THE PATRIOT
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Y. ACETI, Italian Editor.
Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914,
at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the
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Editorials from New York Papers
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Verdun and Mexico
When the Senate and the House of Representati ves
eee that all the available army of the United States has been
called into Mexico to hunt an outlaw, a fugitive from his
own government as well as well as from ours, and that stili
we haven't enough men in the chase to do the work as it
ought to be done, and when they think of the battle of Ver
dun with many hundreds of thonsamìsof men engaged on
that small battlefield and with perhaps twice the number of
the proposed new army of the United States dead, wound
ed or missing-when Corigress compares those two situations
it is possible that it can be so mad as to believe that for
the nation, for any considerarle part of the nation, for even
a tmall seaboard strip of one of our important states, we
can get military preparedness with an army of 160,000 men
or 2!20,000 trained men?
—FROM NEW YORK PRESS
Board of Naval Strategy
The rcported acceptance by the naval committee of the
House of Representatives of an intelligible pian for the
formation of a permanent board of strategy for the navy is
the most encouraging news of its kind we have had sin ce
the national campaign fordefense began. Between accept
ance by both liouses of Congress there are many perilous
steps, but this ray of sunshine through clouds that have
tlius far obscured the progress of naval extension is most
welcome. The board of strategy, if its powers are to be as
comprehensive as the dispatches indicate, will serve as the
general staff of the navy. Wliat it may be called does not
signify.
FROM KEW YORK TIMES
down the hill. Clark narrowly
escaped being killed. He is in a
serious condition.
Circus Coming—The Hagen
beck and Wallace circus will
show in Indiana on Friday, May
13. The advanced man was
here Monday making the pre
liminary arrangements.
Ebey Sells Studio—Wilson B.
Ebey, the Philadelphia Street
photographer, sold his studio to
Cari Douglass Monday morning.
Mr. Ebey will soon leave for
Cleveland, Ohio, where he ex
pects to engagé in photoplay
work.
Spring Term Opens The
spring term of the Indiana Nor
mal School opened Wednesday.
The enrolment this term is con
sidered larger than last term.
Rooms in ali the buildings were
fìlled without any difficulty.
Lizt cf Letters
Remaining uncalled for in the In
diana office Aprii 8, 1916:
Miss Edna Blair, xMr. H. L. Bath,
Mr. Eleck Cyupa, Miss Joye Cleuin
ger, Mr.Knolton Fairman. Mr. Fred
erick M. Gebhard Mr. Arnold Gibson,
Mr. Tom Gibsou, James R. Hancock,
Mr. C. K. Heckman, Miss 'Marguret
Hill, Mr. W. L. Hooper, Mr. Harry
F. Johnson, Miss Helen Johnson, G.
J. Johnson, Miss M. Kolena. Mrs.
Charlotte F. Kline, Mrs Lizzie Love
lace, Mr. George Long, Miss M. B.
McCune, Mr. J. A. McCann, E. J.
Miller, Mr. Dan Miller, Mr. Luther
Fattoli, Mr. L. E. Robinson, Albert
Stalder, J. S. Stewart, Mr. Ralph
Slieldon, Mrs. Clyde Simmons, Mr.
Elmer Stoney, Mr. T. A. Stncliel,
Miss Oarrie Tibbena, R. R. Velhem,
Mr. J. B. Weaver, Miss Gledys Wil
sot, Mr- Abe J. "\Vulfberg, Miss Sad
ie Young.
"When inquiring for letters in
this list please state that they
were advertised, giving date.
HARRY W. FEE, P. M.
MORE RESERVES CALLED
INTO SERVICE IN ITALY.
Rome, Aprii 14—The Italian gov
ernment has recalled to the colors
cavalrymen of the class of 1890; ar
tilleryman of the classes of 1882 aDd
1883; mounted artillerymen of the
classes of 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885
andlSß6, and ali territorials belong
ing to the cavalry. artillery and engin
eering di vision of the classes of 1882
to 1885 inclusive. They are to report
Aprii 16.
FOK SALE - House that cost f2,
200; 10 rov,-.-. sun parler, Sx24
feet, lot 50x170: well-water piped in
house; half of house rented ats7 per
month. Price SI3OO. Inquire of John
McConnell, Farmers Bank Bldg.
©
Many Lik« Hlm.
Gibbs—Bilson orpressed a good deal
of sympathy for poor Black. Dld you
try hlm for a contributlon? Dibbs—
No; I know Bilson. Ile's like the let
ter "p"—first In pity and last In belp.—
Boston Transcrlpt.
TOPICS IN BRIEF
Making an army and navy while you wait is not easy,
but history shows that it has been done.
"Villa Has Close Shave" saysa headline, but Cacranza
needs it most.
.
It's a safe bet that those Carranza deserters are going
to get their desserts.
p
Germany boasts that her war loans are larger tlian
those of the Allies —They have to be.
Luke MeLuke says that most of the girls are either
knock-kneed or bow-legged—But liow does Luke know ì
Germany seems to have forgotten that the Allies intend
to have something to ssy about terms of peace.
Instead of going to hell, as Villa used to invite us, U.
jS. will becontent with giving it to liim.
Bernard Shaw threatens to become an American if the
! war doesn't end soon Let us order another Peace Prayer
Day immediately,
Carranza, it is said will let us use his railroads on the
quiet—This will mean several moie ties between us and the
whiskered patriot.
Human nature is funny, and the woman wlio sports a
hefty mustache is always sure that ali the men are ali the
time achiDg to steal a kiss.
The New York Americans, the sporting page informs
us have recalled Pitcher Tipple They will probably use
him when the bases are full.
Editors who had Villa's obituary "set up" a week or so
ago are beginning to realize that this preparedness business
can sometimes be overdone.
Then there is the idiot who rings you up on the pilone
and opens the dialogue with that intellectual gem, 4 'Betcha
you can't guess who this is."
The hospitality of T. R's. West Indies hosts, was be
yond reproach and we see where they even carefully select
ed a new bird for him to discover.
SOME OF THE TROUBLES WITH OUR STATE MILITIA.
—Williams in Indianapolis News.
Rather tlian waste the arguing,a wise man will let the
fool have his own way.
Some people are willing to be good if paid for it, and
others are good for nothing.
A las for the intelleet when the understanding is limit
ed only by the sizeof the feet.
The man who quotes poetry is never asked to make an
additional nuisance of himself by explaining the meaning.
Col. House is suggested for the vice-presidency, prob
ably by some enemy who thinks the ccloncl is receiving too
much publicity.
St. Patrick, however, never used a hyplien. When he
became an Irishman lie became an Irishman, and not a hy
phenated Frenchman.
Between the alarm clock, the door beli and the tele
phone, life is just one d ding-dong after another.
"Bees Buzzing in Indiana", says a headline. Also at
Oyster Bay,
The §50,000 reward for his own capture is about the
only loose change in Mexico that Villa does not hope to lav
hold of.
In considering a new inauguration date, March may as
well be tossed into the discard
When it comes to Mexico, Mr. Bryan seems inclined to
| admit that an olive branch has its limitations.
The "coldest on record" statistica waited ti il March to
Itake their innintjrs ini» year.
1 J
Secretary Baker arrives at a crowded hour, justas the
staff was hanginga map of Mexico over the map oi Europe.
Mexican troops desert so easily that Villa may be war
ranted from a military point of view to keep his in hiding.
So far as the next presidency is concerned, T. R. knows
the handwriting is on the wall because he did a big part of
the penmanship himself.
It is a big wonder that some of cupidi victims haven't
turned and put him out of the running long ago, says an
editor. He's such a slick little fellow.
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWSJN BRIEF
Interesting Items From Ali Sec
tions of the State.
GULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of AH Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.
A 7-mill tax rate has been adopted
by Boyertown council.
New Holland is floating a loan of
S7OOO for a new town hall.
Carlisle held a test of its new auto
mobile fire apparatus recenti}*.
District Attorney W. G. Light will
be Lebanon's city solicltor, at SIOOO.
Almost $4 ,000,000 passed through
the clearing house in Lancaster in two
days.
Twenty-two new auto tires were
stolen from the Hazleton garage of
I. P. Pardee.
E. D. Schmittle has been appointed
justice for Cromwell township, Hunt
ingdon county.
As a result of playing with matches,
Oscar Dunk, three years old of Sha
mokin, is dead.
A ban has been put on liquor drink
ing in the Hazleton police department,
and on entering saloons.
Falling from a bicycle, seven-year
old Agnes Brazza fractured her skull
at Mahanoy City and died.
Along the Lincoln highway, near
GraefTenburg, automobilists eaw six
teen deer grazing in flelds.
Married at fifteen and deserted in
two months, Mrs. John Oudeck, Eck
ley is applying for divorce.
Despondent, Jacob S. Atkinson com
mitted suicide by shooting in the head
at his home in Williamsport.
Sewing has been introduced into
Freeland public schools under the aus
pices of the Anthracite Mission.
One thousand miners employed at
Ellsworth, Cokeburg and Acme have
demanded an increase of ten per cent.
Two thousand white pine tree
sprouts wiill be planted by Boyertown
along its entire watershed at Gabels
ville.
Worried over his wife's illness,
Brakeman James A. Bradley, of Leba
non, hanged himself and died at Ann
ville.
Charles Olson, of Chambersburg,
convicted of assaulting a ten-year-old
child, was granted a new trial on an
alibi.
Demand for coal in the mills of the
Pittsburgh district is such that min
ing records are being broken almost
daily.
Employers recognized their union,
and 2000 of the 8000 Kiskimintas val
ley workers who struck have resumed
work.
At Welsh Run Mrs. Elizabeth Vance,
ninety-eight years old, has quietly
celebrated the anniversary of her
birth.
Miners of No. 6 colliery of the G.
B. Markle company, at Highland, were
refused extra pay for curving buggy
roads.
From a pin prick in her right hand,
Mrs. John Wasko, of West Berwick, is
in a criticai condition with blood poi
soning.
The great demand for coal for in
dustriai plants in Pittsburgh has re-
Hulted ft a boost in prices to domestic
consumers.
Their big brown bear growing balky,
two Street exhibitors had to put bruin
into a taxicab and haul him out of
Conyngham.
C. Wizard Hill, of Hazleton, has
been reappointed United States com
missioner for the locai district by
Judge Witmer.
While burning waste paper, Mrs.
Wilson Benders, BetMehem, suffered
probable fatai burns when her cloth-
Ing caught lire.
The .large brick hall of the Tamaqua
Maennerchor society, remodeled at a
cost of SSOOO, was dedlcated with im
posing ceremonies.
Boys' Brigades, Boy Scouts and
school students will plant in one day
the 50,000 young trees the state do
nates to Altoona.
Crossing the tracks at Madeira Hill
coflliery, Mahanoy Piane, Thomas Mor
gan was knocked down and crushed
to death by a car.
William J. Laidley, a farmer of Car
michaels, has flled a voluntary peti
tion in bankruptcy. Assets, $112,100;
Uabilities, $208,738.
Preliminary to a campaign for play
grounds, the Altoona chahber of com
merce has donated SSOO for a recrea
tion survey of Altoona.
Allentown Street cleanera have been
put in the regulation white wings uni
form and have had their wages ad
vanced to $1.75 a day.
Wilkinsburg society women are bell
ina cats at the instance of the Ornith
ologists' association, to warn birds of
the approaching felines.
Lured to a deserted hall in Lancas
ter, C. T. Reid, of Parkesburg, was
robbed of his wallet containing $75
?Tirt Jewelry valued at S6O.
The wife of the proprietor and two
children were carried unconscious
from the burning drygoods store of
Israel Weiner, in Pittsburgh.
A small bottle of wine removed
from the cornerstone of the old boys*
high school, in Lancaster, built in
1875, had nearly evaporated.
Governo* Brumbaugh has recaEed
the warrant for electrocution of Jacob
Miller, Philadelphia, as his appeal is
DOW in the supreme court.
The state banklng commissionar
hae issued a cali for statement» as ci
March 30 from state banks, trust oom
panies and savings instltutions.
Because of an epidemie of rabies in
Corrv, neariy flfty dogs are under
quarrantine and a dozen have beeu
killed, having bitten residente.
Bumping a knee against a tomb
stone, Thomas Kummel, a seventy
four-year-old war veteran of Lewi«-
town, is using his first crutches.
Overturning a burning lamp in her
sleep, Mary Coheland, of Frackville,
set fire to her home and was found
unconscious on the floor by flremen.
Mrs. Susan Shoner, aged seventy
one, of Mavsville, la., is visiting her
brother, John Metz, whom she had not
seen in thirty years, at West Hazleton.
An exteusion meeting of the Lay
men's Missionary convention at Har
risburg will be held in the First Pree
byterian church in Caritele on May 2.
An exploding dynamite cap, caro
lessdy left in coal by miners at Lewis
town, injured the right arm of Wil
liam R. Beason, a Pennsylvania flreman
Charles Reiger, S. C. Moore and
Adam Schenck, commissioners of But
ler county in 1915, have been sur
charged $652.21 by the county audit
ore.
After a year of paralysis from a
blood clot on the brain, inflicted in a
boxing bout, Danny Cullen, of Hazle
ton, has recovered, but can never flght
agaiu.
Lehigh county farmers protested to
the state bighway commissioner
against roads so 6mooth that horees
slip and fall, They were promised
rolief.
D. Edward Ixmg, defeated for the
judgeship in Franklin county by Judge
W. RUsh Gillan, and who polled the
anti-liquor vote, is to run for state
senator.
Cumberland county will lose the
state apportionment of the mothers'
pension fund, S2OOO, unlees action to
establish the project is taken before
May 31.
The Connellsville coke trade reach
ed a new high record last week, ship
ments being 477,000 tons, an increase
of 135,000 tons over the first week in
January.
Bethlehem and South Bethlehem are
in need of 2500 new houses to accom
modate the large number of people
drawn there by the extension of the
steel works.
Seven track laborers, ali foreigners,
were injured at West Brownsville
Junctlon when a freight train backed
into them on a siding of the Pennsyl
vania railroad.
Cyrus Fisher, of Belle Vernon, near
Charleroi, was seriously injured when
a heifer that he was taking 'jome from
a sale butted hìm into a gutter and
Juiupci' on hlm.
Unable to recali how it happened,
Cyrus Snavely, aged fifty-four, ls in
the Emergency hospital, Mifflin, with
one leg amputated as a result of a
railroad accident.
Sixteen-year-old Johjn Heffleflnger,
who ran away from his Carlisle home,
enilisted as twenty-one and waa found
out, has worked his way home from
Fort Slocum, N. Y.
Charles Renniger, a farmer of New
Hanover Square, near Boyertown,
whose condition was pronounced hope
less, is recovering from lockjaw by a
scratch from a rusty nail.
Borrowing a dollar lrom Burgess J.
A. Heineman, in Butler, for a marriage
license, S. A. Ambustcr swallowed poi
son with suicidai intent after two days
of wedlock. He will recover.
Notice has been given by City En
gineer Briggs, of Erie, that the bed of
Garrison Run must be repaired at
once, as a disastrous flood through
the valley wouild follow a heavy rain.
For punishing Hiram Breudle, four
teen years old, for non-attendance,
Samuel Eberly, a teacher in the
Adamstown public school, has been
prosecuted on the charge of assault.
Earl Berkheimer, flve-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Berkeimer, Me
chanicsburg, while trying to stand on
a playmate's shoulders lost his bai
ance and fell to the ground, sustainlng
a concusslon of the brain.
The smallpox epidemie in Paint
township, Somerset county, where
there are eixteen cases, has spread
into Adams township, Cambria county,
just across the dividing line. About
200 employes of No. 42 mine will be
vaccinated.
Confronted by the father of Miss
Elizabeth Young, seventeen years old,
of Pittsburgh, whom he was engaged
to marry, with the charge that he waa
a married man, Albert Smithey, twen
ty-seven years old, blew cut his brains
with a revolver.
Absent from her homo la Oka, Que
bec, Canada, for Ave years, Mayoi
Filbert, of Readiag, has been asked to
assist in a searcii for Mary Bowen
Mingiki, who will be an Leir to a
wealthy estate at the death of her
father, who is past niuety.
The Berwind-White Coal Mining
company, in Johnstown, has advised
ita 8000 employes, non-members of the
United Mine Workers of America, of
a two-year agreement to increate
wages amounting to three centa per
ton for machine and pick coal and
Ave per c*n«. on ali iauor.
An autemeb?'® signal block system
will be instailed on Monongahela
railway lines from South Brownsville
to the West Virginia state line, the
contract for the work having been
awarded, according to the announce
ment from General Superintendent G.
B. Obey's office in Brownsville.
Industriai activity throughout the
country has created an unusual de
mand for men technically trained at
the Pennsylvania State college. Ali
departments of chemistry, engineering
and applied mechanics are deluged
with appHcatlons for students who
will graduate in scientiflc courses in
June.