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THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
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Published every Thursday by the
Commercial Co-operative Council.
EBER K. COCKLEY,
Business Manager.
HERMAN G. LEPLEY, Editor.
Entered at the Meyersdale postoffice
as second class mail matter.
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mI IAL ANS NII
Rally to the support of The
Meyersdale Commercial! + It
has been in the front line ad-
vocating most of the improve-
ments in town and community
which are now realities. Sand
Spring water for Meyersdale,
the street railway connecting;
Meyersdale with Salisbury,:
and other things too numerous
to mention, were dreams in the
mind of its first editor, Mr.
Lou Smith. Now they are
realities.
The Commercial always
stood for clean politics, and
aimed to give the reader the
truth. Principle rather than
party has been its history and
shall be upheld above all else
under the present editorship.
The raw materials of the
earth are created to serve hu-
manity, with applied labor
converting them into the man-
ifold articles needed to sustain
the millions who exist in the
civilized world. It is unfor-
tunate to many of us that these
raw materials are owned by so]
few people and manufactured
into the needed articles for the
main purpose of enriching
those who are owners, often to
the disadvantage of those who
must have the manufactured
article to sustain human life.
“A fuel shortage is a fool
shortinge,” remarks the Chica-
go News. In a sense, yes; but
if there were a shortage of
fools there would be no short-
age of fuels, and the people
will “get wise” enough to own
all food and fuel production
and distribution for them-
" selves by and by.
A DISGRACEFUL SCENE.
The aggregation of rowdies
who created a disturbance on
the evening passenger train of
the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road while enroute from Johns-
town to Hooversville last Fri-
day, and who openly and bold-
ly confessed to ‘“‘scabbing” on
United Mine Workers in the
Hooversville region, are cer-
tainly no credit to any civilis
ed community. It would be of
some benefit to society perhaps
if Congress should make some
provision to conscript such pit-
iful yet disgraceful specimens
of human kind and proceed to
drill a spark of manhood into
their numb skulls, and leave
behind respectable toilers to
take care of the nation’s needs
in the production of fuel.
Wise Qld Spider.
When Mark Twain was run-
ning a country newspaper, he
received the following letter
from an old lady:
ing the mewspaper this
ing I found a dead spider fold-
ed in the columns. Is
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tnls an
SO Gil
omen of good luck or of bad
luck?” And Mark Twain re-
plied: “Finding a spider in
the columns of my newspaper
is neither an omen of good or
bad luck. The spider simply
{ or for her to determine just how
APRIL 1 LAST DAY
FOR FEDERAL RETURNS
Penalties for Income Dodgers Are
Severe—Get Your Return
in if You Are Liable.
April 1, 1918, is the final day al-
lowed under the federal income tax
law for the filing of federal income
tax returns. Persons who are requir- |
ed to file returns under the provisions |
of law and who fail to get their re-
turns in on time are subject to se-
vere penalties, as follows:
For making false or fraudulent re-
turn, not exceeding $2,000 or not ex-
ceeding one year's imprisonment, or
both, In the discretion of the court,
and, in addition, 100 per cent. of the
tax evaded.
For failing to make return on time,
not less than $20 nor more than $1,-
000, and, in addition, 50 per cent. of
the amount of tax due.
If on account of illness or absence
from home you are unable td render
your return within the time prescribed
by law you may obtain an extension
of 30 days if a request therefor is filed
with the collector.of your district be-
fore the due date of the return. In
this request you must state the rea- |
son why the return cannot be filed
Collectors 'of internal revenue are
not authorized to grant extensions of
more than 30 days, but the commis-
sioner of internal revenue has author-
ity to grant a reasonable extension
beyond 30 days in meritorious cases.
If you desire an extension of more
than 30 days your request should be
addressed to the commissioner and
should contaln a detailed statement
covering the reasons which make it
impossible for you to file your return
on or before April 1.
The internal revenue men are now
completing their tour of the country,
during which they were in teuch with
the people of every city and town, If
you failed to get in touch with the
deputy which visited your section it is
not too late to get advice. Consult
your postmaster as to where the near-
est deputy is now. Get your blank
form, study the directions and the re-
quirements as shown thereon and
make your return without fai: if your
income was sufficient to come within
the bounds named in the law.
It is pointed out by Commissioner
Roper that it is important that the
people comply with the federal laws
as fully as they are complying with
the drafts for men and thie couserva-
tion of foods and fuel. “The war must
be paid for,” says Commissioner Roper.
“Congress has as much right to con-
script a just portion of income as it
has to conscript our boys. The tax
for 1917 is designed to reach moder-
ate as well as large incomes, so that
all persons who are in financial posi-
tion to bear a portion of the heavy
government expenses can be assessed
in proportion to their ability to pay.
“The man who is barely making a
living or barely supporting a family
is not affected by the 1917 law. But
the man who is able to bear a share
of the burden has been reached by
the new law, and he should accept his
responsibility in the same patriotic
spirit that our young men have shown
in offering themselves for this great
purpose of the country to make the
world safe for people of all kinds to
live in and to govern themselves.”
This tax Is one which recognizes
women as on an equal basis with men.
The unmarried woman or the married
woman with a salary must make tax
return just the same as any man, Only
the woman supporting her mother or
other members of her family may take
out $2,000 exemption.
Under the law the head of the faial-
ly is the oue whose earning power con-
tributes to the family's support.
Similarly a widow with small chil-
dren to support can take out $2,000
exemption and $200 additional exemp-
tion for each of her children under
eighteen. Thus it is intended that
the law shall work no hardship to wo-
men having to struggle to get along.
But each must file return if her in-
come is $1,000.
A man whose wife dies and who Is
left with small children to support
upon a moderate income may also take
full exemption under the new tax law
and also claim $200 exemption for
erch of his children under eighteen.
The widower under the law is a
single man and must make tax re-
turn accordingly. Married men need
not file returns unless they are earn-
ing $2,000 or more.
“This is as much a national obliga-
tion as the reporting for duty of a man
drafted for service with the colors,”
says D. C. Roper, commissioner of in-
ternal revenge. “As it stands, it is
much a matter of the man or wo-
man's own conscience. It is for him
far
he is liable to the tax. He must figure
his own income and if it reaches the
ficures named in the law must make
faithful report upen it to the proper
authogity
“This tax is distinctly a war meas-
ure and will be in effect during the
war.
“This is a2 people's tax—it reaches
crawled into the newspaper to
ind whicl
the
s him a
right down into the pockets of
small wage earner; it o
partner in the job of
¢
the
within the time prescribed by law.
Ccndencsed Statement
ITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At close of business, March 4th, 1918.
RESOURCES ;
Loans and Investments ... een $1,014,765.06
U. S. Bonds 214,070.00
Banking House ........... ooo 30,200.00
Cash .... =... 58,906.33
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents ... 351,394.10
$1,669,335.49
. : LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 65,000.00
Surplus and Profils ......... iii snes, 149,292.75
Circulation 65,000.00
Deposits 1,390,042.74
$1,669,335.49
“The Pank With The C
The Citizens National Bank
lock With The Million’
THE WAR, THE FARM
AND THE FAR™"T
By Herbert Quick
2.
What the Imperial German govern-
ment offered the farmers of America
in its ruthless submarine warfare was
not the loss of profits, but slavery to
the saber-rattler of Potsdam. He pur-
posed to make us slaves by murdering
the people who took our produets to
market. By all the laws of civilized war-
fare, commerce under a neutral flag
was free from any hindrance except
the legal interference justified by war.
But the Germans not only stepped
merchant vessels, they sank them.
Sank them without warning, without
trace—the most devilish thing war
has seen since the savages scalped our
ancestors and threw sereaming babies
into the flames of burning cabins.
The German plan of sinking mer-
chant vessels without trace is based
on the murderer's maxim | that
“dead men tell no tales” Tt wad exe-
cuted by frie massacre of wen, wom-
en and children, who, having com-
mitted themselves to small boats in
the open sea after their ships were
torpedoed, were mercilessly raked
with gunfire, and exterminated to the
last unprotected, unpitied soul! These
are the murders that stain the hands
of the kaiser, his advisers and min-
jons. These outrages were per-
petrated on neutral vessels; when all
that civilized warfare gave the Ger-
mans a right to do even with the mer-
chant vessel under a hostile flag, was
to stop it at sea and make it a prize
of war.
To kill the civilians on board, even
under a hostile flag, was nothing but
unmitigated murder. And these mur-
ders were committed in order that we
might be enslaved! Having the right
to take the sea with his fleet, but be-
ing afraid to do so for fear he might
lose it, and being unable by fair
means to stop the selling of our pro-
ducts to his enemies, the kaiser de-
clared that he would do it by the foul-
est methods ever resorted to in war.
He declared the sea closed, and that
he would keep it closed, not by war,
but by murder.
To have submitted would have
cost us dear in prosperity; but that
would have been the least of our
loss.
We should have had to grove! before
the German government.
(This is the second of three articles.
We should have had to accept mur-
der as a thing against which we could
not defend ourselves.
We should have allowed this new
horror to become a part of all future
wars, and have Lccii responsible for
its incorporation into internaticnal
law. :
We should have proved that because
the fire which burns up our farms’
usefulness is beyond the horizon, we
would submit to the kindling of it.
We might have accepted the sev-
enty cents for wheat and the six cents
for cotton. but we could not have done
it merely because we were command-
ed to do it. By so doing we should
have accepted degradation. We should
have begun, after winning our free-
dom in our own revolution and estab-
lishing a union on the foundation of
liberty in the blood and tears of our
war between the states, to knuckle
under to autncracy! We should have
ibasely yielded up our birthright as
Americans. ’
Suh a thought is intolerable. Peace
at such a price would not be peace;
but only a preparation for a future
revolt agaiust subjugation. Better
any scrt of war; better war forever,
than that.
Whenev r the time comes for new
sacrifices, let us remember that we
fight, not for our liberties tomorrow
or next or twenty years from
now, but fer our freedom today. Not
for the right to live in the future, but
for the right to make a living this
year.
German oppression had begun to
pinch us before we entered the war.
If we had not declered war, but had
accepted the conditions of life ordered
for us by the kaiser, we should today
be a poverty-stricken people. Our fac-
tories would be shut down, our work-
men unemployed, our people starving,
our farmers ruined by the poverty of
those for whose consumption they
grew their crops. There is loss and
sacrifice in the war, but there would
have been far more of loss and sacri-
| fice in accepting the German terms.
| We should have lost more in money
than we\ have spent in the war, but
we should have lost something far
more precious. Wo should have lost
aur souls.
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"SAVING THE DAYLIGHT.
Congress has passed a law
endorsing the new fangled
daylight saving plan, which
will be put into effect on Eas-
ter Sunday, March 31st, by
requiring all clocks to be turn-
ed ahead one hour. On the
last Sunday in October they
will be turned back one hour,
which will gain put the nation
back on “sun” time.
Advocates of the plan claim
the following beneficial results
from its application in a dozen
European countries last year:
A great saving in oil, gas
and electric power;
Conservation of coal;
Increased manufacturing
production as the resuit of im-
provement in working condi-
tions;
Improved conditions of
health because of an addition-
al hour of daylight which may
be devoted to recreation;
Reduction in the cost of liv-|
ing to those who can raise gar-
den products at home, and
Improvement in the
conditions for the
forces.
training
fighting
| further
Postoffice Departments Gives
Form of Address for
¢ Oversea Mail
Persons who send mail to
members of the Expeditionary
Forces are particularly request-
ed, in a statement issued by the
Post Office Department, to use
ink only in writing the ad-
dresses. Every piece of mail
matter should also bear the
name and address of the send-
er.
Heavy paper, canvas, or cloth
should be used for wrapping
packages. When canvas or
cloth is used the address
should be written on a ship-
ping tag, with the name and
address of the sender on the
reverse side.
Given names should be writ-
ten in full, instead of initials.
The title of the addressee and
the full name of the unit or or-
ganization to which he is as-
signed should be added, it be-
ing sufficient in the
address to use
words ‘“American Expedition-
ary Forces.”
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There is no foundation for
violations of law attributed to our Com-
pany by agents of the Federal Trade
Commission and I want to say emphatic-
ally that Swift & Company is not a party to
any conspiracy to defraud the Govern-
ment. Nor has Swift & Company been
guilty of improperly storing
making false entries or reports.
Conferences of packers, where prices
have been discussed, have been held at
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foods or of
the urgent request and in the presence
of representatives of either the Food
Administration or the Council of National
Defense. And yet the packers have been
accused of committing a felony by acting
in collusion on Government bids!
We have done our best,
packers, large and small, to comply with
the directions: of the United States Food
Administration in all particulars, including
the furnishing of food supplies
Army and Navy and the All
ing handled through the Food Adminis-
tration.
We will continue to do our utmost,un-
der Government direction, to increase our
production and assist the Food Adminis-
tration. We consider that the opportunity
to co-operate whole-heartedly and to our
fullest powers with this branch of the
Government is our plain and
ing duty.
The Trade Commission Attorney has,
by false inference and misplaced empha-
sis, given to disconnected portions of the"
correspondence taken from our private
files and read into the Record, a false and
sinister meaning with the plain purpose
of creating antagonistic public opinion.
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The services of the packers of the
United States are most urgently needed, © :
and I regret exceedingly that we should at
this time have to spend our efforts in
defending ourselves against
unproved, and unfair assertions such as
are being daily made public.
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twenty-five years, as well as in every other
important contest, and you must admit that
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UTTER made from De Laval-separated
cream has won first prize at every
convention of the National Creamery
Association for the last
fact can mean but one thing—
The De Laval user
gets not only more
cream, but better cream
Laval-separated cream is better simply be-"
the am of the De Laval bowl
makes close skimming possible at a speed so low
that the butter-fat globules are delivered from
the cream spout unbroken.
If you make butter yourself, or if you ship to a
ery and want the highest rating for your
, you cannot afford to use any separator
but the De Laval.
Have you seen the
NEW De Laval? The
1 new self-centering bowl
with its patented milk
distributor is the great-
est improvement that
has een made in
cream separator con-
struction in the last
thirty years and we'd
like to have a chance
to show you how it
works. The NEW De
Laval also contains
many other important
improvements .that we
know will interest you.
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All Highest Prize Butter
De Laval Made
HE most important
butter scoring con-
tests take place at
the Annual Convention
of the National Butter-
makers’ Association.
The first prize winners
at every convention of
the Association since
its organization in 1892
have been as follows— :
all De Laval users.
1892—Louis Brahe
1898—C. W. Smith
1805—F. C. Oltrogge
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1906—A. C
1907—A. Lindblad
1908—J. C. Past
1909—A. J. ‘Andersen
1910—Albert Camp
1911—A. J. Anderson
1912—A. L. Radke
1913—0. N. Petersen
1914—Thomas Sadler
1915—Emil G. Oman
19186—J. W. Engel
(There were no BRAa=
tional conventions {im
1894, 1903, and 1908.)
The following
sorrow than
them.
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leave to my parents
their feeble
my brothers
ters as much shame and mor-
tification as I could bring on
I leave to my wife a
heart
a life of shame.
to each of my children
y, ignorance, a low char-
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