ge Two a F lienersbate fommerciat jublished every Thursday at Meyersdale, Pa. L. N. WILSON and SON Publishers and Proprietors LEN ENGLE, Acting Editor pscription Price $1.50 per year ivertising Rates made known upon application second-class ered as 3, 1879. matter ry 29, 1929, at the post office jyersdale, Pa., under the Act of tat tattahitatita URSDAY, MAY 30, 1929 "HO PAYS THE TAXES? he last analysis,” says a western while on the subject of tax re- -“in the last analysis, the public 1 the taxes. Political evasion can- sloud this fact.” first statement is undoubtedly As to whether or not political can. becloud the fact is open to Anyhow it tries hard enough. lic does not pay the taxes. This bthing that should be understood v American whether he be a y owner or not. For it one pos- 10 tangible property on which an be levied, he must eat, and lothing, and pay rent, electric kl so on. and higher taxes are al- flected in the cost of living. The ‘turer, the business man and .the tility owner pass the taxes on to but the consumer must n because there is nobody else 1 he can pass them and he must he himself and have shelter if live. sumer, fians who practice demagoguery g a siren song about reducing man’s taxes and shifting the n to the other fellow. But try- it is another story. The way taxes is to provide more econ- povernment and more efficiency nent. Attempts to hang the bn somebody else always result rangs. bderal government has realized is program of tax reduction and led sane’ reduction with econ- veration. And at the same time have been applied to reduc- reat debt which came upon us It of the World War. Reduc- febt has in turn reduced inter- arrying charges with a result- t to the whole people. As the ranscript recently put it: thing unexampled in the his- ations that the United States ve been able, in a period of ten years, to reduce its war In $25,478,592,113 in, August, $16,808,711,272 on March 31, p reduction of more than eight If billion dollars has already » reduced the amount of mon- s to be raised for interest by Another ten years of this pol- ave the people with less bur- bt, relatively to the resources try, than they had even when of the nation was around ) 0. the real proof of financial nd orderliness in the econom- fof our government. Along reduction has gone sane tax Il down the line. There has pap attempt to fool the voters o saddle the tax burden on icular class of citizens. Econ- ficiency in government are hich count. And these qual- be carried into our local ernment as well. te to Graduate 00 Students in June h 600 students will be grad- approximately 60 graduate I receive advanced degrees nencement exercises of the iv State College on June 18, ‘ed by W. S. Hoffman, the trar. John A. H. Keith, t of public instruction, will be the commencement > baccalaureate sermon to be given by the Rev. Ed- einer, of Grinnel College, ni are expected to return hencement celebration which from June 14 to 18. A e commencement program ‘lass reunions on June 16 ses that will hold reunions B9, 1894, 1904, 1909, 1914, p4. There are three living he class of 1879 and the t committee is planning n of all three. They are putz, of Susquehanna Col- ve; Rev. W. K. Foster, iris, Florida; and F. B. f Erie. ge bust arrived at the in the National Capitol he ear. This was not hata The Place for These Warm Days Stop at Our Soda Fountain Soda Water and Ice Cream Thomas Drug Store, Inc. Leading Druggists MEYERSDALE, PA. The place where your _— Real Delicious business is appreciated Personal Personal William Keegan of Cumberland, Md., attended the alumni, banquet and dance on Wednesday evening of last week. W. M. Kunkel of Grantsville, Md., was a visitor to Meyersdale several days the past week. County Commissioner J. J. Bender was a visitor to Meyersdale Friday of last week. Clark and Bruce Ickes were spec- tators at the recent Kentucky Derby run at Louisville, Ky., and report hav- ing had a wonderful trip. The win- ning horse was Clyde Van Deusen but they say if the race had gone much farther Nashipur would have won. William Gnagey and R. I. Fishel were visitors to Cumberland, Md., {Clark was one of the graduates. Miss Mrs. Charles Baker of Springdale, Pa., who*was the house guest of Mrs. Sue Liston of Meyers Avenue, re- turned to her home the past Satur- day. Rev. Charles Baker, pastor of the Lutheran Church of Springdale, Pa., came here on last Friday and re- turned with Mrs. Baker on Saturday. Frederick Bolden has entered the employment of “Tom Weller & Co.”, local shoe dealers in the Slicer build- ing. We feel “Tom” has made a fine addition to his sales force. Miss Marian Clark, R. N., of West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa., came home to attend the alumni banquet and the graduation exercises held in Reich’s Auditorium on Thursday of last week, as her sister, Miss Elsie Clark left on Saturday morning for Pittsburgh after spending a few days last Saturday evening. The Junior Drum and Bugle Corps held practice on last Saturday after- noon. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bittner were business visitors to Johnstown on Friday of last week. Mrs. James Baird of Grantsville, was a visitor to Meyersdale last Sat- urday. Mr. and Mrs. George Ickes, Eugene Hostetler and John Gress attended the Horse Show held in Cumberland, Md., last Friday. Clarence Mimmie, who was operat- ed on for mastoids at the Wenzel hos- pital on May 6th, was discharged from that place on Friday of last week. George Blake, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa., who was called home on account of the death of his brother Glenn, re- turned to Pittsburgh on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Rayamond of Pontiac, Mjchigan, are spending a short time at the home of Mrs. Ray- amond’s mother, Mrs. James Murphy, of Trans Meyersdale, who has been very ill. William Jenkins, of Detroit; Mich., close friend and roommate of Glenn Blake, who was buried on Saturday morning returned to his home in De- troit, Mich., Saturday evening on train No. 19. Mrs. Thomas Flanagan, who spent some time at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Reich, Broadway street, returned to her home in Con- nellsville on last Saturday. Miss Mabel Bowmaster, R. N., at the West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh, r however that Cal was; tener. JTOR’S NOTICE henick Concini, deceased. rothersvalley Township, County, Pa. mentary on the above been granted to the un- persons indebted to the yn, without delay to JOHN CONCINI, Executor, thy Crowe, Meyers Avenue. y i £11 re requested to make Wash, Jr., and Metthew Kerrigan o those having claims or|Pittsburgh, Pa, hst the estate to make |their respective homes here. Garrett, Pa., R. D. 1.| Visitor to Meyersdale the past week. |; is spending several days at the home of her parents on Broadway. Mr. Paul Harding of Williamsport, Pa., Professor of Music in the Wash-, ington, Pa. High School was a Sun- day visitor at the home of Miss Doro- Mr. Harry Walsh, Sr, Harry spent Sunday at Mr. R. O. Sheets was a business ( Clark of Broadway. ed in Pittsburgh, Pa., spent Sunday at the home of his mother, Mrs. Youngstown, end at the home of Mrs. Wagner's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C.. Lepley of Meyers Avenue. home on Monday morning. cipal of the high school at Washing- ton, Pa., was visiting at the home of his street. Fiddler were visitors Tuesday. class of 1929 left for Akron, Ohio, on Tuesday where ployment. spread plague of June bugs this year. Congress will have to hurry tc get the remedy for, this in the farm re- says the Indians of the Amazon flavor their drinks with the bones of their an- with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mrs. Ella Carey returned to her home on Meyers Avenue from Cum- berland, Md., on Thursday of last week after visiting with relatives and friends there for the past few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crowe of Johnstown, Pa., spent Sunday at the home of Mr. Crowe’s sister, Miss Dorothy Crowe. Mrs. W. H. Ryland left on last Sat- urday for. Baltimore, Md., where her husband, Dr. W. H. Ryland is a pa- tient in the Brady Annex Johns Hop- kins Hospital of that place. Mrs. William Keefer, who had the sad misfortune of breaking her left arm above the wrist by falling down stairs, is getting along as well as can be expected. Mrs. J. F. Reich left for Youngs- town, Ohio, on last Wednesday, and expects to be gone for some time. Frederick D’Amico who is employ- Charles D’Amico, Broadway. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Wagner of Ohio, spent the week They returned Professor Meyers B. Horner, prin- father, Milton Horner, Gran: Mrs. Lee Saylor arid Mrs. Herbert NATION'S TRIBUTE, AT HOME AND ABROAD, TO THE BRAVE MEN WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES WHEN DUTY CALLLD a | The cold rain falls on Dun-sur-Meuse tonight, My brothers of the Marne, do you fare well, Where, by the ford, or on some wind- swept Leight, You lie among the hamlets where you fell? . Do you sleep well these wet spring nights, Where there is never any brushwood blaze, ! To cast within the dugout wavering lights, And warm the chill of these benumbing days? Romagne-sous-Montfaucon! The little towns That scatter from the Somme to the Moselle, Some silent sentry on their high-backed downs, Harks still to every far white church’s bell— The humble little chvrch of misty hills, ruined fane, scarred sills, A battered Christ looks out into the rain. Silent, all silent to the passer-by, . Those lonely mounds, or rows of crosses white, * . Beyond the need of bitter words they ke, But are they silent to their friends to- night? Can we stand whole before a crackling fire— We, who have gone in peace a year and a year, Singing and jesting, working again for hire— : Deaf to the message they would have us hear? Not while the red of poppies in the wheat, Not while a silver bugle on the breeze, Not while the smell of leather in the heat, Bring us anew in spirit overseas. WHERE ARMIES OF MEADE AND LEE GRAPPLED Visitor to Field of Gettysburg Finds It Hard to Conjure Up Satisfac- tory Bistuve) of Long-Past Heroic Deeds That Stirred the World at the Time. : 1875 T 1 P. M., July 3, 1863, the Con- federate batteries opened up on Cemetery Ridge. For two hours the air was alive with shells. Then the cannonade lulled, and out of the woods erept the Confeder- ate double battle line, over a mile long and preceded by a cloud of skir- mishers. Steadily, with disciplined valor, as if on parade, Pickett’s men advanced to the charge. “The Federal batteries opened and a cannonade such as never before had been heard upon the continent fell up- on them. A hundred guns tore great gaps in their ranks but still they pressed on. They rushed upon the Federal front and bayoneted the gun- ners at their guns. But the assault failed and whole companies rushed as prisoners into the Union lines.” * * % How the savage in the boy’s breast thrilled at the stirring recital! All the insult visited upon the unfortu- nate McClellan in the Seven Days’ bat- tle, all the ignominy of Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff was wiped out in that fiercer baptism of blood which spelled doom and downfall for the Confed- eracy. At least 200,000 men engaged on that stricken field! Twelve thou- sand stretched in death in the three- day battle! Nearly 28,000 muskets picked up on the field after the fight- ing! Reveling in the consciousness of a well-earned victory, the boy, born three years after the : event, successfully missed the horror of it, O. A. Savage writes, in the Chicago Daily News. He had no more compunction about: slaughter in itself than a Roman sol- dier or an Iroquois brave. His main regret was that he had not been pres- ent and leading a charge. He made a mental note to visit the scene of car- nage as soon as he could scrape up the train fare. 1910 “The farthest north I ever got,” said the ex-Copfederate adjutant, a to Johnstown Robert Dull, one of the graduating physician of San Antonio, “was the Devil’s den at Gettysburg. I lay among the rocks for a day and a night, and then, just before we were ordered to fall back, a bullet came along and he has secured em- Scientists are predicting a wide- ief bill in time to do any good. Perhaps that returned explorer who shattered my foot. The next thing I knew I was put into a wagon with other wounded, and I rode five days and nights during the retreat without a bite to eat or a drink of water. Then we stopped at a church, which was quickly converted into a hospital. It overflowed with wounded. “There was only one surgeon to operate, and he was a drunken brute. I lay on a board stretched over two pews, and he callously announced that ‘estors has given the bootleggers a new i i dea.—Indianapolis News. i he was going to amputate my leg, al- though my foot had been hurt. I raved Set where the white roads cross, with Where, through the window-gaps with ware ——— While stars of Alsace light the Vosges at nigh t, As long as Lorraine’s cross shines in the sun, While moons on Bar-le-Duc send bombers’ light, Car's x Underwood § lnderw # Or rain drives down the gray road to Verdun, So long shall we hear those we left behind, Where eddying smoke fell like a moun- tain wawith, ‘and protested, but strong hands held me down and some one pressed a sponge to my nostrils. As I still strug- i gled, the surgeon bent over me with a knife. I felt myself going and in ‘a last despairing effort I raised my ‘head and sank my teeth in his cheek rand hung on till everything went black. When I came to I still lay on the board, but I had my leg. I saw .the surgeon feeling around, seeking other victims. Just then the door opened and a general officer entered. He recognized me and I told him my (story. He said nothing, but drawing {his sword he whaled the surgeon with ‘the flat of it, drove him out and lat- er had him cashiered.” There were details of that retreat which make even more unpleasant reading. They took some of the glam- or out of that glorious victory, but little Peterkin was not yet cured. The trip to Gettysburg, which had been unavoidably postponed for a few dec- ades, still somehow seemed enticing. He had the money, but there were oth- er ways in which he could spend it to advantage. 1929 “So you want to see Gettysburg,” said a World-war officer in Washing- ton, indulgently. “Curious ambition! A little antiquated, of course, still it’s Interesting—historically. Might take a run up there by auto. Not much of a battle, judged by modern standards. They didn’t know a great deal about warfare. Any lesson you could draw from it would be valueless in these days of improved artillery. But don’t let me dissuade you, if you think you can get any fun out of it.” STATELY SHAFT J 2% ESTO A view of the beautiful war memorial in Edgemont park, Upper Moautclair, N. J. The shaft is of granite, while the statues om top and at the base are of hrunfe. At night this memorial is strikingly illuminated. forts of home. ! And in the din, that left us deaf and blind, We sensed the uttered message clear— “Keep faith.” To every man a different meaning, yet— . Faith to the thing that set him, at his best, : Something above the blood and dirt and wet, Something apart. May God forget the rest! Lest we forget! The months swing into years, Our souls are caught in trivial things again, We laugh at what we once beheld with tears, In petty strife we ease our souls their pain. The cold rain falls in France! Ah, send anew The spirit that once flamed so high and bright, When, by your graves, we bade you brave adicu, When Taps blew so much more than just “Good night.” CURTIS WHEELER, First Division. ~From the New York Times. The boy that still remained in the man after half a century made up his mind to go. Four women went with him, for what purpose he was un- able to discover. There was no indica-, tion that any of them had previously heard of Gettysburg. But why do women do anything? A journey across Maryland, through historic Frederick and Emmetsburg, with the Blue ridge on the west, and thence into southern Pennsylvania! Presently monuments began to appear, springing up unexpectedly in the most incongruous places—beside wayside pumps, in plowed fields, at kitchen doors, beside woodpiles. Like lone- Some people wearing . their Sunday best in a week-day crowd! Then pro- saic Gettysburg, busily tapping cash registers, reaping tangible reward for past misfortunes! It is ea 7 to visualize the town as it must have appeared when the tide of battle swept through and around it. Little or nothing has been changed. Bullet holes in the buildings have been carefully preserved. An unkind thought that some new holes may have been added since is instantly banished as’ base and unworthy of the friendly inhabitants, * * * Out to the battlefield! Oak Hill and Seminary Ridge! The names of he- roes preserved in historic landmarks. Reynolds, McPherson, Hancock, Bar- low! The Peach Orchard and the Wheatfield! Round Top and- Little Round Top! Willoughby Run and Shead’s Grove! The Devil's Den and the Valley of the Shadow of Death! Monuments as thick as brigadiers or blackberries! Sergeant Crippon for- ever shaking his fist! Warren on his rock! Father Corby on his! Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Ridge! 1 Disillusionment ! Peach Orchard with the peach trees gome. Like any corner lot! Meade’s headquarters look- ing like a small gas station! The scene of Pickett’s charge a stretch of flat field indistinguishable from the monotonous landscape past which your automobile rolls through any average countryside! Not thus did the enthusi- ast envisage that mighty theater of conflict over which the contending armies struggled in blood and sweat. Only by shutting one’s eyes resolutely on the prosaic every-day scene could one call up an adequate vision of that titanic encounter, the long lines of gray moving to mutilation and death, the belching batteries, the riderless horses, the flashing bayonets, the smoke enshrouded field, the horror and frenzy of close combat with cracking pistols and clubbed muskets, the hell that is battle and the Gethsemane tha; is defeat. One could just as well have con- Jured up the picture amid all the com- Obligation and Privilege For twenty-five years to come, so the statisticians tell us, there will be survivors of the Grand Army. That we should cherish them tenderly is an evident obligation as it is a high priv- lege. No one could ever meet death for hig country without the hope of im- SUMMIT MILLS Mrs. Frank Firl and children spent a few days last week with Clarence Maust’s near Berlin. Mr. Carl Engle and family moved to Central City Mon@ay. Mrs. Earl Brenneman and daughter returned home from Jeroome Satur- «| day. Mr. Dallas Hemming spent Satur- day at Lloyd Dunmeyer’s at Shaw Mines. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Firl and chil- dren were callers at Urias Firl’s Sun- day. Mrs. Harry Christner and children of near St. Paul spent Monday with Mrs. Christner’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Grew. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Grew spent Sunday in Uniontown. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brenneman and daughter. spent Sunday at L. A. Faid- ley’s. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Firl and daugh- ter spent Sunday near St. Paul with Mrs. Firl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Opel. : ton spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Mrs. Irvin Miller's; Mrs. F. E. Witt and sons Junior and Leland were callers at Irvin Firl’s ‘Wednesday. / Mrs. Dallas Hemmings and daugh- ter Grace, Mable Lindeman spent Wednesday at Lloyd Dunmeyer’s at Shaw Mines. Mrs. H. P. Burkholder and daugh- ters Plaetius and Arlene spent Wed- nesday at Walter Glotfelty’s in Mey- ersdale. ? ” Mr. and Mrs. James Crossin and children of Ohio spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. Ida Thomas. Mrs. Harry Christner and children of near St. Paul spent Sunday at Ir- vin Miller’s. ; Mrs. Elizabeth Rishel of Somerset has returned and is again taking care of her father, Mr. J. A. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Oran Lindeman and children spent Sunday evening with Roy Lindeman’s in Meyersdale. ViM Miss Margaret Fike of ‘Windber and Miss Helen Fike of Somerset spent last Saturday and Sunday at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Fike. _ Mr. and Mrs. James Ringler And family of Barlsville, Md., spent last’ Sunday at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Ringler. Steve Solomon and son Ernest who are employed at Wilmerding spent last Sunday at their home. Mrs. Emanuel Swearman of Mey- ersdale spent last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Geiger. Henry Suder left last Sunday for Canton, Ohio, to seek employment. Mrs. Bryar Marker and child of near Garrett spent last Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Seigner. William Engle visited relatives sev- eral days last week in Frostburg. Asa Hoar and family of Acosta, visited relatives in Vim last Sunday. Vernon Hast of Cumberland. spent last Sunday at the home of Mrs. Emma Walker. Mrs. Charles Schrader entertained a quilting party at her home on Tues- day. Miss Leora Fike of Johnstown spent several weeks at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Fike. Weekly Health Talk “It was to be expected that in this electrical age, contrivances would be de- veloped to take literally the heart out of exercise. And so it has come to pass that vibrating machines and reducers are now offered in many attractivy mod- els to those of middle age or more who are over-weight or under-weight,” said Dr. Theodore B. Appel, Secretary of Health, today. “The advantages of this type of con- trivance are plain. Instead of putting the heart violently to work, the electrical motor accomplishes much the same phy- sical result with practically no strain on the heart muscle. But there are other matters to be considered in this connec- tion also. “In the last analysis all machines of the type under discussion are valuable largely as a therapeutic agent. And this, therefore, automatically calls for professional advice before one submits himself to its use. Tt is indeed a mis-. take for anyone to prescribe a course of vibrating treatment for himself, or in- deed any other form of exercise when one is past forty or forty-five, without first receiving the approval of a physi- cian who intimately knows one’s physical condition. “One must however not forget that old fashioned exercise and old fashioned sweat are nature’s method of developing and keeping body tone. Therefore, all things being equal, controlled activities that will produce these results are after all better than artificial methods. “On the other hand, where hearts are. weak, where bodies through over-indul- gence have become too heavy, or through excesses of many types have become too thin, the electric vibrating machine has mortality.—Cicero. much in its favor for those of middle age or more. Blair and Evelyn Curley of Boyn- | o For ( For E For 1 For I Fifth are the for the Corre in butto in fabric are goin want th help yo Avenue appeara YOU otherwi ST. PAU Mr. and Mrs. children of Akro: Friday until Mon Mrs. Speicher’s pa W. H. McClintock. Mrs. Amy Sipp] Sunday visiting a brother-in-law, S Rockwood. Mr. and Mrs. spent several day: relatives and fri Md. Mr. and Mrs. V had been living property here, m Mills last week. Mr. and Mrs. Rc cently moved on known as the Sin where Mr. McKer raising chickens. Rev. and Mrs. k dren went to Mz first of this weel there. . Mrs. Eber Coc Evelyn of Boswel week at her paren Norman and Pi a well for Geo: struck a splendid B. J. Winters h with his life one « at work in the jumped the track between the car Fortunately no bo The Woman's M the Reformed Chu gular session at Geo. Beals on Sa 2:00 p. m. Pauline Sechler last week at the mother, Mrs. Mag BLOUG Bali The Blough I their first defeat . Bon Air ball tean mond, the score be Falls « Miss Josephine ! fortune of falling Bridge into Ston Bennock was lea which gave away. Walter Yonish. M bruises of the ba the head. Mr. and Mrs. Dobbins and Pea) to Akron, Ohio, fc
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