THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL
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AT MEYERSDALE, PA.
R. M. SWISHER, Editor.
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shen not paid in advance $1.50
NEW VICE-CHAIRMAN
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The Career of John T. Adams, of
Jjowa, who was recently selected as
Vice-chairman of the Republican Na-
tional Committee, indicates that if
the Committee desires efficiency in
political management, they made no
mistake in their direction.
Mr. Adams is an interprising and
successful business man, a student of
politics in the broadest sence, and a
political worker along such lines as to
win the esteem of the Republicans
and arouse the fear of his Demoratic
opponents. \
Prior to 1908, Mr. Alams had taken
no actipe part in politics, but had con-
firmed his attention almost entirely
to the management of a sash and door
manufacturing establishment at Du-
puque, Iowa, of which concern he has
peen President for 22 yeras and with
which he has been associated for 33
, years. Athough not active in poli-
tics he has taken an active interest
in governmental problems such as
would be a eredit to any American
citizen. He has been a life-long stu-
dent of history, and particularly of the
economic problems confronting the
people of the United States. His pri-
vate library is known as one of the
pest in the State of Iowa, and is par-
ticularly well supplied with the best
known works On economic subjects.
He reads German and French fluent-
ly and has studied German authors
on ecomomic subjects. His extensive
studies have won him ‘a reputation
among his friends as a man of schol
arly tastes.
With his broad foundation for. use-
ful political service, Mr. Adams be
came active in politics for the first
time in 1908 when his neighbor and
personal friend, the late Senator Alli-
son, induced him to take charge of his
campaign for election to the Senate, at
which time the contest was beiween
Allison and Cummins for the nomina-
tio. His ability as a political work-
er is attested by the fact that he won
the nomination for Allison but did it
in such a manner as not ito forteit
either the mwespect or the friendship
of Cummins, who was latter elected
to the Senate after the death of Sena-
tor Allison,
Although thereafter active polities,
Mr. Adams was never a candidate for
any office. However, he was elected
by the people of Dubuque to member-
ship on the Board of Education, and
has served very acceptably as a trus-
tee of Dubuque College. He was elec-
ted a member of the Republican Na:
tional Committee of 1912, and was
chosen a member of its Executive
Committee. In 1916 he was an active
supportr of the candidacy of Senator
Cummins for the presidential nomi-
nation, and was elected a Member of
the National Committee in a State-
wide primary in which he won by an
over-whelming majority. His rcla
tions are both with Senators Cum-
mins and Kenyon, of Iowa, all the
members of the Iowa Congressional
delegation, and all the officers of the
State government. No person in his
own State opposed his election to the
National Committee on the ground
{that he was lacking in progressive-
ness,
If the Republican party desires the
leadership of a man who can be ag
gressively and effectively active in
party affairs and yet so tactful as to
retain the confidence and friendship
of members of all factions of his own
party, it would seem that in the se
lection of Mr. Adams as Vice‘Chair-
man, no mistake was made.
LEAK INVESTIGATION
When he President sent his peace
note to ithe belligerents it seems that
Wall street had been furnished ad-
vance information and the ones qr
the inside made fortunes in buying
and selling of stocks wheih would be
affected by ithe cessation of the war.
A committee was appointed by Con-
gress to investigate and were ready
to report that it was all an error;
that no information was given out:
that the brokers just guesed it,
as there was no leak ithe services of a
plumber would not be required; when
the irrepressible Tom Lawson, of
Frenzied Finance fame, pushed his
person into the lime light and gave
testimony which set the cabinet offi-
cers and others in high places to cer- |
tify to Tom’s eligibility to membership
in the Ananias club. The committee
adjourned to meet in New York, but |
it was a forgone conclusion that noth- |
ing will develop; that the whitewash
js being prepared and will spread on
good and thick. .There
blind as he who will not see.. i
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NEW FEDERAL TAXES
Although the Committee on Ways
EVERY THURSDAY | '\ ns has taken no final action
on ways and methods to raise $309.-
000,000 new revenue, Washington cor-
respondents have discovered a lot oi
proposals pefore the committee, some
or all of which are to be adopted. A
few weeks ago there was talk of low-
ering the income tax exemption 10
$1,000, but after hearing form the
county the committee seems to have
abondoned the plan. It still thinks
that one-third of one per cent, of the
country is enough to pay this tax,
which has been doubled, and that
of those lesser income than $3,000 or
$4,000 should go free. Everyone
knows that the proposed reduction
was fair and honest, but the Democra-
tic Party is not anxious to alienate
votes. "
The largest scheme is one to levy
a tax of one per cent. on all profits
from business in excess of eighty per
cent. This will largely take the place
of the present corporation tax and is
expected to produce $200,000,000. The
munition tax will cease with the war
and the increase is partly with a view
to that contingency. The so called
«war” taxes by stamps are to be re
laid and are expected to produce near-
ly $50,000,000. Inheritance taxes are
to be largely increased So that people
will hate to die more than ever.
Liquors, beers and tobacco are
scheduled for heavy increases and it
is proposed to raise $42,000,000 by =
tax on mineral waters and all kinds ol
soft drinks. Candy comes in for ten
per cent., phonograph records for one
per cent., moving picture reels for one
cent a foot and oleomargarine three
cents a pound. Billboards and street
car advertisments are expected to
vield $25,000,000, and $1 per horse
power on automobiles will yield over
$30,700,000. But the big item is a ax
‘n copper, pig-iron and alumium to
raise $81,000,000. All these items aré
xuected to produce about $500,000,000
hich is more than is needed, so that
it not likely all of them will be-laid.
It is interesting to noie that these
direct taxes will affect practically
every human being in the conntry and
will materially increase expenses 1L
every normal family.
All this time not a word is said
about practicing economy anywhere.
Nothing is so unpopular in ‘Washing-
ton as trying to save money Or in
crease efficiency.
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Once the War Ends.
In an editorial advising against stock
speculation by the general public the
New Yory, Journal says:
Keep your money in your pocket or
invest it in safe bonds or in savings
banks or good property.
All the stocks that have fattened 0
the war must suffer and shrink. The
two greatest steel men in America tell
you that under the present Tariff laws
no steel or ironconcern can earn a
dollar once the war ends—and the war
is ending. -
« You will thank us for this advice in
a few weeks or months, if you follow
it.
The advice is sound. No one can
fortell what will become of stock ma--
ket values when peace returns. In
the absence of a Tariff law that shall
provide ample Protection against the
industrial invasion sure to come, the
iron and steel concerns are not the on-
ly ones that will be unable to earn &
dollar of dividends.
Very Likely.
“Saturn has eight moons.”
“] wonder if moon songs are eight
timos as numerous with them as with
ns.” —Louisville Courier-Journal.
Keeps It There.
He—You're always wanting money.
My hand's in my pocket all the time.
She— Yes. and it never comes out.
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# PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. #%
3 ee +
3 Open the Windows. %
# Statistics show that the death
% rate for pneumonia, bronchitis,
% colds and grip is highest in 4
#% January, February and March.
#% These are the window shut +
% months. The rate is lowest in +
#% July. August and September. +
# when the windows are wide
#% open. The rate rises again in 3
4+ October. November and Decem-
+ per. when the windows are clos- #%
w ing. It does not drop again un-
vs til April. May and June, when +
% the windows are again opening.
The death rate for the four
#% diseases in winter cannot be re- 5
# duced to that prevailing in sum-
mer. but it can be materially
lessened by a more general use
of fresh air.
No air that ever blew out of
doors is as dangerous or so poi-
sonous as that inside a bedroom
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with tightly closed windows.
Night air is just as pure and
wholesome as day air. Fogs and
rains are only injurious in so far
as they frighten you into clos-
ing vour windows. ”
Open the wii dows and lower «©
* the death rate
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CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
Sratement
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At Close of Business Dece.nber 27, 1917
RESOURCES
Jans and Investments... .............cennnnnn. $771,422.91
1. S. Bongs..... castimiteseecinss Cease ln... 70,000.00
Banking House....o... i venunn. cri venannee. ns 29,500.00
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents..... ....... 220,205.37
Cash...:... teriniaieie i dec a 52,308.69
fotal.... $1,143,436.97
LIABILITIES
C pital Stock ........-ceennsn cones. . ... $ 65,000.00
SUIDIOS .s. sors snns sor nian ir snus sun vn mtan 100.000.00
Undivided Profits..... ......... Red Ja 36,415.34 |
Circulation .. ........s ties bions vie hatin 65,000.00 |
Depos:t8 :....... .z-.- NE ain 877.021.63
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Total. ... $1,143,436.97 |
The Citizens National Bank |
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KEYSTONE PatAGRAPAS |
Mary Loyan, aged siXieen, arraigned
be.ore Magistrate James R. Watkins
in Pittsburgh on a charge oi disorder-
ly conduct after she had admitted she
intended to drown hersclf, told a tule
of abuse at the hands of her paren.s
because she refused fo marry a bcard-
er at the Loyan home. “I'd rather
jump into the river than marry him,”
she told Magistrate Watkins. “I don't
love him—don’t even like him—and
I'm not going to marry a man 1 care
nothing for.”
Thirteen departments of the state
government have reported defieits of
$689,010.94, nine have reported none
and two have made reports classed as
to W. Harry Baker, secretary of the
senate, by Governor Brumbaugh. Mr.
Baker is framing the biennial de-
ficiency bill and the information’ was
requested of the governor, who asked
the heads of departments to make re-
ports to him.
A half million dollars for the en-
dowment fund were received during
the past year by the museum, one of
the constituent bodies of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, according to a re-
port read. at the annual meeting of
the board of managers. In addition,
the collections of art, archeology and
ethnology have been increased half a
million dollars in value through gifts,
purchases and expeditions.
Governor Brumbaugh granted re-
: pites until March 5 to Henry Ward
Mottern and Ernest Haines, Jefferson
county boys condemmncd to death for
murder. The lads were to have been
cxecuted next week, but counsel ap-
pealed for opportunity to take their
cases to the state supreme court fol-
lowing a final decision of the pardon
board not to intervene.
The Field hospital, the Field ambu-
lance and Troop H, the last of sev-
eral national guard organizations of
the Pittsburgh district to complete a
service of several months on the
Texas border, arrived in Pittsburgh
Tuesday. Other organizations were
Troop F of New Castle and Troop C
of Harrisburg, known as the Gover-
nor's troop.
Ten men employed by the Lundgren
Construction company of Braddock
were injured when a scaffold, on
which they were working, in the plant
of the Westinghouse Machine com-
.pany, East Pittsburgh, broke, causing
them to fall twenty-five feet.
David Dough, employed at No. 7
mine of the Pittsburgh Terminal Rail-
road Coal company at Large, was in-
stantly killed while riding from the
tipple on. a coal car which crashed
into a coal train. Hough was crushed
between the cars. |
George Fry of near Indiana, brought
pefore Judge J. N. Langham on a
charge of desertion and non-support,
admitted that since his marriage eight
years ago he had given his wife $1.
Judge Langham ordered him to pay
her $25 a month.
Employees of the hot mills of the
American Sheet and Tinplatée com-
pany at the Farrell works have been
granted an increase in wages of about
6 per cent. The advance was made
voluntarily and came as a surprise to
the workmen.’
Congressman-elect 0. D. Bleakley of
Franklin, who recently completed a
trip through the air from Philadelphia
to Washington, will make the same
journey in February, according to an
announcement made there.
Owing to the high cost of news
print paper, it was announced hat all
after con nd mor ne pil
publisl i7 Philadelpl
pu
eres tl pr ) Nn per copy
on
provisional, according to a letter sent |
Bethlehem’s Bid on Shells
for the United States Navy
' To the American People:
The Secretary of the Navy has awarded
eontracts amounting to over $3,000,000
to a British bidder for 14 and 16-inch
projectiles for the Navy because of v
much lower prices offered by the i
bidders.
We know nothing of the basis upon which
the British bids were made, but the pub-
Be is emtitled to know the facts upon
which we ourselves bid for this work.
Two years age we took contracts
to make 4,900 li-imch shells at a
price of $1,315,008. Up te mew
mot a single shell has beem ac-
ecpted by the Gevernment, al-
though we have expended, in
wages, materials, otc., om these
orders $322,881, snd we have mot
received a SINGLE DOLLAR en
these contracts.
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penalties amounting to $678,016
In the light of our experience, and hav-
ing no other basis, we bid for 16-inch
shells approximately the same rate per
pound as that which the Navy Depart.
ment actually awarded a 14-inch shell
contract one year ago
Bethlehem Steel Company
CHAS. M. SCHWAB, Chairman
EUGENE G GRACE, Presider
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
42%, @43c;
Eggs—Fresh, 57c.
Pittsburgh, Jan. 23.
Cattle—Prime, $10.50@11.25; good,
$9.76@10.50; tidy butchers, $9@9.50;
fair, $8@9; common, $6.50@7.50; heif-
Butter—Prints,
41 @42c.
tubs.
ers, $6@9.50; common to good fat
bulls, $6@8.50; common to good fat
cows, $4@8; fresh cows and spring-
ers, $40@85.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$10.50@11; good mixed, $9.50@10.25;
fair mixed, $8@9; culls and common,
$4.50@6; heavy ewes, $6@9; spring
lambs, $10@14.65; veal calves, $14.50
@15; heavy and thin calves, $7.50@10.
Hogs—Prime heavy, $11.70@11.75;
heavy mixed, $11.656@11:70; mediums
and heavy Yorkers, $11.60@11.65;
light Yorkers, $10.90@11.15; pigs.
$1050@11.16; roughs, $10.560@10.76:
stags, $9@9.26.
Cleveland, Jan. 23.
Hogs—Heavies, $11.30@11.35; medi-
ums, $11.35; Yorkers, $11.25; pigs,
$10.50; roughs, $10; stags, $9.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $9@9.75;
good to choice steers, $8.560@9; fair
to good steers, $8@8.50; fair steers,
$7.60@8; common and light steers, §6
@7; good to choice heifers, $7@8;
fair heifers, $56.50@7; choice fat bulls,
$7@8; bologna bulls, $6.26@6.75;
choice fat cows, $5.50@6.50; fair to
good cows, $5.50@6.25; common
grades, $4@5; old rimmers, $3.75@
6.26; good to choice milchers and
springers, $50@80.
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choice
spring lambs, $14@14.25; fair to good,
$12@13; culls and common, $9@11.50;
good to choice wethers, $8.50@9.50;
good to choice ewes, $8.50@9.50:
mixed ewes and wethers, $8.50@9.50;
culls, $6@7.
Chicago, Jan. 23.
Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $10.60@
11.16; gooa heavy, $10.75@11; rough
heavy, $10.65@11.80; light, $10.45@11;
pigs, $8.25@10.10.
Cattle—Braves, $7.70@11.85; cows
and heifers, $4.75@10.10; stockers and
feeders, $5.75@8.90; Texans, $8.60@
9.40; calves, $10.25@%4.75.
Wheat—May, $1.867%. Corn—May,
$1.01%. Oats—May, 68%ec. .
Tattler.
“You didn’t tel’ me. Bobbie, you were
in a fight.”
“No. sir. | knew you'd hear about it
from that boy's father. That's the
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A part of your friends condemn you
approach the con
others praise you:
Ke aloof from the ad-
demning and
mirers.— Talmud.
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Hartley & Raldwin’s
Red Letter Sale
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Is in Full Blast. It never started
with aflarger volum of business than
this year. It seems that the people
do appreciate real, genuine bargains,
Call and feel at home at our
store.
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Meyersdale, Pa.
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The Columbia Famous Artists? If you have not
you can by calling at my Drug Store.
Here is a
list of a few:
Parlow Cascals Marie Barientos,
M J. O'Connell
James Harrod
Henry J. Marshall
Oscar Seagle
Lucy Gates Vernon Stiles
David Besham Samuel Ash
James Reed Morton Hamey
Eddy Brown
Kathleen Parlow
Josef Hoffman Charles Harrison
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Columbia Records {or
February on sale.
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LEADING DRUGGIST
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common in these days of reading
and studying. Don’t neglect your
most organs— YOUR
EYES.
"COOK,
Both Phones
precious
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