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~ THE UNION
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Thursday, April 6th, 1939.
Patton Courier, Established Oct. 1893
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Poe Oo blankets Patton
major mining towns.
Ee
and the
that a district Court of
Honor, for Boy Scouts, was held i
Putton last Thursday night, and tha
merit badges and other awards were
formally given boys from Bakerton,
Carrolltown and Patton. Preponderent
in the awards, however ,were those of
the Bakerton and Carrolltown dele-
sutions. These troops have been active
u past several years whereas Pat-
We note
in the
ion’s scout movement fell by the way-
side for a time. Now, however, the
activities for the boys are again on
the upswing here, and interest is ag-
ain manifest. The success of any local
scout movement usually rests with the
adult scout committee behind the mat-
ter. In fact, neither scoutmasters or}
hovs will long endure, if the backing
of the citizens as exemplified through
the scout committee is not forthcom-
ing. Patton needs the scout movement
more than the scout movement
The rejuvenation of
Patton is
lar
needs Patton.
scouting in
thought.
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has a reader cove
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partment, and by the 15th of the month
it is said there will be quite a big
turnover of employees. But the fun
will only be after all the good old
party supporters that can be taken care
of will be placed, and a lot more of
the Republican population who
thought they were entitled to a place
on the “gravy wago,” will be left with
sympathy. No wonder the G. O. P. is
trying to rip civil service all to h—I1!
They must create jobs and many of
them—even if the civil service prob-
ably employs as many Republicans
now as wicked Democrats.
®
The Easter season is with us. It
always is a happy time. With the
advent of spring, and presumably
good weather, it brings, among oth-
er things, new clothes. And this
vear will be no exception. Women,
especially, will be resplendent to the
eye of man this year. Skirts have
less yardage. Hosiery has more dis-
play!
°
We call particular attention of our
leaders this week to the weekly col-
umn of “The Sower,” conducted by the
Rev. James A. Turner, of the local M.
| E Church, in which he reminiscenes
of the life of his father, and of his mo-
and after reading it, all who
the Rev. Turner, readily will
have the background of the man who
5 so well known and so highly es-
eemed by all who know him.
°
Another good use for the lie-de-
tector would be to have it attached
to candidates when they are making
political speeches.
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Trout fishermen soon wiii take to
thie streams, and there will be lots of
them. Of course, there will be some
fish caught, but they won't give the
average fisherman much for his trou-
ble. But’ there's something about a
fisherman that's unfathomable. He may
be disgusted long ’ere one season ends
—but he's back with lots of vim and
enthusiasm when another season is in
| the making.
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Governor James last rriday signed
a bill halting county treasurer's from
holding tax sales on real estate during
april, and holding up such sales until
a pleasing \i.oust. The years of 1935, 1936 and
1937, are up for sale. It is unlikely
that the sales will be further postponed
And a boy scout really makes
but it does give porperty holders a
Bimself. But in that making he must { fe w more months—and maybe just as
Le given encouragement by his eld-
ers, and he must realize that they
have an interest in him. Things
must now come easy to a scout. All
advancement, and ail favors he must
earn himself. We have in mind a
scout troop in a northern Cambria
mining town, that oniy a few years
ago outclassed all other troops In
showmanship, at least—because of
the fact they were uniformed and
outfitted completely. Today that
troop has ceased to exist. In fact it
lasted only two years, and the sec-
ond year of that existence, was one
in which little interest was display-
sd. The only reason we know of
for decay was the fact that things
aame too easy for the boys and they
didn’t have to earn a lot of things.
A coal company made it posible to
have the boys handed outfits. Where
there is something given that is not
earned, it has little value. Its like
winning a stake at the horse races
and then placing it on another en-
try the next day and losing it all
*
Up on the wall of our office, the day
after election we hung an advertise-
ment, clipped from our own dear pa-
per, of Governor Arthur H,. James and
Bis promises to the voters, and we
have been busy checking against that
advertisement ever since. And the
ahecks, since Mr. James is in office,
simply don’t work. The Earle Tax
schedule was bitterly assailed ,for one
“hing, and now we find Mr. James and
His legislature taking it over lock,
stock and barrell, and not even one lit-
tle revision made.
“Work for the jobless Is James’
“Promise” was a headline in the Phil-
adelphia Inquirer of September 14,
1938. “The Republican Party shows
the path to real jobs with real fu-
ture to them.”—Arthur H. James, on
September 14, 1938. “One of the first
things I shall do when I take office
will be to issue a clemency procla-
wation calling back our job-giving
ing industries which have been driv-
en out of our state into taxation ex-
ile.—Arthur H. James, November 3,
1938. And now—
»
Adding the two promises we get the
following from the columns of the In-
guirer :—“The American Viscose Cor-
poration announced yesterday it will
lay off 1,000 men and women ,or one-
third of its pay roll in the main plant
at Marcus Hook ,on April 17th. At the
same time Vice President Frank H.
Griffin admitted the company is push-
ing to completion a new rayon plant
at Fort Royal, Va., which will employ
2.000.” The Governor apparantly is
not bringing any of the cheap labor
chiselers back, but isn't holding what
we have. Like the Republican platform
the promises made have been covered
with dust.
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When the political war between
Moe Annenberg, publisher of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, and Col. Carl
Estes, does start, if it ever does, a
lot of Republicans themselves hope
it will become so bitter and blood-
thirsty that both these gentlemen
will succeed in running themselves
cut of the state.
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Well, the jobs for Republicans are
Beginning to trickle through into this
County, especially in the highway de-
hard times, too—to try and do some-
thing about it. There's lots of fellows
who, when times were better, frugally
faved their money and became prop-
erty owners, who now have lots to
worry about, whereas their less sav-
ing neighbor, who squandered all, is
basking in the sunshine of WPA or
relief, and don’t worry much about
taxes.
The war is Spain is now officially
over, but that doesn’t mean that the
cock-eyed world is enjoying peace.
Japs are still killing Chinese, and
Adolph Hitler is priming the pump
for a flow of human blood that may
make all other carnages small in
comparison.
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The case of Governor James and the
Butler Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which
has received so much publicty, most-
ly adverse, has been told in a good
many ways, but we believe the fol-
lowing story from the Nanty-Glo
Journal of last week, hits the nail on
the head:
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“A tract of land was secured a few
miles west of Butler, Pa., along Route
122, and a number of buildings have
oeen erected and are nearing comple-
ticn for a new state sanatorium for
the treatment of tuberculosis victims.
The expense of the building operations
was being shared jointly by the State
Authority and the Federal PWA. The
establishment of this additional insti-
tution for the treatment of the affilic-
ted was authorized by an act of the
legislature. The need for it is attested
by physicians and the societies fog
the prevention and cure of tuberculs
sis who point to the thousands of cass
es of the disease in the state that can-
not be hospitalized for want of room
in the other state sanatoria maintained
tor that purpose.
Room was being provided at the pro-
posed Butler Sanatorium for 555 beds
for patients. With the work progressed
as it is, and with the need admittedly
so great, the disappointment of peo-
ple not only in the Butler area, but
throughout northwestern Pennsylvan-
ia, can be imagined over the action ta-
ken by Governor James, who says the
work must be halted and the project
abandoned, in the interest of his false
idea of economy.
Many thousands of dollars have been
spent in Pennsylvania to stamp out
T. B. in cattle ,which has been very
effectively accomplished in every coun-
ty in the state. But now the Governor
says the fight on the dread disease
among human beings in the Common-
wealth must be checked. The many
thousands of dollars already invested
in the construction of a sanatorium for
the afflicted in Western Pennsylvania
must be cast aside in order that he
may later point to his record for sav-
ing a few dollars—at the cost of dis-
ease and death for hundreds who
might have been saved by treatment
which the abandoned institution could
have provided.
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Europe holds no deeper mystery at
present than the delay in the distribu-
tion of political jobs by the new Re-
publican State Administration. At least
that is the view of the many thous-
ands seeking connection with the state
pay roll. Few jobs, aside from those
regarded as key places, have been
issued no blue prints showing when
they are going to become active. In
the absence of that information pre-
cedents should be given consideration.
Nearly every past state administra-
tion was rather stingy with jobs prior
to the adjournment of the first session
of the legislature during the adminis-
tration of a new governor. The idea
was that many members of the legisla-
ture were anxious to land constituents
on the payroll and they would be
more inclined to go along with the ad-
ministration’s legislative program if a
prospect of obtaining rewards in the
way of jobs for their friends were
kept dangling before them. Many leg-
islators are certain to be disappoint-
ed when the plums are handed out
and if this happened while the legisla-
ture was in session they might be in-
clined to throw a few wrenches into
the administration’s schedule of legis-
lation,
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Best illustration of a Governor to
impose his will on the first legisla-
tive session during his administra-
tion is the trouble, in comparison,
he usually encounters during the
second session when practically all
the jobs and other administration fa-
vors have been handed out. And so
ii. may be to numerous Republican
Job seekers the world will look bet-
ter shortly after the adjournment of
the present legislature.
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And there is still another angle. It
will surprise no persons experienced
in politics if a substantial percentage
of the state jobs are not distributed
untii after the election. There are
many applicants for every job avail-
able and for every person appointed
there will be plenty of disappointed
Republicans. Handing out before elec-
tion all the jobs to come to any coun-
ty would create an army of persons
with grievances so strong that they
might decide to help the Democrats
in the election. On the other hand ev-
ery applicant for a job not filled be-
fore the election probably would feel
that it was up to him to make a show-
ing for the Republican ticket in the
Lope that the prize would come to him
after the election. In a big county that
would mean holding in line for the
party thouands of men and women
who might jump to the Democratic
reservation if they were turned down
for the jobs before the election.
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Ye Gods! Does it take a good edu-
cation to become a hog? We're be-
ginning to think so! We’ve been re-
ading of those students at certain
colleges who've been gulping down
several score of live gold-fish. Not
to say anything of the Chicago stu-
dent who has taken to eating phono-
graph records!
A BILL FOR
FREEDOM AND PEACE
Industrial peace is the aim of the
Oppressive Labor Practices bill just
introduced in Congress by Senators
LaFollette and Thomas.
It represents the most constructive
proposal yet advanced to put an end
to the violence and bloodshed that
have so often marked American in-
dustrial struggles.
At the same time it serves the
csuse of peace by forbidding many
practices which have driven workers
to strike in defense of their rights
as American citizens.
Few bills have ever had such a
background of careful, investigation
and thorough study as has the Op-
pressive Labor Practices Bill.
It is the fruit of two and a half
vears of investigation by the LaFol-
lette-Thomas civil liberties ‘com-
mittee in the course of which
18,000,000 words of testimony and ex-
hibits were collected, 98 days of pub-
lic hearings held, and 485 witnesses
heard.
The committee found that ‘the
most persistent and significant viola-
tions of civil liberties occured in the
field of labor and arose principally
from a labor relations policy hostile
to collective bargaining and the or-
ganization of unions.”
The bill is designed to prohibit the
use of labor spies, strike breakers,
strikebreaking agencies, oppressive
armed guards and Industrial muni-
tions.
It declares that such practices vio-
late the right of employes fo organ-
ize; cause and provoke acts of vio-
lence and destruction of property;
lead to labor disputes obstructing the
free flow of commerce; and obstruct
the settlement of labor disputes
through negotiations and the orderly
procedure of collective bargaining.
The hearings of the Senate Civil
Liberties committee produced a tre-
mendous volume of evidence in re-
gard to the abuses and provocations
to which working people ar subjec-
ted when they seek to organize.
It exposed the whole vicious sys-
tem of labor espionage; the use of
gangsters “and gunmen to break
sirikes; and the arsenals of machine
guns, sawed-off shotguns, gas bombs,
etc, purchased by anti-labor corpor-
ations for use against their employes.
It proved conclusively that nearly
all the violence in recent labor dis-
putes was directly traceable to these
practices of the employers.
The exposures of the committee
have already done great good in dis-
couraging many of these activities.
But they have not done away with
them. And the danger is that, once
the spotlight of publicity ceases to
play on them, they may be reveived
in even more virulent form.
The LaFollette-Thomas bill is de-
signed to eliminate the un-American
practices which the committee has
exposed. It should have the support
of all public-spirited citizens who
handed out. The jobs dispensers have want to see the workers’ rights pro-
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Orphans’ Court Sale.
Ir: the Orphans’ Court of Cambria!
County Pennsylvania. |
in the Estate of Matthew Montgom- |
ery, late of Clearfield Township, Cam- |
bria County, Pennsylvania.
By virtue of an order of the,
Orphans’ Court of Cambria County,
the undersigned will expose to public
sale, for the payment of debts, on
Saturday, the 29th day of April, 1939,
at 3 o'clock, P. M,, upon the premises,
the following described real estate:
All that certain piece or parcel of
land lying and being in the Township
of Clearfield, Cambria County, Penn-
sylvania, adjoining lands of Neason
heirs, M. J. Cupples and Gerald
Adams, containing three acres and sev-
enty seven perches, having thereon er-
ected a frame dwelling house, black-
smith shop, barn and other farm buila-
AMERICA'S GREAT-
EST ENEMY - WHO?
Wm. C| Grates of 316 So. McKean
St.. Kittanning, Pa., says: “I think ab-
normal mucus conditions are public
enemies. In my case constipation de-
veloped a number of ailments, partic-
ularly indigestion which seemed to al-
ways bring on a mucous condition.
Now I always use World's Tonic when
constipated and the indigestion and
mucous conditions are greatly improv-
ed” Just because your head, nose and
throat are not affected doesn’t mean
that you are free from mucous perils.
Steer clear of constipation. It can bring
on indigestion which in turn can de-
velop mucous conditions. For all ar-
ound toning and stimulating of the in-
testinal tract try the famous World’s
Tonic. It contains roots, barks, herbs,
ete., from different places in the old
countries where many of us, or most
of cur ancestors originally came from.
Get World's Tonic today at Patton
Drug Co., and all other modern Drug
Stores. (J-18)
ings, being the residence of the late
Matthew Montgomery, deceased. Title |
to which became vested in Matthew |
Montgomery, deceased, by deed from |
John Montgomery, dated 21st July,1921,
recorded in the office for the Record-
ing of Deeds in Cambria County in
Deed Book Vol. 336 at page 281.
The undersigned reserves the right
to reject any and all bids, and to con-
tinue the sale.
TERMS OF SALE: Twenty five per
cent of the purchase price when the
property is sold, and the balance upon
confirmation of sale and delivery of
deed.
William R. Platt,
Reuel Somerville,
Attorney for Administrator,
Patton, Pa. .
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Administrator of Matthew Montgomery |
FRANK YOUNG CHOSEN
TO HEAD COUNTY ASSO-
CIATION OF BANKERS
| Francis X. Young, cashier of the
| First National Bank at Patton, was
eiected president of the Cambria Co.
| Bankers’ Association at a dinner meet-
ing of the organization held in the
New Ebensburg Inn on Thursday ev-
ening last. He succeeds D. A. West-
over of Hastings.
| Other officers lected were Norman
| W. Hoffman of Moxham National
Bank, vice president; M. D. Connell
| of the First National Bank of Carroll-
| town, secretary and D. J. McMonigal
of the Dale National Bank, treasurer.
An analysis of the pregent bond mar-
| ket was given by Russell Bowers of
| the Corn Exchange National Bank of
| Philadelphia. He declared that the
| present slow bond market was due in
| some measure, at least, to the govern-
| ment entering into competition with
| industry through the sale of “baby
| bonds.”
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