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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
| WILSON URGES
| WAR PREVENTION
President Addresses Senate,
Shattering Precedent
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NEW POLIGIES ARE FAVORED
Chief Executive Recommends That
United States Join League of Na-
tions to Enforce World Peace.
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SHOWN AT DOCK IN KIEL e Insurance Commissioner, J.
Denny O’Neil, has opened three bu-
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reaus of Information and Adjustment,
| where the public can get information
regarding the financial standing of
insurance companies, and secure help
in adjusting insurance troubles of any
kind. -
Commissioner O’Neil said, “Soe
people may think this socialistie, but
I think it is the duty of the State to
render the largest possible service to
the people.
Insurance is a mystery to the aver-
age citizen, but it is a subject of inter-
est to every man, woman and child.
The insurance business in Pennsyl-
vania hag assumed startling propor-
tions. The total number of life in-
surance policies in Pennsylvania on
1915 was 5,780,175, and the total
amount of life insurance in force in
the State was $2,197,357,870.56.
The total amount of fire insur
in force was $2,292,203,732.48, mak-
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Boi Tren and has been made under his per-
sonal supervision since its infancy.
All Counterfeits,
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
Imitations and * Just-as-good >’ are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
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No such history-making event with
such possibilities to the United
States probably ever had been seen in
the senate chambers as when Presi-
.| dent Wilson on Monday appeared be-
fore that body and in 2 personal ad-
dress laid down the question of
whether the United States shall de-
age is its guarantee.
For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother's Friend.
| part from its traditional policy of iso-
‘lation and no entangling alliances,
|and take part in a world league to pre-
| serve peace after the war.
Shcttering precedent of more than
a century, the president, regarding
Photo bv American Press Association.
GERMAN RAIDER VINETA.
ing almost Four and one-half Billions
of Dollars carried by the people of
Pennsylvania alone, an amount too
large for the ordinary penson to grasp.
The three Adjustment Bureaus are
located as follows:
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the senate with its treaty-making pow: Cla
er 2s his counselor in foreign affairs,
explained why he believed the time had
come for the world to know America’s
position, and discussed the underlying
eauses on which he believes a per-
manent peace of the world can be
maintained.
While President Wilson was speak-
ing directly to the senators, after the
manner of Washington, Madison and
Adams, his address was in ‘the hands
Capitol Building, Harrisburg.
Commercial Trust Building,
Philadelphia, Hartje Building,
Pittsburg.
Any policyholder, citizen, insurance
jagent, or company, can secure advice
informaion, or help, from experts of En
the Insurance Department, free. All
that will be necessary is to state the
case plainly, and write to bureau of ]
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
sians and Rumanians apparently more
than holding their own for the time
cexiNE CASTORIA ALWAYS
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In he. War Department, However, Remains of all foreign governments or on its BL IRN En Field Marshal VOR | 1naormiation, State Insurance Depart-
SC or er cars ers Beco io RiLiD Foo yo Wem. als th of por, | 00h, 5 the neared bussau
The Ki Y Mexico of ‘Pershin Expedition Senators generally reserved ofrh give att i - : A During the last six months MARY
: ing ou Have Always Eought More than 25,000 Sa garde ment on the president's audress, bu) broken recently hy > the. British reform and new ideas have been adopt-
5 some Republicans, who said they did
men now on the Mexican border have | not wish to be quoted, said they were
been designated by Major General opposed “to both the propriety and
Funston for return home and muster | gyhstance.”
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— ' > out of the federal soryice, under the | yn his address the president recom-
satisfied, even imperfectly, unless order issued by the war department. | mended that the United States join 2
| peace is secured on the general lines All these organizations will . be |jeague of nations to enforce world
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i J Cis 5 j Indicated by the allies’ joint note. started homeward as soon as trans- | peace.
| Great Britain's note was entirely un- | portation facilities can be provided. «I am proposing, as it were,” said
SEFAG By v OTE expected to officials here, but was | Their departure will leave between | My Wilson, “that the nations should
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by the Insurance Department, and the
insurance business of the State is
pow conducted on as high a plane as
banking or any other of the great in
dustries. 2
It may be of interest to the: public
to know that the cost of conducting
the Insurance Department for a year
is less han $80,000, while it ts one of
the best revenue producers , ‘turning
into the State Treasury over $2,000,-
000.00 a year in cash, to help defray
the expenses of the State Govern-
ment. Py .
The great majority of insurance Ll
companies doing business in Penn-
sylvania are financially strong and
THE CEN
activities north of the Somme, which
“have resulted in advances for them
recently near Beaucourt-sur-Ancre. In-
dications are not lacking, however,
that the present pacific conditions are
not likely to endure long, and in this
connection the extreme southern sec-
tor of the line is being closely
watched.
The French here occupy a consider
able section of Alsace, the fighting line
touching the Swiss border between
Belfort and Basel. Concentration of
masses. of German troops across the
line from Basel has recently been re
ported in Swiss newspapers and a be-
lief is said to exist in Switzerland that
the Gerrhans contemplate an offensive
with the object of freeing Alsace of
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gratifying because they interpreted it 45,000 and 50,000 men of the guard | with one accord adopt the doetrine of
as a step toward the world federation ' still in the federal service doing bor- | president Monroe as the doctrine of
to preserve peace which President der patrol. . the world; that no nation should seek
it itn both in his speeches and In| War department officials continue to | to bxtend. its policy over any other
Recant Reply of the kiss fo Jabs peace note, has pledged the Unit- : withhold comment on reports that the | nation or people, but that every peo-
ol : : | ed States. : | movement of General Pershing’s Tegu- | ple should be left free to determine
Visi i * Ap Nifiad Great Britain justifies her continu- lars eut of Mexico soon will be under | ifs own policy, its own way of develop-
9 mdi as v ance of hostilities, it was pointed out, | way, and the statement announcing | ment : ihicdered unthreatened, un-
not only for the immediate objects of ; the guardsmen designated for relief afraid, the little along with the great
a : the war, but also on the necessity that | does not connect these orders with ”
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S als BRITISH HART PCAGE ‘behind international law and behind | the withdrawal plans in any way. The Sg there “is no entangling | the invaders. Senguee ne oa 3
all treaty arrangements for prevent understanding has heen, however, that alliance in a concert of power.” The presidents of the parliaments THpRI: i Ae il 1s ae WON
ing wr Liming hostilities, some form | with the return of the expedition in| The president said a settlement to | Of the allied (Germanic) nations ar- amended to, bring frotomngle LO a —
Corraunication Explains Why En of international sanction should be de- | Mexico and readjustment of the bor | guarantee peace and justice through- | rived at Berlin for conference and | SOBirol-of the Insurance Department The §
tente Powers Believe It plese and Which woud ig me Danse to the | der patrol, all of the state troops | out the world cannot long be post-| Were welcomed by the president and and the De the > /
to Attain Satisfactory Peace Now. h 2 % s just some | gradually would be sent home. . «| poned, and that this government | Vi¢® presidents of the German reich- | Per supervision to se’ “companies, 8icil
Y Sug, arrangement, it was pointed out. Among the guardsmen designated |ghould formulate the conditions. stag, by representatives of the foreig.. there will be no more Pension’ Mu- turesq
Great Britain in a note addressed which Wilson has been urg- | for return and muster out are: The present war first must be end- ministry and by the Turkish and Bul- | tual, affairs, which hias been already destru
by Arthur Balfour, British foreign er JDocted = conga Onio—Tourih infantry, Fifth infan- | ed because “it makes a great deal of | gaxian ministers, says a Reuter dis- | been disclosed.” practi
minister, to Ambassador SpringRice, | foreign policy than any othe wo ts ty; Third brigade headquarters, First | difference” to this government in patch from Berlin. —_ of th
and delivered to the state depart: |raised in the re nl question | squadron cavalry, | what way and upon what terms it is| More than 428,000 officers and men Pittsburg, Pa. Jan. 19, 1917. beaut;
g : 3 ry. Pennsylvania—Second field artil- | ended. J were taken prisoner by the Russians 3. ‘ and o
ment on Wednesday, amplify their | Great Britain's answer was inter |lery, Company C engineers, Sixth in-| Agreements will not make peace se | during the last year ALES ats Gin To the Editor:—would‘ you’ kindly + soday
reply to Prosidont Wilson's peace note | preted as her official 20COPIANCY and | fantry, Eighth infantry, Third brigade | cure, he said, and it will be Be tured, according to the Russian serv- print the following as a eonsninution work]
by explaining in detail why they be- indorsement of the president’s pro- | headquarters. that a force be created to guarantee ice organ, as quoted in a Central News to a good eanze. where
gieve it impossible at present to at: posal. \ ; the permanency of the settlement. dispatch from Petrograd. John S. Ritenour, Sec’y. & Sup't. the 'g
tain a peace which will assure them | Parley Qvar Mexico Ends. He declared that thé only peace The following official communica- “The Western Pennsylvania Humane to toi
cuch guarantees as they consider es-| BRITAIN GETS SHELL ORDER The CT EL com- | which can last is a peace based upon | tion was issued in London last week. | Society, 709 Forbes street, Pittsburg, Nat
sential. The note also explains why contract Totaling $3,1 Si 141.000 Given 15 a : i hd ht ey Lo Bd “equality and a common participation re inp. of Taio Togtoe needs a voluntary agenit in every com- TSH!
the allies demand the expulsion of | Hadficlds Firm ai ond the ThA Sues in a common benefit. announce at an explosion Oe | munity, large and small, to help it in vulsic
Turkey from Europe, restoration of | (Contracts for armor piercing navy | after a series of conferences that be- ie biti id eu a in the | jto work of extending protection to Tore
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ny ey Joun projectiles of the 14 and 16-inch type ge fon months ago, was formally | step will have been made toward “Jt is feared that the explosion was the helpless—ito children, and to aged throu
; o Italy e totaling $3,141,000 were awarded by | dispoived. bringing about discussion of terms on attended by a considerable loss of life | PeTSOns and to animals. If you would Ang
torial changes set forth. Becretary Daniels to the Hadfields ————— which peace may be accomplished. and damage to property.” like to aid the Society as agent, won't their
Those who think the future peace niet a English munition com- A Dseful Storm. The president points clearly that Official announcement was made in | you write it a tender of your service? Pinds
of the world may be insured by inter- pany. ids from Anetiean firms were i Professor Cleveland Abbe, the Amer- | this government stands for a peace Berne, Switzerland, that the federal | Send for particulars of the conditions dides
pational treaties and international more than $200 a shell in excess of | can meteorologist, was generally ered- | “based upon equality;” that the ar- council has decided as a measure Of a hi ion:
jaws, the note says, have ill-learned | that submitted by Hadfields. ited with being the father of scientific | rangements must be ih as to pre- precaution to mobilize Jan. 24 the Sec- uy ov which agents are coms ps
the lessons taught by recent history. | In announcing the award Secretary | Weather forecasting. The. possibility | clude possibility of “war flames being ond division and the contingents of Sioned” Ro 2
After charging that German influence Daniels said the department had made | of predicting the weather was first | rekindled.” He declares this govern. | the Fourth and Fifth divisions, which We comply with the request of the
jn Turkey had resulted in conditions | every effort to secure reductions in | considered at an international confer |ment is vitally interested in the strug: have hot yet been mobilized. Humane society and will add that if pp
as barbarous and more aggressive prices which would enable it to give | ence at Brussels in 1853, but the nec- | gle abroad and equally interested in There have been frequent reports there is anyone looking for trouble of A
than were Known under Sultan Abdul | a contract to an American concern, essary Lmpetus to the movement was | seeing that “no patched-up peace” Te- recently of uneasiness in Switzerland | this is the job you want. If he can- of tt
Hamid, and that it had been shown but had failed to obtain satisfactory | glven li 1854, during the Crimean war, | gylts lest the whole world be en- regarding possible violation of «the | not 1 with his nei
Germany cannot be expected to re- | bids. by a violent storm in the Black sea. | dangered by another struggle. country’s neutrality. Italy, according = got 2 IAT v 4 neighbors this |
spect treaty obligations, Mr. Balfour | The question of delivery aside from which caused havoc among the allied He then laid down the following | to unofficial dispatches, has been fuside of fures gays He should resign, boii
says: | cost of the shells was an important British and French vessels. One French | phasis for a lasting peace: strengthening her defenses along the He is not qualified. We will leave aja
“Sp Jong as Germany remains the factor in favor of Hadfields. Time | warship was wrecked, and in conse- Add the authority and power of the Swiss border. » the care of the children with their Mag:
Germany which, without a shadow of { proposals from American bidders were quence of this disaster the astronomer | ynited States to the authority and The allied army on the Salonika parents, care of aged people with the
justification, overran and barbarous: | =pproximately twice those of the Brit- LS thin A er OF NeD- | force of other nations to guarantee | front will be reinforced as a prelim- | Boy Scouts, and the animals may per- L
ly ill-treated a country it was pledged ish company. { Lome, an n L y a 3 was com peace and justice throughout the |inary to an effort to cut the Berlin- | ish; we don’t want the job. We have
to defend, no state can regard its missioned by the French government | word; a peace founded on an equal: | Constantinople railroad, according to | troubl Whe
rights as secure if they have no bet- HE KNEW A GOOD PLAY. to investigate the meteorological con- | jy of rights; a united, independent a dispatch from a British correspon- Toliblos Of SET
ter protection than a solemn treaty.” — | Qmns, at the time of the storms.— |,n4 autonomous plan; 0 far as prac- dent with General Sarrail’s forces. ee Oh
Asserting that Belgium was not Ger- | The Sagacious Canine Didn't Ever Westminster Gazette. ticable freedom to all nations for full The death list as a result of the Rhetorical Paws. Fren
many’s only victim, and that “neu Have to Read It. ro —— development of resources and direct explosions in a chemical plant in Lon- A would be politician was once speak- entex
trals were intended to note outrages One day 1 brought to my rooms in Language of Footprints. outlet to the great highways of the don where munitions were being made ing before a small assembly in a vil- his
which accompanied its conquest,” the Twenty-third street a box of old man- | Among the Indians the study of hu |geas: freedom of the seas; limitation | Was raised to between fifty and sixty lage. In the course of his speech he motl
note recites the “reign of terror’ at-| uscripts. Death and Trap, a bulldog | Man footprints was carried to a fin“ | of naval and military armament. by the deaths of several injured in introduced some expression which dis- cuss
tendant upon Germany’s method Of and fox terrier, stood by and looked | point. Many of us would be able to various hospitals. In the neighbor- gusted his hearers. who thereupon a di
warfare, and in that connection says: | on idly while I as idly looked over the | say at a glance. “Here goes So-and FLOOD STAGE IN RIVERS hood of 400 persons were injured. started moving away. The orator, see- rege
«The war staff of the central pow- plays. Suddenly Trap flew at a heap | 0.” with perfect accuracy. Even the > > A large portion of London was ing this, put up his hands and said: bear
ers are well content to horrify the | of manuscripts and seized a printed | children would recozuize instantly the | Towns In West Virginia Inundated. shaken by the series of explosions “Pause, friends!” But the answer eode
world if at the same time they eca- book. We tried to get it from him. footprint of a stranger from anothe Twenty-eight Feet at Pittsburgh. i which scattered destruction over a | he got was from a local wag, who cried brot!
terrorize it.” | He dashed about the room, under and tribe. It was claimed by some tha' | Heavy rains, augmented by melting; considerable section of the district in amid laughter: U1
he people of Great Britain, M | over the bed. | character may Le read from the fool |snow on the watersheds of the three | which the works were located. There “Aye, an’ real dirty ones they are ous
Balfour says, share President Wo. | The landlady opened the door. Out | print. just as some white people un | rivers, placed the rivers in Pittsburgh | is no evidence that the explosion was too!’—Chicago News. of
son’s desire for peace, put do not be | went Trap, nearly upsetting my land- | dertake to read it from the handwrit |at a flood stage Tuesday when twenty- | other than the result of a fire such as CRIT TT sing
lieve it can be durable unless base: | lady. My prother Sam and I rushed | ing, on the ground that certain char |eight ‘feet was reached at the Point | that to which any factory is subject Making Sure of It. thet
on the success of the allied cause | after the dog. Trap headed down | acteristic attitudes and motions of the | bridge. 2 District Visitor— Well. one must do mini
Such a peace, it is argued, cannot be | Twenty-third street direct to the Ly- body. reflecting mental peculiarities. Many mills and manufacturing “DEWEY ISLANDS” something for the suffering poor. fight
expected unless these three cond. ceum theater. play in mouth. In and affect the gait and consequently the | plants were forced to suspend opera Friend—Quite so, but are you really Tl
tions are rulfilled. Existing causes out ainong cubs and cory, pedestrians | pedal autograph. At any rate, our | tions because of the high water. Coal | Suggestion Made to Change Name of | Quite sure that they do suffer? Dis- aon’
of international unrest shall be as far and jehus, that wonderful dog went | people were close readers of character. | mines along the upper pools of the Danish West Indies. trict Visitor—Oh, yes. I visit them and adv
as possible removed or weakened; the directly to the box office of the theater. | and I do not hesitate to say that faith Monongahela river were forced to sus-| Change of name of the Danish West talk to them for hours at a time.—Lon- ber
aggressive aims and the unscrupulous | Frank Bunce, the business manager, | ful study of the language of footprints | pend operations. Indies to the “Dewey Islands” in hon- don Stray Stories. Ma
methods of the central powers should beheld him. “*W hat has he got there?" | in all its details will be certain to de- | Floods along the head waters of West ) or of Admiral Dewey was proposed in on TT aha
fall into disrepute among fheir own | said he. “A play, * said L *Does he | velop your insight as well as your Virginia streams tributary to the Ohio | a joint resolution introduced in the Quite a Resemblance. patt
peoples; and, finally, that behind in- | want fog &o read it? saig Bunce. “If | powers of observation. - Charles A. river drove hundreds of people from |house by Representative Allen of Ohio. “Didn't you have a brother in this ue
ternational law and behind all treaty you ‘please, L replied. Take it up- Bastman (Ohiyesa) in St. Nicholas. their homes, interfered greatly with | He announced that he was submit- eontsglant Fone p dom
arrangements ror preventing or limit- alps My Te said the id et es een train and trolley trafic, washed out ting letters to President Wilson and . Noy it was 1. I'm taking it over am
jng hostilities some form of interna-| i ager. : bridges, caused considera : Cr the foreign affairs + : again.
tional sanction should be devise d | Twas done. Fronman, read it. He | : Still Willing. and foretold zolle Prppery Eos urging the ia of “Extraordinary resemblance, though. as
which would give pause to the hard | accepted and produced it. The play | “You said you'd go through fire and | gjong the Ohio valley Positively extraordinary!” — Harvard
est aggresso!l {had been written twenty years before | cater for me.” ale 7 | , Need Women. Lampoon.
It is recognized that these cond , for my father by Madison Morton and | “Show me a combination of the two | $800 Sunday Violation Fines. yf munitions of Grea! YT oy
tions may be difficult of fulfillme 1, | Bobet Reece They called it “Frade.” f.nd | willy nek {| Alderman Samuel Carr, Pitts |B » appeal for 8,000 : Similar Tra has
but the pelief is expressed that thes Fréhman chiisteried ic The | id the Pennsylvania st mot k in munition fac rid son ever natie t bird and <
. bo a ay Bidder The play was ollacted i 1 hs z _ | a glutton are very much alike? I
are in general harme th Presi cost and 1 3 i eho ea. ories. need of them is declared “Yow do ' anal Ihe! oy
lson’s ide The ye and myself tl in Pit to be urgent, “for the cutput of muni- “They iy ee a kno
that so far vo Fav : 4 A st sum ever | tions must not be \elayed for a day |, uthful”- 2 fase i Se at every “
; ‘or received from: that source. {and any lack of labor.” pial sallimore amenenn, chic