THOMPSON'S DATES
Glencoe, Friday, June 14th.
Riverside Park, Saturday, June 15th,
Boynton, Monday, June 17th.
Coal Run, Tuesday, June 18th.
Garrett, Wednesday, June 19th.
Rockwood, Thursday, June 20tL.
Confluence, Friday, June 21st.
Elk Lick, Saturday, June 22nd.
Hollsopple, Sunday, June 23rd, to Tuesday, June 25th.
Hooversville, Wednesday, June 26th and Thursday, June
27th.
Windber, Friday, June 28th, to Sunday, June 30th.
THE KAISER.
Ah! The Kaiser just hates to be seen
So he jumps into his flying machine
Or hides under water in his submarine;
Tis strange, yes wonderful it must seem
To whip the world—or what does he mean—
He must surely be in a slumbering dream!
To settle he might, but in his own way—
If not he will linger till some other day.
Indeed, he’s aged; but sometimes pluck and gay
For he drills his subjects keen and true traditions say.
He tells them, “Do your best, your life must weigh
In military plans,” as we often heard him say.
The Kaiser was once a man heroic known
Who, on the high seas, had drawn the war zone
Methinks to conquer nations and make his universal home:
So well had he prepared he thought never to loan;
For years he sharped his sword on the great hone
To prey upon our people and seize the capitol dome!
Contributed.
“Foex urbis,” Cicero ex- how to make use of that vast
claimed : mob, Burke adds in- conflagration of principles and
dignantly; a crowd, a multi-| virtues which crackles and
tude, a population, these words bursts into flame at certain
are quickly uttered; but no hours. These re feet, these
matter! What ds I care that naked arms, thes rags, this|
they go barefoot? They can- ignorance, this ng this |
not read; all the ‘worse. Will darkness may be employed for
you abandon them on that ac-!the conquest of the ideal. Look
count? Will you convert their, through the people and you
distress into a curse? Cannot | will perceive the truth ; the vile
light penetrate these masses? sand which you trample under-
Let us revert to that ery of foot, when cast into the furn-
light and insist upon it. Light, ace and melted, will become
light! Who knows whether | splendid crystal, and, by its
‘this opaqueness may not be-jaid, Galileo and Newton dis-
come transparent? For are not | cover planets.—Victor Hugo.
. revolutions themselves trans-|
figurations? Come, philoso- |
phers—teach, enlighten, illum-,
ine, think aloud, speak loudly, |
run joyfully into the sunshine,
fraternize with the itd of
places, announce the glad tid-| pyrox will kill potato bugs and all
ings, spread pamphlets around, » | chewing insects, get it at Habel &
proclaim the right, sing the pninips.
f Maresillaise, sow enthusiasm, Maple sugar wanted also potatoes |
and pluck green branches from + Flobel & Pallioe.
{ the oaks! Make a whirlwind *' 72° |
of the idea? This crowd may | Highest prices paid for butter and |
be sublimated, so let us learn | egss at Habel & Phillips’.
hogs. $3.00 per hundred at
Habel & Phillips’.
% For REPRESENTATIVES IN
“THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Eber K Cockley and Herman G. Lepleys
"REPRESENTING OF pLAl IA PEOP
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JHE ViEwp of EVERYWAERE§
INTERNATIONAL NOTES
The New York State Federation of Agriculture is the name
of a new organization of farmers, who have organized them-
selves into an aggressive federation for the purpose of electing
farmers to the Legislature of the Empire State, and for other
purposes.
At Lawrenceville, Georgia, seven firms charged with sell-
ing flour at excess, prices have been ordered by the Food Ad-
ministration to refund overcharges paid on flour by their cus-
tomers and to close their stores for two days each. Placards
on the doors will show why these stores are closed.
The Austro-Hungarian Social Democratic Labor Party has
passed, at a conference recently held, resolutions denouncing
the Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest peace treaties and requesting
the governments of the Central Powers to offer enemy govern-
ments a general peace based on the establishment of a League
cf Nations of all countries which carry out general disarma-
ment and agree to settle all international disputes by arbitra-
tion courts, the renunciation of all annexations and indemnities
and the granting of the full right of self-determination to the
border peoples torn from Russia.
J. F. Emme, Socialist candidate for Mayor of St. Paul, Min-
resota, receiv red 10,264 votes 'in the recent municipal election,
out of a total of 32,000 votes. The normal Socialist vote is
less than 4,000.
The national campaign of the Socialist Party for the mem-
bers of Congress was formally opened in Chicago, Sunday, with
Morris Hillquit and Seymour Stedman as the keynote speakers.
“Industrial Democracy” and “The Right to a Fair Trial” were
Rye middling is very good to feed |
the subjects of the speakers.
President Wilson has written a second letter to Governor
Stephens of California uring the pardon of Thomas J. Mooney.
Thousands of 100-pound bags of Louisiana potatoes are
being sold daily and the demand is keeping ahead of the sup-
ply as a result of a cost sale campaign conducted by the New
Orleans city department of agriculture, following an expose of
| the situation by The Item of that city, when farmers were get-
ting as low as "50 cents a hundred pound sack and consumers
were paying $5 for the same potatoes.
The United States Senate has taken up the question of pro-
viding return transportation for allied men at the close of the
war.
m— FEATURING
SERGT. E M PEY
ARTHUR GUY
(HIMSELF)
Friday and Sapurdoy
5 N AUDITORIUM o
The Greatest Production In
the History of Motion Pictures.
“Over the Top” With Empey
;s a Voice From the Trenches.
Admission,
Children 25 cents;
Adults 40 cents.
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® THE SOCIALIST TICKET }
FOR GOVERNOR
Charles Sehl, of Philadelphia.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
Dalton T. Clarke, of Washington. \
SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS,
William Adams, of Pittsburgh.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS AT
LARGE,
Cora M. Bixler, of Lancaster.
John C. Euler, of Erie.
Henry W. Schlegel, of Allentown.
Harry T. Vaughn, of Wheatland.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS, 23RD
DISTRICT,
Louis S. Mellinger, of Dawson.
SENATOR IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
Andrew Lindstrom, of Holsopple.
REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL AS-
~ SEMBLY,
IN Eber K. Cockley, of Garrett,
/ h Herman G. Lepley, of Meyersdale, R. D.
/ \ “REPRESENTING THE VIEWPOINT OF
iN PLAIN PEOPLE EVERYWHERE.”
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SS ES TS EE Ea -EIEXT
CO-OPERATION
“For the Common Good.”
Co-operation is defined in political economy as, ‘The asso-
iation of a number of persons for their common benefit.” Co-
operation among the common people is essential to preserve
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Nyy
Ness 2585S SSceoacseessesy
In America, as in Germany, the plain people must come
together in associations for their common benefit, or suffer the
consequences resulting from a lack of such organizations. That
person who opposes co-operation by the common people, claim-
ing to be their representative and spokesman, whether his
title be kaiser, king or just plain mister, is not the representa-
tive of the common people, but a traitor to the plain people
everywhere.
Any person, anywhere, who is not at heart a traitor to
the plain people everywhere, is eligible to become a member
of the Commercial Co-operative Council and a conditional
part owner of The Meyersdale Commercial.
Join the Commercial Co-operative Council today and ar-
gue the question tomorrow—or the next day you meet a Com-
mercial reader who is not a member.
NEW BRANCH OF PUBLIC | convenience of the membership
of each branch. The meeting
SAFETY COMMITTEE. place in each instance is the
The Society of Farm Women home of one of the members.
is a new service branch of the| Several members may combine
Civilian Service and Labor De-| to play the part of hostesses at
partment of the Pennsylvania each meeting, thus relieving a
Committee of Public Safety.|Single member of extra work
Founded several years ago in and inconvenience. Nominal
Somerset County, by Mrs.|dues are fixed.
Frank B. Black, as a social and| The meetings start at 10
helpful organization for farm-| o'clock A. M. and follow a set
ers’ wives and farm women, | program, including some form
the membership will now be|of recreation. The Society
extended to all counties of the [conducts a campaign of help-
State, with the social and help-| fulness, partly aimed to sys-
ful features continued but|tematize housekeeping on the
made useful to the work of farms and to eliminate drudg-
winning the war. ery.
Branches of the Society now| The chief aim in enlarging
exist in Somerset, Lancaster,|the membership is to bring a
Cambria and Blair Counties. | full realization of the war and
Its state-wide organization is|its purposes into the rural
being undertaken by Mrs. homes, which do not enjoy the
Black, as State Chairman, in| same advantages as city homes
connection with the work of the | for keeping in touch with the
Agricultural Labor Service sec-| war situation. The Society is
tion of the Committee of Pub-|expected to be of great assist-
lic Safety, of which Lieutenant | ance in furthering the patriotic
Governor Frank B. McClain is|response which the government
Chairman. Mrs. Black has]| desires from farmers and farm
‘headquarters at the Philadel-| workers.
phia offices of the Committee.
Membership in the Society is]
open to any woman actively en-| Full line of flour substitutes at Hab-
gaged. in some department of | el & Phillips’.
farm work. Chairmen are be-
ing named for each county
through the County Managers
for'’Parm labor, and. these” = 7
Chairmen will promote the or- OLD FALSE TEETH WANTED
ganization of the Society in the DONT MATTER IF BROKEN
various counties. The plan isl we Pay up to 15 dollars t
to have the Society split up in-| Also cash for Old Gold, Silver
to branches or chapters, simi-|proken Jewelry. Check sent by re.
lar to Red Cross or Welfare | turn mail. Goods held 10 days for
Work chapters. These branch- | senders approval of our offer. Ma-
Salt lake herring 13 cents per pound
at Habel & Phillips’.
4 graph’s master production,
Sergt. Arthur Guy Roper in
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jot meeting being fixed at the|s, Sth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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