Bellefonte, Pa., October 8, 1920.
A ——————————————————————S
IT TAKES COURAGE.
It takes courage to do right,
It takes courage to be true;
And a hero may seek flight
With a simple task in view.
For the man who storms a hill
Where death grinneth all the way,
May fall back with a sudden chill
Fearing what the world might say.
It takes courage to be square—
Tis a courage not of sword;
It takes courage, boys, to wear
Just the clothes you can afford.
And the hero, chief of all,
Disregarding pomp and pelf,
Is the one who brings the fall
Of the citadel of self!
Ni —Cleveland Plane Dealer.
tam
Lo cece gls———
SWANSON’S “HOME, SWEET
HOME.”
(Concluded from last week).
In his boarding house that night he
took out of his pocket the paper in
which the buns had been wrapped. To
his delight he found words written in
the familiar blue ink. “This isn’t
much—I don’t want you to be paid
back too soon. Why won’t you play
‘Home, Sweet Home?’ ”’
He read the first sentence over
again. Paid back! Swanson sat up
straight and decided it was time he
gave something to her. Paid back!
it was just as much his “weekaversa-
ry” as hers. The very next Saturday
he invaded the only book store in
Penn City and guardedly asked the
advice of the clerk. The clerk was a
woman who knew the conventions,
and she tried to sell him a volume of
travel in Scotland, with a decorated
cover and colored illustrations. But
Swanson wanted something nearer
home. In spite of the clerk’s protest,
he bought a book entitled “Bungalows
1 Have Known.” Sunday and Monday
he could hardly wait. On Tuesday he
entrusted it, all bound up in birthday
paper, to Mattern, and asked him to
see that it surely got to the right per-
son.
“You ought to put her name on it,”
Mattern mentioned thoughtfully.
Swanson said nothing. He realized
in a second that he couldn’t tell Mat-
tern that he didn’t know her name.
That would make it look as though
she had been a flirt, and, of course,
she wasn’t. He feigned indifference
and wished he could find out somehow
what her name was.
“You do that for me, Mattern,” he
coaxed. “You can write much better
than me.”
“Oh, I don’t know,” protested Mat-
tern modestly. “How shall I put it
down?”
“Just the plain name,” said Swan-
son with indifference.
“I’m not sure just how it’s spelled,”
confessed Mattern. .
“I tell you,” said Swanson hastily.
“We want to make sure we spell it
right. Suppose you ask somebody,
confidentially like, you know. Don’t
tell them what you want it for. Then
you can put it down exactly right.
Mattern agreed doubtfully.
“Now, do you know where you're
going to send it?” asked Swanson.
“Where! Why where’d you think?
Out where she lives.”
“1 know,” said Swanson scornfully.
“What I want to know is that you're
sure you know where she lives.”
“Her! Why, she’s a companion to
old Mrs. Coleman, at the Coleman
mansion up on the hill!”
“I just wanted to make sure you
knew,” said Swanson with relief. “I'll
be much obliged to you, Matt. Make
sure you're confidential, even to your
wife.”
Mattern promised, but something
in his manner made Swanson sus-
picious.
“What’s the matter? Don’t you
want to take it out to her?”
“It ain’t that.” The agent turned
the book over in his hands. “I thought
maybe I ought to tell you something.
1 don’t like to mention any names—
and then I don’t like to see you get
the short end. Did you ever think
that somebody else might cut you
out?”
Swanson shook his head with quiet
confidence.
“You yourself saw the things she’s
brought me,” he said simply.
“I hope you're right,” muttered
Mattern, reassured by Swanson’s face.
“For a little while she came down lots
and asked loads of questions about the
railroad. Most of them were sidewise
questions about you. She thought
your ‘Home, Sweet Home’ the dan-
diest thing she'd ever heard. But
lately she hasn’t been down.”
Swanson looked thoughtful. He
lanced up to the distant Coleman
fo on the hill.
“Matt,” he began confidentially,
*ghe’s never yet asked me to come to
see her. Don’t you think I know her
well enough for that—with us giving
each other things like we do?”
“Gosh, I'd think so,” declared the
agent.
“Then put it down,” said Swanson
eagerly. “Write it on the book that
I’m coming down next Sunday.”
The following Sunday morning
Swanson came to the Sabbath-quieted
little town and struck out eagerly for
the house on the hill. But despite
himself, he passed irresolutely by the
gray fieldstone gateposts.
Turning back to try it the second
time, he passed them again. “If only
she’d see me and wave at me or some-
thing,” he said to himself anxiously.
He turned to try it for the third time,
then he stopped short. Whom would
he ask for? What would he say if
they wanted to know why he wanted
her? What could he say if he could
not say anything to that? Near the
fieldstone gate-posts again he waver-
ed nervously; then he saw a figure in
cool, dainty white appear in the green
arbor near the house. Something con-
vincingly familiar in the figure nerv-
ed him. He strode eagerly up the
drive. And it was no surprise to find
that it was really, truly she.
“You don’t mind I stopped to see
where you lived?” he asked as hum-
bly as only a strong man can.
“I don’t look sorry, do I?” said the
girl with a wonderful smile.
«your folks here—do you think
they might care any?”
The girl flushed. “They aren’t my
folks, you——"
“I know,” interrupted Swanson un-
derstandingly. :
have the nerve to come if they were.
I just wondered whether they'd care.”
“There is only one,” explained the
girl. “That’s Mrs. Coleman. i
very sweet and won't be down this
morning till eleven.”
“] wish you'd ask me to come at
six,” wished Swanson earnestly.
“T will,” promised the girl, “if you
will only start to play ‘Home, Sweet
Home’ again. If you could only stand
up here on the hill and hear how
beautiful and impressive it sounds.
Why won’t you play it any more?”
“I was complained of,” said Swan-
son briefly. “The same man did it
who wanted to keep you off my cab
that night at Redding.”
“Oh, I'm so sorry. It was my fault
then.”
“No, sir. It’s his fault,” replied
Swanson grimly. “He never did like
to hear it or any other music.”
“He was a coward to report you,” | you said I might lose out? Did you
cried the girl. She clenched her small
fists so feelingly that it warmed
Swanson’s heart to see her.
“You are a good friend to have,” he
said soberly.
He stayed till eleven o'clock. Un-
der the green arbor they paged to-
gether through his gift book of bun-
galows. But Swanson couldn’t make
out why the girl flushed and became
nervois each time they looked at a
plan of rooms. He didn’t worry over
this, however, and went back to Penn
City humming “Home, Sweet Home.”
He left just in time to escape seeing
an expensive touring car, lettered K
and bearing a well-groomed young
man and his mother, turn in at the
Coleman fieldstone gate-posts.
Two more happy Sunday mornings,
and Swanson had almost learned to
court his “weekaversary” girl. The
third Sunday he found her gone.
“She went out with Mrs. Coleman
in some lady’s and young gentleman’s
automobile,” said one of the help.
“She said I should tell you that she
would be back as soon as she could,
but she coludn’t tell just when.”
“Much obliged,” said
gravely. He sat down in the arbor
where he and she had gone over his
book. He waited and waited. He
stayed until it was nearly one o’clock
and left only because he felt it awk-
ward to be around at meal time.
“Of course, it is not her fault,” he
said to himself as he rode back to
Penn City. “She’s got to be a com-
panion to the old lady. That’s her bus-
iness. If I'd have only known it,
though. I might have put in my time
to buy that—I could have easy. By
jingo, I'll do it yet!” He banged one
big fist enthusiastically on to the oth-
er.
Two hours more found him eagerly
peeping in at the porch windows of a
stained shingle bungalow in a little
grove at the edge of Penn City.
“Come inside,” invited the agent.
Swanson took off his hat and stepped
carefully into the empty living room.
“I always liked this house,” he con-
fided frankly to the agent. “Every
Sutiday I used to watch it grow up.”
“It’s a beauty,” agreed the agent.
“Big bay window. Window-seat wide
and deep. Genuine fire place. Hard-
wood floors. French windows out to
the veranda.” His shoes clattered ir-
reverently into the adjoining room.
Swanson followed with more respect-
ful feet. “Dining-room on the east
side. Gets the first sun in the morn-
ing. Cheeriest kind of a breakfast
room. All bay window.
per. Holland border. Rail for plates
and such things about the room. Built
in china closet. Swinging door to the
pantry. If your wife has her hands
full of dishes, she doesn’t need to set
them down to turn any knob. Nice
pantry. Copper sink. Another swing-
ing door and a slide to the kitchen.
Not so much room, but you don’t want
much here. You want your wife to
spend her time in other places than
the kitchen.”
Swanson nodded violently and fol-
lowed the agent back into a small hall
on the other side of the house. “All
rooms on one floor,” repeated the
agent. “Saves your wife thousands
of steps a year.” As he talked he
opened the door of what was evident-
ly a bed-room, but Swanson did no
more than peep into it. Somehow, it
seemed that he had no right there. He
hastily dragged the agent down into
the cellar.
“Cement floor. Best kind of heat,”
chattered the agent. “Keeps an even
temperature all night. Still warm in
the morning when you get up. If you
have any children, they’ll appreciate
that. Any children?”
Swanson gulped and shook his head.
“Maybe it’s pretty big for you
then,” said the agent. “Now we have
a house right in the city on——"
“No sir,” said Swanson. “I’m going
to take this one.”
“Yes, sir. You’ll never regret it,”
agreed the agent. “I'll give you our
best terms.”
“Won't need that just yet,” said
Swanson. “A man who works six
years at five and a quarter a day
ought to be able to pay cash.”
The hardest thing Swanson ever did
was to go through Queenston that fol-
lowing week without blowing “Home,
Sweet Home.” The next Sunday he
was under the Coleman arbor at sev-
en o'clock. But boyishly he waited to
tell her until it was time to leave.
Then with his heart in his eyes and
eager as a kid he described the house
from roof to cellar. The girl listen-
ed, drinking in every word.
“It must be a wonderful place,” she
said softly. “I do wish you all the
happiness in the world.”
Swanson was a bit taken back.
“Jt—is that all youre going to
say?” he stammered.
“What else would you want me to
say?” asked the girl gently, looking
down into the green valley.
This was still queerer. Swanson
tried to think quickly and arrive at
some relieving explanation. Perhaps
she hadn’t known him long enough—
it wouldn’t look right. Perhaps she
didn’t want to leave old Mrs. Cole-
man just yet. He hadn't counted ex-
actly on this—but it would be all
right. He and the house could wait.
As he was picking his thoughts, an
expensive motor car passed along in
the road below. The horn called loud-
“I don’t believe I'd
She is
Swanson |
Sky-blue pa- |
ly, and a young man whom Swanson
recognized waved a hand to the girl,
who waved back. Swanson’s eyes
grew steely. The man was young
; S.
| “You know him ?” he asked gravely.
“He comes here with his mother to
see Mrs. Coleman. Mrs. Keens and
Mrs. Coleman are old friends.”
“I thought from his waving that
you might know him—sort of well,”
, mentioned Swanson. His eyes were
very still.
“I do know him well,” said the girl.
“One thing has interested us very
much. His voice always sounded fa-
miliar to me, and he says mine has tc
him. But neither of us can imagine
where we ever saw or heard the other .
before. Mrs. Coleman says it’s ro-
{ mantic. Can you imagine where we
might have met?”
“Don’t know—don’t know,” mutter-
ed Swanson stubbornly. For a full
' minute he was silent, then with a
wistful light in his eyes he said good-
by and went down the drive.
{ Down at the quiet little station he
drew the agent aside. “Matt, what
did you mean a month or so ago when
! ever hear anything about somebody
else going with the lady up at Cole-
: man’s 7”
} Mattern turned away uneasily, then
: shook his head.
"ing, Home,” he declared.
, “I want you .to.tell me,” insisted
Swanson, gripping~ the agent’s arm.
“I'm not going to hurt anybody. I
only want to know.”
“I never heard much,”
; Mattern uncomfortably. °
{ “Then that’s all you got to tell
me?”
i "I don’t believe much in——"
! “What did you hear, Matt, I asked
you?”
protested
help up at Coleman’s—" He stopped.
“You got to tell me,” declared
Swanson grimly. “You might as well
have it over with.”
“Well, they just said,” stammered
the agent, “that they believed she'd
be nicer to young Keens after she
pays you back enough for doing a fa-
vor for her once—they didn’t say just
what it was.”
“I'm much obliged, Matt,” said
Swanson, tight-lipped, turning away.
Awkward with sympathy, Mattern
put his hand on Swanson’s shoulder.
“You mustn’t take it hard, Home,”
he said. “I don’t believe she’s got
anything against you. But nobody
can expect a girl to turn down the son
of a vice-president of a railroad when
that means a big mansion and society
and fine clothes and such things that
a woman’s heart likes. I'm dead sure
she don’t have nothing against you,
Home.”
“It’s all right, Matt,” said Swanson
chokily. “I'm all right. Much oblig-
ed. Please don’t say nothing to any-
body.”
He caught the red caboose of a
north-bound extra and rode her si-
lently into Penn City. That after-
Then he sat down in the unhomelike
boarding-house and laboriously start-
ed a letter on a ruled tablet with
thickened purplish ink.
Dear Weekaversary Lady:
I just found out that there was
somebody else. Excuse me for
being so thick-headed before. So
I won’t come to see you any more.
And you won’t have to bother to
send me any more weekaversary
things. You more than paid me
back long ago. But please keep
the bungalow book. I couldn’t
stand to keep it. I wish that you
will always be happy and have a
Yours truly,
HOME, SWEET HOME.
He dropped the letter in the slot at
the deserted postoffice and then
at the edge of the woods. Somehow
it looked small and very humble to
him now.
_ “I guess we wasn’t made for a lady,
little house,” he said, his voice chok-
ing him. “But I'm not going to sell
you. We got to stick together. It'll
be just you and me, now.”
Next morning he reported off sick
Pacific Coast. The trainmaster told
him it would take nearly a week to get
it. They'd have to write on for trans-
portation. “Never mind, then,” said
Swanson. “I’ll pay my way once like
a man.”
It was almost a month before he
saw Penn City again. Quietly he re-
ported on duty and went out to his lit-
tle house in the woods. Several times
he walked around it, trying to get up
courage to go inside. But he couldn’t
do it; so he sat on the back-porch
steps with his chin in his knuckles.
Early next morning, at the accustom-
ed time, he went to the roundhouse
with his bucket and coffee-can.
The crew was delighted to see him
and asked a thousand questions. Mer-
rit, the conductor, told him that Mat-
tern at Queenston had been inquiring
for him for several weeks—he had
something to tell him. Swanson nod-
ded gamely. He could guess what
that something was. Likely she was
engaged—he choked—maybe married.
He tore at his blue collar. It was
growing too tight for him—lately. He
was glad they had nothing for
Queenston so that he could merely
toot at Mattern as they coasted
through.
Almost like a sick man Swanson
ran his train that day. Then, waiting
for track room in the yards at Red-
ding, a clerk from the near-by tower
handed him a message. Without
looking at it, he passed it to his con-
ductor who, with stammered apolo-
gies, handed it back and fled. Swan-
son glanced vaguely at the penciled
words:
J ames Swanson; engineman of no.
girl at coleman’s left on fifty-
seven for good going west, no-
body knows where they say she
turned k. down flat and made
mrs. coleman mad has been sort
of sick since you're away was
down asking about you maybe
you'll see her she takes pennsy
eleven o’clock flyer redding.
MATT.
Swanson looked up bewildered; but
there were flickers of light burning in
his eyes. The cheeks that had grown
sallow suddenly took on color. He
turned his eyes to the cab window.
“I don’t know noth-
“I—my wife just heard that the
noon he tried vainly to think it over.
red-and-green papered room of his,
tramped out wearily to the bungalow |
and asked for a pass out around the |
Nearly a half mile away, high up on
the hill, lay the red-brick Pennsy sta-
tion. He could see the platform dot-
ted with white and black human be-
ings waiting for the eleven o’clock
West-bound express. He looked at his
watch. Three minutes to eleven—the
express was due at eleven-two. There
. it was along the river! He could hear
the unmistakable Pennsy whistle.
It was too late. She was up there
on the platform in that black and
white sprinkling of people. In a min-
ute she would be getting on the ex-
press—on her way west—nobody but
she would know where. He wouldn’t
be able to find her again—to find out
whether she did care.
His eyes suddenly crackled and
grew very wide and blue. Jake, the
front brakeman, gave him the “high-
; ball”—the track was ready for him.
‘But he paid no heed. Steadily he
wrapped the whistle rope around his
fingers and hooked his elbow under
the throttle. Then cleaving out from
the slit of the whistle valve on the
dome behind him, with an accompany-
ing funnel of white steam, came three
low but ascending notes of a tune.
“Home!” cried Bill hoarsely, shout-
, ing into Swanson’s ear. “Don’t you
i know where you are! McCormick’ll
' have to suspend you, if you play it
- here under his nose!”
Swanson gave no answer. Proba-
bly he didn’t hear. His eyes were
steady on that speckled Pennsy plat-
form, his ears on the pitch of his song.
He had never before played it just as
he played it today. The music came
straight from his heart. And when
the tenderness of a heart is coupled
with the strength of a steam whistle it
can work with magic. Bill stood by
with fear on his face, but his eyes
grew dreamy with enjoyment.
It was over. The last shred of
steam from Swanson’s whistle had
drifted away and melted into the blue.
The eleven o'clock express had come
and gone. Swanson slipped down from
his cab and started across the tracks.
“Hey, Home!” called Bill, starting
half way down the tank steps. He
turned to a trainman, who had come
up during the tune. “What d’y think
is the matter? Has he gone out of
his mind ?”
Swanson gave no intimation that he
had heard. He was now climbing the
grean terrace which the two railroads
maintained between their properties.
. In five minutes he had gained the lev-
! el of the other road and was hurrying
down the half-mile of track. There
were still a few people on the plat-
: form when he came near. His eyes
i searched them. He doubled his pace.
i There, with the familiar black bag in
| her hand uncertain whether to run or
i stay, hovered a girl in a dark suit.
She was a cleanly fashioned girl,
| comely and pale, with the softest of
! black hair and the purest look in her
{ eyes that Swanson had ever seen. He
| came up to her breathing deeply.
| “You didn’t go!” he marveled hum-
i bly. “You heard me. What did it
' say 7”
i The girl seemed only conscious of
the staring faces about her.
. “Take me away somewhere,”
whispered.
| “Where did it say?” asked Swan-
. son.
{ “Home, Sweet Home,” softly ans-
wered the girl.—By Conrad Richter, in
Everybody’s Magazine.
she
State College Livestock Wins Twenty
Blue Ribbons.
|
| ree
| Twenty blue and eight red ribbons,
| together with three grand champion
‘awards, and prize money amounting
{ to $947, were captured by livestock
' owned and exhibited by The Pennsyl-
| vania State College school of agricul-
"ture at the recent New York State
i fair and the Eastern States Livestock
| Exposition at Springfield. In addi-
tion, the college student general live-
stock judging team walked off with
first honors in a field of teams from
six of the most prominent eastern ag-
ricultural colleges.
This clean sweep is one of the best
i records ever made by the State Col-
lege animal husbandry department. It
is the result of strict adherence to
| pure breeding lines and the building
up of herds through the use of the
best stock obtainable. Feeding and
conditioning policies followed by the
college specialists play no little part
in producing first class animals.
Keystone Sultan, the college raised
Shorthorn bull, not only won first
place in the two year old class at the
exposition, but captured the ribbon in
the Senior Champion Shorthorn bull
class and was placed as the Grand
Champion. In the Shorthorn steer
classes college animals placed the
champion, senior and junior yearlings,
the senior steer calf, and the Short-
horn herd. Grand Champion Hereford
steer and Grand Champion Hereford
herd were also awarded State College
animals. Other Hereford awards in-
cluded the champion Hereford steer
which also won the Senior Yearling
blue ribbon. The Junior Yearling and
Hereford herd steer firsts completed
the winning in that class.
The Aberdeen-Angus came in for a
good share of the ribbons. First
places were awarded the Senior Year-
ling bull, Junior Yearling steer, Sen-
ior and Junior steer calves and herd
steer. At the New York State fair
three first, five second and four third
places were won.
Funeral Arrangements.
Teacher—“What is the Presidential
succession law, John ?”
John—“The Presidential succession
law provides that if both President
and Vice President die the Cabinet
members will follow in succession.”’—
Boys’ Life.
MA
ROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
P CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY,
2, 1920, BY THE GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED
ER OF THE SECRETARY OF
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN _PUR-
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.’
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section eleven
of article sixteen of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met,
That the following amendment to the
Constitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania be, and the same is hereby,
proposed, in accordance with the eigh-
teenth article thereof: —
Amend section eleven, article sixteen of
the Constitution of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
“No corporate body to possess banking
and discounting privileges shall be created
or organized in pursuance of any law
without three months’ previous public
notice, at the place of the intended loca-
tion, of the intention to apply for such
privileges, in such manner as shall be pre-
scribed by law, nor shall a charter for
such privilege be granted for a longer
period than twenty years,” so that it shall
read as follows:
The General Assembly shall have the
power by general law to provide for the
incorporation of banks and trust com-
panies, and to prescribe the powers
thereof.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 1.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
section eight of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
sylvania be, and the same ig hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
article thereof: —
That article nine, section eight,
amended to read as follows:
Section 8. The debt of any county,
city, borough, township, school district, or
other municipality or incorporated dis-
trict, except as provided herein, and in
be
| section fifteen of this article, shall never
| exceed
seven (7) per centum upon the
assessed value of the taxable property
therein, but the debt of the city of Phila-
delphia may be increased in such amount
that the total city debt of said city shall
not exceed ten per centum (10) upon the
assessed value of the taxable property
therein, nor shall any such municipality
or district incur any new debt, or increase
its indebtedness to an amount exceeding
two (2) per centum upon such assessed
valuation of property, without the con-
sent of the clectors thereof at a public
election in such manner as shall be pro-
vided by law. In ascertaining the bor-
rowing capacity of the city of Philadel-
phia, at any time, there shall be deducted
from such debt so much of the debt of
said city as shall have been incurred, or
is about to be incurred, and the proceeds
thereof expended, or about to be expended,
upon any public improvement, or in the
construction, purchase, or condemnation
of any public utility, or part thereof, or
facility thereof, if such public improve-
ment or public utility, or part thereof,
whether separately or in connection with
any other public improvement or public
utility, or part thereof, may reasonably
be expected to yield revenue in excess of
operating expenses sufficient to pay the
interest and sinking fund charges thereon.
The method of determining such amount,
so to be deducted, may be prescribed by
the General Assembly.
In incurring indebiedness for any pur-
pose the city of Philadelphia may issue iis
obligations maturing not later than fifty
(50) years from the date thereof, with
provision for sinking-fund sufficient to
retire said obligations at maturity, the
payment to such sinking-fund to be in
equal or graded annual or other periodi-
cal installments. Where any indebtedness
shall be or shall have been incurred by
said city of Philadelphia for the purpose
of the construction or improvements of
public works or utilities of any character,
from which income or revenue is to be
derived by said city, or for the reclama-
tion of land to be used in the construction
of wharves or docks owned or to. be owned
by said city, such obligations may be in
an amount sufficient to provide for, and
may include the amount of, the interest
and sinking-fund charges accruing and
which may accrue thereon throughout
the period of construction, and until the
expiration of one year after the com-
pletion of the work for which said in-
debtedness shall have been incurred; and
said city shall not be required to levy a
tax to pay said interest and sinking-fund
charges as required by section ten, article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsylvania,
until che expiration of said period of one
vear after the completion of said work.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 2.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF THE COM-
MONWEALTH, FOR THEIR APPROVAL
OR REJECTION. BY THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH
OF PENNSLYVANIA, AND PUBLISHED
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF
Priors: AMENDMENTS TO THE
THE COMMONWEALTH, IN PUR-
SUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article three
(III) of the Constitution of the Com-
minwealth of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General
Assembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
be, and the same is hereby, proposed, in
accordance with the eighteenth article
thereof :—
That article three be amended by add-
ing thereto the following:
Section 34. The Legislature shall have
power to classify counties, cities, bor-
oughs, school districts, and townships ac-
cording to population, and all laws passcd
relating to each class, and all laws passed
relating to, and regulating procedure and
proce2dings in court with reference to.
any class, shall be deemed general legis-
lation within the meaning of this Con-
stitution; but counties, cities and school
districts shall not be divided into more
than seven classes, and boroughs into not
more than five classes.
13 true copy of Joint Resolution No.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two-A
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to article three,
section six of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, so
that the subject of an amendment or
supplement to a law and the subject
to which such law is extended or on
which it is conferred shall be cleurly
expressed in its title.
Be it resolved by the Senate and the
House of Representatives of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania in General As-
sembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
be, and the same is hereby, proposed, in
accordance with the eighteenth article
thereof :—
That section six of article three be
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 6. No law shall be revived,
amended, or the provisions thereof ex-
tended or conferred, by reference to its
title only. So much thereof as is revived,
amended, extended, or conferred shall
be reenacted and published at length,
and the subject of the amendment or sup-
plement and the subject to which such
law is extended or on which it is con-
ferred shall be clearly expressed in its
title.
aa true copy of Joint Resolution No.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section one,
article eight of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sem-
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
sylvania be, and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
article, thereof:—
That section one of article eight, which
reads as follows:
“Section 1. Every male citizen twenty-
| one years of age, possessing the follow-
ing qualifications, shall be entitled to vote
at all elections, subject, however, to such
laws requiring and regulating the regise
tration of electors as the General As-
sembly may enact:
“First. He shall have been a citizen
of the United States at least one month.
“Second. He shall have resided in the
State one year (or, having previously
been a qualified elector or native-born
citizen of the State, he shall have re-
moved therefrom and returned, then six
Toning), immediately preceding the elec-
on.
“Third. He shall have resided in the
election district where he shall offer to
vote at least two months immediately
preceding the election.
“Fourth. If twenty-two years of age
and upwards, he shall have paid, wi
two years, a State or county tax, which
shall have been assessed at two
months, and paid at least one month
befora the election,” be amended so that
the same shall read as follows:
Section 1. Every citizen male or
female of twenty-one years of age, pos-
sessing the following qualifications, shall
be entitled to vote at all elcetions, sub-
ject, however, to such laws requiring and
regulating the registration of electors as
the General Assembly may enact:
_Firsc. He or she shall have been a
itizon of the United States at least one
month.
Second. He or she shall have resided
in the State one year (or, having pre-
viously been a qualified elector or native-
born citizen of the State, he or she shall
have removed therefrom and returned,
then six months), immediately preceding
the election.
Third. He or she shall have resided in
the election district where he or she shall
offer to vote at least two months im-
mediately preceding the election.
Fourth. If twenty-two years of age
and upwards, he or she shall have paid,
within two years, a State or county tax,
which shall have been assessed at least
two months and paid at least one month
before the election.
Fifth. Wherever the words ‘he,’ “his,”
“him,” and “himself” occur in any sec-
tion of article eight of this Constitution,
the same shall be construed as if written,
respectively, ‘he or she,” “his or her,”
“him or her,” and ‘himself or herself.”
2 true copy of Joint Resolution No.
least
CYRUS KE. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Number Four-A. 2
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to section one
(1) of article fifteen (XV) of the Con-
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvanja in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
sylvania be and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
article thereof :(—
That section one of article fifteen,
which reads as follows:
“Section 1. Cities may be chartered
whensver a majority of the electors of
any town or borough having a population
of at least ten thousand shall vote at any
general election in favor of the same,”
be, and the same is hereby, amended to
read as follows:
Section 1. Cities may be chartered
whenever a majority of the electors of
any town or borough having a population
of at least ten thousand shall vote at any
general or municipal election in favor of
the same. Cities, or cities of any partic-
ular class, may be given the right and
power to frame and adopt their own
charters and to exercise the powers and
authority of local self-government, sub-
ject, however, to such restrictions, limi-
tations, and regulations, as may be im-
posed by the Legislature. Laws also
may be enacted affecting the organiza-
tion and government of cities and bor-
oughs, which shall become effective in any
city or borough only when submitted to
the electors chereof, and approved by a
majority of those voting thereon.
3 true copy of Joint Resolution No.
abo
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number 5-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article nine,
gection seven of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen-
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment to the Constitution of Penn-
sylvania be, and the same is hereby, pro-
posed, in accordance with the eighteenth
article thereof :(—
That article nine, section seven be
amended to read as follows:
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not authorize any county, city, bor-
ough, township, or incorporated district
to bec>me a stockholder in any company,
association, or corporation, or to pk
or appropriate money for, or to loan its
credit to, any corporation, association,
institution, or individual.
This section shall not apply to any con-
tract entered into by the city of Phila-
delphia under legislative authority with
respect to the use or operation of transit
facilities, whether furnished by the city
or by a private corporation or party or
jointly by either or both. Nor shall
this section be construed to prohibit. the
city of Philadelphia from acquiring by
contract or condemnation in the franchises
and property of any company owning or
operating transit facilities, or any part
thereof, within its corporate limits or
the shares of stock of the corporation
owniug or operating the same, or any part
thereof.
A true copy of Joint Resolution No.
5.A.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Six-A.
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Consti-
tution of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania so as to consolidate the courts
of common pleas of Philadeiphia
County.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General
Assembly met, That the following amend-
ment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania
be, and the same is hereby, proposed, in
accordance with the eighteenth article
ereof :—
That section six of article five
amended so as to read as follows: —
Section 6. In the county of Philadel-
phia all the jurisdiction and powers now
vested in the several numbered courts of
common pleas of that county shall be
vested in one court of common pleas com-
posed of all the judges in commission in
said courts. Such jurisdiction and powers
shall extend to all proceedings at law
and in equity which shall have been in-
stituted in the several numbered courts,
and shall be subject—to—such change as
may be made by law, and subject to
change of venue as provided by law. The
president judge of the said court shall
be selected as provided by law. The num-
ber of judges in said court may be by
law increased from time to time. T
amendment shall take effect on the first
day of January succeeding its adoption.
In the county of Allegheny all the juris-
diction and powers now vested in the sev-
eral numbered courts of common pleas
shall be vested in one court of common
pleas composed of all the judges in com-
mission in said courts. Such jurisdiction
and powers shall extend to all proceed-
ings at law and in equity which shall
have been instituted in the several num-
bered courts, and shall be subject to such
change as may be made by law, and sub-
ject to change of venue as provided b
aw. The president Ji of the sal
court shall be selected as provided by
law. The number of judges in said court
may be by law increased from time to
time. This amendment shall take effect
on the first day of January succeeding
its adoption.
A true copy of
6.A.
be
Joint Resolution No.
CYRUS E. WOODS,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
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