/
J.-T. Yoder -
JOHNSTOWN >
Sells the Champion Cream Saver
—"ENEW DE LAVAL
INE separator users out of ten turn the handles of their
machines too slowly, and when this is done, not only will
the ie not skim as clean as it should, ‘but the th i ugs
of the cream will vary.
While it is possible to 2d4ps the capacity of the machine to
the speed, it is not desirable to do this, because even if fairly
clean skimming is accomplished at vary-
ing speeds, the cream will not be uni-
form in thickness.
There is only one satisfactory solu-
tion, and that is to make it practically
. impossible for the operator to run his
machine at any but the proper speed.
Every NEW De Laval
is equipped with a
bell speed -indicator
the “warning signal” that rings when
the separator handle is being turned too
slowly, preventing loss of butter-fat
caused by too slow operation and in-
suring the delivery of a cream of uni-
form thickness. X
The “warning signal” that
insures operation at the
proper speed,
This simple device is patented by the De Laval Company and
is found only on De Laval machines. It is only one of the many
important improvements in the NEW De Laval. If you are con-
sidering the purchase of a separator, come in and let us show
you a machine that has more good features than any separator -
you have ever seen.
EVERY ONE IN THE FAMILY [2
OUGHT TO, JOIN OUR.SL
CHRISTMAS
CONDENSED REPORT OF CONDITION
The Second National Bank
MEYERSDALE, PA.
December 21st, 1917.
RESOURCES
1.0318, Bonds and LaVeSt MENTS. .cviurcererciasivnennciinen anes. 5804,891 52
Real Estate, Farniture and Fixtures................... .. 64,130 20
Cash and Due From Banks................... $175, 108 44
Total Resources, $1,044,130.16
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid in Certreerieeeeenesn. $65,000 00
Surplus Fond and Profits. 0. iii ui wind... 70,334 30
Circulation....... eS re EL a Da Se 88 000-00
Depasits i, aeei ares iain: asus aah sakes tia eaten an 348.795 36
Total Liabilities, $1,044,130.16
November 10, 1915......... $652,875.57
November 17, 1916. eee. $689, 765. 65
December 31, 1917... 9 | OL4.1: 130.1 6
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Condenzed Statement
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
O0G0
Total......$1 612,949 63
The Citizens National Bank
“The Bank with the Clock with the Million”
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RAILROAD ENDS BONUS moan
ithly.
This concern is‘ notoriously low-
9.— The Atchi- a
railroad
Topeka, Kan., Jan.
son, Topeka and Santa Fe 1organized. Since the government
anncunces that the
semi-annual 10 has taken over the control of rail-
per cent bonus to its unorganized em- roads and guarantees dividends, the
ploves will be continued in the form , Santa Fe receives a lot of free ad
Of ¢ traigiht salary increase, paya bl ¥ 5 ALLL
‘| finger, toe, arm or leg
.| Employment Bureau bill,
SOOLCO0000000001
red and paid the bonus only to its |
NON LABOR PREPARING TO
Labor Organizations of the S... : Have
Arranged to Fight LLaws Against Work-=-
ers’ Interests.
Legislation in the interest of or-|teen and eighteen years, and angther
eral hours at a conference of state insurance fund was approved.
labor organizations at the headquar- amendments to the child labor law, |
ters of the Essex Trades Council last las provided in Senate Bill 285, was
Sunday afternoon. Arthur A. Quinn also indorsed.
of Perth Amboy was elected prsident| The organization went on record |
of the body and Henry F. Hilfers, as favoring the creation of a small |
secretary and treasurer. Headquar- claim coury as provided by Senate
ters have been opened at 156 West | Bill 314 1ast year.
State street, Trenton. : i Several bills presented by the Rail- |
Numerous resolutions were adopt- | road Brotherhood om safety regula-
|
were indorsed. Every delegate pres-|
ent signed a resolution against the |peal of the full crew law as advo-
proposed state ‘or ruraj police bill. | cated by the State Public Utility
Copies will be forwarded to Governor Commission.
Edge and every member of the Leg- | Oppose This Bill.
islature and labor bodies in the state. The action of the Board of Trade
A resolution was also passed against | in approving of the resolution of Dr.
the proposed prohibition amendment. Weston that would require an em-
Compensation Law. ‘ ploye to get permission from his em-
The delegates went on record as ployer before changing his position
favoring amendments to the present or before accepting government em-
compensation law,
pensation to 66 2-2 per cent. of wag- gaticn of all labor bodies during the
es instéad of 50 per cent.,, and in- period of the war was condemned.
creasing the maximum to $12 and President Quinn and Secretary Hil-
the minimum to $6 -instead of the |fers were also named as a committee
present maximum of $10 and mini- | to answer Dr. Weston.
mum of $5; providing compensation | The organization’s finances are
for the loss of a tooth and the hear- | above expectations and the plan is
ing wf one or both ears, changing |t0 wage a keen battle against all leg-
| the permanent disability compensa- | islation that would impair organized
| tion from 400 weeks to life, and in |labor.
| case of death the compensation for Director of Public Safety William
the widow to be extended to life or J. Brennan, Secretary William Stubbs
remarriage, and provisions for com- | of the Compensation Aid Bureau,
pensation for the amputation of a and Dr. John B. Anderson, president
lof the American Association for La-
For Health Insurance. | bor Legislation, vere present. The
A bill providing for the licensing | organizations “represented were:
of employment bureaus by the State State Federation of Labor, State
Department of Labor and fixing the
fees at from $25 to $500 and the |
filing of a bond of $1,000 was in-|Brotherhood of Trainmen, Brother-
dorsed. The delegates also approved | hood of Railroad Firemen and the
the health insurance bill, Federal | following state “associations: Printers
providing | Pressmen, Carpenters, Miners and
i Building Trades Council, Locomotive
Engineers, Locomotive Firemen,
Washington, Dec. 29, 1917.—Press
reports that Australia has defeated
military conscription by a referen-
providing for contingal, school. fox ters, Sheet-meth] ‘orkers and Metal |.
lua] establishmen; of industrial con-
x 2 nd, 3 :
Repidiated By Rusiralia S$ “In opposing conscription, the
| system has not: ‘broken down... It was
112.000. Accepting the casualties as
months, of 40,000. In other words,
country,” said Frank Morrison, sec- more men have volunteered than is
for interstate employment, that is to | | Smelters, Glasshlowers, Firemen,
become a law. Senate Bills 53 to 56, | Plumbers, Painters, Bricklayers, Hat-
al minors between the age of four-! Polishers. ny!
56 2 u oe of trade unionism and the event-
Anti-Union Employers
| seription than they are in winning
the war
workers took the governments own
Consri tion Voie 99 | figures to show -that the voluntary
lI , {shown that the total enlistments is
—A. F. of L. Secretary Morrison. 380,000 and the gross casualties,
Inet, there yet remains 168,000, with
‘a total enlistment, the past 10
dum vote {ifs mot surprising to those the workers show by the figures of
who have followed events in thatthe conscriptionists themselves that
retary of the A. F. of L. necessary to fill the ranks because
“Behind the conscription agitation | of losses of all kinds.
were employers who have divided the | “It is reported that New South
Australian Labor party and who are Wales opposed conscription by a ma-
now attempting to desiroy the trade
union movement. The workers re-
fused to listen to these war-mad pro-
jority of more than 136,000. In that
state the workers have just been de-
|feated in a general strike called to
fiteers. Australia has made history |compel the government to abide by
in tiis war. The number of her en- its promise not to change working
listments, the conduct of her soldiers standards during the war. By this it
in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign | was understood that wages would
and her increased production at!keep pace with the increased cost of
home, with a less number of work- living and that laws for the benefit
ers, as verified recently by the com- of labor would not be repealed. After
monwealth statistician, refutes the ihe labor party los¢ control of New
claim that these workers are opposed South Wales the new government
to the war. ‘made this promise and later attempt-
“Australian employers are drunk ed to install the Taylor system on its
with power. This is shown by their state-owned railroads. The strike ex-
i}
2 call during the conscription cam- tended to other states, and the work-
& At Close of Business, Nov. 20th, 1917 : paign for gonessd Diageist oF hi fe in this just cause still
RESOURCES is a nonfer-| The Australian situation is eco-
Loans snd IavestmentS.....ceeerin.n... hisiviiietieates $ 964,112 73 Nl nomi ratter fhioy munedy: for the
U.S. Bonds....... aa Se RE Chand 246.116 00 eotecd ’ workers ate Just atiemphatic for the
Dauking HOUSE veneer Manyara Ne 39.200 % fe “That, in the opinion of this con- war as are the conscriptionists. And
p iAR ; ! 291 381 13 © ference, the more effective organiza- | the workers have proved their pa-
i Due from Banks an TESTS Agena CY € tion of employers throughout the tiotism by going to the front, while
Total......$1,612,949 63 & | .ommonwealth is necessary for the their opponents are making money
LIABILITIES . protection of their industrial inter-|at home and telling how the war
Capital Stock ...........c.in.. ira tvavesdriqraaies ........3 65,000 00 ests, and this conference therefore | should be won.
Surpinsand Profits... 155971 11 recommends the establishment in. “The reported resul; of the con-
Circulation............ Passe ens ivanenararan AN . 65 000 090 each state of employers’ industrial i seription vote should be a notice to lj
Deposits...... »s 1.326.687 52 disputes councils for the purpose of employers everywhere that patriotic
appeals wil] not conceal their hostil-
| ity to the trade union.”
dealing with industrial disputes aris-
any section of industry, so
| that men, while on strike irom one -
employer, shall mot get work from | Capitalism
another employer. 1; is suggested the assistance of machinery,
that a system of issuing discharge waste enters when the geods are dis-
ing in
produces easily with
cards should be introduged, stating tribuled. Great armies of salesmen,
{shortly the reasoms for such dis-|vendors, advertising experts, middle
| charge’ men and jobbers are employed in use-
“This plan, which was recently less labor. Socialism willl apply effici-
abandoned by the Lake Carriers’ as- ent distribution to’ production.
sociation in our own country after Be ,.,.,.-
an. investigation by the government, The Baitish government is con
mdicaies the ustralian em- | ering the issuing of medals to
spirit of A
plovers,
BATTLE FOR BETTER LEGISLATION
ganized labor was discussed for sev- bill favoring the creation of a state |
The |
ed and amendments to various bills | tions on the railroad were approved. |
The delegates will oppose the re-|
increasing com- | ployment and providing for the abro- |
but the
i
rn sm pe
Let America Lead Her
Present a Plan Which the Imperial
Government Can Never Accept.
Terms of a Worid Peace
a
Allies and With Russia
German
(By Lincoln Coleord.)
A group of men in Europe without!
| vision or enlightenment are driving
| the visible world to destruction. In
{the name of true ideals they have
fought to defeat the truth. To de-
istroy Prussianism they have become
themselves Prussianized. For the
| salvation of liberty they have
lerushed out free speech. For the
qsmoe ratizaiion of Germany they
have refused to recognize or to en-
Roos those forces in Germany by
| means of which alone, according to
| their own admissions, the democrat-
lization of Germany could come about.
And their peoples have at last dis-
covered these things.
jcovered that the war has changed
[radically im the last summer, and
that it is not the same war today that
it was inh 1914. The war that began
in 1914, thay was precipitated by
German militarism working upon the
fruitful field of European imperialis-
tic diplomacy, logically ended last
spring with the Russian revolution.
| The war was won for the Entente Al-
lies ‘then and lost for German
tarism. it
in g true
victory.
mili-
could have resulted then
and outright democratic
and Amevica supported Russia, had
they mot set diligently to work to
build up again the prop which Rus-
sia had knocked out, German militar-
ism would have fallen long ago.
This is what the peoples of the
world are beginning to sense.
let, us have the fruth, for the
truth shal] set us free In the Rus-
sian revolution the western imperial-
istic democracies saw appearing
something which they themselves
could mot brook. They really wanted
the war fought out on the old order,
to military ‘defeat or victory.
new order blinded their eyes.
had not expected such a turn.
thing but that. It threw
their hearts;
their ostensible professions.
They
Any-
a chil] into
Of no support and notwithstanding
all the efforis of adverse propaganda
from Germany, the Entente Allies
and America alike, the Russian rev-
ly toward its goal. We have not
been permitted to hear the truth, but
this is the record which history will
show.
thoughts and policies Russia has
stood firm, the plainest, surest thing
in sight. She has been a strong
sea. Russian policy has changed
only in detail, but not at all in form,
since the first days of the revolution.
he Dolsheviki are nearer to the
provisional government than we have
had the courage to suppose
And throughout the summer,
swayed by ignorance of true condi-
tions and governed without insight
or imagination, the Entente Allies
have been chasing the illusion of a
dictatorial power which could never
rise in Russia again. They - have
been searching madly to find in Rus-
sia something like themselves. But
there is nothing like them in Russia
any. more.
America cannot escape her share
of blame in the diplomacy of the
summer of 1917. Had she joined
hands with Kerensky to force fron
the Entente Allies a revision of their
war aims, as she tacitly
Bolsheviki to
has now
joined hands with ihe
accomplish the same purpose,
war would soon have been over
a poiitical revolution for
and a true democratic victory
Allies.
Instead, America
ialist delegates from going
with
Germany
stepped her Soc-
0 Stock-
holm, and set the ball of reactionary
policies rolling with fresh momentum
in the face of the Russian revolution.
| This was ex what the. Allied
| Government wanted. They told their
ne op! es that America had reg
of them.
ed
exactly
nested
The Russian
his eyebrows. He
thought th democracies must be
waging a curious sort of war for free-
{dom and ideals.
{ The results of the
| Conic
simi
first Stockholm
rence with respect to Germany
ware altogether good. Scheidemann
{went home wiser he ‘came; the
loyal Socialists of the Entente Allies,
V Pp, had told
ndervelde and
him that
its
ag to Germany,
Scheidemana se¢ in motion the Lib:
eral movement ited in the
which rest
i of mid-su
hstag 1
They have dis-
The Russian revolution at one
stroke removed the chief prop of!
German militarism. Had the Allies
(rebelled against fighting
The |
| certain
{last spring at the advent of the Rus- |
it stripped the veil from |
{ Presiden; said: i
“Throughout the summer, in spite |. ‘Statesmen muse by this time have. Lngss incthis utkerancd” 2 ite frank |
olution drove steadily and consistent-.
In a world chaos of aims and |
mountain of hopes above the shifting .
must hencerorth
the |
for the
: : i
These resolutions were ignored by !
the statesmen of the Entente Allies
and America, and scoffed at by their
press.
chiefly interested just then in stop-
ping further Socialist conferences at
‘Stockholm.
America had given the
Entenie Allies the leverage to accom-
plish thig stoppage with their own
peoples. And in America herself the
peoples did nog know or understand.
The Liberal movement of the sum- |
mer in Germany lagged under the
The peoples of the Entente
Allies were becoming more and more
restless. More and more
measures had to be resorted to by
the Allied Governments. The speech-!
es of Aliied statesmen became fit]
food for the propaganda of the Ger-|
man Government both at home and |
on the Russian front, The die had |
Ibeen cast for the new phase of the
war.
At last Italy broke, and the break |
was more political than mélitaryt It;
political even im its military |
the Italian line had been ex- |
tended too far for politica] reasons.
Bul the break primarily was political !
in the sense that it was a break in
the morale of the Italian nation,
to ithe fact that
strain.
was
sense;
due {
the peoples of Italy |
for the fl
perialistic aims of their Government. |
Then Russia, desperate gnd starv-
ing, despised and rejected, drove
Tome the Tanne of her revelution |
vy publishingéthe secret imperialistic |
treaties of the Entente Governments,
made since the beginnig of the war. |
in this act there was no treason. The |
others had betrayed their ideals.
And then, at last, America saw the |
light, and in President Wilson's great |
message of liberalism at the opening |
of the present Congress joined hands |
with Russia across the welter of Eu-|
rope, across the confusion of outworn |
contending docirines, and faced the
|
future that was ushered in |
|
Listen to what the |
sian revolution.
learned ‘that the opinion og the world
is everywhere wide awake and fully |
comprehends the issues involved. No |
representative of any self-governed
nation will dare disregard it by at- |
tempting any such covenants of self-|
ishness and compromise as were en-|
tered into at the C ‘ongress of Vienna.
The thought of the plain people here |
and everywhere throughout the
world, the people who enjoy no priv-
ilege and have very simple and un- |
sophisticated standards of right and!
wrong, is in the air all governments |
breathe if they |
would live. It is in the fuly disclos- |
ing light of that thought that alll
policies must be conceived and exe- |
cuted in this midday hour of the
world’s life.
German rulers have been able to |
upset the pace of the world only be-
the German people were not
suffered under their tutejage to share |
the comradeship of the other peoples
of the world either in thought or in
purpose. They were allowed to have
no cpinion of their own which might |
be set up as a rule of conduct for!
who
cause
those
exercised authority over |
them. But the congress that con-
cludes this war will feel the full
strength of the tides thag run now in
the hearts and consciences of
men everywhere.
run with those tides.
All these things have been true
from the very beginning of this stu-
pendous war, and I cannot
thinking that if they had been made
plain at the very outset, the sympa-!
thy and enthusiasm ef the Russian
people might have been once for all
enlisted on the side of the
suspicion and distrust swept
and a real
pose effected.
# * st
away
Our entrance
war has not altered our attitude to-
ward the settlement that must come
{when it is
January that the nations of the world |
were entitled not only to free path-|
over. When 1 said in
¥s on the sea, but also to assured
and unmolested access to those
thinking,
ways, I was apd 1 am
thinking now, not of the smaller and |
weaker nations alone, which need
our countenance and support, but
also of the great and powerful] na-
tions and of our present enemies as
wel] as our present associates in this
war. 1 was thinking, and am, think-
of Austria herself, among
as well as of Serbia and
and equal of
only
The demcceratic world seemed |
illiberal : .
areas,
| peace
| stand.
| | opportunity.
{ when it comes.
| through the orderly process of palit
| They
[The
| repudiation of debts and the destruc-
free | tion os true and false things together
Its conclusion will |
help |
Allies, |
and lasting union of pur-!
into the |
path- |
REJECT 28 PER
GENT. IN DRAFT
[COUNTRY BOYS NOT SUPERIOR
| TO CITY COUSINS, SELECTIVE
DRAFT SHOWS.
Washington, Jan. 8.—That 28 per
cent, of the registrants examined in
10 states were rejected as physically
unfit for service is shown in a state-
ment made public at the office of the
provast marshall general. The com-
! mon belief that the average of phy-
sical soundness is higher among
country boys than among the eity
bred is not supported by the records
of the selective draft. The statement
follows
For the purpose of comparison, se-
lection was made of a typical set of
cities of 40,000 to 500,000 population
with no large immigrant element,
(and distributed over 10 different
| Stateg (Alabama, Arkansas, Califor-
| nia, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Ne-
|'braska, New York, and South Caro-
(lina), and a corresponding set of
| counties eof the same total size, loecat-
led in the same States and containing
ino city of 30,000 population. The
| total number of registrants in the
{two sets of areas was 315,000,
Results of Comparison.
The sompatisen resulted as fol-
lows: Of 35,017 registrants in urban
9.969 were rejected. Of 44 .-
262 registrants {n rural areas 12,-
32 were rejected. In other words,
28.47 per cent of the city boys were
rejected as against 27.96 per cent of
the country boys.
It will be seen that the result is
virtually a tie. The country lad, ac-
customed to hard physical labor, may
| be more muscular than his city cous-
in, but he is not superior in the pos-
session of the degree of physical
| soundness essential to his acceptance
as a soldier,
the 9th and 11th
invited to attend a smoker
to Le held under the auspices of the
Socialists of
wards are
of the world and must seek
candidly and fearles As al-
ways, the right will prove ve the
expedient.”
The highest note of moral; great-
them
admission of/ the error of tile last
summer, THis is the note which
Russia will recognize, and under-
It is in a very positive sense
the keynote of President Wilson’s
mood today. It represents the drive
behind the words; it guarantees that
[a great message of Liberalism will
{be translated now into great Liberal
acts.
Millions have died for the mistakes
of the summer. Miilions more may
vet ‘have to die to retrieve the lost
But the old war was
over months ago This is the dregs
of the war.
It is certain now that the peoples
of the world shal} make the peace
Shall peace be made
ical revolution, or will the Govern-
| ments of the world drive the peoples
to their lagt stand?
tions or anarchy?
iverywhere there are’ flaming
signs. Cannot the men of affairs
and property see? It may not be as
they would have ordered it, but it is
inevitable. It is inevitable and im-
minent. There is no escape from it.
had better permit it to come.
alternative is chaos, a general
Shall it be elec-
that the truth may finally emerge,
{ let “vise and brave thibgs be
| quickly done. Let America lead her
{ Allies and with Russia draw up fair
terms of a democratic peace which
| the Liuperial Government can never
accept. Let this be done boldly,
| without evasion or compromise. Let
there be not the shadow of seerecy
or hesitation. There is scant time re-
| maining.
if the German Government refus-
res, or if it accepts, it hag passed into
the hands of the German people; it
has lost the war.
for macerial wrongs
must be material
is humanly
moral and
i there
guarantee
i happen
done there
recompense in. so
possible. But for
spiritual wrongs done
only forgiveness and the
that these things shail not
this end there is
but one certain guarantee. The arm
of German militarism must be su-
bordinated to her civil arm.
ten turn and
it stands
far as
can he
agaiip. To
face the new world
there plainly, nearer and
surer than we 3se. It shall be
horn out f the dreams of young
nen ‘and of their fieree love fo:
truth and brot therhood. It shall conse
already arrived
ough the streng