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Patton Courier, Established Oct. 1893
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RANDOM THOUGHT
Some things are so glaring that |
even the untutored are made to |
laugh. The best we have seen for
weeks was contained on the first
page of the Barnesboro Star last
week, and likely in a lot of other
and read:
Republican newspapers, ad
“Republican Governors In Six
States Effect Substantial Savings,”
or some such wording. For sheer dis-
toriton of facts by politicians the
statement has the year’s prize. It
made a boast that Republican Gov-
ernors and legislators in various of
the states were saving more than
one hundred million dollars in the
next two years by restoring “sanity”
to unbalanced budgets.
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But the biggest laugh of all arises
in Pennsylvania being advanced as an
example par excellence of this G. O. P.
budget pruning, the statement claiming |
that Gov. James had submitted a bud- |
get which was about one hundred mil- |
lion dollars less than his Democratic |
predecessor. The statement broke the !
figure down to say that the state's re-!
lief allocation had been reduced 177
millions plus, and the rest of the bud- |
get was 13 millions less than for the |
previous biennium. It was interpreted
by National GOP Chairman Hamilton,
! ving a third term? Washington started
dent's rests on tradition—not upon
any law that prohibits it.
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We remember when Governor |
who explained that all this big reduc-
tion was made possible “at a time when
President Roosevelt and the New Deal
are encouraging reckles sand extrava-
gant spending” because “there are mei,
with the courage to wrestle with thi
problem.”
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Shades of Annias! Who gave Mr.
Hamilton Pennsylvania's figures, and
why would any newspapers publish-
ed in Pennsylvania, where all citi-
zens should know better, publish
such bosh? The one hundred million
dollar budget reduction credited to
Governor James results directly and
solely, from the fact that the state’s
assistance appropriation—for relief,
mother’s assistance, blind pensions,
old age assistance—was calculated
by simply using the figure left over
after adding up all other state ap-
propriations and substracting the to-
tal from estimated total revenue.
Nobody at Harrisburg, Republican or
Democrat, made any pretense that
the figure thus arrived at, 127 mil-
lions, would be enough to last the
ful biennium. A special session is to
meet next year when the money
runs out. It will be interesting to
note what the saving will be for the
entire bennium. Likely it won't be
anything. Maybe more will be spent
than the last administration spent in
the same period. But the “courage
of Republicans to wrestle with this
problem” isn’t much when Mr. Ham-
ilton’s press release doesn’t even
amount to shadow boxing insofar
as facts are concerned.
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What's wrong with a president ser-
this tradition, not because he was real-
ly opposed to a third term, but be-
cause he didn't want the job any long-
er. It may have a tendency to perpet-
uate a man in office, but the argument
is foolish. Sometimes that may not
work out so well. If a man is the head
of a going business for eight years, he
should be in a better position to make
the business even more prosperous
by reason of his experience. The whole
squabble about third terms for Presi-
James was campaigning last fall, he
swung through Cambria county, and
at least appeared in Patton, with a
“body-guard” of a couple of miners
in working regalia, caps and all, the
interpretation of which, we presume
was to indicate that the candidate
was a friend of labor. But the re-
cent session of the Republican legis-
lature didn’t show any of this trend.
The legislation actually passed op-
posing labor laws passed during the
Earle administration, in the judg-
ment of some of the state's leading
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| dear, why do you try to do anything?
, Why don’t you run?”
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Republicans themselves, went too
far, to do the party any good—and
it may have a flare back that will
be destructive to candidates all over
the state this year.
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However, the legislature, having
passed this anti-labor legislation, and
having sent it to the Governor, can
see it become law only if and when
Governor Arthur H. James, the can-
didate who last fall was accompanied
by “laboring men in uniform” signs
the bills. What the Governor will do,
will be to sign the bills, according to
newspaper stories. However, in the
drastic “curb” on labor as drawn by
the recent legislative session, the CIO
and AFL in Pennsylvania, and the Bro-
therhoods of the railroads, too, are all
united in urging the Governor to use
his veto power. Governor Arthur H.
James is on the “spot” with labor. He
has two things to do—veto or sign.
To him rests the opportunity of real-
ly making himself a friend of labor—
or a friend of the interests who are op
posed to the common people—and he
has apparantly chosen the latter course
of action.
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According to news stories the Re-
publican faithful will begin receiv-
ing the job patronage at once, now
that the legislature has adjourned—
and there are a lot of Democrats
who will get the skids this week and
in the weeks to follow. Biggest trou-
ble is that there are not nearly suf-
fient jobs to go around. George E.
Prindible of Patton, a member of
the Unemployment Compensation
Board, will have served his term
during this month. It isn’t likely he
will be reappointed by Governor
James. And there are about a hun-
dred other jobs above the $5,000 a
year mark, now held by Democrats,
that will be changed at once.
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In the light of Gov. James campaign
promise of last fall of “jobs for all
who want them; relief for al who need
it,” the 1939 regular session of the leg-
islature, just adjourned, must be re-
garded as a failure. Although the Re-
publicans were in full control of both
branches of the legislature they did
nothing to carry out either promise.
All the taxes of the Earle administra-
tion which Gov. James raved about,
we re-enacted, the promise of ade-
quate relief was carried out by appro-
priating $127,000,000 for the current
biennium instead of the 205,000,000 the
state will actually need. And on top of
this Governor James has slashed this
appropriation by another $7,000,000.
From all indications the “bite” will hit
Republicans and Democrats alike on
WPA right here in our home territory.
The state will allow only $8,000,00 for
projects. That means the federal gov-
ernment can only furnish $32,000,000.
The federal government gives four
times the amount of the state in road
construction on WPA. And what the
administration is giving won't be suf-
ficient—or nearly sufficient to take up
the load. And the state won't save
by it, but the business men, the relief
folk, the merchant-—stand to lose plen-
ty. Cambria county will have only 568
men on WPA doing road work after
July 1st, as compared to 1,346 now at
such employment. There will hundreds
laid off. They will have but one re-
course and that is to go directly onto
the rolls of the Department of Public
Assistance. The state will be paying
em just the same as if they had put
They'll sit at home and do nothing,
and have less cash to spend instead of
earning a bit more and building roads.
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There are too many Casper Milque-
toasts who seek to inject into labor
their own timidity. Every time any-
thing goes wrong, or
some tories get
tough, they say to labor:
‘Oh dear, oh,
The cecal min-
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the way to all of labor to advance and
not retreat when chalenged by its foes.
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Let the Casper Milquetaosts of lib-
eral politics also take note. Progress-
ive labor, as represented by the CIO
is solidly organized and militantly
led. It believes that the workers have
barely begun to get the consideration
to which they are entitled and
which they have the power to win.
Those who fight boldly and bravely
for liberal measures and democrat-
ic progress will find they have the
loyal support of an advancing and
determined army of labor. But the
politicians who shrink and pussey-
foot when reaction says, “Boo!” will
fall by the wayside,
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We glanced through the pictorial
section of the New York Times last
Sunday and came upon the group pic-
tures of the graduating class of the
West Point Militay Academy. With its
hundreds of faces, we searched out for
one we knew—a Patton boy—-Cadet
Paul J. Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isi-
dor Long, and somehow or other, we
felt the elation that his parents, his
neighbors, too, must have. For Paul
Long is a graduate at the United Sta-
tes Military Academy today, because
he so willed it. He did it himself. He
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did it without the aid of Congressmen,
or senators, or political pull of any
kind, He, as a member of the United
States army, won his right by compe-
titive examination, to enter West Point.
Too, we glaced over all those pictures
in the New York Times, and consider-
ed what a very small percentage of
them all, won the right to their grad-
uation through only their own efforts.
And we honor and congratulate Paul
J. Long, and the satisfaction he must
feel, for doing it.
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Not only Cadet Long's family, but
all his home town folks, do feel
justly proud of his accomplishment
and the defense forces of the United
States will have gained a worthy of-
ficer as a result. May his career be
a glorious one. May his life-span be
marked with the same charactersis-
tics of his youth. And if such it is,
Paul Long will go far in his chosen
field, because he has shown that he
has the determination of accomplish-
ment, though obstacles be many.
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