THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSD
PROJECTS HAVE
A WAR FLAVOR
Confiict ‘ith Germany Brings
L Kew Legislation,
PATRIOTISM ACTUATES MOVES
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Beyer Bill to Protect Officials Who
Enlist is Passed—Bill Presented to
Prevent Game Hunting During War
and Resolution Appears for Drilling
of Legisiators.
Harrisburg, Pa., May 22.—Hard'y a
day goes by withcul prolucing some
thing of a “war” flavor fqr con:ider .-
tion by members of the legislature.
If it isn’t a resolulion reaffirmiig a
loyalty pledge it is a new prcp.s lioa!
to place Pennsylvania in the vanguard
of pat:iotic effort during the troultle
with Germany.
A bill presented by Senator Stewart
of Green, would prohibit all game hut- |
ing in the state during the war. It is;
get forth in a preamble to the bill t al
this should be done to prevent the ia-
guise of hunting game; a's) that the
use of cartridges for hunting tonds to
decrease the supply of ammunition for
the use of the United States and her
allies.
The legislature has passed the Bay
er bill providing that the parents of
all appointive officers and employes 0
the state and of every county, mun c
pality and sctocl district who enlist r
are drafted into the army, shall b:
paid one-half of their salaries dur nz
such service, not exceeding $2000 a
year. Also, it prohibits the removal
of such officers ani employes dur'ng
this service. If there are no: other
persons authorized by law to perfor n
the dnties of such officers or employ :s
substitutes may b= employed. A sub-
stitute is to receive only the remaining
one-half of the salary, on the groun!
that the man who remains at home
should make a sacrifice.
Would Drill Members.
Representative West, of Montour,
would have every member of the legis-
lature trained for military duty. He
introduced a resolution directing that
they assemble every morning for in-
struction from Major Q. O. Rei‘zel,
one of the Lancaster membars. The
resolution authorizes Reitzel to organ
ize squads and appoint officers, an’
invites the senate to join the house
in the movement,
Meanwhile the war hoar1, consisting
of Governor Brumbaugh, Lieutenan'
Governor McClain, Treasurer Kenhar
Auditor General Snyder ad Adjutant
General Stewart, are holding many
meetings for the purpose of whippine
things into shape for the adequate d
fense of Pennsylvania in case m-te x
become critical. Preparedness is the |
watchword of this board. Members of
the committee for public safety and
defense, headed by George Wharton :
Pepper, of Philadelphia, consulted wih :
the war board last week and the two
bodies intend to work in complete ac. !
cord until all danger pas:zes.
Two Mine Cave Bills.
Two mine cave bills providing dif
ferent procedure to solve the problem
confronting the anthracite region in
general and T.ackawanna county in
particular, will be considered by the
members of the house at the sam-*
time. The mines and mining commit-
tee of the lower branch has decided to |
report out both the Scarlet and Ram:
sey bills for the legislators to decid:
which should become a law or which
should be accepted by the house mem-
bers as the better solution.
This action followed a lively meet-
ing of the joint senate and house com-
mittees, which was also attended by
three members of the Tener mine cave
commission and others interested in
surface protection. The cave-in com
mission members present were W. L.
Connell, E. J. Lynett and J. Benjamin
Demmick.
A. bill raising the license fee for
several classes of motor cars is being
sponsored by Senator Buckman, Bucks
county.
The bill would provide the state with
about $500,000 additional revenue in
the next two years.
Motorcycle licenses remain at $3.
Motorcycles ‘with side cars attached
are increased to $5, and the minimum
for automobiles is made $10, instead of
$5.
The fee would be $15 for less than
fifty horse-power, and $20 for all cars:
of more than fifty. Solid-tired autos
are to pay the same license fee as at
present. Dealers’ licenses would be
$10 and a new $5 license is required
for dealers in motorcycles.
The rule regulating the age of driv-
ers has been changed from a minimum
of eighteen to sixteen. Paid operators
will pay a $2 license fee, as formerly,
but more than 67,000 unpaid operators
fn the state will have to take out a
ficense from the state costing $1.
The bill has a requirement that
would wipe out crooked road “traps,”
maintained in many districts, where
*Danger—Blow Ycur Horn” and “Rur
Blow” signs are erected but partly con
@ealed. Such signs must be erected
at right angles to the highway and
e@learly visible.
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AOW NATIONS OF EARTH |
RANK IN PRODUCTIONS
Here is a list of 25 of the world’s,
most useful and valuable commodities,
showing what country leads and what
country ranks second in producing
them: |
Leading Second
Commodity Country Country
Wheat ....U. 8. A Russia
Corn .....- U.S.A Argentina
Oats ...... U.8 A Russia
Ryo .....- Russia Germany
Rice ...... China British India
Tobacco U.S.A British India
Cattle ....U. S.A. Russia
Sugar .....Cuba Russia
TER ..vvee China British India
Coffee ....DBrazil Venezuela
Cocoa .....Gold Coast Brazil
Cotton ....U.S8. A. British India
Wool ...-.. Australia Argentina
Silk ..... . China Japan }
Coal ...... U.S.A. United K’'gd'm
Petroleum. U. S. A. Russia
Pig iron... US. A. Germany
Steel .....U.S8. A Germany
+8. A. Japan
umi S.A. France
Zine J... ex J. 8. A. Germany i
in... M’I'y States Bolivia i
| Rubber ... Brazil Congo
Gold ...... Transvaal U.S.A.
| Silver .....U.S. A. Mexico
This summary shows the number of
| products in wirich each country leads:
United States. 14 Cuba ........ 1
t China... ...... 3. Gold Coast... 1
‘Brazil ......... 2 Nalay Strtes. 1
tussia Transvaal .... 1
{Australia ,,.. 1 All others.... 0
When you buy United States Lib-
| erty Bonds remember .that you are
{ buying the bonds of tha richest nation
| on earth, the one most abundantly
| blessed by nature and by man, the
| producer in the greatest quantity of 14
eommodities that the world demands.
i Reniember, alse, that no other coun-
try in the world leads in more than
! three, and that Germany, Austria-Hun-
gary, Turkey and Bulgaria lead in
none.
{ Nobody is entitled to any special
| credit for believing in the country that
is 80 tremendously richer than any
other nation. The man who dodesn’t
believe in the nature-blessed U. S. A.
is 10 be pitied. |
If you have not yet bought your
United States Liberty Bonds, see your
banker or broker today.
BINKERS WIL HELP YOU |
BUY OUR LIBERTY BONCS
Patriotic bankers and brokers the
nation over are making it easy for
everybody to buy United States Lib-
erty War Bonds. The fact that you
have not an abundance of ready
money need not prevent your helping |
your government by ordering United |
States Liberty bonds. See your bank-
er or broker today and ask him about ;
easy terms.
15 YOUR BOY IN THE WAR? |
|
Perhaps your boy, your brother,
ycur sweetheart, some one ycu 1
| dear to vr heart, will be called inio
i the war zone to risk his life foi free-
dom, for liLerty, for America. War
is no picnic. no holiday romp; it is
| terribly serious business. Vietori«
are almost never ven by unfed, naked,
disheartened troops. Is it” your wish
that our boys shall have the food, the
i ‘clothing, the arms, the ammunition,
{ ‘the safeguards to reduce their danger
to the minimum, to strengthen their
spirits, to encourage them to victory?
Then remember that you can help. To
maintain and safeguard your boy at
| the front takes money. Our govern-
| iment needs that money now. To raise
| it quickly, to make victory sure, to
| ishorten the war, to save your boy and
| your neighbor's boy, the government
asks you to buy one or more Liberty
bonds. The: yonds can he hought for
250, $100, ay ins
terest, t}
tire princinal,
you will get back the «¢
1 and wish for vie-
Don’t just sit arom
tory, peace and #:« return of the
one you love. Du s many Liberty
bends as you can nd help to make
your wishes cone irne,
America is frea. Her people are
free. Yon a: to buy or not to
buy United States Liberty Bonds. But
you aren’t free to wear a United
: States L: 7 Bond button unless you
t'own at least one United States Lib-
erty Bond.
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The U. S. A. can make two and one- |
‘half cannon for every one the Kaiser
‘builds. Help build those cannon by
buying United States Liberty Bonds.
‘See your banker or your broker today.
Make your sweetheart a present
that means profit and patriotism.
{Buy her a United States Liberty Bond.
Gov. Cox has bought United States
janes Bonds. Have you?
Sing “My Country ’tis of Thee” on
ur _way to the bank to get United
Btatps Liberty Bonds.
When democracy gees to
war democracy fights that
war and pays for it. That's
what the Libetty bonds are
for. Will you buy your
bond today?
Help your friend win the automobile,
Jeannette Kling, Play Reade
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EANNETTE KLING is one of the five leading lyceum play readers of
America. She comes the third evening of the chautauqua. Each winter
she goes te Washington and studies all the late copyright plays. She
then selects the one she thinks chautaugua audiences would like the best.
This one she presents on the chautauqua platform the next summer, Some
people say that they would rather see Miss Kling put on a play all by herself
than to see it in an opera house. e
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LINCOLN McCONNELL
“He Gets Juice Out of Tombstones”
ALPH PARLETTE says this about Lincoln McConnell: “I wish every-
R body who ‘don’t lke lectures’ could hear him. I wish the king who
never smiled again would sit in on a McConnell outburst.
the paint on a wooden Indian’s cheek. He can get juice out of a tombstone
-and flowers out of a snow bank. He can read a page from the Congressional
Record and convulse you or a page from Webster's Undbridged and make you
scream.
“His lectures are a series of terrific broadsides, satirical stories, impersona-
tions and stage gymnastics. He enjoys his lectures as much as anybody. He
smacks his lips—the sentences taste so good. Remember, he is tremendously
serious. ‘You laugh, yell and cheer; you wipe the tears out of your eyes and
realize you have risen. It was g sermon all the time, with the fun and side
show just to save things. The audience has been shot, slugged and spanked,
but every one sees it was needed. McConnell has a way of hitting the hard-
est licks as though he were trying to commute the punishment. He looks
down over the audience and lovingly watches the villains die.”
McConnell will lecture here twice the last day of the chautauqua.
He can crack
ALE, PA.
Garm.. : Mcking In New York.
The garment making industry in
New York, much before the public
nowadays by reason of the efforts of
the save New York committee to move
its base from the retail shopping dis-
really one of the biggest assets the
city has. Some 16,000 factories are op-
| erated for tailoring, millinery, laun-
| dering and other branches of wor"
! upon garments, employing more th:
| 300,000 persons. Their output exceeds
| goods valued at $500,000,000 annual ~
| aidi; 2 materially in making New Yo
| the leading manufacturing center
this country, Chicago, Philadelphia, St.
Louis, Boston and Cleveland following
in the order named.
Join the Pay Up Crowd.
John D. Rockefeller often referred
proudly to the fact that when he was
making $25 a month he made it a point
to pay all his bills promptly. He also
managed to save a little money that
later became the foundation of his
great fortune. When you pay your
bills promptly you know just where
you are at. Pay up is becoming a na-
fional slogan. Cities and states have
inaugurated” pay up days and pay up
weeks. The man who pays his bills
when they are due feels better for it.
There is no doubt that he makes the
man he owes feel better. Do your part
in the pay up campaign. Pay now.
H They Could Keep It Up.
{ There have been big men in Wall
street who did all the work them-
selves, who attended to every minute
itm. who were facm Missouri in re-
yard to cach point in apy proposition
[ut up to them. One of these marvels
was among the very greatest finan-
ciers the country ever had But he
didn’t last long, and there have been
few others like him. If a man with
the first order of Drains and ability
could only keep it up there is nothing
to prevent his owning the Unite!
States. If E. H. Harriman could have
lept on fifteen or twenty years longer
it thre pace he was going he would
Lave gobbled up all that was worth
faking. He had about all the rail-
roads in sight, and he was just getting
a strangle hold on the big banks. Hy
conquered every square foot of terr.
tory as he went along. There was vo
“force on earth to stop him except pre-
mature death, and now he is almost
forgotten.—A. WW. Atwcod in Saturday
Evening Post.
Most Buoyant Woed.
i The Mghtest wood known, so far as
any evidence attainable is concerned
Is balsa wood, which grows extensive
ly in the Central American and north
ern South American states. It is com-
posed of very thin walled cells, which
are barrel shaped, interlace with each
other and are almost devoid of woody
i fiber. These cells are filled with air.
making a natural structure well adapt-
ed to prevent the transmission of heat
because of the particles of air impris-
| oned in the material without intercon-
' necting fibers. Various tests of the in-
. sulating properties for resisting the
| low of heat have been made. Balsa
| wood has been used quite extensively
{ in the past as a buoyancy product for
life preservers and in connection with
the fenders of lifeboats and rafts. Its
life is short, under ordinary conditions.
uniess treated with antiseptic or pre
servative material.
i Ariake Bay’s Mystic Fire.
Shiranublii, the mystic fire of Ariake
bay, Wyushu, has been famous for the
past 2,000 years, the sight being con:
sidered one of the.great wonders of the
Japan seas.
. In a recent issue of the Taiyo Mags-
, zine M. Kaneko, a teacher in the Shi
~mabara middle school, relates his im:
pressions of the fire. According to Mr.
{ Kaneko, when he witnessed the spec-
tacle the first light appeared like a star
i about five miles distant. Suddenly the
volume of light increased until it soon
covered an area of many miles. The
light moved with the waves and re-
sembled electric lights being lighted
and then suddenly extinguished. Mr.
Kaneko says that intermittent wave-
like movements are the chief charac-
| teristics of the mystic fire. He fails
to find a cause for the origin of the fire
trict in the Fifth avenue section, iS’
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SOMERSET, PA.
Prompt attention given to all [egal
business.
WANTED—OId papers, magazines,
rubbers and shoes.
J. D. DONER,
12-16 210 Grant St.
Vetenarian
S. P. Fritz, veteaaran, castrauag
a speciality. P. 0. Address, Pims
Hill, Pa. Economy Pihope, Gumbert
store. 21
Josoph L. Tressler
| Funeral Director and Embal ner
Meyersdale, Penna.
Office :
229 Center trae
Bath Phones.
Residence:
309 North Nfreet
Economy Phone.
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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
done 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
nrocess.
It is simply a matter of having
proper facilities.
Heyersdale Steam Landry
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
in
Driving the brain
starts the pain
the constant strain of
| bowels by using
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Over-work, worry and
business life are often
a cause of much trouble.
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NERVOUS ATTACKS.
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liver got out of order and fit
seemed as though my: whole
system was upset. I com-
menced usihg Dr. Mies” Nerve
ine and also took Dr. Miles’
Liver Pllls and now I feel pare
feetly well in every way. My
bowels also are in good shape
now.”
MRS. AUGUSTA KEISER,
1149 Portland Ave.
Rochester, N; Y.
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