PAGE Two. THE UNION PRESS-COURIER. Thursday, November 30th; 1930. x INFORMATION A WEEKLY STORY ON CATHOLIC- ITY, FROM THIRD ORDER SECU- LAR, LORETTO, PA. 60,000 People Become Catholics in the U. S. A. Every Year. More than sixty thousand people embrace Catholicism each year in this country alone. That's 5000 a month, 1155 a week, 164 a day. And mind yon, these peopie are not born Catholics— are not educated in Catholic schools. No, they enter the church—most of them— in adult life, after considering the subject of religion from every an- gle, and after the thorough course of study required for such a step. Can it be the Church that teaches all those absurd, superstitious, evil and unpatriotic things which have been so widely circulated? No, for such a church does not exist except in the minds of the misinformed. Have you ever talked with a Cath- olic of your own intellectual status— about the many accusations against the Church? Perhaps you have not for fear of hurting. his feelings. Our Society has nc feelings to hurt, but only a great desire to give you the truth, so that you, in your fairminded- ness, may hear both sides of the story. Write us anything you want to know and we will courteously reply with facts from authentic sources. Address correspondence to : Third Order Sec- ular, Loretto, Pa. ALTOONA EXPECTING BUSINESS INCREASE Harrisburg Increased employ- ment during November and December and an increase in retail business are in prospect in the Altooona district; a survey by the State Department of Commerce showed last Wednesday. Altoona industries in October fur- nished employment to approximately 800 more persons than in September. Payrolls last month were 30 per cent higher in one of the city’s largest in- dustries and from 155 to 255 percent | higher in a number of other industries, than in October, a year ago, the de- | partment said. | MISS MARY SARGENT. Miss Mary Sargent, 72, of Munster, died on Sunday morning in the Mercy | hospital, Johnstown, where she had been a patient since September 18. She | was born in 1867, an dmade her home | with her sister in Munster. Funeral | servicés were conducted on Tuesday | morning in St. Michael's Catholic | church at Loretto, interment being In | the church cemetery. | It pays to advertise in the Union- Press-Courter , A lasting reminder of a glori ' ousholiday = a Bulove ! watch=the gift of a ; lifetime | Jewelry Store Barnesboro 39 STATES TO LEND EF- FORTS TO REUNITE LABOR | Washington — Representatives of 39 | state governors last week offered “ev- | ery assistance possible” in reuniting the warring American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. | The sixth National Conference on Labor Legislation, called by Secre- tary of Labor Frances Perkins, adonted a resolution directing that “this con- ference and the various delegates in attendance utilize every effort in pro- moting a reconciliation and good will among organized labor of this country with the hope that a united labor movement may again be realized.” “The existence of a division in the | ranks of organized labor in the U. S. with its accompanying strife is inimi- cal to the best interests of all who are interested in the improvement of working conditions of our millions of wage earners,” said a resolution adop- | ted by the group after it had been re- ceived by President Roosevelt. “Obstacles created by this division | not only tend to hinder and retard the enactment and administration of bene- | ficial labor legislation but also are pro- | ving a serious impedent to the pro- gress of organized labor itself.” Missouri State Labor Commissioner Earl H. Shackelford was chairman of the resolutions committee which offer- | ed the labor peace resolution. It was the first time that the labor legislation conference ever had taken | a stand on the labor peace issue. | The Roosevelt Administration has | been exerting considerable pressure | for more than a year to persuade the | two groups to end their four-year | struggle for supremacy in the Amer- ican labor movement. Only last week, Mr. Roosevelt con- | ferred separately with A. F. of L. Pres- i ident William Green and C. I. O, Presi- dent John L Lewis and asked them to resume soon the peace talks which sus- pended last April 5. | Green said the federation was ready to resume negotiations whenever the C. I. O. committee was ready. Lewis would not tell newsmen what answer he had given the President and Mr. | Roosevelt was non-committal when questioned at his press conference. WEDDING BELLS Prycer-Weiland. Miss Emma Weiland, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Weiland of Nick- town, was married recently to John | Prycer, son of Mrs. Catherine Prycer of Ebensburg R. D., the ceremony tak- ing place in, St. Nicholts’ Catholic Church at Nicktown. The newlyweds will make their home in Ebensburg where Mr. Prycer is employed. Thomas-McNelis. Marriage of Miss Donna Mary Mec- Nelis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don- ald McNelis of Carrolltown, and Char- | les Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Char- | les Thomas of Bedford took place on | Wednesday af last week at a ceremony | performed by the Rev Father Thomas | Wolf in Carrolltown. Attendants were | Hugh Malloy, of Carrolltown, and | Miss Janet Thomas of Bedford, sister | | of the bridegroom. | Rietscha-Pavlock. | At a beautiful ceremony preceding a | nuptial high mass in St. Benedict's Ca- tholic church, Carrolltown, recently, | Miss Genevieve Pavlock, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Pavlock of Carr- | olitown, became the bride of John Rietscha, son of Mrs John Rietscha of Nicktown. Rev. Father Method Mraz performed the ceremony and sang the nuptial mass which followed. Attend- ing the couple were Miss Mary Riet- scha, sister of the bridegroom and Paul Pavlock, brother of the bride. Sarafin-Hipps. * Miss Mary Hipps of Carrolltown, daughter of the late G. E. and Mary (Sharbaugh) Hipps, and Jack Sarafin | son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sarafin of Spangler, were married last Thurs- day morning in St. Benedict's Catho- lic church in Carrolltown by the Rev. Father Thomas Wolf, who also sang the nuptial mass. Following the mass | the “Ave Maria” was sung by Miss | Bernice Ertter. The bride was given in marriage by her brother, G R. Hipps | and was attired in a gown of white . moire, with finger tip tulle veil, which was held in place with a coronet of white tulle, with orange blossoms ad- orning the cononet. She carried a bou- quet of white roses. Her sister, Miss Rose Hipps, maid of honor, wore a rose colored tafetta gown, with a matching short veil which was held in place with a rose | colored velvet flower. She carried a | bouquet of talisman roses. Stanley Serafin, brother of the bridegroom, was his brother's best man. Following the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride and a dinner was served the bridal party and immediate relatives at the Bran- don hotel in Spangler. Mrs. Serafin is a graduate of the Carrolltown high school and Indiana State Teachers College and is a teach- er in the Ashville Public School. The couple will reside in Carrolltown. WORKERS TO ORGANIZE Harrisburg — Delegates represen- ting various sections of the state will attend a convention at Philadelphia November 17-19 of the State, County and Municipal Workers of America in order to formulate a constitution and elect officers and a state Executive Board, it was announced at regional headquarterss last week. David Kanes, regional SCMW direc- tir, said the convention would be key- | noted by consideration of “a program of action to ensure continuation of or- derly civil service . . . which is now under attack in the state.” COMPANY UNIONS The Wizard of Oz had quite a sys-| tem for impressing and terrifying the natives. Hidden behind curtains as he worked the controls, he could produce | smoke and fire and magnify his voice until all blowed down before the ap- paritions he created. | The whole affair fell flat, however, and the Wizard felt decidedly foolish, | when a little girl pulled back the cur- tains and showed him working at his | fakery. { The Labor Board has been cast in the role of Little Dorothy in two re- cent decisions. It has pulled back the curtains to show how the Western .Un- ion Company and the two Eagle-Pich” er companies in the tri-stsate area have been working to controls of two of the | oldest and phoniest company unions | to intimidate their employees. | In exposing the company character | of the Association of Western Union Employees, the board has also order- | ed the company to stop restraining its | workers from joining a bonafide un- | ion and to return to them the tribute it has mulcted from them in the guise | of dues to the phoney union. | In the Eagle-Picher case, the Blue Card company union was taken into the AFL without losing its company- dominated character. The camponies have been forbidden to coerce their employees into jolning the Blue Card outfit, and to leave them free fo join a bonafide union. Many workers fired for union activity have been ordered reinstated with back pay. Now that all this fake wizardry of company unionism has been exposed, the bonafide unions in these two fields —the American Communications Asso- ciation and the International Union of | Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, can | go to town in bringing the benefits of real collective bargaining to the work. ers concerned. PENNSYLYANIA EDISON COMPANY Preferred Shareholders At a meeting of the Board of Directors held Wednesday, November 22, 1939, the regu- lar quarterly dividend of $1.25 per share was declared on the $5.00 Series Cumulative Pre- ferred Stock, and the regular quarterly dividend of 70 cents per share was declared on the 32.80 Series Cumulative Pre- ferred Stock. Dividends will be paid on both classes of stock, January 2nd, 1940, to stockholders of record at the close of business on Decem- ber 11th, 1939. PENNSYLVANIA EDISON COMPANY J. H. Shearer, President. M. A. 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