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THE UNION
PRESS-COURIER.
Thursday, July 13, 1939.
SAMMY KAYE IS SUNSET ATTRACTION
— oy. EEE ——————y
The THREE_ BARONS
“Swing and Sway with Sammy famous radio personalities: Tom Ry-
Raye” will be the attraction at Sunset, | an, Charles Wilson and Jimmy Brown,
the world’s most unique ballroom on | better known to the radio public at
‘Wednesday, July 19th. “The Three Barons.”
Sammy comes direct to Sunset from Ss K ill b
the Commodore Hotel and the Essex |, a ay € guest Srehgs.
House, New York City, where he has | NEC Blue ies ey Ei
been featured over a nation wide radio Mond Jul by ine ucing ?
network for the past ten months. onday, July 17th, 6:30 EST.
Sammy Kaye is undoubtedly riding Dancing continues every Friday,
the crest of a well earned popularity | with the ever popular Baron Elliott
wave and is considered one of the na- | and his music on July 1th, and on July
tion’s big three in box office attraction i 21st, Wally Stoeffler comes direct
today. With him at Sunset will be his : from Boston.
ROOSEVELT DEPRESSION” | companies are the result of great ac-
or MONOPOLY DEPRESSION | cumulations of capital. In good times
they overproduce to make high profits
: : and in bad times they underemploy to
Here is an excerpt from the article | preserve profits which are still very
on CORPORALS OF INDUSTRY, by | considerable and which smaller and
E. D. ennedy, printed in the book, | more competitive companies cannot
“America Now,” by Harold E. Stearns, | register at any time. They are exactly
Which ought to be read by every intel- | like the railroads, the light and power
ligent person in the country: companies, and the utilities, and like
“The monopolistic nature of com- | these so-called ‘natural’ monopolies
panies like-Anaconda Copper, United | they should submit to regulation.
States Steel, General Motors, Owens That regulation mignt take the form
Illinois, United States Shoe Machinery, | of limitation of income in the shape
General Electric and many another, | of maximum prices—just as railroad
should be clearly recognized. These | and other utility prices (rates) are
a regulated in the general good. More
IN Cou \ TY RA E effective, however, because less de-
flationary, would be a stiffly graduat-
ed income tax with the rates on cor-
porate profits applied on the same ba-
sis as has been long established with
4 rates on personal incomes. The growth
of some of our mammoth companies
would undoubtedly be somewhat chec-
ked, but it is precisely their excessive
growth that has made our corporate
(let alone our social) structure such a
lopsided and one-sided affair.
Meanwhile, the spokesmen of the
monopolists have adopted the techni-
aque of identifying big business “with
| all business—of pretending that any-
{ thing which might damage the Alumi-
num Company, or tke present Standard
of New Jersey is just as damaging to
the neighborhood butcher or the corner
druggist. They call upon economic
‘principles which they themselves have
made no longer applicable, They ap-
| peal to an industrial way of life which
began to weaken in 1890 and which
| was almost entirely destroyed by 1929.
1 v [They ignore the fact that they were
5 completely in the saddle during the
Michael C. Chervenak | days of Harding, Coolidge, and the
Michael C. Chervenak, Jr., Portage first year of Hoover. They forget that
Township, announces his candidacy they were still ‘unregimented’ during
for the Democratic nomination for the the last thre years of the Hoover ad-
office of Prothonotary of Cambria ministration but did nothing but watch
County. | depression deepen info disaster and
Mr. Chervenak seeks the nomina- | then look for a cyclone cellar. They
. . . . ale po + ”.
tion on his record of public service, | also do not remember that they were
especially on his record as a member | glad to have Mr. Roosevelt close the
of the State Legislature. He has ser- | Panks and establish the NRA; and that
ved two terms as a member of the | their hostility to the New Deal dates
Portage Township School Board, Boro | from the time when Mr. Roosevelt's
Auditor, and a member and Secretary | M20ney-spending restored consuming
of the Board of Health. He was the ' Power enough to give them a large
Democratic nominee for County Treas- | measure of restored profits—which
i¥er four Vears ago. Mr. Chervenak’s they refused to shgre, however meag-
: : ; oY ly, with the unemployed whom they
experience in business and public life | TY» J J
p had themselves created. Today they are
well qualifies him for the position he : ;
ke P | ranting about ‘dictatorship’, and they
GET A BETTER
USED CAR
NOW!
Avoid the expense of repairing your present car.
Trade it now while we are able to give you more on your
present car than we ever will again.
PRICES ON THESE CARS ARE THE LOWEST EVER!
1938 FORD DELUXE FORDOR
1937 FORD DELUXE FORDOR
1937 FORD TUDOR
1937 CHEVROLET TOWN SEDAN
1936 CHEVROLET COACH—RADIO AND HEATER
1936 PONTIAC SEDAN—RADIO AND HEATER
1935 PLYMOUTH SEDAN
1934 PLYMOUTH COACH
1932 CHEVROLET SEDAN
1931 FORD SEDAN
1935 FORD 131-INCH TRUCK CHASSIS
1933 CHEVROLET 131-INCH TRUCK CHASSIS
STOLTZ MOTOR CO.
Harry O. Stoltz, Prop. PATTON, PA.
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GRAND THEATRE
PATTON,
Friday One Day Only
hi NO. 1 PUBLIC COWBOY BRINGS A NEW BRAND OF SCREEN THRILLS
HE WATCHES WITS AND SIX-GUNS WITH A BAND OF FOREIGN SPIES!
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WALTER WANGER presents
FREORIC MARCH - JOAN BENNETT
TRADE WINDS
RALPH BELLAMY . ANN SOTHERN
SIDNEY BLACKMER - THOMAS MITCHELL - ROBERT ELLIOTT
ATAY GARNETT Production * Released thru United Artists
PLATT - LOCKHART
OPERA OR OPERATION?
The woman doctor never
knows when the call of duty
will come. Her work is her life.
Must she always forgo her
birthright as a woman? Must
she always submit to that most
unreasonable of all masters,
her profession ?
FRIEDA INESCORT
HENRY WILCOXON
Wednesday - Thursday
The Season’s Most Amazing
Blundering Family!
“THE FAMILY NEXT DOOR’
Hugh Herbert, Ruth Donnelly,
Tom Beck
are trying to label as the “Roosevelt
Depression” a period of acute crisis
caused largely by their overproducing
and overpricing last winter and last
spring. Left to their own devices—
which include the election neihter of a
Republican or a reactionary Democrat,
like Garner, as our next President—
and they will produce a condition of
chronic depression with all the attri-
butes (particularly mass unemploy-
ment) which killed the German Re-
public even before Mr. Hitler started
doing business on the corpse.
And they will try to do all these
things by appealing to the medium siz-
ed and small business man as if they
were his brothers instead of his op-
pressors. They will pose as the defen-
ders of American democracy; they will
call upon the good old days when Am-
erican business men went out to build
up the country in the process of build-
ing up himself.
There is a case to be made out for
monopoly, provided it is regulated mo-
nopoly. But at least let us not mistake
the monopolist for a poor boy trying
to get along: In 1929—when the most
corporationis paid the most dividends
to the most people, about 18,000 people
got about $2,000,000,000 and less than
40,000 people got over $2,500,000,000,
which was over 40 per cent of all the
dividends declared. A very small group
of very large investors own American
industry—no matter how many insig-
nificant stockholders may appear on
the corporate books. There are some-
where around 360,000 stockholders in
General Motors, but one stockholder—
E 1 duP ie N s—Oowns more
of common. In 1931 the late Andrew
Mellon submitted evidence in an in-
come tax evasion case that he and his
immediate family had title to one and
a third million shares of Gulf Oil,
out of 4,500,000 shares outstanding. The
big corporation of today is not the pro-
duct of a big man, it is the product of
big money. Capital, not management,
determines the important decisions of
business today.
From a social standpoint, the oldtim-
ers did not amount to very much. But
with all their imperfections, they fre-
quently did start from the bottom, they
did get to the top, and however unin-
tentionally, they improved the general
standard of living while they were on
the way up. But do not confuse the
captains of industry of yesterday with
the corporals of industry today. The
modern corporation executive is inter-
ested only in cutting every cost except
his own—usually exhorbitant—salary.
He is not an owner. He is a hired man.
The people who appear in the top
brackets of our personal income tax
returns derive sometimes as high as
85 per cent of their incomes from cor-
porate dividends, and from dividends
which, during the last ten years, less
than one per cent of the American cor-
porations- have been consistently able
to declare.
When it comes to a choice between
protecting these dividends—not from
elimination, but: from reduction—and
impoverishing the rest of the country,
43,000,000 shares ! h
ople do not hesitate. Neither
yrporate presidents whom they
ired for the job.
come and the stresses and trials of life
bear down upon the soul, there is a
source for the solace, comfort, strength
James A. Turner, pastor. od encouragement that are then nee-
Church school at 9 a. m. Preaching .
at 10 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Mid-week
Bible class on Wednesday evening at
It is said that Queen Victoria once
presented herself before the keeper of ————————
the treasure chamber in Windsor cas-
tle with a request for the richer of
the two small caskets in his custody,
each made of solid crystal, exquisite in
workmanship and very costly. Select-
ing the richer and finer of the two,
she drew from her pocket a copy of
the Bible, and locked it in the casket,
which was then returned to its place,
richer than ever for the new treasure
it contained. The Bible stored in that
shrine was General Gordon's. It had
been his daily support and solace, and
was with him at Khartoum. It was
worn and marked with the thousand
notes of daily use and daily study,
which indicated the relation of its he- . is
ro owner to it and what it had been to Joseph C. Wess
him. It was not a new copy of Secrip-| Joseph C. Wess of Croyle Township
ture, frseh, unsoiled, and unused, that | announces that he is a candidate for
was thus royally set; it was not selec- the Democratic nomination for Clerk
ed for the beauty of the binding, the [of Courts of Cambria county at the
richness of the material, or the excel- | primaries on September 12th.
lence o fthe workmanship. I was cho- “I am seeking the Democratic nom-
sen because it had once borne the re- ’
PATTON METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
ination for Clerk of Courts,” states Mr.
lation it did to a heroic life. It had { Wess, “believing that I am qualified to
helped to create that life, to raise it | serve the citizens of Cembria county
high, to make it pure and strong, to! in that capacity. I can assure the citi-
fill it with faith and light and hope. zens of the county that my services
Happy the person who has hidden | will be constantly at their command
the Word in the jeweled c t of his | if IT am successful in attaining the of-
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