| THE PATRIOT jj Published Weekly By ][ THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY, Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue !» Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA ■]! Locai Phone 250-Z - Ji !» FRANCESCO BIAMONTE, Publisher Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914, J> <[ at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the '[ «[ Act of March 3, 1879. !| JL SUBSCRIPTION !» ONE YEAR . . $1.50 | SIX MONTHS . SI.OO !» many Senators has each state in the United States Senate ? R. Two. D. Who are our U. S. Senators? R. Boise Penrose and Georgi T. Oliver. D. For how long are they elect ed? R. 2 yearp. D. Who is our Congreesman ? R. S. Taylor North. D. How many electoral rote» has the state of Pennsylvania ? R. 38. D. Who is the chief executive of the state of Pennsylvania? R. The Governor. D. For how long is he elected* R. 4 years. D. Who is the Governor? R. Brumbaugh. D. Do you believe in organized government ? R. Yes. D. Are you opposed to organiz ed government? R. No. D. Are you an anarchist ? R. No. D. What is an anarchist? R. A person who does not be ieve in organized government. D. Are you a bigamist or poli gamist ? R. No. D. What is a bigamist or polv gamist ? R. One who believes in having mori than one wife. D. Do you belong to any se cret Society which te&ches to disbelieve in organized govern ment? R. No. D. Have you ever violated an} Irvvs of the United States? R. No. D. Who makes the ordinance< for the City ? R. The board of Aldermen. D. Do you intend to remair permanently in the U. S.? R, Yes. NEW POLICY NEEDED IN GOVERNMENT RAILWAY CONTROL Helptulness andEncouragement Urgfld by Alfred P. Thom. CREDIT MUST BE IMPROVED In ere ase of Transportation Facilities Necessary to Secure Relief From High Coat of Living May Thus Be Providad For by the Railroada. Washington, Nov. 28.—A new policy of government railroad regulation. based on constructive principles of helpfulness and encouragement Instead of upon principles of repression and punishment, was urged by Alfred P. Thom, counsel for the Railway Execu tives' Advisory Committee, the flrst witness on behalf of the railroads be fore the Newlands Joint Committee on Interstate Commerce, which has insti tuted a general inquiry into the prob lems of railroad regulation. "It is proposed by the Joint resolu tion of Congress," said Mr. Thom, "to go into a comprehensive study of the whole subject of transportation, to make a new assessment, after 29 years of experiment, of its history, its pres ent conditions and its future needs. The railroads accept the view that reg ulation is a permanent and enduring part of government in America and that the flrst duty of the carriere is to the public. That duty is to afford reasonable facilities on reasonable terms and at reasonable rates, and this must be done before any private inter ests can be considered." Certainty, Safety and Sufficiency. Mr. Thom contended that the real In terest of the public is in being assured of certainty, safety and sufflciency of transportation facilities, rather than in rates. The flrst consideration of the public is to obtain transportation facili ties. What the cost is, is in reality a second consideration, he said. Mr. Thom proposed an increase of transportation facilities as a method of securing relief from the high cost of living. "There have been less than 1,000 miles of new railroad constructed in the United States duiing the past year," he said, "less than in any year since 1848, except the period of the Civil War, and yet the cost of living is daily advancing owing to a shortage of sup plies which might be remedied by se curing access to new areas of produc tion. Credit Muat Be Improved. "This leads to the consideration as to whether railroad credit is as good as the public interest requires. It is im possible for railroads to earn enough to supply the necessary new facilities from current revenue. They must be provided from credit. Investors can not be coerced, but must be attracted." Among the conditions affecting rail road credit which deter investors he mentioned the following: "First, Railroad revenues are not controlied by investors, but are fixed and limlted by governmental authorlty and not by one but by several govern mental autborities, which do not recog nize responsibility for assured results to investors aud are uncoordinated. "Second, Railroads cannot control and the government cannot and does not limit the expense account. "Third, The present system of regu lation is based on a policy of regulation and correction and not on a policy of helpfulness and encouragement. "Fourth, The outstanding obligations of the railroads have already exceeded the financial rule of safety and involve a disproportionate amount of obliga tions hearing tìxed charges. "Fifth, The investor must accept a subordinate obligation or security with no assurance of a surplus of earnings to support it. "Sixth, Other competitive lines of in vestment present superior attractions. "Seventh, The railroad business is largely controlied by politicai instead of business considerations. Look Forward, Not Back. "We may debate about what has caused the present conditions," said Mr. Thom, "but we cannot debate about what the people need. The President has taken the view that we must look forward in this matter and 'make a fresh assessment of circumstances' in order to deal helpfully and intelligent ly with the problem. Abuses are no more prevalent in the railroad busi ness today than in any other business humanely conducted. The great ques tion now is whether the existing sys tem of regulation gives the public re liable assurance of sufficient present and future railroad facilities. "Those who oppose any change must make their appeal on the ground that the present systems assure the public of the continued adequacy of trans portation facilities. If they do not, no argument based on the desirabillty of the present dual system of regulation will be accepted by public judgment. The question of 'states' rights' ls not involved. If the regulation of transpor tation facilities privately owned should fail government ownership must fol low, and then ali power of the stateri over the railroads woald dlsappear. "Let us debate this question, tfcea. not upon any mere theory or jealousy as to the distributlon of governmeatal power, but upoa the large issue ef what the public interest requires in respect of the assurance of adequate transportation servici" IChristmas Legend | The legend of St. Boniface I and the first Christmas tree has f> been beantifully told. The % < l scene live* before ns—the win- £ J [ try night, the swelling hillock 1 J[ crowned with the great oak t j [ tree, the "thnnder oak," sacred ? ? to the pagan god Thor; the $ Itongues of rnddy flamc, the |> ranks of white clad warriors, X women and children facing the £ aitar; the hoary high priest | and kneeling chÙd, the victim ? doomed to die by the blow of r the hammer, a sacrifioe to ♦ Thor, the hammerer. Then the coming of Boni- £ | face, the blow from the ham- § £ mer tnrned aside by the cross, $ ? the resene of the boy, the fall J> |> of the oak beneath the mighty % blows of the apostle, the story % % of Jesus simply told and how t> i sin, not human life, is the sac- i x rifice he asks. f | "And here," said the apos- * | tle as his eyes fell on a yonng <| % fir tree, with its top pointing % I toward the stars, amid the S | divided oak—"here is the liv- i> § ing tree, with no stain of blood $ Ì npon it, that shall be the sign 1; of yonr new worship."—Parish ? Tidings. f Proiasstonai Mourners. In anclent times fimerals were fol lowed by professional mourners, who slmulated the appearance of the wild est grief. The custom aurvives in the valley of Sondrio, in the Alps. There the'women do not follow the fùneral, but they group themselvea at the en trance to the cemetery and bum, in honor of the dead, candles which vary in size accordlng to the remuneration. They are as prodigai as were the mourners of ancient times in their sim ulation of excessive grief. London Spectator. i"HS2SZSZSHSZSZS"SZSESZSZSHSZSHSHSZSZSZSESZSESZSZSZSZSZnSZSaSESZEZSZSZS? | The Patriot Job Printing Department | jjj Is prepared to do ali kinds of Commercial S Printing promptly and in an up-to-date § manner. Cali and get our low prices for Bj Bj the beat of service and workmanship. | 15 CARPENTER AVE. INDIANA, PA. | HS?S2SHSHS2SaSSSaSBSHSHSESESHSES2ISHSHSHSZSS£rHSSSZSHSZSHS2SHSZSZSSSZSSS2 ! La macchina del | business man ! Macchina unica a caratteri visibili ! 10 GIORNI DI PROVA GRATIS La macchina Woodstock ha un valore di SIOO e si da per I soli $59.50 a sola titolo di reclame. . I I L'Unica Macchina da Scrivere Negli Stati Uniti Con Pagamento Facile di Soli 10 Soldi al Giorno. Agenzia Italiana 15 N. Carpenter Ave. INDIANA, PA. Hearing Men at Work. The manager of a machine shop or factory ean know how mach work ls belng doue at benches by medianica or by power driven machines or tools by means of microphonea or telephone transmitters connected with the work ing apparatus. By becoming familiai with the vibrations of the different ma ehines he cau teli at any giveu moment just how fast Bill ls working the lathe or how industriously Jack is operating the milling machines on one of his blue Mondays. In addition to this he cau teli at a simple turn of the switch tf the machines are runnlng at norma! speed and smoothly and properly, as they should. —Popular Science Monthly. Wh»n Doctore Were Slaves. Romans of means had physlclans lu thelr own houses. These men were slaves, for, odd as it seems, rnauy Ro man slaves were accomplished in liter ature, art and science. At oue time the selling price of a doctor was about the equivalent of S3OO in our money. After the time of Julius Caesar, who encouraged physieians, the art begau to "lift ita head" in Rome, and later men of character and position, though generally foreigners, eutered the pro fessici Some of them accumulated large fortunes, and one who was uoted for his skill made the equivalent of at least $500,000 in a few years. The boomerang, missile instrument for war, sport or the chase, in use by Anstralian aborigines, was first made known by being brought before the Royal Irish academy by Professor Mc- Cullagh in 1837. !- ìrìrì K ì'}( 4 1 f + $ McADoo s Restaurant T t j" "EVERYTNING GOOD TO EAT" T 4» y eigh Hunt's friendship as weli as and the other essayist has told how, calling on Dyer in answer to an invitation to breakfast, it was to flnd no butter, no knives and no spout on the teapot. Dyer was so wedded to life in the ixm that he wedded his laundresa too. — London Spectator. PMH«M Quitn Sophie. In 1860, when the eombined armies of Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi at tacked Gaeta, Queen Sophie of Naples conducted the defense, her husband, Francis 11., being utterly unnerved. Most of her timè was spent upon the ramparts, where she remained during the hottest tire. She was absolutely without fear. Once when a bomb burst in the room where she was dining with her husband and his suit she walked to a rnirror that hung on the wall and, no ticing that her ha ir was whitened by the plaster the bomb had scattered, re marked: ''What a pity powdered heads are out of fashion! White hair sults me admirabiy." Lawyer For Défendant Now, sir, you say that my client disappeared In the darkness after knocking you down. What tiine of night was thi»? Compiainaut I can't say exactly. Tour client had my watch. DR. C. J. DICKIE DENTISI Room 14, second floor Marshall building INDIANA, PENN'A. »