THE PATRIOT Published 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 seoond-class matter September 2(j, 1914. at the postoffioe at Indiana. Pennsylvf nia. under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAPi . . SI.OO | SIX MONTHS. . *75 Tbe Aim oi the Foreign Language 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; IN ALL WAYS TO AID IN MAKING THIS COUNTRY GREAT ER AND BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT. | EDITORIAL | Verdun As Rri:z;e The French military authorities did not make the mis take of placing final reliance on the ability of any great fortress to hold out against the Germans. The Frenchmen learned at Liege, at Namur, at Maubeuge, the impossibility of SUGII reliance. There has been no panics in Paris about the terrible attacks upon Verdun. The French people do not assume that to lose Verdun is to have their line crumpl ed up or Paris rendered untenable. The French army will not be trapped in Verdun or any other fortress. —New York Press Wilson Struggle Against Teutonism The opinion was expressed by the Hearld nearly a week ago that there was only one way in which the contest forc ed upon the President in Congress by Count von Bernstorff and his followers could be settled. This was to have a vote on the resolution warning Americans to waive their rights and abstain from traveling on-'armed merchant ships." The President has taken that view. In his letter to represent ative Pou Mr. Wilson burns his bridges behind him. Those who are for him are against the resolution. Those who are against him are for the resolution. The issue is clear cut and should be met. —New York Herald Tu Deep Fr Him. 'ier was aßEoaaring ILb •gs IN GENERAL AND SOIE. • Q position by the state ve seen life." ""But." < friend. "one of your has said. 'Life's a er is fitili exploring; oik Times. ORDERS ilty oce? NG r ■- 1 " TOPICS IN BRIEF w The planet Mars is now relatively near the earth but 110 great alarm is felt, it's still out of airship range. In time of trouble mobilize the moving picture actors. They know how to take the cri out of crises.*• Stealing a Roosevelt policy doubtless comesfunder the head of petty larceny. Another pathetic little feature of every-day life is a man with about fourteen hairs on his bean, importantly di recting the barber which side to brush 'em on. The report that Hon. John W. Weeks will get out of the Presidential race will be the first intimation that this il lustrious patriot was ever in it. In pointing so earnestly to dreadful ravages of beer, it is funny that revered prohibitionists never cite Germany. Chicago is the most lawless city in the entire world,'vet the Chicago Tribune is never tired of lecturing ther South because thev lynch a few worthless beasts once "111 a while, / V while Chicago murders a hundred times as many. A hyphenated society claims that President Wilson in sulted it. impossible. > No longer does big business tremble when the president ! says. '-We mean business", the phrase being a promise and ! not a threat. 1 Favorite sons are complaining that jCol. Roosevelt is I standing in their limelight. _ | - THE NEW BABY. —M arcus in New York Times. Another important difference between President Wil i son and the Colonel is former wants the war over and the latter wants it over here. We all like to cuss out the Pampered Rich for the way they waste their money. But, if we had it we would make just as big fools of ourselves. War would be deprived of much of its terror if fighting ! craft could be limited to Zeppelins. Mr. Brandies must now be prepared to be talked about \ and not behind his back either. The potriotic appropriation is not as readily, obtained E as the patriotic speech. A successfully preserved neutrality is of far more val j ue than a victory in war. Should Mr. Wilson lecture in Nebraska, Mr. Bryan is , likely to retaliate by a brief summer lecture tour in N. J. t The independence of the Philippines will not be at-.' | tended with much fear that they will immediately add to the complications by deciding to become a world power. President Wilson did not yield to the custom which re -1 serves the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington as great ; speech making dates. Chasing the armor magnate is a good indoor sport only in the time of peace. ( Strict neutrality in film kiss censorship calls for a def ;mte observance of the 3-mile limits. 'PENNSYLVANIA | NEWS IN BRIEF | interesting items Frcm All Sec tions st ttis State. 'CULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. Three new silk mill# will be built by a Danville concern. The population at the Bucks county almshouse is decreasing. Central Market house is wanted as Lancaster's new convention hall. A. S. Rhoads, Milton's burgess, has ordered all games of chance stopped. Grangers of three counties, in ses sion at Danvill declared against liquor. The Northumberland County Anti- Saloon league was formed at Sun bury. The board of health of Sharon Hill is planning a clean-up week for earl : in April. 1 H. H. Fintlibaugh has been appoint | ed justice of me peace for Logansville, I York count . j Joseph V. right, of Bailor valley, was | arrested at Hazleton as a deserter j from the army. Moving pictures are blamed by school authorities for truancy among Johnstown lads. W. Scott Jenkins, Blossburg, ha* been appointed a trustee of the State hospital at Blossburg. Nearly 1000 employes of the Erie railroad shop in Meadville are to be given an increase in wages. Palmyra is all topsy-turvy political ly over a fight for the posimastershlp, with eight active aspirants. County auditors allege that the coro ner of Northumberland charged mile age for miles never traveled. A valuable vein of the best qua ii> of eoail lias # been discovered at th c Herbine colliery, at St. Cloud. William H. Rodgers, Republican, o\ Mifflintown, was the first aspirant tc file a petition at the state capitol. Miss Loretta Gerster, of Mauch Chunk, has been appointed stenog rapher at RittersviWe Insane asylum Richard Jackson, aged eight years of St. Mary's, was shot and instant.} killed as he played with a revolver. Numerous counterfeit silver quar ters, half dollars and dollars are in circulation in Chester and the vicin ity. Game Protector Boyle has liberated three-ring pheasants at Mauch Cnunk, East Mauch Chunk, Lansford and Pal merton. A crusade against keeping hogs in Connellsville is on. Dozens of owner? have been ordered to dispose of their porkers. John, four-year-old son of Jcspph Rocco, of Freeland, swallowed a nail with which he played, but shows no ill effects. So many incendiary fires have been reported recently that business men of East Harrisburg are employing pri vate watchmen. The McCiintoc-Marshall Construc tion company has granted a general increase in wages to shopmen at ii Pottstown plant. Appplicaticn has been made to the Cumberland county court for a cbor ter for a firemen's relief association in Mecbanicsburg. Jobn A. M. Rife, of Jefferson, has filed a primary petition lor the Demo cratic legislative nomination in the Fourth York district. College songs of the most approved type are to be recorded by State col lege's glee club for a manufacturer of phonograph records. The Lebigh Valley railroad ha stored sufficient soft coal at Delano to supply its Hazleton and Mahanoy di vision locomotives a year. John J. O'Donnell, Allentown: A. King Weise, Altoona, and H. E. Tay lor, Scranton, have been appointed deputy factory inspectors. The court has appointed Patrick Ma guire, a prominent Hazleton mine worker, as a member of the miners certificate examining board. E. L. Bullock, a retired independent coal operator, of Hazleton, is a candi date for delegate to the Progressive national convention at Chicago. J. Edward Wanner, president of the Reading school board, ha* announced his candidacy for national delegate to the Democratic convention. The unusual charge of selling liquor to his son, a minor, was preferred against John Wilcox, of Birmingham, Huntingdon county, by his wife. The plant of the Aetna Explosives company at Russell, Warren county, started operations, employing 300 mui after being closed down two months. The 150 Syrians living in Allentown have organized a congregation, and liave bought the old Central hotel, which they will turn into a church. Brentwood Civic club had an exhi bition of old-fashioned quilts in Pitts burgh. Many of tbe "crazy" patterns were shown. Some are of great val ue. Theresa, twenty-months-old daugh ter of Michael Krumpeek, of East Leb anon, has died of scalds after falling into a bucket of hot water while at play. - Mayor George M. Bailey, of Union town, issued an anti-spitting order. Signs will posted and all persons violating tbe order will be fined $1 and costs. The Lehigh Valley railroad will erect bnnk houses at Delano to she! ter men who will unload ash train* hauled from all the divisions of the system. Mayor Filbert, of Road'ng, has nam ed a committee on preparedness, headed by General D. McM. Gregg, civil war hero and former auditor genera*. McAllister scholarships at the Penn sylvania State college will be awarded this year to students from Cameron, Centre. Clinton. Forest and Juniata counties. After taking 143 ballots on ninety candidates. Centre county commis sioners elected Deenier T. Pierce, of State college, sealer of weights and measures. Although seventy-six years old, Mrs. Annie Frease, of Somerset, read a pa per before a recent meeting of the W. C. T. U., vigorously denouncing the liquor traffic. Mrs. Lucy Ann Miller, thirty-six rears old, of Johnstown, poured gttrto line in mistake for kerosene on a fire in her kitchen stove and was killed by the explosion. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Cramer, of Oar lisle, have celebrated their sixty-sec ond wedding anniversary. Mr. Kra mer is eighty-three years old, and his wife eighty-one. A school for consumptive children and children of tubercular tendencies is to be built at Washington through the efforts of the civic division of the Current Events club. The United States Steel corporation will spend about $19,000,000 in the erection of open hearth furnaces and by-product coke oveus in the Mahon ing and Sbenango valleys. Louis Young, a Freeland miner, prominent in the union and in church work, is a candidate for representa tive on the Republican, Democratic and Prohibitionist tickets. Dealers in rags in V, est Chester are offering $3 per TOO pounds for rags not sorted. Woolen rags are being bought at 15 per pound, the highest rate known there. The state executive board of tlio Young Men's Hebrew association oi Pennsylvania held a meeting in Read ing to discuss plans t promoting tins work of the orga: ixa f on. Fanners in all 4octi ns of Washing ton county report tic ' i■> peae crcr for the year is rf< orn The las' cold snap killed bud . • : i tlie previous warm spell brou In it. The Farmers' Ins: Tide has request ed the governor an I s.ate hi h• ay commissioner to rra a 'uin'zi the oti:e~ half of the road in iovs >r Saliord town ship from i.ederach to Ssippack. A trust fund of Siooo to be used in educating young men for the Lutheran ministry was one of the bequests in the will of Rev. J. Milton Snyder, o! Homer City* probated in Indiana. A greater production of coal, with fifty per cent less Joss of life, is shown in Mine Inspector Fenton's annual re port for the Mahanoy district. Eleven miners loet their lives during tbe year Eight-inch ice was harvested at Pe quca, along the Susquehanna river, re cently. Near the town u funeral cor tege of forty people crossed on the ice. The corpse was IHITOC on a sled. C. Tyson Kratz, of Norristown, has announced his candidacy as Republi can national delegate from the eighth congressional district, with Brum baugh first choice and Roosevelt sec ond. A movement Jias been started to procure Carnegie me'lals for J. Wil liam Ball and Carl Strandquist, who lost, their lives in the firnest mine fis aster while trying to save compan ions. Mrs. Wilbur Nelson, of Cold Point, will receive $4.50 a week for 300 weeks from the Alan Wood Iron and * Steel company for the death of her husband, killed at the company's plant. The Eddystone Muaitions company is {jutting more girls to wcrl dal.y. More than 1000 will be employed for piercing fuses to be in ;erte 1 in shells, i.ater girls will be employed in load ing shells. Preliminary plan- for the celebra tion ne;vt .fun*- ot th centennial anni versary of the Inc -rporati n of l-sdi ana as a borough were arran tot at a mass meeting of citizens in th ■ municipal building. Depositors of the defunct private bank < Gardner Morrow & Co., Hot lidaysburg, will shortly receive a divi dend of ten percent. The bank -fail ed in 1893. Thi makes fifty j>er cent the bank has returned. The Pennsylvania Wool Growers' and Sheep Breeders' association at Harri burg elected R. L. Mttnee, Can orjsburg, president: C. A. Hard, Harris burg secretary, and R. O. Severson, State College, treasurer. John P. Crozer, a millionaire raaau tact urer and the largest land owner in Delaware county, will Install a me chanical milking outfit of welve unit-, having a capacity of 120 cows an hour, in the barn on his estate at Upland. As the result of a student's prank, | five stud.ents at Allegheny i-ollege at i Meadville, were arretted for taking several pairs ot white duck trousers from the tailoring establishment of Frederick Lorz. Thev were fined a small sum. The Reading iolice department Mas unearthed a scheme of second-hand au tomobile dealers in Philadelphia, by which they aTe taking 1915 state li cense tags, painted blue tvith white letters and changing the color to the j prange and black of 1916. A gas well having an eenimated pres sure of 2,000,000 cubic feet a day wa.- brought In on the D. W. Lesnott farm. * near ESmwood City. The pressure was so great that it is being found difficult to cap the well. The well is owned by the EUwood City Oil and Gas company. < North ttomer City j THESTORE > North Homer City i gsg \ sto sara' aperto pubblico.
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