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THE UNION _PRESS-COURIER
Thursday,
November 16, 1939.
Patton Courier
Union Press, Established May, 1935
THE UNION PRESS
Combined with PATTON COURIER
Published Eve ry Thursday by Thos.
A. Owens 3 Fifth Avenue, Pat-
ton, Pa., and Entered as second class
mail matter May 7, 1936, at the post-
office at Patton, Pa., under the Act
of March 3, 1879.
F. P. CAMMARATA, Business Mgr.
THOS. A. OWENS Editor
Subscription, $2 Yeanly in Advance.
Advertising Rates on Application.
The endeavor of the Union Press-
Courier is to sincerely and honestly
represent Trade Union Workers in
etiorts to obtain econemic freedom
through organizations as advocated
by ihe CIO and AFL, and we solicit
the support of trade unions. Mater-
ial for publication must be author-
ized by the organization it repre-
sents and signed by the Presiucn!
ana sceretary, and bear the seal
The Union Press-Ceurier gives its
advertisers the advantage of the
combinea circulation of the two
largest circulated .weeklres in Cam-
bria County and has a reader cove
erage that ‘blankets Patton and the
najor mtTing towns.
ALES
Now that there has been suffi-
cient time io anaylze the election
returns of last week im Cambria
county, there are a lot of things
that even the so-called political ex-
perts can’t exactly figure out. True,
Democrats were most successful in
election, but the diversity of votes
between Dmocratic winners and the
Democratic losers ran into thous-
ands. The causes for all this may be
varied, and many. But ¢ne thing the
election does show is that voters are
not tied down to straight party vot-
ing like they were some years ago.
The county, all in all, will have a
good set of officials. And that, of
is what counts most.
course,
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Clearfield county, last week, filled
its court house with Democrats for the
first time in fifty years, only one Re-
publican candidate, the prothonotary,
landing, and he only by the scant mar-
gin or 58 votes. Roy Eaton Decker of
the Curwensville Herald, states: that
“Last week was education week and
some of the slick politicians of this
county were certainly educated.”
°
After a threatening feature sort
of dies away, the fears of the human
being is apt to become falsely se-
cure, even though it is known that
danger stil exists and will continue
to exist. Such seems to be the case
of the burining mine ai the northern
outskirts of Patton, which again
last Friday belched forth flame from
a new surface opening in the middle
of the highway, near {he clay works.
Patton vorough officials have been
trying to pull every string within
their knowledge in securing county,
state, and federal aid in combatting
this meance, and again are putting
forth the same efforis. Likely some-
thing of a heipiul na wili be
forthcoming. ii is a problem that
is far beyond the finances of our
own community. It is deserving of
concrete attention from slate or fed-
eral authorities.
®
ds tell
nths for
No-
The chaps who ke
us that the most d:
automobile driving are t
vember and Decem! In this last
quarter of the year, : average num-
ber of accident fatalities throughout
the country is 3,700 each month. The
average of all other months is 2,840.
This increase is attributable not only
to icy conditions of the pavement but
also to the fact there is a longer per-
iod of darkness. Most accidents occur
at night. During the period from Oc-
tober to January the rate of highway
fatalities is three times greater at
night than during daylight hours. Mo-
torists who recognize wintry condi-
tions as a menace to safe driving and
who take proper precautions will not
contribute to the death total. The oth-
er kind would be doing themselves
and the public a service if they put
their cars in hock for the winter, says
Hi Andrews of the Johnstown Demo-
crat.
Down at the Grand Theatre last
Saturday morning, Rev. Father Ber-
trand McFadyen, was the principal
speaker at an Armistice Day observ-
ance and he pointed oui particular-
ly the living monument of distress
as evedenced by the disabled veter-
ans of the war of 21 years ago, as a
chief factor in keeping the United
States out of any mere wars in Eu-
rope. Rev. Thomas McQuillan, him-
self a veteran of the last war, and
the chairman of the program, in
complete agreement with the Rev.
Father Bertrand, saw no reason for
another war in which we are inveolv-
ed unless it were a war of invasion.
The veterans of the last world war,
every last one of them who sat in
the Grand theatre, likely agreed in
all detail with the speakers. The ex-
servicemen of the war of 21 years
ago all want the regular Armistice
Day to continue as such, regardless
of the never ending troubles of Eu-
rope, in which we have no business.
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And the boys who were in the uni- |
form on that Armistice day of 21
years ago are now graying a bit. They |
are in the m
know from experience what another |
war would bring in suffering and in
c, in the aftermath that always |
brir a depressed economic ssituation.
They know that the gains to this
couniry in the last war were most all
losses. They know that everyone loses
in war. They hope that the good old
Tnited States of America won't cause
itself to be put in a position where
E stablished Oct. 1893
ddle years of life. They |
| they will feel that national pride de-
mands another conflict, and least of all
ation across seas to a foreign soil,
whose inhabitants have always been
fighting, and who will fight again in
controversy is over, regardless of who
wins.
.
With Thanksgiving coming next
Thursday, by proclamation of the
President of the United States and
by proclamation of the Governor of
Pennsylvania, a week more will be
added to the Christmas season, and
perhaps it is not too early to start
the old slogan of “Do your shopping
early.” There are a lot of us, and
the writer is no exception, who feel
that this slogan holds good only for
others, and who are still shopping
the day before Christmas. If we all
reform, it will be more pleasant nad
more enjoyable for all concerned.
.
And this raises another issue. In
order to insure the delivery of Christ-
mas mailing on or before Christmas,
both shop early and mail early. Your |
attention is called to the fact Christ-
“do not open until Christmas.” Early
mailing relieves the congestion of the
ready, mark them “do not open until |
Christmas” and mail two weeks ahead |
of the desired time for delivery. By |
so doing you will avoid the rush as
| well as the crush and insure delivery |
in good condition before the appoint- |
{ ed time. Mails for foreign delivery
should be mailed four weeks before
the holiday.
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The annual drive for funds by the
American Red Cross started last Sat-
urday, Armistice Day, and is on this
week. Patton has never fallen down
on this worthy cause, that comes as
heavenly relief to so many commu-
nities suffering disaster and distress.
That such conditions have not been
ours in the past, we have have
cause to be thankful. That someth-
ing disastrous can come to us is, of
course, possible—and if that should
nappen, we, too, would be thankful
for the American Red Cross.
°
For the past few years this newspa-
per has been running weekly a relig-
ious and sometimes secular column,
entitled “The Sower,” written by the
Rev. James A. Turner, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Patton.
We have found that this column has
| been pretty generally read by our
subscribers. The late Dick Gilbert, sec-
retary-treasurer of the United Mine
Workers of America, once told us that
the Rev. Turner's thoughts coincided
pretty generally with his thought, and
he never missed reading it. Mr. Gil-
bert had never met Rev. Turner. This
week we start a series of weekly arti-
cles, in which most all the county
papers will co-operate under the head-
ing of “Information,” furnished us by
the Third Order Secular of St. Fran-
cis, at Loretto, Pa., and which will
Catholic information not general-
ly known to the lay public. Look for
nis new feature nder “Information.”
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One thing has aways struck us as
extremely queer. That is the fact
that about four of the leading cig-
aretle manufacturers usually put on
highly expensive weekly, or more
frequent, radio programs, utilize a
small fortune each month in color-
ed mazazine advertising, and all of
it is bought and paid for by the
folks who smoke cigarettes. Yet the
same ‘big four” cigarette manufac-
turer's fight every move of organi-
zed labor, and the decent conditions
that goes with those workers. We
wonder why ?
°
Time flies. Some twenty years ago
the writer had two big events in his
life. One was that he became the ed-
itor of the Patton Courier, the other
was that he left the ranks of the sin-
le state of life and took unto himself
a lifemate. By the time you read this,
on the occasion of that latter event, in
November, 1919, having a two-decade
anniversary we two young people of 20
years ago (now not so young) will be
on our way to the sunny southland for
1 nomadic pilgrimage—the first of any
| great length that has ever been ours.
We're going down to Florida by easy
| stages, and we're coming back over
another route, again by easy stages.
If we're not back by the time the next
| paper comes off the press, and next
week's paper proves better than usual,
| you'll know that the staff has been
| putting one over on the editor.
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P/ ATTON MUSIC CL U B
HAD AN INTERESTING
SESSION LAST WEEK |
An enjoyable program was present-
| ed to a capacity crowd at the Novem-
| ber meeting of the Patton Music club
{ held last week in their club rooms in
| the bank building. The program fea-
| tured two French horn numbers by
| Norman Litzinger of Indiana, “Song
of India” and the Brahm's Lullaby,
{| Mr. Q.#tzinger was accompanied by. I
| his sister, Miss Doris Litzinger.
| Miss Eleanor Ratchford and Mrs.
| Bernadette Schroyer of Barreshoro)
| gave a delightful program of vocal
| duets from Saint Saens, Mendelssohn,
and other popular composers. Miss |
{ Martha Greenwood was their acc om- |
panist. i
Miss Yvonne Yerger presided at the
business session which included a re-!
port of the past presidents’ conference |
by Mrs. John Barnard, a report of the |
dramatic club by Miss Louise Young,
and the plans for the formation of a!
study club directed by Angelo Vespa!
and Mrs. Ralph Good.
The December meeting of the club |
J will be held the first Tuesday in De-
cember,
|
postoffice patrons are requested to |
mas parcels and mail may be marked, |
mails at terminal points on the week !
before Christmas. If your parcels are jn the loss of his left leg
! steel workers who
| End of Tiger Grid
a conflict that takes the youth of the |
a couple of decades after the present | 2
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revealed that ligaments below the
Star's
Examination |
knee were torn and three main ar- |
teries had been severed. The amputation was made necessary because of |
the danger of gangrene becoming acute.
ClO VINDICATED
In upholding the Labor Board or-
der against the Republic Steel Corpor-
ation, the Third Circuit Court of Ap-
peals in Philadelphia has rendered a
measure of justice to thousands of
were discharged
for their union activities and wha
have been ordered reinstated with
back pay.
It has vindicated the charges made
by the Steel Workers Organizing Com-
mittee and the Board in regard to the
coercive and intimidating anti-union
tactics of Tom Girdler’s corporation.
More than this, it has upheld the
contention of the Board that it was
the company’s flagrant and continued
violations of the the Wagner labor re-
lations act that caused the 1937 strike.
In absolving the workers and the
CIO of blame for the strike, and plac- !
ing responsibility at the door of Re-
public Steel, CIO Counsel Lee Press-
man points out the court has “knock-
ed out the basis for the corporations
$7,500,000 suit against the union and
the CIO.”
“Republic cannot continue to main-
tain that any damages are due to it
under the Sherman Act or any other
statute,” he says, “since its own ille-
gal actions account for the strike and
all its by-products.”
“But aside from the tagible advan-
tages for the workers and the legal
implications of the decision, there is
a moral justification involved which
will bring satisfaction and encourage-
ment to all of labor
In organizing the Workers the CIO
seeks to improve their conditions
through peaceful collective bargaining
as provided for under the law. Where
industrial conflict occurs, it is caused
by the refusal of corporations to grant
the workers their full collective bar- |
gaining rights.
The court decision in the Republic
Steel case is supporting evidence for
this CIO eontention. It also serves no-
tice that no corporation is so big as to
be above the law
LEGALITY OF NEW
AMENDED LIQUOR
ACT QUESTIONED |
Declaring that the limitation in the
amended state liquor control act,
which provides that only one license
can be granted for each 1,000 of pop-
ulation in any municipality, does not |
effect clubs. Attorney Harold Kamin- |
sky Monday urged Judges McKenrick
and Greer to order the State Liquor |
Control Board to grant a club liquor |
license to the Roosevelt Club in Cam- |
bria City.
Special Deputy
Attorney General
Ernest F. Walker, representing the Li- |
auor Control Board, urged the court
to uphold the state board, contending
Claude T. Reno and opinions of lower
courts maintained that the amended
act includes clubs in the limitation
clause.
It is likely that the court will await
| a decision in a similar case now pend-
ing before the State Superior Court |
before handing down an opinion re-
garding the Cambria City Club.
Attorney Kaminisky asserted that
the act was indefinite, that in one
clause it excluded clubs from the pro-
visions of the amended act while in|
another section it includes clubs. His
principal contention, however, was
ased on the manner in which the pop-
ulation of any municipality is to be
determined.
If your subscription is overdue, any
| Payment you make will be appreciated.
Rcbhins Build Nest
On Top of Gas Pump
PORTLAND, ORE.—Squatter’s
rights were exercised by a robin
couple, who set up housekeeping
atop the gasoline pump of the
service station operated by A. W.
Archer. Unafraid as Archer
pumped gasoline into customers’
cars, the mother robin set quict-
ly upon her eggs and refused to
move.
If Rattler Takes
S Curve, Look Out Edward Burns
Expert Says Most Popular |
Beliefs Are Fallacies.
McGREGOR, IOWA.—Seven years |
of hunting snakes, during which he
has caught as many as 100 a day,
have taught Larry Kersten of Mc- |
Gregor that most popular beliefs |
about rattlesnakes are fallacies.
One such notion blasted by Ker-
sten is that a rattler’s age can be
told by the number of buttons on the |
rattle. |
The truth is, according to the rep- |
tile hunter, that rattlers grow a but-
ton every time they shed their skins |
and that is two or three times a |
year. Moreover, the buttons some- |
times are lost.
Kersten just laughs at the belief
that a rattler won't strike unless
coiled.
“The fact is,” he said, ‘‘the snake
assumes the shape of a letter S,
then straightens out when it |
strikes.” |
Kersten began hunting snakes |
after an itinerant catcher who
makes a profession of taking rattle-
snakes alive for zoos, gave him a
few pointers.
Early in the spring, preferably
the first warm day, Kersten takes
to the hills with a gunny-sack, heavy
gloves and a pair of home-made
tongs. He looks particularly for
| rock ledges or crevices, for it is
there that the snakes come out to
lie in the sun.
Spotting a basking snake, or
sometimes an entire family, he
! moves cautiously ahead. With the
tongs he seizes a rattler just back
i of the head, snips out the poisonous
fangs while it threshes madly about
and maneuvers it into the sack.
“The snakes won't bite through
| the sack because they are all tan-
| gled up and confused,” Kersten ex-
plained.
He often keeps them on his farm
{ for weeks before turning them in
that an opinion by Attorney General | for a bounty.
He has collected as
much as $700 a year in this manner.
In captivity the snakes refuse to
| eat, sometimes existing for four or
| five months without food.
Kersten has kept no record of how
many snakes he has captured, but
he estimates the number to be in
the thousands.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.—J. W. Peter-
man drove a factory truck without
an accident for many years and
was awarded a medal for it by the
Texas State Safety association.
The driver was highly embar-
rassed, therefore, when his first ac-
cident occurred in his parked truck
| He was cleaning the machine,
| sli lipped and fell to the pavement.
| Peterman’s injuries included a frac
tured wrist and a gash on his fore
head.
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Playing Career |
Don Herring, inset, 21-year-old football and track star at Princeton |
university, is carried off the field after receiving an injury that resulted
The youth, who aided in a 26 to 12 victory |
over Brown, was injured in the first quarter of the game.
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| FLYING CLUB ORGAN-
IZED AT EBENSBURG
On November 11th,
lots and students of the Keystone Air-
a group of pi-
port at Ebensburg organized a flying
club, the mame of which will be “The
Cambria Flying Club.”
Officers were elected and a consti-
| tution was drawn up by a committee
consisting of five members, as follows:
| William Kessler, of Ebensburg;
May-
nard Nuss of Patton; Beula Donnelly
of Huntingdon; Paul Farabaugh of
Carrolltown. ana George Donnelly of
Huntingdon.
The following officers were elected:
of Nanty-Glo, presi-
dent; Paul Farabaugh and Maynard
Nuss, vice presidents; William Kessler,
secretary and treasurer; Lois Turner
and Bula Donnelly, publicity agents.
The purpose of this club is to pro-
mote aviation in Ebensburg and vicin-
| ity. The membership of the club at
present is approximately 50 and it is
| the expectation of the group to double
| the membership by Spring, making it
one of the largest clubs in the state.
NOV EN A AT THE
LORETTO CARMEL
The Novena in Th hotter of St. Therese
| for the month of November will open
at the Chapel of Carmel at Loretto on
| November 22nd, closing on November
| 30th. This Novena, coming at this sea-
son, is a splendid preparation for the
{| Holy Season of Advent, soon to be-|
| gin. The next Novena announced will
be the one in honor of the Infant Je-
| sus in union with the Novena in hon-
| or of the Little Flower. It is a befitting
| time for all to unite in fervent prayer
| for this war-stricken world and the]
| great misery in consequence. All are |
asked to make a special intention for
peace. The Carmelite nuns offer their
many prayers for this attention and
also for all the intentions or tnose who
appeal to them. Since the Solemn Sep-
tember Novena many reports have
been received from those who have ob.
tained employment and many other
favors
Novena services are held daily at 4
P. M,, followed by benediction. Those
who are not able to attend may mail
their petitions to the Rev. Mother Pri-
oress, Carmelite Monastery,
Pa
Loretto,
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