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 |
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ERY quiet, indeed, are
politics just now. But they say
that clam usually precedes a storm.
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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
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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. !
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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
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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 |
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