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Vol. XXVI. No. 8.
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
SEWICKLEY, PA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1928
Price 5 Cents.
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A   FEW   ELECTION   IDEAS
VOTE without fail next Tuesday; for
on that day votes count, not noise.
And tlie votes require some thought, if
they are to count in the right way.
Think it over, and then be sure to vote!
For President, most voters have already made their choice. Smith adherents should vote, lor Democratic leaders say they think there is a chance to
carry even Pennsylvania. That seems
unlikely; but in this year of upset party
lines only the count will tell the tale;
Hoover believers should vote without
fail. This distriet has a senator and assemblyman to eleet, although there is
apparently no serious contest against
the organization nominees. But of more
lasting effect than evon the Presidential
choice will be the votes cast for or
against the constitutional amendments
and the loeal bond issue.
Wo have expressed our ideas about
the Sewiekley bond proposition; -we
have the improvements, completed or in
sight, for whieh the money is wanted,
and must pay for them in one way or
another; the easiest way the borough
council could figure out is the bond issue now placed before us. Any other way
will mean larger expense and higher
taxes; better to vote the bonds.
As to the amendments; we have given at length our reasons for favoring
No. 14, which permits the preparation
of a "metropolitan" charter for Allegheny County, to be submitted to the
separate boroughs later for approval.
Tliat charter will havo to be a good
ono to secure approval in the prescribed
manner; but in the meantime tho passage of the amendment will prevent
forciblo annexation schemes, otherwise almost certain to be introduced
in tlio coming legislative session, There
will be time enough later to fight charter provisions which may not suit our
ideas, but surely we now want the
amendment whieh assures that they will
have to be submitted for our approval.
Our advice—vote "Yes" on No. 14.
No. 13 would permit the use of voting machines where desired; surely we
all want to vote "Yes" on that. Then
we should also vote "Yes" on No. 6,
which permits the formation of fewer
and larger voting precincts, so that the
economies of maehine voting may be
realized by purchasing fewer machines
and paying fewer election boards.
Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 10 authorize state
bond issues; all are for purposes well
deserving large expenditures; all are
subject to argument whether their needs
Cpuld not be met by the legislature without tampering with the supreme law
of the state-, but the bonds would permit the adoption of comprehensive
building programs for a period of years
free from the uncertainties of future
legislative action. "No. 9, authorizing
an additional fifty millions of road
bonds, requires the citizens to decide
whether the state should go ahead with
more large capital investments in good
roads, or be satisfied with what it has
and devote most of its energies to
maintaining them. The economic benefit of more good roads is unquestionable;
it is a question of how fast we can
afford to get them built, Probably we
can do it much cheaper now by keeping our well-organized highway department going at full speed than by curtailing its work through lack of funds,
and waiting to increase our road mileage piecemeal as savings may render it
possible.
"No. 5 is much needed to permit our
state to cooperate-with others in relieving decedents' estates from duplicate
taxation by several states, now a serious
abuse; there is a question whether it
may not annul the state's right to release from taxation property owned by
veterans' organizations, but there aro
legal opinions both ways. In case of
its passage, however, it can hardly bo
doubted that this matter will be properly taken care of in some way.
The other amendments are of less interest to Sewiekley, and have been fully
discussed in other papers by those favoring them. But the voter who wants
to east "one o' them intelligent ballots" should be sure to inform himself
by reading the amendments before going to the polls.    It is worth while.
But the main thing is to be sure and
vote!
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THE NEW NEVILLE ISLAND BRIDGE FORMALLY OPENED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
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