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WHY SOCIALISM DOESN'T GROW. “Tabulation of the votes cast in the November presidential election is at last camplete,” says the Globe, Arizona, Record. “It reveals one surprising fact; the Socialist party polled a vote, in the nation of only 300,000. “Norman Thomas, Socialist candi- date this year, was probably the ablest man that party has ever named as a standard bearer. He made a strong campaign, * * Yet the Socialist party polled the lowest vote since 1904. Why should this be? What has happened anyhow, to give the Socialist party pernicious anemia? “probably it is because the funda- mental tenet of Marian Socialism— that the workers form a distinct class of the population, with aims diametri- cally opposite those of the upper class- es—is entirely out of line” with modern thought. “In Europe the worker is ‘class con- scious.” He feels a solidarity with his fellow workers; he feels that the cap- italists are forever looking for an op- portunity to crush him, and he uses his vote to gain every advantage he can. “But in this country there is little of this solidarity. The worker is more lia- ble to look on himself as a future em- ployer. He knows that if he has the ability and the determination he will rise; and, if he stays a worker, he also knows he will earn more wages than his European brother ever dared dream of. “It used to be said Napoleon's army was so successful because every private carried a marshal’s baton in his knap- sack. The same thing applies to Am- erican workers. Each one feels that he may some day be a capitalist. Accord- ingly, Socialism fails utterly to prosper here. If conditions ever change and op- portunity is shut off—that may be an- other story. But under preesnt condi- and some wagons; damage $12,000. The National Board of Fire Underwriters estimates that careless use of matches and smoking caused fire losses of ov- er $29,000,000 in 1927, while petroleum and its products resulted in losses of more than $12,500,000. It is well to treat these products with due care. ee ——— RECORD CROWD OF VISITORS TO SEE 1929 FARM EXHIBITION With favorable weather one hundred thousand people are expected to visit the State Farm Products Show which opens on Tuesday morning, January 22nd in Harrisburg, the management announced this week, 2 Five large buildings, conveniently lo- cated in the business district of the city are being decorated and arranged for the show, which promises to be the largest and most attractive winter farm exhibition ever held in the eastern part of the United States. Many new and unusua lfeatures have been added this year to make the ex- hibits and meetings even more enter taining and educational than ever be- fore. The opening meeting on Tuesday ev- ening, under the direction of C. G. Jordan, secretary of agriculture, will be one of the most interestnig events of the entire wcek. The Potato King, Da- iry King and Egg King of 1928—all outstanding Pennsylvania farmers, will be seated on the platform, along with the county agricultural agents and otha er doers and dignataries. Short addres- ses will be made by four of the state's leading citizens. Music and stunts will entertain the audience during the ev- ening. The huge pyramid, made up of 696 bushels of potatoes—Pennsylvania’s re- cord acre yield—grown by H. J. ‘Wal- ton and Sons, of Chester county, will likely be one of the most popular ex- hibits of the show. The pyramid will cover approximately 400 square feet at the base and extend almost to the ceil- in gof the room. Every department of the show will be filled to capacity. The corn show will far surpass previous exhibits; ev- ery county will compete this year, for the first time since the corn-borer be- gan its spread in northwestern Penns sylvania. The exhibits in the egg, wool and potato shows are also expected to maintain or exceed their previous high marks, which estabilshed them as the largest displays oftheir respective pro- ducts ever assembled in the United Stas tes. New features of the poultry show are tions, Socialism cannot grow.” THE ELECTRIC YEAR. Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight was a year of marked progress and achievement for the electrical indus- try. In all phases of operation it fur- ther improved the efficiency an dec- onomy of its service to the public. Wherever possible refinancing was carired out at olwer interest costs, re- sulting in large savings, that have, in general, been passe don to the consu- mers by reduced rates throughout the nation. Much additional aera was added to that served by electrical utilities, and many more communities now have the advantage of adequate electrical pow- er. A number of important construc- tion projects were executed to the fur- ther enhancement of service. In the new and outstanding field of far melectrification, great progress was made. Scientific research, carried on over a period of years, has definitely established that if electricity be defi- nitely employed in agriculture it will more than pay for itself in comfort, efficiency, speed, certainty of opera- tion, economy and labor saving. As ra- pidly as i spractical new farm areas are being given electric service. The outlook for the future is en- couraging. The industry’s great past triumphs are but at a beginning; there are vast potentialities for electric pow- er yet to be exhausted. In the farm, the home and in industry new uses are appearing almost daily. At the root of our industrial expan- sion is the tireless hand of electricity and without it our great civilization could never have developed. GASOLINE, CIGARETTE AND HORSE'S TAIL BRING DISASTER. We have heard many tales of the serious consequences wrought through t ehnear proximity of gasoline and of lighted cigarettes, but when a horse’s tail enters the train of incidents, the effect appaarntly is overwhelming, if one is to judge from a story received from Evanston, Illinois. There, a milk truck driver, smoking a cigarette, parked in the dairy yard to refill his gasoline tank. Fuel over- flowed on the ground at the moment he flicked ashes from his cigarette. In- stantly, the gasoline flared up and ig- nited his coat, which, in hastily remov- ing he threw on the tail of bne of 12 horses in a near-by barn. This annoyed the animal so that he switched his burning tail, tossing the burning coat onto a pile of hay. Result: A policeman managed to lead out the frightened horses but the fire loss included the barn, five trucks the international meet of the Cornish Club, the second district meet of the Rhode Island Club, and the National United Acona Club meet. These meets are expected to bring netries and vis- itors from many different states and foreign countries. The display of vegeteables and the exhibit of handiwork and canned pro- ducts—both ne wdepartments of the show—will easily ustify their addition according to present indications. Greater interest than ever before is being manifested in the exhibits of farm machinery and supplies. The Pennsylvania show has become recog- nized throughout the east as opening the new season for farm machinery, and is looked to as an indication of the trend in developments, just as the New York automobile show is regarded in the automobile industry. Added to the thousands of people who come only to sée the exhibition of farm products and live stock will be hundreds who come also to buy pure: bred livestock, to place orders for farm machinery and supplies, and to attend one or more of the twenty-five annual meetings of state-wide farm organiza- tions. Several thousand officers, di- rectors and members of organizations such as the horticultural association, the poultry association, the dairymen’s association, the beekeeper’s association, the swine and dairy breed associations, the vegetable growers ‘association and the Society of farm women are expect- ed to be in the city for two or more days during show week. r n Coen al residential architecture is continually will differ, but the one always dependable house is the Colonial. It satisfies for many reasons, not the least of which is its economy of con- TP fesidential of the various types of changing, for tastes struction and the minimum of space lost in the layout of its rooms. No other type of home adapts it- self so readily and completely in this respect. And none is more con- venient when built. A better exam- ple could hardly be found than the one illustrated here. and access to the rear wi on brick construction sent wmon request. An exhibit of forestry has been plan- { ned for exhibit at the twelfth annual Farm Products show to be held at Harrisburg January 22nd to 25th, Sec= retary Charles E. Dorworth announced this week. = The forestry exhibit this year will not only stress reforestration of idle acres on the farm and methods of im- proving woodlands, but will feature the Commonwealth’s program of developing state forests as well as the state wide co-operation with private and other land owners in tree planting, examin- ation of woodlands and protection of all forest areas from fire. Three large panels in color forming the background of the exhibit will por- tray the pageant of forest history from the time of the virgin forest down to the pioneer days of lumbering, and conclude with the many phases of for- est restoration of the present day. A large map of Pennsylvania six by ten feet in size will depict the state wide forest fire observation system. A mo- del fire tower, five feet high ,an ex- act reproduction of those being erect- ed by the department, will be on dis- play. Another large map in color will show the 1,300,000 acres of forest land locat- ed in thirty different counties and point out the 160,000 acres added to the state forests during the present year. These additions during the year were made in eighteen counties and were the first new purchases for state for- est purposes within the past ten years. One section of the exhibit will be de- voted to products of the trees and the various stages of manufacture such as rayon or wood silk, raw pulpwood and finished paper, wood chemical products ties, poles and mine timbers. in fire—but it might have been more if the fire de- partment hadn’t come so promptly. Your telephone saves minutes that mean a lot Dust a chimney times of emergency. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNA. Homes Al The center hall, an invariable feature of the true Colonial, pro- vides for vestibule, with coat closet, broad stairway, without crowd:ir~ the hall space, out entering the dining room, besides closet and refrigerator The Common Brick Manufacturers’ Association, Cleveland, Ohio, can furnish complete drawings for this design. wovs Win Popular Favor THE OZARK—DESIGN 6B17 space in the rear kitchen hallway. The living room is large, with open grate, three windows and an open porch in the rear. Both dining room and kitchen are large and well lighted. On the upper floor are three large, cheer- ful bedrooms, one a master’s room, and an : inclosed sleeping porch, supplied with roomy -clos- ets. The bath is convenient toeach inevitably SLEEPING R.%orcn- Q:3%i6" 1 Cad, and large. Not a foot of space is pebiitN wasted anywhere. ] i Such a home ond | BC has about it an G Rin-ar air of substantial well being, from its sturdy brick walls and red tiled roof, its truly Colonial entrance and the old fashioned cor- nice decorations, that will play an important part when the day comes to offer it for sale. Indefinably it promises a maximum of com- fortable living and a ceaseless satisfaction of ownership. Leaflet yy ww» ry re \ RJ id AT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S GRAVE Two executives of the General Post Ofiice, London, are shown with Leonard Ormerod (lat in hand), an official of the Bcll Telephone Company of Penn- sylvania at the simple tomb of America’s first Postmaster General during their recent visit to Philadelphia to study American telephone methods. TELEPHONE GIRLS LEARNING PRINCIPLES OF FIRST AID € As part of their health training course young women operators of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania are thoroughly schooled in the neces- sity of prompt and effective treatment in cases of accident in the home or on 6 Look for this Symbol When You Buy Oil and Gas HE VALUE of the “£” on money is known the world over. It is the English pound sign—prom- ising that in the treasury there is an unvarying amount of gold or silver—payable on demand —to redeem every note or bill the government issues. Years ago the Sterling Oil Company adopted this symbol of an inflexible standard as the emblem for the highest grade motor oils and gasoline that selected crudes and scientific refining can produce. Like the pound sign on money, this symbol on Sterling products is a promise that in every quart of oil and every gallon of motor or ethyl gasoline there is an unvarying standard of quality that will be paid— | on demand of your motor—in terms of exceptional | mileage and surging power. Stop at the Sterling Pump Today, You'll Soon See the Difference ppl MYVANA Parnell, Cowher & Co. INPUT REUEL SOMMERVILLE ATTORNEV-AT-LAW | Office in the Good Building. ee Phome Office and Residemce J. EDWARD STEVENS FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER CARROLLTOWN, PENAA | |g POO BNOHensen Oro ona the street. fund Is of band g- Members of a class are shown above receiving instruction in the) . J at Every Age Every age is a good age in which to save. The boy who starts saving will find when he becomes a young man that saving has become a valued habit. As he gets older, he wil still save, and when he reaches the age for retiring from active business he will have a splendid balance upon which he can rely in time of need THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA Geo. E. Prindib]e, President; F. E. Farabaugh, Reuel Somer- ville, James Westrick, P. J. Kelly, Vice Presidents, Frank L. Brown, Cashier; M. Don Connell, M. S. Larimer, Assistants. CAPITAL . $200,000.00 SURPLUS .. hitter $200,000.00 TOTAL RESOURCES OVER... $3,240,000.00 A BOLL OF HONOR BANK ——— A J I Sons osnicccon 3 J
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