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THE MEYERSDALE COMM... . ZRSDALE, PA.
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| MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL depend on moderate salaries. wih i STATE PE(] HIRES f
FF flour at $12 per barrel, potatoes st R. |
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY $4 per bushel, coal at $8 per ton, anc : |
AT MEYERSDALE, PA. all these articles bought up for ship x |
re em ment to war-stricken Europe wouia ~ i : ki URE Ri VENUES
R. M. SWISHER, Editor. indicate that the blockade of the Go = 4 Vi i
EE United States by German submarines iii a |
When paid strictly in advance $1.25 (a5 a success. ! |
When not paid in advance $1.50 v an 2in sr | {
Ton Bill Proposed ic ring AG. ali on Ways and Means
Entered at the Postoffice at Meyers- ari i nan
dale, Pa. as second class mail matter. We have an exhibition of a country Imporian: Lila ge. Hard at Work.
i | with a hundred milion people being |
A HALF BILLION DEFICIT | A Ya % 5 3 Sn
Boise Penrose, H. C. Lodge, Porter | re suffering, staving children beg- POPULAR IN FARMIRG COUNTIES WANT SOMETHING 10 TAX
J. McCumber, Reed Smoot, Jacob H.| ging officials to give them relief by
©Qallinger and Clarence D. Clark, Re- procuring them food at reasonable
publican members of the senate com-
ities ca finance, a few ays 220 SUD. plies. crops of 1916 were good. The So Many Evils Attend Constant Shift-| Many Suggestions Made But Nothing
anitted a little report on the bill to] 0.1 output of the mines never was so ing of Text-Books That Contemplat-| pefinite Has Been Agreed Upon.
provide increased revenues. These[j ge yet in the midst of all this our| ed Law Would Mean Vast Saving to| Bread Must Weigh One Pound Per
veterans of public service and experts | Loqple are staving and freezing. Nut| Taxpayers and Prove Beneficial to| (oaf, According to Bill in Legisla-
in government finance first stated that | ,,jy surplus crops have been shipped Public School Pupils. ture—Automoblle Measure.
g¢hev were not invited to committee to Europe, but the total output of our : ?
meetings, that they were giver only i115 have been contracted for at ex- Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 27.—It looks| Harrisburg, Pa. Feb. 27.—With
opportunity for perfunctory diSaDFO¥- cessive prices and are being shipped | 15 Pennsylvania is going to fall into | charities demanding more appropria-
al, that persons whose interests are ible, leaving Oar s year with other states and |tions than ever before and the expense
out as fast as possible, 8 enact a law for uniformity in texi-| of maintaining great departments of
Yilaily affceted wets not called to tes: geglers to buy the little that can be|y,oxs, A number of members are |gtate government constantly piling ur
1ify, and that the hearings held were p,q at the priceg paid by the Euro-| preparing bills to bring about this re-|the legislature is confront od” with the
valueless to the committee and to the pean agents, and when it reaches the | form, which agriculture legislators | hig problem of raising more revenues.
country. : retailer it is so high in price that it| have been seeking for many years|A committee specially named for this
The Republican senators admit that | js prohibitive. past, | purpose recently organized and dis-
additional revenues are necessary, not Both New York and Philadelphia Suggestions as to how the uniform: | cussed the probable ways .and means
withstanding three previous attemp:s| have been the scenes of rioting dur- ity ond be Yous hg diftez of getting additional funds by means
to bolster the Underwood tariff bill by | ing the past week by reason of this Ns a the en will be able aft i the conference, a state:
€itect isntion, Miltary and BRvil|conditoh, . to agree upon a method satisfactory [ment was issued setting forth the va-
prepardness are not alone responsible| In the midst of this situation the | ;, everybody but the school book com- | rious plans presented to the comm's.
“There has been no fiscal situation not | agminstration sits supinely by “watch-| panjes. The latter, want no uniform- sion, with the announcemennt that no
created by short-sighted policies of] fully waiting,” but gtill goes on With | ity, for every letter of that word spells : final agreement had been reached upon
the Democratic party, that could not| preparations for the inaugural on a | disaster to their Interests. any particular measure, It was the
have been met adequately by the im-| rhagnificent scale next week. Mein- sense of the gathering, however, thal
position of duties on the flood of for-| hers of Congress have expressed their ‘mot less than $5,000,000 a year increase
oigromade goods imported into this| willingness to take any action sug- at be had. " . ;
~country. gested by the Président that will have. oes Porpontal ise iy of i
The American citizen may find ‘hel an immediate effect. The President mill pon all of the present subjects
cause of the ver decreasing purchus-| insists on the appointment of an in- of taxation, but objection Was raised
ing value of his hard-earned dollar in| yestigating committee, ‘with an ap- to this upon the score that might
«Government expenditures for useless | propriation of $400,000 to pay the e.- |. work injustice in many ways, and the
objects. Among these are: pense of inquiring into the high cost idea will probably be modified.
A fruitless Mexican expedition cost-| of living. Many of the members in- an a of one oy 2 be levied byl
ing neagly $200,000,000. sist that this is not a remedial meas- fue Thais 00D alt vou] ota Sand cop
Building a railraod in frigid Alaka ure, some on a governmental appro- | Yiew of the fact that Pennsylvania has
to cost $35,000,000. priation to assist the needy to tide hed no direct taxation upon real es
Construction of an armor plate plant! over untill conditions improve. Some tate for many years, there was’ ‘oppo:
to cost $11,000,000. 3 insist that . the President order an sition to this feature. Some advocat
Forbes of ships at exorbitant pric. | embargo on the shipment of any ar- ‘ed a one mill ‘capital stock tax upon
$50,000,000. - % y 7 ticle of food until such times as it may manufacturing companies. This. . {!
gi of new offices at a yearly be idone. without causing suffering is *laay, Would yield over $2,000, 006
cost of $40,000,000. he The latter method of dealing : pin to increase the mintmum au
i Mahy' other #xperime ends o of doubtful re the question is by all means the tomobile license fee from $5 to $10.
|| walue, the whole load to, 8 borne by |) jst logical... If the demand for ‘making no changes in the other class
! the consumer.” _ ods for, export were: “cut” off the os, it was declared, would wet $500,000
: Here ig 43669000007) B orden, fn- price would drop at! once. . ETE : Mptlonal TeYaRye Ic for state highway |"
§ stead of: a net. alang g as reports ; Amit CHARLES Ho KLINE. 3; 3 >
i.e show, thefe 1g" of over $80- |: (THE. GOAL CAR 'soRTAGE . | Senstor. Kling Is Chairman of aneen a mceeons tached, a li |
i N00gy 1 the shears: ‘No Sgyrs pi Sonduar county “oat operators eay| the Important, ie (3 out in Pennsylvania from one-third of
{ wpon which de: asked ja formulsie ing car, allotiidnts’ have fallen eo] Upper Br anshi-duaioaeg pnts ene per cont to owehalf of -one per |
sevenue Jegislation intelilgently are! ior that: ‘thé’ supply -is only about | © ‘Gommittes. oq 10] i 1 "I'sonit upon the authorised capital stock.
i “even fairly -within many millions int one-sixth of “the aliotments. Plants | National: sduicatond’ ADS; #4tY | This “wes ‘estimated as yielding abou’
remaining authoritatively very long. supposed. to receive 36 cars a day are criticizing the lack of vyiaeniyl © $800,800 sn year. Additions: to. the tax
i “The estimates of thie amounts to be fyupky to get 36 cars a Week. the text-books jof ithe Pean his ‘on: gorporate loens. amd gross receipts |.
i 1aised by the additional taxation gre Irnere has been se. much: public yu » Fla: ne say for Fe ne — wil probably
‘merely guesswork. The. pending. blll | yifcusston af car” Shortages in this | arithmetic, reader asd étheel text. oe s
not only disregards the opportunity sation that most miners understand | books and the adjoining of | Bread: Must Walgh Pou i |
eof raising revenue fromgdmports, which ‘What has happened to Feduce” their | different-as! of 1 He. Test of. Bread welning. eva then.
agzragated $2, 391 ,716, 33 in’ the last tings. They Know that they can-{-Ject is wore and a grave. oy tA ‘one pound. eon.be sald in this stats. a 1.
rear, but it takes no account of tho hi % and $6.a day dig-| children whose parenis may moval fer an, .smendment to the state pur:
mike as high™as™$ §6-a-ugr.aiz) rhe | fost set of July 34, 1813, introduced
. future industri] prepardness of the} ging coal whenever there are any cars aa or fu ; » Sepstor Endsley, of Somerset oun:
United §tates against invasion of Bu-| 4c Joad: They know that quite dre. ha most sacte- | 17. The siendment wokld estabii™
ropean-made goods which ig-bound: 0} gyently there are no cars. If the. cost] dase Sgn pie pon ta 1 «| one POUNETARS two’ pounds ss stand.
gfe after 1Beiy4rs’ The report con fof living were normal, or Dear. BOF-| iikeithood of certala afatricts sot sx. ard welkite’ for a loaf of bread, bu:
cludes: * mal, ‘mény miners would:declare many ind the most modern text-book, av ‘would permit ‘a ‘loaf weighing: mire
“We believe the estimates of rave-|extrs holidays. But even the $5-a- - booke greatly fuferor | them two pomads fo be sold... |
nue under exfsting law. will be less | day man cannot afford to loaf in tise ion adoptad in pisces. where uaus: : Fah 34. SAAS, Jemerers.. A rents’
by $100,000,000; that the disburst: | times. eare is taken In making se'ection. rn AY Ir ooh ol
other werds, there are text-books «wi: ‘ples the weight thereof is plainly
ments this fiscal year and for 1918 will] The practical effect of ear’ shoitage textdedks.. as . and _sonspice “Wgged of brande’
exceed the estomates; that the de {.on labor is to create a condition which fresh Atgh ach Co tos. and’ or thevson, nor isl] any bread be ‘sold
ficits both years will aggregate in ex lubor knows from experience as “hard | gro the production’ of high-tless teac: in wrapped packages unless: the con
‘.¢ess of $500,000,000; that this bill, to-
gether with existing direct-taxation
‘jaws, will be fastened upon the peo-
. ‘ple permanently unless relief be had
. ‘ty restoration of .mport duties that
will yield $200,000,000 more revenue
-snnually; ‘and ‘at the same time con-
serve our productive energies, both
-of capital and labor.”
It is a short report on a big sub-
fect. Make a note of the prediction
by the minority that al} the extra,
new and increased direct tares im
posed by this Congress will still fall
far short of poducing-encugh reveaue
greated—a half billion dollars short.
—_——
THE SUBMARINE BLOCKADE
The German blockade is a succass,
-and the object of the Germans is he-
-4ng speedily obtained. The object
sought was to prevent the shipping
of munitions and supplies to the Al-
Jies. That thig has been effected we
have the word of the English officials,
who, to counteract its effect on the
war spirit, have stated that it is to be
expected that the means that they
are devising to meet the “submarine
peril” will soon be effective. Ger-
many reports that since February 1,
not one submarine has been lost
Shipping has been lost to the Allies
aggregating hundreds of thousands
oi tong disnlacement.
Tood riots have taken place in Lon-
don and all the Allies fee! the effect
of the blockade.
Food riots, however,
fined to European cities. New York
and Philadelphia have had rioting,
parades and demands that warehous-
es be opened and the contents placed
on sale for the public. The warehous-
es, cold storage buildings, and eleva-
tors are all filled with goods, but the
owners are holding the goods for
speculative prices and refused to sell
to the people, who are willing to buy,
pnt in most cases the prices asked
beyond the rea
are not con-
oh
are ch
of persong who i
times” is to turn the laborers
thoughts back to Europe whence | Le
came, Continued failure of car cup-
ply, then, would mean a stampede to,
Euorpé upon’ the restoration “ots peace.’
It may also ‘stimulate migration to
Cenada, Australia and South Ameri-
ca, especially since car shortage at
the mines is being closely associated
with freight blockades and embargoes
bringing’ insufficient and inferior food
supplies at excessive prices.
At the bottom of the trouble lies
more than paralysis of shipping. "The
railroads need new equipment. When
it pays to unload and reload coal, cr
to load cars by hand, tonnage ig at
toc high .,a premium. There is not
enough of it. The situation cannot
be relieved until there are more cars.
(‘arg cost money, contract priceg are
extraordinarily high, railroad earn-
ings have left no great surplus funds
op hand, and though money ig cheap
the borrowing capacity of carriers is
closely restricted and the govern-
nient attitude toward railroads is de-
pressingly uncertain.
We have a highly artificial depres-
sion limiting the earning capacity of
>ur miners. The depression will last
and grow worse, unless Washington
develops some capacity for regula-
tion and management of industrial
conditions. To talk about being in a
state of railroad and industrial pre-
pardness for war when we are in a
siate of general demoralization for
neace is one of the finest bits of non-
sense with which we have been wast-
ing a lot of good newspaper space.
(Condensed milk 5 and 10c cans,
standard corn 10c can, extra standard
tomatoes 12%c per can at Habel &
Phillips.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
ers in the lojatsif ¥ am and en'-
leges. Without! fty, a districr
School board JX Just LAs likely to op
e poor_book. as’ th 160d one, wi
1s BE har ah dren- who ar
tend the schools are sufferers. tof
Then thes8 is the economy reason:
and many membérs will be fer the bY
because of the saving to the scho-’
district. Schoe!: directors are disp-¢
ed to change hooks every year and i=
certain sections this proves a gre=t |
extravagance.
The uniformity plan in. ‘greatest f=.
vor is to have a committees fn eac'
county to designate text-books. Tis |
committee would consist of the coun'y
superintendent and two school men 'c
be appointed By the superintender:
of public instruction. This committee
would have nothing to do with th-
purchasing of books and no negoti~-
tions with book companies as to price.
Their work would simply consist ir
gelecting a list of books to be used n
the different grades of the publ
schools of the county.
Probable Length of Session.
Recent legislatures have been wind-
ing up in April or May.- With the
present one already in its eighth wee’
guessing as to its probable length i
just now a favorite sport at the cap
tol.
The longest legislature on recore
was the first cre convened under tb
constitution of 1776, which met, aft-
the Declaration of Independence w:
signed on November 28 of that y=er
and did not adjourn until Septemb-
95 of the following vear. The same
legislature met in a second session o
September 27, 1777, and continue] i
session until the following Octobe:
15, making virtually a session of ter
months and two weeks. Restorative
would doubtless be required if the
members of the present legislatur
were thus required to interpret th-
“Spirit of '76.”
Most sessions of the legislature have
ended in March or April, the latter
however, being the favorite month,
the majority of sessions have termin
ated before the beginning of May The
19183 session terminated on June
27.
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EHR EA ES EAHA
Hartley & Baldwin
Whew going further al ng the line of pretty senti
mens, but getting right down to business. such a
time is when you buy clothes.
This store is just the right piace for ii;
you’}! get Hart, Schaffrer & Marx
Clothes, and an exact fit.
Varsity Fiffy Five suits; in other models for other
tastes. All wool, best of tailoring correct style and fit.
We'll show you the label in the go ds; the maker's
signature of security; ‘a small thing to lock for, a big
thing to fiind ”
Hartley & Baldwin
Meyersdale, Pa.
‘Some ‘therdof shall De plainly and con.
spieuonsty - marked, om the outside 1
{ dorme: of weight.”
Another, section of the set would bel
smentod by ¢ by
tor Badiley 80 fhe YER by ond].
Yor which a standard weight 3s provid:
ed by law.” shall be sold sxcept by
wetght, ‘and poultry must be sold by
pacheages, the bill says, shell be con
sidered commodities and no such wrap:
ped. packages of meats shall be sold
uniess the comtents are plainly and
conspicuously marked on the outside
fu’ terms of weight.
Affects Motorists.
Senator Buckman, of Bucks county.
witl introduce into the legislature a
pill providing for the appointment by
the state highway commissioner of in.
spectors at bridges over the Delaware
river to impose the same restrictions
upon automobiles bearing New Jersey
Hcenses entering this state as are now
imposed upon Pennsylvania cars going
into that state.
The automobile act of 1913, sponsor
ed by Senator Buckman. contained a
reciprocity clanse by which the s~m-
privileges are accorded automobiles
cgomine frem other states as are ac
corded in those commonwealths te
cars licensed in Pennsylvania. In the
case of New Jersey automobiles from
there are permitted to enter Pennsy’
vania at anv time and remain for any
period up to fifteen days.
At present, however, according to
Senator Buckman, Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles Dill, of New Jersey,
who evidently construes the law in
that state to mean that no car from
Pennsylvania can be in New Jers-y
more than fifteen days in any one year,
has inspectors stationed at the bridges
taking the numbers of Pennsylvania
automobiles entering that state arg
notifying owners they must take oul
a New Jersey license after it has been
shown their cars have been in that
state fifteen days in one year.
At present any car from New Jersey
may enter Pennsylvania; remain here
for fourteen days; return to New Jer
sey for a , day, and ih come back
CAS TORIA
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Ave Close of Busineer December 21, 198%.
Loans and ERI rl Yi 2:91
lus. BOs entre ete srrors ran Sei rae RTI
Banking HOUBss «cs vraeemescnnsinreadsiininsies $29,500.00.
Due from Banks and BaservelAgents... von ce renns JE 220,208.80
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LIABILITIESCENEN = ‘==
Capital Stock. <.ovueuruinnnneiniia. So ..0$65,000:00
Surplus..... sir esenssens Prareeens. aac ees A 100,000.08
Undivided Profits..... .......... Hipage 36,416.94
Circulation... ens £ 65,000.06
Deposits aie dhe srr ir rine anaes ta ER STL 00:
Total.... $1,145,436.97
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From selection of materials to delivery of finished pre-
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