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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
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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
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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
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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-
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W. H. McClintock.
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brother-in-law, S
Rockwood.
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Mills last week.
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cently moved on
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where Mr. McKer
raising chickens.
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dren went to Mz
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Evelyn of Boswel
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Mr. and Mrs.
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to Akron, Ohio, fc