Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1918 — BUT IT WAS ALL RIGHT WHEN HAMMOND HAD THEM [ARTICLE]

BUT IT WAS ALL RIGHT WHEN HAMMOND HAD THEM

Hammond, Ind., May B.—The Lake county council of defense, apparently lacking confidence in the sincerity of the city and county authorities to drive vice from the suburbs of Chicago, west of the state line, has appealed to Secretary of War Baker and the Illinois council of*defense to oust the vicious saloons and resorts in West Hammond and Burnham. It was pointed out to the federal agencies that nearly 100,000 munition workers from Gary, Whiting, Hammond and East Chicago are menaced by evil conditions. Evidence of this was gathered by federal investigators. The Hammond police station is filled nightly with drunken men, some of whom are unconscious for hours as a result of the poison sold in West Hammond.