RE Gr J. T. Yoder JOHNSTOWN Sells the Champion Cream Saver self-centering bowl, a bell speed-indicator that insures operation at the preper speed, and many other important improvements? The NEW De Laval embodies the greatest improvements in cream separalor cons ID you know that while other manufacturers are raising their prices to meet the soaring cost of materials, The De Laval Separator Company is putting out at no increase im price a bigger ol better cream separator then ever before—a separator with a drop in and see one of these new machines, We know you will ! be inte d in the new gelf-centering bowl, struction in the last 30 The NEW De Laval has greater capacity. The NEW D@& Laval skims The NEW De Laval is even simpler in construction. The NEW De Laval is even more sanitary. improvements And you get all these without one cent inerease in yOle The wwatning signal” y that insures operation at proper speed. mace RN LER The first time you come to town the new dises, the t 20, proved auton A oiling tures that are found only in the NEW De Laval. You can buy a De Laval from us on such itself while But even if you are not in and look the It will be worth your while, terms that ready to buy yet, come hine over. PER LAL ST TR years. even closer. the price. Cross-section of New Bowl y it will pay for ng it. 5 are uzn Pate 2% ETE SR TREE ANTI ai ting device, the improved Jicator, and the im- system—all fea- WHAT'S SO AND WHAT ISN'T . Copyrighted by JOHN M. WORK. No, Socialism is not against the hiome. infamous slavery? : Capitalism is against the home. | Another menace to the home and Socialism does not attack the fam- | | family under capitalism is the fact ily. #® iE | that immense numbers of our young Capitalism attacks the family. {men dare mot marry, on account of’ ‘Witnesg the white slave traffic. | the uncertainty of being able to earn Thousands upon thousands of girls a living. . | deliberately lured into ‘lives of; /The last censug shows that there | shame. Lured into lives of shame are over (eight million unmarried hecause capitalism creates an imper- {men in the United States. A normal ative demand for prostitutes. The | man does not remain unmarried of English language does mot. contain his own free will. words sufficiently vivid to deseribe| This condition of things puts a their sufferings. ‘The families from | premium on prostititilon. which they come are ruined. 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Put: your children into the Club. each week, Join Yourself. We Add 3 Per Cent. Interest. The Second National Bank MEYERSDALE, PA. "INO WEEKS YoU WILL, HA Our Christmas B inking Club is to make it easy for those of small means to start a Bank Account. Children are especially The clubs are arranged to fit their ability to 1 cent. 2 cents, 5 cents and 10 cents, or 50 cents, $1.00, FOCO0T COONOCCONORCHECANDAONATRNOH “lin about the same proportion. DOCO0O0N000COON00 a the families of which they might | have become a part are prevented. | In the city of New York alone | and prostitutes. And the other cit: ies and towns in the land have them Of course it is obvious that there must be more loose men than loose wo- men, flor otherwise the loose women cenid not make a living, There are a few girls who seem to be shorn bad and whose environment is such that ‘they cannot overcome the fin- fruence of heredity. But the vast majority of girls who become pros- stitutes are forced into it by circum- breeders of prostikution. And all these are due to capitalism. Further- nore, the industries in this country are paying puch miiserable wages to their female employes that for many of them it is impossible on so small a sum to pay for board and lodging and keep their persona] ap- pearance up to the standard which their employerg require and which their own impulses dictate. ; When a girl finds that her paltry three or four dollars a week will not pay her living expenses, and ac- cepts the offer of a man to replenish her purse on the usual condition, she is not deliberately a fallen wo- man. She is the helpless victim of a vie- “ous and heartless social system. Socialism will throw its protecting shield around her and ft will say to the pimps and seducers, “Hands off, and give the American girl an op- portunity to develop into pure and |$ noble womanhood!” Thess” creasing. It is all diue to capitalism. Capitalism must be abolished. Socialism will give every working ‘woman her full earnings. It will .give every working woman short hours of labor. - It will wipe out the wretched tenements. And it will give every woman who desires to ‘work an opportunity to do so. When this is done, the brothel will. cease to receive recruits. Even many of its then occupants will wel- come the opportunity to get back into respectable life. Thus Socialism will remove one of | family. In the factories of the United States vast numbers of married Wor there because the wages their hus- | support their families. In many cas- | job at all, instead. If these women had short Bours] their strength, and they had no! household duties in addition, would not be an interference with | family life. can exist in her home and family. It is altogether due to capitalism. And Socialism will] entirely cure that evil. Another menace to the home and family under capitalism is the fact that there are vast numbers of children working in the mills, stores and mines, many of whom ought to Fe Ee Much More Than Your Money's Worth The Origt ii E 0 omy Fabrics dresses and 34 in. wide, 8% to 9 ki et TER CT FE be in the kindergarten and all of whom ought to be in school. Their labor is ofien necessary umder capi- lism the blighting of the i |tle children is the most fiendish. | It makes one’s blood boil to think | Another menace to the home and | {of it. family under capitalism fs the fact | Socialism will put an end to it. that both the husband and the wife! Sodlalism will take the :children |are constatnly overworked. mem out of the mills, n stores “and For the husband, this makes the stories and put them in school. home too often a mere place {0 eat of d ex nt home is no‘other way. " The nam- . ber of prostitutes is constanlily fin |} bands receive are not sufficient to |misfits there es the husband is not ablé to find a | tion {this | ish divorce. Socialism will make it financially (easy for every man ito eam a living. Another menace to the home and there are approximately fifty thous: family under capitalism is the eco- | nomic dependence of woman. Woman lis the slave of man because man supportg her. I lay it down as an indisputable proposition that no woman can have genuine self-respect unless she earns her own living. . It is so difficult for a woman to make an: honest living for herself today that, although it is not a very polite thing to say, it I's nevertheless a fact that there ig a constant com- petition among many of the women stances. Tenement houses, seasons |to win the marriageable men. for of unemployment, long hours of la-|husbands. bor, montony of life—all these are Many a woman is practically forced by conditions ‘to marry the first man she has a chance to marry, whether she loves him or not, /be- cause she may never have another opportunity. Marriage without love is better than a brothel, at least fin the eyes of the public. Of course, there are some women ‘who marry for money when they are not forced to do so. The daughters of the cap- italistg are ip the habit of marrying for money Bcc it brings them social position, There are also some men who marry for money. They as a rule are ‘not forced to do so, but merely do it because they are thrifty. But the woman whe marries for a home is forced. to do, so by economic necessity. "This fact is the cause domestic happiness. it is the ats ot most of the di- vorees. of untold ages are o capitalism. ‘Short-sighted persons want to deny divorces except for adultery. But when married people do not love each other lit is prostitution for them to live together as man and wifet—legallized prostitution, to be sure, but prostitution just the same. Not that personal blame attaches to such victims of circumstances. These short-sighted persons want to com- pel these unfortunate married coup- les to live: together in prostitution. Short-sighted persons also say that the worst menaces to the home and | While divorce may be necessary, the divorced persons should mot be per- But the home and family have mitted to marry again. still other enemies under capitalism. [the To forbid remarriage of divorced persons |is simply to drive them into illicit relations. Tha is what these short- men are working. They are working | | sighted persons would do. So long as there are matrimonial should be divorcees, with ag little publicity and humilia- as possible, and the divorced but does the housework | persons should be permiitted to re- | marry as freely as anyone else. The moral ‘welfare of society de- of labor, if their tasks were sulited to | mands this. But Socialism will practically ahol- It willl do it, not by {denying divorces, but by creating conditions wherein matrimonial mis- But when a wife and mother has |fits will be few and far between. to work at hard labor in a factory | When a man and woman nmarry for from eight to fourteen hours gq day, {love alone, and are not pinched, nar- no family life worthy of the name | rowed: and home. | It is practically an abolition of | ried on in the home, and by the re- irritated afterward by | poverty, by primitive industry car- lation of master and slave toward each other, the chances are that they will live happily together all their lives and never think of wanting a divorce. Sceialism will give woman the prison where she is doomed to per- petual slavery and drudgery. “Beyond the altar lies the wash- tub.” A bright young woman who could easily perform all the ldbor that ought to be required of anyone, | without injury to mind or body, leaving her ample time for higher development and for civie duties, be- comes a household drudge, warping her mind, deforming her body, and bringing the wrinkles of old age prematurely to her face. Frequently she not only does the family wash- ing, but has to wash for well-to-do families while her husband walks the streets in search of a job. She has to bend over a cook stove day im and day out, year in and year out. Little wonder if she becomes irritable and marrow-minded. What ‘else ‘conld you expeét’ under such circumsian- ces? It is. g marvel that she does not become narrower 'than she realy does. This condition of things is wholly due to capitalism. Socialism will remedy this evil. Another menace to the home and family under capitalism is the pov- erty _of the masses of the people, which compels them to skimp them- selves constantly land dp without practically all of the emnobling and refining thimgs of life which would make the home a real home instead of a pitiful caricature of a home. This poverty due entirely to capitalism. Socialism will remove this evil. In short, capitalism (is the arch enemy of the home and family. Capitalism is making a farce and a travesty. Capitalism is making family life impossible for millions of the people and. a wretched fafilure for most of is the 1est. Socialism will remove all of these menaces to the home and family. We can therefore confidently ex- pect Socialism to result in a wonder- ful elevation and purification of the home and family. PROFESSOR BEARD'S PROTEST As a protest against ‘tyranny in our universities, Professor Charles A. Beard, one of the country’s greatest educators and historians, has re- sighed from the faculty of Columbia University. The iramediate cause of this important decision was the dis- ‘|missal of Professors Cattel and Dang becausef they had expressed: fideas thai did not happen to he acceptable tothe Board of Trustees, composed of capitalist reactionaries. Professor Beard himself is a strong supporter of the war. He states ctearly that he does not agree with the instructors who were discharged, but he maintains that they had a right to their opinion. He makes a point that a teacher should be judged ag a teacher, and nlot as a heretic because he happens’ to have ideas that do not jibe with those in con- trol. Too long, he declares, have our teachers lived in dread of losing their jobs. Too long have they been forced to curb their opinions because they know %hat the men in power wer conservative. The Columbia incident is nothing more than one of a series, Univer- sities and coilieges throughout {this country have been swinging the axe quite recklessly since the Board of Penusylvania University succeeded in forcing Dr. Scott Nearing to resign because of his radicalism. The capitalists have power to ‘withhold will make or tions of learning. blame. They merely wish to proiect their own interests. The people are to klame. The people have permit- ted the capitalist class to get a it in their the money that They are not to ucation, with the young men and miseducated and result that our women are masses, liberality. ment, power to earn a good living for her- self. marry for love alone. She is now an economlic salve. She will then ibe economically free Of all the villainiies due to capita- | emancipation of women, lives of lit-| stands for the complete talism to the support of the famil- Of course, Socialism stands for | ies to which they belong. equal suffrage. But it stands for The tale of their sufferings is a|much more than that. It not only harrowing one. stands for the complete political but it also | emancipation of woman. sleey Then she will be in a position to economic | break the best Unstitu- strangle-hold on all mediumg of ed- being forced to believe that it is ethically right for a small group to direct the activities of the The institutions of learning should be made to rely on the public treasury rather than the individual's Colleges and universities should be controlled by the govern- Congress will debate the woman |paigns and only two of them had suffrage amendment on January 10. | been suceessful. Since 1910 there Thig marks one more stage of pro- | have been fifteen State campaigns gress iin the long struggle which the | and still only. a fourth of the States women of the nation have waged in lof the Unffon have granted the wo- Congress for a recognition by the men the ful} right of citizenship. In nation of their rights as citizens of [the meantime Ontario and all the the United States, a struggle which | | western provinces of Canada have began while the 14th amendment extended equal suffrage to their wo- was pending in 1866. |men, and even in Great Britain, 14th | Where suffrage reform has always amendment, which déclares that “All | been extremely slow, a marked re- persons born or naturalized in the | | vulsion of publie sentiment in favor United Statds and. spbject to the | Of equal suffrage has been brought jurisdiction thereof as citizens,” and | | about by the splendid: services and follows with the prohibition that | Patriotic devotion of the women of No State shall make or enforce any | the Empire during the war, and the hh which shall abridge the privil-|Peformr ig evidently on the eve of eges or immunities of the citizens of | {complete success. the United States,” seems on its face There has never been any justifi- to guarantee to women as well as | cation for denying women the right men the fundamental right of a share | to vote. In no respect are women in the Government. But doubt was inferior to men except in mere mus- cast upon thig natural construction cular strength. But for this reason hy the second section of the amend- | Women have ‘been, in the dark ages ment, which undertakes to penalize Of civilization, finferior to men in ‘the denial of ‘the right og suffrage to | fighting capacity and in those dark MALE citizens and seems thereby | Deriods of human intelligence: when to base the right of suffrage upon fighting capacity was the test of soc- sex; and this adverse construction ial and political superiority, of course received the sanction of the Supreme Women toek finferior positions. But Court of the United States in 1875. that day is over. In 1878 the suffrage amendment now Every man knows from his boy- pending was introduced by Senator (hood experience with girls in school Sargent. of California, and it has that they are not intellectually man’s been presenteyl to every Congress | tnferiors, He knows that his mother since then wiith one exception. Dur- is as intelligent as his father and ing this period of almost forty years that his sisters are as intelligent as there have been several favorable he. . The only reason in the world and nine adverse committee reports, which compels men to vote against only three of which resulted in a | giving women the ballot is the nat- serious contest in either branch. In urgl unwillingness TO GIVE UP A 1887 the resolution was rejected in SPECIAL PRIVILEGE. the Senate by a vote of 16 ayes and | Women already vote in twelve 34 noes. In 1914 it received in the [States comprising one-half the terri- Senate 34 ayes and 34 noes, failing | ory of the United States. Therefore of passage for lack of the necessary | (hey vote for President and Congress two-thirds majority. In the House | ; ‘im more than half the territory of in 1915 it was rejected by a vote of | 174 ayes and 204 noes. » The first seciion of thes the mation. It is absurd that they | ghould be denied the right in the rest After the defeat of the resolution of the country. Very little is gained in the Senate in 1887 the suffragists | in: a grudging, halting concession of for many years configed their efforts a clear right. Congress ought to to campaign for equal suffrage in the | submit the woman suffrage. amend- different States, for a long time with { ment in gy, liberal, whole hearted way’ little or no result. Up to 1910 there | which would receive the approval of | had been "twenty such State cam- ithe nation.—N. Y. American. : Washington, Dec. 27.—Statistlical | about $100,6006,800 each. There are tableg prepared by the income tax 14 who reported having an income of diivision of the internal revenue bur- from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000; 34 eau, which became available yester-| why enjoyed incomes ranging from day and will be published as an ap-| $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. pendix to the report of Damiel C.| If all persons who in the various Roper, commissioner of internal rev- classes made by tke income-tax.law enue, show that in the last income |received incomes ranging from $150, taxing year, 1916, the number of 000 and up to the highest class are Americans possessing a million or |to be described as multi-méillionaires, more had increased 7,925 over the |we have in the United States 3,783 of previlous yesr. The income tax re-| which is almost exactly the turns for the year ending with De- | strength of a regiment of infantry cember, 1915, showed a grand total! under the new United ‘States army of 14,771 millionaires. The returns | orzanization. for the year 1916, made public to- | The total on income tax for the. day, show that there are 22,696 | | Twenty- third Pennsylvania district Americans with a million. It is pos- | (Pittsburgh) (s $5,671,454, the sec- sible that they are rather under than | ond largest in the state, the totals over the actual number. for other districts of Pennsylvania am i £4, The class of people having $2,- being: First, or Philadelphia, $9.- 000,000 or more is not so easily esti-| 526,674.70; ninth; $616,483.76; mated. There are 10 persons in the | twelfth, $1,276,500.96. The aggregate collected from the | Pittsburgh district from individual | income, corporatiion income, muni- come, they each possess $125,000,- tion- and miseellaneous taxes, was 000. There are mine persons who $36,109,312.01, leading all in the were taxed last year for an income of | State, as against other districts, as $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. These may] Eiaws! First, $33.211,208.23; ninth be regarded as having fortunes of! 507,048.88; ¢welfth;, $8,595,288. country who have an annual fincome | of over $5,000,000. Reckoned on the rule of a 4 per cent rate of in- Carter’s Little Liver You Cannot Be A Remedy That : Constipated Makes Life The Lehigh Valley Railroad has and Happy Worth. Living 3 : 3 Sas i Genuine bears signature. raised wages of its machinists six Small PH 2 fd | cents A aking i . So 1 D 2 EAI =, @ {cents an hour, making the rate 42 os Pele 7 | cents an hour, or 12°cents more than 3 | when they were unorganized. A Printers employed on - English > of T he ho'erion for CART 2x “a ER’ 'S TRON PILE pe 1. groagt: ew newspapers in Montreal, Can., have raised wages $3 a week for day work GETIT SROM YOUR | a4 . + : DEALER OR FROM US, © {and $4.50. for night work. (Piece 5s reader ofthis VE i rea Raver; |W ork has been abolished. ez May pr Dayton (Ohio) Street Railway Co. ly {has accepted the Street Car Men's IR union’s interpretation of ga contract fs ld | between the two parties and will 3 v if 5B hereafter pay time for overtime. | ges. ren 1cashire, | of South of t holi th heir ~ A TRON] 3 x LF IN 3
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