PAGE FOUR Union Press, Established May, 1935 THE UNION PRESS Combined with PATTON COURIER 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 post- office at Patton, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. F. P. CAMMARATA, Business Mgr. THOS. A. OWENS.........«.c...... Editor Subscription, $2 Yearly in Advance. Advertising Rates on Application. The endeavor of the Union Press- Courier is to sincerely and honestly represent Trade Union Workers in efforts to obtain economic freedom through organizations as advocated by the CIO and AFL, and we solicit the support of trade unions. Mater- jal for publication must be author- ized by the organization it repre- sents and signed by the President and secretary, and bear the seal. 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. —— TT 44>» : | RANDOM THOUGHT | | Tonight, Thursday, the Republicans of Patton and a number of adjacent wownsihips will celebrate with what they term an “inaugural dinner” In, the Eagles’ Home here. Somehow, we we can't help but wish them well id the event. The Democrats have had a good many such dinners here mn re- | cent years, and the Republicans now have a chance to have their inning. We | hope they won't choke on the turkey ! (if they have turkey) and that the speeches won't be dull. | ° And, to a great extent, our pre- diction is that the greater majority of the people who will be present at the dinner tonight, are poteniial job seekers, and we all know there won't be enough jobs to go around. Hence, some of the “glorious” feel- ings of tonight will be dampened a bit as the days and months roll on, when some get the jobs, and a lot more don't. Ask the Democrats, they know from experience. » This will be a real test year for the Republican and Democratic parties in Pennsylvania. The Republican party is far from rehabilitation, despite its big Patton Courier, Established Oct. 1893 him.” | though the primaries won't be held mn Lawrence county will attach to To which we add a fervent, “amen,” * “welve county and a lot of bor- ough and county jobs will be filled in the 1939 elections, and in the cose of the county offices, there are some attractive salaries atached. The high- est paid post in the county to be filled is that of judge, which pays $12,000 a year. Judge Ivan J. McKen- rick’s term expires at the end of the year. Prothonotary gets $6,000; clerk of courts, $4,000; register of wills, $4,000; recorder of deeds, $4,000; 3 county commisisoners, $5,000 each; a district atorney, $6,000; controller, $4,000; and treasurer, $5,000. And trere’s also a county surveyor to be elected who gets $300 a year. All oi- fices, except Judge, will be filled for four year terms; the judge will be elected for a ten year term. ° And, from all indications, there are going to be a lot of Republicans, and a lot of Democrats who will want to land these court house jobs, and it is likely that practically al of the present THE UNION PRESS-COURIER. and throug hit, the machinery of state government, Republican legislators last week se- lected a henchman of Boss John J. Mc- Clure of Delaware county to be chief cler kof the House now under G. O. P. domination. I'o Pennsylvania voters in general. and to rank and file Republicans in particular, that is disquieting news. Boss McClue neds no introduction to the voters of Pensylvania. A promin- ent Republican senator for many years | he was convicted of heading a vicious vice and liquor ring in Chester coun- and escaped going to prison only by | a legal technicality .He refused to re- sign his Senate seat, and the Republi- | can senate refused to unseat him. Fi- | nally the voters of Chester county re- | volted against McClure and the corrup- | tion for which he stood and refused to | return him to the senate. Now McClure is back in Harrisburg trying to regain his former powerfu, | position in G. O. P. circles. And with | the selection of William Ward, Jr. | Mayor of Chester and a McClure hen- chman, as chief clerk of the house, he | Democratic ticket, had promised once . has hurdled his first barrier. He is in | a position to dominate the House and | thus to control all legislation passing | through it, just as he did the senae | years ago. | TOM MOONEY One of the world’s most famous pris- oners stepped out of San Quentin pen- itentiary on Saturday morning and motored to Sacramento, the capital of California, where he had an oppoint- ment with the Governor. Culbert Ol- son ,elected last November on the again to look into the celebrated case of Thomas J. Mooney. In a brief hear- ing on Saturday afternoon Mooney ob- tained the exoneration he had sought for twenty-two years .He walked out a free man. It was on July 22, 1916, “Prepared- ness Day”, that a bomb killed ten spec- tators and marchers at a parade spon- sored by the conservative business el- ements of San Francisco. Tom Moon- ey, an aggrressive labor leader ,was . Thursday, January 12, 1939. convicted of bombing and sentenced to death .Commutation reduced his term to life improsonment, The imprisoned man insisted throu- penalty for a crime he never com- mitted. May Tom Mooney have many : happy and fruitful years of life ahead i of him to partly compensate for what | ghout that the testimony against him | the law has wrongfully taken from was perjured, that he was “framed” him. because of his labor activities. Gradu- | on ally this view gained t, d pro- y minent liberals a | TWO PEEL ea nD BY ii 0d - 4 half. Books were written on the Moon- | ey case. All the resources of the state | —— and federal law were exhausted, a Un-| mpwo middle aged persons—man and ited States Supreme Court decision last woman—were killed on Monday night year putting an apparant end to the by a hit and run motorist approxima- legal efforts. Mooney, directing his | tely one mile south of Mundy’s Cor- own vidication campaign from his | ner on Route 219. The victims prison cell, turned his hopes to poli- Richard Briggs, 66, Cambria plant tics. | machinist, of Conemaugh; concussion Saturday's action by Governor OIl-| of brain and compound fractures of son brought fruitation to the slogan, | both legs below the knees. “Free Tom Mooney,” that has been Mrs. Mary Taylor Jones, 66, for- voiced by liberals and organized labor , merly of Nanty-Glo had more recent- generally at countless demonstrations | ly residing with a nephew near Mun- during the past two decads. Governor dy’s Corner, fracture of the neck, and Olson simply did a duty that former | left leg severed at knee. governors of California should have; State Motor Police and Coroner Pat- done long ago, but who apparantly | rick McDermott said the fatality oc- lacked the courage to do. Governor | curred around 10:15 to 10:30 o'clock. Olson freed an innocent man from a| An investigation is under way. incumbents will want to remain. Added to a total it means that Cambria coun- ty will be a seething furnace long be- fore the primaries, and that the aver- age man and woman won't be permit- ted to forget his or her politics for a single moment. Of course, the primary filing fee may be instrumental in keep- ing out some of the periodical can- didates, but for the chaps who really mean business it won't serve as a de- triment. Ladies and gentlemen, pre- pare for a hot and furious primary campaign that may start shortly even until September. ° The 1939 Legislature will be asked to take Pennsylvania out of the re- tail liquor business and set up a sys- tem of state supervision in its place according to State Senator John H. Dent of Westmoreland county, who says he will sponsor the new li- quor legislation, patterned after a system now operated in New York. It would provide for the elimina- tion of state liquor stores and would set up a dual wholesale-retail licen- sing system. Retailing would be handled in large part by retail li- censees, who now may sell liguor only by the drink. Our opinion is that Senator Dent is “all wet.” * What benefit could come from such a proposal as Dent's? The Pennsylva- nia state store system has served as a model for the entire nation. It has been oprated with such efficiency and hon- esty that it has escaped whatever cri- ticism has been leveled at other phas- es of the post-repeal liquor traffic. It 450 MAGEE AVENUE, PATTON, PENNA. Before You Spend Another Dollar See The Low Prices at A&P Markets Want to make life more enjoyable for your family ?—serve them more food ?—serve them finer quality food for less money? Then don’t spend another dollar until you have checked the values A & P offers. Your thrifty neighbors will tell you that A & P’s day in and day out low prices save them $1.00 to $2.00 on their weekly food bills. You can save too—how much depends on what yeu for- SAVINGS ON merly paid. Our prices are always low because we deal direct with the producers—because we place huge orders and ship by the least expensive method. We run our stores efficiently—with low ever- head expense. We don’t permit in-between profits to creep into our efficient system of bringing fine foods from producer to your table. These savings and many others are passed on to) you because we take only one small profit. Come in today! Pure Gelatin Puddings and Pea. Butter a Sela un: i ze ald nadia Ake AA bh HR PAA a ak EI he pd oh AST A Me A victory in the recent state election. It has cost the state nothing. In fact it has SPARKLE DESSERT PACK- 11 be restored largely to its old pow- | earned millions of dollars for the com- ¥ S . . 3 1 0 c er and prestige, if, in the county and monwealth and thus has ben a direct HIGH UAL TY MEA AGES municipal elections throughout the saving to the taxpayers. Turning over aL In Heavy Syrup state, this year, it regains largely the the sale of bottled goods to taprooms EE ——— ION A PE ACHES LARGE immense amount of ground lost in the would be taking this function out of C ° . . . 7 CANS 23¢ elections of 1933, 1935 and 1937. Dem- the hands of public servants whose HUCK ROAST S field ocrats face a crisis. Heavy losses tor chief interest is the public welfare, TENDER END tnnyie them this year oa the heels of the 1938 and giving it to persons impelled by CUTS, PANCAKE FLOUR 0: OZ. debacle, will raise the question of the profit motive. One need not be a POUND ........ .. En C . . . 2 PKGS 9c whewner the party is to slip Back oie seer to predict that evils which have Aunt Jemima : the feebleness of the pre-Roosevell developed in the taproom business CENTER CHUCK AS era, which made it a party giving no would be quickly transferred to the LB BoAYh 1 7¢C PANCAKE FLOUR 7 az by-the-bottle sales. The only advan- . - = y - ? i . PEGS. 21 Cc worry to Republicans or hope to the many voters who were bitter toward the Old Guard Republican machine. Democrats are hopeful that reaction- ary elements, already asserting them- selves in the Republican administra- tion in the state actually has been es- tablished, will take control of the ex-, ecutive and legislative functioning, and that would do much to stop the slide of the Democratic party ana give them a real chance in this year's elections. ° Congressman John McDowell, Re? | publican, editor of the Wilkinsburg | tage would be to the taproom proprie- tors, and they would profit at the ex- pense of the state treasury and public morals. If the measure actually comes to a vote it should be defeated by such an overwhelming majority that no one else will dare to try to tamper with a system that has so thoroughly justi- fied itself. WARNING Of course it would be folly to ex- PORK LOINS, Fresh, Whole or End Cuts, LB... PORK SHOULDER ROAST, 4 to 5-1b. 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MAAN MS OO 0 2 "ons 29¢ 2 “os 21e Gazette, in an editorial the other day | pect that the incoming Republican ad- a voiced his alarm in the above regard. | ministration would carry on any pro- SMALL LEGS OF LAMB, He declared: “I want to go on rec- jen Governor Earle might have had iB. ord to repudiate ex-senators Coyne |in mind, because to some extent it ~ Gra SMALL HAMS, Smoked Sweet- Delicious 24¢ || pDEY“MAIZ NIBLITS | and McClure and all the rest of the | can be considered repudiated at the | polls, and changes naturally are to be gang who viewed public office as a private opportunity and who are now marching to Harrisburg and I invite the other Republican office- hosawers of Atiegheny County to join with me in a fight, not to quit | the Republican party, but to stay on the job of giving it a thorougn house-cleaning. It is my impression that we newly elected officials of the state and nation were elected because the people of Pennsylvania were sick and tired of being fooled by expensive politicians and were willing to give the Republican par- ty one more chance to prove its right to administer affairs of the ten millions of Pennsylvanians.” ° Of course, that is a Republican's slant, and he has reasen to be alarmed. Already one henchman of Boss Mec- Clure of Delaware county, Sonvieted | vice ring leader whose name is ana- thema to every decent Republican, has | been elected speaker of the House, and znother has been named chief clerk of the lower branch. Are the Republi- | cans using the rope to hang themsel- | ves before they even start on their new journey of legislative action? W Communism has no place in the ranks of either the Congress of In- dustrial Organizations of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and as particular proof of that fact will be noted the action taken last week by the central bodies of both these labor organizations in the ctty of pittsburgh who lashed out at Com- munism at spirited meetings. ° And this we clip from the Johns- town Democrat: “As the news columns have said ,Senator John J. Haluska vo- ted with his colleagues on all matters relating to the organization of the State Senate. That was the consistent, courageous thing for him to do, and the Democrat recalls with pleasure the fact we predicted he would do that very thing when the time came. Poli- tical leaders may use men who cross party lines for a consideration, but they despise the men they purchase. The Democrat congratulates Senator Haluska upon the fact none of the | clared the Governor: expected. However, Republican lead- ers might well heed Governor Earle’s closing words against the danger of permitting the pendulum to swing completely in the other direction. De- “To those who carry forward the work of government in this state I wish to sound one warning. The voice of privilege and the voice of special in- terest will be heard again in the legis- lative halls and in the councils of government. The self-seekers and the overlords of industry will reassert the right to exploit the people of this com- monwealth. The interests of the few again wil rise in opposition to the wel- fare of the many. Therein lies the dan- ger of the future, the danger to our institutions, the danger to those great progressive measures which have of late years become a part and parcel of the life of our times. “Let everyone remember then that we live in a broad Common- wealh of ten million peole that their needs are far more important than the interests of a privileged few and that their voice is the voice of our Demo- cracy. “You are charged with their pro- motion and their welfare, which means primarily the preservation of Morrell’s ready to serve, Whole or shank half, LB. meat, whole or shank half, Ib. E-Z CUT HAMS 22¢ Sultana -30c¢ DAILY EGG SCRATCH FEED 3 1. OYSTER SHELLS Daily 100-Ib. Egg bag 16% DAIRY FEED Daily . 100-Ib. $1. Milk bag 20% DAIRY FEED Miky Way Ms $ 1 .55 24% DAIRY FEED Milky | DAILY EGG LAYING MASH “i; 100-Ib. EGGNOODLES . . . . USE DAILY FEEDS 65c Way Hols. $ 1 ° 1.95 Del Maiz CREAM STYLE CORN . . 2 ems 190 POUND 10c PACKAGE .2 Ibs. 19¢ .4 No. 2 cans 23c Economical Spread NUTLEY NUT OLEO Peas, Corn or TOMATOES, White House EVAPORATED MILK, . Mild and Mellow 45 -... 10 tall cans 55¢ 8 O'CLOCK COFFEE - 3 1b. bag 39c¢ 19 15 Varieties A & P BREAD . . 2 loaves 15e¢ 59 USE MORE BUTTER We are cooperating with 6,000,000 farmers in a Nation-Wide Butter Sale! Good Butter is the secret of good cooking. PRICES ARE LOW! Use it gen- their fundamental liberties as citizens and the safeguarding of their econom- this well, you shall merit the enduring gratitude of our people, and you will sucessfully avert that danger of dicta- torship that is so rapidly casting its shadow over the world today.” Governor Earle’s warning should not be forgotten. The people of Penn- sylvania demonstrated, apparantly, that they did not want a continuation of the present Democratic administra- tion and its policies. But they also do not want to go back to the old daws of special privilege and corruption.. will only be helping to dig a new grave for their newly revived party, says the Pitsburgh Press. Already there are ominus indica- tions that the elements Governor Earle warned against are endeavoring to re- shame that will follow the Senator gain control of the Republican party ic sucurity. So far as you shall do! Republican leaders who forget that LOW SEA FOOD PRICES | POLLOCK FILLETS . HADDOCK FILLETS, GARDEN FRESH PRODUCE FRESH CAULIFLOWER, head 15e ICEBERG LETTUCE, .... _._. TASTYPANWHITING o.oo 1D, Be meio I hole 13e FRESH OYSTERS, Stewing, Pint 18c RED RIPE TOMATOES, 2 Ibs. Qe CLEANS AND DISINFECTS CALIF. NAVEL ORANGES, 200's-220’s, ....... do. 21c SLES SisH Sort TEXAS CARROTS, 2 bunches ge CLOROX mm 13¢ “Bi 23¢ FLA. 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