' 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