THE PATTON COURIER Published Every Thursday. Phos A. Owens, Editor & Pion . F\ Bradley, Associate Editor Was formed In the guise of a very wet | | sent congressman—and a man who de- lof the regular business of the citizens |or a veterans’ to] serves to be retusned—let us consider | ¢ campria county at the capital. But has been given his whole hearted sup- as their candidates for the general } dhe record of the Hon. J. Russell (he, too, by the prestige gained during | port, and his every last bit of effort assembly from the second district Leech. | Congressman Leech is now serving “extras” for Cambria county, including | Leech was a soldier himself, serving as territory. outside the city of Johns- | Entered in the Post Office at Patton, | Gifford Pinchot, Republican nominee Pa., as Second Class Mail Matter, Subscription Rates $2.00 per year in | Advance. Single Copies 5 Cents. per line. per insertion; Business! Locals 10¢c per line; Business Cards, $10.00 per year; Display advertising, 30c | THE ISSUE IS ~ ADE VERY CLEAR. HEN the present state roel campaign began, the Liberal party organization allegedly opposed for Governor, because he is dry. The deceit was quickly exploded | | RETURN OUR | CONGRESSMAN, THE PATTON COURIER MBLY erat to represent them in this Republi -| veterans. Much of his time has ows REPUBLICAN AS |can administration? (given in promoting legislation toward CANDIDATES . J. Russell Leech always has placed |that end. No just claim has ever been all fairness to the Republican can- [the interests of his consti tuents first, | brought to his attention in Cambria | didate for congress—and our pre- ang has always been alert to take care county from a disabled war veteran two terms has been able to get many [to secure the relief desired. J. Russell the county, which includes all |when the big business interests which 'his second term in the lower house |a visit from the dirigible, Los Angeles, | la Lieutenant in a combat division | town, and they nominated them | furnished the money for the support at Washington, and his district com- [the appearance of the U. S. Marine overseas in the late World War. RATE CARD—Legal Notices, at 10c| |of the Liberal party began to talk and | prises all of this county. During the Band at two different ocasions, the D1 centered all their attack on Pinchot’s| three and one-half years that he has|pearance at Ebensburg of the Vice | soever on Mr. Leech’s Democratic op-|center, attitude toward privilege seeking “and [ALE of hi our district he has devoted | President of The United States, and | ponent, George Wolfe, we do manitain | |such a way that geographically c Without offering any comment what- cerned, they come from the south, represented. {John R. Musser, a well known hard- | ware merchant of Barnesboro. Mr, | Musser, is well equipped to make a of | the in on- the | AMBRIA County Republicans at the good representative. He is well known primaries held this last spring | dependents, but that nominated three worthy sterling men | taken a very active interest in volun- | teer firemen’s activities. all over the district, and has always The Republican party offers voters three worthy men as their candidates | for general assembly in the second dis- | trict. Vote for them. —— 1) 3 and the north of the district| NO VOTE THIS YEAR. ONTRARY to an editorial recently Ithmar B. Williams, the nominee C published in the Courier, in which FOR MN ES BE Our forefat ced by their Nature and our lives toc been greatly | flowers and | of mankind h out-doors. We cannot fluence that per inch; Full position, 25 pct. extra; |sportation, electric light, water and|ALL of his time as YOUR representa- {other things that prestige only will however, that J. Russell Leech has] Nature has Minimum charge, $1.00. Cash must ac-| power companies—an attitude which | tive, and has no outside interests to bring. | prov ed himself a capable congressman, | trom the south of the county, is alwe stated that the proposed constitu- Wr country. I ave | demands only that the Public Service [interfere with your work at Washing-| Congressman Leech is a member of |and that, as such, he deserves to be | promident business man of Westmont | jong) amendments passed by the last lite w Commission be fair to the public rather | | ton. |several important committees of the |returned. He is surely entitled to the| | borough, and is also the burgess of that | legislature, would be voted upon at Dobin, ests an this office by noon Wednesday to in- | sure insertion, Unsigned correspon- | dence will be ignored at all times. | than be baised in favor of utilities, and | ! — | that the public shall not be gouged. | | who get the furthest, the men who gain | Pennsylvania Society at Washington. | [tion of this county, and getting that |acquaintanceship and will represent | They said Pinchot was an enemy of | The Patton Courier Has the Largest business, but said nothing of Prohibi- Paid-Up Circulation of Any Weekly | tion, Newspaper in Cambria County—Cove rs the Home Community like a blanket, | | recognition, the men | prestige and the men who obtain the |forward and will continue to do s0.| Congressman Leech has not been | well, if elected. best results for the districts they re- | His defeat at the election would not be | found wanting. That exploded the claim that Pro-|present, are the members of congress | SO much of a slap at Mr. Leech as | soldier, marrying one day after Wat | comes from the central section of the the State Department. All five amend- who achieve] {He is a representative that has forged he will win hands down. the people of the county wisely He has been a good| Attorney Thos. C. Evans, of Port Naturally the membérs of congress | house, and is also President of the vote of the entire Republican registra- | | thriving municipality. He has a large | | case. In some counties the sheriffs and | | | age, | w the coming election, such is not the have included the five amendments in | their proclamations, but this inclusion was made without -authorization from and circulates far more extensively in | hibition was an issue, and established | yo return to Washington for several |it would be at the voters themselves. |was declared, and enlisting for service county. Attorney Evans has represent- | ' ments must pass another session of north-eastern Cambria County than does any other newspaper, REPUBLICAN TICKET For United States Senator JAMES J. DAVIS For Governor GIFFORD PINCHOT For Lt. Governor EDWARD C. SHANNON For Secretary of Internal Affairs PHILIP H, DEWEY For Justice of the Supreme Court HON. GEORGE W. MAXEY For Judges of the Superior Court HON. JAMES B. DREW HON. WILLIAM B. LYNN Representative in Congress HON. J. RUSSELL LEECH General Assembly-Second District THOMAS C. EVANS JOHN R. MUSSER ITHAMAR B. WILLIAMS OBSERVATIONS FROM THE SIDELINES, NE thing is essential that you voters all do next Tuesday, and that is that you turn up at the polls and vote. Vote for whom you please, but vote. . * * * Tr Dead Sea is dead because it has inlets but no outlets, just as the merchant who does not advertise is dead because he wants to forever re- |interests at least, the issue was whe- “| ther the Public Service Commission sends a new face down to Washing- of a high protective tariff and suppor ts| |a legislator as a soldier. [should be permitted to continue to ton every two years, never has a mem- levery measure that provides for it.! i function as it has, in the corporate per of Congress who accomplishes any- Coming as he does from a large in- gress. interest. thing. ways have a stranger representing | {high protective tariff will protect the | HUNTERS are not the only folks |them. What could Cambria county | |workingman. He is vitally interested | who are glad of the rains—we all are | expect to receive by electing a Demo- in all legislation that affects the war | appreciative. that, in the minds of these business terms. It is a well known fact, proven |J Russell Leech has made good Now comes John Kehoe, a wet and | Democratic leader of Luzerne county, | to explode even that issue as the real one. For Kehoe, who will support| = Pinchot, has, with his family, more than a million dollars invested in utility stock. As an investor, expecting merely a return on his investment, he is not fearful of the Pinchot policies. The Mellon family also is supporting Pinchot as the Republican nominee, which is certainly testimony that he is not enemy to business. That reduces the issue to its stark reality: Whether the Philadelphia Polit- ical machine, a by-word for all that is detestable in government, shall, assisted by the heads of privilege seeking utilities, take over the government of Pennsylvania for its own use and, through the Democratic candidate, John Hemp- hill, compel in the state administr- ation the same deplorable govern- ment which Philadelphia now re- ceives. It is a government which thinks of the political machine first and the welfare of the people last, if at all. There's the issue: The people or the political and utility bosses. The wet one of Portage’s leading citizens, |affairs in his community. 10: No wonder—those districts al-|dustrial state, he realizes that only a | Pe ner tre ae THE CHOICE OF PROGRESSIVE FOAM Fr 3k HAA HAD aT ev, Women and | | the next day—serving throughout the |ed the district in the legislature before, | the legislature before they can be time and again, that a district that | Congressman Leech is an advocate | conflict. He has been equally as good and his record is unblemished. He is|submitted to the electorate. Under the constitution, amendments cannot be Vote for J. Russell Leech for Con- has always been a leader in civic| voted on except at five year intervals. | He, too, is| Since 1928 was the year in which «known all over the county as an able | amendments were voted on the next 5 | lawyer, and a friend of the people. Up here in the north of the County | The amendments were published this the Republican party has nominated | year because the law so requires. ones can't be submitted before 1933. ner of poriuniy ity for rests provic ation th If we enjoymen termined effor tain phases o Of course, } or foothall g rooms, or anj cialized amus on the city st does not pro to Nature’ tha State Forest special benefi tion is the fo environments ing off your and bri 3 is for features are de ments of our Man is the in all Nature. when the law to dominate « leisure, riding ways, we nee ences and the by contemplati himself in pro tion. There is Nature that ins in harmony w understand the the greatness force of the u may feel that bibing from th Nature about our lives and fi of the artifici beautiful cryste and hills, with colors or the fi the marvelous sky, or the ev with its woolen we love al Iman commercial, th creeds will van right relationst vailing force of Let us hie a the car and locc motor, the ruml ceive and never give out anything. and dry issue has nothing whatsoever | * ss to do with it, but there seem to be { fic and all thei N IMPORTANT duty of all Republ-|@ lot of folks who think it has. ) Joss in the a icans at the election next Tuesday| If John Hemphill is elected Gover- ® ® of he siren is to see to it that J. Russell Leech nor, the Democrats of Pennsylvania its own murmy is returned to Congress. A change of| will have no reason to believe they are SW1 C In warbler, tho wh Congressmen at this time, would be a|have a real Democratic executive. With 15 Nahe o Te very detrimental move for our district. [the support of the Philadelphia mach- Expect Stent we 4 2.» ine; they can look forward to an exe- ® of Nature and ; ANY Republicans may have flock-|cutive dominated by Quaker City Re- pointed. You w ed to the Hemphill camp, but the |Publicans. Organized Philadelphia poli- O O 1 gas 3 momen: ae fact must not pe overlooked that many |ticians are far too shrewd to back a of love in Natur Democrats, too, have bolted Hemphill candidate without some assurance as tender graces in favor of Pinchot. Included with |to where they stand when election day Probably les st these are Judge Bonniwell, William B.|is past. That's the reason why some . . ‘ ‘ 5 A ih visits | Wilson, Vance McCormick, and a host |of the most prominent and leading Moe 1s winning the gasoline vote in TE of others. Democrats of the state have sworn ’ recreation and Na ee the Biche oy SY thousands of homes. It’s won the sup- aun me HAT if Pinchot wins? And the| So far as the governorship of Penn- port of the women, progressive women, who han one-half 2 chances are that he will do just|sylvania at the coming election is con- : . hg hsed Xt that. How are some of the our pro-|cerned, party lines seem to have been are responsible for the style, color and driv- Forects hove | minent Cambria county Republicans (torn asunder. It hinges on only one : : danion of man. going to explain things? However, we | issue: Pinchot versus a rains cor- Ing ease of the modern car- -the progressive uplifters t 5 : 3 S of mankind. Re ai han Bed Lic in : women who demand from every gallon of The man who has to toil for a living " . large families m Ronse only Neen Bey foes will do well to consider this well before gasoline all the performance their cars are fity of enjoying ng remunerative in sig or them. na votes. . li woods. The sch rrr? Make Gifford Pinchot our next built to deliver. ereaseq Bal EN. EDWARD MARTIN, the chair-| Governor. former Iv. T man of the Republican State Com- $0 ins . more considerat: mittee, has a difficult row to hoe, but iy x Read OUR PLATFORM: then switch 4 up-building of tl he is a “square shooter.” Supported LURE OF THE HUNT . T oy 4 > aren Quy Your for election as state chairman by the MAY CUT DOWN VOTE, for a week and give your car a vote. rp ny Beupls ) Brown forces, and opposed by the ; ; : Taos of Teves Grundy-Pinchot Re 20 Tol is HE Republican State _orgariization ~ De making his stand for the election of leaders are concentrating on plans Independent Oil Co. demand for the entire Republican state ticket. Gen. to get out the vote for the election the forests provid Martin is a Republican first, last and |B€Xt Tuesday. Inc. of Penna. ang pe > his always and as such, is making a win- Enough persons are qualified for the dance hall, Moti ning fight for the ticket. election to enable the vote to be the and ¢ park, Ww sD: heaviest in years. The number of fee Ss, is not { , persons on the qualified lists in the which the forest FOOD FOR THOUGHT state is more than 3,522,000. OUR PLATFORM S% Dorks furl) IN THIS STORY! If the same proportion of qualified | PL ED GES unspoiled by han ERE is what Judge John H. McCann electors vote as did in the Hoover- | is attuned so as H said in an adress delivered before|Smith presidential election Ivo Years A new gasoline by the makers of Mobil- Sd nan Bo the Rotary Club in the Capital Hotel, (ago, approximately 2,800,000 voters will il . . Mobil to be at Ss Ww Johnstown, on Wednesday, July 2, 1930, go to the polls on November 4th. If, oil. . Mobi'zas. ideal re on acocrding to the Johnstown Democrat: however, the vote is as light as it was A new gasoline, modernized by Vacu- the uns 50 “Let us support a man, whether he last year the number of votes cast wi um’s process of distillation . . Mobilgas. isoned b is with us politically or not, if he is be approximately 1,700,000. . . . : ae honest and sincere in his desire to| Leaders of both parties view one| A new gasoline with everything you'd Tho promote the public interests. In case | phase of the situation with dissatis- | expect—power, pick-up, anti-knock, start- Gifford Pinchot is elected Governor of |faction. That is the first full/ week of | ing, mileage—plus a little more..Mobilgas. y > Still Pennsylvania, there is some chance | the gunning season opens the day be- | Anew gasoline that Salls.at no.advande poy enjoy Nature that the problems which face the coal fore election day. The small game | . . tion 18 beantitul industry of our commonwealth will re- |season opens Saturday, but with the| over the regular price. . Mobilgas. that was not des ceive the attention they deserve. next day a Sunday, many of the hun-| A new gasoline made for the car you In spr , summ Pinchot’s election may mean that|ters will not leave for camp until | drive today . . Mobilgas. the peinls of ae Pennsylvania will begin to get results. Monday. Frequently many gunners : that v oh CRaming For Pinchot is a fighting man. He can |spend the first full week of the hunt- | A new gasoline for people who aren’t is a crystal that speak in a voice that will be heard |ing season in the woods. This year, afraid of new ideas . . Mobilgas. beauty by the su beyond the confines of this state. because the number of working hours | The banner-like S Frankly, he would not be my choice of some of the hunters is smaller, they | Give Your Car a Vote. Kooy wae in he i fon for the office, as some of his views will find it easier to spend long periods | Switch to Mobilgas for a Week ourary channel is happy are diametrically opposed to mine, but chasing game, and the political leaders | and Let Your Car Decide. and Mobilgas functioning of all I do believe if any man is able to fear the lure of the hunt may take | Ethyl, too of oh 0 ts Or : : : 3 our plant anc IT accomplish things for Pennsylvania, many prosgpective voters away from : in Fi A inte n- clouds, snows an that man is Gifford Pinchot.” Itheir homes on election day.
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