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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSD ALE, PA.
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WHAT'S SO AND WHAT ISNT |
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Copyrighted by JOHN M. WORK
INCENTIVE | A troveins man who sells
No.. Socialism ‘will, not de.{Juple sysup is authority for
stroy incentive to do one’s. the statement that there is no
| pure maple syrup on the mar-
best. I 3 p
Capitalism destroys incen-| het. He sayy that most of she
3 alleged maple syrup is alto--
) a! E : | gether spurious. There is sim-
a eo
] . | And when the real stuff 1s sold,
gramps, i will hs is sold in an JLSuterated
ive | form. e says that he has
food adulteration. It will de-| many a time i spurious ma-
Es
o , ana | they ave pure 100 aws.
and cramp and brutalize them | They make it out of the pith of
by the myriad means now In| corn cobs and—Dbut I mustkeep
use. my promise.
I am not going to give You, Groceries, drugs, clothing,
a heart ache and a Somes furniture, almost everything
ache by describing the things that the common people have
wiieh 301 2 Oia i buy, 218 SO dogpaded in qual
ea 1 at you can’t get a goo
cause the death of thousands! I oD yo love or Ee 2
of people and the ill health of All this is due to capitalism
many thousands more, but 1 wth its base incentives. It was
want to say that you can pass pot so before capitalism began
pure food laws until you are t, approach its acuic stagn
blind and you will still continue n.cause it was not necessary at
to eat adulterated food just as that time for the people to ¢o
long as the food factories areigyuch things in order to make
in control of private parties 5 living. But when labor sav-
who have ‘every incentive t0 ing machinery began to throw
adulterate the food in order to millions of men out of employ-
make money out of it. It iS ment, and all the trades and
to the interest of the manufac-, professions as a result became
turers to bribe the inspectors. | overcrowded with people jostl-
And, even if they do not bribe f
Ry > : bribe; ing each other in a mad
them, it is a sheer impossibility | scramble for a bare existance,
to have an inspector on hand | jt became necessary for men to
at every stage of the process.| yse every hook and crook in
When the adulteration is not| order to eke out a subsistance.
made at the stage where the They began to adulterate, to
inspector is getting in his work, deteriorate, to degrade, every-
it can be made at some other thing they made or sold. They
stage. There are dozens of op-| did it because there is money
portunities to adulterate, in in it. They are continuing to
spite of the most rigid inspec-| do it because there is money in
tion, before the product sai it.
es the consumer. do it as long as there is money
The groceries you buy are' in it. Even in the cases where
adulterated. > industries have passed into the
Th ugs you buy are adul- hands of trusts—and most of
e drugs y y :
terated. the Toa industries are now
: : | trustified — the adulteration
The meat you buy is tainted. |, 4 shoddy continue. It might
The clothes you buy are pe thought that they would
| cease such practices because
Te shoes you buy are.a thoy 5 wealthy arg therefore
swindle. not forced to it by absolute ne-
The furniture you buy is ressitv. But now that the trick
poorly constructed. has been learned, and their
The house you rent is cheap- consciences hardened, they
ly built, eold a nd unhealthy. | Fee it up, and they will eon-
It was built to rent, not to live tinue to keep it ap 2 long as
in. ev. own the industries.
Almost everything you buy Tointism Oe eyery
js fraudulent. incentive to make adulterate
You will use 'adulterations, ong shoddy goods. It will not
taint and shoddy until capital- 8 to anyboyd’s financial in-
ism is abolished and Socialism fyress to commit these outrages
is introduced. And the hearse ey will therefore cease. .
will continue to drive up and How shy to Spock thom to
take away the bodies of the cease so long as the Industries
victims oF food and drug adul- are owned by private parties
teration, until that time. yo gon All their pockeis with
When the public owns the oney that way. |
packing houses, there will be How utterly foolish to ex-|
no incentive to can tubercu- pect to remove [this evil by ap-
lous steers, nor to sell filth for pealing to men’s honesty! Or,
food. There will be every in-| by setting other men to watch’
centive to make pure food and them! |
to keep the factories in a clean-| Take away the power, the
ly, healthful condition. | necessity, and the incentive,
But I promised not to give, and the evil will disappear.
you a stomach ache. | i Ooplinlion Bovis gun
ie illus-! 481 incentive to gra , to shirk
"Let me take a prosaic Me (5, mc"ly yombil, to dchmnen
| to commit crime. to violate the
vicious incentive to which cap-| j
italism gives full swing. Ihave Golden Rule, and to perpetrate]
: : 3 | all the villainous frauds and;
[pind Bi Thay A] deceptions which surround us!
the market. In four years the rn mand desk
tin was rotten and the job had | b Hoga on wi estroy the
to be done over again. An ex. | 224 mncentives.
z ‘ It will keep the good incen-
pert tinner testifies that there tices and increase them.
is no good tin made in the Sane
United States. You can’t puy | Under capitalism the best!
: x incentives are impossible of un-
it at any price. Of couse the) eral Applicaton, aliough
in they make is good. some of them do crowd to the
Nevertheless, good tin can not surface in spite of discourag-
be bought at any price. They | ng environment. :
don't Thake i | Since the concentration of
, | capital has progressed to .an
Why? | acute stage, so that it requires
enormous capital to conduct a
) C successful business, the aver-
same price foor it that they| age man is condemned by inex-'
gould get for good oe prible conditions $0 work fou
alism provides the small income so long as the
full fledged incentive to make present system lasts. g
the worst tin they can work offf What is his incentive? ;
on the people. 5 ; Is it ihe prospect ara Jikeral)
The spouting on .the houses income beckoning to nim rom
built by De fathers and grand-| in front?
fathers lasted all the way| No, for he has no such pros-
from twenty-five to a hundred pot gd ie Syston, : !
years. 1 know of one house n the contrary, his mcen-
that was spouted in 1847 and uve is hea % starvation
to all appearances the spout-| proading him in the rear.
ing is Bo gn as good py Truly, a despicable incen-,
It will probably last another] tive.
half century. But that tin was| No great thought or act ever,
made in the days before flerce procesied from an incentive,
competition drove men to de-| so base. :
grade the quality. | The incentive of the wealthy
It is the same with practic-| few is even more base, the in-
ally everything else on the | centive to accumulate immense
I have only used tin fortunes.
as an illustration. Spin When that low and mean n-
everything has been cheapened | centive once POSSESSES a mans
in quality. It is almost impos-| mind, he is lost to higher im-
sible to buy a good grade of | pulses so long as it controls
anything. him. °
Because it pays better to
make poor tin and charge the
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to accumulate money,
And they will continue to °
In the Seccialist common- The fact is, that while the
wealth, the average man will prevailing incentives at the
receive several times as large present timeare the incentive
an income, relatively, as he to escape starvation and the
now receives. = incentive to excell in making
So far as the hope of finan- IONEY, these are by no means
cial reward can operate as an the only incentives now exist-
incentive, he will therefore MZ.
hove several times as great an' Says John Ruskin: “It is
incentive to work well and physically impossible for =a
faithfully as he now has. well-educated, intelligent or
He will be released from the brave man to make money the
fear of starvation. He will chief object of his thoughts; as
have the incentive to work and physically impossible as it is
faithfully because bv so Co nx for him to make his dinner the
he can secure all the neces- prncipal object of them.”
saries, comforts and higher What is the incentive of the
privileges of life. young man who works like a
At the same time he will Trojan on the football or base-
not, to any great degree, be de- ball field, without any pecun-
graded by the base incentive iary compensation for it?
for no' . It is partly love of the sport
man can accumulate much' and partly desire to excel in'
money when he receives noth- the game.
ing but what he is entitled to.
Shipley Hdw. Co. ... 6.97
COUNCIL MEETING / E
= = | W. H. Klingaman . . -.. 22.50
Meyersdale Borough Coun-| Mey. Planing Mill i 17.30
cil met in regular session on! Globe Elec. & Nov. Co. 1.35
Tuesday evening, November 6, Mey. Republican .. -- 41.05
1917, the following members R. Reich & Son .. -.. 1.48
being present: Dia, Darnley, Somerset Herald .. .- 5.00
being present: Dia, Darnley, Sav. Fire Brick Co. .. . 12.60
Lecemby, Deeter and Saylor; Keystone Garage .. -- 6.00
absent, Shipley and Staub. 1 W. Welle ot iB 719
“The minutes of the regular ¥'% T° BRE. .. -. .
peeing bed October 2 and B- & O.R.R. Co... .. 3416
e adjounred session held Oc- as ee .
tober 16th were read and ap- Gruther Fire Eqmt. Co. 15.58
proved. P. J. Cover & Son .. 1.
Baer & Co. .. io... 100-00
Mr. Bradburn appeared be- E
7. Johnson . . 15.85
fore Council in behalf of the Sand Spring Water Co. 306.88
Fire Company and stated that Meyersdale Light, H
they needed about one dozen
rubber coats to be used in (iy a
: J citizens Natl Bank .2,000.00
The financial 7° "Adams I Y.
fighting fires.
committee was instructed to
get prices on the rubber coats. onded by Lecem
> = ; Burgess’ Report—Fines col- ;
What is the incentvie of the | lected for month of October jouned.
Money is accumulated by in- man who abandons a paying. $38.50, same paid to Treasurer,
vestment, manipulation, spec- business to run for office, when
ulation, and all sorts of grafts, he could make far more money. onded by Deeter, the Burgess’
and these will be impossible in by attending to business?
the Socialist commonwealth. | by
The field will therefore be probation. S
cleared for higher incentives. Lariat i ihat behing he
i he. quently the incentive of love
many was to escape statrvation, of approbation. The money =
and the prevailing incentive Foed m Oper lo gratify he
: ove O approbation. e
among the few was to excel in money is wanted in order to
war. The making of money :
y : secure approbation. If appro-
yo er beneath the bation can be secured in other
ignity of a gent eman. | ways the money will not be
1t is honor, fame, public apt Motion carried.
On motion of Darnley, sec-'
eat”
& Power Co. ..1,000.00
65
On motion ‘of Deeter, sec-
by, Council ad-
E. J. Dickey, Sec.
The tax duplicate for 1916 is
report be received and filed. as follows:
Under capitalism, the pre- wanted. . was instructed to notify C. W.|
and the prevailing incentive| fair chance to secure appro-
among the few 1s to excel inipation in better ways than
making money. The incentive! making money or spending
to make money is at least bet-i money.
ter than the incentive to carve What is the incentive of the
the most people with a sword. man who works all his life to
Corialism will be another support his wife and children?
and infinitely greater advance Do they pay him money for
in the matter of incentives. doing it?
The desire to excel will con- No, his incentive is love.
tinue to be a powerful incen- Among thousands of men
ive. and women the love of family
But it will be the desire to has expanded into love of the
excel in something useful. whole human race. They do
Under capitalism, the man not love their- families any less
who excels can only do so by than before. In fact, they love
trampling his fellow men un- them more. But they also love
der his feet. their fellow men more. Their
In the Socialist common- highest incentive is to be of
wealth, the man who excels service to humanity. Socialism
can only do so by benefiting! will provide conditions where-
his fellow men with his super-, in this incentive will become
jor knowledge or skill. | the highest incentive of a con-
Socialism will also open wide | stantly increasing number of
the door of incentive in inven-{"péoéple, until, in course of time,
tion, in the sciences, and in the! it will take in the entire hu-
fine arts. | man race. j
Today the inventor searcely| Socialism will enable every
ever receives any substancial | boy and girl to grow up in a
reward for the work of his! normal condition. :
genius. Capital is necessary That means that people will
to develop an invention. So he| enjoy superb health and buoy-
cells it to 2 capitalist for a song. ant spirits.
The capitalist receives the re- "They will no longer be
ward of the inventor’s genius. | flabby imitations of men, like
There are exceptions, and the the flimsy, careworn, over-
evceptions prove the rule. | worked, hollow-chested speci-
In the Socialist commorn- mens of humanity we see on
wealth, the inventor will not! the streets today.
have to struggle with incessant’ They will no longer be born
poverty, but will be able to tired.
give free rein to his genius. They will have an overmas-
Socialism may therefore ex- tering desire to exercise them-
pect an era of marvelous in- selves.
ventions, such as will make the They will take pleasure in
miraculous inventions of the expanding their superabun-
last hundred years appear tri- dant vitality.
fling in comparison. It has been well said that
Those who are attracted to- they will enjoy working and
ward scientific pursuits will | achieving as much as the
have ample time and oppor-. spirited colt enjoys prancing
tunity to do their best along around the pasture.
these lines. Socialism will theftefore ex-
Today the devotee of the tend to all the people an incen-
fine arts has to please the rich! tive which now operates only
in order to keep out of the | on a few—the joy of effort,
poorhouse. The masses of the the ecstacy of achieving.
people are so steeped in pover-. To a large extent this incen-
ty and hard work that their tive will become operative as
taste for art is as undeveloped soon as Socialism is introduced.
as their material ability to! But it will become more and
gratify such taste if they had| more operative as the favor-
it. The few people who have able conditions make the peo-
artistic taste usually lack the ple more and more healthy of
means to gratify it. body, vigorous of mind and
The rich are almost uniforni-| wholesome of morals.
ly vulgar. Meantime, Socialism will
They Tove ostentatious die-! provide a varied multitude of
play. | lessor incentives, including the
They leve a work of art for incentive to secure several
the mu ney it cost. not for iis times as large an income as
artistic beauty. the average man is getting
It is to their lack of taste now.
that the artist must truckle.' — rt
No wonder artistic genius is LETTERS OF
rare. The moment when a ADMINISTRATION
mercenary motive creeps into Letters of Administration
an artist’s brain genius spreads have been recently issued as
her wings and flies away. follows: W. B. Cook, estate of
No beautiful thing, no great, David C. Meyers, late of Mey-
thing, was ever done primarily ersdale Borough; George H.
for money. | Keefer, estate of John Berkey,
Socialism will give the mass- late of Steneycreek Township:
es an abundant opportunity to! Samuel S. Berkey, estate of
develop artistic taste, and ar-' Harrison M. Brant, late of
vailing incentive among thei Socialism will put men on
many is to escape starvation,! their merits and give them a
i Frecholders .. .. .$8659.10
Police monthly inspection of Poll .. : .. 293.00
poles, wire and water mains. ! EY
A leak in the water line on 8952.10
Centre street, same reported Tenants... »- «ri 292.57
and repaired. Quite a number Poll. a. a 0
of lights were reported out rE
during the month of October. ! 9606.67
Roof on Ford Garage,’ no Singlemen.. .. .- -- 76.13
spouting and water running Poll .. 111.00
over side walk. The secretary a
9793.80
Truxal to place spouting on Additional List .. 71.35
the building. On motion of CRIT)
Deeter, seconded by Lecemby,| Total .. ..$9865.15
to accept the police report, and
the secretary was instructed to FOR SALE—1915 Ford Automobile,
deduct amount of light from electric
lights, engine thoroughly
the Light Company’s bill. Mo- overhauled, in first class condition,
tion carried.
$250 takes it for quick buyer. Call
Street Committee report— Commercial Office.
The street committee investi-
gated the W. T. Jones com-
plaint and stated that the tile
are too low on that street. Mr.
Stanton’s New Buckwheat Flour at
HABEL & PHILLIPS
Darnley stated that they in-
vestigated Eighth street and
found that a heavy truck had
been run over the ditch which
depressed the brick two or .
three inches. On motion of ;
Deeter, seconded by Lecemby, |‘
the President instructed the,
street committee to repair the!
brick ditch and render the
‘Wilmoth Coal Company a i
for same.
The President instructed the
street committee to get prices
on corrugated pipe to be used
for repairing streets and report |
at the next meeting.
On motion of Saylor, second-
- ed by Lecemby, to notify the
Meycrsdale, Heat & Power
Co., to repair Centre street in
| front of the Hartley building
within three days from date of
notice.
Part of Large street was re-
Driving 1t Home!
Sas
Let us drive home to yu
th= fact that no washwc-
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 constart
motion during the enure
process.
It is simply a matter of having
proper facilities. :
SS.
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paired. Stones were placed at
the approaches of the Buhl &!
with ashes.
On motion of Darnley, sec-,
onded by Deeter, to notify the
| Electric Light Co. that if poles
| are not numbered according to
| the agreement within ten days,
the Borough will proceed to do
the work and deduct the a-
| mount from the Light Com-
pany’s bill. Motion carried.
Finance Committee report—
Mr. Baer reported that he
had about $4,000 taxes collect-
Meyersdale Steam Laurdn
Gatesman bridge and covered!
a Nd Nd le” ut DN a dit
Joseph L. Tresster
Funeral Director and Embalmer 3
Mevyersdale, Penna.
imu
Residence: Office = A
229 Center Ntroo id
Both Phones.
309 North Street
Economy Phone.
Deeter reported several ac-
counts have been paid. The!
P. & M. Ry. Co. claim a credit
ed of the 1916 taxes. My, | SESE
~ROFESSIONAL CARDS.
for 1913 car license and $50.
not owe for a sewer connection
and claims that has a receipt
for all connections. Cyrus)
Just claims the sewer connec-!
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On motion of Lecemby, sec-!
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onded by Darnley, that all per-!
sons and prisoners that get
be notifird to appear before
Motion carried.
bout lease of the shirt factory.
He went to see Mr. Poorbaugh |
about the matter and said that
Mr. Spade still has the key in!
his possession. He also stated |
that they were still collecting,
rent for this building. The!
secretary was instructed to)
look up copy of lease.
tistic genius, too, for that mat- Brothersvalley Township; Ira
ter. The artist will then have W. Gardner, estate of Annie
a constituency worthy of the Belle Gardner, late of Jenner
highest genius. He will no Township.
longer be dependent upon the| — ty
vulgar rich. NO TRESPASSING
On the whole, however, the Persons are hereby notified that
tendency of Socialism will be hunting or trespassing on my prem-
to make man’s highest incen- ises will not be permitted.
tive the desire to do good in the John Heining,
world. | 6 Garrett, R. D. No. 2
The following bills were.
read and on motion of Deeter,
seconded by Darnley, were or-
dered paid:
Street Labor .. .. .. .$ 76.75
F.J. Dickey .. .. .. . 5.18
Geo. Ickes, Horse and
cart... a... 318.38
| Geo. Ickes, Dump cart . 1.50
i Ent. Lime & Ballast Co. 150.00
Mey. Commercial .. 32.20
tion belongs to the property on | Meyersdale, Ps.
North street. |
council at the next meeting.'
Jas. Cook claims that he does! FIRE, AUTOMOBILE,
COMPENSATION AND
PLATE GLASS INCURANG*
W. © “OOK & SON
W. CURTIS TRUXAL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
SOMERSET. PA.
lodging in the Borough lockup Prompt attention given to all tegs
shall register their names. The business.
policemen and constable are to
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Mr. Lecemby reported a- $ :
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