THE- PATRIOT Pnblished Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY. Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA Local Phone 250-Z F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager V. ACETI, Italian Editor. Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914, at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $l.OO | SIX MONTHS. . $75 The Aim of the Foreign Langoage Papers of America To HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD ITIONS OF THIS, OUR ADOPTED COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; TO REVERE ITS LAWS AND IN SPIRE OTHERS TO OBEY THEM; To STRIVE UNCEASING LY TO QUICKEN THE PUBLIC'S SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY; I.N ALL WAYS TO AID IN MAKING THIS COUNTRY GREAT ER AND BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT. I EDITORIAL | Louis I). Brandeis and the Senate It is reported that the United States Senate is shocked because President Wilson has sent in the name of Louis B. Brandeis for confirmation, as a Judge of Supreme Court os the United States, Mr. Brandeis lias shown himself not only a great lawyer, but one the greatest thinkers in this country today, and he thinks on the side of the people, a little bit more than he does about the corporations. For this reason the United States Senate is shocked to think that President Wilson has appointed a Judge to serve the 4 'People and Justice" instead of the corporations. When the Russian Duma passes a law if the Czar does not like it, he simply votes it, and that ends it. When the United States Congress passes a law, and the President signs it, it then becomes a law; but the Supreme Court of the United States can declare the law unconstitutional if they choose to do so, so, therefore the Supreme Court has the same veto power in this country that the Czar has in Rus sia; and for this reasons it is of utmost importance that on. ly men of sterling patriotism be placed upon the Bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court is our Czar. Wall Street i s moving Heaven and Earth in its efforts to prevent the confirmations by the Sena te. However, it is believed that the name will be confirmed, by the Senate when it is voted upon because every U. S. Senator who votes aginst confirmation stamps himself as a servile tool of corporation and an ememy of Social justice. ADVERTISE IN THE PATRIOT TO GET RESULTS FOR SALE and WANT ADS. Advertisements under this v head lc a word each insertion. 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C. fP—gF. —J. 1 ...J TOPICS IN BRIEF * ; !; . . ■ • '[ . . ; Anyway they can't say that Ford didn't come across. Still, you would naturally expect Greece to be slippery. ' ' The British may be washing their dirty linen in public, but, at any rate they are washing it. A fellow never realizes how many close friends he has until he wantr to make a little touch. A girl isn't necessarly a candy kid because she has a complexion that looks like a marshmallow. Those armored autoinobiiies in the war zone seem to be almost as deadly as the uuarmored ones over here. Considering that it was 60 below zero, we are not sur prised that the Fordarty got a cool reception in Norway. Why is it the things we like to eat are never good for us, and things we loathe are always healthy and wholesome. Some of our headline writers!are such slaves of habit that they still refer to the munitions plant blaze as a mysterious fire. Another thing that makes Captain Hobson so mad with the war is that it has backed the Japanese bogie off every front page in the country. While we wish Russia's new colossal drive all the luck in the world we own to a sneaky fear it won't look quite so good after old man Hidenburg has been in those parts a day or two. We see by the standpat press that Wilson has sustained another humiliating diplomatic defeat, Austria having forded him to accept his apologies. Trust in Woodrow and keep your neutrality dry. A CHERISHED LEGACY FROM LINCOLN. —Bradley in Chicago News. Just the same we enjoy the praise of men we despise. If Congress regulated its expenditures wisely under the budget system there would be less opportunity for pork. In going after the scalp of Col. Roosevelt, Secretary of War Garrison shows teat he is a Secretary of War. Possibly Col. House is going to Europe merely because Europe will not come to him, Europe is slowly, to slowly weeding out the incompetent headers from control of its armies. Peace without justice is impossible, and the European na tions aie now in no mood to recognize justice. There should not be nor is there likely to be any un pleasant reaction from the Christmas spirit. That paper laprobe for automobilists may be used to wrap the unwary pedestrian in after the encounter. Americans are becoming more saving according to sta tistics, but it isn't yet time to take down the 4 'safety first" sign. If it turns out to be true that Gen. Villa has $130,000 de posited in an American Bank, he will be welcomedJto this Country by people wh never cared for him before. From the way they quarreled on that peace ship it might be inferred that Ford had a little blow-out. There is nothing finer tastin' thanjthe last piece of fruit cake. What has become of the old-fashioned women who used to grab up her skirt on one side to keep it from trailing in the mud ? Many an outwardly handsome woman is inwardly homely. People who believe preparedness is a fallacy need to have a little heart-to-heart talk wiih those Armenian refugees. PENNSYLVANIA NEWSJN BRIEF Interesting Items Frcm All Sec tions ot the State. GULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the State. There are twenty cases of mumps at the Carlisle Indian school. Carnegie has donated a $45,000 pub lic library to Pottsville. Luzerne county officials threaten to strike for payment of their salaries. | Warren's Company I, sixteenth regi ment may be disbanded for lack of enlistments. German-Americans in AHentown have decided to establish a naturaliza tion school. County commissioners raised their salaries a month ago at Sunbury, it is just learned. Charles F. Seidel has been elected assistant principal of Allentowu schools, a new position. Two big tunne'. projects are under way for the Lehigh Valley Coal com pany in the Hazleton district. The dead body of a white baby was found wrapped in a b'ack skirt on a dump at Chester by William Gordon. Demand has been made for an in crease of one-third in McAdoo's school assessment, to meet pressing needs. Hazleton employers are to be prose cuted for compelling boys under ag. to work past the curfew hour at night. Freeland citizens plan to petition the Luzerne county court to reduce the number of saloons in the borough. The public schools of Ringtown have been closed by the school board on account of an epidemic of scarlet fever. Frank Feightner, aged fifty years, father of eleven children, was killed at Spangler when a mine motor ran away. Stepping into an open shaft at the Reading's Colbert colliery, at Sliamo kin, Joseph Pacupta fell 100 feet to death. Because of grip in Hazleton more teachers and pupils were absent from schools last month than in any similar period. Waynesboro board of trade has de cided to ask the Cumberland Valley Railroad company for better freight service. The Mansfield State Normal school, in Tioga ccunty, complains of high rates charged by the Mansfield Water company. Mr. and Mrs. J. Taylor Boyd, of Hathaway Park, near Lebanon, cele brated their sixty-second wedding an niversary. Her heavy braid of hair caught in a knitting machine at Lebanon, Mis> Beulah Teeman had to have it cut off to be released. The Kittaning High school, in ac cordance with the preparedness cam paign, has added military training to its curriculum. Dr. W. iF. Danzer, deputy coroner at Hazleton, wants the names of miners suitable to act as jurors in mine fa tality inquests. 4 Sheriff Samuel Crawford took C. F. Wise, wanted for forgery at East Llv erpool, Ohio, frcm the Franklin county jail on requisition. The Central Iron and Steel company, Harrlsburg, has raised the wages of 800 employes on a varying scale as high as ten per cent. Requests for thousands of young trout from state hatcheries for "plant ing" are being received at the state department of fisheries. A needle which eighteen years ago penetrated the knee of Mrs. John Hughes, sixty-one years old, of Johns town, has been removed. Seven hundred employes of the Ty ler Tube and Pipe company, at Wash ington, Pa., have been given a ten per cent increase in wages. State Highway Commissioner Rob ert J. Cunningham, in an address In Pittsburgh declared that politics has hurt the movement for good roads. On a hunting trip to Virginia George Sharpless, of West Chester, killed more than 100 wild ducks and brought home an even hundred for his friends. Several hundred men and women employes of the H. C. Jones woollen mills, at Conshohocken, have receiv ed a ten per cent increase In wages. Michael Pigona was arrested while walking the streets of Pittsburgh with $2O bills tied in buttonholes. He used $260 to decorate a $lO suit of clothes. Granting nine more licenses and re fusing two, Northumberland county court declared that state liquor deal ers were helping to clean up the busi ness. The Dauphin county court has plac ed Insurance Commissioner Charles Johnson in charge of the York County Mutual Live Stock Insurance com pany. Former Congressman Richmond P. Hobson delivered an address in the First ' Reformed church, in Easton, under the auspices of the Anti-SaJoon league. Three miles of sheet asphalt were added to Harrisburg's paved streets last year, making the total paving seventy-five miles, nearly all of sheet asphalt. Fifteen retail liquor licenses were granted by the license court in Indi ana, and nine applications were re fused. Only one license was granted last year. Driggs-Seaibury Ordnance corpora tion. In Sharon, need 800 expert me chanics. New war munition orders are being delayed because of the lack of workmen. For digging ap the streets in Beth lehem without a permit, E. J. Brad ley, superintendent of the AHentown- Bethlehem Gas company, was fined $l5 and costs. Scantilly attired, the body of Mr*. Katharyn Johnson, a well-known resi dent of Wilcox, was found near Oil Creek, northwest of her home, mys teriously dead. The Pennsylvania railroad has given notice of intention to build its big new freight station at Harrisburg this spring. It will cost a quarter erf a million dollars. Cumberland county poor directors have asked for an additional appro priation of $ll,OOO to make needed Improvements and changes at the county asylum. Dr. William N. Davidson, superin tendent of public instruction, announc ed that he has prepared a plan for military instruction in the high schools of Pittsburgh. Big coal companies that drain mine water into Nescopeck and Black creeks are preparing to install mam moth filters to remove sulphur and other fish-killing materials. Two-thirds of the thirty-six brides who got marriage licenses in Bucks county last month were holding po- sitions, and almost one-half were un der twenty-one years of age. Dauphin county farmers were told at farmers' institutes at Gratz that they must be good sellers as well as good raisers to be successful. Similar talks will be given at Halifax. The run on the Farmers' Deposit Savings bank of Pittsburgh has eeas ed. Other banks are refusing to ac cept the accounts of foreigners with drawn from the harried bank. Little William Horlacher, of Hazle ton, may go blind from au eye punc ture from an elder sister's hatpin— penalty of hurriedly trying to kiss her after she had donned the hat. After ordering a drink at a hotel in Mahanoy City while on the way home from work in the mines, George Engle, thirty-two years old, a volunt?er fire man, fell dea 1 as he grasped the glass. The "dry" element of V eaango bor ough is incensed by a huge banner flung across the street, reading: "We want Crawford county we:." The court has been petitioned to have it removed. < County Treasurer W. R. Adamocn, at Pottsville, has taken in $260,000 for liquor licenses for this year. The government's fees for licenses and stamps will raise this sum to more than $400,000. Members of the state board of pub lic grounds and buildings will deter mine next week where to place the paintings brought to the capital from the state building at the Panama- Pa ciflc exposition at San Francisco. Mrs. Miriam Moyer, of Harrisburg, holds the record for attendance at the Pine Street Presbyterian Sunday school, which celebrated its fifty eighth anniversary, she having miss ed only one day in twenty-one years. The Erie Dispatch, which announc ed some time ago that it would aus pend publication on January 31, did not go out of existence, arrangements hazing been made to continue its pub ligation under the management of J. J. Parshall. Fire Chief Hoy, of Norrlstown, In his annual report, shows that in 1915 less than $4500 damage was done in half a hundred alarms of Are, and the damage vas covered by $28,000 Insur ance. The loss was only fifteen cents per capita. Iron and steel plants report a great shortage of unskilled labor. All con cerns in the Shenango and Mahoning valleys are scouring the country for common labor, in many Instances pay ing wages higher than ever before in their history. g Engineers operating XEJJS in the mines of the Lehigh Coal and Naviga tion company, at Nesquehonlng, are denied their demand for a wage in crease by a decision given by Charles P. Nelll, umpire of the anthracite conciliation board. Five hundred children have been thrown out of employment and forced back into the public schools In Pitta burgh by enforcement of the new state child labor law, which requires that children between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years attend school eight hours a week. Officials of the state bureaus In charge of workmen's compensation matters believe that it will only be a short time until virtually every com pany doing liability insurance In the state will unite in the central inspec tion and rating bureau, of which the state Insurance fund is a member. The Pennsylvania Institute for Deaf and Dumb at Mt. Airy is bequeathed $5OO by the will of Fayette Miller, widow of James Miller, of Slatington. Another $509 is set aside to educate some poor pupil. The Trinity Evan gelical church of Slatington is willed $lOO to be used for missionary pur poses. On the ground that there is no au thority for payment. County Control ler T. W. Tobias in AHentown, refus ed to countersign the warrants to pay John Riddle, jail warden, fees for re ceiving and discharging prisoners, laundering garments and for turnkey services at the jail, for which Riddle last year received $1622. Decision by the state compensation board that jurors and witnesses for the commonwealth are not to be con sidered as persons who must be in sured by the public will save the conn ties of Pennsylvania hundreds of dol lars. The removal of elective offlce-m from the insurable class undrr the liability Act will affect thousands o4 en. Afl ti LA PIÙ' GRANDE DITTA DI Liquori nello Stato di Pennsylvania Noi vendiamo la pio' grande quantità' di Liquori di qualsiasi altra Ditta In Pennsylvania. Per la qua* lita' della nostra merce, possiamo vantarci di es sere I primi. Massima correttezza e onesta'. BROUDY & CO. SOUTH FORK, PA. | 3 V
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