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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL,
A. M. SCHAFFNER, E
Pablished Every Thars
Phone No. 55.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30,1913
Mexico's Election
Mexico has had her election for president but the result of that
political farce is not yet fully known.
England, Germany and France
d are in a quiescent state until the United
10 her views on Mexico since the election.
and to bring order out of her condition has
has the controlling power still.
are awaiting events an
States gives expression
The situation is critical,
been a cause for much concern of : ;
ecially because the United States 1s serious
joins our border, but esp
when she says the Monroe Doctrine must
hazards.
The United States is not territory hungry but in addition to the
her moral obligations to humanity
are of a high order and of an impressive character.
national duties which she owes,
How Are You Going to Vote
Next week the voter wil! have his inning. The campaign in
t and without much outward com-
All on the tickets would appreciate an election by their
Meyersdale has been rather quie
motion.’
fellow voters. Itis not a pleasan
men, but elections are not held to
punish men by withholding support.
There is a higher duty than that.
The duty is that you vote according to your
ho will best serve the public. Any man
d conscientiously is a free born, unpurchased
of the public interest.
best judgment, for men W
who votes honestly an
American who can
that can boast of
gpecting.
The Bond Issue
The fifty million dollar bond issue will come before the people
of Pennsylvania before another issue of The Commercial appears.
Will this stupendous question meet the approval of the voters or
will they reject it.
Practically everybody is in favor of good roads, many certainly
are against the fifty million dollar
The people surely are very m
with this question, and the
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go that the generol pr
mean Summit townsh
county, or does it mean g
burg to Pittsburg.
The voters cannot vote intelligently on the general proposition.
The current pelief is that there is
one end of the state to the other.
undertaking can have little attraction
While that may be and probably
the bond issue is passed, yet the scope must be vastly larger or
Mey rsdale Qommereial.
day in the Year at $1.80 Per Year Cash
110-112 Center Street.
look every man in the face
her unpurchased voters is strong and self re-
expenditure of this vast sum of money
would doubtless form splendid picking for a good many people.
we understand the proposition, the plan is very indefinite,
oposition calls only for good roads. Does it
ip and every other township in Somerset
ood roads passing through Stoyestown,
good roads only from Philadelphia to Harrisburg and from Harris-
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ditor and Proprietor.
Tt does seem that Heurta|:
this country, because Mexico:
be maintained at all
t matter to defeat one’s fellow-
flatter men by your votes or to
The purpose is to take care
Any community
bond issue. i
uch afraid of graft in connection
to be a national boutevard, from
If that is the meaning then the
for the people of the state.
will be the first purpose in case
there will be an uprising of the people such as has not been seen
for many year§:
It is said thai road making f
in vogue cost on an
overhead charges.
heavy drain on the state; b
$10,000 to $20,000,
gess the qualities of permanence,
tion to that. of
good roads and are as willing to
people, but do the good
permancy in them. The
Pennsylvania i
mit to the intolerable burden of
dollars annually for every mile o
if the main highways are
are likewise, entitled to the
the state legislatur
,385,000 per year, and add to
million dollars for au
000 annually for good roads,
prove that about
or 1912-13, under the method now
average $20,000 per mile, plus the extras and
That is a big pile of money and would be a
ut should good roads even cost from
per mile and when finished, if they would pos.
there would not be much objec-
The people of Pennsylvania are as anxious to have
pay for them doubtless as any
roads which are now advocated have any
y last but a few years—two or three years.
s rich, but she is unable to endure the strain, or suk-
paying from five to ten thousand
f road in the commonwealth, and
entitled to good roads the rural districts
same treatment.
e appropriated for the years 1913 and 1914,
For road purposes
this immense sum more than a
tomobile licenses and you have about $5,000,-
and the history of states seems to
$5,000,000 a year is about as much as a state can
judiciously and honestly devote to roads.
Spending five or six million dollars a year on roads by tie above
methods, the state would be
saved from the fifty million dollar
bonded indebtedness and save the $3,000,000 or more of annual in-
terest on the bond issue.
A safe way to keep the interests of the state and according to
safe housekeeping the judicious
committing the sta
and to our way of loo
voter should consider well before
te of Pennsylvania to such an enormous debt,
king at this question, the project should be
overwhelmingly defeated on Tuesday.
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Stern Sense of Public Duty.
All “Roman father” records would |
geem to be eclipsed by the French
gendarme whose child was killed at
Paris, the other day, by being given
a dose of acid in mistake for castor
oil. The gendarme immediately ar-
rested his wife for manslaughter by
imprudence, and then gave himself up
cn the charge of contributory negli-
gence, as having been partially re-
sponsible because of his own care
lessness in exposing the acid, which
was used in cleaning his equipment.
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And Some Wall Street Goats.
Over 3,000,000 animals were slaugh-
tered in New York last year, but at
delphia Inquirer.
nanaged ts make |
| Light on the Spot.
| An attachment has been made to the
| revolver by a French inventor by
| which the weapon in the hands of a
| greenhorn is as deadly as in those of
| a dead-sure shot. A small and power
| ful electric lamp is mounted on the
weapon in such a manner that a cir-
| cle of light is projected upon the tar-
get and the bullet will strike the cen-
ter of the ring. This particular loca- |
tion is marked by a dark spot, and |
this spot being placed over the heart |
of an adversary and the trigger pull- |
ed the bullet cannot fail in its deadly |
work.
Chiidren Cry
eee
| counties the surveys were so incom-
en
| Bong
| a general State road tax which would
FOR FLETCHER'S |
CASTORIA
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NOT A DEFENSE,
ONLY THE FACTS
Has the Highway Depariment|§
Been Urduiy Extravagant
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PRELIMINARY WORK 1S DCN.
Accurate Road Maps Required Before
Construction of Good Roads Could
Start—Otherwise Funds Would
Be Expended Improperly.
Notwithstanding the fact that Gov-|{
ernor Tener plainly stated; at the |§
Harrisburg Good Roads Convention, |§
September 18, that the Legislature of | §
1915 will have the work and responsi- | 8
bility of enacting the laws authoriz-
ing and regulating the issuing of the
proposed road bonds, and a new ad- 4
ministration the duty of putting them |;
into operation, provided the constitu-
tional amendment is carried, there
are still unthinking people who at-
tempt to argue otherwise.
Whether rightly or wrongly, a senti-
ment seems to exist in the minds of
some persons that the State Highway
Department has been unduly extrava-
gant in the expenditure of the States :
highway funds, but few of the persons
making such suggestions have ever
read the highway law, or know the
details of its provisions.
While this phase of the road sub- 4
ject has no direct bearing on the
constitutional amendment, which
must be passed if the roads are to
be built for the use of the present
generation, it is wise to correct mis-
apprehensions which may exist in
connection with highway subjects.
One of the provisions of the Sproul
highway law was that accurate road
maps should be made of every county
in the State. This is a work of
great magnitude, requiring the sur-
vey and measurement by skilled sur-
veyors of every mile of road in Penn-
sylvania. Not only must the location | §
of the roads be established, but the |
width; the radius of curves; the ir-|&
regularities of property lines; the | 3
streams; the drainage area and water a
outlet, all must be included in this
permanent record. Its
practicability concerns mostly the
roads included in the State highway S
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system, for it will frequently be neces- 5
sary, in improving these highways, to bi
‘change locations to secure better #
grades, correct the alignment, avoid | §
grade crossings, and secure better | i
lines of sight for the avoidance of |#
accidents, buying or exchanging road #
property. In order te do this the | §
Sanps must be perish snd must EE —
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kept corrected as such changes are
made.
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£4
as specialized in the last few
weeks on Sweaters and Comforts
because. of the immense stock which
I purchased in these lines. I gave
you the benefit of my large purchase
and am prepared to still give you the
advantage---advantage in Sweaters
and Comforts. But more than this, I
sell everything to wear-for yourself,
your wife, your son and your daugh-
ter. My shelves were never so full, }
my stock never so complete, my vari-
ety never so large, my styles never so
up-to-date, and my piices never were So
attractive as now.
My clerks will be pleased to wait on you.
Visit my store, look over the stock, whether you
wish to buy or not.
FAIR Dealing
FAIR Boying
FAIR Selling
FAIR Treatment
FAIR Prices
FAIR Merchandise
This surveying and map making,
requiring the services of skilled and
competent men, is expensive. Up to
the date of the last report of the De-
partmenit more than thirty-five thou- |
sand miles of the highways of the
State had bBéen surveyed and placed |
on the maps, and the cost of survey-
iny and mapping each road can be
found in the published reports.
A close study of the reports dis-
closes the fact that in nearly every |
instance, the work was done at a|
cost considerably less than would
have been charged by an engineering
and map-making firm. Wherever coun-
ty surveys were available in accurate
form they were utilized; but it fre-
quently occurred that there were |
errors in these county surveys that
had to be corrected, and in most’
plete as to be of little use.
This is not intended as a defense
of the present highway department,
but merely designed to show the facts
to those who openly allege that the
highway funds have been squandered,
and who argue against the proposed
amendment to the State constitution
on the ground that much of the
money might be wasted or—worse.
The Sproul law and the 1911 appro-
priation contemplated the making of
these surveys and maps. They are
necessary in building a State road
system. Every State which has built
good roads has had to make similar
maps of its highway. Without them
the roads could not be improved,
nor could intelligent plans for good
road construction be made.
In this, as in a great variety of
other subjects connected with the
roads there is only needed a plain
statement of the facts to change an
objector into a good roads advocate.
There seems no possible argument
providing fifty million dollars with
which to build the roads that a close
study of the facts themselves will not
overcome. The exercise of ordinary
horse sense in getting at the truth
of the subject in all its phases will
compel every voter to see for himself
that not only his own best interests,
but the best interests of the Common-
wealth as a whole are in the direc-
tion of the adoption of the constitu-
tional amendment; the issue of bonds
by the Legislature of 1915, and the
building of a system of highways
which will develop Pennsylvania’s
resources, and place its people on an
equal footing with those of other
advanced States in the pursuit of
wealth, health and happiness.
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FARMERS FAVOR BONDS
The Defeat of Bonds Would Possibly
Mean a General State Tax.
No farmer should vote against the
Issue, for #s defeat may mean
1 the burden on the land not on
| the corporations.
against the contitutional amendment |.
GLESSNER’S
STORE!
WHERE YOU ARE BENEFITED.
I can save you money ! Come in and make me prove it. Buy where
you can save the most. That's the way I do. And this very habit of
mine is what enables me to save so much for YOU. A look through will
be sufficient proof of the selling power and SAVING POWER of this store.
BLACK FUR EFFECT COATS.
Black Plush and Sealette Coats, in appearance and wearing qualities, ex-
cel all others. They are more popular than ever this season. But if you
prefer Novelty Cloth Coats, you will find those here also—AND THE
PRICES ARE RIGHT.
STYLISH FUR SETS
A combination of artistic elegance and mechanical skill in dependable furs
Such sets as these are in splendid demand from those who know FUR
VALUES. :
Save Money by Buying Dry Goods,
Underwear, Blankets, Comforts, Carpets, Rugs, J.inoleums, etc., from me
GROCERY SPECIALS.
Good Coffee, - - . 16c 1b.
4 boxes Raisins, | - - 3 25¢
robars Soap, =. - 25c
Dilworth’s, large size, Good Rink Coffee 2 for 25c
Good Brooms, - - -
Clothes Pins, per hundred, - - i
Mince Meat, - - - 15¢ lb.
GOOD COOKING AND EATING APPLES JUST RECEIVED
ALBERT S. GLESSNER
SUCCESSOR TO APPEL & GLESSNER
MEYERSDALE, PHA.
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