Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 138, Hammond, Lake County, 27 November 1916 — Page 4

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THE TIMES Monday, Nov. 27, 1916

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THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BT THE LAKE COUNTY PEOTTIKO & PUBUSEDTO COlPAST.

The Tlmaa SJa.at Chicro-Indln Harbor, dally ascapt Sunday. Ent.r.d t tfca peatoSSos in Etit Chlcac. Novambsr 18, lili. Tfc Laka County TtmasDally except Saturday and. Sunday. Sntarad ! Uka poatofflca la Hammond, June II. 1104. Th Lk. County Timet Saturday aad weekly edltloa. Entered at the fjeetefflo la Hammond, Fabrwary 4. ItlX. Tba Oery Evening Tlm.a DeJly except Sunday. Entered at the petofflo la 0ry, April II. 19 IS. All un4r the act of MaroJ) t. 14 7 S, as aoond-claaa matter. roiucie AOfSBTisiaio offics. U Keete BuUdl&c ..atray TEXEPHOl. BtaaNl (prl-rat exebanre).. -.................lH (Call for whatever department wasted.). Gary Office i....'. Telepboae W Kaaaau Thompaon. Eut Chicane. Telephone MO-J T. U Bvans. Eaat Chicago Telephone TJT-J Xaat Cblcag-o, Tm Tma ? Indlaaa Harbor (N.wa Dealer) 03 Indiana Harbor (Reporter and Claaelfled Ads) Telepboae Whlttna- Telephone 0-M Crowa Point Telephone 93 aUa-ewtaca . Telephone II LASGZ2. PAID UP CIRCULATION THAN ANY TWO OTKES NEWSPAPERS IN THE AXTTiUT REGION. aaaaaaaBWawaBc3saiWBagcsaci,. . . . sasssss m , -.i . r . acaevjss If you bar, any trovblo (ratti&f Tn TiW make complaint UnmedJately to Uve circulation departmeat. Tn TxatM will sot be reeponolblo for the return of any uaollcltd rnaaw-

arfielea or lattere aad will aot notice aaonoyraoua oeupjaaaloatleirti

leraed letter of ceaeral latereat arlatoa as dlacretloa.

FAMINE ! Famine will help to bring the war to an end Quicker than anything else. There is famine in Albania, Serbia and Poland. Its spectre haunts Germany and Austria-Hungary. The allies have visions of it, for both France and Great Britain have provided for food control authorities. The central empires long ago got down to the card system. It was followed by Sweden and now Norway is to take it up. Money will not buy food in Poland and other parts of Europe. The famine pinch is beginning to be universal. It takes a lot of money to buy food here. The longer Europe keeps on destroying, the longer it keeps men from productive work the greater the shortage of food will be. And the more that famine encircles the old world the more we will feel the stringency here. Perhaps the situation would not be so bad here if governmental, state, county and municipal machinery were efficiently employed to weed out and jail food speculators, but nevertheless they merely aggravate a situation that has a deeper and more fearful basis. Be prepared for high prices for a long time to come and even still higher prices. When half the world is at war the other half must help to pay the bill. We axe paying it.

FALL-DOWN OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The more we see of it the less we think of woman suffrage. Over in Illinois some time ago it was claimed that the women would vote solidly to put the saloons out of business, but it turned out that the respectable members of the sex voted just like their husbands and fathers did, merely doubling the vote, and the thousands who were not so respectable voted a paid to. In the election Tuesday they were all supposed to be for peace, but they voted for Hughes and war. The plain fact is that the average aood iv oman don't want to vote and would do so only on certain occasions, but the thousands of the bad ones in the city slums would be at the polls every time. Palmyra (Mo.) Spectator.

NEW IDEAS ABOUT THE PRESIDENCY. Has a new era dawned for national politics? We have often commented on the reluctance of capable men associating

themselves tn petty struggles, of engaging in recognized political tactics of

the day but wholly foreign to finer natures, of a shrinking from mixing in all the smallness that attends ward or county politics. Does such an association act as a detriment to a man?

in the old days a presidential candidate was supposed to have been

grounded in politics by holding all the offices from senator up. Andrew

Johnson wt such a man. He served as alderman, mayor, governor, vice president, filling In many other gaps before an accident raised him to the

presidency. But the new theory seems to be different. Woodrow Wilson never got into politics until late in life and the only office he held before the presi

dency was the governorship or .New Jersey. Similarly with Hughes. Until

he was called to the governorship of New York he had been an unknown political factor.

It might appear tnat the tendency of the times is to draft capable men

for high o:nce and the fact that they never mixed in the petty whirl of

politics may be one reason why the people are demanding their services.

POSTMASTERS IN CIVIL SERVICE.

If Mr. Wilson really wants to accomplish a great reform he will set his energies back of a bill putting presidential postmasterships in the classified

service.

As it is, the postal service is rather a bleak place as long as postmasters of the better grade of offices are appointed becausa of party services.

It Is contrary to American spirit to have a business institution employing

fifteen, fifty, a hundred, five hundred or several thousand persons placed in the direction of unskilled executives. Yet that is what we do. Take

the average town for instance, where the postmaster's pay runs from $3,000 to J,500, the postmaster Is appointed from outside the service; his chief assistant who gets only half as much In pay is really the director of the office, and a man long In the service. It is due to those who engage in postal work to have the opportunity to aspire to the postmastersaip or even higher. There have been a few isolated cases where men have gone up from the ranks. One of the postmasters of New York began at the bottom and another worker became an assistant postmaster general. But the instances axe few. There should be legislation enacted providing that when the terms of present incumbents expire all postmasterships revert to the classified service.

them to extravagance it was aa evil. "We all know that the labor situation has been critical. The sudden rise in wages has demoralized the supply. . Farms were especially hard hit. Their labor was the kind the factories wanted, and the factories bid the limit and threw ethics out of th window. They raided conservative concerns and cared not how the men came, just so they got them. In Its effect upon employment the war has been a curse, because it has encouraged bad practices. When the young man on the Ohio farm looks at his. fancy clothes and thinks about, what became of his money he may .get a useful angle on the wage question. We hope so, and we hope others will think of It from the same angle. But to be honest, we doubt that it will do much good more's the

Pity.

Some of the wealthy New York banka have decided that their employr id a five par cent Increttae In wasc-ft.

THERE is a bright aide to this 'nl coat of llvlngr after all. riecAime of the price of flour the mlaaua t'hlnka she should aerve hot corn lrn about four times a week.

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GIVE THEM A CHANCE. The subjoined clipping is from the New York World, the leading Demo

cratic organ of the country and such an ardent supporter of President Wilson

that its contemporaries of the other party often refer to it as the "Court Circular." It would not do to call the World antagonistic to the interests of labor, for no one Is more courageous abbut making "big business" mind Its step. Says gbe World: Threatening a strike once more because various railroad companies are testing the eight-hour act in the courts, the officers of the trainmen's brotherhoods are now defying law as well as public opinion. Ther is no longer a controversy between employers and employes. It is an issue which has been taken over by the government ol the United States to be settled in accordance with the facts. When tho brotherhoods submitted their case to Congress, they in effect agreed that thenceforward they would abide by legal processes and that strike orders should be held in abeyance pending a full determination of the controversy. The railroads may be wise or unwise in their present policy, but it is no more possible or desirable to deny them their day in court under a law forced upon theia than it would be to deny to workingmen their day in court if aa act prescribing compulsory arbitration were forced upon them. Labor organisations refusing to abide by a law enacted in their own interest, simply because it is not despotically enforced, reveal a spirit which will delight all their enemies. Their friends will still have faith that the intelligent rank and, file of trainmen will see the folly of the preent mnace and array themselves against it.

Relieved in one minute. Ort complimentary can of Kon don's from your druggist. Or buv a cent tube. If It doesn't do you tt worth of grxA in a jiffy, you can get your 25 cent back from tha druggist or from the KooUoa Mia. Co..

Use some quick. For colds, catarrh, cmiBtfs. nasal headache, etc. .

sure its the kind that been uecd for 26 years aad by 59 w)ilfi-m Americans

Your friftids will look for the name McGarry on their gift box. The extra value they find in Jewelry bearing the nBi "McCarry' U a joint prwst-nt from the manufacturer from whom I buy and myself. The very highest quality cost no more at John E. McGarry . JEWELER OPTOMETRIST.

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Advertise in THE LAKE COUHTY TIMES.

Random M Things And Fftogs P - 11 -n

HARDEST to be scarce.

blow yet! Mistletoe la

GOOD E VEXING! posed to Ruth Iaw?

Have you pro-

ADVTCE to new Americana: cut out the grarllc. HAVEN'T f!srel out whetaer Col. Roosevelt writes so he can go bunt' ing or whether he hunts so he can do some wrKlng. EAT bread and butter now while it's cheap. Later in the winter flour will be 30 a barrel and butter 85 cents a pound.

BECAUSE Chicago banks loaned China a paltry five .million toe newt, papers of that town are editorialising

about the Importance of the place a world financial center.

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NEWS was rather quiet in these parts during the week Just past There were only three murdera, two auleldes, six killed In accidents, an increase In wages to 20.000 men. the starting of

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construction on $1,000,000 wort'n, of new bouses, the sidewalk in front of the poetoffice was fixed up and one of the church ladies served an oyster supper. "Nothing much of importance happened.

HOLiiAND wants to borrow tSO.OOO.0t00. Nothing doing. Any country that boosts the price f sauer kraut to a point where It costs 40 cents to Ket cnouga for one meal deserves no mony. Get out!

THIS if a great country. The bakers put a half cent's worth of raisins In 4 nickel loaf of bread and then charge a dime for It.

MUST be the high cost of living but people are getting more peevish every day. When a Gary woman was hit over the head wltn an axe she insisted on complaining to the chief of police about It.

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WELL, what's goinsr to happen?

It EST AUR AN T WEISS' HUNGARIAN Is the only place In the city to eat. 12th and Broadway Gary

Will Positively Xellere rala la Tare JClautea. Try it right now for Rheumatism, Neuralgia. Lumbago, sore, stiff and

and Umbs. corns, bunions, etc After one application .paiu disappears aa it y magic. A never'falling remedy used intor nally and externally for Coughs, Colds. ' Sor Throat, Diphtheria and Tonsilltia. This Oil la conceded te be the most! penertating remedy known. Its prompt ; and immediate effect la relieving pain Is due to the fact that it penetrates to i he affected part a t once. As an illus tration. pour 10 drops on the thickest I piece of eoje lerthtr and It will pene(rate this substance through and . through in three minutes. Accept no substitute. This great Ol I Is golden red color only. Every bottle guaranteed: 25c and BOc bottle, or money refunded. Kaufman St Wolf. ;

Texll Store. Hammond, Ind. Adv.

Hammond Furniture

Hospital 328 IT. HOXTMAJT ST. i'or up-to-date Upholstering, Furniture repairing, Mattresses made to order. All work called for and delivered. Pnoaa S4S2.

Making Dull Hours Busy EVERYONE likes to know where goods of special quality, in which they are interested, can be obtained. By. calling the attention of his custorners, by telephone, to special values in merchandise, the progressive merchant transforms dull hours into busy hours. When business is light, he gives his clerks a selected list of customers with instructions tocall them by telephone and tell them of the attractive things in his stock. By following up this practice systematically a lot of profitable business is obtained.

There are no dull hours in the business salesmanship to its highest possibilities.

establishment which develops telephocg

Chicago Telephone Company O. A. Krinbill, district Manager Telephone 9903

WARTIME WAGES. Says the Country Gentleman in an editorial that is quite applicable to thia region: "A young man from an Ohio farm got work in a munitions factory aad made $6 a day. Suddenly the factory reduced its force and he returned home with a big lot of fancy clothes and a new outfit of expensive tastes. The, money had come easily and had gone quickly. His case is typical of many thousands within the past year. "One munitions plant laid off more than 2,000 men in a week. A hundred miles away a plant that had been paying big wages and larga bonuses closed and turned out its men without warning. Most of them had been spending

as they went along. Their big pay had done them little good. In leading aaaw''"'"'M'MwBWfa

PETEY DINIC Goodness Efe'd Cheat His Own Kin

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FOOT SPECIAIJST Bad feet scientifically treated. Foot massage. 625 Broadway Gary, Ind.

MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE SPENT

YEARLY IN PENNY MACHINE:

The attractiveness of the National Aluminum machines and the quality of our white ball gum combine to insure large sales of gum. Sales are daily not occasional. To increase the number of machines in operation we are offering our stock at par. Every dollar you invest is used to buy aluminum machines and gum. v This without delay or waiting, so that the principal will begin producing earnings quickly. Your investigation invited. Local agents wanted, Gash investment required. UNITED GUM CO. X307 Lakeview Bldg., Chicago, 111.

By C A. VoighS

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