The Plumville Press from Plumville, Pennsylvania • 1

2,000 THE PLUMVILLE PRESS 2,000 COPIES COPIES DISTRIBUTED THRUOUT PLUMVILLE, RURAL VALLEY, SAGAMORE, YATESBORO, DAYTON, ELDERTON, MARION CENTER, ERNEST, CREEKSIDE, WORTHINGTON AND VICINITY Editor and Publisher TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1935 MILES E. RANCK Jr. H. L. RANCK, and W.

J. MUSSER, Assistants The Press Is Listing Many Articles About Progressive Firms You Will Want To Know More About Leading Firms READ ALL THE WRITE-UPS Through this newspaper, by editordal writings, in form of a business review, we are telling you readers what we think and know about various and firms in Kittanning, Instores diana and Rural Valley, and why you should patronize them when shopping in their respective towns. The purpose of this issue 1s to help you readers to become better acquainted with the leading and most reliable enterprises of this territory which are known for their honest and progressive policies of operation and as of your confidence and patronage. This paper is made possible by their support which proves that they are interested in you, your trade and your community. Show the following firms you appreciate their interest by patronizing them: INDIANARoss and DeGaetano, Cleaners Dr.

Stahlman, Dentist. Woodburn Granite Works. Indiana Macaroni Inc. Hess Bros. Restaurant.

C. A. Pennington, Tailor. McGregor Motor Co. Uber's Radio Store.

Long Rinn Insurance Agency, Indiana Sales Service. H. A. Orr Transfer. Merle Stuchell, Used Cars.

Matt V. Lias, Auto Wrecker. Dr. Jack C. Danks, Chiropractor.

Indiana Motor Buick. KITTANNINGElk Brewing Co. Shearer's Service Station. Hetrick Tailoring Co. H.

H. Weylman Jewelery. Lyceum Theatre. Armstrong County Maytag Co. Kings Auto and Radio Supply.

Gates Granary. Gallaher, Machine Shop. Woodies Flower Shop. Clarks Grill. Snyders Implement Store.

Dosch's Beauty Shoppe. Erwin Garage. Kittanning Thrift Corp. Farmer's Nat'l. Bank of Kittanning.

Hazel's Beauty Shoppe. Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. P. M. Enterline Memorials.

Mervis Furniture Store. Sedwick Bros. Ford. Henry Shaffer Lumber Co. Colwell George, Welding-Brazing.

David White Furniture Store. Brodhead Drug Store. Leister Studio. Smith Funeral Home. Welch's Orr Cleaning-Pressing.

Mikes Lunch. RURAL VALLEYRural Valley Baking Co. Superior Planing Mill Co. State Buys 500,000 Acres In 15 Years For Game Refuges The Game Commission claims that Pennsylvania in 15 years acquired nearly 500,000 acres of land for use as game refuges. The State paid $1,674,608 for the land.

An additional 46,000 acres are under contract for $150,000. The sale of hunting licenses provided the funds. The acreage by counties: Armstrong 1,303, Bedford 25,765, Berks 1,816, Blair 3,234, Bedford 32,741, Bucks 1,390, Butler 1,042. Cambria 5,110, Cameron 11,888, 1,948, Centre 20,490, Chester 905, 11,947, Clearfield 19,182, Clinton ,545, Columbia 10,683, Crawford 3,521. Elk 45,648, Erie 714, Fayette 7,116, Forest 7,056, Franklin 2,375, Fulton ,495, Huntingdon 6,751, Indiana 100, 22,631, Juniata 418.

Lackawanna 683, Lancaster 2,865, 2,671, Luzerne 6,756, Lycoming 0,001, McKean 20,633, Monroe 4,878, Northumberland 4,142, Perry 3,583, Northumberland 4,142, Perry 3,583, Poter 12,173, Schuykill 3,367, Somerset 4,911, Sullian 39,908, Susquehanna 6,744, Tioga ,263, Venango 14,120, Warren 17,620, Wayne 2,278, Westmoreland 4,606, 24,575 and York 760. 35,412 Miles Road Under Improvement has 35,412 miles of roads, according to a report compiled by the Highway Department. In addition, the department has authority to work on another 48,500 miles of second-class township roads. New figures showed the State has 26,860 miles of improved roads, 13,533 miles on the State highway system, 13,300 rural system and 27 in boroughs. AUTUMN COLORS NOW APPEARING IN PENNS WOODS Keystone State Excels All Other States as to Beauty in Fall of the Year Autumn coloration is peculiar to the forests of northeastern United States.

Pennsylvania, with its 110 different kinds of trees and nearly 200 varieties of native shrubs, offers a gorgeous array of autumn colors during the month of October. The only other places where autumn can compare with Pennsylvania are in the Swiss Alps and the forests along the Rhine and Danube. England and western United States have nothing to compare with the beauty of the autumn foliage found in Penn's Woods. The moist climates during the entire year of these regions lack the dry autumns that produce the finest suecession of color. The coniferous forests which predominate in the West and the South do not have the varied hues, and there is just enough mixture of pine and hemlock in the hardwood forests in the Northwest to give a pleasing contrast.

Red maple, scarlet oak, sassafras, sumac, and red gum are some of the trees that usually are most vividly streaked with various shades of red and yellow. A few trees such as the white oak and aspen turn to purple. Many of the oaks change from green to russet without showing any red or yellow at all. The black and deepest red red oak. is usually The found on brightest red is on the scarlet oak.

Chemical changes in the mineral substances within the minutest leaf cells produce the wonderful shades of red and yellow. Iron is one of these minerals, carried up through the tree in the soil waters and left in the leaves, that cause the brilliant scarlet color. It is the gradual withdrawal of the green color that permits the harmony of russet, scarlet, and gold. PRECAUTION TO BE WATCHWORD IN THIS VICINITY Now that school has started, the attention of the motoring public is called to Section 1002, Article 2, which reads: Fifteen (15) miles an hour speed limit All vehicles, except, those restricted by this act to lower maximum speeds when passing a school building during school recess, or while children are going to or leaving school during opening or closing hours. PENALTY -TEN (10) DOLLARS FINE AND COSTS OF PROSECUTION OR IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN FIVE (5) DAYS.

The new provision placed in the vehicle code by the 1935 Legislature, is in force for the first time at the oplening of the fall term. This law reads: All drivers of motor vehicles must come to a full stop when approaching a school bus that is receiving or discharging passengers along the Highway. Penalty-Ten ($10) Dollars fine and costs of prosecution or imprisonment for not more than five (5) days. When we stop to consider that, despite safety measures, more than 400 children between the ages of 5 and 14 were killed and over 700 injured by automobiles in Pennsylvania last treme caution on the part of all. $50,000,000 DONATION Accustomed as we are to dealing with big figures nowadays, the that science has found a way to reduce motoring repair bills by $50,000,000 a year will be received with delight by automobile owners because it is their own pocketbooks which will be affected.

Interestingly enough, this highly significant contribution to the motoring public comes not from the automobile world itself but from the laboratory of a petroleum company. It is the result of four years of intensive study of the factors in lubricants which reduce wear in automobile engines. Data obtained from this study has enabled laboratory workers to increase the film strength of motor oils more than 200 per cent, enabling them to withstand three times greater pressure than ever before. The result of higher film strength, is a reduction in wear on the lubricated parts of an automobile engine by 30 to 40 per cent and a corresponding increase in the life of these parts. To the average motorist this means longer wear for the engine before replacements become necessary, with an estimated saving of $50,000,000 annually.

What the ultimate result of improved lubrication will be is difficult to predict. But 27 million motor car owners will heartily agree that "this is a long stride in the right The advertisers in The Press are deserving of your patronage. They are interested in your welfare. Home Coming At Indiana Teachers College Oct. 12 The State Teachers College at Indiana, Pennsylvania, will have the annual coming celebration on Oct.

12. A great day is planned. The home school extends, through the press and also through the various alumni organizations of the different sections a cordial invitation to all former students. day will be filled with interesting activities and opportunities for alumni to fraternize with one another and with 'other friends. Among the special fentures arranged for the day.

are the Indiana-Slippery Rock football game and a dance for alumni and students. Teachers and school administrators should also keep in mind the conference on Business Education and the conference oz graphy to be held at Indiana on Octover 5. All are welcome, On account of the great number of applications for entrance that have 'been received in recent weeks, it is necessary to announce through the press that it is absolutely impossible for the State Teachers College at Indiana to accept additional students for the current semester. The quota has been filled for sone time. No additional students can be admitted until the mid-year semester opening in January.

Reservations should be made well in advance for that date. New Parking Rules Set By Department It is now a violation of the Vehicle Code of Pennsylvania for a motorist to park his car more than six inches from the side of a curb or highway. Furthermore, except where angle parking is specifically permitted by local regulations, he must park parallel with the curb and head his car in the direction of traffic. The same rule applies to trucks, and the only exception in their favor is that they may load and unload while parked at an angle if, because of their type of construction, they cannot load and unload while parked parallel. At all other times truck drivers must observe the same rules as the motorist.

This explanation of a new parking regulation added to the Code by the recent legislature is made by Harrison G. Kildare, Manager of the Adjustment and Trafe: Department of the Keystone Automobile Club, who calls attention of motorists to thr tect that the law is now in effect. In addition to the new provision, the Club official points out, the law provides that no person shall park a vehicle or permit it to stand, whether attended or unattended, upon a highway in any of the following places: Within an intersection; on a crosswalk; between a safety zone and the adjacent curb, or within 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless officials shall indicate a different length by signs or markings; within twentyfive feet from the intersection of curb lines, or, if none, within fifteen feet of the intersection of property lines at an intersection of highways; within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign, or traffic signal located at the side of the roadway. Within fifteen feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station; within (fifteen feet of a fire hydrant; in front a private driveway; on a sidewalk; alongside any street or highway excavation, nor opposite same unless a clear and unobstructed width of not less than twenty feet upon the main traveled portion of the street shall be left free for passage of other vehicles; on the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the curb or edge the highway; at any place where official signs have been erected prohibiting tanding or parking; within fifty feet of the nearest rail of a steam or interurban railway crossing; where such stopped or parked vehicle would prevent the free movement of any street car. Penn State Plans Dad's Day Oct.

12 Parents of Penn State students will be guests at the Pennsylvania State College on October 12 during the annual Dad's Day celebration. A program for their entertainment is being worked out by a student committee, its major items being a football game and a production by the Penn State Players. The students also contemplate opening the week-end with a football rally Friday night and the inclusion of a smoker for fathers Saturday night. (The football game will be the second on Penn State schedule, the Nittany Lions meeting Western Maryland. The Lions' opener will be with Lebanon Valley next Saturday.

The Penn State Players have elected to give a serious play rather than al comedy this year, They will produce "The Last Mile." Visitors to the Drake Well Memorial and Western' Pennsylvania oil fields, will find this picturesque marker along the Lakes-to-Sea Highway near Franklin. It is fashioned from a boulder unearthed during excavations for the road and erected in memory of H. A.1 Smith, hunter, trader and missionary who pioneered the area, HEALTH TALK "The old saying 'Cleanliness is next from the practical stand point, is well worth emphasizing. Science has long recognized that soap and water represent an effective combinaItion against many disease germs. Yet, in spite of this generally admitted fact and the widespread availability of warm water and good soap, there are many persons whose use of these cleansing agents is carelessly superficial and even downright neglectful," states Dr.

Edith MacBride-Dexter, Secretary of Health. "From a public health standpoint efforts are made to enforce cleanliness in enting and drinking establishments and by abolishing the common drinking cup and towel. Assuming that these mandates are generally respected, there yet remains the vast field of human activity where the menace of the disease germ definitely needs the application of soap and water to combat it. "In one's daily routine the hands contact all sorts of articles which may be host to devastating micro-organisms. Disease germs may even lurk in the handshake of a friend who, for from a bad cold, coughs into his hand, then clasps the hand of another who, in turn, places his hand to his mouth.

It follows that every one before eating should thoroughly wash the hands with soap and water. Undoubtedly many afflictions of the respiratory tract arise because of the neglect of this simple though efficient prophylactic rite. "Fastidious persons will also insist upon a and daily tub or shower bath; though cold weather, strictly from A health viewpoint, a bath every day for the average indoor or sedentary person is not absolutely necessary. "Also, one must not overlook the mouth. It is imperative that the teeth and gums be effectively brushed after each meal and also before retiring, and that dental floss be employed to remove food particles from teeth crevices.

The medical and dental professions well know that the usual mouth and gum infections get their start in unclean mouths. "Thus, both from the aesthetic and health consideration, the daily and energetic applications of soap and water are absolutely essential. However, even today there are many thousands of people whose appreciation of this fact is sadly- lacking." Taxation At Work Every Day and Night In every class the consumer is having taxes charged against him on almost every purchase of necessities and luxuries that he makes If' he eats his bacon and eggs for breakfast, he pays a processing tax on the bacon and a higher price on eggs, because meat is so expensive that numerous families are substituting eggs for meat. When a person lights a cigarette after breakfast, he pays Federal and often state taxes. When he drives to his work, he pays Federal and state taxes on his car, on his right to drive, on the oil and on the gasoline that runs his motor.

If he wears cotton underclothes, sleeps between cotton sheets, or if his wife wears 'a cotton garment of any kind, he pays another processing tax. If he looks back as he leaves his house, whether, he owns it or not, he will see heavy real -estate taxes that are passed on to him, plus the cost of Federal stamps for transferring it. If he has city water, he pays a water tax, and if he has electric lights there is a tax added. If he takes in the movies or the theater or any kind of a show, he must pay an amusement tax. These taxes are just a beginning of those that are visible and invisible, city, county, state and Federal, that are shouldered by him.

Whether he 'is an occupant of a palace or just a tenant, whether he is on relief or working, whether he is an executive a high salary or the head of of the business, he must help carry the load of these soak-the-poor and soak-the-rich. Taxation never takes a day off and it never sleeps. Permanent CCC Plans Outlined President Roosevelt last week outlined definite plans to convert the emergeney Civilian Conservation Corps into a permanent organization, handling 300,000 youths a year. At the same time, the Chief Executive announced for the first time his decision to limit enrollment for the current year to 500,000. At first it had been set at 600,000.

Inability of army recruiting stations to obtain the full CCC enlistment from families on relief, forced the decision to set the strength of the corps at 000. The permanent program, the President explained, is aimed to provide one year's work for young men who complete their education. Each year, he said, about 750,000 youths finish their schooling. A report submitted to the White House by Fechner, the President showed boys are leaving the camps at the rate of 9,000 weekly to accept jobs. Be sure to read all' the write-ups in The Press.

Erie County Wheat Farmer Gets 52 Bu. Per Acre Yield Experimenting in wheat production pays dividends. W. A. Warnshuis, manager of the Edinboro Lake Farm at Edinboro, Erie County, checked his Agrico-grown wheat crop against those grown with other fertilizers for the second successive year, and came out with a bigger crop than in 1934.

His wheat this year averaged 52 bushels with 3.2 tons of straw per acre on thirty- six acres, which was 14 bushels and more than a half ton of straw per acre larger than the 4-16-4 crop, and 18 bushels and ton of straw better than the superphosphate crop. "The wheat and straw I missed by experimenting with other fertilizers on seven acres would have paid two-thirds of the fertilizer bill on my entire 43 Mr. Warnshuis says. "This experiment cost me real money, but it convinced me of the value of the extra plant foods in Agrico." Last year an Agrico-grown crop yielded Mr. Warnshuis 8.17 more bushels per acre than a crop grown with another fertilizer of the same analysis.

TAKING STOCK OF AMERICA One of the favorite theme-songs tolay of demagogues and publicity-minded politicians is that the American system has failed. But C. L. Bordo, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, took stock of what this system has produced through private initiative and a tree flow of investment capital, and here is what he found: That with 7 per cent of the world's population, this country has 32 per cent the railroads, 58 per cent of the telephones and telegraph facilities, 36 per cent of its developed water power, 76 per cent of the automobiles, 33 per cent of the radio broadcasting stations and 44 per cent of the radio receiving sets. In the United States are produced of the world's oil; of the copper; of the pig iron; of the steel; of the corn; and, prior to the coming of the AAA, of the cotton.

Our standard of living is so much, higher than in foreign countries that we consume of the world's coffee; of its rubber; of its sugar; of its silk; 1-3 of its coal and 2-3 of its petroleum. In 1933, a depression year, there was spent in the United States more than hree billion dollars for education, and hat was more than the amount expended for education by all of the other countries in the world. The Jnited States is the only country in he world to put one out of every five hildren through high school, and one ut of every 116 through college. This country has more than 7 billion dollars invested in public and private chools and nearly 4 billion dollars inested in colleges and dollars universities. It has nearly 4 billion hurches.

Most workers in America are capitalsts already. In 1930, 14 million famiies owned their own homes. More than half of all the farmers owned their own farms. In 1934, including postal savings, there were more than 38 million savings accounts in banks hroughout the country with aggregate deposits exceeding 2 billion dollars. In year 1933 there were more than the million members of building and loan associations, with assets approaching billion dollars.

At the beginning of 1934 there were ver thirty-one and one-half million ordinary life insurance policies in force or a face value of over 7 billion dolars, and there were in addition over eighty-eight and one-quarter million industrial policies for payment of about eighteen and one-half billion dollars. Such is the picture of our social order. Such is the triumph of America's sophy of government a government of the people, by the people and for the people. This new principle in public provided an incentive for American enterprise and initiative, released orces unknown in human history and provided a standard of living which the rest of the world in its wildest reams had never even pictured. That tandard of living is a fact.

Although it's a miracle, it certainly isn't a myth. The expenses of the present Administration during the past two and a half years are greater than for 124 years from the days of Washington down to Wilson and the World War. FUNERAL FOR C. R. GRIFFITH, HELD SATURDAY Was Indiana Co.

Assemblyman For Five Successive Terms VETERAN EDITOR OF INDIANA CO. Photo, Hornbaker Captain 1 E. K. Roden From Sweden 'and the Argentine to his present position as Director of the School of Navigation of the International Correspondence Schools at Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a long sweep, but Captain Roden's love of the sea has led him both to his work as a teacher of navigation and to his Navy League and Sea Scout activities. Textbooks on navigation prepared by him are being used in teaching nautical science to men and officers of the merchant marine, the enlisted personnel of the U.

S. Coast Guard, and the enlisted personnel of the U.S.. Marine Motorist Causes Railroad Company A Loss of $50,000 Reckless driving on the part of a motorist recently in southern Ohio cost a railroad in excess of $50,000, destroyed vast quantities of high class perishable freight, and delayed hundreds of passengers. The motorist ignored an electric alarm bell and warning sign at a grade crossing and ran his car headlong into the side of a passing freight train, resulting in the derailment of 32 cars and jeopardizing the lives of the train crew. As a result of this accident, the westJound track was blocked for a period of 21 hours and the eastbound track 45 hours.

The driver of the automobile told the cond he did not near the bell or see the train until too ate, as he had the radio in his car urned on. This accident occurred on a double track railroad and had there been a passenger train passing or approaching on the opposite track at the time of he derailment, the result would have been distressing beyond words. Who Pays The Taxes In The United States? If the head of every family in the United States were compelled to work or the government three months out of each year without pay before he could start earning a living for his de-; pendents, he would probably be willing compromise on a less costly government in return for a bit less his abor. Yet that is exactly what is happening in the United States today. The income of the average family of 4.2 persons is $1,184.

The average tax bill local, state and federal is $300 family, more than a quarter of the annual income. In addition, each family is saddled with a debt of $1,800, which must be paid through additional taxation as the government bonds fall due. It is the prevailing idea among the majority who are exempt from the income tax and who own no real estate that only the wealthy pay taxes. In reality even the poorest person pays tribute to the government with even his smallest purchase. Bread begins to be taxed when the farmer pays the county tax collector.

The procession tax then raises the price of wheat 30 cents a bushel, or about half a cent on a loaf of bread. Then he miller and the baker must pay real estate and income taxes and must pay their employees larger wages because they too are taxed. These taxes, amounting to about two cents a loaf, are all included in the cost of production and are paid by the person who buys the bread. Negro Mountain Highest Point in Pennsylvaina Negro Mountain in Somerset county is Pennsylvania's highest point and a resurvey of the mountain just completed shows that at its tip, a block of sand stone on the flat top of Mt. Davis, is 3213 feet above sea level.

According to officials in the bureau of topographic and geologic survey of the Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs, the altitude for years was believed to be 3220 feet but the resurvey made by the department reduced the height by seven feet. Mt. Davis, the high spot on Negro Mountain, is nine miles southwest of Myersdale. Funeral services for Hon. Charles R.

Griffith of Marion Center, were held Saturday afternoon in the Marion Center M. E. Church, the Rev. Bert Jones, pastor, of the church, officiating. He was assisted by Rev.

Camby M. Moore of the Rural Valley M. E. Church, and Rev. C.

A. Waltman, pastor of the Marion Center Presbyterian Church. Interment followed in the Marion Center cemetery, Charles R. Griffith, whose death occurred early Thursday morning, following a two years' illness, was 73 years of age. He was a son of Edward H.

and Mary (Park) Griffith, both deceased, and was born July 26, 1862. Mr. Griffith received his education in the public schools of Indiana County and embarked in the newspaper business in 1882 as editor and publisher of the Marion Center Independent, of which he had been editor for 49 years. In 1922, he was elected to the House of Representatives in Harrisburg in which capacity he served for five successive terms. During his last term he served as chairman of the Committee on Public Roads.

Mr. Griffith served as vice president of the Marion. Center National Bank since its organization in 1905 until a few months ago when he was compeled to resign on account of illness. He served on the school board and borough council for many years. On Christmas Day, December 25, 1881, he was united in marriage to Miss Ella Holt, who with the following children survive: Mary, wife of Homer Work, of Marion Center; Mona, wife of Frank Boyer of Lancaster; and Joyce, widow of Dr.

Jas. Glasser, of Blairsville. A daughter, Lena, who was the wife of Dr. D. A.

Gromley, preceded her father to the grave. Mr. Griffith was brother of ir. Harry P. Griffith, of 2 diana; Frank Griffith, of Greensburg; Clarence Griffith, of Jeannette, and W.

C. Griffith, of Marion Center. Mr. Griffith was a devout member of the M. E.

Church at Marion Center, and for many years was a teacher of the Adult 'Bible Class. He was held in high esteem by all who knew him and had a host of friends who will greatly miss him. Failure To Stop At Stop Signs Is The Cause of Accidents Violation of the "Through TrafficStop" law by careless or reckless motorists is responsible for a tightening of enforcement measures in various communities. "Stop" signs, should be obeyed literally. They constitute one of the greatest safeguards ever devised for the mo.

toring public. "Properly observed," the law requiring vehicles to stop at posted intersections will reduce crossing accidents practically to the vanishing point. The motorist who deliberately violates the law cannot expect sympathy from careful drivers in his actions result in accident or lead to his prosecution." Alcohol Used Widely As Motor Fuel In Islands Having no petroleum resources, the Philippine Islands have in recent years used large quantities of alcohol in moblends, according to C. C. Concannon, Chief of the Commerce Department's Chemical Division.

Formerly alcohol in the Philippines vas produced largely from palm juices, but in recent years modernized distilleries have turned to molasses, a byproduct of the sugar industry, for their raw material, it was stated. Although several million 3, "of molasses alcohol are now used annually in the Philippines as motor fuel, it appears that this source, which amounts to from 50 to 70 million gallons each crop year, has not yet been fully utilized. Power alcohol in the Philippines was first used in 1922 on a large sugar estate as tractor and truck fuel, the blend employed containing 70 per cent alcohol. Since that time its use has grown steadily, not only as fuel for passenger automobiles, trucks and tractors, but in plantation locomotives and sugar mill power plants, according to the Commerce Department. A report from Manila by Trade Commissioner J.

B. Richards states that sales of gasoline in the Philippines increased in 1934 but did not keep pace with the increased use of motor vehicles because of competition from alcohol motor fuel. During the current year this competition is expected to become keener, the report states..