PAGE FOUR Patton Courier, Estab, Oct. 1893. Union Press, Estab. May 1835 UNION PRESS-GCOURIER Published every Thursday by Thos A. Owens, 723 Fifth Avenue, Pat. ton, Pa., and entered as second class mail matter May 7, 1936, at the postoffice at Patton, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. F. P. Cammarata ... Business Mgr. Thos. A. Owens ........ cnn aditor Thos. Owens, Jr., Associate Editor (In the Military Service) Subscription, $2 a Year in Advance Advertising Rates on Application The endeavor of the Union Press- Courier is to sincerely represent we = "ANY OLD PORT IN A STORM!" hap <n Ctz Union Workers in their efforts to obtain economic freedom, particu- larly as advocated by the United Mine Workers of America. We so- licit the support of All Unions. Material for publication must be authorized by the organization it represents, signed by the Presi- dent and Secretary, and bear the seal of the Local. The Union Press-Courier gives its advertisers the advantage of the combined circulation of the two largest circulated weeklies in Cam- bria County and has a reader cov- erage that blankets Patton and the major mining towns. ET large that they had to be sent to Al- FOOD RATIONING WILL GET TO TEACHERS MAY STILL GET TO first base in their efforts to secure additional remuneration from the leg- islature despite the fact that Gover- nor Martin made no provision for any money for them in his budget mes- sage, Many teachers will well remem- ber, we note in a communication in the Johnstown Democrat, of literature passed out by the Cambria County Republican Committee right before the last election on behalf of Martin, in which “Substantial increase of the teachers’ salaries” was promised. But the sad awakening to promises came when Martin compietely ingored them —at least such was the original in- tention. 4H & toona for final examination on three | be stiffer as the days and weeks different days. The Cresson Board's pass by. Rationing of meat, butter, list, while also large, was not com- cheese, canned fish and edible oils parable with Ebensburg’s. The 'teen- has been ordered by April 1st. Other agers of the north of Cambria county | things will follow. For the duration with the exception of those still in|it will be “not what we want, but school and deferred till the end of the what we can have,” There is no oth- term, are practically depleted. Who, ler way out. then, will form the bulk of the forth-| coming quotas, for April—-and May— | YOU CAN HELP YOURSELF HAVE and Jnue? Naturally there's none left, a better living, though, by getting but married men to go, | back to the soil, and planting a Viec- Send [tory garden. In fact that’s one way THE STATE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE of beating the rationing. Perhaps it board already is considering expan- | will do you good. But if you want sion of its aid to families of drafted |to reap real crops, you'll have to give fathers as selective service calls dig’ your garden lots of attention. It may deeper into the ranks of husbands.|take you away from your club and More and more persons are likely to cronies, but it will pay dividends in need financial assistance from the both vegetables, and in health. state as wage earners are called. The | —— NTL EERE E | drafting of fathers is imminent and | | the state must be ready to aid am-| SPRING HERBS NOT { ALTHOUGH THE FEDERAL GOV- | WARY IN USING EM | not receive enough to maintain them-! — jready among the approximately 31,-| expected soon to begin roaming for- | ilies made needy by loss of the men] {on whom they are dependent. | SRE i | ernment aids dependents of drafted | men, some family combinations do | { selves on minimum subsistence levels,| Prodded by recent food rationing | War-impoverished families are al- restrictions thousands of persons are | 000 relief cases in Pennsylvania. | est areas in search of early spring UNION PRESS-COURIER ERY | Nie Undersecretary of War Patter- scn’s labor advisers have a one-point program for ending absenteeism in war plants. Here is the one point: Communities should adjust them- selves to the hours of the factories. Stores, banks, doctors, lawyers, plus other services should be available not merely for one shift of workers but for all shifts, At present workers on the swing shift, beginning at midnight, find themselves out of gear with the life of the community. The greatest ab- senteeism is among workers on the odd shifts, and can be attributed not but to the inconvenience of trying turns night into day. Absenteeism is higher women than men, which may mean nothing more than trouble with the ration board. A woman will take a day off from the factory because she has to register for canned foods, or because a child is sick in the family, or because she hasn't had time to buy a new dress at the store. Remedy for this is nothing less than two or three shifts on the part of the services that serve the work- ers. The ration board, it is suggest- ed, should come to the factory. In many cases, war department advisers say, absenteeism is caused not by loafing but by overwork. In certain machine-tool areas, such as New England, men have been work- ing 50 and 56 hours a week for years. They are simply exhausted. Incidentally, this factor is the principal cause of absenteeism in Germany, where workers are worn down by unremitting labor and long hours. Note: There is little sympathy in Undersecretary Patterson's office for the Rickenbacker crusade against labor. It is regarded as useless and unsound to try to appeal to workers over their leaders. LJ A * NO RUSSIAN HURRAHS American observers in Russia re- port that the public is not throwing its red cap in the air over current military successes. The reaction is not much different, in fact, from the reaction to losses. “The mood of the Russian peo- ple,” says one report, ‘hasn’t to indifference to winning the war | to live and buy food and get Johnny | to the doctor, while the swing shift | among | | | | cially priced. | Thursday, March 18th, 1943 ENGAGEMENT RING VALUE One of our most popular styles. Set- ting of charmingly designed 14K gold, set with a beautiful diamond. Spe- BUT THE MEMBERS OF THE as ny THE WAR IS sembly have been barraged with | 3 : letters, telegrams, and post cards for fdoorate g Paton boys uve bec re.) several weeks by the teachers to sup- | orted DR risen ys action ly port legislation favorable to them— | FOV ee ony De and the Repuolican legislators, as well brid bo t h Y ted | as the Democrats, have been barraged Fla DOYS: 00. have been reporte £ as in equal manner, Resuit: Republican Pies tie on y ' ral : : 1 eEiatars have hoon Sgired 10 death} far-flung battlefronts, casualties will be a change of find and desperate ef-| mount for us, and for every area ny forts are bein made al Harrisbur {he nation, ‘This will be necessary to this week hi ll, to do eth | win this contlict. Not to win it, would ! y ’ » a i We honestly believe the teachers will | Pe Wnthinkabie, ariuR | be compensated to seme additional | Ww a RP rhe) { THE WORK OF THE RED CROSS p 7 rR degree. But, in the future, the voters | will become all the more impera- | will be wise Ji taking campaign pro | tive as the war progresses. Hence, we mises with a grain of salt. BEING | brought home in reality to our own | FAA {edible plants as March ushers in the warmer weather. But, they are warned against indig- criminate gathering of wild plants, Some apparantly innocent lookihg roots, fruits and herbs may. prov: tremely costly to the collector cording to) Research Iyrester A¥brt 1. Mickalit{s, of the Stay Departafom: of Forests and Waters. Mickalitis suggested thorough ac- quaintance with the identities and tie uses of various delicacies from per- C= | sons whom the prospective collector) knows to be experienced and to have been in the habit of using wild plants. He suggested the following: Simple to identify, common and changed much since last summer when they were being driven back to the Volga. Nor has it changed much from the years of peace.” It is explained that Russians have become accustomed to tumult and hpersonal danger. Foy 25 years they have lived in” an atmosphere of revo- lution, purges, and starvation. War has brought no sudden shock to them as to us. Even in the face of the terrific losses Russia has suffered in this war, the losses forced upon Russia by her own government ten years ago remain almost unsurpassed. When the Soviet government was BRILLIANT BRIDAL PAIR Beautiful, modera rings of unique style, perfectly matched in 14K gold. Both at this low price. BEE SOME OF THE in the state house have been put in a rather embarrassing position pe- cause of the original Martin codict. Now, the party is beginning to realize that promises made and with inten- tion of being forgotten won't always | flag should be vitally interested be forgotten. At no time has the Dem- | ocratic minority been found wanting | in their attitude toward raising of | teachers’ salaries, and, oddly enough, | every last Republican assemblyman, | voices the same approval But in or-| der to cut down some taxes, the ad- | ministration originally saw fit to say | in effect “nothing doing for teach- | ers.” | FH HOW BIG WILL OUR ARMED forces be? Well, according to press reports from Washington, high gov- ernmental officials are said to have agreed that they shall number 10,- 800,000 and that this goal can be rea- ched before this year ends. ‘That means we'll have to hustle a Tew more million men out of civilian life, REkkEE LAST WEEK THE EBENSBURG draft board hung up a record in this county for the number of men in- ducted at one period. The list was so i ENDICOTT-JOHNSON Mens’—~Boy's SHOE SALE! $1.98 REPUBLICANS | funds, and in a wholehearted spirit of | used for greens and salads since an- {oir the homie front, should be liberal | Well known, are the leaves and ten- {to the utmost in the present drive for |der shoots of the true water cress, | | cooperation. Its pretty hard to go cient times. | down any street in America these | Wintercress, often known as survy days and not see service flags dis- | grass( common in Pennsylvania, and | played in four out of five homes, And { often considered a weed yet the glossy | every home that displays a service |green leaves make excellent potherbs in (or salads whn gathered during March the work of the Red Cross. Those not | and early April, privileged to display such flags, are | New leaves of the dandelion which all the more duty bound to assist, begin to emerge this month, for table hb bb greens, The ycung leaves of chicory, WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET THE | resembling those of the dandelion, for gasoline restrictions lifted in this |boiled potherbs; the young tender section of the state, We are not going | roots, boiled and treated similar to to be permitted to take pleasure |carots for vegetable additions. Chic- drives, We are to continue to be tre-| ory roots also make a delicious bev- ated the same as the rest of the east- | erage. ern seaboard states. Perhaps, in our] Lamb's quarier, an annual plant desire to have the restrictions lifted | which has been naturalized, is com- there has been at least some selfish ' mon throughout the state, particular- motive involved-—some thought o ly in the anthracite region. It is ga- comfort and luxury, rather than o. thered from late spring until early actual need. We'll get along. Those | summer. boys in the South Pacific, in China, Wintergreen or teaberry, one of the in the Aleutians and in North Africa | best known of al the state's wild would be mighty glad to live as soft- | flora, provides berries for pies and ar- ly as we live, despite rationing and |omatic leaves for raw chewing, or the other inconviences we imagine we are making of tea. Its foliage, "distilled, suffering. Folks who complain be- | produces quantities of industrial and cause of no hutter, and not so much | medicinal oil of wintergreen. coffee, would be viewed with con- wee Vee tempt by the fellows whose privilege| —Let no cne tell you the Red it is to defend our nation on the front | Cross is no good. There's something line of battle. wrong with that kind of citizen! THE OLD HOME TOWN sw smumsona By STANLEY Noppag - ’ wl | ad TIGHTEN EM ID LIKE To BE ABLE TO JUST BRING STAMP NO, 17 OF RATION BOOK 1, TO JOE'S CUT-RATE STORE BARNESBORO PRR 3 ne BS rt eS cpr sis imposing on the people, the unwel- come system of collective farming, farmers were denied seed for plant- ing, and a vast number of people, estimated between two and five mil- lion, starved to death. The Russians are stolid, taking de- feat or victory in their stride. » » * SPANISH DAGGER AT U. S. BACK Here is the lowdown on the visit of Franco's special representative, ex-Spanish Foreign Minister Beigbe- der, to this country. Franco's regular representative, Ambassador Juan Cardenas, has been sending him what he wanted to hear, rather than the truth about the way the American people have put their hearts into the war. Car- denas has emphasized the clash of personalities and inefficiency of war production which get into the head- lines but is not the general rule. When U. S. officials learned of this, they conceived the idea of bringing a special Franco envoy .to the U. S. A. to get the real picture. Actually it was the war department, not the state department, which hatched the inspiration and which is taking him on a tour of war plants and army posts to drink in the real spirit of the war effort. Note: Many high-up officials here believe Franco is an’ opportunist who, regardless of pledges, will jump whichever way he sees the war is gcing in the spring. He could, if he wished, plunge a dagger into the back of U. S. forces in North Africa. Beigbeder has a background of friendship for the United States. CAPITAL CHAFF q@ It is said of Woodrow Wilson that he was a professor surrounded by politicians, and that FDR is a politician surrounded by professors € It is said of Madame Chiang Kai- shek’s huge reception that it out- caviared the Baruch party for Mrs. Harry Hopkins. @ Captain Eddie Rickenbacker is making it clear to friends that he has no presidential ambitions de- spite the fact that Gerald K. Smith is hurrahirig for him. Incidentally mast people don’t know it, but Rick- enbacker saw the hand-writing on the wall as far as isolation is con- cerned and resigned from the Amer- ica First committee on January 16, 1941, nearly one year before Pearl Harbor. v —Da_your share, give double for the Red Cr 2-DIAMOND BIRTHSTONE Yellow gold setting with 2 diamonds and your choice of brilliant, colored stone. Dainty and modern. Special at this low price. Attractive, Dependable 37” HAMILTON Beautiful, $ .50 Lovely gift 49 —_— “The Store for SAFE Diamond Buying” Louis Luxenberg Est. 1903 Barnesboro by the General Maximum Price Reg- ulation. Prices of all kinds of cloth- ing rose 25.8 per cent between the spring of 1941 and May of 1942, The prices were then established as of March, which not only halted price rises, but actually lowered some pri- | STOP RISE IN CLOTHING PRICES. ces. At the end of December, 1942, It is evident that the rise in clo- | clothing prices averaged .2 per cent thing prices was effectively stopped | lower than prices before the GMPR went into effect. a apa Sixty years ago, In Santa Cruz, California, IL. H. Logan crossed a wild blackberry and raspberry, The fruit arising from this union he nam- ed the loganberry. owes} Sand Dud Tn AG i Sa FE TR
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