UNION PRESS-COURIER Thursday, November 15, 1945 PAGE TWO Published every Thursday by Building, 452 THOS. A. O re THOS. A. OWENS, JR. ... Seal Largest General Weekly Newspaper Circulation in the Area, THE UNION PRESS-COURIER Patton Courier, Estab. 1803. Union Press, Estab, 1935. Magee Avenue, Patton, Pa., and entered as second class mail matter May 7, J538. at the postoirice at Patton, Pa, 9 FRANK P. CAMMARATA..... - Subscription, $2 Yearly in Advance. Advertising Rates Furnished on Application, : The endeavor of the Union Press-Courier is to sincerely repre- sent Organized Labor in their efforts to obtain economic f We solicit the support of all Unions. Material for publication must be authorized by the organization it represents 5 the President and Secretary of the Local, together with the Local The Union Press-Courier gives its advertisers the advantage of the combined circulations of two largely circulated weeklies and has a reader coverage that blankets Patton and the major mining towns in Northern Cambria County. Thos. A. Owens, Press-Courier ... Business Manager ins FIGHLOY . Associate Editor freedom. bear signatures of i EDITORIAL VIEWS AND COMMENT WILL THE REPUBLICANS finding Democrats unseating the ever learn? The campaign in|G. O. P. stalwarts, one cannot but Pittsburgh last week was a repeti-| wonder the reason. And there must tion of the same old methods that | he a reason. When lop-sided G. O. have cast them into oblivion in the | P. communities go Democratic that National campaigns for at least means there have to be Republi- three Presidential campaigns. It|cans who vote Democratic. Can it was a campaign of fault-finding| be that a lot of voters feel the of Democratic rule, with nothing | Democrats are a bit constructive to offer themselves | thoughts of the rank and file of but wordy generalities. Maybe the | the common people? We wouldn't same tactics were employed to|presume to hazard a guess. some extent here in Cambria > ’ County, and down in Washington | poSTMASTER Republican Senators have started | GENERAL BOB ident Truman. Looks as if G. O. P.|4)] first-class mail by air should leaders aren't going to do anything | come as no surprise to anyone who constructive for their party in the hag followed the rapid advance of near future anyway. | low-cost air transportation. Those 30 ee ole | who have investigated the possi- IN VIEWING THE ELECTION | liiities declare such a program will returns in some of the heretofore | doubtlessly be economically feasi- Republican administrated ble within the next three or four Boroughs in Cambria County, and’ years. Meanwhile, they argue, the / : i Hannigan’'s revelation that the| a “smear” campaign against Pres-| qoyernment is considering sending | additional cost would be justified | rule, but there are too many excep- | facturers reconverting to metal in that it would enable the United States to maintain its lead in air- craft development, | sje ofc ake ok ok iF IT WOULDN'T HAVE happened before we would not even think of mentioning it. How=- | ever, about once every two years, the morning after election the re- | turn sheet on the door of the First | Ward voting precinct at the Pat- | ton Fire Hall is removed, appropri- 'ated, taken, and is simply not there. There surely is some penalty | somewhere or other on the statute | books for a depredaton of this kind. { se ie oe oe oe WHAT CAN'T BE UNDERSTOOD | is why some individual in his de- { sire to learn the election returns simply has the thought and desire | to think of himself alone, and the devil with the rest of the folks. | | The only way this newspaper had | |of obtaining the election returns | [for publication last week was by | securing the figures from one of the election officials who had | copied the results before the return sheet had been posted. Not we | alone, but a lot of other folks, would like to learn who removes these sheets, and sometime other the guilty one will be ap- | prehended. nearer the | THERE | harder on some of the G.I’s and | Gobs. Recently we received a let- ter from a Gob in the Pacific who was pretty bitter in his comment about the way things developed for a lot of his buddies back here in the States, and he wrote that on his ship alone he knew of a score ¢f married men who had received | mail in which their wives had re- | quested divorces, or in which they | had learned of unfaithfulness of their spouses. Of course, this has | or | ARE SOME THINGS | | happening that make war a lot | tions. eo ole le ok A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO A Pittsburgh newspaper published some figures and some causes of divorces in Allegheny County. We have no figures in our own county, but what happens in Allegheny probably has the same proportion eleewhere, Causes of divorce most- ly develop from both sides of the case. Maybe it was too many veiled ladies in North Africa, too much money recklessly spent by the wife at home, or maybe the wife has acquired other interests while the husband has been away. se oe eke ok ANYWAY, DIVORCE SUITS IN Allegheny County are averaging about 75 a week, and pretty nearly all of them are between service- men and their wives. None of the divorces are contested. Husbands get too much liquid refreshment and brag to their wives of their | experiences overseas—feminine ex- | periences, of\ course. But mostly it is just the other way around. It's the disillusioned serviceman re. turning home and finding the wife has been stepping out, or has been squandering the money, and who has refused to accept the rather | dreb life faithfulness to the hus- | band imposed. ok ok oie “HURRY-UP” WEDDINGS TOOK place before a lot, of the service- | men went overseas—weddings in |which the contracting parties knew one another perhaps but a few weeks—and a lot of those | weddings are not "sticking. | than 8,000 divorce cases were filed lin Allegheny County during the past year. METAL TOYS WILL COST Ii» percent more this Christmas than in 1941—if you can find any nietal toys. That increase has been been the exception, and not the ' allowed by the OPA to all manu- More | | toys. But Santa Claus, it seems, is having reconversion troubles, too. Most of the toys under the Christ- mas tree this year, a glance at the toy shops reveals, will be the same old wartime substitutes. Wood, plastics and glass are the predom- inant materials. se ok ok oe ok TOYS DURING THE WAR HAVE been only substitutes of what were obtainable before, but the children had the same pleasure out fof what Santa brought them. There will be a Santa Claus again this year. What he will bring will bring happiness just the same, tric train. Next year will be dif- ferent. se ok ok sk oe IN LOOKING OVER ELECTION returns of last week one can easily determine that the voter no | more sticks to the theory of voting |a straight ticket. In spite of the [fact that the Democrats had a | glorious victory in the county-wide election, a review of a number of the municipal elections shows great upsets, and split tickets were | the rule. Some of the boroughs in {the county elected men of the | party label who had the minority | of registration. It seemed to be a year of municipal election upsets. Some of the results were very close —=so close, in fact, that it will take the soldier vote to decide them. No |lcnger can the political orator | preach the voting of a straight ticket, and expect the public to be- lieve him. That day seems to be past. The average voter looks over | ais ballot, picks the candidates of his choice, and votes accordingly. IN LATE YEARS THERE HAS been a lot of confusion as to when Thanksgiving Day should be observed, and a couple of years ago it was decided by Congress that it would be the fourth Thursday in to your nest egg gency—when you need the dollars most. ERE it is—a brand new Victory Bond issued H in honor of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Victory he helped us win. Take a good look at it. Examine it carefully. Then consider what it can mean to you— what it will mean to our returning wounded. To you it’s the safest investment in the world. It’s a private mint of your own that’s working day and night —24 hours a day —turn- ing every 93 you invested in “E” Bonds into $4 for you alone! It’s part of your nest egg — handy as ready cash. It’s a little fortune to dip into in an emer- Rooseve It Victory Bond today. FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY - AMERICA'S GREAT VICTORY LOAN And to our more than 300,000 wounded it’s a ticket to recovery, health, rehabilitation. Your buying this $200 Roosevelt Victory Bond will help pay for a hospital ship, $4,500,000; a hospital plane, $110,000; supplies for a thou sand-bed hospital, $177,500. It’s patriotic, it’s generous, it’s good busi- ness sense to add it to your nest egg. And it costs only $150.00. Think of the wounded who need your help. Yes—think of your own future, too. Buy your This Advertisement Is Sponsored in Behalf of the Victory Loan by the Following Northern Cambria Business Establishments: PATTON Quality Meat Market East Side Beer Garden Merten’s Bakery Dairy Dine Ratowsky’s Dept. Store Grand Theatre Hiland Welding Service Patton Auto Co. American Store McCrory’'s 5 & Haluska Motors This is an official U. S. Treasury advertisement PATTON Forsythe Servic Patton Motor Sales Co. Stoltz Motor Sales Co. Huber’s Hardware Patton Clay Mfg. Co. e Station Luxenberg’s s Co. 10c Store Barnesboro Budget Plan, Inc. Watters Bros., Druggists Heuther’s Restaurant & Bar BARNESBORO Sharbaugh & Lieb CARROLLTOWN First National Bank C. A. Sharbaugh Store Westrick Motor Co. Bender Main Street Garage Electric Co. SPANGLER McCombie Coal Mining Co. HASTINGS — prepared uncer Hastings Bottling Works BAKERTON Rocco Motor Sales auspices of Treasury Department and War Advertising Council even though it may not be an elec- | November. That seemed well and good, but this year there are five Thursdays in this month, and the old custom of the last Thursday ‘n the month will continue to bec observed by a few of the states, mostly those in the South. How- ever, Governor Martin has issued a proclamation declaring that Thursday, Nov. 22, will be observ- ed as the holiday in Pennsylvania. So that's that! oo of NATURALLY, THIS SHOULD BE the most “thankful” Thanksgiv- ing we have observed for the past several years. The Governor says: “By Divine favor we have been granted victory over those who piotted in darkness to destroy all that we hold sacred. Through God's mercy our nation has been guided safely through the perils of war.” Yes, indeed, in most every home we can be thankful. sk of of 3 ok BUT THERE ARE HOMES, TOO, | where there can't help but be | bitterness. They are the households where there are absent loved ones who never will return from the global war. There are many of them in every community. Wars | pay no dividends, except the divi- | dends of suffering, distress and | death. Surely, in all this talk about | the “next” war, there should | rather be talk about making cer- tain there isn’t going to be al “next” war, | BRIEFLY COMMENTING Thoughts That May or May Not | Interest- You Discussed from Week to Week. IT IS A BIT DISCONCERTING, | indeed, to pick up one of our Northern Cambria weeklies and note that because we publish a bit earlier in the week than our neigh- bor we find much of our county correspondence pilfered, some of it paraphrased, and still more of it published word for word, as it ap- peared in our own paper. Last week the Barnesboro Star publish- cd, without paraphrasing, a small letter of Chest Springs news that {was actually written in our own shop; took a liberal portion of our Hastings letter; helped itself to Bakerton notes, etc., etc. In fact, they've been swiping our news for several weeks. Pretty poor news- paper ethics! WE'VE BEEN PUBLISHING A newspaper in Patton for more than a quarter of a century. We at one time published Fridays, and naturally other weeklies reached our desk before our press time. We | can truthfuly say that anytime we copied news from our weekly con- temporaries, it was published the foliowing week—not the week of current issue. WE PAY CORRESPONDENTS | and have paid them for years for their efforts. We pay them tor whatever space they fill ac- ceptable to us. And we pay them | in CASH. We just don’t send them | our paper, and maybe give them a| box of candy at Christmas time. You can imagine what explanation we gave one of our correspondents | when she called us on the phone last Friday and wanted to know | why, when she was being paid for | writing for our newspaper only, | she also saw her contributions in | the Barnesboro Star. We suggested | she call the Editor of that paper | for an explanation. But we also | gave her our own version of mat- | ters—which was a simple one, in- | deed. None of our correspondents are permitted to write for other newspapers, and they strictly ad- | here to that policy. | | CYRCULATION OF THE UNION | Press - Courier is a concrete, | | staple, healthy affair. It is sold on | {a yearly paid-up-in-advance sub- scription pasis. True, a few] | hundred papers are sold by news- | { boys, but any newspaperman, or any intelligent advertiser, can tell | you pretty quickly the latter meth- | od is not healthy circulation. Wet | | weather can hurt it, immeasurably, | |and you can easily picture what | | happens in times like we had last | | winter. Uncle Sam manages to get | [ his mail through. But do you think | small boys will do that? AND THE PAPER THAT MAKES | | claims of having “nearly twice | | the circulation” of any weekly in | | Northern Cambria County might | | well define the word “nearly.” Ad- | those who really are in- | % | vertisers— | terested in seeking a niedium that | | is read because its readers desire | it, and pay for its coming through | the mails — will be given free | access to our circulation books. {Our weekly newspaper weight | charges for mailing in the Patton Postoffice are so far in excess of any other Northern Cambria weekly that even comparison is unnecessary. THE PAPER PUBLISHED IN A nearby town that claims to be “One of Pennsylvania's Greatest Weeklies” doesn’t seem to have anyone who is capable of writing editorial opinion except about “Beautiful Autumn,” or the signif- icance of some holiday. No paper is great that hasn't the greatness within its columns to voice its policies, and its opinions, be they right or wrong, in every issue. Surely a town the size of Barnes- boro deserves a newspaper that will at least attempt to promote Barnesboro’s many advantages. Up to this time we've been viewing the “‘Star’s” claims and antics with considerable amusement — but when they stoop to stealing our news in order to bolster their claim of “giving all the news,” that's serious with us. se fe sie ke ok FROM THE WRITINGS OF E. W. Scripps we read that when news- papers place themselves in the position of the profit of circulation being a mere incident, while adver- tising becomes the main feature of business the situation becomes in- tolerable and diamatrically oppos- ed to those business principles which have made the business a possibility DO YOU KNOW? Soybeans produced a larger cash farm income in 1943 than apples, grapes, hay or oats. BLATT BROTHERS GRAND THEATRE PATTON Friday, Saturday, Nov. 16-17 REVENGE The Robin Hood of Comic Strips blazes to life on the screen! * STORMING OUT OF THE gm | {hese OF RAVAGED 4 | CHINA! i a BOBBY BLAKE ALICE FLEMING § PEGGY STEWART “DUCKY LOUIE -+ HAYWARD SOO HOO RALPH LEWIS JIMMY DODD (CCTTCITYMIRTTINGY 4 Republic ALSO NEWS AND CARTOON. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday November 18, 19 and 20 Matinee Sunday at 2:30 «+ « the frue story of every woman's Sometimes tender... 4, Often funny... 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