‘Bellefonte, Pa., 5 October 4, 1918.
ONLY.
Only a thought; but by vice 'twas marred,
And, tipped with venom, it pierced the
guard
Of a tender life, and a soul was scarred.
Only a thought; but its poisoned breath
Bore the taint of sin and the germ of
death.
Only a thought; but spotless and white,
Glowing with purity's radiant light,
It saved a life from a loathsome blight.
Only a thought; but its work sublime
Will continue on to the end of time.
Only a word but by anger sped;
+ wrankled and burned in a heart that
bled,
Till hatred was born and love was dead;
Where flowers had bloomed grew weeds
instead.
Only a word; but it wrecked a life,
And friendship gave place to blood and
strife.
Only a word; but winged with love,
To a troubled heart it came as a dove
Of holy peace sent from heaven above.
Only a word; but in love it was spoken,
And it reached and healed a heart that
was broken.
Only a life; but a life of sin,
To the way it opened others came in;
For evil will others to evil win.
Only a life; but an awful cost, i
Was the price of that life; a soul was lost. |
Only a life; but true and brave. |
Courage and strength it to others gave;
Saving itself, it did others save,
Only a life; but the angels sing,
Of the joy in heaven one life may bring.
—American Friend.
a
Cost and Losses of Four Years War.
Out of the total area over which the
flag of war is flying and which covers
the greater part of the habitable
globe about 96 per cent. is under the
dominance of the Allies, and only 4
per cent. belongs to the central pow-
ers. The number of nations actively
engaged in the war is 22, with a total
of 31,357,383 square miles and a pop-
ulation of 1,349,561,000. Of these,
30,163,783 square miles, with a popu-
lation of 1,207,870,000, belong to the
Allies, and only 1,203,800 square
miles, with a population of 143,721,
000, belong to the central powers.
In national wealth, the five main
Allies possessed before the war $406,-
000,000,000, a sum nearly four times
as great as the national wealth of the
two central powers, the latter being
$105,000,000,000. In considering this
preponderance of national wealth in
favor of the Allies it must be borne
in mind that, viewed from the stand-
point of effectiveness for war purpos-
es, the character of the wealth is per-
haps more important than its quanti-
ty. The Allies within themselves
have that diversity of wealth, but it is
scattered and the difficulties of trans-
portation hinder its complete mobil-
ization when needed for war purpos-
es. When full allowances are made it
is probably true that so far as effec-
tiveness for war purposes is concern-
ed the central powers outweighed the
Allties*up to the pre dof the
war. In order to correct this fully it
will be necessary for the ship-building
program of this country to be carried
to fruition. As to man-power, the Al-
lies could command on the battlefield
88,000,000 effectives as against 26,-
000,000 of the central powers, a pro-
portion of about 3 to 1.
The money expended by the seven
leading belligerents for purely war
purposes during the four years, has
been estimated at about $134,000,000,-
000. It has been said that this sum is
greater than all combined money ex-
penditures for all other wars since the
beginning of recorded history. The
total cost of all the wars fought since
the American Revolution, the aggre-
gate fighting period covering 60 years,
was only $23,000,000,000, making the
expenditures of the present war for
only four years six times greater. It
is about one-third of the total nation-
al wealth of the chief belligerents.
The combined average daily war cost,
computed on a four-year ‘basis, is
about $107,500,000, or $4,479,000 each
hour of the day.
These astounding expenditures have
already entailed a debt for these na-
tions six times greater than was their
total debt prior to the war, represent-
ing the enormous sum of $129,000,-
000,000. It has taken the belligerent
nations 100 years to accumulate the
debt of $23,500,000,000, which only
four years of war have multiplied by
six.
Taking an average of 5 per cent. in-
terest, this debt involves an interest
charge obligation of the chief bellig-
erents of about $6,500,000,000 annual-
ly. Assuming that this war will last
another year, the total debt at the
present rate of borrowing, will
amount to about $190,000,000,000 and
interest charges at the above rate to
about $9,500,000,000.
Besides these staggering costs,
there have been appalling military
destructions in the invaded areas,
from which it will require enormous
efforts of human energy to recuperate
and some of which are irreparable.
The total area of the war zone is 174,- |
000 square miles, of which the west-
ern theater of the war in France and
Belgium, stretches over an area of
19,500 square miles, and it contains
over 3,000 cities, villages and hamlets,
great manufacturing and agricultural
districts, of which some have been to-
tally annihilated and some heavily af-
fected.
One of the most important sources
of loss in the present war is shipping,
of which more or less accurate figures
are obtainable. The total losses in
shipping to the Allies and neutrals up
to August 1, 1918, are estimated at
15,000,000 tons. This is about one-
third of the world’s 48,500,000 tons of
pre-war shipping. The cost of the
lost tonnage at pre-war value is esti-
mated at $1,050,000,000. :
The number of men already lost is
8,509,000 killed, and 7,175,000 perma-
Sony wounded, or a total of 15,684,-
Sell Skins of Stock-Killing Animals.
More than $78,500 has been turned
into the United States Treasury since
July 1, 1917, from the sale of skins of
predatory animals which are destruc-
tive to live stock in the western
States. The Biological Survey of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture has been carrying on a cam-
paign to kill wolves, coyotes, and oth-
er such animals which kill cattle,
sheep, and horses on the western
range. As a result of this campaign
thousands of meat animals have been
saved to increase the nation’s food
supply. The sale of skins of animals
killed during the fiscal year, which
now remain unsold, will bring the
amount to $100,000, accordir g to of-
ficials of the department.
In all parts of the country there is
a serious economic drain in the de-
struction by rats and mice of mer-
chandise held for sale by dealers.
Not only foodstuffs and forage, but
textiles, clothing, and leather goods
are often ruined. This loss is due
mainly to the faulty buildings in
which the stores are kept. Often it
would be a measure of economy to
tear down the old structures and re-
place them by new ones. However,
even the old buildings may often be
repaired so as to make them practic-
ally rat-proof; and foodstuffs, as
flour, seeds and meats, may always
be protected in wire cages at slight
expense. The public should be pro-
tected from insanitary stores by a
system of rigid inspection.
Similar care should be exercised in
the home to protect household sup-
plies from mice and rats. Little prog-
| yess in ridding the premises of these
animals can be made so long as they
have access to supplies of food. Cel-
lars, kitchens, and pantries often fur-
nish subsistence not only to rats that
inhabit the dwelling, but to many that
come from outside. Food supplies
may always be kept from rats and
mice if placed in inexpensive rat-
proof containers covered with wire
netting. Sometimes all that is need-
ed to prevent serious waste is the ap-
plication of concrete to holes in the
basement wall or the slight repair of
a defective part of the building.
The necessity of co-operation and
organization in the work of rat de-
struction is of the utmost importance.
To destroy all the animals on the
premises of a single farmer in a com-
munity has little permanent value,
since they are soon replaced from
near-by farms. If, however, the far-
mers of an entire township or county
unite in efforts to get rid of rats,
much more lasting results may be at-
tained. If continued from year to
year, such organized efforts are very
effective.
— They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
ROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
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 THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF
PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY
ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH IN PURSUANCE OF
AnTicLe XVIII OF THE CONSTITU-
Number One.
* A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section four of the Constitution of the
orizing ate to
amount of fifty millions of dollars for
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-
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-
pel invasion, suppress insurrection, de-
fend 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-
pel 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 exc 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-
Specs 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 i. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met, and 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 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:—
Section 8. The fobt 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
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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 princival 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 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.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
9
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 XViIl 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 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 Pennsylvamia, 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:
The General Assembly shall have the
ower 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 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-
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 foliowing
Genuine Castoria
Always
Bears ‘the
Signature
In
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
CAST
THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY,
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
lis about to be incurred, and the proceeds
thereof expended, or about to be expended,
upon any public Improvement, or in the
gonsimerion, purchase. or Sepa
f a u tility, or par ereof, or
Hailed Ribligaut if" Such Dart i 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 matrme 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-
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 SSEiration 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-
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 Jerying 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
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 Igspects conform to the re-
quirement of such laws. .
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 4.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
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School Shoes
FOR BOYS,
A Eee Sn Se
The kind of shoes
that wear, made by
the J. E. Dayton Com-
pany, and guaranteed
to be all solid leather,
high and low tops,
$4.50 Per Pair.
Purchase your Rub-
bers now.
YEAGER'S SHOE STORE
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
LYON @& COMPANY.
New Silk.
Crepe de Chines in all the dark shades and light colors.
New striped Silks for skirts. Duchess Satins in all the
new colors and black, All shades in plain Taffetas
and Messalines, Georgette Crepes, Silk Voiles, and
Chiffons to match all colors.
Ladies’ Coats.
Now 1s the best opportunity to buy Women’s, Misses’
and Children’s Winter Coats and save many dollars.
A splendid variety in all colors; belts, deep cuffs, large
pockets, Kit Coney for collars, plush and cloth collars.
Rugs, Carpets, Linoleums.
Months ago we purchased a large stock which are
marked below to-day’s wholesale prices.
Shoes. Shoes.
We have just received another lot of new Shoes for
men, women and children.
Very smart new High Shoes for women in tan, brown
and black.
Children’s Shoes in tan, brown and black.
Men’s fine Shoes in black and tan in the new English
last, from $4.00 up to $7.00.
Misses’ Shoes from $2.50 up.
Men’s Working Shoes in tan and black from $2.50 to
$5.00.
Infants’ Shoes in black, tan and white, 50 cents up.
$
Lyon & Co. -. Bellefonte.
Secretar the Com: y ET ———
63-31-13t y of the Commonwealth