THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL ‘. sammm——— {he Mrnersvate fommereiat | Joiph SF. ifn Published every Thursday by the 4 EBER X. COCKLEY, L Businegs Manager. HERMAN G. REFEREY, Editor Entered at the Meversdale postoffice 8s seeond class mail matter. Subscription price, $1.25 per year. Advertising rates, all marter, 10 cents per inch net, 5 cents per inch for com position work. 20 per. cant ixrra Los Dréferred position; small readers, 5 cents per line; Business Directory, 50 cents per month. ‘Ask for prices on joh printing. AAA AAAI DI AISI NPI Fs § “Pha practically stationary population of France has forj some time been the subject of comment, but with their limit- ed territory it is a question whether the people as a Whole are not better off with the pres-| ent population than they would be with a larger one. More people mean greater conges- tion and more intense competi- tion. During the last century Great Britain, Germany, Aus- tria, and Russia have trebled in population. Had France done the same, she would now have nearly 80,000,000 people, and it is doubtful whether this would have added to the hap- piness and welfare of the race. “It is undoubtedly better to have a people proportionate in number to land area and nat- ural resources than to have a teeming population with the consequent economic problems. It would seem more in keeping with modern ethics to strive _ for a people comppsed of in- telligent, physically’ sound in- dividuals free from disease and properly housed, fed, and clothed, whose days furnished time for both labor and recrea- tion under conditions which ‘conduced to physical and men- tal welfare and not to deterior- ation, vather than to strive for mere numbers.”—Dr. John W. Trask, assistant surgeon gen- eral of the United States pub- lic health service, in “Vital Statistics.” tn ee emmenee—et S—— te ot Ste “Jt is by no means certain that any great increase in the annual number of births is even desirable. Quality, not quan- tity, is what we are after. A necessary sequence to a high infant mortality rate is the larger number of children who, having weathered the storms of the first year, reach the ha- ven of comparative safety of the other years of life in a bat- tered, weakened and crippled condition, such as forever han- dicaps them in becoming effi- cient social units. “Tt is not to bring a multi- tude of children into the world, only to see them wither and die in the short space of a twelve- month, but to surround those which are born to us, in fewer numbers, maybe, than those of yore, with such efficacious safe- ‘guards as to insure the passage of the greatest number through the fatal year (the first year) of life with constitution un- weakened by the manifold ac- cidents of this period of exist- ence.’—Dr. J. W. Schere- schwesky, of the Public Health Sd Marine hospital, Washing- on. I that our clothes will be all wool lasts the longest; that the tailoring will be careful a lof the Committee of Public A A a AI PA ATT Ad INIT NAS IT Tf STN et ‘We guarantee Up-to-date Ganeral Director and Undertaker Automobile service if desired Upholstering and Repair Work a Specialty Office 229 Genter Street Residence 309 Aokth Ttreet Toth Thones ANAS AIATNP AA IAT PTE et NINE AL, Driving It Home! Let us drive home to you the fact that no washwe- man can wash clothes in as sanitary a manner as that in which the work ig done at our laundry. We use much more water, change the water many more times, use purer and more costly soap, and keep all the clothes in constant motion during the entire process. It is simply a matter of having proper facilities. Meyersdale Steam Laundry ees FARM WOMEN RALLY. The Society of Farm Women, a new branch of the Agricul- tural Labor Service Committee Safety, is rapidly extending its membership among the farm women of the State. Member- ship in the Society is open to every woman actively engaged | in some department of farm | work, chairmen being named through the County Managers {for Farm Labor. | This week Frank D. Coder, [Farm Labor Manager for Som- | erset County, named the fol- lowing additional Township | Chairmen for Somerset Coun- ty: Mrs. J. C. Speicher, Stony Creek Township. Mrs. Oliver Critchfield, Black Township. Mrs. E. E. Kiernan, Somer- set Township. Mrs. Myrtle Hillegas, Fair- hope Township. Mrs. A. G. Yutzy, Greenville Township. Mrs. Elsie Croyle, maugh Township. Miss Nettie McMillen, Mid- dle Creek Township. : As Somerset County is the home of the Society of Farm Women, the County should have a large and-active mem- bership, which it no doubt will, as time goes on: .. batty Cone- Patronize our Advertisers. i ‘One Carload Every Two Minutes exa| 15,000 POUNDS T : | MEAT A MINUTE |=, | > =| GQING TO ALLIES| at "the ver tp cx | One Hog Out of Every|.. ivade| Fur Being Sent |m bid Abroad. om to so rol on’ ge .ond| Shipmehts of meat have been going R. i» the {to the alls for some time at the rate | a 70] of 15,000pounds a minute. As the 3 i 1 917.|shipmend are kept up during a tenj i bb * of | hour daf they amount. to 9,000,000} yy, * han|pounds d@ily. The meat goes to sol- clo to the | diers of $he United States and the al-| ¢3d as lies and fo the civillan population of} eo I f syget]all the $buntries at war with Ger-{ | many. Jo | MO Amn Gob arate bm wmma—=s = | ~~Chicago Tribune, June 5, 1913 Thele statements were mpde by a prom- | inent rdpresentative of the Unged States Food | Adminiftration. No ifdustry in the country|has played a more injportant part in helping to win the war | than tht American live- fi stock z)d meat-packing industr Switty& Company alone hagbeen forward- ing over J0Q car loads of meat and{meat products per week for overseas shipment sald Swift & Cpmpaty, U.S. A. because that wears the “est and nd enduring; that the dyes will be fast and lasting. ‘We guarantee that clothes made by us will not need to be replaced soon; that they will be completely satisfactory to you in every respect; and that they will be economical of the country’s resources of materials and labor. Our label in -a suit i s a pledge of this--a small thing to look for, a big thing to find Hart, Schaffner & Marx This line of goods handled - in Meyersdale exclusively by Hartley & Baldwin Xx x ¥ x xy mmoENlx Xx XixxxxXxxx¥¥ YOUR RED (ROSS - . An Army Without Gun By MEREDITH NICHLSON O fithe Vigilantes. HE Red Cross is the greate instrument of mercy the world has ever see. Noble as the service of mercy and helpfulness ws in Civil War days, the Red Cross surpasses it measurably not only in the range and variety of 1 effort, but in efficiency and effectiveness. The Red Cross is, we may say, e arms of the mothers of the world reached out itheir sons to bind up their wounds and comfort thn. The Red Cross is an army without a gun tk wages war only upon suffering and heartache, Where the flag of the stars goes there the bann of the Red Cross must fly beside it. We watebur boys go forth to war with a spirit of hopefulnebecause we know that this great agency of humity presses close behind them: that its work is ndncidental, but the intelligent directed effort ofhe of the. most marvelous ‘organizations ever ctrived by American genius. We have all contributed to the Retross; we shall be called upon again to contrib: to its funds,—again and perhaps again. Anwe will respond again and yet again! For this iSwar for the defense of civilization, and we of gt free, splendid, glorious America, have every tention that it shall be fought with the army ofe Red Cross solidly supporting our soldiers.’ abroad. i SUGAR RULES MORE STRINGENT Destruction of Ships Calls For Increased Measures of - Conservation, HIT; poe Merchants May Sell Only Two Pounds Country. New and increased measures for sugar saving have been announced by ‘Howard Heinz, Food Administrator for Pennsylvania. His statement fol- lows repeated warning to the public from Mr. Hoover regarding the seri- ousness of the situation. More rigid conservation than ever has now been forced upon the nation suddenly by the recent sinking of ships by German submarines off tbe American coast, and the interruption of steady ship- ments. In view of this condition, therefore, the previous ruling has been restored regarding the purchase of sugar for domestic purposes; nanely, not more than two pounds to one purchaser .in cities and towns and not to exceed 5 pounds in the rural districts. This ruling does not affect the orders re- garding canning requirements during the canning ,k season. If, absolutely necessary, the total quantity that can be purchased by housewives may have some limitation placed upon it. Sugar for less essential PUIrpOSeS and manufacturers of non-essentials will be curtailed in their use of sugar after the first of July. It is the desire of Mr, Heinz to aveid, if possible, the issuance of sugar rationing cards, but unless there is a general curtailment in the table use of sugar ane! for pies and cakes, in the near future. Information was brought to the at- tention of the Administration within the past few days, showing that in a number of cafes and restaurants the open sugar bowl on the table is still retained. Ample notice has now been ziven of the illegality of this practice. Investigators are gathering names and evidences in, such cases. AMERICAN FARMER HAS FED ALLIES Producer and Consumer Work- ing Togather Has Achieved Victory For Democracy. The American people have achieved a victory for democracy. They hdve proved they can govern themselves. Through all sorts of agencies the Unit- ed States Food Administration has en- deavored to bring home to the nation the vital necessity for sending wheat, meat, fats and sugar “over there.” What has been the response? Before the war we used to send across about 85 million pounds of pork products every month. In 1916, before we were really “in it,” there was a great demand, and so we began to send more. We even got up to 121,009,000 pounds a month. But our herds of hogs decreased in doing this, for we were increasing our own consumption to a great extent. That meant that there had to be a big change some- where and so, in the latter half of 1917, even with all our conservation, ‘we got up only to 74 million pounds a month, Now comes the startling part of the story. Today, with practically’ the same herd of hogs in relation to the population that we had before the war, we are exporting about 285 million pounds every month that is more than three times as much as in peace times. As for beef, before the war we used to send over 17,000,000 pounds a manth, while today we are shipping 70.000,000 pounds a month. Perhaps wheat has been our big- gest problem. We have realized how very important it is to give the Allies wheat. To them, the ‘staff of life,” the “daily bread” of their prayers, is the wheat loaf. Our wheat crop of 1917 was larger ny the 1916 crop, bat it was more than' one hundred and fifty-five million bushels less than the average production for the vears 1911 Jo 1915." If we had eaten as much as we usually do. we would have had only twenty million bushels to send We realized then, and we are still realizing, that we must not eat as much as usual. We have sent one hundred and twenty million bushels znd by September 1 we will have in- creased this total amount by millions. Let the German militarists still ar- gue that “democracy is a failure” They do not know the democracy of Wmerica! : many sugar cards are not an impossibility | i | i i { i § i { SALES STRICTLY LIMITED | at One Time in City and Five ih | | HEINZ URGES CO SINpLICITY — Wartime Brings Necessity ‘For | Economy and Earnest Conservation Effort. TATE i od aad AVOID ALL EXTRAVAGANCE F- PRESSE “At Public Banquets and in Home En. tertainment Needs of the Nation Should be Considered. Howard Heinz, Federal Food Ad- ministrator for Pennsylvania, made am: emphatic statement regarding the- waste of food which he believes may occur in too many instances, in pri- vate homes through elaborate dinner parties, and at public entertainments in the shape of costly banquets. He said: ‘ “At intervals, for months past, I have read in the columns of the daily newspapers of the state accounts of elaborate private entertainments in the way of luncheons; dinners and sinlilar functions in which there doubtless is, in at least some instances, a great and unnecessary waste. The food is often prepared and. served on such occasions in such a way that it is practically impossible to utilize any of the remains of the banquet or make i available for use the food in any other , form, - “Our people should refrain from elaborate dinners and social entertain- ments where costly meals are. a fea- ture. This class of social functions. should be marked by war-time sim- | plicity. In all things there should be: | strict observance of Food Administra- will undoubtedly. be greatly reduced : tion rules. The number of extra meals. should ‘be minimized. They are, for the most part, unnecessary. “We are at war. The families of England have meat only twice a week.. In France the population between 13: and 60 years of age is permitted to have only one and a half slices of bread per day per person. To win the: war we must not only preach. conser- vation, but practice it. i “I am not only oppusing the idea of’ private dinners, public banquets or so- cial functions, but I insist that war- time simplicty should prevail at theo: ' by moderation in the number of cours-! es served. I urge upon eur people: that dinners, luncheons and banquets: should be an example to the world of’ rigid conservation of food. Portions should be smaller. They should be: prepared and served in accordance’ with fond laws. Articles of diet not on the restricted list should be used. “At commercial and business gather- ings an example should be set and a menu in accordance with the, strict requirements of the war-times in which we live be offered. “Food waste is a crime. It is a crime against the starving millions of: Europe, who are asking us for food; it is a crime against our soldiers and the soldiers of our Allies, who are fighting for us on the battle fields of Europe.” “SAVE ICE,” SAYS FOOD DIRECTOR Mr. Heinz Points Out Need For Conservation and Wams Against Waste, ; “Saving of ice has become an impera-~ tive duty on the part of all consumers,” said Howard Heinz, U. 8. Food Admin- istrator for Pennsylvania.” “It is true that large supplies % natural ice were stored last winter, but it is a ques- tion whether the supply will be suffi- cient to meet the heavy demands which an unusually hot summer may bring about. Certainly. all waste sheuld be eliminated. | “There will be heavy drafts on the ice supply this summer for refrigerat- tion purposes in the shipment of meat abroad, as well as for the transporta- tion of fruit and fresh vegetables in this country. Preparation should be made by the public to meet this stu- ation, and I hope for the co-operation of the people of Pennsylvania in con- serving the supply. : “Manufacturers of artificial ice may find themselves handicapped by the shortage in the ammonia supply. De- mand for ammonia in the manufacture of ammunition is steadny increasing, and, as the war goes on, these increas. es will continue. The ammonia situ- ation is not serious or threatening now, but it is just as well to provide against possibiliti y py Sp P ities as well as proba- “Householders should never allow ice to lie on the doorstep and melt after it” has been delivered from the wagon. It will last longer in the ice- box or refrigerator if wrapped in a thick covering of newspaper or cloth Restaurants and hotels which are in the habit of serving a large heap of cracked ice in deep dishes when serv- ing clams may well save something in that service. Dispensers of the vari ous beverages will be able to effect economy in the use of the matter me foe if nvigie “There is no doubt that thousands of tons of ice are, wasted every summer and a large part of this waste is avoid=- able.” [1 gh gh p— E—— YE —— JEr— f———— | 5
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