MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL
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THE PRESIDENT’S INAUGURAL
The important declarat.on in iJres
dent Wilson's inaugural =zdaress
this: “We stand firm in armed ned
trality since it seems thai no othe
way can we demonstrate witat it 's
we insist upon and cannot forego.
We may be drawn on, by circumsta.-¢
es, not by our own purjose or desire
to a more active assertion of ou:
rights as we see them and a more im
mediate association with the great
struggle itse'f.” That represents the
the true attitude of the Amercan peo-
ple today. They will heartily join in
the President’s prayer that he “may
be given the wisdom and prudence to
do my duty in the true spirit of this
great people.” Facing his new term
of office thus and determined that by
no act of the Executive ghall our coun-
try be placed in false position before
the world, he may feel assured of the
unity of America in support of his
every act in furtherance of the inter-
este of the nation.
As an effort in homiletics the in
aucural address is characteristic of
Mr. Wilson. As an assertion of new
principles, or the reassertion in a
large way of principles to which the
penple are committed, it is not distin-
guished. The statement of things for
which we stand “whether in war or
peace,” is a restatement of Mr. Wil-
son's own devotion to humanity rather
than to the United States which the
President has made a number of times
before without impressing the p32o-
ple with the practicability of his theo-
ry. His satisfaction with his party’s
achievements in domestic legislation
remaing to he justified by demonstra-
tion of their usefulness to the coun-
try. That is for the future. For the
time being, the danger threatening
from without demands that our peo
ple stand behind hint, the President,
with ithe single aim of protecting our
country and the rights of our coun-
trymen.
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New Court Rues Adopted.
les avout atiachiug uinsei w the pa-
roll. The result, of course, i8 “peuac.
without victory” for the President.
WE HELP SWITZERLAND
A dispatch from Berne, Switzer
land, announces that the Swiss Gov-
ecrnient is workin _g upon a plan to
te organize and centranize exporta-
tions by Governnient aid. Expor:s
wiil be via Rotterdam, through Swiss
forwarding agencies, using Govern-
ment-charcered boats. We will he'p
Qwitzerland al! we can with a tari¥-
for revenue tax on gcods competing
with American manufactures, and
American manufactures subject to a
profits tax and laboring under the
strain of not knowing “what each day
lay bring forth” from the committee
rooms of a party whose slogan is
down with American industries!”
JAPAN SUPERSEDES AMERICA
Jepan’s deve'opment of the cotton
industry has in the short space of
three years practically eliminated the
United States ag an exporter of cot-
tan cli ths to China, exports of those
goods to the Confuciang having fallen
from $8,003,194 in 1913 to less than
$200,000 last year. Under the Wilson-
Underwood tariff rates on cotton
cloths, what ig to prevent Japan tura-
ing her attention next to the Ameri-
can market?
A NEW RECIPROCITY
Message of industrial America to
Washington: “We are at the natioa’s
service !” Reply from Washington:
tinn, and come across with a profits |
tax!”
NOT PRACTICING HIS PREACHING
Andrew Carnegie recently paid $2,
000.000 for a lot adjoining his home
in New York in order to keep away
undesirable neighbors. But the up-
propriation of a few million dollars
of Federal money to construct battle-
ships for the same purpose does wuol
nieet the approval of the Laird of
Skibo, despite the money he made n
armor plate.
Lloyd George’s Warning.
1loyd George ig under no delusion$
as to the peril to Great Britain in ti.e
German submarine campaizn He
docs not see in the initial faiinre ic
achieve all that was expected security
for the country. On the contrary, he
frankly says that only hope of vic
tory for the Allies is the complete de-
feat of the U-boats. The Prime min
New rules governing the practice | jo; does not regard the threat cf
in the several courts of the county | iaryation as too remote to cause ans
were approved recently by Judge W
HH. Ruppel and Monday morning print
od copies were delivered to members
of the bar at the office of the Couty
Commissioners.
jety. There ig even now a shortage
of shipping.—Philadelphia Ledger.
It ic a cold day when the public
spirited people of Meyersdale get left.
The new rules replre~ the rules yotwithgtanding the riva’ry to be one
adopted in 1888, when Judge William
J. Baer occupied the bench of the
of ‘he first of the 100 }i~emgez granted
car owners. Meyersdale people got
Sixteenth Judicial District composed | nt of the number: Hon. F. B. Black
of Bedford and Somerset counties, and
ir many instances are similar.
T.cg’'=lation adopted in recent years
Lag efieci~d so many changes in the
genera’ practice that the legislature
No. 8, W. F. Hoblitzell No. 37, J. M
Rlack No. 40, Clarence Moore No. 64,
T. A. Kendall No. 79.
Labor problems with which rail
pzssed an Act requiring the several| rjads have had to contend during the
counties to have the rules of court period of industrial activity and the
rinted for the benefie of attorneys
and the public in general.
The changes made in the rules ef-
fective Monday in which laymen are
interested concern the time for hold-
ing court. Hereafter the regular
quarterly terms of the Court of Con.-
mon Peas will convene on the first
Tonday of February, May, September,
and December. Only cases on the
criminal docket will be tried at the
scesions mentioned, but wrts will ba
returnable.
The regular terms for the trial of
civil cases will hereafter be held be-
gimning on the second Monday of
Jevvary. March, and October respec
tively. Special terms may be called
by the court at any time as has b «+n
the custom in the past.
Argument court will be held on the
first Monday of each m= th hereaf
ter
Changes have heen made in the
rules regarding depositions and cos:s,
and new rules concerning the Work-
men’s Compensation Act have been
adopted.
PERPETUAL MOTION FINANCE
According to press reports, the Fea-
eral Reserve Board has advocated
an amendment to the Reserve law
which will permit the Federal Reserve
banks to issue notes against gold and
then count that go'd as part of the
rererve required against new note is-
sues. When this has been success-
large force working on European or-
ders of all kinds are indicated by re-
rorts of the labor bureau of the Bal
‘{imore and Ohio railroad showing that
during the past year 54,000 laborers
were transportd over the railroad to
roints between New York, Chicazo
and St. Lou‘s where steady employ-
ment awaited those desiring work.
Decpite the fact that wages offered
were as high as $3.00 a day in Pitts-
burg, Chicago and other industrial
centers, thousands of men refused
situations offered by the railroad. The
only object many of the workmen had
‘memaking trips, the officials say, was
to secure free transportation from one
city to another. It is also claimed
that the high wages paid caused many
laborers to work shorter hours on the
theory that it required a certain
amount of money to support them and
“hen that had been secured they were
irstified in quitting either for a rest
cr a change in situations.
Since the Commercial was “oace
defunct but now reserrected” it has
“een doing very well, thank yeu, and
iz enjoying a very healthy patronage,
but causes some others to become
peevish and perform some very u-
dicrous stunts. ,
Worms Make Children Fretful.
Children suffering from worms are
dull and irritable, puny and weak, of-
fully accomplished, we shall be able ten grind their teeth and ery out .n
to lift ourselves by our bootstraps.
PEACE WITH GERMANY
One of the President’s endeavors
to solidify the sentiment of the na-
ion behind him in the war crisis was
to nominate a Tamany man to be post-
master of New York. The post-office
in that city has been a bone of conten-
tion for a long time. Mr. Wilson once
named one Tamany man who prompt-
iy refused the job. He has now taken
another from the Wigwam, a lame-
| sleep, being a constant source of wor
ry to their parents. Kickapoo Worm
Killer is a mild laxative remedy ia
candy tablet form that children like
te take. Promptly effective, it .ille
znd removes the worm fron ths how
e¢:s, Irregular appitite and bowel
movement, lack of interest in plav
are sure signs of worms. Relie your
child of this burden. At all druggista,
or
3hC.
Very good table peaches 160 per §
duck Congressman, who has no serup-
TPE?
can at Habel & Phillips.
“Then accept free trade as your por- :
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frrtne a 3 1
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Senator Sproul Would Have a Division
in Agriculture Cepartment— Two
Members cf House Offer Resolution
for Commissions to Investigate the
Question of Foodstuffs.
Harrisburg, Pa., Ma:ch 6.—Legal ob
stacles are being cleared by the legis-
lature for a thorough and prompt in-
vestigation into the reasons for the
high cost of food.
Senator William C. Sproul, Chester,
has introduced in the senate a bill pro-
viding for the creation of a bureau pf
markets within the department of agri-
culture. The plan proposed by Ssana-
tor Sproul is somewhat the same as
has been Inaugurated in other states
and by the federal government in the
so-called office of markets in the na-
tional department of agriculture. The
purpose of the bill, as stated in the
first section, is “for the purpose of furn-
ishing proper, efficient and economical
handling, padking, transporting, stor
age, distribution, inspection and sale
of agricultural products of all kinds
within this commonwealth, and for the
further purpose of assisting producers
| and consumers in selling and purchas-
ing the same under fair conditions and
a fair and reasonable price.”
vides, shall be in charge of a director
of markets, who shall organize said
bureau and plan and formulate the
work to be done. The bureau is to
gather, formulate and disseminate in
formation and by correspondence, pub
keep producers, purchaser: and con-
sumers advised of the supply and de
mand of such products as come within
its purview.
The bill alse provides that the bu-
reau shall publish periodical bulletins,
setting forth current market prices
and the source of supply, ete. The
bureau shall also have the right to in-!
vestigate delays. embargoes and chare- |
The bureau, the Sproul measure pro-
lHcation and other practical means, |
.usSDALE, PA.
RCPRIATION
PACBLEM IS UP
Committees WII Spand Week
Looking Into Hospital Needs,
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PURE BUSINESS PROPOSITION.
Chairman Woodward Says That Avall. |
able Money for Charity Will be Dis-'
tributed According to Amount on
Hand—Institutions Must Look te
New Revenues for Increases.
Harrisburg, Pa. March 6.—The leg-
islature having taken a recess until
May 12 as a courtesy to the Demo-
eratic members, who desired to attend
the inauguration ceremonies this
week, considerable headway is being
made with the appropriation problem.
incidentally it might be stated that
the problem this session is more com-
plex than ever before.
This week both the senate and
house appropriation committees are
visiting different sections of the state
for the purpose of looking into the
needs of hospitals and other institu-
tions desiring state aid. The house
members of the committee exvect to
travel from Philadelphia to Pittshur-h
and from York in the southern par!
of the state to Carbondale in the north-
east. Members of the senate com-
mittee have planned to go northeast
and later to the extreme northwest,
looking Into the institutions in and
about Erie.
High cost of living is entering intn
the demands for appropriations.
Nedessaries of life are higher, im-
provements cost more and there is a
constant increase in wages among in-
stituticn employes. In other words, it
| requires fifty per cent more to run a
| hospital now than it did ten years
ago, even if the number of patient
is the same.
“Out work is a business proposition
pure and simple,” said Mr. Woodward,
chairman of the house appropriation
committees, when interviewed a few
days ago. - “The amounts available for
charitable purposes will b2 distribute
{in a fair manner; if the legislature
{ passes revenue acts to give us addi-
. tional amounts then the hospitals wi
UOTE ARICA LADERA
es in the transportation and handling receive increases. In case we have ne
of agricultural products, and also un- new revenues, it is absurd for any
lawful comhi~~tions or agresments in, hospital to count on getting a huge
restraint of trade or for fixing priced,‘ fpcrease. When the money is not here
and may institute proceedings befor? how, I ask, can we order it paid out.”
state to prevent unreasonable prices.
The directors will have broad powers
in the inspection and grading of agri:
cultural products and the production
of the public against imposition.
authority to appoint a commission to
look into the food question, was offer-
ed by Representative Glass, and was
adopted.
Another resolution. introduced "v
Representative Frederick Beyer. ~lsn
of Philadelphia, provides for the oc
tablishment of a legislative comm 's-
sion of six to investigate the food =u--
ply, and moreover, directs the Pe-n-
sylvania prnhlie service commission to
report whether railroads are res-on-
sible for the food famine by hold‘ne
up freight cars.
WANT SALARY RAISED
One Legislator Thinks Members’ Pav
is Too Small.
Harrisburg. Pa.. March 6—Renpre
sentative Reichenbacker. new memb»er
from Wavne, declares that the high
cost of living well warrants his stand-
house and which carries with it a sb.
stantial Increase in the pay of mem-
bers of the house and senate.
Reichenbacker would pay each ren-
resentative and each Senator $2500 fr
attending biennial sessions of the leo.
Islature and $500 additional in the
event the legislature convened in spe-
cial session. The present pay is $1700.
The man from Wavne would fix the
mileage fee at thirty cents per mile,
an increase of twenty cents per mile
over the present rate.
“It’s been years since the legislature
handled a bill calling for increase?
pay for its members. Present-day con.
ditions are such and the cost of living
here and in traveling to and from here
fs such that my bill should meet with
the approval of every one,” its spon:
sor says. Members of the present leg
islature would not profit by the pzss
age of the bill, since the salaries of
state officers cannot be increased or
diminished during their term of office .
PAY FOR DISEASFS
Maurer Presents Imnortant Addition
to Compensation Act.
Harrisburg, Pa., March 6.—Compen-
sation would be given workers for vo-
cational diseases and deaths resulting
from them as well as for physical in
jury or death by violence, by the pro-
visions of a measure introduced in the
house by Representative Maurer, the
Socialist member from Berks.
The Maurer amendment to the work
men’s compensation bill would have :
the terms “injury” and “personal in.-|
fury” as used in the aet construed to |
mean “violence to the physical strue
ture of the bedy and such disease or
infection as mnatursily resulted there
from and also such disease or Infection
as may be found to be vocatienal or to
inhere in the condition of the pre
mises, or to result naturally frem fhe
operation of he employers business.
The same provision is made to apply
to deaths.
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A resolution, granting the governor
ing by the bill he introduced in th!
proper courts under the flaws of thi* | That the appropriation chairman is
figuring on passing some revenue leg- ||
islation was shown last week when
he vigorously opposed a resolution to
have the legislature adjourn early in
May. He stated that revenue bills
are pending and that there Is no as-
surance of final disposition of these
measures at the time mentioned in the
final adjournment resolution. Wood-
ward’s nrotest succeeled in killing the
resolution. .
In adjourning over this week th-
Republicans “passed the buck” to the
Democrats in the lezislature. and fore.
ed the minority party to sponsor the
resolution. The .vote in the hovrs-.
where the recess resolution was intr~
duced. was 108 to 62, the Demon=ote
and the members of the house ~ppr~
priations committee voting for the re.
cess. The senate concurred
The Democratic senators hod r~fu-
ed to sponsor the rececg rea~ ntip-
and wanted the Repnb'icans’ to rut ‘t
across. The Republicans refrsod. as-
serting that they would not take the
responsibility for further delay.
NO CHANGE IN DOE LAW
House Committee ‘Ouposes Open Sea
son Plan.
Harrisburg, Pa., March 6.—Membe~s
of the house committee on game ar
opposed to making any open season
for killing does, although the sugg s-
tion has been made because of com
plaints made by farmers and fru't
growers that female deer, which are
protected by law, have been raiding
their fields and orchards for the last
year and causing much damage. The
members of the game committee at
a hearing given Secretary Kalbfus. of
the state game commission, expressed
themselves as opposed to any open
season on the does.
The members declared that they
were favorable to a plan whereby
state game wardens could kill deer
or does at any time they were caus-
ing damage to farmers and becoming
public nuisances, but not to permit
any one else to do it.
It is prob->'e that there will be
favorable a*'-~ muneon tha bi'l to pro
vide t>2t 87% 220 af the revenues frm
hunters’ li-e~c2 he * »gide to rem
burse farmers an? orchard owno-g for
damage done by deer hear or e'k nun-
der supervision of the ame commie.
sion, which is authorized to n-me
jury of three to determine d-mage
when an agreement cannot be reac) -
ed.
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ELECTION OFFICERS
Would Have Pay Increased From $£
to $7.50.
Harrisburg, Pa., March 6.—Repre-
sentative Walter A. Ringler, of Raad-
ing, introduced a bill in the hon-e
which aims to Increase the compens--
tion of election Judges, clerks and i-
spectors throughout the state. with the
exception of Philadelphia, from the
present rate of $5 to $7.80.
Some opposition has been expregsed
9y up-state members partlonlariy from
the smaller ~ountics as they say their
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