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In ali other pa ge». per agate line, each Inaertlon 0.15 POLITICA L A OVERTISEMENTS itati h made on application *IIFAKE IDVERIISEMfUTS POSIÌIVELY REFUSEO mente e giìihiitainentc quel fabbrica» to ttll'nt-tiiitlt! f-omitatn. Oli, no! K~>o deve .•'borsaro prima ventitiliqueitiila taccoloni.. . e poi... Foi'm sii'ti* pi' ilo ili (arila ... un; prima t!i ogni co collcttate por tano il seguente avallo: "J'av to the order of Mellon National Bank - Rev for credit to account of Director*, of Progress''. Vedete bene che anche io non PAZZI: io. E vi piaccia accettare un consiglio, quantunque voi,., non ne abbiate bisogno Non parlate di odiosità' di tasse. Guardatevi intorno... esanii fguardo alle pareti, ni piedi delle im magini del vostro tempio... ed ar rossite. L'Ordine del quale \ i permettete parlare... non pitocca proprio nul la. Se vi e' qualcuno dedito a chie dere elenio.»ine... questo qualcuno cercatelo fi a i vostri ed in voi stes so. .. Quel tale Ordine che voi con quella untuosità' che vi distingue cercate di lodare, ma cordialmente odiate, (ve io indica chiaramente il penultimo periodo della vostra "limonata") non e' un pezzente elle tira soldi a forzo dai propri affiliati ma una mas sa di italiani Joseienti • una forza volitiva ed operante conscia dei propri diritti e doveri, che può' e sa fare.» Quel tale Ordine, che vi fa veder giallo, poiché' \ i mette molta bile nel fi sterna, non ha sguinzagliata gente a destra ed a sinistra per raccogliere fondi: non ha predicatori tutte le domeniche che chiedono oboli, non ha individui che impongono, conte taglie brigantesche ai propri operai, una data obbligatoria contribuzione non solo per il vostro Orfanotrofio, ma anche per feste inutili e dispen diose. Non parlate di pitoccare per che' da quando voi avete incomincia to ad esercitare il vostro "apostola to"' non avete fatto altro che chiede re, chiedere e chiedere, senza (lai nulla a nessuno. Ed ora attendo quelle tali ris]K.- ste e dopo il mio ck andra' non a voi; ma a quei bravi ed onesti uo mini che sinceramente e di cuore hanno sposato la eausa dell'Orfano trofio di Oakmont! 4 Gennaio, 19*21. T. di Tarate one. P. S. Il vostro ck non fa biso gno all'Ordine... Porterebbe sfor tuna ! .—— » —+ Bell Phone, Dtckinson 7071 11. D. Palma RKAL ESTATE HROKER Compra, vende ed affitta case per conto di terzi ASSICURAZIONI SULLA VITA E CONTRO IL FUOCO NOTAIO PUBBLICO 1325 Po Broad St. l'hila., Pa. PANETTERIA ITALIANA NICOLA MARINELLI 1020 So. Bth St. Phila., Pa. TWefono VINCENT DE LUCA BIBETTORE DI FUNERALI EO IMBALSAMATORE Servizio di aulomobiii e carrozze Ufficio aperto domo e acitte 1124 So. t Oth St.. Phila.. Po. Agenzia Generale di te: ,a. ie Agostino Cortei ■VNCHOR LINE . ,■, s& ■'■*& Due sono i Astemi più perfezionati. | ! ;; :cM. /f» - 11 primo coi rulli di ferro e «lue ingra i „ ■£?"*>•«' l nazzi ad un fianco per girarli costa $17.00. I . v ~5-v ~ fjjj ¥rj 11 secondo, ed ultima novità', e' il siste >; ìy ma da noi reso più' comodo, che lo racco- É mandiamo per uva secca che viene strito li? lata fina come la farina. Questa Macinella coi rulli di ferro pieno, possiede ai fianchi due regolatori per avvicinarli ed allontanarli. - 11 costo di essa col manico e' di soli $20.00. Se con volante costa $1 extra. BACCELLIERI BROTHERS 92-1-926 Sonili 11 ih Street Philadelphia, Pa. j Italian Grocery Co. f DU BOIS, PA. ► UVA SECCA DI TUTTE LE QUALITÀ' ► Olio d'Olivo Italiano, Spagnuolo e Greco Formaggi Importati e ► domestici ► Prezzo Speciale per Romano e Pecorino « ' Fichi secchi Italiani edi Grecia —Completo Assortimento di ogni ; GENERI DI GBOS9EBIA > SI VENDE ALL'INGROSSO ED AL MINUTO \ f v T V ¥ ¥ 'l' f «m 'f 'fi f TLeoncavallo Restaurant • Where Frank Basta's Chefcraft ij Always Supreme Tabi© d'Hotc arici £» la Carte ; 256 So. 12th Street Philade!p!i!a, Pa. •; r ? 4 I Frank A. Travascio | ... ..... .......... ..... ...... , ~. r| PASTICCERIA ITALIANA G. CAPUTO, prop. SPECIAI ITA' PER LE FESTE DI NATALE E CAPODANNO Cassate, Cannoli alla Siciliana, Tononi e Torronclnl SI spediscono ordini in qualunque parte degli Stati Uniti. Si avvertono tutti i elioliti e spe cialmente i fratelli dell'Ordine Fi sti! d'ltalia di non dimenticare l'indi rizzo: 900 Webster Ave.. Pitsburc. Pa. Bel Phone: 9412 K. j Residence : Bell, Dickinson 26-97 \V J Alhambra Electric Company i JOSEPH CALVI I I Impianti elettrici Motori elettric | Kiparazioni di qualsiasi genere Bell, Dickinson 6877 1507 E. Pastyunk Ave., Phila., Pa Salumeria Italiana JOHN MASE' SON & CO. /66 So. Bth St. Phila.. Pa. Fabbricanti di ogni genere di Salumi, Mlsiccle e cotichini. Specialità' {irò sciutti italiani Colombo Restaurant Pasquale Tosano, Prop. 32 E. Church Street, Uniontown. Pa Il ritrovo preferito, degl'impiegati j 1 commessi viaggiatori e buongustai! in generale i quali nel Co'onilm Ke i staurant trovano cibi sani ed a pre/ j 1 zi convenienti, oltre al screzio inap ! puntabile e cortesie. Kcystone Pilone, Main 9053 D. FIRST ITALIAN BANK Controllata dalla Legge dello Stato CAPITALE VERSATO L.IOO 000.0 C Antonio Di Paolo, Direttore Prop. N. W. Cor. 3rd & Pine Sts.. Camden, N. J. Bell Phone, 229 £ Grant Joseph Cuda Banchiere e Cambiavalute Pubblico Spedizione di Moneta a mezzo Vaglia telegrafici e ordinarli AGENZÌA DI NAVIGAZIONE ASSICURAZIONE CONTRO !L FUOCO Negoziante all' ingrosso di generi alimentari IMPORTATORE DIRETTO «I! Olio d'uliva e 4 Uri articoli || foa Wylir Ave., Pittsburgh, /' 760 So. 9th Street Philadelphia, Pa. $ * >: ♦> ♦ ♦ J Dott. EUTSJVISO iVÌASE I ] GIÀ' CITIUriIJGO DEGLI OSPEDALI DI IJOMA Specialista pir malattie Giinccologiclic, "Utero ovaio, ecc." j ORE D'UFFICIO 9-12 A. M. 5-8 P. M. Domenica 9 A. M. - 1 P. M. 615 WEHSTEB AVKNUE Residenza Pittsburgh, Pa. IGG-1 Qangu'ick St., - Jìloomfield | «eli Phone, Grant 277;. Bell Phonc: Fisk 19-25 R. Vi., , OC^ iTTSBURGII. PA. g y Vicino 6th Avonue O j| Farmacie Italiane jj G. CALABRESE, Farmacista Proprietario ; ; —— pi Droghe, preparati chimici, cinte erniarie, panciere, oggetti di gomma, ; ! saponi e profumeria. Specialità' italiane e americane ACCURATA ESECUZIONE DI RICETTE MEDICHE B "• L'i Cor. Webster Ave. and Washington Place - Cor. Webster Ave. and Tunnel St. ; Pittsburgh, Pa. : JER R Y BARBAR ; J SARTORIA DI l.a CLASSE ;Ì >■ 11 più' grande stabilimento di Uniontown per pulire e stirare abiti 3j ♦ 47 E. Main St., Uniontown, Pa. >; .♦ 1 «t ♦. >; >! >; >; >; >; >; ♦; >; >; >; ♦; >; ♦>>; > >; $ ■+- $ $ ; li pàio ti ci li noi ili 1 , Il sorprendente aumento nei depositi fatti dal PI ► pubblico con questa Compagnia dimostra, 1| chiaramente, a luce meridiana, la forza fman- il ziaria, la sicurezza ed il carattere della ri ; Delaware County Trust Co. jl CROZER BUILDING C M ESTER, F>A. '** **" * *' * *■ ' *■ ■* * *■- " IÉI " %| ili if | •1 Bell Phone, Dickinson 2G-07 W. Bellevue Fancy Grocery and Delicatessen Co, TITO TKAVAGLINI e ANTONIO BOMRA, Proprictnri ■ 13th and Dickinson Street» Philadelphia, Pa. ■ SPECIALITÀ'IN SALSICCIE ITALIANE j || GENERI ALIMENTARI, IMPORTATI E DOMESTICI j The Italian has been driven from home by necessity to work, conse quently the result is that almost eighty per cent, of the Italian im migrants are males. The eighty per cent, of "human capital of fresh, strong young men" Is Italy's contribution to America, anil Ik a 1 force winning its way to recog nition. This point does not seeml to be clear to our American breth-' reu of Anglo-Saxon descent, other-' wise we would not see. unfortuna- j tely only too often, sweeping gene ralizations made that organ-grin- j ders, day-laborers and frult-peddlars are the representatives in America of the land of Columbus and Ves pucci, of Michael Arigelo and Rafael, of Galvanl, Galileo and Mar coni, (it Dante, Petrarch, Tasso and Boccaccio, of Mozzlni, Garibaldi and- Cavour, of Rossini and Verdi. Let us reserve judgment until we have considered the facts in the case. To be sure, many of the Italians here are laborers, but it must be remembered that a good ; laborer is an indispensable factor in 1 the Industrial life of the nation. The Italian is a good worker. Dr. S. H. Lee, in Baptist Home Mission Monthly luotes what a contractor says of him: "When the lunch hour 1 is over, when the clock strikes, the Italian will be leaning on his shovel : ready to go to work, but the Irish man will be out under that tree and he will be three minutes gett ing to his job, and three minutes each, for one hundred and fifty ! men, is no small item." And Dr. Lee adds, "the Italian does not -egard his employer as bis natural enemy. He has spirit of kindly service". ' And no wonder! These people i are not the scum of their country, ! as some yellow journals and muck- > rakers would have us believe, but they are the very flower of the la boring class of Italy. Isn't it evi dent, then, that they form an lm- ; portant element in our social fabric? This may seem a broad statement to some, but we can give facts. Le us quote some statistics of New York Ciy where, in 1904, the Italians numbered 450,000 and the Irish over 300,000. That year 1,564 Irish and only 16 Italians were admitted to the almshouse on Blackwell's Island. As for begging, between July Ist, 1904 and Sept. ' .'iOth, 1905, the Mendicancy Police In New York took into custody 519 Irish and only 92 Italians. As to insanity, during the same period, in the charitable institutions of the j I'nlted States there were of the in sane: Irish 5,943; Germans, 4,408; .English, 1,822; Scandinavians, 1,- 085; and Italian. 718. As shown : by the analysis of the report made; to Congress by the Bureau of Im -1 migration, the proportion of Irish i In the charitable institutions of the ; country was 30 per cent., of Ger | mans 19 per cent., of English 8.5 per cent., while the Italians and Hebrew were each 8 per cnt. K ' t us next consider the Imp riant point of crime. In this respect the Italian, by reason of j the violent and conspicuous nature )t his crimes, is commonly rated ?ery highly. We hear of the "Black, and the "Mafia" and the 'stiletto" affair, etc. The facts, j hough, do not bear out this opi nion. The United States Indus strial Commission on Immigration, ihowed in lis statistical report to Congress that "taking the United States as a whole, the whites of foreign birth are a trifle less crim inal than the total number of whi tes of native birth." The Italians, on account of being iccustumed to taking wine, arc supposed to be intemperate. Ac tording to statistics, they are at a | jecided advantage, for they are the least intemperate of all th< foreign peoples, and far less so than the average native born. In 190f< at Massachusetts, three in one hundred of the northern races, in- j eluding the Scotch, Irish, English und German, were arrested for in-, temperance, while only three in one j thousand of the Italians were ar- j rested on this charge. It Is evident, then, that the Italian is deserving j of great commendation and espe cially so on account of the social | ostracism he has suffered in this country. There Is a distinct tendency on the part of those Italians who begin at the botton of drudgery, in the subways of American civilization, to advance. No parents are more j ambitious for their children than j the Italian immigrants who have; brought over their families, and no I children in our schools are brighter j or more attentive. There is good j blood in the Italian strain. The} are an artistic and music-loving people. They come from a land of beauty and fame, song and sunshi ne, and bring a sunny temper not easily soured by hardships or dis appointments. In spite ot the fact that until ; recently the Italians in America: were unorganized, while there "were | all kinds of orders of people of the other races, off-hand we can quot< j a goodly number of Halo-Americans who have reached the pinacle of success in America, climbing to the top of the ladder by their own ten- ! dency to advance: Prof. Angelo Patri, the national-known prlnci- i pal of one of the Public Schools of i New York City; Prof. Rudolph A 1 i trocchi, Ph. D„ of the University of' Chicago; the recently deceased Prof, ] Ragglo, A. M., of the University of Maine; the recently deceased Prof. Edoardo San Giovanni, Ph. D., of the Brooklyn High School of Com-j merce; Prof. Eniilio Goggio, A. M., of the University of Washington; | Prof. A. Marinoni, A. M., of the University of Arkansas; Prof. Bi gongiari, A. M., of Columbia; Prof Antonio de Salvio, Ph. D., of North western University; Prof. John Pitaro, of the Stuyvesant High School of New York City; Mr. M. A. De Vitis, A. M„ Phi Beta Kappa, and Corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish-American Academy of Cadiz, author of a series of high school text-book; Attorney Emilio Yaselll, formely U. S. assistant di strict-attorney of New York City; ; Judge Palmieri, of New York City, ! Eugene V. Alessandroni, Assistant District-Attorney of Philadelphia; Hon. La Guardia, formerly member of Congress and now president of the Board of Aldermen of New York City; Rev. Charles Fagnani, Vice- President of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of New York 1 City; Hon. Camminetti, United Sta tes Commissioner of Immigration; and scores of others whose names have escaped our memory at this writing. We have not mentioned | the hundreds and hundreds of mer chants, artisans, bankers, journa-1 lists and musicians who have more! than made good in their respective line of endeavor. All of the above are products of 1 American schools. These men have i-uccceded, as we have said before, when the Italians in America were j unorganized. But now the begln ing of a more propitious era is j dawning for the Italians. In 1905 | the great Order of the Sons of Italy in America was organized, and to- 1 day we have lodges in twenty-five, states and in Canada, with a total membership of over two hundred thousand. The main scope of the! Order is to promote among the i Italians here a social, intellectual and economical beterment, and to mcouragc them especially to become useful and active American .•itizens. The Order is democratic j n spirit, since in our lodges are to j be found (he rich and the poor, the nobleman and the peasant bankers, doctors, lawyers, ministers, teachers, merchants, artisans, day laborers all rubbing elbows In the greatest fellowship. During the war, the Order of the Sons of Italy in America subscribed large sums to the Italian National Loans and to all five the American Liberty Loans; and gave generous aid to the American Red Cross. During the Spanish Influenza epi demic in 1918, only for three months and in Pennsylvania alone tho Order paid out nearly $150,000 in death benefits. Besides a great number of volunteers returning to Italy to fight, there were enlisted in the American Army 2810 Sons of Italy from Pennsylvania, of whom fifty made the supreme sacrifice. The phenomenal progress of the Order In Pennsylvania Is due to the untiring and ceaseless efforts of our indefatigable Grand Master Mr. Giuseppe Di Silvestro, of Philadel phia, He has preferred to work for the uplift of his fellow-countrymen here to amassing a private fortune. Di Silvestro some day will take his place beside the groat Carl Schurz. M. A. DE VITIS, of the Faculty of the Fifth Avenue High School, Pittsburgh, Pa.