PAGE TWO Patton Courier, Esab, 52 Building, 4 e class mail matter May 7, FRANK P. THOS. A. OWE] CAMMARATA.... HW ENS ] THOS. A. OWENS, JR. sent Organize We solicit the sup be authorized by Seal the combined c Largest General Weekly Newspaper Circulation in the Area, THE UNION PRESS-COURIER 1893. Published every Thursday by Thos. A. Owens, Press-Courier Magee Avenue, Patton, Pa., and entered as second 1936, at the postofrice at Patton, Pa,, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription, $2 Yearly ($2.50 Outside Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application The endeavor of th2 Union Press-Couri 'd Labor in their efforts to o ort of all Unions. Material for publication must re organization it represents the President and Secretary of the Local, toge The Union, Press-Courier gives its adve irculations of two largely circul has a reader coverage that blankets P towns in Northern Cambria County. Union Press, Estab. 1935. Business Manager iy Editor Associate Editor Jambria Co.) in Advance er is to sincerely repre- btain economic freedom , bear signatures of ther with the Local rtisers the advantage of ated weeklies and atton and the major mining UNION PRESS-COURIER THOU TOO BRUTUS ' EDITORIAL VIEWS AND COMMENT Patton has put over some pretty big projects from time to time in the 28 years in which this news- paper has been under the present management, and to the credit of its population there has never been any serious division of opin- ion when such movements were in- itiated, or under way. It has al- ways been the policy of this news- paper to foster such enterprizes when opinion was crystallized, and not to use its columns to differ with others who might, perhaps, not have had just the same opin- jon. But, when the community did center on a proposition, we, like | all the rest, put our shoulder to the wheel and helped. That's been the spirit of the local folks. & kX It is somewhat amusing to us to see a lack of this spirit de- veloped in another north count- ty town, both by the grapevine and by the columns of its news- paper. Of course, regardless of what happens, the neighboring community will iron out its af- fairs to the satisfaction of the majority of the people who ac- tually raise the money. Howev- er, we can’t see the wisdom of a local mewspaper advocating any movement, and particularly insisting upon it, until the ma- jority of the folks who pay the bill have their wishes known. Patton has done some wonderful things over the past several years. This newspaper has never | been placed in the light of be- | ing otherwise than a booster— and we've never had reason to | regret it. | sk o% 3k | Gov. Earle was a good governor, | at least for the common man and | his familly, and the statute books | of Pennsylvania will ever hold his | administration fond in memory. However, the former executive has | not been any too prudent since his | return to private citizenship, and | much of the imprudence came from talking too much. The world now is in a state of tension, and our na- | tional administration and congress | have really important decisions to | make, and it isn’t any time to be tossing lighted matches into pow- | der kegs. Earle wants the United | States to atom bomb Russia, be-! fore Russia atom bombs us. None | of us like Communists, but the at- | titude of the former governor is ruthless and horrible, and puts him in the category of an extremist | to state it mildly. i kX A bill has been introduced, in the state legislature that would require school districts to insure members of high school football and basketball teams against in- jury while engaged in school sports. It might be good legis- lation, but in order that no lo- cal business deals could be made such insurance should be cover- | ed by some state-wide agency. | #* kk The T-Men are putting the heat on income tax dodgers, and fur- ther indictments are expected to be forthcoming in the Pittsburgh district, of which Cambria is a part, very shortly. So far, the men indicted, and who entered guilty pleas, have been pretty lucky in that they kept out of prison. When a Johnstown man manages to get off on probabtion, when his total tax and cost payments amount to $225,881 alone—that’s good’ for- | tune for him-—even if the bill now | has been paid. During the war uaays the re- mark of “if he's old enough to | fight, he should also be old en- ough to vote.” Surely there was logic in the claim. However, the war is over now, and there’s a lot of things that soon are for- gotten—as World War I veter- ans can tell you, and the propo- sition of lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 isn’t mention- ed much. But a constitutional amendment, to lower the to 18 is before the state senate, and it | or was introducted by two Demo- | cratic members, Dent and Holl- | alty of his union's rank and file and. We wouldn't want to pre- dict it will get anywhere. But maybe it will. So far, Georgia is the only state in the union which permits 18-year-old per- sons to vote. | voluntary contributions of $1 each | Judge Goldsborough. Since Mr. | Lewis stated last week that he was | reinstating the government con- And we also note that Senator [tract the chorus in effect, from John J. Haluska, of this place, to- [the rank and file, has been: “It gether with Sen. Leader, York, | our leader tells us to work, it's O. and W. J. Lane, West Brownsville, | K. with us”. all Democrats, have sponsored a | ET . bill to empower police officials to | Some of the folks who are so arrest gamblers on Sunday in the | Joud in their complaints of how state. This would plug a “loop-| the miner wants everything, and hole” in the state’s Blue Laws out- | of how well he lives, should read lawing Sunday arrests except for| a recent story in the Ladies’ treason, felonies or disturbing the | Home Journal, and reviewed in peace, The prohibition has permit-| the current issue of the U. M. W. ted gamblers from West Virginia,| Journal, of conditions as they and Ohio, and other nearby states| still exist in Harlan County, in to set up “gambling joints” in our| Kentucky. They starkly reveal own fair state of Pennsylvania on| that poverty and disease still Sunday and leave before midnight, | flourish, despite all the attempts immune from arrest, according to| at bettering conditions that have the sponsors. { been made both by legislation, * % and organization of the workers The days of the fat pay envel- themselves. Families of seven or ope and fat profits are definite- more live in four room shacks ly ended, according to Pittsburgh with no doors between the District Tax Collector Stanley rooms, three town pumps fur- Granger. He reports that income nish the water supply of 700 res- and excess profit taxes from’the idents. Toilets all are outdoors. first of last July until March 15 Garbage is disposed of in the of this year amounted to only | nearby creek where children al- $277,173,279 compared to $355,- | so swim in summer. Tuberculo- 548,218 for the same period last | sis is rampant, and malnutrition year. The largest tax payment | an epidemic. Yet, because of the fled was for $2,225,000. | organization of the United Mine Workers, these pitiful conditions still are much better than they were before the union came. i/ SE { It is all well to talk a bit now | and then, perhaps, on the street, | and growl and complain about the { “rank demands” the miners are | making, but most everyone who | has lived in northern Cambria Co. | for the past decade well ‘knows | that if the miner is to retain what {he has gained, and do a bit better | for himsellf and family—and for | the rest of us, too, for that matter | —there can be no retrenchment of | past gains when the negotiations | with operators are concluded, and | there should be permanent gains | John L. Lewis still holds the loy- | = | maRe no mistake about that. Some |, | of the miners have been making | to help pay the fines imposed by Thursday, March 27, 1947 | | | {ns OMBINING the highest qualities in color, clar- ity and cut, these diamonds are superior in value, too... a worthy tribute to Spring's loveliest brides. | | inction in Diamonds ... for the Easter Bride ah } BUDGET AE HY AT RO EXTRA COST PAY WEEKLY ELE ERE 16 want more business in government | ing against the so-called “unethi- and less government in business. | cal” fellow who advertises prices. They're strong for free enterprise. | They want to be released from | controls and bureaucratic influ- A dentist can’t do so in Penn- sylvania. Nor can an it’s going to be a beautiful EASTER for women. .. fashion has never used a more lavish hand in creating the clothes that flatter you . . . that make you look younger and prettier . . . gather more heart-warming compliments. . . . you'll know the wonderful satisfaction of trying on a coat or suit, and feeling that it was made just for you alone . . . you'll like our personalized service of seeing that all your clothing apparel fits perfectly . , . choose your Easter coat or suit . . . and your accessories from our complete and up-to-date stocks . . . | BRIEF COMMENTS | their own feet and solve their own | problems, without polictical fear | or favor. At least that's what they | say. But it isn’t what they do. | made in many ways. Aa In actual practice, says the ed- Thouehts That May or May itor of the Press, they constantly 7 y oe 7 |are inviting government interfer- Not Interest You Discussed |ence with business. That is, with from Week to Week somebody else’s business. By ‘free | enterprise’ they mean no restraints Some of the windy weather of | on their own business. But its all [Tuesday in this section displayed | right to interfere with their com- at least in minature of what veloc- | petitors. All sessions of legisla- ily a hurricane can have although | tures and Congress are’ flooded we were not nearly that bad off. |with bills promoted by business- Fut high wind can do lots of dam- | men, with the idea of helping {age and its not hard to determine | themselves and hurting their com- | why it does it, when gales of the | petitors. | Tuesday inten { | | | | | | FE | : hx . | The classic example, of course, Some of the chaps that follow |g the tariff. From its inception it up the barometers and weather in-| p,5 peen a case of groups of bus- | struments tell us that the winds |jnessmen pulling political wires— | | prevalent Tuesday were traveling | at a greater speed than any we | have had in more than a dozen years. However, the velocities were i general, and not confined to nar- | row areas such as have in the past | ripped out forests, and demolished | buildings. | Some years ago, the older resi- { dents remember, the Catholic | Church at the Summit was demol- | ished by a veritable hurricane, and the writer can remember as a boy | of standing in Carrolltown and looking at a strange cloud swoop down upon the Carrolltown Fair | Grounds, and tear up in splinters | a large exhibition hall on those | grounds, yet nothing more than a | brisk wind was blowing at the | point where we were standing, A | host of really large trees located [in the grove near the Children’s | Home near Ebensburg, bore testi- | mony for some years afterward of {how a ‘big blow” can uproot the | giants of the forest. | * kk Wind is one of the destructive | elements, whether you call it a cy- { clone, hurricane, or what-not. Lo- | cated in Pennsylvania we don't ex- | perience what the folks down Flor- | ida way dread the most-—wind. In | spite of all the fine weather ad- | vertising that the Floridans are so | fond of telling us about, they don’t advertise their winds. We can be a bit thankful that the snows had pretty well disap- peared before the storms of the early part of this week. One can well imagine what the result would have been had the wind of each group seeking an advantage for himself and a disadvantage for someone else. The little men want the big ones restrained restraints removed. The independ- ent wants protectiion from chains, so that he may be free to do what the chains are restrained from doing. The producer of the branded merchandise wants to be able to enforce prices below which his product can’t be sold. The pro- ducer of unbranded would like a law to wipe out the brand names. Mr. Leech also takes a fling at the dairy industry and the oleo- margarine restrictions, and the gas and coal controversies. And he says “So it goes, almost endless- ly.” One of the prime complaints of businessmen is that bureaus make their own laws, through the decisions, directives and regula- tions that they promulgate. And that’s a good complaint. But, as an example of how far businessmen try to go in the same direction, there's a bill in Pennsylvania legislature which would give the American Optome- tric Assn. (a private organization) | tric business as now on. Already the optometrists merchandise | business- | —in the hope that this restraint | will enable the little ones to grow | big, at which time they'd like the | the | the 1 the right to regulate the optome- | it sees fit from | | have prohibited by law the adver- | | tising of prices— | advertising is st | ictly honest. But now it is {end this law by adding a provis- even when such | | proposed to am- | comes law, Not even when the ad- vertiser is honest and the custom- er gets exactly what is promised. There are a lot of similar laws in most of the states There are. and should be, strict laws a nst false and misleading advertising. If anything, they are- n't strict enough or aren't enforced strictly enough. Bk But it’s entirely different, writes Mr. Leech, when the businessman who doesn’t want to advertise, or thinks it unethical to.do so, tries to impose his will on those who think otherwise, regardless of whether or not their advertising | | | 0 ; as y S undertaker | ence. They ask only to stand on|if 5 pill now in the legislature be- | sometimes | is truthful. A lot of folks like to| shoe magnets held under a table. know what things are going to| This was an object of great cost — including such mysterious | interest, and it and its companion matters as funerals. | toy, a magnetic airport, are ex- Be | pected to become very popular Yet, despite all their pleas for | With the small fry. constantly complaining because onomists or somebody else-—are Over Most Obstructions sistent invitations come from Mr. | pay rake with the raking mech- | over obstructions and is said tc A feature of the American Toy |DO YOU REMEMBER? legislative favors, businessmen are pressure groups—the farm lobby, New Hay Rake Floats the union lobby, the crackpot ec- trying to bring politics into busi- One of the latest “new” things ness. They are—but the most per- for the farm to be developed is a Businessman, himself. {anism mounted on springs that p - — allow it to float up and down opularity of Magnetic | operate efficiently at full tractor Toy Seen by Manufacturer | 57% Fair in New York last week was Do you remember the time when magnetic village, a toy with| more automobile drivers than pe- a | which a child can push cars, etc., | destrians were seen under automo- around by means of small horse- bkiles? “SPEEDY” by Main Street Garage, Carrolltown OH, LUCKY ME! ON MY HONEYMOON, AND MARRIED TO A HAND EOME MAN WITH f£ A BRIGHT AND SHINY NEW 3 CAR. \ CAR BATTERY SERVICE Your battery will last much longer of we service it regularly. Come in to- day. BODY & FENDER REPAIRS Why put up with' un- sightly dents and scratch- es when our expert work is so reasonably priced? “ER-MY SWEET- 1 HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. THE CAR ISN'T NEW = IT JUST LOOKS AND ACTS NEW = TH WONDERFUL SE MAIN STREET GARAGE AN Complete Automotive Service for All Makes Cars, Trucks po THATS STRICTLY A BRIDLE WHAT A SAT WELL, I DON'T KS TO THE ; RVICE JOBS OF BRAKE SERVICE For surer stops on these rainy spring days—let us expertly line up your brakes. GAS & OIL Protect your car with our power-packed gas and effective lubricating jobs. Drive in today! EXPERT AUTO PAINTING Give your old car the finish of a gleaming lim- ousine. See our paint spe- cialists today. SERVICE & REPAIR It’s far better to be safe than sorry. We’ll catch car troubles before they get a start. Tuesday met up with the deep | jon that the State Board of Op-| | snow of a few weeks ago. Patton | tometrical Examiners may refuse | would have been penned in from | toc grant a license, or may cancel, | the ouside worl until the wind | suspend or revoke a license “for | subsided—that’s for sure. i | 5 * kk GOODYEAR TIRES FOR ALL CARS, TRUCKS TUNE IN the NORTH CAMBRIA PROGRAM Over Station WJSW (650 on Your Dial) NEXT THURSDAY, APRIL 3, and EVERY THURSDAY from 12:30 to 1:00 P. M. Sponsored by MAIN STREET GARAGE and other North Cambria Business Concerns . . . coats dresses suits millinery annie Wetzel Phone 4491 | a violation of the code of ethics of {the profession of optometry.” | Since the organized optometrists : 3 it Xe | may change their code at will, this can appreciate some of the things | would amount to a state grant al- E. T. Leech, Editor of the Pitts-|lowing them to make their own burgh Press, last Sunday, in which | Jaws, he tells of some people seeking | the legislation beneficial to them, | Incidentally, this matter of ad- regardless of whether it might be | vertising is one of the biggest | harmful to others, and he points | subjects of legislative action—and {out particularly to “businessmen |one in which the consumer. who | being the darndest people. | has the most at stake, has been tor 1 * hd i Hie © almost completely unrepresented. | ditor Leech says they like to| All the rofessions, and a lot | picture themselves as rugged and which called professional | independent, They don’t want to only by the wildest stretch of im- | be bothered by politicians. They agination, constantly are clamor- The writer, having served in the Legislature for a number of years, Main Street CARROLLTOWN PHONES PAE] 2841 Carrolltown
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