Thursday, October 31st, 1912. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, YOUR GROCER BILL AND YOUR BALLOT. ———— ft Costs $5.50 For Week's Necessaries; $4 In 1904, Sm —— The housekeeper and the wage earn: er can see at a glance from these (g- ares what the “high cost of living” means under a monopoly tariff: ACTUAL RETAIL GROCERY PRICES, BEING THE AVERAGE PAID IN NEW YORK, JERSEY CITY AND NEARBY CITIES IN 134 AND NOW: Br i of Quantity re- iquired family per wweelk. pe 8 wee JO week In average itamily of five {persons 8 | Z Cost Bixby ip | -a i w- Butter Lard ...... 12¢c. Coffee ....17c Tea ...eee. 0c EEE ...... Bo Sugar ..... Ge Cheese .... léc Prunes .... 08c {| Flour .....08%c Potatoes .. 30c Codfish ... i0c. {| Milk ...oe. 08c .B = - re Ebel M00 $6.50 [1904 figures from United States bureau of labor; 1912 quotations from averaging current prices of a score of retall stores | Can strict economy reduce the quan | tity of these staple articles required | for a family of five who wish to main tain the boasted “American standard | of living?” [Let the high protection | ists try to do with less If they will But let them reflect that it Is costing them $1.50 a week more thap it did eight years ago for $4 worth of neces saries for the table—387% per cent in | erease in the span of two presidential | terms of Republican “prosperity.” Have YOUR wages, Mr. Voter, kept pace with this advance? Do YOU see any reason for paying a tariff tax of 35 per cent on eggs or 23 per cent on beef or 63 per cent on | sugar? Food —food alone —costs the average family now 421 per cent of the total family expense The average cost of food per family In the United States has risen as fol lows: 1900. 1 FS sesssssssssssastesmmsstnssnss S34 M7 «Co President Taft vetoed bills reducing the tariff on all such necessaries life A vote for Woodrow Wilson vote to Insure an | the tariff and a reduction of your gro cer bills is honest revision fa of : le whole business of politics is to bring classes together upon a common | platform of accommodation and com | mon interest. Woodrow Wilson i Many | with a a shallow mind is equ deep volce, of the milar to ch is si monwealth and the Commissioners Pre . Royer in the of in the bail west a HATHA VALHALLA AAA VAAL WA THAT WIA TAVITA TA WIAA VIAVAWAAVA Pra Tren gee Bi p ¥. For the township of Walker, middle precinct In Grane Hail in the villace of Hoblersn For the township of Worth, the Knights of the Golden Eagle, lu the village Fur the township of Walker at the dwelling house of Joan village of Zion. £ Port Matlda. ‘MANY TREES AFFECTED WITH CHESTNUT BLIGHT The Disease Prevails Throughout Centre County Forests. CO-OPERATION NEEDED, | What the Commission Has Done in Centre County, (The following is contributed representative of the Chestnut Commission. Ed.) Representatives of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission have been Inspecting chestnut trees in var- fous parts of Centre County, but re cently the force of men have been in creased by bringing in men from other parts of the State, In addition to those trained men, a number of local men have been hired by the day In each locality, These men have been hired for thelr knowedge of the woods in the locality where they work, and their efficiency in the work has been the sole requirment. Politics or oth- er influences have nothing to do by a Blight | | i | | | | { { with this work, or the hiring of men, and the force includes men from all parties, While familiar with the most people are somewhat light full be purpose Chestnut Tree disease (diaporthe parasitica), a planation of it at this time will ap- preciated by many, as it is the of the emplovees of the Commission to inspect by December 15 the chestnut trees ind have in to 311! farther spread of the di t 1 in all parts of the fected trees d iro estroy rey vet infected. The chestnut tree bligh disease, and is not an ir is erroneously supposed by some Some of the trees which are are also attacked by worms or infected trees have no worm like other tree, but in all f the work on them ann {areas most to insects at any extent of | ree infecting time. tree to 142 In ated on Brush tion spread from one in about 31; years a spot of infer | recently lo Mountain near | Rebersharg, the disease had spread from | one clump which appears to bave been 1 { killed about three vears ao to about trees near it, These are only taken therewith would be of infected trees : {rees on aq ! infection infecte ht be from protected r spread to these from longing to parties who mig to short sighted to seethe necessity of destroying blighted trees for the benefit of their own ) ] and others trees aw has been ed on by some st eminent in the State, lawvers should be comp ie In Centre County the ons in the are only isolated cases oi a western part many miles apart, be found Shoe, U few trees each, after Sach infections have n near nionville, Pine Grove Mills, 1 lots of infection will no doubt be found scattered In the Philipsburg, Snow Howard, Stormstown, smal Boalsbuarg, ete., an 1 other throughout all parts of the county, the far eastern part of this county disease has become more prevalent, and it is fortunate that the infected trees are now being located and destroyed, as the disease has made considerable headway in that part of Centre County and if left to continue spreading it would soon de stroy all the chestnut trees in that section the and continue the spread of disease westward : infec tion is the most «erious in Centre Connty Even in this section where the only a small percentage of the trees are infec. of a intected up to this time, and the found in cases tions are usually groups few trees, and in some cover an acre or two, while in others there are only a dozen or more trees close together In some cases of recent infection, only | one tree is infected. Therefore it is a | comparatively easy matter to check the | disease now, by destroying the few trees | infected, | vania t nl The representatives of the Chestnut Blight Commission will inspect chestnut trees in all parts of the connty, blazing | and togging those infected with blig ht, explain to owners the method of destroy- infected the work. The work must be done properly ing trees, and supervise so as to destroy all bark of infected trees The trunk of the tree mav be used if suf- the bark having been carefully peeled off, and any ficiently large to be of value, infected spots on the outer layers of wood having been cut out and burned, This brought into this fungus disease was probably country from Japan noticed New York It that time spread westward to this part of Pennsyl The oldest county appear and was first near City, in 1905 has since infections in this killed Kilied to have about four years ago. The : } ci tacks che stnutdrees , aflect of all sizes, killin saplings in one to si trees in less than two years from the it starts, depending on the On many tern part 4 part Pennsyl of has (l1sease ANOTHER APPEAL. Hon. W. R. Bierly With Does Not Comm ssion. Agree ght ) : Another Chestnut Bli Appeal, fContribute ment Vers Hav as ore tres. held is no istice, In rights wncertained the rights of ommission has stom w our Re- : ) “own he state I the people In 1t if proved by t that Mr. Blerly has i 3. : . ’ gard his Ing bef ome in there ‘ intive | as ith ' . same Anna up- Ae. ives has Hitched ¥ the ent This no agent and reply to his has taken a has sent us ‘ t slend ther dated Oot 7. 1018 In notice Mr. Blerlhy appeal which he IOWSR Harrisburg Chestnut Pn Oct. 22 Com I beg to Inform you that I have rec'd thr igh the postoflice at Rebersburg, Centre Co, Pa, a second notice like the first which is signed Wm. IL. Burchfield. In all other respects it is identical Ar 1 have an appeal pend. ing before your body, it should cover this notice But to be sure that you do not charge me with the expenses of destroying growing timber upon the land of another, I also appeal from this notice If you have read the un- constitutional law under which you ex I*%, on appeal, as you must know, sus- pends further action until the appeal In disposed of, My duties to myself an a bread winner, do not permit one to £0 up there every time a cormorant aeen Nt to encroach upon my rights, Your hypocritical claim that you send this notice “primarily because It means saving your chestnut timber and Is therefore a financial gain to you," would be ridiculous If we did not know that you are scratohing gravel to spend all of the appropria- tion you can before the next legisla« ture convenes, which will doubtiess put a quletus upon your commission, unless it consists of a majority of fools, Yours Ete, W. R BIERLY. 19012 TO SCARE VOTERS GRY WOLF! WOLF! FILENE ANSWERS Page 11. IRVING FISHER MR. WANAMAKER ——————— Standpat Wianagers Depending Noted Boston Merchant Appeals on Prosperity Plea to Turn Tide to Tait, DEMOCRATS MUST BE ALERT National Chairman McCombs Calls At tention of Wilson Supporters to Ne cessity of Meeting This Unjust At tack. My Dear Democratic worker The success of 1 Demo November b d the 8 0 Democrats. n YOI I know ure that the fidence Friend and ticket wholly ratic on pon ing ependent acts 1 loyal ork - we are depend- ing up thsolute dence confl- nsibjl ow on The 38 Ll re ii i y } ( Way Lo suit 80 thorough Democratic zl this and will When Cras “Ini emoccra into BAIm« YOU thi ine may meet They are thelr ad Ka - ! i" nd ma wit) ng peo- ticket ommit with you and help us bring about ST DEMOCRATI ountry has ever seen With the full knowleds: victor) will mean prosperity, ErTeater and great person In exception of CNJOYINE shed under the erely yours, WILLIAM F. McCOMBS, | Democratic National Com myself a the N tie | © want t ’ pernte ’ vant THE GRY VICTORY thi We this that Dem greater | demands for or our thom and do cratic winose Wage earners opportunities for every Nation with the who are now unfair privileges Nin ial law, Chalrman Enlist For Seven Years. After Nov. 1 all enlistments in the | regular army Will be for a period of seven years. This was the announce ment made by Adjutant General George Andrews at Washington last week, All recruiting officers have been advised of the change. By the terms of the new enlistment law a man enlisting may be trans ferred to the army reserve after four years of actual service. As a member of the reserve he will draw no pay, but will be subject to duty at a mo- ment's notice, Baby Disease Kills Girl of Twenty, That Infantile paralysis is not con- fined to tender years is shown by the death of Miss Lucy Crawford, which occurred at her home In Baltimore, on Saturday. Miss Crawford was twenty years of age, and the cause of her death as filed by her physician is given as infantile paralysis, fo Business Men With Logic For Wilson a——— STABILITY WHAT WE NEED Full Measure of Prosperity Cannot Be Realized Until Country With Genuing Tariff Reform, [Edward A. Fllene is president of Ed- ward A, Fllene & Bon, Boston, Mass, one of the largest retall dry goods stores of the country. He is a former president of the Boston chamber of commerce, mem. ber of the National Council of Commerce, National Civic federation, National News- paper league, Cleveland chamber of com- merce and member of a score of clubs and other organizations; is the author of many articles on business, civic, labor and industrial relations. | To the Merchants of the | Johny Wanamaker's appeal to you In the New York Herald of Oct. 4, calling for a continent port of Mi aft merchants and b has HH] and nited States: the INSIDERS doubt serious attention It me that of us in believe Wanamaker's position is should make known our po sitions and the reasons for our firm belief that the business of the country will be best served by the election of Governor Wilson to the presidency. There is every reason to believe that we are on the eve of abundant pros perity, and in my opinion one thing likely to prevent the setting in of such a wild be the of President Taft and the one thing that d prosperity most certain would be the election of Governor Wil This opin my that for the business world noth- part of the men of the received your has seemed to business who on country, no those Mr mistaken 4 period re-election fod wi wou make based n is upon r else is so Important as stability itabllity Is | Taft as president; there has been no feeling of stability during his adm It not that the it Is a urber of litions or that he sufficiently careful of the business terests of the of any feeling of stability uring Taft admin due to a widespread bellef that are certain reforms which the great body of people want and that the gen eral feeling of unrest will not ly anti) complished, President not create that there lution of the tariff question Isfactory s« mpossible with Mr nistration dis not in absence the has n and Is is presides CO! in country stration there material lessen these reforms are ac Taft's any feeling would be a satisfactory Bs jution | mean a removal of unjust and unnecessary taxation Entirely nj from his veto of tar ir atl the mere fact that the president signed the Payne-Aldrich tar iff bill and later declared that it was the tariff bill ever written, made It impossible for the public to have any considerable confidence that they may expect real relief from him re-election of fe) 0 a sat mrt legis! best has Roosevelt's Record Upon this matter Mr. Roosevelt's rec. ord is n much better than that of Mr. Taft, nor is hia present position on the tariff much more promising than that of the president. The agitation for reform began while President Me. Kinley was still in office and had then reached guch proportions that the coun try in general approved of the ad vanced position which McKinley took in his Buffalo speech It increased steadily during the seven and a half years in which Roosevelt presi dent. but he made no attempt to give the people any relief from tariff exac tions. He does not now offer any defi nite tariff program. These things lead me believe that his now, like the re-election of Taft, would mean four years more of tariff agitation With Wilson elected one may reason ably expect a satisfactory solution of the tariff His expressions on this matter show a full conception of the country wide demand for tar if reform. a thorough knowiedge of the ways In which tariff laws are made and a determination to secure Aas promptly as possible the much needed legislation At the same time Gover nor Wilson has shown that he recog nizes as a fact the intimate relation which tariff has been made to have to the structure of business in this coun try and that he would keep this fact in mind in handling tariff legisiation Governor Wilson's election would mean and would be taken by the coun try at Iarge to mean that we would have very erly ot was election to question give the country the relief it is de manding and which at the same time | | would be made carefully and with a | view to preventing business disturb ance. Until this Is done, or at least until the country feels sure that it Is to be done. there cannot be that stability which ls #0 necessary to the fullest development of an era of prosperity. Truth About Prosperity, Certainly the facts do not warrant Mr. Wanamaker's sonclusion that a Republican administration insures pros perity and that the periods of trade de pression which the sountry has seed from time to time have been due to Democratic ‘ard vision. Mr. Wana maker's appeal is dased largely on the theory that Democratic tariff revision was responsible for the hard times of 1808. In the face of the facls no an Is Satisfied Business Men, vide rally to the sup- | in his administration | | 8 revision of the tariff which would FOR WILSON. ————— Noted Yale Economist Appeals fo Fellow Progressives Wiih Clear Logic. —— SAYS TARIFF IS THE ISSUE Contrasts Three Party Programs and Declares Democratic Attitude the Only Progressive One, By PROFESSOR IRVING FISHER. author Hae Hoosevell's Ed.) us An in the other to Wik hope the [Note.—~Dr. Fisher ity on economics of was & member of President national conservation commission 1 write not as a Democrat but independent and hope that help Progressis is the n Yale university Progressive my letter may es who are ng make up their minds to son So far of progressiy election of brief, follow 1, DEADLOCK IN CO If it J | to elect there would be same dead k with con ure to pr 1 which has been expe term. If it veit for the reason that a sympathet 2. DEADILO! be still more pra sider that the result ents voting for Taft stead of for Wilson any of the elected 8. THE hand, as | can see the e legisin Wilson NGRESS ~ Mr, Taft repeated the and fail were possible mere. y gress secure ple to ele d be ymplished, be would not have were | ossi even ess cous CONEress KED ELECTION.-Teo tical, we d con- of us independ- or Roosevelt in- be to prevent fr being shot may three Ol one m TARIFF. If, or he other gressives unite for oting for Wilson he can be elected, and, If elect egisla- we jependent ed, can ace tion, a give a this my 1 not all Den will not form This that the paign is t tariff ref reduction because su ocrats ha so fo they, forn 1% Mr. Roosevelt able and far Taft years in office touched, ns pr reformer. | for to red a demand no clear argumen repeats to make that Govern: the ot} formers cratic | platforn the thr Wh hould the introduction wald not we of numerous other is be settled in the have De f all, the snes which o present campaign when we fore tariff, 4 ISSUES grasp of the pr that of us the reatest issue oO h CAN ECONOMIC whic be settled? Wilson's blems of the hour far or Taft admitted such as the living. the currency problems connected attrac been un- SUPA SSeS Roosevelt Mr that tariff and with tion derstood ! b. THE Wilson is more truly Roosevelt and mu his devotion to the Roosevelt has frequently econo the « the econ fc problems wt of trusts not only have no for him. but have never 5 him PEOPLES INTERESTS. — democratic than Me mmeled in interests of the peo ple as a whe . who accuse Wilson adopting new democratic doctrines because thelr him personally the contrary, he to democra- thelr untr Those of recently hel; popularity would I should learn that, adopted them [in his fight tize Princeton unpopularity In the which his activities then lay threat. ened to destroy his influence and ca- reer 6. PURE FOODS on universit when circles In nearly Governor Wilson and the Democratic party have shown a greater Interest than either Taft or Roosevelt in the protection of the cone sumer against food adulteration and other Injuries to the public health. Df. Wiley, although previously a Republic. an. now has decided not only to vote for Wilson, but to belp him actively in the campaign 7. THIRD TERM, ~ To elect Mr. Roosevelt would deal a fatal blow to the useful! tradition against a third term. * * * Nor do 1 think it altogeth er Improbable that If Mr. Roosevelt were again elected president he wonld, whatever his present Intentions, grad. ually assume the role of benevolent despot. His patural temperment is that of a dictator 1 write as one who stil] holds person. al respect both for Colonel Roosevelt and President Taft and in no spirit of personal hostility to either. | believe that all three candidates intend to do right “as God givas them fo see the right.” but | thiuk neither Taft nor Roosevelt seen the right as clearly as Woodrow Wilson.
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