeats quicken till one pities
most,
Tried age, that looks but must not join
you there.
God bless you, and good luck—we too,
will share
“War's awful work and vigil, as we pray,
Our busy hands—though, sometimes,
hearts do break—
Will serve you, brother,
day.
as day follows
O comrades, wheresoever you may be
At dawn or dusk, or ‘lonely, watchful
night,
God bless you, and good luck—we stay to
keep
For your return home's altar-fires
alight.”
“Keep the Home Fires Burning.”
Women, the Home-Makers.—The
sacred duty of women in peace 1s
made doubly sacred in time of war.
With the strong, masculine element |
taken from so many American homes |
today, home must be made doubly at-
tractive to the children, mother’s care
is multiplied, mother’s problems in-
tensified. The street is calling, call-
ing, these days to children; the fly-
ing of flags and banners; the uni-
forms of heroes; the training of
troops; the martial spirit pervading
the very air, are all so alluring, and
in the home no father to exert pater-
nal authority. : .
The Daughters are feeling that it
is incumbent upon the women of the
country to keep the home intact for
the day when the men return; that it
is just as patriotic to keep the home
lines straight as it is for the fighting
men to hold the fighting lines firm,
and in these days of stress almost un-
consciously the home has been allow-
ed to suffer. A home from which
mother, for whatever cause, is daily
absent when the children come home
from school, cannot compete with the
charm of the street. Never before
has America been so greatly in need
of superb care for our “Patriots in
the Making,” our boys and girls, and
never before ought America to_ do
more to uphold her great public
school system than in the present
world crisis.
We cannot afford to have the
street substituted for the home as a
play-place for our children. No work |
for the nation can be more essential,
no duty to the Flag more imperative
than mother’s duty to her children in
the home at this hour.
As the world grows wiser, as the
bond of brotherhood is cemented by
the experience through which as a
nation we are passing, we shall real-
ize more and more the patriotic part
a woman with children is playing in
the nation’s life. If she is playing
the double role of a father and moth-
er, we shall realize that we have not
done our part to our nation if we do
not make it possible for her to re-
main in her home caring for the
health, morals and happiness of the
children whom she has given the Re-
public. .
Infant mortality must be reduced
to 2 minimum as a war-measure; our
women must know how to care for
cases of sickness and injury in the
home, for our doctors and trained
nurses are fast being called “to the
front.” ;
If this is not done, the sacrifice on
foreign fields to protect our homes as
well as our freedom, will have been
made in vain, for the news of the
death rate here in America, especial-
ly among children, will, if it is high,
be most gratifying to an enemy who
is so brutal that he is waging a cru-
sade to exterminate the child-life of
our Allies. :
There is another side to the pic-
ture. The boys “over there” must
know we are keeping the “Home Fires
Burning” for them. Difficult as it
may be, no word of our loneliness
must creep into our letters. We must
keep well and strong so that no hint
of our weakness will depress their
spirits. They must, in our letters,
see home as they left it. They must
know the Home Fires are kept Burn-
ing, not smouldering.
And for the boys in our American
forts, cantonments and training
schools:
Many of them are away from home
for the first time. Already many of
the Daughters have been sending the
names of their brothers, sons and
grand-sons in the service to other
Daughters living near the camp, can-
tonment, aviation field or training
school to which the boy is ordered,
and these introductions have met with
the most cordial response. Another
way this is of showing the men that
American Home Fires all over the
land are kept burning for them. It
was suggested that the Daughters of
the American Revolution send the
names and the addresses of the men
in whom they are specially interest-
ed, men as well as officers, to mem-
bers of the Board, or State, or Chap-
ter Regents living in the locality of
the particular camp, cantonment,
aviation field, training school or fort
where they have relatives or friends
stationed.
One other way we can serve in this
effort to have American men know
American women are keeping the
Home Fires Burning, is to seek out
some other sister, mother, grand-
mother, wife or sweetheart of a man
defending with his life, the Ameri-
can Flag and the World’s Freedom,
and cheer her lonely hours. The
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| happiness we shall have given her,
| will be reflected on her letter to him
and he will see in memory his Home
Fires Burning more brightly than he
! otherwise would.
| Woman —the Home-Maker
Peace.
Woman—the Home-Keeper in War.
HELEN E. C. OVERTON,
Vice Director Eastern Division
in
Fuel Value of Cocoanut Shells.
In view of the existing high prices
for coal in the United States and oth-
draw attention to the fuel value of
| cocoanut shells, which are now for
the most part wasted in cocoanut-pro-
ducing regions. In Trinidad many of
the shells are simply burned in heaps
others accumulate around plantations,
becoming filled with stagnant water
which breeds mosquitoes; and only a
comparatively few shells are reserv-
ed for any useful purpose, such as
making mats from the outside fibre,
Consul Baker from Trinidad to the
Department of Commerce.
It is obvious, however, to any per-
son who will watch the fierce fire and
note the great heat given off from
burning cocoanut shells that the fuel
value of the shells is considerable,
and that also there might be a special |
usefulness for such shells in connec-
tion with coal and other fuel to ena-
ly and more initial heat to be devel-
oped. Possibly the shells could be
ground into powder and made into
briquets for exportation to countries
where they could be employed to ad-
vantage in economizing expensive
coal or other fuel. Cocoanut produc-
tion is now so extensive in most trop-
ical countries that huge quantities of
the shells ought to be available, and
generally they are to be found within
easy access of water transportation.
Farnum & Co., operating the Trini-
tory for extracting oil from cocoa-
nuts), in this island, make considera-
ble use of their otherwise waste shells
in firing the factory furnace.
have at my request prepared a mem-
coal, as compared with wood and coal
alone. The factory customarily uses
the shell in connection with wood or
coal and has no record of results from
firing with shell alone. The memo-
randum referred to is as follows:
We find that the shell from a co-
coanut weighs from four to six
ounces. As regards fuel value, when
we burn wood and shell we require
about 3,600 pounds of wood and 300
pounds of shell per one-half hour
day; wood and coal, 4,000 pounds of
wood and 400 pounds of coal; coal and
shell, 1,600 pounds of coal and 500
pounds of shell; coal and wood, 1,900
shell and 600 pounds of coal.
A Man’s Size Job.
Owing, no doubt, to the good work
of those hustling, keen young boys
and girls who have so generously
given of their time and their pennies
to the thrift campaign, the impres-
sion has been created in the minds of
many that war savings stamps are
for children only.
Let us stop to consider the matter
for a moment.
The Congress authorized an issue
of $2,000,000,000, W. S. S. to be sold
in 1918. The purpose of the stamps
was two-fold: (1) To get money
for the government for war needs;
(2) To instill the habit of thrift in
the American people and by the prac-
tice of thrift save labor and mater-
ials for the government.
Can we expect the children, splen-
did workers that they are, to account
for $2,000,000,000 of stamps?
Do we consider that the children
alone of all our population need to be
inculcated with the thrift idea? Are
they the only spendthrifts ?
Certainly not.
War savings stamps are for every-
one. No one, be he millionaire or be
he the humblest laborer, can say
truthfully that he is not interested in
W. S. S. and the saving program that
they stand for.
There are, indeed, few men and
women in the land unable to save and
economize more than they do now.
Ir they want to be listed among the
patriotic people of the land they must
save and economize more than they
do now. The winning of the war
with the least possible sacrifice de-
mands this, for there are not enough
labor and materials for the govern-
ment’s war needs and for the use of
the spendthrifts.
Cut those useless expenditures.
All of us have them. Remember that
our boys in the army and navy do
not expect luxuries and do not grum-
ble even if they do not get all the
Comers that they are supposed to
get.
Weer
——They are all good enough, but
the “Watehman” is always the best.
ROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THRE
CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL
OR REJECTION, AT THE ELECTION
TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, NOVEM-
BER 5, 1918, BY EN M-
BLY "OF THE GENERAL ASSEM
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ARTICLE XVIII YT.
TION. OF THE CONSTITU
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section four of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania;
thorizing the State to issue bonds to the
amount of fifty millions of dollars for
Commonwealth,
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
sylvania be, and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
article thereof :—
That section four of article nine, which
reads as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except to
supply casual deficiencies of revenue, re-
pe invasion, suppress insurrection, de-
end the State in war, or to pay existing
debt; and the debt created to supply de-
ficiency in revenue shall never exceed in
the aggregate, at any one time, one mil-
lion dollars,” be amended so as to read
as follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except to
supply casual deficiencies of revenue, re-
War Relief Service. |
er countries, it may not be amiss to!
with other refuse to get rid of them;
or providing fue! for factories, writes '
ble furnace fires to be started quick-
dad Oil works (which includes a fac- |
They |
orandum showing fuel results when
using cocoanut shells with wood or |
pounds of coal and 150 pounds of
wood; shell and coal, 1,200 pounds of |
au-
the improvement of the highways of the
First Aid Lessons
FOR
BOYS and GIRLS
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| By Ruth Plumbly Thompson,
! Ledger.
! POISON IVY—Some day when
i you come home with your hands and
i arms and face all inflamed and swol-
i len (with blisters if it is very se-
in Public
| book to see what on earth to do.
Wash the skin with boracic acid
solution and then smear zinc oint-
ment on the skin. Cover with a very
thin cloth. You may use lime water
for the wash, too.
vere), you will run for your first-aid
Every day wash the ointment off
with the boracic wash; dry the skin
and then put on fresh ointment.
If the face does not get better
right away, see a doctor.
When you make the boracic acid
solution, put about a tablespoonful in
a pint of water—you cannot get it
too strong.
In the country—Ilong ago—they
used to make a wash by putting a
cent in vinegar. And it may sound
funny—but it is good.
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La invasion, suppress insurrection, de-
.fend the State in war, or to pay existing
‘debt; and the debt created to supply de-
ficiencies in revenue shall never exceed in
the aggregate, at any one time, one mil-
| lion dollars: Provided, however, That
{the General Assembly, irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to issue
{bonds to the amount of fifty millions of
dollars for the purpose of improving and
{rebuilding the highways of the Common-
wealth. ‘
| Section 2. Said proposed amendment
shall be submitted to the qualified electors
'of the State, at the general election to
be held on the Tuesday next following
i the first Monday of November in the year
| nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the
| purpose of deciding upon the approval
,and ratification or the rejection of said
{ amendment. Said election shall be
opened, held, and closed upon said elec-
| tion day, at the places and within the
hours at and within which said election
is directed to be opened, held, and
closed, and in accordance with the pro-
(visions of the laws of Pennsylvania
| governing elections and amendments
thereto. Such amendment shall be
printed upon the ballots in the form and
manner prescribed by the election laws
(of Pennsylvania, and shall in all re-
!spects conform to the requirement of such
laws.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section
eight, article nine of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania.
Be it enacted by the Senate
Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
‘eral Assembly met, and it is hereby
j enacted by the authority of the same,
{ That the Constitution of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania, in accordance
with the provisions of the eighteenth ar-
' ticle thereof: —
!{ Amendment to
i Section 1.
‘and House of
Article Section
Eight.
Nine,
That section eight of article nine, of
the Constitution be amended by striking
out the said section and inserting in place
thereof the following :—
Section 8. The debt of any county,
city, borough, township, school district,
or other municipality or incorporated dis-
trict, except as provided herein, and in
section fifteen of this article, shall never
exceed seven (7) per centum upon the
assessed value of the taxable property
| therein, but the debt of the city of Phila-
! delphia may be increased in such amount
that the total city debt of said city shall
‘not exceed ten per centum (10) upon the
assessed value of the taxable property
| therein, nor shall any such municipality
or district incur any new debt, or in-
crease its indebtedness to an amount ex-
‘ceeding two (2) per centum upon such
assessed valuation of property, without
the consent of the electors thereof at a
public election in such manner as shall
be provided by law. In ascertaining the
borrowing capacity of the said city of
Philadelphia, at any time, there shall
be excluded from the calculation and
deducted from such debt so much of the
debt of said city as shall have been in-
curred, and the proceeds thereof in-
vested, in any public improvements of
any character which shall be yielding to
the said city an annual current net reve-
nue. The amount of such deduction
shall be ascertained by capitalizing the
annual net revenue from such improve-
ment during the year immediately pre-
ceding the time of such ascertainment;
and such capitalization shall be estimated
by ascertaining the principal amount
which would yield such annual, current
net revenue, at the average rate of in-
terest, and sinking-fund charges payable
upon the indebtedness incurred by said
city for such purposes, up to the time
of such ascertainment. he method of
determining such amount, so to be de-
ducted, may be prescribed by the Gen-
eral Assembly. In incurring indebted-
ness for any purpose the city of Phila-
delphia may issue its obligations matur-
ing not later than fifty (50) years from
the date thereof, with provision for a
sinking-fund sufficient to retire said ob-
‘ligations at maturity, the payment to
such sinking-fund to be in equal or
. graded annual or other periodical instal-
ments. Where any indebtedness shall be
or shall have been incurred by said city
of Philadelphia for the purpose of the
construction or improvement of public
works of any character from which in-
come or revenue is to be derived by said
city, or for the reclamation of land to be
used in the construction of wharves
or docks owned or to be owned by said
city, such oblgations may be in an
amount sufficient to provide for, and may
include the amount of, the interest and
sinking-fund charges accruing and which
may accrue thereon throughout the
period of construction, and until the ex-
piration of one year after the completion
of the work for which said indebtedness
shall have been incurred; and said city
shall not be required to levy a tax to pay
said interest and sinking-fund charges as
required by section ten, article nine of
the Constitution of Pennsylvania, until
the expiration of said period of one year
after the completion of said work.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
; ROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
P CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL
OR REJECTION, BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU-
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CON-
STITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section eleven
of article sixteen of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met,
‘That the following amendment to the
Constitution of the Commoawealth of
{ Pennsylvania be, and the same is hereby,
| proposed, in accordance with the eigh-
teenth article thereof :—
Amend section eleven, article sixteen
of the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
“No corporate body to possess banking
and discounting privileges shall be created
or organized in pursuance of any law
without three months’ previous public
notice, at the place of the intended loca-
tion, of the intention to apply for such
priviliges, in such manner as shall be pre-
scribed by law, nor shall a charter for
such privilege be granted for a longer
period than twenty years,” so that it shall
read as follows:
i The General Assembly shall have the
ower of general law to provide for the
ncorporation of banks and trust com-
panies, and to prescribe the powers
thereof.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1.
CYRUS E. WOODS.
! Secretary of the Commonwealth.
; Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section six-
teen of article three of the Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same, That the
following is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the eighteenth article thereof :—
That section sixteen of article three,
which reads as follows:
“Section 16. No money shall be paid
out of the treasury, except upon appro-
priations made by law, and on warrant
drawn by the proper officers in pur-
suanee thereof,” be, and the same is
hereby, amended so that the same shall
read as follows:
Section 16. No money shall be paid
out of the State Treasury, except in ac-
cordance with the provisions of an act
of Assembly specifying the amount and
purpose of the expenditure, and limiting
the time in which said appropriation shall
be expended. All public money shall be
paid by the State Treasurer on warrant
drawn by the Auditor General.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine.
section eight of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
| sylvania be, and the same is hereby, pro-
| posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
j article thereof :—
{ That article nine, section eight, be
‘amended to read as follows:
Section 8. The debt of any county,
| eity, borough, township, school district, or
{ other municipality or incorporated dis-
trict, except as provided herein, and in
section fifteen of this article, shall never
exceed seven (7) per centum upon the
assessed value of the taxable property
therein, but the debt of the city of Phila-
delphia may be increased in such amount
that the total city debt of said city shall
not exceed ten per centum (10) upon the
assessed value of the taxable property
therein, nor shall any such municipality
or district incur any new debt, or increase
its indebtedness to an amount exceeding
two (2) per centum upon such assessed
valuation of property, without the con-
sent of the electors thereof at a public
election in such manner as shall be pro-
vided by law. In ascertaining the bor-
rowing capacity of the city of Philadel-
phia, at any time, there shall be deducted
from such debt so much of the debt of
said city as shall have been incurred, or
is about to be incurred, and the proceeds
thereof expended, or about to be expended,
upon any public improvement, or in the
construction, purchase, or condemnation
of any public utility, or part thereof, or
facility therefor, if such public improve-
ment or public utility, or part thereof,
whether separately or in connection with
any other public improvement or public
utility, or part thereof, may reasonably
be expected to yield revenue in excess of
operating expenses sufficient to pay the
interest and sinking fund charges thereon.
The method of determining such amount,
so to be deducted, may be prescribed by
the General Assembly.
In incurring indebtedness for any pur-
pose the city of Philadelphia may issue its
obligations maturing not later than fifty
(50) years from the date thereof, with
provision for a sinking-fund sufficient to
retire said obligations at maturity, the
payment to such sinking fund to be in
equal or graded annual or other period-
ical instalments. Where any indebtedness
shall be, or shall have been incurred by
said city of Philadelphia for the purpose
of the construction or improvements of
public works or utilities of any character,
from which income or revenue is to be
derived by said city, or for the reclama-
tion of land to be used im the construction
of wharves or docks owned or to be owned
by said city, such obligations may be in
an amount sufficient to provide for, and
may include the amount of, the interest
and sinking-fund charges accruing and
which may accrue thereon throughout
the period of construction, and until the
expiration of one year after the com-
pletion of the work for which said in-
debtedness shall have been incurred; and
said city shall not be required to levy a
tax to pay said interest and sinking-fund
charges as required by section ten, article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsylvania,
until the expiration of said period of one
year after the completion of said work.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 3.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Tour.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
An amendment to section one of article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl-
vania, relating to taxation.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of ennsylvania in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same. That the
following amendment to the Constitution
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be,
and the same is hereby, proposed, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the eigh-
teenth article thereof :—
That section one of article nine, which
reads as follows:
“All taxes shall be uniform, upon the
same class of subjects, within the terri-
torial limits of the authority levying the
tax, and shall be levied and collected
under general laws; but the General As-
sembly may, by general laws, exempt from
taxation public property used for public
purposes, actual places of religious wor-
ship, places of burial not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and institu-
tions of purely public charity,” be
amended so as to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform, upon the
same class of subjects, within the terri-
torial limits of the authority levying the
tax, and shall be levied and collected
under general laws, and the subjects of
taxation may be classified for the purpose
of laying graded or progressive taxes; but
the General Assembly may, br general
laws, exempt from taxation public prop-
erty used for public purposes, actual
places of religious worship, places of
burial not used or held for private or cor-
porate profit, and institutions of purely
public charity.
Section 2. Said proposed amendment
shall be submitted to the qualified electors
of the State, at the general election to
be held on the Tuesday next following the
first Monday of November in the year
nineteen hundred and nineteen, for the
purpose of deciding upon the approval and
ratification or the rejection of said
amendment. Said election shall be
opened, held, and closed upon said elec-
tion day, at the places and within the
hours at and within which said election
is directed to be opened, held, and closed,
and in accordance with the provisions of
the laws of Pennsylvania governing elec-
tions, and amendments thereto. Such
amendment shall be printed upon the bal-
lots in the form and manner prescribed
by the election laws of Pennsylvania, and
shall in all respects conform to the re-
quirement of such laws.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
63-31-13t
Shoes. Shoes.
Shoes Shoes
Reduced Reduced
All my stock of Ladies’ Low Shoes
at cost and less than cost.
On account of labor shortage and other
conditions the firm from whom I purchase
my stock of Ladies’ Low Shoes for spring
could not deliver the shoes until this last
week—they should have reached me on
March 1st.
Realizing that the season is far advanced
I am going to sell these shoes at cost and
less than cost. These shoes were purch-'
ased to sell for $6 and $7. They are
made of the very best leather that can be
put in shoes and in the very latest styles.
These shoes will be put on sale at once for
$4.85 Per Pair.
Here is an opportunity to purchase your
needs in low shoes at a saving of over $2
per pair.
YEAGER'S SHOE STORE
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
LYON @ COMPANY.
COATS AND SUITS
150 different styles of Coats to se-
lect from. All exclusive models
in all the new cloths, wool and
silk plushes, The new collars and
cuffs, and trimmed in fur, plush
and velvet, from $14 to $75.
These garments were contracted
for six months ago which means
lower prices than if bought to-
day, All colors in Coat Suits at
prices less than cost to manufac-
ture today.
NEW FURS
Neck pieces in all the new shapes;
white,:black and all new colors.
GLOVES
New Fall Gloves in kid and fab-
ric.! Prices the lowest.
SHOES SHOES
Our line of Shoes for men and
women are here for your inspec-
tion. School Shoes for the girls
and boys at prices that are a big
saving.
RUGS
See our Rugs first before buying.
It will mean a big saving to you.
Lyon & Co. ... Bellefonte.