Mo A Aa a 1 WIT OOOH OOCHOCHICIHIOE CRIN: *Thursday, December 7, 1939. THE UNION PRESS-OOURIER, PAGE NINE THE SOWER | A Weekly Department of Religious | and Secular Thought Contributed by REV. JAMES A. TURNER Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa. On Welcoming A Fellow Columnist We are glad to learn, as announced recently in the Editorial column of the Courier, of the commencement of a new feature in the nature of a series of articles to run weekly in the paper under the heading of “Information”, to be furnished by a writer of the Third Order Secular of St. Francis, at Lo- retto, Pa., the purpose of which is to dispense Catholic Information not gen- erally known to the lay public. We are heartily in accord with this project of the Order to disseminate religious information, and look for- ward with pleasurable anticipation and interest to the coming articles. The first and prefatory article, appearing in the Nov. 16 issue, gives promise of some interesting and informative as well as inspirational reading to come, and we fel that the many readers of the Courier will want to clip these ar- ticles as they come, and paste them in a scrap book, thus creating a com- pendium of informative and suggestive material which will be of great inter- est and usefulness to them in the years to come. The writer has always been inter- ested in the business of sowing good seed in the receptive soil of the human mind, and feels that anyone thus en- gaged is building for the eternities to come in things eminently worth while and, as a “Sower,”” preparing for a day of rich harvesting that will bless the nations of mankind with a glorious heritage of peace and good will. We wish for the contributor of the new column success gn his undertaking, and believe that through his efforts much good informative material will be dispensed which will “engender un- derstanding and good will which are so necessary if America is to stand un- ited against the evils that surround us” and result very materially in the bringing in of the Kingdom of God upon the Earth. We liked, very much. the tone of the first article under “Information,” and its frank and sincere spirit of ut- terance leads us to observe that what the world is in such eminent need of today is that state or attitude of mind f openness to conviction, following upon an honest and thorough investi- gation of all teachings of whatever source, when, such investigation sup- EINES ° 1, ~e ELECTRIC TRAIN Two freight cars, a coal ten- der, two passenger cars, and locomotive; station, tunnel, switches and $9.95 track, priced at | tum sanctorum of NB NP I AN NP AN A GIFTS THAT MAKE THEN HAPPY IIIT CEO THIEL ETE TET TE HL EOE RE TEL PERT Training from Trains A boy can learn coordination of effort and can de- velop mechanical ability better with no other toys. Both Dad and Sonny will enjoy Wolf’s Trains. WOLFF'S BARNESBORO NAN ANA ANNAN ANN | porting the claims of the teachers, the | claims are anciently and subsequently validated by ethical results in the la- | borator yof human experience. Only those who have something to hide, because they are afraid that it | can't stand the light of truthful in- vestigation, are the ones who will not advertise and disseminate and open the doors of entry into the inner sanc- their cherished | creeds for the honest and interested | investigator to come in to criticise and find fault, or to remain and worship. Such “hiders of their sanctum” “will not come to the light”, for they have doubts as to the validity of their con- tentions. Whereas, on the contray, those who believe that the truth has nothing to lose through honest investigation will “come to the light”, knowing that all things must eventually be subjected to the test of human experience, and that the only way, as St. Paul says, to “know the spirits” is “to try them.” St. John comments on this principle under discussion whe he says: “This is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light,” That is to say, Some men re- fuse to be enlightened,—won’t open their minds. So do many people close the doors of their minds to the consideration of the truths presented by Christian tea- chers, and thus remain in the clammy darkness of their ignorance and pre- judice wherein are germinated many evil and noxious humors that, like the nauseus vapors of a mephitic morass, rise continually to suffocate every good and worthy and virtuous impulse. and render the atmospheric environs of their souls a maladorous miasma that sickens and disgusts the high- souled and lofty-minded one who is forced to come into contact with its foul climate. It is with great delight and satis- faction that we observe the increasing tendency of the Press to open its col- umns to the pens of Christian writers in Orders of various kinds for the purpose of spreading information and enlightenment that will enable fair- minded people of all creeds to know the facts from all sources about other creeds with no purpose in mind other | | | | | than to engender understanding and good will. As Dr. Roy L. Smith reminds us: “It ought to be a source of great en- couragement to those who are giving their lives for the establishment of righteousness to know that God has promised the resources of heaven as thei rallips. If a thing is right, we know it is ultimately certain of vic- tory.” NE IN #2 SAE o; Ne ° | ° ZN 2 o i * 10 0 . 1 »' i » | ® MECH. TRAIN A wind-up train with four cars, 12 feet of strong track, tunnel, 2 switches and a sta- tion house, Priced $1 at only hin NE 3 . e® 0.0 0 ® op \Ne ° ANGE er So, let the good work go on ,and, | since it has been said of Truth that | “the eternal years of God are hers,” | $3 Just in time for hristmas Giving! we know that as it goes on the years will bring a rich deposit of truth and mental enrichment to those who nev- | e rrefuse to give their minds to any || source of information that carries the | imprint of Christian sincerity and hon- | | est intention. Our blessings upon the new column | ist and all good men who bring in the light of truth to lighten the pathways for the feet of men to walk in, and who sow the good sedd of understand- ing and good will for the harvest of healing that shall bind up the broken hearted, proclaim liberty to the spir- itually captive, open the prison to them that are mentally bound, to give unto them that mourn a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness,—that they may be called ‘trees of righteousness’, the planting of Jehovah, that He may be glorified. PATTON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH James A. Turner, pastor. Church school at 10 a. m. Preaching {at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. every third Sunday evening. Epworth League at 6:30 p. m. Mid-week bible class Wed- nesday evening at 7:30. Mary E. Shannon reminds us in the UPPER ROOM that “in many passages in the Bible we are admonished to give thanks, sometimes for specific | things, for mercies granted or prayers answered; but in many others we are exhorted to bless and praise God be- cause of what He IS Preachers and moralists have called us to repentance many times because having asked and received, we fail to give thanks. We deserve their rebuke. | But do we not also deserve reproach if having asked and received, we are satisfied with the gift itself? The friend who sends a gift or greeting— is he not more to us than what he sends? If the answer to prayer does not take us beyond itself to the One|, who answers, if the gifts of God do not take us back of the gift to the Giver, we are like the people of old | who followed the Master, not for Him- self, but for the loaves and fishes.” The Bible is God's love letter to us. If we truly love Him we will come to the mid-week Bible Class and read and talk about that love-letter with great gratitude and thanksgiving to | Him for His gracious consideration of us and of all our needs. COAL FIRM ATTACKS ACT ALLOWING STATE TO REF ORE! ST LANDS Branding the law unconstitutional, Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corpora- tion last week attacked the legislative act by which the Commonwealth takes temporary title to land for reforest- ation. Counsel for the coal company ap- peared before the. state supreme court and argued that the act conflicts with | a clause of the state constitution pro- | viding that all taxes be uniform. Counsel for the Cambria County | Commissioners, who appealed the case, contended the act a proper exercise of powers of the state to preserve water | supply, prevent soil erosion and floods and conserve timber. Judges of the highest state reserved a decision on the case. Cambria county court some time ago instructed the commissioners to | stap assessing taxes against coal com- court | | pany land of which the Commonwelath | | has assumed control. The legislative act | empowers the state to set aside tracts of unused privately owned land as forest reserves. The state takes the] title during the reforestation ‘program. | After the program is completed the | land is returne dto the original own- | er. The act provides that while the land is in the temporary custody of the commonwealth the owner shall be as- sessed $1 in taxes, but that any coal or other mineral deposits mey be sep- arately assessed. There are several tracts of land in the county that have been turned ov- er to the custody of the state for the reforestation program. PROBE PREMATURE RUSTING OF THE 1939 AUTOMOBILE TAGS Harrisburg.—A careful investigation is under way by the state highway de- partment to determine reason for pre- mature rusting of thousands of 1939 automobile plates and possible corros- ion of already completed 1940 tags. Department laboratory experts sought through analysis of steel ,paint enamel and varnish to find fault in the tags manufactured by the com- monwealth prison inmates. Welfare de- partment attaches said, however, that | possibility of faulty craftsmanship in | prison labor has been eliminated. Officials evidently were cer that if defective materials were sent to prison shops which turned out two million of the current year’s plates, it was the result of an “honest error.” One spokesman said it is the first time in 25 years that the prison pro- duced tags have turned “bad” on such a wholesale scale. In previous years only a few sets of plates were turned in because of rusting or corroding. Approximately a thousand motorists throughout the state have turned in rusted plates to the motor vehicles bu- reau of the Revenue Department, it was understood, and tens of thousands of others are in such poor condition they may have to be replaced. In clearing prison officials of possi- ble charges of carelessness, Welfare Department spokesmen said the same care and technique used during the | issuacne of next year's | tags, it was feared. past 24 years was used last year. One explanation of the faulty tags LRG OF OP OR PR PG RR SRR RR a ——_. Club is completed. Hope Chest. What an opportunity! You get the world's finest Cedar Chest— 2 genuine Lane Cedar Hope Chest offering guaranteed Moth protection. Be sure to see our display this week. Act before our A charming gift of lasting value with every genuine Lane Cedar FREE Moth issued by one of America’s largest insurance Companies is given with each Lane Chest. * A Gift for Daughter, Sister, Sweetheart { Wolf Furniture Co. ; Barnesboro, Penna. Fitted Bag— leatherette covered —rayon lined. Fitted with comb, brush, mirror and two lotion bottles. FREE MOTH INSURANCE insurance Policy a a EE a Ea a a a a I NE NE NE TE I ha a was that the steel manufacturer may [RADICAL CHANGES IN have used a new chemical in anneal- | ing the metal and inadvertantly cre- | ated oxidation beneath the enamel. Such oxidation would break the paint surface and permit rusting. It was pointed out that steel, back- | ground and numerical enamel and var- | nish used in manufacture of the tags | were tested for every specification and | | found satisfactory. If the fault happens to be in the steel used in both the 193 9and 1940 | plates, similar difficulty may arise in registration A large Pittsburgh steel corporation tain | furnished all material for the 1939 and 1940 plates. The same firm produced two-thirds of the steel used in the 1938t ags, which were entirely satis- factory. Paint for the licenses came from two Mfferent Pittsburgh companies and of- ficials proferred the possibility that an insufficient pigment in those pro- ducts may have caused the rusting. MOTORIST INJURED. Edmund Pigozzi, 22, of Greenock, Al- ‘legheny county, was seriously injured early last Friday when his automobile overturned after colliding with a truck on Route 22 on the Cresson mountain, He was taken to the Mercy Hospital in Altoona where attendants reported he received a possible fracture of the skull and severe lacerations which re- quired 21 sutures. | AUTO CONSTRUCTION PROPOSED FOR SAFETY Chicago.—An Iowa coroner who has devoted four years to a comprehen- | sive study of “the why of motor acci- dents” this week proposed interests of safety. Writing in the current issue of The Journal of the American Medical As- | sociation, Dr. B. L. Knight of Cedar | Rapids, assereted that for “more safe- ty for myself and family I shall here- | with order the first 1941 popular pri- ced car constructed according to the following ideas: 1—Bumper all around: A bumper | running entirely around the car (re- | movable section to change tires.) In| most fatal accidents the bumper of | one car catches into the front or rear | wheels of the other car and both turn over, or the end of the front bumper | is pushed into the front wheel and the | car darts off the road. 2.—Turtle or helmet shaped body: The body should be brought out to the bumper on the sides at the bottom | so that the fenders are entirely be- neath the body. The running board, of any, should also be covered by the body of the car. Door handles should be hinged and dropped into a well in the door. 3.—Knock out windshield: With saf- radical | changes In auto construction in the | signed that a force of 50 pounds would | loose nthe entire windshield without | breaking it. 4—The steering wheel should be constructed of material that will bend | but not break. Dr. Knight also proposed that there | should be ne sharp corners on the in- strument panel, no sharp ornaments near the front of the car and that a | strong support be placed behind the | engine to keep it from being pushed back against the front seat in case of collision. He also recommended formation a Special AMA committee to shuly of Teports from coroners throt 2 | the country, as to “factors responsible for fatal accidents.’ Such a committee, he said, would | study angles, such as road cons$ruction | and proper universal marking of the orads, education of the public, proper medical care and car construction “The committee,” he said “might ad- vise all states to frame a law making it compulsory for any driver involved | in an accident to take—and pass—ano- ther driver's test before driveing a cara gain. Dr. Knight said his study showed | that poor judgment on the part of the | driver, rather than alcohol or fast | driving, is the chief cause for motor accidents. { Insert the candle holder in the birth« ety glass in the windshield, the doctor | day cake before the icing is set, then now sees severe head and neck injur- you will not have any unsightly crackg ies. The widshield should be so de- running from the holders. 3
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