Jighway Improvements
Almost $25,000,000, or one half
of the amount of the bond issue
which it is proposed to issue in.
Pennsylvania for the construction
of a system of State highways was
appropriated by the State of New
York last year for the construction
and maintenance of roads. In the
same year Pennsylvania's total ap
propriations for road purposes ap
proximated hardly one fourth of
the amount specifically devoted to
roads in New York State.
New York in the same year recog
nized its State highway adminis
tration, abolishing the highway
commission of three members and
creating a State Highway depart
ment along the lines followed by
the Sproul highway department
act of 1911 in this State. The
same general plan for construction
of highways has been adopted in
Ohio and Maryland, which have
created highway departments and
set aside large sums for the mak
ing of experiments and the neces
sary work preliminary to the es
tablishment of a system of State
Highways. New Jersey is plan
ning development of its already
extensive system of highways and
Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Kansas
and other western States have em
barked in road building on a scale
which will make the Keystone
State hustle to hold up its end.
Figures obtained by tin 1 Pennsyl
vania Motor Federation, which is
working earnestly for the establish
ment and maintenance ol' a system
of roads that will connect county
market towns and traverse the rich
farming and scenic sections of
Pennsylvania, show how New
York has undertaken to build and
maintain roads which at many
points will connect with those pro
jected in Pennsylvania,
The New York appropriations
are an object lesson to Pennsylvania,
who will be called on next year to
vote on the proposition to issue
850,000,000 of bonds, divided over
a period of years, for road con
struction. For 1911 alone New
York appropriated :
For construction of certain speci
fied roads. $13,955,000.
For improvement of public high
ways, §8,000,000.
For State proportion of amounts
appropriated for repair of high
ways, $1,795,254,27.
Maintenance and repair of high
ways constructed by State aid,
81,207,079.
In the same year the Pennsyl
vania appropriations for roads were
as follows :
Construction of State highways,
53,001 ,000.
For State aid in construction of
highways, $1,000,000.
For construction of Township
roads, $500,000.
For payment to Townships of
amounts due under road tax, 8(590,-
000.
For construction of National
road, $300,000.
For reimbursement of Townships,
$17,000.
Maryland in 1911 appropriated
81,000,000 for road construction in
addition to other expenses author
ized.
Under the plan proposed for the
Pennsylvania highway system 800-
000,000 will be available for con
struction of highways, thereby
relieving the general revenue of
* that charge and making possible
generous appropriations for State
aid construction of roads, for town
ship or dirt roads and for bonus on
the road tax. The scheme of bond
issues will be such as to distribute
the burden of carrying the interest
and sinking fund charges. In New
York, appropriations for charges
in connection with the highway
improvement bond issues were
made in addition the enormous ap
propriations for construction as
follows: For interest, $1,030,000,
and for" sinking fund or redemption
charges, $1,700,000.
New York highways have brought
hundreds of thousands of dollars of
revenue into the state through in
creased traflir and added vastly to
to the value of farms as well as en
abled farmers to obtain ready ac
cess to markets. Pennsylvania can
not afford to lag.
Two More Guards Shot in
West Virginia
Charlestown.W.Va. Sept. 1.-Two
mine guards were shot last night at.
Cabin Creek Junction, according
to report received here Governor
Glasscock has ordered four comp
anies of the west Virginia National
guard recently sent home to the
scene of the trouble.
Reports from the mining district
state that shooting can be heard in
every direction.
Thomas Hines deputy sheriff,
and the mine guard shot Friday
night at Dry Branch on Cabin
Creek have died.
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
1
TO THE CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, of the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
issue bonds to the amount of lifty
millions of dollars for the improve
ment of the highways of the Com
monwealth.
Section 1. 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 Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania be, and the same is hereby, pro
posed, in accordance with the eigh
teenth article thereof: —
That section four of article nine,
which reads as follows:
"Section 4. No debt shall be creat
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex ;
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel invasion, suppress in
surrection, defend the State in war, or |
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deiiciencv in rev
enue shall never exceed, in the aggit
grate at any one time, oue million of
dollars," be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except
to supply casual deficiencies of rev
enue, repel invasion, suppress insur
rection, defend the State in war, or to
pay existing debt; and the debt creat
ed to supply deficiencies in revenue
shall never exceed, in the aggregate
at any ona time, one million of dol
lars: Provided, however, 'mat the
General Assembly, irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to issue
bonds to the amount of fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose of improv
ing and rebuilding the highways of
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT MCAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three of the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, so as to per
mit special legislation regulating
labor.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Sonate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven.
Section 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol
lows:
"Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension, or
impairing of liens:
"Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
sohool districts:
"Changing the names of persons or
places:
"Changing the venue in civil or
criminal cases:
"Authorizing the laying out, open
ing, altering, or maintaining roads,
highways, streets or alleys:
"Relating to ferries or bridges, or
incorporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and any other
State:
"Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
"Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
"Authorizing the adoption or legiti
mation of children:
"Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines:
"Incorporating cities, towns, or vil
lages, or changing their charters:
"For the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
"Granting divorces:
"Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
"Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties ol' officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion or school districts:
"Changing the law of descent or
succession:
"Regulating the practice or juris
diction of, or changing the rules of
evidence in, any judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts, aldermen,
jUßtires of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
In chancery, or other tribunals, or
providing or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of judgments, or prescribing the effect
of Judicial sales of real estate:
"Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
"Regulating the management of
public schools, the building or repair
ing of school houses and the raising
of money for such purposes:
"Fixing the rate of interest:
"Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited in the speoial enact
ment:
"Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxation:
"Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing:
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the chart
era thereof: ,
"Granting to any corporation, asao
elation or individual any special or ex
clusive privilege or Immunity, or to
auy corporation, association or indi
vtduai the right to lay down u railroad
track.
"Nor shall the General Assembly in
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acts may be passed:
"vNor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers and privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been provid
ed for by general law, nor where the
courts have jurisdiction to grant the
same or give the relief asked for," —•
so as to read as follows:
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension or
impairing of liens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
Changing the names of persons or
places:
Changing the venue in civil or crim
inal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, opening,
altering, or maintaining roads, high
ways, streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or in
corporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and any other State.
Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
Authorizing the adoption, or legiti
mation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county liues:
Incorporating cities, towns or vill
ages, by changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing the
plaoe of voting.
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion or school districts:
Changing the law of descent or suc
cession:
Regulating the practice or jurisdic
tion of, or changing the rules of evi
dence in, any judicial proceeding or
inquiry before courts, aldermen, jus
tices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery or other tribunals, or pro
viding or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of judgments, or prescribing the ef
fect of judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of pub
lic schools, the building or repairing
of school houses and the raising of
money for such purposes:
Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment:
Remitting lines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury:
Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing; but the legislature
may regulate and fix the wages or
salaries, the hours of work or labor,
and make provision for the protection,
welfare and safety of persons employ
ed by the State, or by any county,
city, borough, town, township school
district, village, or other civil di
vision of the State, or by any contract
or or sub-contractor performing work,
labor or services for the State, or for
any county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village or other
civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending,
renewing or extending the charters
thereof^
Granting to any corporation, asso
ciation, or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or immunity, or
to any corporation, association, or in
dividual the right to lay down a rail
road track:
Nor shall the General Assembly in
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acts may bo passed:
Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers or privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been pro
vided for by general law, nor where
the courts have jurisdiction to grant
the same or give tho relief asked for.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT McAFBE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION,
proposing an amendment to section
three of article eight of the Consti
tution of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania (if the
Senate concur). That the following is
proposed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, in accordance with the
provisions of the eighteenth article
thereof: —
Section 2. —Amend section three of
article eight, which reads as follows:
All judges elected by the electors of
(ho State at large may be elected at
either a general or municipal election,
as circumstances may require. All
the elections for judges of the courts
for the several judicial districts, and
for county, city, ward, borough, and
township officers, for regular terms of
service, shall be on the municipal
election day; namely, the Tuesday
next following the first Monday o( No
vember in each odd-numbered year,
but the General Assembly may by law
fix a different day, two-thirds of al!
the members of each Mouse consent
ing thereto: Provided, That such
elections shall always bo held in an
odd-numbered year." so as to read:
Section 3. All judges elected by
the electors of the State at large may
be elected at either a general or mu
nicipal election, as circumstances may
require. All elections for judges of
the courts for the several judicial dls
txtatm. ut tor oounty, city, ward, bar
ough, and township officers, for regu
lar terms of service, biiaii ue iit3*u
iiie municipal election day; namely, the
Tuesday next following the first Mon
day of November in each odd-number
ed year, but the General Assembly
may by law iix a different day, two
tliirds of all the members of each
House consenting thereto: Provided,
That such electioi shail be held in
ail odd-numbeivu e;.i. i J rovided fur
ther, That all judges tor the courts
of the several judicial districts hold
ing office at the presen time, whose
asrnis ol' office i t.i\ end an odd
numbered year, shall continue to hold
their offices unt ; ihe first A onday of
January in the next suet-ceding even
numbered yeai
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu
tion No. 3.
ROBERT .McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment u> section
one of artic!>- nine ol the Consti
tution of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House ol Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assemb y met, That Uio
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth ol Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof: —
Section Amend section one of
article nine of the Constitution of i
Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits ol the authority levy
ing the tax, and shall bo levied and
collected under general laws; but the
General Assembly may, by general
iaws, exempt from taxation public
property used for public purposes,
actual places of religious worship,
places of burial not used or hold for
private or corporate protit, and institu
tions of purely public charity," so as
to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits 01 tin authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and col
t lected under general laws, aud the
subjects of taxation may be classified
for the purpose of laying graded or
progressive taxes; but the General
Assembly may, by general laws, ex
empt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual places
of religious worship, places of burial
not used or held for private or cor
porate profit, and institutions of pure
; ly public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
I No. 4
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to the Con
i .stitution of Pennsylvania.
Bo it resolved by the Senate and
j House of Representatives of the Com
inonwealth of Pennsj lvania in Gener
al Assembly met, That the follow
ing is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of Pennsylvania, in
accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof:
Article IX.
Section 15. No obligations which
have been heretofore issued, or which
may hereafter be issued, by any coun
ty or municipality, other than Phila
delphia, to provide lor the construc
tion or acquisition of waterworks,
subways, underground railways or
street railways, or the appurtenances
thereof, shall be considered as a debt
of a municipality, within the meaning
of section eight of article nine of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania or of
this amendment, if the net revenue
derived from said property for a per
iod of five years, either before or after
the acquisition thereof, or, where the
same is constructed by the county or
municipality, after the completion
thereof, shall have been sufficient to
pay interest and sinking-fund charges
during said period upon said obliga
tions, or if the said obligations shall
be secured by liens upon the respec
tive properties, and shall impose no
municipal liability. Where munici
palities of counties shall Issue obliga
tions to provide for the construction
of property, as herein provided, said
said municipalities or counties may
also issue obligations to provide for
the interest and sinking-fund charges
accruing thereon until said properties
shall have been completed and in op
eration for a period of one year; and
said municipalities aud counties shall
not be required to levy a tax to pay
said interest and sinking-fund charges,
as required by section ten of article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl
vania. until after said properties shall
have been operated by said counties
or municipalities during said period
of one year. Any of the said munici
palities or counties may incur indebt
edness in excess of seven per centum,
and not exceeding ten per centum, of
the assessed valuation of the taxable
property therein, if said increase of
Indebtedness shall have been assented
to by ,three-fifths of the electors vot
ing at a public election, in such man
ner as shall be provided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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M himself has implicit faith—
M else he would not advertise It.
■ Yon are safe in patronizing the i
■ merchants whose ads appear
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MISS LIFE'S REAL JOY
TRUTH IN CHARGE THAT AMER
ICANS TRAVEL TOO FAST.
Might Pay Well to Take a Lesson
From Our European Kin, and De
vflte Some Part of Existence
to Leisure.
Speed, hurry, rush —doubtless they
aro effective as commerce accelera
tors, but they are death to aesthetics.
We have ceased to write letters, wo
propose marriage by wire and hold
the wire until we hear the answering
coo. Nothing can be funnier than the
way In which we take our holidays.
And an ordinary evening's joy is a
Marathon between the office, the dress
ing room, the dinner table, the thea
ter, the supper, then home, writes
Kate Masterson in Lipincott's Maga
zine.
Life to us takes on the guise of
scenery passed through on a fast ex
press. Houses, humans, cows, sheep,
flash by in confusion. We get impres
sions rather than clear views. Even
our friendships, our loves and our
hutes are misty, indistinct affairs, that
come and go and become dreams. . .
Our memories are blurs, for the
rush of today is upon us, and tomor
row is treading upon our heels. A
hand-clasp and good-by, and we part
from a comrade, each hurrying on his
own way, for there is no time for
eronyship. Our national gait and our
Hi'ick lunch system have made count
less thousands merry. Wo are the
push!
Not long ago Punch published a pic
ture naively called "A Scene in Amer
ica " A ferry had pushed off quite a
distance from the dock and two be
lated passengers are portrayed poised
midway in the atmosphere. In the act
of jumping for the boat, while the oth
er passengers look on admiringly.
"Thank goodness we'll catch it,"
says Jones, "There's not another for
a minute and a half!"
We would not, if wo could, put on
the manners and moods of the Orient.
They would sit on us unbecomingly as
the turbans of the Hindu or the jeweled
robes of rajahs. But we can lenrn a
few lessons in leisure from our Eng
lish neighbors, cultivating their rose
gardens and stopping an hour each
day for tea, though the heavens fa'l.
"And the Parisians with their
grand dejeuner, their coffee under the
trees on the Bois, their honr tor the
aperitif—so many pauses, in fnot, for
pleasure, that the business day is cut
to a few hours, and it suffices. The
speed maniac may call upon us to ob
serve our own achievement, our prog
ress, our healthy democracy, and a
Jot of other things. But is the art of
Jiving rightly not worth while? Are
-we getting as much out of life as wo
"might if we stayed our pace and
"went more slowly down the path that
leads into the sunset?
When Work Beats Play.
"You weren't here yesterday, Alger
non," said Mr. Topfloor tho other
morning as he got into the elevator.
"I hope you were enjoying yourself
isomowhere."
"Was yo' eve' to a Sunday school
■picnic, Mistoh Topflo'?" responded Al
gernon. "Dat w'ere I was. I went
wlf my broder-in-law an' his family.
Dore was 'bout 600 head o' Chilians
"went, and a lot o' people, young an'
ol'. Oh, no, sah, we didn' hab no dan
cin'. De minister o' dat chu'ch he don'
b'lieve in dancin'. He say it hab a
remortallzin* 'fee'; an' any' o' de
mem'ers o' his chu'ch dat redulges in
it mus' leave de renomination. But
dere was plenty ice'cream an' satn
wiches an' coffee an' 'musments an'
sports o' dat kin'. An' dere was a
ban' dat play mos' all de time, an* de
grass was nice an sof to waller in.
'Wot de ban' play?' I t'ink it was de
"Star Spanglum Banner* dey's perform-
In'. Oh. yas, sah, we all has a good
'ntiff time, 'specially de chilluns; but
does yo' know, Mistoh Topflo', I t'ink
I rudder be runnin' de elebator; It's
cooler an' dere's mo' 'citemen' an' less
crltumclsm."
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ill g|
We handle goods that sir«* cheap, lull. not
feswsM cheap goods. Wo want our goods to become. #~>w-i.
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your goods and our stow your store. If it is
It Clothing, Hats, |+|
•££ Suit Cases, !»£
H Shoes, Etc. M
£*s3 We are offering fine Shoes at SI.9K jjsjgj
Boys' Suits from $1.98 to $4.9K
Boys' Knee Pants 23c and 49c
send to mail order houses when I can furnish
you with the same goods for less money ?
gi MAX MAMOLEN, LAPORTE. §$
NOTICE
The undersigned having I )( >PH
appointed Administrator of the
estate of Patrick Walls, late of
Cherry township, deeeased, notice
is hereby given to all parties owing
said estate to make payment to the
undersigned without delay, and all
parties having claims against said
estate are requested to present the
same to the undersigned adminis
trator without delay.
MICHAEL WALLS,
Laporte, Pa. Administrator
August 2. 11(12. S. <i
DEMONSTRATE!?, WANTED
A good man to demonstrate the
National Vacuum Cleaner in Sul
liviin County, A line proposition
to the right party. Address, Tun
It MM IH.IC'A.N N MWS 1 11..M, Laporte,
Pa.
j Central State Nor-1
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• An exceptional opportunity af-j
J lorded to young men and young •
# women to propsire for tewhinj* £
•or for business. Four regular*
Scourges Klementary. Normal, 2
* Scientific and Advanced Normal; •
X also special work in Music, |>oni- Z
J est ic Science anil Manual Train-#
t) ing. Strong teaching force, well S
J gradi d work, good discipline and w
♦ hard study insure licst results to X
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