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REPUBLICAN PAPER
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‘* party in this state is to regain public
‘tered by Penrose is the reason why
the Republicar party has fallen.
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PROSPERITY’S ENEMY
Philadelphia Public Ledger Says
Penroseism is Responsible
for Voters Leaving the Party
Philadelphia, Sept. 29.— Penrose
must be defeated if the Republican
confidence. This is the opinion of
the great mass of Republican voters
who wish to see their party put in a
position where they won't have to
apologize for it.
The Public Ledger, a Republican
newspaper of Philadelphia, has de
clared that Penroseism is responsible
for the evil repute in which the party
is fallen and declares that no change
can be expected until the boss is
beaten. -
“Penroseism; the Arch Enemy of
Prosperity,” is the way it describes
the situation in this state. The Led-
ger says that the union between cor-
rupt special privilege and’politics fos-
Pinchot Fills the Bill.
Independent Republicans determin-
ed to defeat Penrose are turning to
Qifford Pinchot, the Washington
party candidate, who stands for a
protective tariff and has an unblem-
ished reputation as a clean fighter.
In its editorial denouncing Penrose
and Penroseism, the Ledger says:
| PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1814.
PENROSEISM: THE ARCH ENEMY.
OF PROSPERITY
The Penrase campaign is the offering’
of that gentleman as a panacea for
hard times. There is nothing else to
#. Morality, methods, processes he
throws to thé winds. A Democratic
Administration has passed a ruinous
tariff law; there is hunger and un.
employment in the counties; the mi-
nority that rules asamajority in Wash-
fngton is inefficient and has its whip
on the back of industry; therefore, says
Mr Penrose, he must be nominated and
elected, for he is the Midas Who will
turn al] to gold. !
Who put a minority Government in
‘Washington? Penrose and Penroseism.
Who in four short years changed a |
triumphant and militant party into so
“Hons of the rapk and file seceded? Mr.
Penrose was the Progressive asset. He
is the main Progressive asset now. His
seadership in the party gave State after
State to Wilson. His activily in Re-
publican ranks made & Democratic Con-
gress. No anti-American tariff would
ever have been possible had not the
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Condensed Report of
SECOND NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PENN’A. :
At the Close of Business, September 12, 1914
0, 90 00 00 be Ss
Condition of
the
RESOURCES.
Loans and Investments, - - - - $422,216.34
U. S. Bonds and Premiums, - - - 72,231.87
Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures - =» 68,924.08
Case and due from Banks, - - - - 67,286.11
Due from U. S. Treasurer, - - - - 3,250.00
: Total Resources - - - - = $633.958.40
: LTABILITIES.
Capital Stock paid in, - - - = $ 65,000.00
Surplus Fund and Profits, - - - - 55,923.39
Circulation, - - - - - - - 64,200.00
Dividends Unpaid, - = - - - 60.00
Deposits, - - - - - - - 448,775.01
Total Liabilities, - - - - - $633,958.40
Growth as Shown in Following Statements made to
Comptroller of Currency.
ASSETS
JULY 15, 1908, - - - - $262,014.92
ry JUNE 23, 1909, - - - - $411,680.13
< MARCH 7, 1911, - - - - $512,574.48
APRIL 18, 1912 - - - - $592,884.92
APRIL 4, 1913, - = - - $605,870.62
: September 12, 1914, - - - $633,958.40
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PLAN FOR CONSTRUCTING CONCRETE SILO
nation’s hatred of Penroseista made
iit so.
Is there a mill legislated out of its
profit? Penroeeism did it.
- lashed and shackled? It was the cor-
rupt alliance made dy Penroscisnd with
certain special interests that aroused
public opinion against all business and
stirred up the spirit of reprisal and
wengeance. The excesses of Penrose-
$em are utterly and absoluisly rospon-
sible for the whole program of caunter
excesses now popular at Washinginh.
BEN LINDSEY TAKES
PENROSE'S MEASURE
Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver, who
has a world wide reputation as a vig-
orous denouncer of evil and whom all
erpooks fear, on his recent visit to
Philadelphia gave the following as his
opinion of Mr. Penrose:
“Unless Boies Penrose is driven
from the United States senate, the
people of Pennsylvania can expect
sive law, the utter disregard of hu-
man rights, and the tearing down of
all standards for social, economic and
industrial justice. Ohio defeated its
Foraker; Illinois, its Lorimer, and
now Pennsylvania should put Penrose
on the political gibbet. Penrose rep-
resents the old order of things and
election would be a disgrace to the
state, and would be the same as tell-
ing every youth to go out and violate
the law. It would be a sinister influ-
ence on our social life, because his
election would be a triumph for bood-
ters, dive keepers, rum sellers and
big crooks. The election of Gifford
Pinchot would have far-reaching re-
sults. Pinchot is the honest, cour-
ageous type of man needed in public
office. For ten years back the decent
man of all parties have been fighting
Penrose and his type. Pennsylvania
should not slide back.”
Penrose Backs Brumbaugh,
Pr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, Republi-
ean candidate, says in effect that he
will stick to Penrose aiid other bosses
of the party, including the liquor in-
terests of the state, if the whole con-
cern goes down to defeat. This ‘par-
takes very much of the heroic in poli-
tics, but it does not answer the ques-
{ion of many anti-liguor voters of his
own party: How will Dr. Brumbaugh
be able to secure anti-saloon legisla-
tion when the representatives of his
party are working hand in hand with
the booze interests of the state, of
which Boies Penrose is the principal
DOES CHILD LABOR PAY?
By WILLIAM DRAPER LEWIS. i.
No force is more actively engaged
in converting children into liabili-
ties than child labor. By child labor
I mean the work of immature persons
in industries which demand constant
application at stated occupations for
specific hours.
Do not misunderstand me. Chil
dren should, of course, be taught to
work just as they should be taught to
respect the rights of their fellows.
The ability and the desire to work
are fundamen-
tal to individ-
ual or national
success, but
enforced labor
for long hours
at monotonous
tasks does not
make workers.
We in Penn-
sylvania are
peculiarly, fla-
grantly, guilty
in our employ-
WM. DRAPER LEWIs ment of work-
ing children.
According to a table prepared by
the Philadelphia Bureau, of Com-
pulsory Education there were 3,683
girls and 4,076 boys 14 years of age
at work in Philadelphia in 1913.
6,632 girls and 7,362 boys 15 years
old were employed, making a total
of 21,217 boys and girls under 16 at
work in this one city.
More Than in Other States.
This may Seem not large in the ag-
gregate, but it is almost as many as
the total number of children engaged
in the manufacturing industries of
the whole state of New York, and
more by several thousand than all the
children employed in the manufactur-
ing industries of Illinois or Ohio.
We have the largest number of
child laborers in our manufacturing
industries of any state in the union.
New York, with manufacturing in-
terests almost half again as great
as those of Pennsylvania, employs
but little more than half the number
of children. Illinois and Ohio com-
bined, with manufacturing interests
slightly greater than ours, employ
somewhat less than half the number
of children working in Pennsylvania.
Now what are we doing to safe-
guard the lives and, health of these
young workers? It might be expected
that our laws would most carefully
protect this host of children.
Nothing could be further from the
beneficiary ?
truth. Pennsylvania alone of all the
great industrial states of the union
is utterly negligent in this regard.
Pennsylvania Lags Behind.
New York laws restrict the hours
of working children to 8 per day and
48 per week. In Pennsylvania they
may work 10 hours per day, and girls
may work 54 hours per week, boys 58.
In New York the 8 hours must fall
between 8 o'clock in the morning and
5 o'clock in the evening. In our own
state the limits are 6 a. m. and 9
p. m. In Illinois there is a carefully
specified *lict of dangerous occupa-
tions in which children under the age
of sixteen years may not be employed
at all. ‘
In Pennsylvania there is no such
list. But worst of all, and this is
indeed a disgrace to the state, there
is a law on our statute books per-
mitting boys of 14 to work at any
time, day or night, “where the usual
process of manufacture or the nature
of the business is of a kind that cus-
tomarily necessitates a continuous
day and night employment.”
This law was passed to expressly
permit the all night work ef young
boys in glass factories so that our
restrictions are least where the in-
jury to our children is most severe.
Pennsylvania is the only state, with
the exception of West Virginia, which
legalizes this form of employm~=nt.
The Political Machine to Blame.
The question occurs, therefore, Why
ig it that we are so negligent of the
health of our child workers? Medical
science unanimously declares that
work for more than eight hours per
day is injurious to children, and that
employing them during the dark, dis-
mal hours of the night is all but
criminal. There must, therefore, be
some reason why we permit condi-
tions which other states have been
steadily prohibiting.
The reason is that some of the man-
ufacturing interests of Pennsylvania
declares that to restrict child labor
will ruin their business. This plea
has prevented child labor legislation
at session after session of our legis-
lature. At the last legislature it was
the excuse which the Penrose Repub-
licans gave for killing ‘an excellent
child labor measure which passed the
house with but two dissenting votes.
Let us examine this reason in the
light of facts.
The five greatest industrial states
in the union are New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Illinois, Massachusetts and
Ohio in the order named.
Of these states Pennsylvania alone
does not have adequate child labor
laws. Massachusetts until last year
was also negligent in this regard, but
the 1913 legislature enacted a child
labor measure equal to-the best. Child
labor has been prohibited in the other
three great states for a number of
years. The United States census re-
ports show that during the years 1899
and 1909 the value of New York's
products increased 80 per cent. The
value of Ohio’s products increased 92
per cent; those of Illinois 71; while
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, with
64 and 59 per cent, were left far
behind. In the value of manufactured
products the increases were similar.
The percentage of increase was 80
in Ohio; 77 in New York, 72 in Illi-
nois, 61 -in Massachusetts and 51 in
Pennsylvania.
It seems to me that these figures
very successfully refute the proposi-
tion that the restriction of child
labor means the retarding of our in-
dustrial progress. New York, Illinois
and Ohio have had better child labor
laws for a longer time and have en-
forced them more vigorously than
any of the great manufacturing states
and yet their products and their man-
ufactures are increasing at a very
much more rapid rate than those of
our state with our disgraceful child
labor laws.
WANTS A CLEAN CUT FIGHT
Gifford Pinchot has been endorsed
by three hundred persons attending a
conference of temperance and anti-
Penrose representatives In Harris
burg. Every crooked gangster and
representative of vice in the state is
supporting Senator Penrose, for they
can expect nothing either from Pinch-
ot or Palmer. The danger lles in the
probability that the reform forces of
the state will be divided between
Pinchot and Palmer, and the pro-li-
quor Democrats will go largely for
Penrose. Gifford Pinchot, although a
candidate on the Washington party
ticket, is a better Republican from the
standpoint of the founders of that
party than Senator Penrose can possi-
bly be, and Pinchot deserves the vote
of every Republican of the state whe
would break the domination of the
liquor interests in this state. The
defeat of Penrose is the first consid-
eration of the election in Pennsylvania
this fall.—Butler Citizen.
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ared by the United States Depart-
5 ment of Agriculture.) .
| well-constructed home-made silo
wil last indefinitely, and there is no
da r of its blowing down, rotting
out of being attacked by vermin, says
Farmers’ Bulletin 589 of the United
States‘department of agriculture.
The gost of the home-made silo de-
pends 80 much on the size of the silo
and on, the local price of materials
that no definite amount can be as-
signed which would be applicable to
all condjtions. Recently collected
data on whe cost of home-made silos
show an a‘rerage cost of concrete silos
to be $2.58 per ton capacity. The stave
silos cost $1.63 and the modified Wis-
consin $1.61 per ton capacity. Silos of
small diamegers cost more per ton ca-
pacity than silos of large diameters.
There are some features which are
essential to Jthe construction of all
silos and without which silage will not
be kept in perfect condition.
1. The wally should be air-tight.
Since the keeping of silage depends
upon the exclusjon of air it is impera-
tive that the wa$ls of the silo be built
in such a way as to keep out the air.
The lumber should be well matched,
and that containing large knots should
be rejected. In coldrete silos a wash
on the inside with coment or with raw
coal tar thirned wip gasoline is ef-
fective in making the %walls impervious
to air. Care should bejtaken that the
doors fit closely into their frames.
2. The walls should bé smooth and
plumb so that the silage will not ad-
here to them in settling and thus
cause air spaces in the outer edge of
the silage. Furthermore, the walls
should be capable of standing consid-
erable lateral strain without cracking
or bulging. This is one reason why
rectangular silos are unsuccessful.
3. The silo must be deep enough so
that the pressure from above will thor-
oughly pack the silage and force out
the air. The greater the pressure the
less air in the silo and the less will be
the loss of nutrition materials by fer-
mentation.
4. The only form of silo to be recom-
mended «is one which is round. This
form is the cheapest, capacity consid-
ered, and the walls are more rigid
than those of the rectangular or octag-
onal forms. This results in more per-
fect preservation of the silage.
The silo should be placed outside
rather than inside the barn. As a silo
ordinarily does not need the protec-
tion of a barn, it is not economical to
use barn space for this purpose. An
exception to this rule may be made in
the case of the round barn. A silo in
the middle of a round barn serves to
support the superstructure as well as
to place the silage in a position for
convenient feeding. A silo so placed,
Well-Constructed Silos. °
however, is liable to be very incom
venient to fill. The most popular loca-
tion is not more than a few feet from
the barn and opening into a separate
feeding room. The door of the barm
can then be closed and ‘the silage
odors kept out of the stable at milking
time.’
The silo should not be built in the
ground so deeply as to make it neces-
sary to lift the silage more than five
feet in getting it out from the bottom.
In other words, the bottom should not
be more than five feet below the low
est door. :
The Size and Capacity of the Silo.
The diameter of the silo will depend
upon the amount of silage to be fed
daily. The silage should be removed
from the top at the rate of 11% to 3
inches per day, depending upon cli
matic conditions. The warmer the
weather the more silage must be re
moved from the surface daily in order
to prevent spoiling. For the winter
feeding season it is safer to figure
upon removing two inches daily rather
than a smaller amount. A commos
error in building is to make the diam.
eter too large for the size of the herd
The weight of a cubic foot of silage
varies according to the pressure tea
which it is subjected, but in a silo 3¢
feet deep it will average about forty
pounds. So, by knowing the amount
of silage to be fed daily, it is possible
to estimate what the diameter of the
silo should be to permit the removal
of a certain number of inches in depth
each day.
The following table will prove at
interest to those contemplating build
ing silos:
Relation of size of herd to diametes
of silo for winter feeding, on basis
of 40 pounds of silage per cubic foot:
Number of animals that
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10 524 13 17 26 %
1n 634 18 21 31 4°
12 4 19 25 3 5
13 885 2 29 4 5
14 1,026 25 34 61 8
15 1,178 29 39 59 ki
16 1,340 33 4 67 9
17 1,513 38 50 7% 101
18 1,69% 42 56 85 113
20 2,004 52 70 104 139
Corn Crop in the Silo.
The feed-cutter should be in use of
every farm, the corn-shredder is an em
cellent thing, but why not put all ef
the corn crop in a silo as the bes
probable position to get every poumd
jof value out of it