RSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937. THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. vs Y DEMOCRATIC TICKET For Judge IVAN WALKER, of Eeliefonte SHORT-SIGHTED MERCHANTS COUNT twod mon a Sunday home at Milroy. The paid a visit to our village ® ® Sunday at the home of her parents by ner Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Foust, W. E. McCormick and family of Mt. Penn visited over ths week end at the Arthur Slaterbeck at Tusseyville and the G. H. McCormick home. R. H. McCormick, Misg Isabel Bradford of Centre motored to Danville on Friday to havg a cyst removed hig left eyelid Mrs. Frank Ennist, has bee confined to her bed, Is glowly Improv. she Is bein Mit J “ - ing ® + oo © » POTTERS MILLS a 8 9 + 8 ® iss Rachael Foust, who is employ- at Lewistown, visited on Sunday the home of her father, Harry st, r. and Mrs. F. F. Palmer accoms hied Rev. Rusell and wife to Reb- burg on Sunday afternoon to See H. F. Musser. iss Amelia Copenhaver and gentle- n friend from Phillipsburg spent hep nloce, tne Feng- Monitor] NMmart racketeoer [Huntingdon A cently oertown Mi wind Ma of West Che at the H. E homes M: a — . . ] friends g . ® Ed friends scientific test, and signed up a our leading merchants for ments for a well-meaning but useless poster, Someone profit but In a twenty grains home Sunday . of wheat produced 709,701 gralus, more than 35400-fold. co ——— ——_ 5 ———" or Foust and J \Y Carson ade wecompanied by ma 4 Hall after from mont of the m An a line which Agricultural conservation hag 70,849 active farmer supporters in Pennsyl- vania this year, against 38,010 in 1936 I county embraced conservation in 1937 249 last some place else — the poster is a noon For District Attorney PHILIP H. JOHNSTON ff 1 Ol it the readers, if any Centre 660 farmers have merchants. Beloy “Printed by Pa home Mi » { § : who n ARTINSL og h reads year. Press, Uniontown VEER BN Ce “SAVE THE CONSTITUTION Two years ago those in power in this State sought to re-write the Constitution of Pennsylvania for their own purposes, through a Constitutional Convention. The people of this State repulsed that scheme by a majority of more than a quarter of a million votes. Now, through proposed Amendments, which will appear upon your ballot on November 2nd. the same group seeks to achieve the same ends. git ! Having Practically Doubled the Taxes in This State Within Less Than Three Years, They Now Demand the Right to Collect Millions More and Remove Wise Constitutional Restraints ,From the Tax System of Pennsylvania * THESE AMENDMENTS are DANGEROUS and VICIOUS They Have Been So Worded as to Conceal Their Real Meaning. They Would Open the Constitution of This State to Uncontrolled Tax Grabs—to “Ripper” Legislation Which Would Destroy Home Rule—and to Constant Tinkering With the Constitution Itself, The only possible excuse for Amendment No. 14 is that it would enable proponents of a defeated amendment to keep pushing it before the electorate. year after year, at the e pense of the local communities. - - Amendment No. 24—the so-called Income Tax Amend. ment—would remove from Taxes now imposed by the State, the requirement that each Tax must be uni- form in its application. They could make the Gasol'lni> Tax 1 cent a gallon in po- litically favored sections and set the same Tax at any exorbi- tant figure in other sections. They could tax the record’ing of mortgages in communi- ties of a given population and’ exempt identical mortgages in other sections. : Excise Taxes could fall heavily upon some homesteads, and not at all upon others. They could so differenti:ate in taxes applying to the various uses of land that one lardowner would pay a big tax and another would pay little or nothing. By manipulation and discrimination they could impose taxes for partisan or punitive purposes. This Amendment would permit destructive and confiscatory taxes that would impoverish the State by driving citizens out of it. The Income Tax provision is not earmarked. School teach- ers are not mentioned in ‘it, while. as; for property the State does not levy a Real Estate T ax and obs iously could not abolish or reduce that which it h as not itnposed. More §# owners, #4 & Preserve the Constitution . vy Defeat All These Amend- ments on Novem ber 2nd A ApS IRA JEWELL WILLIAMS, Philadelphia, Pa ., Chairman MRS. GEORGE R. HEMPHILL, Beaver Falls, Pa., Vice-Chairman roy ” ¥ ; f #i » fd MRS. SAMUEL A. SCHREINER.. } ittsburgh, Pa. Eo g GEORGE W. Mc(.ANDLESS, Pim sburgh, Pa. > $55 MRS. GEORGE R. HEMPHILL, Bes ver Falls, Pa. Fat qd W. B. PURVIN, Butler, | "a. * ¢ 4 MRS. BESSIE DOBSON ALTEMUS, P1 iiladelphia, Pa. “ over, wage-earners have no assurance that the exemption will not be so low that practically everyone would pay tribute under this tax, The proposed Amendment is silent as to all these things— specific only in the vicious powers it would create. Every consideration of self-defense demands the overwhelming defeat of this proposal. Amendment No. 34 is unnecessary because over a long period of years the State has been paying these pensions and benefactions under present laws. Amendment No. 44 is the “Ripper” Amendment. Only the Constitution of Pennsylvania has preserved for the larg- est city in our Commonwealth that degree of home rule which it exercises today. Through this Amendment the Ad- ministration would accomplish by Constitutional “ripper” what it failed to accomplish by Legislative “ripper.” They seek: Constitutional permission to legislate the City of Phila- delphia into the control of those to whom the people of Philadelphia have been unwilling to vote control. Under the cloak of “economy,” this Amendment would rip out a County, to give more patronage to the most wasteful and extravagant Administration in the history of Pennsyl- vania—by “ripper” legislation. Amendment No. 54 has been abandoned by its sponsors. This proposal now has no known supporters. and Its Proven Protection Yes No In the Space Beside Each VOTE X » wr po A TE \ 4, oe ERNEST J. POOLE, Reading, Pa., Vice-Chairman GEORGE W. McCANDLESS, Pittsburgh, Pa., Secretary and Treasurer C. E. FRAZIER, Washingtox, Pa. rE MRS. ROY R. SUTTON, Mt. Lebanon, Pa. / i ERNEST J. POOLE, Reading, Pa. “het .. MRS. C. A. VERNER, Pittsburgh, Pa. i ARTHUR TOWNSEND, New Brighton, Pa. ] ¥ ® Lo EI ('olitical Advertisement.)
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