RSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937. THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA.
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TICKET
For Judge
IVAN WALKER,
of Eeliefonte
SHORT-SIGHTED MERCHANTS COUNT
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a Sunday
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paid a visit to our village
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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
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iss Rachael Foust, who is employ-
at Lewistown, visited on Sunday
the home of her father, Harry
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r. and Mrs. F. F. Palmer accoms
hied Rev. Rusell and wife to Reb-
burg on Sunday afternoon to See
H. F. Musser.
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of wheat produced 709,701 gralus,
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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.
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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.
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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
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owners,
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Preserve the Constitution
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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MRS. C. A. VERNER, Pittsburgh, Pa. i
ARTHUR TOWNSEND, New Brighton, Pa.
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