THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSD ALE, PA.
CHER.
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FoaNELS AID WANTS INSURANCE LODGE
TO GET INTO FIGHTING ACT IS FAVORED
Passage of Crow Bill Now
Looks Gertain,
WOULD AFFECT THOUSANDS
|
State
Supervision
Insurance Department Seeks
Over All
and Non-Religious Fraternal Insur.
Non-Secret
ance Societies.
Harrisburg, Pa. May 29.—It look:
as if the Crow fraternal benefit soci-
eties bill will go through both branch-
es of the legislature and become a law
by signature of the governor. Though
a strong effort has been made to kill
this measure. or, at least, remave i's
tceth, the prob-bility now is that al
sueh attempts will meet with failvr-.
! The bi'l is scheduled to pass within
, the next ten days.
! Affe ting as it does the thoucanis
of mcmbers of fraternal non-secret
Photo b+ American Press Association. { lodges throughout Pennsylvania, no
LIEUTENANT M'CANDLESS.
Lieutenant Byron McCandless ob- lature seems to carry with it more im-
Jects to department duty in Washing- pertance than this me-sure Introduced
i nat he |!
Eon when United States destroyers are In the session by Serator Crow at the |
instance of the state department cf
rsronce,
This bill is desioned to provide a
- I spec’de/ method for the cparation of
— —————— i societies workine throvgh lodse sy=-
HOUSE PASSES BIG | tem and fixing a plan of operation so
WAR REVENUE MEASURE | 2! all such societies can absolutely
carry out every contract. It was dr~ft-
Bill Ibnposes Taxes Aggregating $1,
In action in the North sea and has ap-
wlied for active duty. He formerly |
was on a destroyer.
| ed by a committee of the national con-
.880,000,000—Vote Is 309 to 76. | venticn of insurance commissioners
ty { conjunction with a committee of the
i oy : ny | national fraternal congress of the Un't-
The war revenue bill has been ed States, to which association practi-
bassed br the house. The vote on final {cally every recognized fraternal soci-
passage of the bill was 309 to 76; | oty is a member. A number of repre-
Ioresent, 4. | sentative fraternal societies of Penn-
The bill purposes raising approxi- | sylvania have also given it their in-
mately $1,800,000,000 of revenue from dorsement.
gaxation. The proposed law requires all fra-
Democrats headed by Speaker Clark | tern1 insurance organizations to be
:and Floor Leader Kitchin voted solid- | under the direct supervision of the
Xy for the bill. Republican Leader | state insurance department, provides
Mann was among those voting nay. a new and comprehensive method of
The Doremus amendment exempt- organizing new societies, and .reruires
ing from the 5 per cent automobile | that all societies shall gradually ad
Kax the companies making less than 8 | just their rates on a table of mortality
wer cent of their capital actually in- | which has been adopted by the natio=.
Wested was eliminated from the bill | al fraternal’ conzress itself. This is
Dy a vote of 174 to 233. not required to be dene at once, bu
i rrovosed act before the present legis- |
The Lenroot income tax amend-
ment, retained by the house, makes
an increase of 25 per cent in all sur-
Taxes on incomes over $40,000, origin-
sally written into the bill by the ways
snd means committee.
The second class mail rate increase
Wroposal was adopted by a vote of
256 to 150.
The 5 per cent tax on billboard,
street car and other advertising than
mewspaper and magazine were struck
<9ut on Mr. Kitchin’s motion. He said
ithe raised price on second class mail
“would tax the advertisers sufficiently.
Mr. Fitzgerald of New York succeed-
each society is given a period of time
within which to accomplish this, a cer-
tain percentage of improvement being
required each year until solvency Is
obtained.
No Supervision Now.
The present laws applicable to fra-
ternal societies give the state insur-
ance department no supervision what.
ever over them. Any five persons can
apply to the court and obtain a char-
ter which will enable them to operate
without supervision from the depart-
ment here, or societies from other
states con. bv me-elv annlying for reg
istration transact business in the
sed in amending the bill 'to make in- | State withont sune-vi-ion. ;
«<ome, munitions and excess profits Accerding to Insnranc~ Commission.
taxes payable when the returns are x Eu most of fe Ison Cd
made. The present law allows three | P'e a © present time is due to the
month; a the returns. The Fitz- | fact that fraternal sreiaties hays been
gerald amendment hecomes effective | overatine without bein subject to an~
Jan. 1. 1918. sunervision. and bur“reds of thou
The first of the administration food | S2nds of dollars hav heen lost to poli-
foills, «carrying appropriations of ap- | = Co as mismanagement. In
‘proxirmtely $14,770,000 for a SPRY Denras 4 el he only re
and stimulation of the food supply, !© ; ie Pease
assy the house without record vote. [Tempers x fie orEniuations have is
A simTaar ‘bill is pending in the senate. ! at A Sele SETend to »
After =a wigorous speech by Senator | fie sociote bo not id De oie and i
Erelinghuysen of New Jersey calling | les are ot oki) _— em x
or iy ig the seven Secret and reli~ious societies are ex-
Eng 3 ; : A empt from the provisions of the bill
Serie wilted to have its naval affairs It is aimed at purely fraternal insur
eres stems sn eno
«committee at once investigate the ex- | ry
. a 3 5
mwlosive shell accident aboard the liner | nes his Capital Stock
Mongolia, In which two nurses were | Legislative leaders have decided to
Killed, and also the explosion of defec- | abandon the bills to lav a tas ob an
tive shells aboard the American line = y
i thracite and bitumino TO-
steamers St. Louis and St. Paul. ns mm
{lenm and natural gas.
bills calling for a direct inheritance
TROOPS’ COMING ANNOUNCED | tax ana imposne a rect Inheritance
: : | the capital stock of manufacturn
100,000 Americans Soon to Be at Front corporations, are scheduled to 1)
In France. through. It is estimatel that these
An official statement issued in Lon: |two acts will net the state an addi-
«don says ithat, counting the Ameri- | tional revenue of ab~u‘ $10,000,000.
-gans serving in the British and French Northeastern lewislators interested
armies and the additional units or- |in the tax on anthracite and tha bene-
dered to ¥rance, there will shortly By that would accrue local'y by the re
Te 100,000 Americans in France. iturn of o-o-half the
The statement says 3,500 war air- started »n ~citation tn hava the tax
planes will be constructed and 6,000 imposed mevely for ‘wn yonrg Th !
=aviztors trained in the United States It is believed, wil' gre~tly aid the c-it’
this year.
The official statement was issued |county. Accorline to a
My the British war office with the ob- | Source, a comprcmise such as this.
dect of showing America’s complete that is. 2 two wears’ tax insteaq of =
participation in the war and its abil- | DPerm--ent tax, Is not vnacceptable to
ity to give immediate powerful ad. , the forces handling the new reven:~ :
It refers to the draft bill which will | Problem.
Zive an army of 2,000,000 men, and! Defeat of the coal tax in te senat-
:says there are prospects of the great. committee is laid to the objection of
income, ‘tave |
ic2l cave-in conditirng in Lackaw'n a !
reli~ble
«st success for. the loan, of which
3750,000,000 already has been ad-
wanced te the entente allies.
% The statement declares that flotil-
Ras of destroyers are co-operating with :
“the ®entente allies in the submarine ;
zone, that one army division, a force i
the bituminnrs operators, who sav the
state tov «ill impose restrictions upcn
Pennsylvania “tuminous tha‘ wil not
be laid undn this commodity produce’
in other states. They are said to b>
content to have the coal taxed for two
years, because of the present® scarcity
of marines and nine regiments of ;-°f the product and the probability that
engineers have been
France, and that 10,000 doctors and
enany nurses have been ordered to
England, hundreds of these having al-
weady arrived.
Submarine Loss Figures. |
U-boat warfare has cost the allies |
snd neutrals 2,000 000 tons of shipping
rom Jan. 1 to May 1, 1817, or nearly
:a million tons 1 ti 1 whole
year of 191¢ mated
dm opening debate ir th nber of
sdeputies on thc subizarii 133ticn.
ordered to i the present record prices will continue
for that period.
The senate last week passed the
house bill amending the judges retire.
ment act so as to provide that any
| judge of the supreme or superior court
who has served twenty years shall b-
entitled to receive the benfits of the
act whether his services are contingm-
ious or not and extending the act to
TORNADO TOLL
MAY PASS 300
Parts of Seven States Swept
by Devastating Wind
ten.
CENTRAL ILLINOIS HIT HARD
Ruin Left In Indiana, Kentucky, Ala.
bama, Tennessee, Kansas, Arkansas
and Missouri.
Partial restoration of communica-
tion lines in the seven states that
were struck by tornadoes brought
additional reports of death and de-
struction. Latest returns from the
storm-swept sections indicated that
the total deaths might number 300.
| would not exceed $5,000,000.
states follow: [llicis, 95; Indiana, 12;
| Kansas, 26; Kentucky, 45; Missouri,
1; Tennessee, 22; Alabama, 31; Ar
| kansas, 23.
Taking up the task of recovering the
i dead, nursing 'the injured and hous-
ing and feeding the homeless, Mat-
| toon and Charleston, swept by a tor-
| nado that took a toll of more than
i 100 lives in central Illinois and north-
western Indiana, has established sys-
tematic methods of relief.
Mattoon has forty-seven: known
| dead, with a score of persons missing
! and 500 injured, some of whom may
died, in the devastation of 140 blocks
the north part of the city. The wind
razed 496 houses and partly destroyed
146 more, rendering 2,000 persons
homeless. These are sheltered with
friends, in public buildings and in a
tented refuge in a park.
Charleston, ten miles east of Mat-
toon, with 5,000 population, suffered
a larger loss in proportion to its size
than Mattoon, the known dead total-
ing thirty-seven, with twenty or more
missing. Scores were injured in
buildings were wrecked, including the
Maple hotel, two railroad stations,
three grain elevators and a lumber
yard.
The twisting wind chose its victims
in spots and reports from the rural
regions indicate that small loss of life
occurred outside Mattoon and Charles-
| ton and only at widely separated
places.
Kansas Towns Hit.
At least fifteen persons were killed
and fifty injured late Friday when a
tornado struck Andale, Kan., fifteen
miles northwest of Wichita, Kan.
Of the fifty injured the condition
of at least six appeared hopeless. The
property damage was large. Andale
has a population of 237.
Reports of two other tornadoes stat-
ed a number of persons had been
| killed between Peabody and Florence
and south of Newton. This district
| is northeast of Andale, where the first
storm struck. :
GOETHALS’ PLAN STIRS ROW
Vessel Condemnation.
The row between General Goethals
and the United States shipping board
which has been smouldering since the
general came to Washington to super-
vise the shipping board’s construction
program, has burst in a regular con-
flagration.
Publication of the statement of
General Goethals in New York that
the wooden ship scheme of the board
was “hopeless” and impossible has
aroused the indignation of members
of the shipping board, particularly
Chairman Denman, whose pet project
has been the construction of wooden
ships to supplement the tonnage that
might be obtained from the construe-
tion of steel ships.
An interesting sidelight on the mat-
ter was revealed when Chairman Fitz
gerald of the house appropriation
committee told the house he had been
infcrmed by Chairman Denman of the
shipping board that not more than
150 or 200 of the merchant fleet to be
constiucted ¥-v’d be of wood and
| that all the, oth=rs would be steel.
| PICK OF MARINES TO GO
Best Men Will Serve at Front Under
Colonel Doyen.
Only the finest of the U. S. marine
: corps will make up the first 2,600 “sol-
diers of the sea” who will take their
: places by the side of General John J.
i Pershing’s forces on the battle line
in France.
Officers for the force to be com-
manded by Colonel Charles A. Doyen
: were being picked by Major General
Barnett, commandant of the marine
i corps. The enlisted units will be
chosen from among the veterans of
the service.
Death’s War Toll Huge.
Men killed in the war thus far was
estimated at 7,000,000 by Arthur Hen-
derson, member of the British war
council, in an address. He esti-
mated the total casualties of the war
to be in excess of the population of
the United Kingdom. (The population
of the United Kingdom, according to
the census of 1911, was 45,370,530).
Asquith Declines to Act.
Herbert H Asquith, former premier
! common pleas and orphans’ court Jude-
es who have served continuously for |
twenty years and have reached the ace
of gixty-five years.
|
of England, has declined to accept an
Property damage, it was believed,
| The latest estimate of deaths by
of homes occupied by workingmen in |
Charleston also, and some business |
Shipping Board Roused by Wooden |
HUNGARIAN PREMIER
WHOSE CABINET QUITS
Photo by American Press Association.
COUNT STEPHEN TISZA.
Count Tisza’s ministry has resigned,
according to Budapest dispatches.
, There have been frequent rumors of
' late of friction in the Hungarian cabi-
net, responding to the unrest in Hun-
gary and progress of the peace move-
ment. Count Tisza has been privy
councilor and president of the council,
as the Hungarian cabiret is called,
since 1913.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAS
A big squadron of German airplanes
—estimated at sixteen—carried out
: the most murderous bombing raid of
the war on towns on the English
| southeast coast. German bombs killed
|
i seventy-six persons, of whom twenty-
six were women ‘and twenty-three
| children, and wounded 174, of whom
forty-three were women and nineteen
children.
British aviators made after the Ger-
| mans when they flew back after doing !
their work and brought down three
machines after a pitched battle thou-
sands of feet above the English chan-
nel. No British machine was brought
down.
Italian forces broke through the
Austro-Hungarian lines from Casta:
gnavizza to the sea, taking more than
10,500 prisoners, says the official sta.e-
ment issued by the Italian war de-
partment.
The new drive is a direct menace to
Trieste, from which General Cardona’s
troops are now less than ten miles
distant. The route lies along the Carso
plateau and the advance of the Iial- !
ians over this difficult ground was sur-
prising in its rapidity. ;
Italy reports having taken 24,000
Austrians since the offensive began
while Vienna says 13,000 Italians have
been captured.
Savage see-saw fighting took place
in the west during the last few
days. The French have registered an
important local gain some twelve
miles” southeast of Laon. The Prit-
ish frustrated all Teuton attempts to
regain lost ground. The Germans as-
serted. they repelled all entente at-
tacks. .
Petain’s new gain was made near
the Rheims-Laon railway in the south-
eastern part of Chevreux wood. De-
spite stubborn Teuton resistance the
French made a substantial advance.
Numerous Teuton bodies were found
in the battered shelters.
The Berlin war office admits that
the British penetrated the Teuton first
line near Loos, but asserts they were
driven out again by a counter attack.
Ten allied airplanes were “bagged”
by German flyers, the statement says.
The British transport Transylvania
was torpedoed in the Mediterranean
on May 4 with the loss of 413 persons.
Official announcement was made by
the French ministry of marine tha:
the French liner Sontay, bound from
Salonika to Marseilles, had been tor-
pedoed and sunk on April 16 with a
loss of forty-five lives. The Sontay
was a vessel of 7,247 tons.
“We dealt more effective blows at
the submarine menace during the past
three weeks than during any corre-
sponding period,” declared Premier
Lloyd George in the house of com-
mons. “Our ship losses for May,” he
added, “probably will be under those
for April.
“We are making satisfactory prog-
ress.”
The premier paid eloquent tribute
to the work of the American destroy
ers in the patrol fleet.
WAITE ELECTROCUTED
Slayer of Wealthy Father-In-Law Is
Put to Death.
Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, convict-
ed of the death of his wealthy father.
in-law, John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids,
Mich., was put to death in the ‘electric
chair in Sing ng prison Thursday
night.
Waite was coal to the last. He had
recently been reading philosophy and
had accepted the doctrine of reincar-
nation.
|
| bers were disturbed by the frantic ring-
|
i
i the “all out” signal was sounded.
| cer, after a brief survey of the damage
| owe you bu‘ $4,500. If. however, the
' loss had been total we would have had
! policy. This
offer of the appointment as chairman
: of the proposed Irish convention, ae-
cording to the Nation.
Waite’ mothe:
cond: G ;. %OITY Over he:
son's fate. |
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| YOUR FIRE POLICY.
Have You Read it Carefully? Do You
Understand Its Terms? |
William Hardwick, Melville's leading
grocer, was a man of forethought. He ,
carried fire insurance both on his store
and his residence. The policy applying |
to his store he kept in his house and
that applying to his house and its con-
tents he kept in his safe at the store.
Thus in the event of a fire in either
property the policy applying to it would
escape the flames.
One night William Hardwick's slum-
ing of the telephone.
“Come right downtown,” urged an
excited voice. “Your store’s going up
in smoke.”
When Hardwick arrived the fire was
under control, and fifteen minutes later
*1 should worry,” reflected the gro-
done. “There's about $6,000 worth of
stock destroyed. And, as it happens, 1
carry just $6,000 worth of insurance.”
And, leaving one of his clerks to watch
the premises. Hardwick went back to
bed.
“Now, then, Mr. Hardwick.” said the
adjuster two days later, “my estimate
agreesg with yours. Six thousand dol-
lars covers ll the damage done. That
means that we owe you $4,500.”
“What's that?’ demanded Hardwick,
indignantly. “You owe me $4,500?
What bunco game is this? Why don't
you owe me $6,000, the face of my pol-
icy?"
“Because of the 80 per cent co-insur-
ance clause,” explained the adjuster,
and be indicated a paragraph in the
policy which the grocer had so care-
fully guarded.
“This clause provides that we shall
be‘ liable for no greater proportion of
the loss than the sum insured bears to
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
FIRE, AUTOMOBILE,
COMPENSATION AND
PLATE GLASS INSURANSGE
W. » ©00K & SOR
Meyersdale, Ps.
W. CURTIS TRUXAL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
SOMERSET, PA.
Prompt attention given to all legal
business.
WANTED—OId papers, magazines,
rubbers and shoes.
J. D. DONER,
12-16 2i0 Grant 8t.
Vetenarian
S. P. Fritz, veteaar:an, castradag
a speciality. P. O. Address, Plas
Hill, Pa. Economy Phone, Gumbert
store, 321
& 309 North Street
Joseph L. Tressler
Faneral Director and Embalmer
Meyersdale, Penna.
Office :
229 Center Mree
Both Phones.
Residence:
Economy Phone.
80 per cent of the cash value of the
property ‘insured. Your stock is. or
was, worth $10,000. Had you carried
$8.000 insurance we would have paid
you your loss in full—that is, up to
$8,000. But as it is, 1 repeat that we
to pay you $6,000, the amount of your
misunderstanding has
arisen, Mr. Hardwick, merely because
you have never taken the time to thor-
oughly read aiid adjust.your policy.
“Your carelessness in this regard has
cost you $1,600, Mr. Hardwick. I am
sincerely sorry for this, but fail to see
that you have any one but yourself to
blame.”—H. J. Barrett in New York
World.
No Time to Read.
“Pause, O youth or maiden,” wrote
Andrew Lang, “before you accustom
your lips to this fatal formula : ‘I have:
no time to read.” You have all the
time which for you exists, and it is
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MARGH 3! AND JUNE 7
$6.45 ROUND TRIP FROM
MEYERSDALE
Tickets valid for all refular trains and good
returning 10 days including date of sale.
Tickets including 5 days board in Washing
ton, side trips, etc., may be secured (upon
payment of $20.50 addivional.
SECURE FULL INFORMATION
FROM TICKET AGENT
abundant. What are you doing with it
—with your leisure? Mainly gossiping.
Our modern malady is gregariousness.
We must be in company chattering.
“To be always with others, always
gregarious, always chattering, like
monkeys in treetops, is our ruling vice,
and this is the reason why we have no
time to read and why you see so many
people pass their leisure when alone in
whistling or whittling. They have time
to whittle.”
Profitable Writing.
“My writings bring in a lot of money
every month.” .
“That so? 1 didn’t know you were
an author.”
“I'm not. I'm the man that makes
out the bills for our firm.”—Detroit
Free Press.
Trials of Authors.
“You do not know,” Saint-Beuve
wrote to George Sand, “what it is to
remain a whole day with your head
in your hands, squeezing your unfortu
nate brain to find a word.”
Silent Haroes.
“Father,” asked Tommy, “what are
Driving It Homel
Let us drive home to you
the fact that no washwo-
man can wash clothes in
as sanitary a manner as
that in which the work is
dene at our laundry.
We use much more water,
change the water many
more times, use purer and
more costly soap, and keep
all the clothes in constant
motion during the entire
process.
It is simply a matter of having
proper facilities.
Meyersdale steam Laundry
‘silent heroes?
“Married men, my boy,” replied the
father.—London Telegraph.
We like to give in the sunlight, to re-
ceive in the dark.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
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Worleshop
their auick
The constant strain of
factory work very often
results in Headaches,
Backaches and other
Aches, and also weak-
ens the Nerves.
DR. MILES’
ANTI-PAIN PILLS
will quickly relieve the
Nerves, or Pain, while
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Pains an i
Dr. Miles’
Heart Treatment
is very helpful when
the Heart is overtaxed.
'vFIR EOX, OR BOTTLE
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SEVERE PAIN.
“I used to suffer a great deal
with Iumbago in my shoulders
and back. A friend induced me
to try Dr. Miles Anti-Pain
Pills and I am only too glad to
be able to attest to the relief
that I got from these splendid
pills. They form a valuable
medicine and deo aN that it is
a
HI FAILS TO BENEFRI i, YO
it MONE WILL BE RIFUNDED.
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grand jury
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onions.
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