' f THE PATRIOT Published Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Office : No. 15 Carpenter Avenu^ 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. . $"73 The Aim of the Foreign Languaoe Papers of America To HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD ITIONS or 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. Continued from page 1. very poor judgment. Children who are suffering from hunger and because the father and wage earner has deserted them, are certainly as deserving of help as children of fathers who have died or who have lost their reason. "We do not presume to speak for the women of the Pension Board, who will perhaps, adopt a policy of helping as many as possible in a small way rather than helping a few more gen erously.' Many,, inquiries are made at the commissioners' office as to the status of moth ers well advanced in years who have grown-up sons and daugh ters, who, under the law, are required to care for and provide for them. We do not think such applicants can qualify under this act. It is intended for the moth ers who have dependent children. The public cannot be witness to the intense struggle against po verty, against hunger and cold, the ceaseless weariness of moth ers who must work beyond their physical strength, the distress of mind and heaviness of heart experienced by them, as they see their little ones hungry and scantily clad. The public does not know this. "The Workmen's Compensa tion law will further minimize this form of poverty by its pro vision for widows and children of men, who are killed in the course of their employment, but the board will have many cases of poverty, caused by accident before the compensation law went into effect, and the rapid increase in our population con stantly adds to the number of oases outside of the compensa tion law. "The work of the Board of the Mothers Assistance Fund will be a blessing, not only in the money given but in calling the attention of the poor direc tors and other associations to the plight of deserving famil ies." Rescuing Napoleon by Submarine. In his book on submarines Frederick A. Talbot tells us that the submarine is "practically as old as the sailing ship," though he passes the fact over "with the statement that the majority of these efforts were fantastic in con -ception and crude in design. The most daring expedition ever sug gested in the early days of the subma rine was that proposed for kidnaping Napoleon from St. Helena. It was suggested to a British mariner. Cap tain Johnson, who was to get £40,000. The construction of the boat was be gun, but on the day when the work on the outer shell of copper was to be started Napoleon died. Grateful For the Hint. ""I wish to marry your daughter, sir." •"You? Why, you don't make enough to keep her in hats." "Is that so? Then do me a favor, ' will you? Just make your refusal good and strong and let me back out grace fully. I might be able to make her liappy, but it's a cinch I'd never be." — Detroit Free Press. Thrifty Actors. The economy of a stock company of fered interesting instances here at the old Boston museum. Some of the actors had no intention of letting grass grow under idle feet. One player was a barber by day; another, the beloved "Smithy," was a tailor —very properly, the tailor played fops. I had a partic ular friend who was a cab driver. Who shall point the finger of scorn that these had two strings to their bow? Their example might be well followed. An honest barber or, for that matter, an honest cab driver may be the noblest work of God. And well may ths actor's study of mankind be multiplied a thousandfold by the scraping of innumerable chins or the driving of the accidental wayfarer from the cradle to the grave. Who could better take man's measure than the tailor, dissect him to a hair than the barber or consider his final desti nation than the cab driver?—"Mj- Re membrances," by E. A. Sothern in Scrlbner's Magazine. Bettering the World. If the world we live in is unsatis factory you may say it is the will of God that it should be so. That gets you nowhere. You may say it is the law of nature it should be so. That gets you nowhere, either. But when by accurate measurement of lengths and weights and temperatures and modes of motion you understand that everything is what it is because of process then it comes to you that what process has made process can make over. Then if you like not the fashion of this world you can alter it. It may well be that the possession of A small, round grain of faith enables one to say unto this mountain, "Be thou re moved and be thou cast into the sea," but if you want it done you lay down tracks, put locomotives and gondola cars on them, install steam diggers at one end and barges at the other an* make Goethals superintendent of the job.—Eugene Wood in Century. Storks and Cats. Storks are partial to kittens as an article of food, and cats reciprocate by a love for storks. Substituted. "So you have taken to carrying around a monkey? This is going too far." "Well, you never go anywhere with He," was his wife's somewhat ambigu ous retort. —Pittsburgh Post lng cougfT and one 01 sca..e l fcve \ Announcement by the Lehi j i Ya ley Coal company that it will refund upon demand the money collected un der the Roney coal tax bill came as welcome news to the Hazleton school board. Mrs. Richard Wilson, of Pottstown, has received word that her husband, who enlisted in a Canadian regiment over one year ago, is in a hospital in France, suffering from two severe wounds. Charles Kunkle, of Shamokin, has sued the Shamokin-Mt Carmel Transit company for $lOOO damages for the loss of a cab, horse and serious injury to another steed, by a car colliding with his team. A movement has been inaugurated in Carlisle to have the celebration ac companying the unveiling of the state's memorial to Molly Pitcher on June 28 enlarged to combine the old home ireek observance in the town. Testimony in the damage suit of Giuseppe Promutico against the H. C. Brooks company, of West Virginia, at Carlisle, will have to be taken at the Italo-Austrian war front, where wit nesses are serving in the armies. As a result of informal complaints made to the public service commission a number of street railway systems throughout the state have begun en forcing the rule that lighted cigars or cigarettes may not be carried into trol ley cars. Lost long ago, a bronze medal was found by 'Squire Himes on his prem ises in West Pikeland, Chester county, on one side of which is a maltese cross with the dates 1870-71, and on the reverse the inscription in German, "God was with us, to him be the glory." <1 TOPICS IN BRIEF <1 Some difficulty to believe in a German-Irishman. "I would go to war," says the Colonel —Marvelous. I Truth in a nutshell is not what it is cracked up to be, In these backward seasons there is always some danger a double liousecleaning. Germany seems perfectly willing to meet everybody iialf way but the British fleet. The Washington Post says Carranza is showing his :eeth. Well, we are not dentists. Old Man Doodle says that intellectual women give you he headache and the other kind give you the heartache, so vnat is a fellow to do but go fishing. Ssand by your president and be bappy. There is never a thorn without its roses —the continued ;00l weather means continued warm waffles. Kisses are real things only when backed by the heart. \ Dont borrow trouble almost anyone will gladly give t to you. Teddy snatches victory from the jaws or the lungs or the tongue or something or other, of defeat. Among those conspicuously between the devil and the leep sea is Venustiano Carranza. >*. No sooner did spring come visiting than summer was to be observed lookiDg over her shoulder. Still, it were better to raise one's boy to be a soldier than to raise him to be a poolroom loafer. This country should realize that a strong navy is not a war speculation, but a peace invesment. While politics is changing for the next scene, baseball will entertoin the large and intelligent assembly. China's revolution at least furnishes evidence that the i lea of Republicanism is spreading through that country. Charlie Chaplin is getting so much money that his ad mirers fear that he may become unfunny. Money is a very serious thing, believe us. Accordiug to Billy Sunday, "Every devil that hell can spare is in Baltimore." So, why should we worry, Germany wants us to believe that the German submar ine did not sink the Sussex, but something just as good. With Mexico, it appears, we cannot sever our relations more than one can with one's undesirable acquaintances. It is naively put forward that the submarine must at tack unarmed vessels for such vessels are the only kind it an attach with safety to itself. ' 'Soldiers' wives are entitled to separate allowances," says a British writer, "and if they are killed, to pensions." This shows that pronouns can be more fatal than bullets, What this world needs is fewer creeds and more chariy. Berlin may observe that even the bookworm may turn. Wilson to Wilhelm, "Tarn to the right and then keep traight ahead !" The London papers boast of "British Staying Powers." That's what caused conscription. \ N One Noble Peace Prize isn't enough for the man who manages to pacify Mexico. It certainly is pathetic, the way the grafters who al ways disliked Wilson are knocking and trying to roast him. "Von Papen supplied money, but who supplied Von <?apen ?" —Wall Street Journal. Aw, ask something hard. The stowing of rhubarb is heard in the land. "1. R. Would Fight Root," says a headline, or anybody else that got in the way of his ambition. House Republicans have only a Mann in a position that calls for a real man. » We suppose Germany has ascertained what the long Wilson chin means. Just beginning to understand these references to Bern torff as a "finished" diplomat. You might even say that what this country needs are some scientists of the deepest dye. What has become of the old-fashioned girl who used to help her mother wash the dishes ? All the heroes are not in the trenches. Some of them are still eating their brides' biscuits. An exchange says that Villa can barely read and write but does not mentien what college he graduated from. A man usually has to change cars many, many times on the road to success. Arbor Day's general and widespread observance recent ly is one of the most pleasant signs of the times. If summer furs are to be in style again they might be well worn by young men addicted to the sport shirt. No state is so infatuated with its favorite sen that it ill not listen to reason or to political expediency. PENNSYLVANIA NEWSJN BRIEF Interesting Items From All Sec tions of the State. CULLED FOB QUICK READIN6 News of All Kind# Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. Pittsburgh cobblers have formed a union. Forest fire near Altoona destroyed 1000 acres of timber. People are enthusiastic for good roads day in Blair county. There are twenty-nine new cases for the next pardon board meeting, May 24. Bngle Brothers, Sbamokin silk man ufacturers, have granted a raise and shorter hours. Fifty-thousand-dollar forest fires have destroyed timber on estates near Wilkes-Barre. Clerks, carpenters and shopmen hope also for a raise at mines in the anthracite region. An unidentified man hanged himself with a handkerchief from a bridge brace near Lebanon. The state will pay $lO,OOO for the Bloomsburg Normal school and as sume its $130,000 debt. John Resh, an el even-year-old Read ing lad, has been missing since a cir cus was in the city last week. The Topton board of health has quarantined all public places on ac count of thirty cases of measles. The revenue from Lehigh county's liquor licenses this year Is $63,850, oJ which Allentown's share is $30,000. Under the new law minors under eighteen may not run elevators or do acetylene welding in Pennsylvania. Owing to scarcity of female help, the Keystone Stocking company, of Spring City, will move to Philadelphia. Elmer Rinker, of Nazareth, while stooping to put on his shoes, was per haps fatally stricken with paralysis. F. G. Ackley has been appointed postmaster at Wyalusing, Bradford county, succeeding Dr. J. W. Chamber lain. Kin wood stock farm, at Jefferson ville, was purchased for $22,000 by James Bell, the Philadelphia horse man. H. Fred Grander was elected treas urer of Royersford to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George W Bowman. After long idleness, fires have been lighted in the furnace plant at Sberi dan, and ferro-manganese will be man ufactured. Harry Wheeler, Chicago, was the principal speaker before the National Pipe and Supplies Association, at Pittsburgh. A large number of Mexican quail liberated at the big place of P. M. Sharpies , near West Chester, have all disappeared. The family escaped in their night clothes when the home of Miss Weav er, Northumberland, was burned, with $5OOO loss. The annual conference of the east ern district Mennonite churches, at Altoona, adopted an anti-preparedness resolution. A large force of men excavating for a modern new $150,000 Shenandoah high school struck for $2 a day and eight hours. Russell, five-year-old son of Mer chant August Carl, fell from a second story Shenandoah fire escape and frac tured his skull. Seven steam shovels are idle at strippings in the Hazleton coal fields through men leaving to take jobs in munitions plants. The Reading railway transferred 150 St. Clair and Schuylkill Haven shop workers to Port Richmond, to "trim coal" vessels. William Ludwig, of Schwenkville, has an egg laid by a white Leghorn hen that Is 8x7% inches in circumference and has three yolks. The Prohibitionists of Northampton county met at Belfast, and were ad dressed by Dr. B. B. Prugh, of Harris burg, state chairman. The ninety-first anniversary of the Reformed Theological seminary at Lancaster was observed by breaking ground for a dormitory. In court at Sunbury, Harry Price, Scranton, pleaded guilty to selling heroin to habitual drug users, and sentence was deferred. A true bill was returned at Sunbury against William Phipps, Harris Durg, charged with having opium and mor phine in his possession. Extensive improvements are being made with a view of adding to trans portation facilities on the big state camp site at Mt. Gretna. Close to 1000 miners struck in the Lykens Valley mines in a dispute over membership in the union—commonly called a "button" strike. Connellsville region merchant coke operators are meeting the recent five and ten per cent wage increase of the H. C. Frick Coke company. Work will begin shortly on the ex istence of the Cumberland Valley rail road high line near Newville and the construction of new buildings. Accidentally struck on the head by a hoe in the hands of a cousin, two year-old Mary Wentz Is in a Carlisle hospital In a critical condition. Deer and game from the state game reserve at Hickory Run frequently leave the reserve and are found grac ing on the neighboring farms. Two little sons of Colu.ru jus Klein fmith, of Emaus, were badly burned In explosions in efforts to break open dynamite caps with hammers. Trustees of the Reformed Theo logical seminary at Lancaster approve the sale of a tract of land to Franklin and Marshall college for $20,000. The Firemen's Relief association, of Pottstown, has paid its first death claim, that of the widow of Charles Freeh, killed by the auto truck. The Chinese government has placed order? in Pittsburgh for million®' worth of iron and steel, and depends entirely on this country for glass. It is estimated that the state can collect more than $4,000,000 from luna tics whose estates or relatives are able to pay for them as asylum patients. James Basler, fifty-nine years old, an engineer of the Pennsylvania Rail road company for thirty years, ended his life with a bullet at Lancaster. One hundred and thirty-five bidders, ten less than last year, have submit ted bids for furnishing supplies to the state government for the coming year. Owing to a war argument Stephen Kovat, an Allentown Austrian, is in the hospital, and half a dozen Slavs, Russians and Germans were locked up. Charles P. Dewey, legislative aspir ant in Bra ifcr 1 county, while canvass ing, went over a fifty-foot embank ment in an automobile, but escaped in jury. Hundreds of new members were gained at a Hazleton mass-meeting of the National Defense league, address ed by Major General. C. Bow Dough erty. Luther Coble, a contracting tin smith and roofer, Lebanon, has died from complications resulting from a fracture of his right leg, suffered in a fall. Between 400 and 500. employes of the Greenville Car company have been given a voluntary increase in wages, amounting to more than $BOOO a month. Without an instant's delay in traffic, three new 90-foot steel spans were placed in the Pennsys bridge over Catawissa creek, at Mainville, Colum bia county. The hills around Hazleton, stripped of their timber decades ago to make props for the mines, are to be reforest ed by the Wyoming Valley Water Sup ply company- Pulled lrom a buggy when his horse became frightened, Howard Sweger, a Carlisle horse dealer, suffered a dislo cated shoulder and internal injuries when trampled. Eight hundred men and boys are on strike at the Hickory Ridge col liery, Shamokin, and the Susquehanna Coal company's Cameron colliery is tied by a strike. Increases in pay for monthly men, such as clerks, surveyors, foremen, bosses, machinists and shophands, are coming in the hard coal fields within the next few weeks. Erection of a mile and a quarter of fences and blasting for foundations for a machine shop 80x130 feet marked the beginning of the new Benjamin Steel works, at Hazleton. Pleading guilty to defrauding on $BOO of funds of a sub-postal station in Wilkes-Barre, John B. Reigle was sentenced at Sunbury to nine months in Luzerne county jail. Almost drowned a short time ago when a high wind blew her into the Letort Spring, Eva Stringfellow, four years old, has been knocked down and injured by an automobile. The Dodson Coal company, at Hazle ton, has imported a big squad of Phila delphia navvies to work in its mines at Morea to take the place of men at tracted to the munition plants. Between 3000 and 4000 eggs of the ring-necked pheasant will be distribut ed by officials of the state game com mission to various parts of the state as a means of propagating. Harry Witemeyer, secretary, has re ceived a letter from Colonel Roosevelt declining to address the home week celebration in Mauch Chunk, because it is a "physical impossibility." Reading High school students, in sixteen trolley cars, were taken to Stony Creek Mills, where, at Antietam Lake, they assisted in planting 50,000 pine trees along Reading's watershed. About sixty St. Marys boilermakers employed at the machine shops of the Pittsburgh, Shawmut & Northern rail road, struck for a raise, but returned, pending a conference with the receiv er. Refused a license in Reading, owing to the age of the proposed bride, Earl Coldren, twenty-three, and Miss Em ma E. Haas, sixteen years old, of Reading, eloped to Elkton, Md., and were married. Chief William Guerin, head of the national fire preventing bureau, in an address in Pittsburgh, declared: "Eighty-five per cent of the fires start ed in this country last year were the result of carelessness." Dr. Hollisworth, dean of the School of Economics of the University of Pittsburgh, in an address declared that Germany's great success was "due not only to military preparation, but to industrial preparation also." The plant of the Mercer Light, Heat & Power company, in Greenville, con trolling the light franchise of Green ville, Mercer and Jamestown, and own ed by the Kulm interests of Jlttsburgh has been sold to eastern capitalists. George Robbin3, thirty-two years old, of Syracuse, foreman for the Stone-Webb Construction company-, in New Castle, was instantly killed When he was caught between two trains Tur ning in the opposite direction at Fkllls ville. \ Carrol Garner, of Wilkes-Barre, \ be came division engineer of the LeUlgl* Valley Coal company, in the Cjpr.e- Lehigh district, succeeding A. H. yew- Is, of Hazleton, who takes a similar post with the G. B. Markle Compaq
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