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THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1913.
THE) CITIZEN
SeniMVockly Founded 10 08; Weekly Founded 1844.,
Published Tuesdaya and Fridays by
E. B. HARDENBERGH PRESIDENT
H. C. VAN ALSTTNE and E. B. CALLAWAY MANAGING EDITORS
FRANK T. A'OODWARD , ADVERTISING MANAGER
AND FEATURE WRITER.
DIRECTORS :
L. J, DPErMNOKn.
H, B. ALLEN,
TERMS:
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money or any Items that contain advertising matter, will only be admitted to this
"iijii -v.v.,.w.i,n nr. tnr- nhnHtnhin niirnnnpa wliArn n. fpft In charired. will be nuh-
lllhed at half rates. Cards-of thanks, 60
of respect will be charged for at tho rate
application.
FRIDAY, NOVEMHEK 14, 1013.
THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY.
Self-pity, morally, mentally and
physically tends to depress and
weaken the .victim, to render him
ineffective and impractical. The
person who is chronically sorry for
himself becomes a nuisance. He
thinks the world owes him some
thing, and his ono ambition in life
Js to collect the debt. Woman's
World.
Everybody tho farmer included
will be Interested in tho new State
law regulating weights and meas
ures which takes effect on January
1, less than two months from now.
Heavy penalties are provided for vio
lations of the new law. The 'fines
will reach as high as $250. Take
the item of potatoes, for instance.
Beginning with New Year's day the
standard bushel of potatoes will bo
CO pounds, and not 50 pounds. The
custom of buying from the grower
CO pounds for the bushel, and sell
ing 5C pounds to the customer, will
subject the dealer to a severe pen
alty. All partes interested should
note this carefully. Tho old custom
of measuring a bushel of vegetables,
etc., will after that date be a matter
of the past. For tho information
and convenience of Citizen readers
we publish the new schedule of
weights and measures in another
column. Better cut it out and save
it for reference.
, Arbitration nearly always results
in a compromise of some kind a
splitting the difference of tho opposi
tion so to speak in order that both
factions may be satisfied. So it was
m the demands of the railway con
ductors and trainmen for an increase
in wages. The men get an increase
of 7 per cent, which is about one-half
of what they asked for but they are
satisfied. By this it will mean that
the railroads will necessarily be
compelled to add ?G, 000, 000 to their
yearly pay rolls. The gross earnings
of the railroads are running much
higher than last year hut so are their
expenses. The addition of an extra
?G,000,000 to the expense list will
strengthen their demand for tho 5
per cent. Increase In freight rates. If
the railroads succeed in this tho
shipper will in a way pay for the
increase of the salaries of the con
ductors and trainmen. The arbitra
tion was not a question of principle
but a question of how much or lit
tle, a settlement with the men could
ho affected.
LET THE INDEPENDENT
SHOW
UP.
Tho political gangsters of tho state
have always fooled the people with
the statement that local taxpayers
did not have to pay any state tax.
Every man and newspaper editor of
Intelligence knew this statement was
false and a guy becauso every dollar
paid into the state treasury as taxes,
whether by corporations, automobll
Ists or anyone else, is a dollar of the
people's money. By a direct person
al tax thej people of the state have
been paying into the state treasury
more than a million a year. Inde
pendent, Nov. 12.
Now, will tho Independent please
got right down to "glue and 'brass
tacks?" Let it publish a copy of its
own tax assessment printing in black
type that part of it where its editor
pays a Stato tax, showing the amount
of the samo, and on what the tax is
based.
jAlong with that publication lot it
also print a similar statement of
some ordinary farmer not an auto
mobile owner just a plain farmer.
Such publication will help clear
up this matter a whole lot. The In
dependent should quit " fooling tho
people " and prove its assertions by
Its own experience.
RUSSIA SAVED FROM DISGRACE.
Amid scenes or unparailed excite
ment Mendel Bellls, the Jew, was ac
qultte Monday night of the charge
of the blood ritual murder of An
drew Yushlnsky, the 13-year-old
Christian boy who was slain in
March, 1911. The caso has been on
trial before tho high court at Kleff,
Russia, since October 8. Tho caso
has attracted attention all over the
world where press accounts could
bo received, and tho sentiment ran
high among the Jews of America
who declared that the blood of
Christians had never been used in
the ritual of the Jewish religion and
declared thaBeiles was being tried
tho Citizen Publishing Company.
E. B. HAllDENDKROII
w. w. Wood
cents, memorial poetry and resolutions
of a cent a word. Advertising rates on
on the charge simply to stir up an
other revolt against the Russian
Jews to drive them forever out of
that country.' .
The acquittal of Bellls has saved
Russia from a disgrace so great that
It Is almost unconceivable. In no
other country could a Jew have been
tried on a charge of killing a Chris
tian in order to get his blood for
ritual use. The charge was made by
pagans against Christians in the
early days of Christianity, and in the
darkest ages it was sometimes made
by Christians against the Jews. The
fact has long since been repudiated
by official evidence.
JUDGE HENDERSON.
As waSy anticipated, Judge Hen
derson proved the most popular
candidate for Judge of the Superior
Court that came before the people.
He was so well known that he need
ed no advertising. He polled a
splendid vote, and will make an ac
ceptable Judge.
A few words about Judgo Hen-'
deiaon will be appreciated by our
readers. Wo take the following
from an exchange newspaper pub
lished in the Judge's part of the
Keystone State:
" Judge Henderson ' lives in
Meadville, Pa., and was born in,
Doylestown, Bucks county. He has
served on the Superior bench for 10
years and is generally indorsed by
the bench and bar of the state. Dur
ing the Civil war Judge Henderson
carried a musket for three years.
At the end of the fighting he finish
ed his education and was admitted
to the practice of law in Crawford
county. He served on the Common
Pleas bench of that county before
he was elected a member of the Su
perior Court.
"BOILER PLATE."
The Independent in its issue for
November 5 said:
The Independent could have had the
amendments to publish and also tho vast
amount of advertising sent out by the
highway propaganda If It had promised
to "go along" with tho gang.
This was bluff, pure and simple,
something thrown out to make the
farmers believe that tho Independent
was suffering financial persecution
and loss because of its love for the
people.
The Citizen called the Independ
ent's bluff as follows:
If what the Independent says Is true,
let "tho goods" be produced. If any
body made that paper such a proposition,
when and where was it made? If any
such offer was made, the story of It in
detail would have been "hot stuff" for
use during the recent campaign.
And now, dear reader, please read
tho following from the Independent
of November ,12, and note, how that,
paper refused that wonderful lot of
"advertising" that was making its
contemporaries rich "advertising,"
mind you, that was being paid for by
"the people's" money. Hero is the
Independent's continued bluff, head
ing and all:
FOOLING THEM WITH
"BOILER PLATE."
So anxious were tho political gang-'
sters of Pennsylvania to pass- tho fifty
million bond issue or the so-called good
roads amendment, that a propaganda
was established In Harrisburg which for
mnnthH SOnf II. f lltamfllPa r. nil
or the state recommending the scheme.
.utuoi. ui me jjuiJurB puuusnea mese artl
ce?l . IflhG the campaign the same
stuff In favor of the bond Issue was sent
to nearly nil newspapers of the state
In plate or stereotype form. In other
words It was matter already set up so
that the newspaper editors would not
have to cudgel their brains writing up
anything in favor of tho fifty million
scheme or set any type. It was all
ready tp place right In their columns,
having been gotten up by experts at the
business. But just the same It did not
fool the people.
The Independent received all of this
Plato matter, but declined to publish It
because It was sent out by a political
nrnnnirnnrin fit. tha .1 1
and fooling the people. Numerous other
1 . iT . -wcu- tuiumnH ana pages
with this "boiler plate" matter, gotten
-- ,-w.... vaiJLHD. ik um nut origi
nate In tho newspaper offices that gave
it publication. It was all "hand-me-
irauj-umuo Biuii uii inienaea to
fool the farmers and taxpayers and It
nln Tnnl n front vnnn., n. .11 .1
people
Tho Independent used a llg word
."propaganda" a word that
sounds scholarly and as though the
user were wondrously wise. The
Independent evidently thoucht that
it was acting the part of 'tho peda
gogue In Goldsmith's "Deserted Vil
lage," whose utterances are thus de
scribed:
'While words of learned length and
thundering Knnnit
Amazed tho gazing rustics ranged
around;
And still they gazed, and still tho
wonder crew
That one small sheet could carry
an u Knew."
After describing what constitutes
a "propaganda" and giving It a bad,
bad name "boiler plate" tho In
dependent says it received, all of the
"plate" but declined to publish it,
preferring to use a three column lot
of Arthur Brisbane "boiler plate"
that struck at every Temperance or
ganization in tho realm of that pap
er's circulation.
Our neighbor first calls tho matter
sent out In a stereotype form by that
awful "propaganda" "advertising";
and In its Jealousy of its contempor
aries that Is supposed was getting
a big lot of "easy money," it really
believed what it said; but when it
learned that there was no more pay
behind it than there was behind the
Arthur Brisbane intemperance "ad
vertisement," it became wonderfully
virtuous, and dropped the word "ad
vertising" entirely.
As a matter of fact The Citizen
published the good roads matter be
causo we believed then and still be
lieve that what it exploited Is right.
Manjr columns were prepared and
placed in type in this office, and
they were published "without money
and without price."
A word about those awful "boiler
plates." In the same Issue of the
Independent that contained the
"Fooling Them With Boiler Plate"
editorial article, there were exactly
TWELVE columns of those same
wicked "boiler plate" articles on all
kinds of subjects from "telegraphic"
news to farm notes. Wasn't that a
wicked way to try and "fool" its
readers?
So, there you have it?
Why not be a Linotype newspaper,
like The Citizen, and be strictly up-to-date?
Tji that way there is less
danger of becoming an "imitator."
DOES ADVERTISING PAY?
To all people who question the
truth of the familiar expression,
"advertising pays," we would' com
mend an incident of the late politi
cal campaign in the State, and
that incident is the election of
John W. Kephart, of Cambria coun
ty, to the high position of Superior
Court Judge.
Air. Kephart was comparatively
unknown in the State; but he began
a judicious uso of printers' Ink early
in "the battle, sending cards by mail
and publishing advertisements in
the country newspapers. After pull
ing down the nomination at tho
primaries Mr. Kephart continued
his campaign along the same line,
and he won the election, receiving
more votes than Webster Grim, the
man who was tho regular Demo
cratic nominee.
Not only did Mr. Kephart adver
tise, but he pursued the "follow-up"
species of advertising by going be
fore the people personally. Evi
dently he made a good impression,
judging by the large vote he re
ceived. There is an advertising maxim
that declares "goods well displayed
are half sold." Mr. Kephart's dis
play of his personality won him a
Superior Court judicial position.
Judge Kephart will undoubtedly
make a most efficient officer, and
he won his election like a true and
brave knight in tho open lists.
LITERARY CONTEST HELD
The literary contest of tho Wayne
county high schoo's was held in the
auditorium of' the Honesdale high
school Monday evening and was well
patronized by parents of contestants
and teachers. The contest between
the second and third class high
schools in the boys' class first prize
was awarded to Joseph Butler of
Sterling, who received two votes.
Adam Wagner, of South Canaan, re
ceived one vote. In the girls' class,
Miss Esther Gill of Whito Mills, re
ceived three votes.
In the first class high schools Jos.
Carlton of Hawley received two votes
and Charles Hocker, of Damascus,
received one vote in tho boys' class.
In the girls' class, Olive Rockwell of
Honesdalo, received three votes
COOK SCHWESINGER.
Tho marriage of Louis J. Cook
and Miss Sablna Schwesinger, both
of Honesdale, occurred In St. Mary
Magdalen's church at six o'clock
Tuesday morning. Rov. J. W. Balta
celebrated the nuptial mass. The
bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. George Schwesinger of Terrace
street. The young couplo left on
the early Delaware & Hudson train
for Scranton after which they will
spend some time at Wilkes-Barre,
They will resido on Terrace street
upon their return home.
SHERMAN POST OFFICE BURNED.
An incendiary fire started in the
post office and store of L. J. Tar
ox at Sherman Tuesday night about
10 o'clock, which resulted In the de
struction of tho building. The en-,
tiro contents, which were fully cov
eed by insurance, were destroyed,
except a desk.
The postofflce was located In tho
store. All books and stamps be
longing to the government were in a
safe. At the time of going to press
tho vault had not been opened, but
It Is expected that papers belonging
to tho postofflce were not destroyed.
Denth of Arthur Edgar.
Arthur Edgar, aged thirty-one
years, and son of the late Rev. Wm.
Edgar, well known in Scranton.and
Carbondale, died Tuesday at White
Haven. s Deceased was born 1 at
Bethany. Surviving him are a sis
ter, Emily Edgar, of MIddlotown,
N. Y and a brother, Wm. A. Edgar,
cashier of the Ashley National Bank,
of Ashley. The remains will be
brought to Dunmore Friday after
noon, where Interment will be made
in the family plot.
MRS. FRIEDEWALD HERE NEXT
SATURDAY.
The third visit of Mrs. Salo Fried
owald of Scranton to Honesdalo this
season will be made on Saturday af
ternoon November 15, when she will
give a reading on Miss Florence
Converse's latest work, "The Chil
dren of Light"
In view of this fact a note about
tho author, Miss Converse, may be of
some interest to Mrs. Frledewald's
large class hero. In Honesdale.
Miss Florence Converse, the au
thor of "The Children of Light," was
born In New Orleans, Louisiana, on
April 30, 1871. Her father and
mother were natives of New Or
leans, but her father's parents were
of old New England stock; her
great-grandfather on her mother's
side also came from New Orleans.
Her mother's father was a native of
Wales; her mother's mother was of
Dutch descent. Five years of child
hood were spent in San Francisco,
but from her tenth year until she en
tered Wellesley College Miss Con
verse lived in New Orleans. She
was graduated from Wellesley with
the degree of- B. S. in 1893. The
four following winters were spent in
New Orleans, but since 1897 Miss
Converse has mado Boston her home,
and for five years she lived at Deni
son House, tho Boston College Settle
ment. From 1900 to 1908 Miss
Converse held an editorial position
on "The Churchman"; since then
she has been with the Atlantic
Monthly. In June, 1903, she re
ceived the degree of M. A. from
Wellesley. Miss Converse's books
are "Diana Victrix" (1897), a novel
portraying characteristic types of
northern and southern life and char
acters; "The Burden of Christopher"
(1900), a novel concerned with the
conflict between capital and labor;
"Long Will" (1903); a romance of
the fourteenth century, having for
theme the Peasants' Revolt; "A
Masque of Sibyls" and "The Children
of Light." All these are published
by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin Com
pany, NOT MUCH LEFT AFTER
HE PAID THE COSTS,
Clioso to bo His Own Lawyer in Col
lecting $8 Wnges Ho Mnde No De
limnd For 'Squiro Snys That Isn't
tho Way to Collect Bills.
A little comedy was enacted be
fore 'Squire Robert A. Smith in the
court house on Wednesday morning
in the form of a suit in assumpsit
.brought by William Kenner, form
erly of Cherry Ridge township,
against Nathaniel Lang, of the same
township.
Kenner wprked for Lang, helping
the latter construct a concrete foun
dation on the Wm. Roger house on
River street last week. For some
reason Lang desired to dispense
with the services of Kenner and told
the young man that ho could go.
That was last Friday night. Kenner
did not like his manner of discharge
and instead of going to Lang and
demanding his pay he went before
tho Justice of the Peace and secur
ed a summons. Officer J. J. Canivan
served the summons on Lang and a
hoarlng was held before 'Squire
Smith Wednesday morning.
Lang was there with the cash and
said that he was ready to pay Ken
ner any time he wanted it. Ken
ner had sued for $8, the amount of
his wages for work done while
Lang's bill showed that $8.07 was
due. Kenner acknowledged that he
had failed to ask Lang for his pay
before he had the summons issued
and 'Squire Smith informed him that
that was. not the proper way to col
lect a bill. Kenner lost his case and
besides that had to pay the costs
which amounted to $2.45, the
'Squire having made them as light
as possible. Kenner, after paying
the costs had only $5. GO remaining
of. the original $8.07, but he had re
ceived $2.40 worth of legal advice.
DEPOSITORS WIN
IMPORTANT POINT.
Banks Not Required to Withhold In
come Tax on Interest
Accounts.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 10.
Bank depositors are aided in two
important income tax decisions hand
ed down by W. H. Osborn, Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue. One re
lieves banks, bankers and trust com
panies from collecting the assess
ment on the interest paid on open
accounts or certificates of deposit.
The other instructs the bankers
not to withhold the tax from inter
est on bonds of State, county, cities
or other political sub-division of the
United States.
Here is ono of the orders sent to
the collectors of Internal revenue:
"Banks, bankers, trust companies
and other banking institutions- re
ceiving deposits of money aro not re
quired under tho Treasury regula
tion (part two) approved October
Honesdale Dime
RESOURCES.
Loans $ 505,381.00
Bonds and Mortgages. . . 218,350.30
Real Estate, Furniture
and Fixtures 21,000.00
Cash and due from banks 8-1,070.-17
Overdrafts .18
The eight years' healthy growth and prosperous condition ot this bank Indicates public confidence In the safety and Integrity of Its management
. Our constant endeavor lias been to render n banking service second to
none, thoroughly adapted to tho needs of this community, assuring tho
samo welcoiiio to tho small depositor us to tho ono with larger business
to transact.
E. O. MUMFORD, President
v W. F. RIEFLER, Vice-Prosident
OUR STORE WILL-CLOSE MONDAY
EVENINGS, AT 9 O'CLOCK
MONDAY S
Here aire some values which you certainly cannot afford to
let pass. These are goods from our own regular stocks. They
are not special purchases, but are our own goods marked down
in price. We want you to visit this store and see the bargains
we are offering in every line.
MONDAY, NOV. 17
Grocery Departments:
Columbian or Snow White Flour, per bag $1 .45
Fel's Naphtha Soap, 6 bars for 25 C
Pure White Rose Lard, io-pound pail $1 ,45
Pure White Rose Lard, 5-pound pail 75 C
Pure White Rose Lard, 3-pound pail 45 C
Snow Boy Wash Powder, 5c value, per package
Ounnpr "Rranrl Pnnnprl Salmon, ner ran ft -r
.bull Cream Cheese, special, per
Fancy Sweet Potatoes, 30c value, per peck 22 C
Other Departments-Main Floor
Extra Width Stylish Dress Goods, $1.00 and $1.25 val.,
per yard 89 C
27-inch Silk Poplin, all colors, 50c value, per yard .... 43 C
Kimono Flannelette, best quality, 15c value, per yard. 13c
Outing Flannel, light and dark, special, per yard Jq
New Quilting Sateens, great value, per yard 13 C
. .Niagara Cotton Batts, unroll in one sheet, 25c value,
each 27c
Wool Sweaters, well made, $2.50 and $2.75 val., each $2.19
Fancy Cretons, new patterns, 120 value, per yard. . . . 10c
Ladies' Fleeced Underwear, special, each 22 C
Gent's Lisle Socks, broken sizes, best 25c value, per pr . 15c
Men's Gloves and Mitts, all kinds, 50c value, per pair . . . 43 C
Lot Misses' White Wool Sweaters, $1.50 value, each. .$1 .00
Yard-Wide French Cambric, 16c value, per yard 12 C
Second Floor Specials
Ladies' Colored Messaline Petticoats, $1.59 value, ea. . $! ,39
Junior Coats, assorted sizes and colors, $15.00 val., ea-..$() .50
Ladies' Separate Skirts, assorted sizes and colors, $5.98
. value, each S3. 98
Ladies' Serge Dresses, navy, black and brown, special,
each - S5.98
Children's Outing Gowns, 50c value, each 43 C
Go-Cart Blankets, 59c value, each 49 C
Wool Finished Blankets, $2.50 value, per pair $2.10
Heavy Comfortables, good patterns, $1.00 value, each. . 89 C
Best Opaque Shades, 50c value, each 45 C
Union Ingrain Stair Carpet, 35c value, per yard 29c
Katz Bros. Inc.
NOTICE-Monday Specials are sold for Cash.
31, 191?, to withhold at the source
the normal Income tax of ono per
cent, on tho Interest paid or accrued
or accruing to depositors whether on
open accounts or on certificates of
deposit; but all such interest wheth
qr paid or accrued and not paid must
bo included in. his tax return by the
person or persons entitled to re
ceive such Interest whether on ODen
account or on certificates of deposit."
The other is:
"It has been called to tlie atten
tion of this office that banks in cer
tain sections are refusing to pay
coupons for Interest on bo mis of
States, counties, cities or other po
litical sub-divisions of the United
States, when such coupons are not
accompanied by certificates of own
ership without deducting the normal
Income tax of one per cent., which
the law and the regulations of this
department require shall bo deducted
xxxx::
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
HONESDAIiE, PA,
MARII-ilTIES.
Capital Stock $100,000.00
Surplus and Undivided
Profits 103,203.00
Deposits 028,530.82
831,823.01
OFFICERS.
OUR STORE WILL CLOSE MONDAY
EVENINGS,. AT 9 O'CLOCK
PECIALS
pound '20 C
at the source in paying the interest
on bonds of corporations, joint stock
companies or associations and in
surance companies.
"Please lniorm all parties inter
ested, giving tho information wido
publicity, that tho income derived
from the interest upon the obliga
tions of a State, county, city or any
other political sub-divlslon thereof
and upon the obligations of the Unit
ed States or its possessions is not
subject to the income tax and a cer
tificate of ownership in connection
with the coupons or registered or
ders for such interest will not be re
quired, j
"The interest coupons should clear
ly show on their face whether they
are issued by the United States or
any political sub-division thereof. If,
however, they do not clearly show
this, then, of course, an ownership
certificate should bo required."
Bank,
$831,823.01
JOSEPH A. FISOH, Cashier
CLARENCE WRIGHT, Asst. Cash.