iV£WS OF THE LEGISLATURE REGISTERS TO LOSE BIG FEES State Will Take For Itself Some of the Money Now Allowed For Commissions Big slices of the fees now receiv able by registers of wills of the I sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania as state agents for the collection of | direct and collateral inheritance taxes will become State revenue un- j der the terms of a proposed act of assembly drawn up by Attorney General William I. Schaffer. The act is made Btate-wide in its appli cation and is the result of the situ ation arising in Philadelphia through the supreme court decision in favor of the retention of fees by Register of Wills James B. Sheehan. The reductions made in the fees are not such •as to Interfere with ac tivity in collection and the act, when approved, will not affect the registers of wills new In office, but it will send direct to the State Treasury not only many thousands of dollars which are now collected by the registers, but also some that goes to the treasuries of the coun ties. Mr. Schaffer will consult with Governor William C. Sproul before the bill Is sent to the legislature. He drafted the bill "after study of the collections of inheritance taxes as reported by the auditor general and after consideration of the many angles of the problem \mder the constitution and the various acts. It is not anticipated here that there will be any opposition in the legis lature. Some idea of the amounts of money affected by the present and proposed acts may be gained from the statement that in 1918 the State collected $2,643,462.13 in direct in-, heritance taxes and $3,300,142.12 in collateral taxes. It is proposed to make the scale of fees the same for both direct and collateral collections. It will be: 5 per cent, on $50,000 or less col lected 2 on between $50,000 and $lOO,- 000 1 on between $lOO,OOO and $200,- 000 One-half of 1 per cent, on over $200,000. The act of 1891 fixes the fees for collecting collateral inheritance taxes at five per cent, on less than ! $200,000; four on between $200,000 ! and $300,000 and three on over $BOO,OOO and the scale for fees for collection of direct inheritance tax es under the act of 1917 is five per cent, on $50,000 or less: three on between $50,000 and $100,000; two on between $lOO,OOO and $200,000 and one for over $200,000. In Dauphin county last year the direct taxes were $40,000 and the fees $2,000 and the collateral $22,- 000 with $l,lOO fees. Invites President to Discuss Work at Peace Conference By Associated Press. New York, Feb. 21.—A wireless message lias been sent to President Wilson by the Council of Foreign delations inviting him to "take your fellow citizens into your confi dence and discuss your work of the past two months" at a mass meet ing In New York to which would be invited governors and prominent citi zens of every state. | Our February Pre-Inventory | I THRIFT SALE ENDS I ■j Saturday, February 22d ! | 43 Lots of Interesting Values j | 10% Reductions on all Foot-1 | wear and Many Lots 30% jj I I For the last few days of our sale we have added | a another lot of Men's Fine Dress Shoes, $B.OO value, | I Quality and better value than you can get elsewhere 1 I We cheerfully cash railroad checks without obli- | I gation to purchase. 1 20 th Centuryj i Shoe Co. I ! SHOES THAT WEAR ! 3 S. Market Square Style, Quality, Service S E. F. DEICHLER, Mgr. Shoes For Less il EVENTNG, BocrbibburG TEtEGrotPH! FEKKOTR? 2T, T9W COUNTIES VERY EAGER TO HELP Commissioner Sadler Hears of Many Which Want to Spend Money on Roads Highway Commissioner Lewis ' Sadler today said that he had been impressed by the eagerness with ! which representatives of various j counties calling upon him this week to urge road construction had of fered substantial aid on the part of their communities in building of highways. In a , number of In stances the people offered to con tribute toward main highway con struction, but the commissioner made it plain that he wants coun ties to care for the lateral roadways. The legislation necessary to en able issuance of the bonds author ized by the big bond issue will be finally drafted within the next few days and will appear in the House about Wednesday. "Our plan," said Highway Com missioner Sadler today, "contem-1 plates the completion of the greater part of the primary road system in four years. From what I have been told during the last week by dele gations from every part of the state the various counties are eager to 'go along' with us in our efforts to pull Pennsylvania out of the mud—j in other words, to Bpend their own money. That means that when the primary roads are built there wtu also have been constructed mal } y hundreds of miles of lateral high ways. built by the counties them selves or by the counties and state ■Jointly." "The State of Pennsylvania is go ing to build the primary roads it self. We have had assurances that counties would co-operate in such work, but we suggest that counties busy themselves with secondary or lateral highways and if this is done with what we intend to do on tho primary roads we will soon have the greatest highway system in America." Almost all of the county delega tions coming here have brought out that their people are willing to help, but the commissioner wants the State to do its share and the State to help on the secondary highways. An incident of the vlalt of a Clear field delegation was that County ! Commissioners Dale and Spencer announced that they would cam paign for re-election this year on the issue of a million dollar road bond Issue. Just Try This When Hairy Growths Appear (Modes of To-day) A smooth, hairless akin always fol lows the use of a paste made by mixing some water with plate pow dered delatone. This paste to ap plied to the hairy surface I or I minutes, then rubbed off and the akin washed, when every trace of hair will have vanished. No pain or dis comfort attends the use of the dela tone paste, but caution should be exercised -to be sure that you get real delatone.—Adv. t ' a UNDERTAKER 174S Chas. H. Mauk *■ Private Am balance Phosss MOVIE CENSORS COMING TO TOWN First Move Toward Concen tration of All State Offices in This City The first move in Governor Wil liam C. Sproul'a plan to concentrate the offices of the state government in Harrisburg will be taken within a few days when orders will be given for the removal of the headquarters from Philadelphia to this city. The board has a headquarters at 1025 Cherry street, Philadelphia, which was occupied a short time ago and its business has been centralised in that city. Nothing has been done as yet toward selection of a place in this city, but it.will be under taken shortly and a building which will contain quarters for display of films will be included. According to some stories the governor will make changes in the board which is headed by F. R. Shattuck, and in the force of the office, which Includes nine inspec tors. eight operators, clerks and at taches. Some time ago the governor said that Harrisburg should be the head quarters of the state government and that the State should provide offices and stop paying $75,000 a year rent, while the other evening in a speech to Harrisburgers he told them to provide hodsing for state government people. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. DILLSBURG MEN WANT ROAD BUILT Commissioner Sadler Asked to Advance Construction to This City The first application for early work on a road" leading to Harris burg was made late yesterday to Commissioner Lewis Sadler 'by a delegation of Dlllsburg neighbor hood farmers, truckers, fruit grow ers and dairymen, urging immediate construction of route 123 between Dlllsburg and Harrisburg. This is part of the Harrisburg to Gettysburg route; and the delegation declared that the comfort and convenience of autoists who wish this road im proved was nothing to the absolute necessity of construction as seen by farmers. Railroad facilities, they said, made it impossible for agri j culturlsts to get to market except over this highway. The delegation told the commissioner that high prices charged in Harrisburg mar kets for fruit and other farm crops aro directly traceable to the diffi culties met in getting to that mar ket. Recently a count showed that 900 motor vehicles passed over the road in three hours. Particular at tention was called to the immediate need of construction from Shep herdstown to Dillsburg. Mr. Sad ler was much Impressed with what this delegation said. A. W. Duy, Bloomsburg, led ga j delegation of members of the Col | umbia County Good Roads Associa tion. They urged the importance of Striking Reduction in Package Delivery Cost Wins $5OO Prize for Truck Driver pi®! IRST in Class C Here is a distinction which may Some Results of tip |3|p§i of the Packard National make a difference of $7OO per truck T) L J r0 Truck Efficiency Test on his fleet investment, and as much IdchdYCl goes to a truck driver in as $2OO to $250 a year per truck 100 % WdY JVoYk. Chicago. Working his in his operating costs. truck on modern business methods It is a matter of buying the truck released for publication \t taught by the Packard Freight Trans- to fit the iob , , . | , t , ' / • numbered 1000 more than the trucks portation Department, this driver ~ _ of any other make. t ji t • a aoni i Guessing at the size of truck needed •• • handled in August 6,873 packages* /,/•, over four and a half minion pound* j J Jf • . „ I IS one cause of much of the excess Of freight and express for the Packard and reduced his carrying cost 1 cent . Company were carried by Packard per package—a saving of $68.73 per COSt m motor truc g " month, or $825 for the year. , . , £53 . f _ 2,000 freight cars to haul the mountains Wholesale grocery business, deliv- ... _ of war materials so desperately needed # Xjfj-Lt jT.tr t nii.il. * , *4.- n , m ■ . abroad. This is a very substantial re pring boxed, barreled and baiwed Motor trucking, its service, its costs aliaation of the slogan "Save a Freight enng DOXCU, narreiea ana Daggea , . . r . .. Car for Uncle Sam," by those who r*i-r\#4a tn * ...... raf.ii rf _.- a and economies, is one. of. the livest originated it. goods to a route Of retail stores. %' . c , J The truck transportation included . - ISSUeS Ol tne day. work for the government as well as for' Frequent stops and starts with , . ' rl - r -, ,- f - 1t shortruns. Starting with foil load 1 busmess man needs first of all ' -ivrrl rnHimi'rtrtnmnHrnn n mn..-,t 1.1-IH. l .1.l the fOCtS the experience of trucks sent overland were for army use, ana returning empty or practically SO. , , and many of them carried three tons of people competent to speak. merchandise to the port of debarkation. ;In August alone he saved enough , to pay the owner at the rate of 15 per _ lhat ftltl f tl ° n of the JK2. .1 . r.l . I transportation Department Of your achieved at the very time when weather, Cent a year on the cost of the truck. 1 1 rt 1 1 _ conditions last winter practically block iocal Packard Branch or Packard Bded the p* at munition carrying unes. __ It was just a year ago December 14th; • Dealer that the first train of 30 Packards set * out overland for Baltimore. They left Many a truck owner does not It is a Department not cf Sales but realize the difference between the ©f Service. he •• • * two classes of truck load— T . t * . lion, n. a result of nccurut. cost. Its place and purpose are to tell keeping, i, reported by one eepreee The solid capacity load, hauled in its you , the truck owner and driver, • e "' entirety from origin to destination— how modem business methods, ap • ... and all costs were recorded on tha And the load made up of a number plied to your present make of trucks, SS^eSSJtJ of smaller shipments to be dropped will effect transportation economies c n5,... sud.,d Tmdc Co., off here and there along the route. in your business. SS&'iSrSSEESXSS of several of the largest makers of In the second case he should have Its services are without charge. tn J?£ complcte> act . impart3al _ a smaller truck. Make use of them freely. m^ bl9 "v bu ** I'Ask the €Man Who Owns One" PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Detroit i Jr:Njr Packard Motor Car Company of Philadelphia, , Harrisburg Branch, 101 Market St. Bethlehem Trenton Harrisburg Lancaster Camden Reading Wilmington Williamsport the Sullivan Trail, and particularly that portion between Danville and Berwick. Tho Commissioner as sured them that this work will be finished within two years. Another important project, the Columbia people declared, is the route from Bloomsburg to Pottsville byway of Centralia and Shenandoah. They asked, too, that route 290 from Bloomsburg to Mauch Chunk bo changed so that by passing through Main and Beaver townships 20 miles of the distance would be cut off. This, the commissioner said, is up to the legislature. With Mr. Duy, who is president of the Asso ciation, were C. E. Krelsher, W. C. Vought, W. M. Vaztino, F. R. Rlngrose, Vernell Chrisman, Chas. C. Housenlck, M. R. Gordner and A. R. Heririe. Relegations from Enola and from McVeytown also saw Mr. Sad ler. The McVeytown people urged construction of the road from Lew lstown to Mt. Union, through Mc- Veytown. Inasmuch as construc tion of this highway would be a duplication of the Lewlstown-Hunt lngdon road through Belleville, on the other side of the mountain, the McVeytown people did not receive much encouragement. Two more counties in the western part of the State were added to the list of those which propose to issue big bond issues to do their share of improving tho roads of Pennsylva nia, representatives of Mercer and Clearfield assuring Commissioner Sadler that they were arranging to go before their people with propo sitions to co-operate with the State. The Clearfield people stated that they exjected to issue a million dol lars, County Commissioners Spen cer and Dale heading a committee which outlined what it was hoped to do and whfch asked for prompt action on the Erie-Philadelphia highway in vicinity of Dußols jrnd Clearfield. They were assured that it would get attention. In the part were M. R. McCrelglit, DuBols; I. C. Norris. Edward Leitzinger, James D. Connelly and others. Representatives E. L. Allum and J. F. Blgler, of Mercer, made ar rangements for a delegation from that county to appear Monday and outlined a proposed bond issue for $BOO,OOO. T. R. Means and G. H. Cann, of Sandy Lake, who came with them discussed road .plans. Mercer people seem interested in the primary road from New Castle to Greenville, asking work at an early date on the road through New Wilmington, Farrel and Sharon The Right Laxative For The Little The natural condition of a child la to be Caldwell's Syrup Pepaln produce, a free move, happy and carefree. When the girl mopea naent of the bowela without griping. A very and la indifferent to achool and or the little la required, and It ia pleasant to ♦!— boy U aullen and refuaea to go out and play, A fcw houxl * fter its uae the child wUI be Ha the child needaa laxative to empty the bowela k*PPy ,elf •Bain and atir up the liver. It la an excellent remedy for the mother _.. heraelf, and for the other membera of the But something ahould be given that will fami]y> fa obstinate or occasional consti produca the reault fa a* simple and net- fof tellef of headaches, aa an aid M P° Mible - , n feverti minor #Un d Mrfh? necessary nor de- a „ disorder, where the bad. of the trouble is constipation. Many mothers have found that the com- The druggist will refund the money you binatloo of simple laxative herbs with pepsin pay for Syrup Pepsin if it fails to do aa sold by druggists under tho name of Dr. promised. Dr. Caldwell'* OYRUP PEPSIN The Perfect A Laxative PRICE AS ALWAYS FREE SAMPLES - .J? ajh pf pvmtir Increaaed laboratory coat, due If you have never ued rv r.u n- a JL£\v. h'J? ■ nd "baorbins war Papain .Ld fori frr7££| Kfae tobf .. . a Uv as well as work on the Mercer- Venango link. The construction of two miles in Bucks county Just over the Phila delphia line was discussed with the the Trenton, Bristol and Philadel- phia railway. Benjamin Kykee and Cortex Jennings, of Towai asked for prompt construction of route from Wilkes-Barre to wanda and from Towanda to V erly.
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