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Bellefonte, Pa., September 20, 1918.
THE SERVICE FLAG.
Dear little flag in the window there
Hung with a tear and a woman's prayer;
Child of Old Glory, born with a star,
Oh, what a wonderful flag you are!
Blue is your star in its field of white,
Dipped in the red that was born of fight;
Born of the blood that our forebears shed
To raise your mothers, the Flag o’erhead.
And now yeu've come, in this frenzied day,
To speak from a window—to speak and
say:
“I am the voice of a soldier son,
Jone to be gone till the victory’s won.
“I am the flag of The Service, sir;
The flag of his mother—I speak for her
Who stands by my window and waits and
fears,
But hides from the others her unwept
tears.
“I am the flag of the wives who wait
For the safe return of a martial mate
A mate gone forth where the war god
thrives
To save from sacrifice other men’s wives.
“I am the flag of the sweetheart true;
The often unthought of—the sisters, too.
I am the flag of a mother’s son
And won't come down till the victory’s
won.”
Dear little flag in the window there,
Hung with a tear and a woman's prayer;
Child of Old Glory, born with a star—
Oh, what a wonderful flag you are!
—William Hershell, in Lutheran Church
Work.
U. S. Army Base in France Bewilder- |
ing in Magnitude.
American Port, Western France.—
The colony of warehouses, docks and
shops forming the base storage depot |
of the American armies here is be-
wildering in its magnitude.
Approaching the base is like com-'
ing into some great industrial city,
such as Manchester or Chicago. Off
to the right rise fifteen giant chim- |
neys puffing black smoke from a
group of factories.
the largest in the world, looms against
the sky.
furnaces and forges, where cannon
and locomotives are being made, as-
sembled and mounted. All about is
the movement of vast and intricate
railway traffic and the hum of a co-
lossal industry. This base of Ameri-
can army supplies is the growth §f
the last five months, erected out of
almost nothing by the impelling ne-
cessity of war. The colonel at head-
quarters summed up some of the es-
Sonuals of what had been accomplish-
ed:
This army storage base represents
an investment of $30,000,000, for
buildings and plant alone, and not for
the vast stocks of army supplies.
It covers an area four miles long
by a mile wide—the area of a city—
with a great docking system and
deep-water piers.
It is laid out for the storage of a
million tons of army supplies, but the
capacity is elastic and may be
creased to 2,000,000 tons. A million
tons is the capacity of 1000 ocean lin-
ers, or a ton for every man of an ar-
my of a million men.
There are 250 miles of railway
tracks interlocking the vast network
of warehouses and yards.
There are 4,500,000 square feet of
covered storage, that is, buildings
with floor space and roof, and 12,-
000,000 square feet of open storage,
in all 16,500,000 square feet of army
supplies, stored and stacked from ten
to fifty feet high like a range of low
mountains.
The ecean pier under construction
will accommodate six to twelve ocean
steamships drawing thirty feet of wa-
ter. With the dock facilities of the
nearby city there will be an unload-
ing capacity of 15,000 to 20,000 tons
of American army supplies a day.
That is, two or three ships can be
turned around every day.
At one point a pier 2600 feet long
"and half a mile wide is being built
for general merchandise and high ex-
plosives, and just back of it is rising
a huge storage depot of ammunition
and high explosives.
In all there will be 184 warehouses,
of which eighty-four are entirely of
steel manufactured in the United
States and sent here ready to be put
together. It has taken on an aver-
age four days to put up one of these
mammoth buildings. These strue-
tures grow as if by magic, in a day,
and by miles and miles. Most of
these buildings, about 180 of them,
are 400 feet long and 50 feet wide.
Practically all of the work has been
done in the last five months.
At one point it was necessary to
build a concrete dam forty-five feet
high—a work comparing with the
great Keokuk dam—in order to bring
water to one of the great base hos-
pitals adjacent to the plant, with 20,-
000 beds.
From these warehouses there is al-
ways a stream of supplies going for-
ward to an army of more than 1,000,-
000 men. There is always a reserve
of fifteen days’ supplies inside the ad-
vance zone where the army is fight-
ing, thirty additional days of reserve
supplies in the intermediate zone half
way up to the fighting line and forty-
five more days of reserve supplies
at the base ports ready to be moved
up as fast as emergency requires.
This makes in all ninety days, three
months, of army supplies always in
reserve, so that the army could get
along for three months if not another
pound arrived, whereas in fact the
steady stream keeps on coming unin-
terruptedly, supplying the day-to-day
needs and always maintaining the
safe margin of reserve.
Inside one of the big army ware-
houses was like being inside some
huge wholesale department store.
Many were for food stores, with box-
es stacked up to the fifty-foot roof,
of corn-beef hash, breakfast foods,
canned salmon and canned bacon,
oleomargarine, jam, par-boiled roast
beef, cotton towels, toilet paper, pork
and beans, smoking tobacco, macaro-
ni, hominy, soap, and every conceiva-
ble article needed for an armada of
men. The sacks of flour filled ware-
house after warehouse for almost a
A mammoth re-
frigerating plant, said to be one of |
To the left is the glare of |
in-
mile, indicating the tremendous re-
i serve of this standard of life. Beans
seemed to be another standard in ex-
i ceptionally strong reserve, and the to-
bacco stock was also very heavy, with
| sugar, syrup, coffee, rice, bacon, po-
| tatoes, evaporated fruit and condens-
i ed milk showing full quotas.
It was the same in the other ware. |
houses devoted to army clothing, '
medical supplies,
| aviation supplies—everywhere rose
the mountain piles of service coats,
| trousers, underclothes, socks, puttees,
| field shoes and an infinite variety of
articles for all needs and branches of
. this vast war machine. In the yards
| the open storage covered acre after
signal corps and |
acre of baled hay, covered with can-
! vas, with barrels, wagons, trucks and
i an endless array of military material.
thing to be Glad Of.
There is No One Who Has Not Some-
|
There is no one who has not some-
i thing to be glad of. There is no trou-
ble but there might have been a
| worse.
| troubles, of unpleasant things, rule
; our spirits. Carlyle pointed out the
| trouble when he said: “Always there
i is a black spot in our sunshine; it is
the shadow of ourselves.”
It is in ourselves that many of our
! troubles arise. We give way to en-
It is easy to let thoughts of |
| vy or jealousy and thus spoil the joy
which could have been ours. Why
should it make a dark spot in our sun-
shine that another has something we
have not? Why should praise of
| another cause jealousy to find lodg-
{ ing in our souls? Why can we not
be glad when another is happy instead
' of wishing his joy our own?
Why let hatred of any one mar our
happiness ?
We cannot like every |
, one equally . When we find one per-
son uncongenial, why spend time in|
i disliking him and thinking of all the
reasons we dislike him?
| congenial ?
Why not
think of those we do like and 1nd!
Why should we let our hearts grow :
hard in hatred of anv because of real .
i or fancied wrongs?
{ hurt himself more than he can hurt
tus. If we are just, we shall find
! many things we think wrongs only
fancied ones, or things that really do
not matter.
that should make you glad. If the
| world looks dark, look within and see
if you yourself are casting a shadow
| on your sunshine.
——For high class job work come
to the “Watchman” office.
| i
ROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THRE
CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
i THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
i MONWEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL
{OR REJECTION, AT THE ELECTION
TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, NOVEM-
i BER 5, 1918, BY THE GENERAL ASSEM-
| BLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF
{ PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY
{ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH IN PURSUANCE OF
JARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITU-
! TION.
i Number One.
| A JOINT RESOLUTION
‘ Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section four of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; au-
! thorizing the State to issue bonds to the
\ amount of fifty millions of dollars for
i the improvement of the highways of the
| 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-
i sylvania be, and the same is hereby, pro-
1 posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
, article thereof: —
{ That section four of article nine, which
1 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-
(pel invasion, suppress insurrection, de-
| fend the State in war, or to pay existing
jdebt; 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-
pel invasion, suppress insurrection, de-
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
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-
ects conform to the requirement of such
aws.
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.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met, an it is hereby
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 Article Nine, Section
Eight.
That section eight of article nine, of
the Constitution be amended by striking
out the said section and inserting in place
thereof the following free
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
ublic election in such manner as shall
e provided by law. In ascertaining the
Dorsowing 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-
fend the State in war, or to pay existing TE SE CLE Xvi orn Bo
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wrong some cone has done us, he has '
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per-
rn sonal supervisicn since its infancy.
g ' Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Chiliren—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Qil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups.
neither Opium, Morphine nox other narcotic substance.
It is pleasant. It contains
Its
age is its guarantee, For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
‘Wind Colic and Diarrhoea 3 allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating: the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother's Friend.
ceNUINE CAST ORIA ALwAYs
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Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE CENTAURCOM FPA NY. NEW YORK CITY,
ment during the year immediately pre-
ceding the time of such ascertainment ;
and such capitalization shall be estimated
by ascertaining the rincipal 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. The 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 fo 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 publie
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 1
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 BE. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
ROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THX
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,
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 Commonwealth 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
cand discounting privileges shall be created
or organized in pursuance of any law
without three months’ previous publie
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 1°w, nor shall a charter for
such privilege be granted for a longer
period than twenty years,” so that it shall
read as follows:
The General Assembly shall have the
power of general law to provide for the
incorporation 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 ennsylvania 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 b the proper officers in pur-
suance 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
article thereof :—
That article nine, section eight, be
amended to read as follows:
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 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 in 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-
‘ monwealth of
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 tem, 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 Four.
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-
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 publics 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 Jrogressive taxes; but
the General Assembly may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public prop-
erty used for public purposes, actual
places of religious worship, places of
urial not used or held fir 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 electiom 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 BELLEFONTE, PA.
58-27
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 collarsand
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.
n
Lyon & Co. «.. Bellefonte.