THE PATTON COURIER (oorrw N is the life of trade. | poor relief has constantly grown, and! Even Patton's chain stores seem now it has reached enormous propor- | Published Every Thursday. with one another. housing the poor now under course y vv o4. of construction. The present board of RESIDENT Hoover last week in| county commissioners are not to blame | Thos. A. Owens, Editor & Prop. i. F. Bradley, Associate Editor P 2 ; i there is a passion among many Amer- rest of us, Sv st fac Entered in the Post Office at Patton, '€Te IS a passi t of us, but they must face the ing we J » ns if 12 proble f starti 3 -a=r ine : : : Pa., as Second Class Mail Matter, ican fathers and mothers fo lift the problem of starting the ball-a-rolling centered in engineering. Subscription Rates $2.00 per year in children to higher opportunities than | to pull us out of it. Advance, Single Copies 5 Cents. | they the selves enjoyed. This is true, Perhaps, next year, when there will same talents. The man who is a failurs RATE CARD—Legal Notices, at 10c: Patton there are some fathers and the county, campaigning to be com-| PL per pauelion) Busnes mothers who seem to think their chil-| missioner, they wil lhave a lot of ex- | $10.00 per year; Display advertising, 30c per inch; Full position, 256 pct. extra; ; Minimum charge, $1.00. Cash must ac- | affords them. at all, except that which the street |ihey win take to reduce the taxes, and still pull Cambria county out of-the| tising. All Advertising copy must reach this office by noon Wednesday to in- sure insertion, Unsigned -correspon- dence will be ignored at all times. , “i r | motorists are responsible and | expects to topple over the present] competent. But the small minority board, will have to “show” the voters. A OVERWHELMING majority Of county commissioner next year, who | of | which is careless and incompetent, has in more ways than mere “hot air” how | The Patton Courier Has the Largest|given us the greatest accident toll in he would lower the taxes. Paid-Up Circulation of Any Weekly), world, They are a menace To the 100 | Newspaper in Cambria County—Covers| . ANE A a or Arivowe | the Home Community like a blanket, lives and property of all other drivers. | QnA TE LOSES TWO . 3 | Thev + n A, Prep ich and circulates far more extensively in| They must be barred from the high-| LTR north-eastern Cambria County than ways. Pennsylvania has better auto- { CON GRESSMEN, does any other newspaper. ile law he ; tg : i » : | oes any pap imobile laws than have most States iB [Jo the” new Congressional reap- | - the union, but the careless driver is portionment, Pennsylvania, along | Observations from one hazard that Pennsylvania has not with 20 some other states will find its| the Sidelines. '“ viva mastered. | representation in the House at Wash- | ington reduced. Now it is disclosed in| county | Tr PATTON Community as a whole | the official computation that this state, | will be sorry to learn that the | following the 1932 election, will have 34| |Rev. Hinkleman, pastor, of the seats instead of 36. Kentucky, Iowa | | Methodist Episcopal church will leave [and Georgia also will each lose two | ; |here on December 1st to take up the [seats and Missouri three. There have | TN eaatiy will be a thing of pastorate of a much larger congrega- | been some notable gains—California| the past, perhaps, when you read on in Altoona. The Rev. Hinkleman, | will now send 20 representatives to | { | { { ERY quiet, indeed, are politics just now. But they say that clam usually precedes a storm. * x » 2 this. Christmas is the next big holi- | quring two years’ residence in Patton | Washington instead of eleven. day. Mother is already realizing the | made a host of friends among all sects,| 1+ does not mean. however. thai fact, and father will when the bills and was especially interested in el oer riven and of the thoi) come in. | 'C A . | ss {Church League Baseball movement states whose delegations have been re- | HE Patton American Legion Post IS| ant that has done much to create a ro) ol i. ¢ po y e : 3 3 3 rehearsing for a amateur play to Pifeeling of fellowship among all produced shortly.. The co-operation of | .jiirches a ars i a | the entire community is solicited, and | (36 members in the House. It means patrons can be sure of obtaining their | 20% simply that the unit figure of repre- | dent happening in P: MORoY's Worth. EVERYBODY WANTS sentation had to be greatly advanced years ago, when a mot! : xk % 0% T AXES LOWERED. BUT to hold the house membership to its|son to the Courier office in an order | A AANEUL 4 4 4d), — NIATURE golf still is raging! ; : M throughout the country. Now ol hey iit Cambria, jeountyienongh to Inwisldiness, ton, too, has another course, this time | indoors, and we may with warmth and convenience trip around eighteen holes of the abbreviated variety daily. of Revision of Taxes. ! on the streets of Patton during the! day, the more positive we are that that particular day is a prosperous one for the community. You can usual deduct that the men are working. " y ! { ». vs. the general public are either ignorant, until it is now 280,780. In 1910 it was | | OMAN is nothing, if not persistent. OF show little interest. | put at 211,877, but reference to this| W Out in Indiana one of the “cling-| When the county commissioners|furnishes another explanation of why| ing vine’ ‘type has divorced and re- | lower the assessments of properties in {the changes now may appear sharp. married the same man seven times. Patton or elsewhere in the county.|The spirit of the Constitution plainly | It is suggested that she does not care | those assessments are likewise lowered | was ignored following the 1920 census | " for him herself, but don’t want any | for borough and school purposes as|—np reapportionment was made then. other woman to have him. well. That would give Patton borough | Thys the changes now refllect a twenty | 5 ¢ » [lower assessed valuations than it had | year growth of the population of the| E NOTICE that the Pennsylvania before. If this valuation were to be country. Woo Company are petitioning drastically reduced it might create a| mp o0 can be no attempt made, howe] the Public Service Commission to dis-| disturbance in financial matters for our |, .. o cat up that a reduction in| continue the freight. and passenger borough tor any owner borough oo numerical representation does not make | agency at Bradley Junction. Bradley township) that would raise a question a difference. It is properly enough said Junction, along with street car lines,|2S to the validity of bonds that are|y... eter an it is the auality. of re- can blame it all on good roads and now issued on present assessed valua- presentation that counts. But the Con- gressional delegation also fixes the tion figures. This, the county com- missioners must take in considera- : : s. 3.3 > ® ist take 10 d number of Presidential Electors. Penn- | sylvania now has 38; under the new! 0 of the little things in life that| ton. gives consolation these depressing | Coal lands—the undeveloped ones— arrangement it will have 36. Se is the ’ thi aroe | Most folks feel hdve long been assessed x : i days is the fact that, despite the large 3 S > It follows that the Legislature of and successful circulation campaign we much too high in the county. In some ’ : oo £ successf ul pai | Pennsylvania will have to redistrict| . tod last s rt] i ion | of the more isolated districts owners : | conducted last summer, the circulation |®* -- Wihie!® the state In accordance with the re-| of the Patton Courier continues to Of coal lands probably would dispose | te : le bi apportionment. If this is not done] GAIN. This is a healthy condition so|0f their mineral rights at a great without delay-—at th <i Session | far as our newspaper is concerned, and sacrifice just to avoid the taxes. The i € Nex} session m/ ar as SE T 18 ’ ai i 1 sive amma | fACt—there would be the danger that] s that the people of this section commissioners, no doubt, will give some he 3 S S y= all, the fewer men one sees automobiles. shows the whole del i ir a egation of thirty-four . relie 1 3@ cases JQ) er { of the county appreciate our humble relief in these cases, but as yet, there Tl Bet to calla win efforts (has been no expression on the part of ¥ 1 Thi = . | ; A congressmen-at- s i . + sn the Board as to what will happen. J ls eontgsion E ARE becoming a cigarette smok-| They have a mountainous task ahead must be avoided. It is expremely un- e 5] f thei tier Which: way. it 19 likely that the status of Cambria coun- | ing nation, it would seem. Federal © them, no matter which way it is taxes collected during the quarter end- viewed. ing September 30th fell off a quarter But the commssioners have more to million dollars as compared with the Worry about county financing than they | same months last year. The only item have to worry about embarrassing the CHILDREN MAY BE item to show an increase was that of boroughs 3 nd townships. Cambria ay A BE INTO MISFITS. | tobacco, which showed an increase of county has now outstanding about | nearly two million dollars, due to the $6,500,000 in bonds, not including $600,-| JONH L. TAYLOR, Boy Scout execu- | of smoking cigarettes. Guess 000 more now being advertised for sale. tive, of Altoona, in a talk before a| the | These bond issues, as in the boroughs service club in that city last week, | and townships are based on the assess- made the astonishing announcement = xs ed valuation of the county as a whole. that seventy-five per cent of all per- E PRESUME you are all ready, as|Just now it is costing Cambria county sons engaged “in gainful occupations W- to do your Christmas shop- about six hundred thousand dollars a todays are misfits. And that reminds us that year to carry these bond issues, an It is possible that Mr. Taylor may | equivalent of about four mills on the be stating fact, and if he is, there! most business this season is the fellow Present assessment valuation. surely must be a lot of us who are who will do his Christmas advertising} Coal operators, business men and unhapppy, for one is seldom happy early. The Patton Courier won't pub- citizens in general are asking the com- working at something for which he is | lish any holiday edition—we don’t need missioners that their assessments be unfitted. There must be joy in one’s With the extensive circulation we reduced. Everyone sees his own indi-| work if he is to really make a success | ty, which now elects its own Congress- | man, will be changed. ! 10} increase we will have to blame this on ladies. ping early. the merchant who is going to do the ol in our community, we make the vidual troubles, but fails to grasp the of it. best Christmas advertising medium county’s difficulties. The commission-| If the statement is true, the fact * available. ers have the task of trying to recognize can likely be traced to circumstances + 2 = » | both and coming out somewhere in the that surround these workers, or that ODAY, November 27th, opens the clear. How they will do it is a problem surrounded them in their youth, when three day season for the hunting that rests with them, but they, no they first started “on their own.” of doe deer out in Chest Township. doubt, will get busy, just as soon as | In Mr. Taylor's position as a Boy | Inasmuch as this is the only townshin they finish the Revision work which is Scout executive, he should be qualified open under this special license permit, NOW being concluded. {the make expert observation among no doubt the woods in the neighbor-| Cambria county's heavy indebtedness youths. If there is so little precision St. Lawrence are going to be has been growing for a period of many that 75 per cent land in positions for well populated, and it is to be hoped |years. It really started in earnest with which they are not suited, it is surely | that no human casualties materialize. the building, or rather the remodeling, [time for a radical change. Hunters, generally, during the small of the court house. Demands for per-| In the smaller towns, such as Patton, game season have heen quite success- manent road construction funds from the boy or girl usually is thrust out ful in this section. Rabbits, especially, all sections of the county has ever of high school, or in many cases before have been bagged in numbers, and since “bled” into the treasury. The | that time, into the first position or while bird season was in, far above orphan children of the county had to|job that is to be found. In many | be taken care of. The demand for! cases, this is the line of least resistence, | hood of the average number were shot. to be hard at it these days—vieing tions, with an additional building for lives. speaking of child welfare said that |for these conditions any more than the college to study law or medicine, when % y 3 Wo ol ae P2 4 : _— in many instances, but right here in |p. a 10t of folks running up and down as a merchant might have achieved dren need not have any opportunity |p,iaining to do as to just what measures down a stenographic job, may have duty of the parents to choose their life’s work—not to thrust on | * QUICK SERVICE ~* during the past two seasons—a move- | quced are losing in population. Penn- should try to place [sylvania is now far beyond the popula- [feels hell like it—not tion basis upon which it was allowea | opening presents itself | present total of 435, regarded as close [to place him, because that son had |g ONLY. (watched through our windows would like to see lower taxes, and| At first the basis fixed by the Con-|and had a fascination to do things we | B (some specifically want lower taxes, as stitution was that the number of re-|did. He was a likely lad, too, but at |the county commissioners have had |presentatives should not exceed one for | the time we had no opening for him. {ample reason to find out during these every 30,000 of the population, but it | The mother, without returning home, “v8 a | past several weeks, sitting as the Board | was provided that the ratio be changed t00k the boy to five other places in |after each decennial census. Obviously Patton that same day, searching em- And the Cambria County Commis- | the orginal ratio had to be changed | Ployment for him. We don’t know sioners have a man’s size job ahead of as the country grew in population. If Whether or not the lad is working at them in ironing out the difficulties applied today it would mean a House |2nything else, but we have always be- y Presented them, and a certain number of 4,000 members. So the basis of |lieved he would have made a good |of facts that exist as well, in which |yepresentation had to be increased Printer. THE PATTON COURIER an] but it places them in a rut in which | they may plod for the rest of their | Parents of means, too, may be at fault just as much as their poorer neighbors. Perhaps they send Johnny to | NOVEMBER SPECIAL The New and Improved FEDLLCO HEATING PAD Attractively Packed his every ambition and mentality is No two people are given exactly the FOR THE THINGS YOU NEED ( ntry, perhaps, $ $ company all orders for foreign adver-| $9.8 hole financially. The candidate for|don’t know just what they want to 10 TO 300 wonders in the mechanical field, and the girl who just simply can’t hold made a wonderful nurs The youth of the cou follow up. It remains, therefore, a help them WITHIN 24 HOURS it upon them. Most every young fel- low has his dreams mbitions of Mauve Color 1S ’ and a 5 * * a livilihood. It should be ascertained 3 STRICT PRIVACY SMALL REPAYMENTS * by parents. g TO SUIT YOUR INCOME o% : Of course, “something to do” is sometimes absolutely essential in many MERICAN nm Complete LOAN COMPANY households for the young man or young ROOM 308 — GRANT BLDG. woman. And in the smaller towns the degree. Most any Patton business man 1 4 1 9 1 1 t h A ve - ° * choice is mostly limite to a stern] can tell you of parents bringing their Guaranteed to Give Entire § children before them, seeking employ-| P H O N E : 2.69062 Sati . : ’ atisfaction fi ment, and perhaps on that same day * ALTOONA 7 PA. x & they visited four or five different lines 3.HEAT CONTROL ¥ of endeavor in an effort to place the b child. If successful in obtaining em- | 48 { bi ployment, the child is usually destined | Balance y C Down : in 4 Months { to follow the line in which his new | § EDMOND job destines him, when, perhaps, he | § might have achieved success in some | other employment. | P OCESS som ao i. | PENN CENTRAL RED > wee be ff Of Permanent Parents, if they pos: re the first . ; WwW 1 £1 a w—— m— STHF SURE WA Y 9 TN TL ETA BT TI SR 7 SIC R Sulckly Jone with a Sumalt fait 3 WORK BY APPOINTMENT éy oH é ® of water. OUR PERFECT PRO- Nu daily |@ CESS REQUIRES LESS TIME, = h Pals forming. is a doctor's Prescription for EN — TNE All of which reminds us of an inci- 1 about two r brought her | MONTHLY PAINS and discomforts of menstruation sre LSS HE AND ABSOLUTE- § te § Months’ Supply) $1.00 ‘OLDS AND HEADACHES LESS HEAT, AND ABSOLUTE Package 2 ts gS COLDS A LY PROTECTS HAIR FROM For Sale at It is the most speedy remedy known. 666 also in Tablets. INJURY BY CHEMICALS AND OVER STEAMING. ya IITVARY; Reuel Somerville a $7.50 Parnell. Cowher & Co. | \TTORNEY-AT-LAW gg : SR JIN RUNES | Office in Good Bldg. Patton, Pa. |] PHONE NO. 127-J. - i WANTED—Middle aged lady for |@ 115 South Fifth Ave, PATTON E dw ar d’ Ss Ha yr dware Co. | the right party. Address Courier office A —_—__— —y FURNITURE | Anew Octagon-§i ADO on | € Q i Phone 4 Ebensburg, Pa. | Premium J s— RS. 4. M.S} mes es MAJESTIC RADIO & RANGES ya) FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Phos» Office and Residemce CA REOLLTOWN, PENAY Read how to make this cer- tificate worth 1 5 coupons HIS white china has § a lovely pattern of roses and forget-me-nots in natural colors with Edges are lined with gold. toilet soap for : As a special soap for Pe 4 he busin, fonitng inducement, we offer your save the cou- this special certificate worth 15 pons get. Soon Il have coupons when presented in accordance with enough to get this ert: the rales-printed in the certificate. Read them carefully. AT a AG BLY FOR QUALITY SAVE FOR PREMIUMS 2S NH NG, 7 \ x ot i C. J. Cordell, Patton The Patton Courier Hard ware PREPAR/ CHRIST] Shop New a Early Deli office | Postmaster TI local postoffice, instructions fron partment, urges mailing of pad Christmas delive mail will and the Specia Umbrellas, be reinforced tl strong strips of and tied or othery ped to withstand cant Hats: Pack in fiber boxes.* Ordi boxes must be cra stiff hats easily marked “FRAGIL Shoes: Pack in ably corrugated c: strong paper secu twine. Cut flowers: Ple boxes of wood, tin cardboard. Wrap moisture. Cand Inclos boxes or container Drawings, p maps, ete.: Pack material to avoid flat, roll around then wrap and {tis ard tube. arp-pointed « struments or tool and edges ] injury to cl aoe age Use like mi: the articles ¢ Glassware, must be packed s escape of particles in transit. Cigars: Ordinar rapped in paper cepted. Pack in a damage by shock o rugated pasteboard Cigars must be in dition. All articles easily must be plainly m Perishab] Articles likely t time reasonably re tation and delivery for mailing. Wrap acocrdil 201 Addr Addresses should rand 1 can be obtained stamp window For delivery Ic second, and third the maximum zones, 50 pounds. Early During the ] of mail per cent. to handle t ter efficient! few days. of their Christn letters by ( S should SHOP AN your Christmas can mail your tmas, ac i This will not only 1 they are received o mas Day, but will your postal service ploy and enab] Christmas Day wit [oar —tmeuenmrm N « Fe Camer HAWKEY One coupon every quart of gasoline purch: all other 25¢ pt jyou have 25 camera is yo FREE. C—O —C eam so All Kinds of ! and Ace | Candies, Tobac § SCANLAN’ i Chest Spi i, C—O C—O -—-a—-—O--
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