NEW TAX ACT IS NOW PRODUCING State Will Have Over $7,000,- 000 of Inehdtance Taxes This Year First payments to $3,909.72 and mark the beginning of tax payments which it is believed will run into millions of dollars an nually and take the place of the direct and collateral inheritance taxes to a great extent The transfer inheritance tax is collected on all property within Pennsylvania and belonging to a nonresident at time of death. Here tofore, under the inheritance tax acts, the personal property of a non resident decedent was exempt. The Auditor General has called atten tion to the fact that the act provides that no corporation or national bank within this State may transfer any stock belonging to an estate of a decedent unless a certificate show ing payment of the tax has been given by the Auditor General under penalty of being liable' for the tax and a fine of SI,OOO. Pennsylvania is at present collect ing inheritance taxes under three acts, the 5 per cent collateral inheri tance tax act of 1887, the 2 per cent direct inhertance tax act of 1917, which taxes the clear value, and the new transfer inheritance tax act of 1919. The latter is effective only from June 20. Until all taxes are collected upon the estates of deced ents dying prior to June 20, 1919, the Commonwealth will continue to receive the taxes under the three acts. The State's fiscal year will close "SLOAN'S LINIMENT NEVER FAILS ME" Any man or woman who keeps it handy will tell you that same thing ESPECIALLY those frequently attacked by rheumatic twinges. A counter-irritant, Sloan's Lini ment scatters the congestion and penetrates without rubbing to the af flicted part, soon relieving the ache and pain. Kept handy and'used everywhere for reducing and finally eliminating the pains and aches of lumbago, neuralgia, muscle strain, joint stiff ness, sprains, bruises, the result of exposure to weather. Sloan's Liniment is sold by all druggists, 35c, 70c, $1.40. "END YOUR RHEUMATISM Like I Did Mine"—Says Pastor Reed. Wife Also Rid of Neuritis Suffered Tortures For Years— Now Telling Good News to Others "Don't Believe That Old Humbug About 'Uric Acid' Being the Cause of Rheumatism—lt's Xot So!" Emphatically assirting that thou sands of unfortunate sufferers have been led into taking wrong treat ments under the old and false belief that "Uric Acid" causes rheumatism, Pastor H. W. Reed says: "As do some of our highest medi cal authorities, I now know that 'Uric Acid' never did and never will cause rheumatism! But it took me many years to find out this truth. I learned how to get rid of my rheu matism and recover my health and strength, through reading >The Inner Mysteries of Rheumatism,' a work written by an authority who has scientifically studied the cause and treatment of rheumatism for over twenty years. It was, indeed, a ver table revelation! <'l had suffered agony for years from rheumatism and associated dis orders, and Mrs. Reed was tortured with the demon neuritis and talked so much about 'Uric Acid' that our minds seemed poisoned. But the 'lnner Mysteries of Rheumatism' made it all clear to us and now we are both free from suffering and misery we - endured so many years. I believe I was the hardest man to the world to convert! For me to discard the old 'Uric Acid' theory, and what I now know to be abso lutely false, for '.he new, scientific understanding of the cause and cure of rheumatism, was like asking me to change my religious beliefs! But I did change, and it was a fortunate day for me - and mine when I did so." NOTE: The Inner Mysteries of Rheumatism referred to above by Pastor Reed lays bare facts about rheumatism and its associated disor ders overlooked by doctors and scientists for centuries past. It is a work that should be in the hands of every man or woman who has the slightest symptoms of rheumatism, neuritis, lumbago or gout. Anyone who sends name and address to H. P. CJearwater, 127 K Street, Hallowell, Maine, will receive It by mail, postage paid and absolutely free. Send now, lest you forget the address! If not a sufferer, cut out this explanation and hand it to some afflicted friend. SATURDAY EVENING. on November 30 and in elevens months the reports of Mr. Snyder show that inheritance taxes have been collected to the amount of $6,- 552,307.51, the direct amounting to $3,397,136.88; collateral. $2,918,- 360.70; resident transfer, $232,- 300.21, and nonresident, $3,909.72. The Public Service Commission has approved a recommendation fol lowing ah investigation by Commis sioner James S. Benn for the length ening of the north-bound platform on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at the Willow Grove and I Germantown grade crossing at Glen side. It will be extended 200 feet and all north-bound trains will be stopped so that the rear car will be 25 feet clear of the crossing. This action followed a complaint by the Glenside Business Men's Association. At first collapsible gates were sug gested as a means of preventing people frorA making a dangerou crossing, but the change at the plat forms was found more feasible. The State Board of Charities has named Dr. P. F. Moylan and Louis Wolf, Philadelphia, and Lanning B. Harvey, Wilkes-Barre, to make the investigation of the Hillside Home at Scranton. More cases are listed for hearing by the Public Service Commission during the coming week than in any week for months. Hearings will be held in Harrisburg, Erie. Warren. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh list contains dozens of applications, complaints and con tracts, including numerous jitney cases. These hearings will begin Thursday. The Philadelphia list is set for Friday and includes taxicab and jitney cases. The Erie cases involve a big grade crossing pro gram. An important executive ses sion will be held here Monday. Two men vvlvosc pleas have been three times refused by the State Board of Pardons are asking for a rehearing, according to the calendar of the State Board of Pardons. They are William Webber. Berks, con victed of murder and granted com mutation years ago, and Adolph Blau. Lackawanna, convicted of em bezzlement. John R. Edwards. Cam bria, granted commutation in 1911, seeks pardon, and three men ask commutation of death sentences. They are Alexander Dale, Schuylkill; Lazarus Ballon, Lawrence and Lewis Page, Fayette, the latter case hav ing been held under advisement. Because the Pittsburgh Transpor tation Company secured a State charter to operate auto buses it did not thereby gain the. right to run vehicles anywhere in the of Pittsburgh or to begin operation without coming to the Public Serv ice Commission for approval of its application to exercise its franchises, declares Public Service Commis sioner John \V. Reed in an opinion handed down to-day in the com plaint of the receivers of the Pitts burgh Railways against the com pany. Commissioner John S. Rilling has filed a dissenting opinion. Judge Reed holds that the Commission in acting on the charter had before it only an application for incorporation. To hold that the charter gives the company right to operate anywhere would be to ignore parts of the public service law, holds the opinion which cites numerous decisions and holds that there has been no error. Commissioner Rilling held that the company could not be compelled to appear a second time after receiv ing a charter and that the territory wherein it obtains the right to oper ate "is not less than the city of Pitts burgh and may be greater." The Commission as an administrative body, he says, can not determine what are the rights under the char ter. Members of the State Board of Property will resume hearings in the claim for a part of Hog Island at Philadelphia on Tuesday and will make an inspection of the land in litigation, which contains some of the shipways. The contention is made that the lower part of the island was once known as New Provi dence Island. Officials of the State Department of Agriculture say that this fall has been marked by numerous com plaints about pests, insect and fungus and other kinds, attacking trees, vines, shrubbery, vegetables and bushes. In addition to the depreda tions of the 17-year-old locusts, the State was bothered with the oriental peach moth, grain moths and vari ous apple pests, as well as the potato wart. Now it is reported that a serious strawberry disease has made its appearance and that It can be told by spots on the leaves. Similar reports have come about the catalpa trees which are extensively planted for shade purposes and it is sug gested that the leaves be gathered and burned. The red-necked cane borer, which has an affinity for rasp berry bushes, is also warned against in a bulletin issued by the State De partment of Agriculture, while early winter spraying is advised for the leaf curl which is affecting peach trees. The energies of the State field force are now being devoted to ex terminating the potato wart and to keeping the corn-borer, a European pest, out of the State. | The Philadelphia North American to-day says that the probe of the Eastern penitentiary has been quietly dropped and that it will not be re sumed until the Governor is con sulted. Appointment of the new consti tutional revision commission is ex pected to be made within ten days. The Governor is said to have com pleted his list. Congressman J. nampton Moore said last night before leaving for Charleston for the Atlantic Water ways convention that he wished people would discuss good men for the cabinet of Philadelphia. He said he would like an open discussion In the newspapers. Capitol Hill people arc greatly In terested in the manner in which John H. Dando, the Luzerne county Republican chairman, is cleaning up things in his county as a result of the election. The North American to-day says that not only did the Re publicans make a clean sweep in Luzerne county but that they have started to root out election crooks. Representative W. G. Sarig, of Berks, is a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for Senator. This means a fight with Senator George W. Sassaman. The Clayton Turnpike Company, a Berks county road, has been freed, State and county buying it The gates are down on another couple of miles. Governor Sproul, Highway Com missioner Sadler and other officials attended the opening of the Wawa road tn Chester and Delaware coun ties to-day. There was a big auto mobile parade. The State Commission to oodlfy and revise the banking laws of Penn sylvania resumed Its work in Phila delphia yesterday. One of the plans which remain to be carried out is some provision for conferring upon trust companies the power to do commercial banking. There are two reasons for granting this authority. One is that the Federal law now au thorizes national banks to compete with State Institutions by doing a trust company business, such as act ing in a fiduciary capacity, and to meet this competition it Is regarded as just that the trust companies should be given banking powers. A second reason is that many trust companies have become members of the Federal Reserve Bank system *and to derive full benefits of the re lerve system the trust companies should be permitted to exercise the powers of a bank by discounting commercial paper which may be re discounted at a Federal Reserve Bank. Congressman Heury W. Watson, of Langhorne, has been appointed a member of the Washington gross ing park commission. Reports to the State Department of Mines to-day indicate a steady re turn of men to work in a number of the southwestern and central coun ties. The reports from Allegheny and Washington, however, do not In dicate much change. _ Electric companies in St. Mary's, Kane, Ridgway, Johnsonburg and other places in the west central sec tion of the State have filed notices of increases and changes in rates with the Public Service Commission. Ytrk county oommlsHioners are coming here next week to submit a good roads building program to Highway Commissioner Sadler. They believe that important work can be done next year under the $2,500,000 loan recently approved. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain yesterday denounced one landlord In Philadelphia who did not agree to be in accord with the State Welfare program as a "shylotk." The Commission has been doing good work in driving into retirement the profiteers. State Game protectors have started a roundup ot men who have been unable to wait for the opening of the wild turkey season on Novem ber 15 and to-day reports were re ceived of the payment of $25 fines and costs by Newton Snyder, Chal mers Snyder, Nelson Moore, Wilbur Goshorn and John Collier, of Shade Gap, who were rounded up by Game Protector Ray O. Dunkle, of Dry Run, assisted by C. B. Baum, a traveling protector from this city. These men had been hunting tur keys in Huntingdon, Franklin and Fulton counties. Evidence has been gathered of illegal turkey killing In Blair, Cambria, Mifflin and other counties and protectors are on the trail of men from Altoona and Johns town. In all the Commission's men are working to run down over twenty-five complaints of illegal tur key killing. State Plans Aid to the Foreign People Plans whereby over 60 per cent of the foreign-speaking population of Pennsylvania would bo brought within touch of the educational ad vantages offered by the State, prac tical Americanzatlon undertaken and at the same time United States methods of sanitation and proper living taught are being worked out by the State Departments of Health and Public Instruction. Community service Instead of State officers is to be the means of reaching these people and the school officials and teachers, the medical men. State medical inspectors and nurses and health officials are to be the force. In a way the local dis pensaries of the Department of Health will be the headquarters and the instruction will be given in a practical way along the lines sug gested by labor organizations and other bodies voicing the desires of their people. Four community organizers who have been at work in Western Penn sylvania have joined the State De partment of Health force for this work. They are Miss Mary E. Dil lon, Philadelphia; Miss Martha Goodeonugli and Miss Emma H. Howe, of Reading, and Miss Bertha J. Wold, of Austin. They have had experience in establishing commun ity centers and will try out the new system this month. State Forestry Work Expanding Questions pertaining to standardi zation of contracts for cutting tim ber on State forests and methods to be followed In such operations were deferred by the State Forestry Com mission yesterday until a special meeting on November 17 after an extended discussion of reports on the cutting on various tracts submitted j by Commissioners Robert S. Conk lin, J. T. Rothrock, Giftord Pinchot and Henry W. Shoemaker. Changes were ordered in the manner of cut ting on the Simcox contract and con tracts made in various sections and not yet acted upon officially will be considered at length later In the month. The Commission not only adopted resolutions favoring purchase of lands for forest reserves on the Ohio watershed, but agreed to set aside half of available funds for that pur pose following a presentation of the subject by James B. Sansom, of Pittsburgh. Matters of poisoned grain being placed in State forests to kill off crows will be taken up with the Game Commission. The Commission will probably ask J. Horace McFarland, of this city, to look over big tracts in Potter county which will be turned into a State park and not be allowed to be cut. Some 1,600 acres in the Ole Bull for est of Potter county were bought. Albert L. Alien Co. Granted Charter Governor Sproul has approved over 100 charters, including one in corporating the Albert L. Allen Com pany, inc., insurance agents and brokerage, of Harrtsburg. Mr. Allen, former assistant manager of the State Compensation Insurance Fund, is the treasurer of the company, which has capital of $15,000. In corporators are James W. Leech, Ebensburg, former Compensation Commissioner: George L. Allen, Webster Grove: T. G. K. Plerson, New and George Rose Hull and John A. F. Hall, of this city. The Motor Sales and Auto Service Company. Lemoyne, was chartered with a capital stock of $50,000. The incorporators are Frank R. Dow ney, Camp Hill; T. J. Bard and R. M. Peffer, Lemoyne. The Walter-Dampier Company, of this city was chartered to deal in medicines, paints, farm Implements and machinery. It has a capital stock of $12,000 and Charles P. Wal ter is treasurer. H. L. Walter and a. D. Dampier, of this city, are the other Incorporators. FRENCH EDITOR DECORATED Mexico City, Nov. 8. —The French government has made Felix F. Pal avlncinl, editor of El Universal, a member of the Legion of Honor, making three European governments that have decorated him for conspic uous aid to the Allies during the war. Italy decorated Scnor Palavicinl with the Order of the Crown and Great Britain made him a commander of the Order of the British Empire. INSPECT COLONIAL PARK Any time Sunday and select one of the $59 building lots. Each lot 20 feet wide and 125 feet deep. Take car marked "L" and get off at Ar lington Ave., Colonial Park. If you motor watch for our sign boards three-fourths of a mile beyond Pro gress on Jonestown road. Use McNell'B Pain Exterminator —Ad HARJEUSBT7RG (iMM&I TELEGRAPH "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" v. •# "Be Sure of^ Your Store'' Men * • t"V Naturally You Want Style naturally, we demanded it in selecting our Fabric, workmanship, style—the essentials of the Fall stock. Here you are assured of smartly well-dres6ed man —are guaranteed, and an un teilored clothes that have real style. They bear usually wide ranfce of attractive models. You'll this reliable label of quality "Campus To&s." like the service as well as the clothes* The most wonderful showing of "Overcoats" you've ever seen. We are selling more Overcoats than in any previous season —If you want good clothes for a reasonable price, see this "Live Store's" Overcoats, at $25-S3O-$35-S4O-$45 304 Market Street Harrisburg, Pa. NOVEMBER 8, 1919. 9
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