THE PATRIOT PuWkhed Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Offloe: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA Local Phone 250-Z F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager Y. ACETI, Italian Editor. Entered as second-clasB matter September 26, 1914, at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvfiiia, undo r the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $l.OO | SIX MONTHS. . *75 The Aim of the Foreign Language Papei of America TO HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD ITIONS OF THIS, OUR ADOPTED COUNTRY, THE UN . TED STATES OF AMERICA; To REVERE ITS LAWS AND IN SPIRE OTHERS TO OBEY THEM; To STRIVE UNCEA? I NG LY TO QUICKEN THE PUBLIC'S SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY; IN ALL WAYS TO AID IN MAKING THIS COUNTRY OH AT ER AND BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT. EDITORIAL Preparedness for Bandit Let the American people not forget that it w i one week ago tonight that Villa led his band of horse thi *ves on the murderous raid into the little border town of Columbus, killing about a score of citizen's, both residents < f the town aud Uuited States soldiers, there to protect then. Imagine when it takes a week or so to get part of the m; iitary force of the United States —a great deal of it right on the spot — into motion after a horse thief—imagine, we urge upon you the Americen people, what it would take to get ready to meet a Japan or a Germany swooping down upon us. —From the New York Press PREPAREDNESS EOR PEACE AND WAR Let it be asked in all fairness what greater argument for the preparedness that spells national honor aud implies national socurity can be advanced than the one presented today by our humiliations and helplessness on the Mexican border. Bandits, less than a thousand strong have invad ed our territory, slaughtered our citizens, and then, their lust of blood partly satisfied, have fled over the line, aud at the end of a few miles, by a superiority of numbers that made the attack a crime, withstood the little band of pursu ers and forced it into an inglorious retreat. What has hap pened along the Rio Grande and the western edge of the danger zone is symptomatic of what may overwhelm us lat er unless Congress responds to the warnings c f the hour. These sleeping legislators must awaken from their sloth. —From the New York Herald (Continued from Page 1) tions covering all phases of the in dustry which he will distribute free to the residents of the coun ties of Armstrong, Clarion. Indi ana and Jefferson-- The publications are based upon years of experimentation by Uncle Sam's poultry experts and will be found to contain a wealth of val uable information. Sets may be abtained by ad dressing your congressman at 484 House Office Building, Washing ton, D. C. List of Letters. —Remaining un called for in the Indiana office March 11,1916: Mr. Fred Berry, Mrs. Ernest Barr, Mr. Homer Francis, Mrs. Oeorge Gadener, Miss Ellie Gear nart, Mr. J. B. Green, Internation al Adjustment Co., Indiana Clock Co., Mrs. Orpha Keating, Mrs. J. nuster, Miss Jennie Lewis, Mr. Fred Putts, Mabel Aeesley, Mrs. Emma Sylvujan, Miss Delia Wiss inger. When inquiring for letters in this list, please state that they were advertised, giving date. HARRY W.FEE. P. M. BIGGEST HOTEL IN WORLD PLANNED FOR NEW YORK A new $15,000,000 hotel, the Commonwealth is to be built in the Times Square district of New- York. It is to be the largest ho tel in the world and in other re spects one of the most remarkable. It will contain 2,500 rooms or more will cover an entire block front and will be 28 stories high. The $l5-000,000 is to cover the cost of building and site. MOTOR TRUCKS FOR ARMY Chicago, March 1 >. —A special train carrying the first complete motor truck company for the use of the United States army in Mex ico left here today for El Paso, Tex. It consisted of 28 especially constructed machine . Another complete motor truck company from Cleveland will leave here tomorrow. Hospital Pleased W th Donation. Friday of last weel was donation day for the Indiana Hospital. This donation wasgiven by the St. Ber nard s Catholic church, of Indi ana, Pa. It was one of the nicest ever received by the L. spital. It con. sisted of the following articles : Eggs, 50 lbs, of lard; Letter, 171 lbs, of sugar. 1 box of Ivory soap, also laundry and hand soap, vine gar, apples, potatoes, crackers, sal mon, asparagus, olives, corn starch vermicilli, 50 qt. jars of ruit. 24 glasses of jelly. 10 lbs. preserves, coffee. In behalf of the paients. the Su perintendent wishes to thank all donors to this lovely donation and assures you all that the patients shall receive the benefit of it. I can furnish you with men for outside work. Inquire of Joe Mal 1/, or at this ffico. i TOPICS IN BRIEF Dye stuff shortage will never turn the old flag yellow! Grand Duke Nick boasts not only the longest legs in Russia but also the longest head. With independence only four years distant cur advise to the Philippines is to get busy on a first class navy. Once upon a time a man would look the other way when a shapely sister was boarding a high car step. Evidently nobody is going to suggest Mr. William H. Taft of New Haven, Conn., as the Republican nominee. By the way, isn't it about time for Lord Kitchener's semi-annual announcement that the war will start in May. And what has become of the old-fashioned con man who used to sell the rural visitor a gold brick for $2,500. The 4 'landslide" prophet will be in evidence again next summer. The report of the Barnes-Roosevelt reconciliation keeps sounding more and more like mere rumor. Care is still being taken by Germany to avoid fear that anything hasty may be done in settling the Lusitania case. Disarming merchantmen would make it impossible for submarines to put up a plea of self-defense. A "keynote" may be as long as a diplomatic note. Laws we will soon be smacking our lips over early peas and waxed beans. It's a wise trench that knows which side it's fighting. The true course ef a love brainstorm appasently begins at the heart and ends at the pocketbook. When a Presidential candidate meets an Ohio law there's nothing left but to burn his plank behind him. v j Reopening of the Mexican schools is the greatest vic tory yet announced for the watchful waiting policy of this nation's foremost schoolmaster. "MY HAT IS IN—ITS PLACE." —Fitzgerald in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If it were not for the international crises good things that are being said about Mr. Brandies would prove ex tremely interesting to the public. While trying to submarine the Wilson administration, j Mr. Bryan is oblivious to the fact that it has the 4 -national honor" on boaid. There is an Ohio woman who trimmed her hat with fifty $1 bills and doubtless was proud of her economy. Women who simply in politics properly decline to be judged by the antics of the women who are in the gutter politics. W hen public rights are to be conserved, even more im portant than a stiff upper lip is a stiff vertebral column. It is high time for congressmen with hyphens* to re cross those bridges or burn the bridges behind them!* If Senator Stone isn't careful he will be rolled and in no position to gather moss. In the game of war Germany evidently believes that whoever hesitates is lost. 4 'Expects Germany to end the War", says a headline. Most of ns expect the war to end Germany. Speaking of reprisals, Villa is said to have looted the Hearst properties in Mexico. At the age of 21 a man has more ideals than ideas. The true secret of feminine beauty is to be born pretty. These Congressmen who insist on warning Americans to keep off armed liners, are the same ones who want us to send an army into Mexico when Americans who ought not to be there are killed. 'BUCKET SHOP* CRUSADE BESUN ThlrfeM Offices in Vntiri Pwßsyivania RaiUrt TICKER WIRES ARE CUT Six OflflcM Raided In Pittsburgh. Consolidated Stock and Produce Ex change Cited to Defend Charter. Simultaneously, thirteen alleged bucket shops were raided by state police in western Pennsylvania, mark ing the beginning of the crusade against these places promised by Gov ernor Brumbaugh soon after bis in auguration. Six of the places were in Pittsburgh. Thirty-one arrests of stockholders and their employees were made in Pittsburgh and one arrest was made In each of the following towns: New Castle, Sharon, Oil City, Indiana, Butler, Washington and Youngstown, Pa. Forty members of Troop A, state police, under command of Captain Linn G. Adams and acting under the direction of Deputy Attorney General Horace W\ Davis, spread the net that gathered in the stock traders. Agents of the New York Stock Ex change and the Chicago Board of Trade assisted in the raids; they have been helping the state to gather the evidence. Those arrested in the raids were: Consolidated Exchange, Pittsburgh —Alexander D. Muun, secretary and treasurer: Louis Heilig, C. C. Ilgen fritz, G. S. Walker, W. R. Adams, F. X. Heilig, J. S. Smyth and John Davies, employees. Harry C Schauble's Brokerage Of fice —R. H. Mason, W. H. Fox and G. Vanderhoover, employees. A. J. Cvminings & Co.—Herman Reynolds, H. W. White, Otto Drager. Harry Heating's Brokerage Office —• J. J. Tobin, Richard Glering and Thsmas Fairley, employees. Unicm Securities Company—F. H. Sfmhler, H. J. Spuhler, William G. Heck, J. W. Blakoley, Samuel Inks. E. G. Meeley, Albert Walters, R. J Bowler and Harry Richards, employ ees. Rodgers & Co.—Samuel S. Rodr ers, D. F. Molseed and Frank Conner, employees. Sharon, Pa. —C. L. Rennels. Now Castle, Pa. —George E. Fisher. Oil City, Pa. —George Lane. Indiana, Pa. —Harry Brown. Butler, Pa. —F. Earl Stewart. Washington, Pa.—W. N. Williams. Youngstown, Pa. —F. W. Goss. In every office visited telephone and telegraph wires were cut and records of stock transactions were seized. A dispa'-h from Harrisburg, Pa... stated the county court had granted a writ in quo warranto on the Consolidated Stock and Produce- Exchange, returnable March 27, re quiring it to show cause why its charter should not be annulled. Evidence that at least one of the concerns raided was violating the fed eral statutes by using the mails in its alleged bucket shop transactions was found, it is said, and will be turned over to government postal au thorities. DYNAMITE ATTEMPT FAILS Frozen Sticks Fail to Explode; Third Time In Few Months- For the third time within the past, few months dynamiters attempted to wreck the Hotel Trees, owned by J. F. Trees, in Brackenridge, Pa. The fact that the dynamite was frozen and failed to explode, although the fuse and cap both did their work, probably saved the hotel and part of that section of the borough from de struction. Trees, the proprietor of the hotel, and his w'fe, were sleeping directly over a wirdow sill upon which the dynamite bomb had been placed. Frank Thompson, a watchman, em ployed by Trees to watch the building as the result of the two previous at tempts to dynamite it, found the bomb just a few seconds after he had seen the flickering of the fuse and heard the cap explode. The bomb fell from the window sill to the sidewalk immediately after the cap exploded. PROBE OF COAL INDUSTRY Federal Commission's Object Is to Eliminate Evils Affecting Miners. An inquiry into the bituminous coal industry of the United States is about to be undertaken by the federal trade commission. Officials state that the object of the inquiry is to eliminate evils that adversely affect miners, to pave the way for laws that may b® helpful to operations and to effect changes that may result in benefits to consumers. Joseph E. Davies, chairman ©f the committee, and Commissioner W. H. Parry have been chosen to arrange for the inquiry and fix dates for the public hearings. Special attention will be paid to the effect of the fed eral anti-trust laws on the soft coal industry. Conspiracy Trials Begin April 3. Trials of the conspiracy ekargoe against six steel companies and Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation, will be started Monday, April 3, a! Youngstown, 0., according to preaent plans of Prosecutor Henderson. (Poltttaal Advertisement.) EDITORIAL As is pretty generally known, Wilbur P. Graff, cashier of the First National bank, of this : place, has decided to seek the Republican nomination for State Senator from this, the 37 th senatorial district Mr. Graff exhibited some hesitancy at entering the race, due large ly to the fact that he never had political ambition of any sort and because his business inter ests are so great that it involved considerable sacrifice on his part to serve the public in this capacity. It was impossible, however, for him to resist the importunities brought to bear by the very best people of this and other communities, and when to this was added the knowledge that as State Senator he could be eminently useful to his friends and neighbors he felt it his duty to comply with the demands made upon him. Not only is Blairsville, but the entire district as well, favored by having a man of Mr. Graff's calibre and attainments consent to represent them in the higher branch of our lawmaking body. In too many cases the seekers after office are men who are looking toward their own self aggrandizsement or who are puppets in the hands of design ing politicians, mere Punches who squeak and dance as their master wills. With Mr. Graff it is different. He will ge es sentially the people's candidate and will not be reprsentative of any factional interest. lie has the friendship of the members of all factions and men of all parties and creeds are support ing him. When he goes to Har risburg he will bear no man's label and there will be no dol lar mark on his forehead. He will be entirely free to carry out his platform, wiiich is that he will support all measures and legislation tending to the ma terial welfare and moral uplift of the people. There is no need for The Courier to indulge in any eulogy to Mr. Graff. He is Blairsville born and bred. During all his life he has gone in and out among us and his life has been as an open book. What we can say makes him no better or no worse than the people know him to be, but when it is sa'-l that if elected State Senator he will be a credit both to himself and his constituents and that he will stand for the right along all lines it is only reasonable to ex pect that the declaration will be followed by a chorus of hearty "amens." —Blairsville Courier. The Change of • Name. How family names change In (he course of many rears Is illu. trated 1>; the conversion of "Botevile" Into "Thynne." An English deed bearing date in the closing days < f Ibe (if teenth century shows thre- brother!- then flourishing-John Botevile of Botevlle and Thomas HIU. William Botevile. The trio are d . ingu sfiet from all other Botevilos l , (lie ev pianation "of the Inne." or m!!y res idence, the 'tie to which 1 1 come f<- their joint possession. .Jo! s ; ;■* t d son was krown as Ralph Rotevilo-o'" the-Inne, from which the frinsition tc Ralph Th.vnne is easy. H descend ants have been Tbvnnes ev r shoe i Th® Human Faca. Rosa Bonheur, the great painter of animate, had a system of mnemonic* j which was exceedingly quaint. Hbt j could trace in the faces of ihose pe<> j pie who visited her a resemblance toj •©me sort of animal. For lr>*tance, if j some one reminded her of u certain j lady be would probably hesitate for a moment and then say. "Oh, yes. the lady with the camel or, "Oh. ij remember—she had a cow fa'-el" ThlCj memory system was not flattering toj her friends, but it showed bow HSta j rated she was with a knowledge of an ] txnala and their characteristics. On ev ery human face she found a likeness to •ome animal she had studied and tie Tinea ted. DO IT NOW. ' j Decision never becomes easier by postponement, while habit grows stronger every day. Common sense as well as conscience says, "Choose this day."
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