erry- are erry wens d the hero- uring ber 7 You n 'S Thursday, October 8th, 1942. THE COMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FOR AMERIC ANISM, There is a popular demand that American history be taught as a re- quired subject in all American sch- ools and colleges. This demand should be satisfied as soon as possible be- cause Americans must know and ap- preciate what they are. We are not just another nation among the na- | tions. We are a new people created out of all peoples. The ideals of free- | dom and justice which we hold and have made good for the first time in the history of the world are those which the great seers and prophets of many nations before us believed in | and longed for. They died, however, withoui seeing their dreams come true. In the providence of God it re- mained for Washington and Jeffer- son and Lincoln to fashion on these shores the kind of free society that fulfilled the dreams of just men ev-| erywhere and in all times. The proper study of American his- | tory can teach us this. Men who] know it will not only defend Ameri- | ca against tyrants; they will also ac- cept, in the spirit of a sacred trust, the obligation that they have to this | and future generations to build Am- erica on her true principles of free- dom and justice as these are set for-| th in the Declaration of Independ- | ence and the Constitution. | Give us American history. Give it to | us in the class room. But give it to | us as part of our daily fare outside the classroom too—as some radio pro- | grams are now doing. Some of these programs dramatize the conditions; under which the people of Europe, | once free, now have to live since the Nazis took over. Such programs are | The Twenty-Second Letter, This Is| Our Enemy, They Live Forever, Alias | John Freedom, America’s Secret Wea- pon. | For the past three years The In-| stitute of Oral and Visual Education, Washington, D. C., has undertaken | with marked success another kind of | radio program called Lest We For-| get. 425 stations carry it. 1200 public school districts are covered by it, al-| though all of them do not use it. It is the oldest of the patriotic radio | programs and shows how radio can be used with good effect to teach Am-! erican history in dramatized form. Six series of this program have thus far been produced. There are twenty- | six episodes in each series and be- cause each episode is electrically | transcribed (running time, fifteen | minutes) it is available at any time, | anywhere, for the use of churches, schools and clubs. { We are asking questions these] days. We must know the answers lest tg 2 propagandists of the dictators | fool us. How did Americans win their | freedom ? Who are the men and wo- | men who helped create the American | way of life? What does democracy mean? How did our Constitution | come to be and what does it say? | What are our democratic rights? | What is America's answer to Hitler? These are some of the questions we | ask. These are some of the questions | “Lest We Forget” answers. It is faith and knowledge and truth | that we need today. We shall need them tomorrow too. We must know | what they are, where we came from and believe in ourselves, and in our | way of life. These are the things that American history teaches us and we cannot have too much of it. FIND OUT! As we celebrate the 450th anni- versary of Columbus’ epoch-making voyage to the Americas, we must stop and consider what it means to us. First, of course, it marks the be- ginnings of the country we hold dear. But it is not that which is of greatest significance. Nearly 500 years before Columbus, the Norsemen had been here, and other explorers would have come—for the taking of Constainti- | nople by the Turks had shut off the overland route to te East, and men were forced out into new courses and | new ways of thought. The Voyage of Columbus teaches us the value of applied curiosity. Along the wharves of Genoa, among the black-bearded seafaring men, Col- | umbus had heard strange tales of a land beyond the ocean —of ships that, blown from their courses, had sighted great capes and verdant islands. He heard the half whispered theory that the earth was not flat as the scholars in their sheltered livees had decreed, that it was round. From these tales and whispers, he evolved his own idea | that the lands were really the Indies. And he had to find out. The path was long and hard--and|~ seemingly hopeless-—all the way from | the inconspicuous life of a trader’ s| son in Genoa to the post of Lord High | Admiral of Spain. He was jeered at, | and mocked, and scorned. Every path that he followed ended in a stone wall of failure, but each time he started all over again, determined to find out. At last the way was opened. | And when it was, he was ready for his opportunity — equipped mentally | to carry it through. { That is the lesson in Columbus’ voyage. The power to find out, the willingness to see, plus the ability to| keep on is the real secret of success. | The greatest advantage is education | that teaches us how to find out how to study and how to learn. There may not be new continents | to discover—but there are opportun- | ities equally as great before those | who have eager minds. There are no | heights to which the man with an | ideal may not climb—-no oceans of | ignoance he may not cross to find the unknown treasure he seeks. Each | man is a potential Columbus—and whether he voyages into unknown seas depends upon how great is his | determination to find out. | —_— inition | —Read the Classifieds. | writing to a friend in August, 1681, | deeply religious, Penn said: UNION PRESS-COURIER PAGE SEVEN Back up Your Boy-and OUR Boys-with War Bonds! MERICA'S on the march. And in the ranks is your boy, or the boy of a friend of yours, or someone you know. -— You want to give these boys evervthing you've got — so that they can give the Axis everything they ve got. How can you do this? You can forget “buying as usual.” Sure, maybe there’ll be scarcities. But we're all in the same boat — and the quicker we win, the sooner those scarcities will disappear. You can keep the boys from coming back to a country where the price of living has gone sky-high because of inflation — by putting ten per cent of your salary every week into War Bonds. Listen. When you can really put that money to use, it'll be there — with interest. It'll be EVERYBODY EVERY PAYDAY you're buying regularly — ing war in everything you do and doing every- \ there with interest any time you really need 8 it during the next nine years and ten months. And the interest—don’t lose sight of that —is 2.9 per cent. Where else are you going to geta return like that? The banks would love to buy these bonds— it’s more interest than they can get. But these War Bonds are for you and only for you. Meanwhile — while they're protecting you against want, against inflation, against the future — they're building bombers and tanks and ships and everything we need to get this war won fast, When you've bought a Bond — and when when you're think- thing you can to win it, you can look a soldier - or a sailor or a marine straight in the eye and say, “Brother, I’m fighting, too!” them. United People. safest investment, world’s most pow. 5 Roun Hy 1. By investing in War Bonds you-help provide the planes, the tanks, the guns and the ships we must have to survive and conquer. 2. You prove that you are a patriotic American, 3. You aid the morale of our fighting men, by showing them that the entire Nation is behind 4. You prove to our enemies that we are a S. You protect your own financial future, as every $18.75 you invest in a War Bond brings you back $25 in 10 years. You make the world’s by buying a share in the . country. 107, WAR BONDS This Advertisement is a Contribution to America’s All-Out War Effort, paid for by the following: Central Trading Corp'n, St. Benedict, Pa. Fraternal Order of Eagles, Aerie No. 1244, Patton, Pa. Bakerton Supply Company, Bakerton, Pa. United Mine Workers of America, District 2; Office: Clearfield, Pa. Walter McCoy Post No. 614, American Legion, Patton, Pa. | than 70 years indians and white men BASIS OF FREEDOM lived peacefully together. The peo- ple who came here remembered well th unhappiness from which they had settlers of Pennsylvania a divine love Pennsylvania was founded on the |€scaped in other lands, and therefore | very principlese for which the united | cherished the freedom they found un- | nations are fighting today-—freedom, | der the hand of William Penn. liberty of conscience and love of one’s : = V — fellowmen. Treat Peach Trees. When William Penn received the | Before the soil gets cold, charter for the land that was to be-|{rees snould be treated with paradi- of the democratic principles. For more | that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true sta- tement of the ownership, manage- ment, etc., of the aforesaid publica- tion for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of Aug. 24, 1912, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1933, embodied in Section 537, Postal Laws and Regulations, to wit: peach | come Pennsylvania, he felt the great | clorobenzene crystals to kill the peach | responsibility for establishing a social | tree borer, say Penn State entomo- | order in accordance with his ideals logists ? r and providing a fair government. In A = STATEMENT “For my country, I eyed the Lord Statement of the ownership, man- in the obtaining of it, and more was | | Cammarata, Patton, Pa. 1 drawn inward to look to Him and | agement, circulation, etc.. required by to owe it to His hand and power, than | the Acts of Congress of | to any other way. I have so obtained | 1912, ana Marck 3, it, and desire that I may not be un-, | Press-Courier, published weekly at | worthy of His love, but do that which | i Patton, Pa., for Oet. 1, 1942. may answer His kind providence, and | State of Pennsylvania, serve His truth and people; that an | | County of Cambria, ss: example may be set up to the nations; Before me, a notary public, August 24. in and 1935, of Union | there may be room here, though not | { for the State and County aforesaid, | here, for such an holy experiment.” | | personally appeared Thomas A. With such a prayer, William Penn | Owens, who having been duly sworn planted in the hearts of the earliest|according to law, deposes and says name and address of the publisher, editcr, and managing editor is Thomas A. Owens, Patton, Pa. That the name and address of the' business manager is Frank P. Cam- | marata, Patton, Pa. 2. That the owners are: Thomas A. Owens, Patton, Pa., and Frank P. 1. That the 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security hold- ers owning or holding 1 per cent or | more of the total amount of bonds, mortgages and other securities are: None. THOMAS A. OWENS, | Publisher. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day of October, 1942. VINCENT A. HUBER (Seal) Notary Public. My commission expires April 10, 1945. : SEALED BIDS Controller's Office, Ebensburg, Pa. SEALED BIDS: Up until 1:30 p.m,, Monday, October 19, 1942, sealed bids will be received at the office of the County Controller for the furnishing of all material and labor and con- struction a building 16’ x 20’ brick and tile, one-story Election House at | the corner of 7th Avenue north of Eroad in rear of Fire House Lot, 168ht Ward, Johnstown City according to plans and specifications on file in the County Commissioners’ Office, Ebens- | burg, Pa. The right is reserved by the County | Commissioners to reject any or all bids. Envelopes containing bids should be plainly marked “BID FOR CONS- TRUCTION OF ELECTION HOUSE” Dennis L. Westrick, County Controller. IQ AY Cow rN vehrig & Co, JINJA WITT Ce ~ October 4, 1942. | Fifty $18.75 Bonds will pay for one JEEP. Four-wheel drive helps these go-anywhere cars carry combat forces over rough ground at Jack- rabbit speed. LIQUID TIDLETS ALVE DROPS oN ov oH DROPS Try “Rub-My-Tism”—a Wonderful Liniment To relieve Misery of Balsinger & Luther GREENHOUSES Flowers for All Occasions . Stores At .e EBENSBURG, . . Phone 293 BARNESBORO, ” 378 CRESSON, ... ” 6681 Flowers Telegraphed Anywhere
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