he Tepersbale fommercial
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EBER K. COCKLEY,
Business Manager. —-
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Statement of ownership,
management, ete., of The
Meyersdale Commercial, for
April 1st, 1918:
Publisher, Commercial Co-
operative Council, Meyers-
dale, Pa.
Editor, Herman G. Lepley,
Meyersdale, Pa.
Managing Editor, Herman
G. Lepley, Meyersdale, Pa.
Business Manager, Eber K.
Cockley, Meyersdale, Pa.
Owners, Commercial Co-op-
erative Council, Meyersdale,
Pa. nH
Bondholders, mortgagees,
and other security holders
owning or holding 1 per cent
or more of total amount of
bonds, mortgages or other se-
curities:
H. G. Lepley, Meyersdale,
P
a.
A. Lindstrom, Hollsopple,
Pa. a8
(Signed)
EBER K. COCKLEY,
Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed be-
fore me this 1st day of April,
1918. W. B. COOK,
Justice of the Peace.
My commission expires first
Monday in January, 1920.
When the monkey put its
paw in the hole in the fence it
grabbed so much it could not
pull it out again. That's Ger-
many’s action in Russia.
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OAT SMUT AND
ITS TREATMENT
At this particular time, when
the food question is so vital,
seed oats should be treated to
prevent the growth of loose
smut. Loose smut has been
known to cut down the yield
as much as eight per cent. It
is a preventable disease and
the treatment is easily ap-
plied, at a cist of about four
and one-half cents per bushel.
The treatments are the same
as those recommended for
stinking smut in wheat.
The forty per cent formal-
deyhde solution is the treat-
ment most commonly used. It
is pwepared by adding one
pound of formaldehyde to fif-
ty gallons of water. This so-
lution should be sprinkled on
the oats at the rate of one gal-
lon of the solution to four
bushels of oats. The oats
should be stirred thoroughly,
so that all of the grains are
moistened. Frequently, to
avoid the labor of stirring, the
oats are placed in very porous
bags and emersed in the solu-
tion for ten minutes, but this
method requires more formal-
dehyde and gives no better
results. :
Copper sulphate 1s some-
times substituted for formalin,
but this requires one pound of
copper sulphate to five gallons
of water. It is applied the
same as the formalin treat-
ment.
(Contributed)
WHY THE EDITOR LEFT
TOWN UNANNOUNCED
Mrs. J. T. Miller read an ar-
ticle on “Personal Devils.”
Seventeen were present.
The first fall meeting of the
Ladies’ Matinee Musicale will
be hell in the Central Chris-
tian Church Saturday after-
noon at 2:30 o'clock.
Mr. Roberts went to Kansas
City with a car of hogs. Sev-
eral of the neighbors went in
together to make up the car,
—Exchange.
er A dd NL Nd IN re Nf
QUOTATIONS FROM CURRENT
POETRY.
I am thy soul, Nikoptis.
I have watched
These five millenia, and thy dead eyes
Moved not, nor even answer my desire,
And thy light limbs, wherethrough I leapt aflame,
Burn not with me nor any saffron thing.
See, the light grass sprang up to pillow thee,
And kissed thee with a myriad grassy tongue,
: But not thou me.
I have read out the gold upon the wall, .
And wearied out my thoughts upon the signs,
And there is no new thing in this place.
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And no sun comes to rest me in this place,
And I am torn against the jagged dark,
And no light beats upon me, and you say
No word, day after day.
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Oh!
And all their crafty work
Out through the grass-green fields.
* * * * * * * *
Yet it is quiet here;
I do not go.
I could get me out, despite the marks,
upon the door,
* * * »
—Ezra Pound, in “Lustra.”
What though the moon should come
With a blinding glow,
And the stars have a game
On the wood’s edge * * *
A man would have to still
Cut and weed and sow,
And lay a white line
When he plants a hedge.
Also—
There’s nothing very beautiful and nothing very gay
About the rush of faces in
the town by day * * *
And the soft March wind and the low March mist
Are better than kisses in a dark street kissed * * *
Oh, the better let the little things I loved when little
Return when the heart finds the great things brittle;
And better is a temple made of bark and thong
Than a tall stone temple that may stand too long.
— Orrick Johns, in “Asphalt.”
I am a tree that puts out little boughs
Dreaming of harvest and a yellow moon;
But Love, who owns me by my many VOWS,
Comes nibbling, nibbling, late and oft and soon.
I like his lips upon my tender leaves;
*Tis joy to make him feasts of honey-buds;
But doubts come trembling, and a fear me grieves—
I may stand barren in the laden woods.
And Love himself some day may seek my, shade
To find but bony branches waiting him.
What shelter could I give him weary laid?
What succor fruit from my staring limb?
Ah, Love, do not my harvest dream devour,
Lest thou know famine in my barren hour.
— Olive Tilford Dargan, in “The Circle’s Rim.”
THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA.
MARCH REVIEW
NEWS OF THE YEAR 1918 REVIEWED MONTHLY AND
ORDERLY ARRANCED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE.
1. Ada Foust and David Wilson, Pine Hill, united in
marriage; born, to Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Swearman, Markleton,
a girl, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hall, Confluence, a boy; John W.
Kemp, Meyersdale, died, aged 34.
9. William R. Ream, Jenner, Twp., died of apoplexy,
aged 90; Jennie Phillippi and Edward May, Harnedsville,
united in marriage. : :
3. Mary Patterson and Albert Berkley, Salisbury, Julia
Meese and Hubert Wagner, Salisbury, unitel in marriage ; Mrs.
William Fritz, Berlin, died of a paralytic stroke.
4. John Landis, Hollsopple, died of cancer, aged 61.
5. Pearl Radcliffe and James Fuller, Elk Lick Twp,
Daisy Wright, Windber, and Clarence Shaffer, Johnstown,
united in marriage; Marion Glotfelty, Salisbury, died of
pneumonia, aged 68; Richard J. Vought, Jr., Somerset, died,
aged 30; Mrs. Bruce Hyatt, Harnedsville, died, aged 66; Si-
mon P. Miller, Somerfield, died of heart trouble, aged 62.
6. Prudence Hay and Fred Speicher, Berlin, Priscilla
Custor, Hooversville, and Daniel Baughman, Monessen, Nellie
Stutzman and Harry Duppstadt, Stoyestown, Ida Kruker and
Frank Kenay, Jenners, Marie McVicker and Arthur Olson,
Ralphton, Mary MecCluskie, Hollsopple, and Tony Larosa,
Camp Reville, Beulah Christner and Alfred Brocht, Garrett,
united in marriage.
7. Anna Pyle, Somerset, and Newton Kretchman, Rock-
wood, Ada Fritz and Cloyd Mostoller, Pugh, Myrtle James,
Salisbury, and Charles Connor, Adams, united in marriage;
born, to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Farner, Salisbury, a boy, to Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Keefer, Somerset, a boy, to Dr. and Mrs. R. Cc.
Stringer, Windber, a girl.
8. Dr. Royal B. Koontz, Stoyestown, died of tubercu-
losis, aged 32; May Gahagen and John Breth, Windber, united
in marriage.
9. Mrs. James McQuade, Berlin, died of internal trouble,
aged 53; William Ayers, Markleton, died of tuberculosis, aged
32; Mrs. Tonika Loesky, Windber, died, aged 25; born, to Mr.
and Mrs. Grant Thomas, Salisbury, a boy.
10. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hinebaugh, Salisbury, a
girl, to Mr. and Mrs. James Hook, Somerfield, a boy, to Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Hook, Somerfield, a boy; Mrs. Samuel Weimer,
Milford, Twp., died, aged 52; R. Scott Johns, Salisbury, died
of a paralytic stroke, aged 74; Joseph, 3-months-old son of Mr.
end Mrs, Louis Benti, Windber, died of pneumonia.
11. Luella Meyers, Rockwood, died, aged 3; Blanche
Rittner and Webster Duecker, Garrett, united in marriage;
born, to Mr. and Mrs. Noah Speicher, Salisbury, a girl.
12. George Porter, foster son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Gray, Coal Run, died of pneumcnia, aged 18; Mrs. Chauncey
Pritts, Somerset, died of heart trouble, aged 59.
13. Charles Snyder, Friedens, died of an affliction of the
liver, aged *; Graydon, &-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Merle Miller, Boswell, died; Leora Mankameyer, Larimer
Twp., Callie Wirick and Park Boyer, Hooversville, Mary Ring-
ler and Robert Baldwin, Shanksville, Daisy Nicklow and Mose
Hawk, Listonburg, united in marriage. g
14. Elizabeth Traup, Somerset, and Sergt. J. J. Livings-
ton, Camp Hancock, united in marriage; Elmer Berkebile,
Kantner, accidentally killed in mine, aged 26.
15. Mrs. Wesley Mock, Windber, died, aged 36; Her-
man L. Umberger, Central City, died of internal injuries, aged
51; born, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller, Springs, a boy, to Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Lohr, Springs, a boy, to Mr. and Mrs. N. B.
Sannrer, Markleton, a girl.
16. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Wolf, Rockwood, a girl,
to Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Farling, Rockwood, a girl.
17. Fern Zearfoss and Galen Meyers, Rockwood, unit-
ed in marriage.
18. Irene Hayes, Confluence, and William Poling, Al-
bert, W. Va., united in marriage; Veda Shoemaker, Somerset,
died, aged 38; Lucille, 13-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Y. D. Shaffer, Confluence, died of meningitis; Frank B. Nick-
low, Addison, died of tubercular infection, aged 49.
19. Prof. James C. Begley, Somerset, died of pneumonia,
aged <; born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Parnell, Windber, a boy.
20. Infant child of Archie Cochrane, Boynton, died;
Stewart Simpkins, Salisbury, died, aged 53; Jennie Walker,
Berlin, and Clyde Dwire, Markleton, Elizabeth Tice and Noah
Beachy, Summit Mills, Mary Pile and Claude Stutzman, Som-
erset, united in marriage.
22. Gladys Benson, Friedens, and Simon Fritz, Berlin,
united in marriage; John M. Wolfersberger, Rockwood, died.
aged 71. ?
23. Albert W. Musser, Brothersvalley Twp., died of
heart trouble, aged 65; born, to Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Bittner
Meyersdale, a girl. ?
24. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Milton Bodes, St. Paul, a gir],
to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Engle, St. Paul, a girl.
28 Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mazer, Wittenburg,
a girl.
26. Joseph A. Walker, Rockwood, died of pneumonia,
aged 75; Dr. Charles F. Livengood, Boswell, died of apoplexy
aged 53. :
27. Philip Arnold, Meyersdale, died, aged 89.
28. Mrs. Hannah Swain, Acosta, died, aged 82; Minnie
Marker and Theophila Schaub, Kingwood, Goldie Wissinger
i ol Lohoun, Heals Level, Melda Brant and Earl
eyers, Friedens, united in marriage; bor
Robert B. Ellis, Garrett, a girl. : hm Mena de
29. Ollie Bauman and Thomas
united in marriage.
30. Mary Smith, Dumas, an i i
united in marriage. 2% Ge Bousoy, To un,
31. Ruth Shaffer and Clyde
Sturtz, Garrett, and Elmer Walker,
marriage.
Poorbaugh, Glencoe,
Vincent, Boswell, Nina
Hollsopple, united in
Father looks dyspeptic an’ poor
ma is pale an’ wan,
An’ grub? No time to cook it
an’ I got a sorter hunch
There’ll be sardines an’ some
crackers just et on the fly
for lunch.
SPRING CLEANING.
Sister’s got the dust cloth out
an’ mother’s got the broom
And they make the everlastin’
dust skedaddle in the
room;
The kitten beats a mad retreat,
the dog too runs away
For the family is unset—ma is
cleanin’ house today.
Oh, the fambly always hates it
but it has to be, by Jing—
This topsy-turvy mix-up when
: : ma’s cleanin’ for spri
The furniture is moved around, 2 onih up Loy SDFG,
some of it’s in the lawn,
“| ON THE OPEN ROAD
With BRUCE CALVERT.
What of business and education? Business men are com-
plaining, apparently with good reason, of the stupidity, lack
of initiative and general incompetence of our school and college
graduates. And yet big business, as the power behind the
throne, is itself responsible for our educational system. Finan-
cial domination, business interests, makes the schools what they
are today. The school system, like every other institution,
knows its master’s voice.
But how, pray, can our educational mills turn out any-
thing else than mentally helpless, incompetent pupils?
Throughout all their school lives the students are rigidly held
down to the blind worship of authorities. They come into an
intellectual world already prepared for them-—all cut and
dried, a world of finalities. All instruction and all reaction by
the pupils must conform to this rigid regimentation. Any ques-
tioning of matter presented or conclusions taught is suppressed
with iron hand. Even teachers and college professors who do
question things are, as we have seen, dismissed or compelled,
in self-respect, to resign. Here we see intellectual Prussianism
in its full flower.
Never in all his school life having been permitted to take
a single step or to think a single thought of his own volition;
having ffom the time he enters the system had his individuality
systematically suppressed, all originality carefully ironed out
of him, how can we expect the pupil on emerging from that
mangle to function, for the first time in his life, as an independ-
ent, thinking being? He has never been taught to think. All
he has ever been asked to do was to accept, believe, remember.
I repeat, you can pass through all the grades from kindergar-
ten to the university and graduate with high honors without
ever once being guilty of a single bit of original thinking on
your account. How, then, can the pupil, ofter spending all his
formative years under such a regime of inhibitions tending to
induce helplessness, all of a sudden, after commencement day,
show forth initiative? He cannot. It is worse than absurd to
expect it. All the pupil can do when he leaves school is to re-
act as he has been drilled to all his life. Thus he stands around
waiting for some one in authority to tell him what to do. If no
one is at hand to set his wheel in motion, he waits helplessly.
Big business wants humble slaves, wants unquestioning
labor and obedience, and at the same time howls because it
cannot get both. Blind obedience and virile, active thinking,
mental ability—initiative—never go together. It is only after
leaving school or college that there is ever any opportunity for
original thinking, and by that time it is usually too late. The
twig has been bent—Old Man Grabitall has seen to that—and-
so the tree will grow. The mark of a small, pedantic mind is
intolerance. Tell me, is a college degree any guarantee of a
liberal mind? Yes, it is—not. On the contrary, you can al-
ways count upon your classical scholar being safely sane and
reactionary. The brilliant exceptions for which we are de-
voutly thankful only attest the rule.
So long as dollars are placed above souls, profits above
principles, products above producers, the school system will
remain what it is—a vast machine taking into its hopper fresh,
original, beautiful human material and grinding therefrom stu-
pid, standardized, unlovely cogs, fit only for the slave system
of industry into which they will be plunged. ‘Beware when
God lets loose a thinker-upon the world!” said Emerson. The
only hope of perpetuating the present regime is in keeping the
workers stupid, unthinking. The day that sees any consider-
able number of thinkers among the workers will spell the doom
of capitalism, and well the masters know it!
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WHATS SO AND WHAT ISNT
i Copyrighted by JOHN M. WORK
wen
MAKING PEOPLE GOOD BY LAW
Can you make people good by law?
That depends on what you mean by making people good
by law.
If you should pass a law providing that “it is hereby enact-
ed that John Smith shall be good,” it would in all probability
not have the slightest beneficial effect upon John Smith.
But, if you were to pass a law providing that John Smith
should be surrounded by a g ood environment, and then carry
the provisions of that law into actual operation, John Smith
would begin to get better right away.
Capitalism uses the former method.
Socialism will use the latter method.
Capitalism provides by law that people shall not murder,
nor steal, nor cheat, nor fight, nor adulterate, etec., etc.. But
the environment is such that they keep right on doing these
things. :
Socialism will change the environment so that people will
no longer be driven to do evil.
Men are chiefly the product of their environment.
If their environment is bad, they are bad.
If their environment is good, they are good.
Under the present capitalist system, ‘he environment of
all men is comparatively bad. All men are thereby compelled
to be comparatively bad, whether they want to or not.
It has been said that the province of government is fo
make it hard for men to do wrong and easy for them to do
right. That is surely one of the provinces of government.
But the present system does the exact opposite.
It makes it hard for men to do right and easy for them to
do wrong.
Socialism does not propose to pass a law providing that
“it is hereby enacted that all men shall be good.”
But it does propose to change the environment of men so
that it will no longer be necessary for them to do wrong, so
that it will be easy for them to do right and hard for them to
do wrong.
We propose to establish a social system in which it will
not be to the interest of men to do wrong.
It is perfectly evident that, under such circumstances,
men will become morally better.
—
me
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John S. Miller, Esq., of Som-
erset, a contender for the Re-
publican nomination for State
Senator, was in town last
week in connection with his
campaigning duties.
lisbury for a brief visit.
Reviewing Billy Sunday’s
published opinion of a certain
prominent enemy alien, the
thoughtful person will perhaps
recall that a body usually
Arthur W. Pletcter, em- judges others by their own
ployed by the Lorain Steel weaknesses. But, then, Mr.
Company, of Johnstown, Sunday’s appeal is always to
passed through town Wednes-
day last en route to West Sa-
the sensational, and not to the
thoughtful.
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