Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 48, Hammond, Lake County, 9 December 1916 — Page 4

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THE TIMES

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BY THE LAKE COUITCY FEINTING & PUBUSHEfO COM? AST.

Th Timei Kat CV.-ro-lnlUna Harbor. dally azcept Sunday. Bnttrtd t th postofTica In Etit Chicago. November IS. 191. TSe t-ik County Time Dally except Saturday and Sunday. Gntarad at tha poatofTica in Himmond, June I8n0S. The Lake County TImea Saturday ad weekly edition. Entered at toe, aortofflce In Hammond. February 4, Itll. The Gary Evening- Time Dally except Sunday. Entered at the peetefTloe La Gary. April 13. 1S11. 11 under the act of March t. 147. a aeeond-claai matter.

rammes advbrtisixo officb. til Rector Bulldlnc .Cblcajo TELEPHOSKJ. Hammond (prlTate exchange) H (Call for whaterer. department wanted.) aary Office .........Telephone 137 N'atsau Thompson, Kaat Chicago. Telephone 40-J P L. Evans. Eit Chicago ...Telephone 737-J Eat Chicago. Tin luui s 202 InlUoa Harbor (New Dealer) $03 Indiana Uarbor Reporter and Claaaifisd Ads) ..Telephone Whiting Telephone 80 -M Cro-srn Point Telephone 1 Hegewlich Telephone 11 LAEGE2 PAID UP CIRCULATION THAN ANY TWO OTHES NEWSPAPERS IN THE CAIUKXT EEGION.

If you ttmw. any trouble getting Tn Times make complaint Immediately to lae circulation department. ' Tmm Timm wlU aot be reaponalble for Ua rotura of any wnaolleltad manuerlpt article or letUra and will not notloo anonoyraoua communication Cort aigTied letters of general latereet priatad at dlacreOoa.

"DRY DRIVES 0 R "WET" ONES? After tfl the chaff is blown away ft appears that the big controversy Vtween the mayor of Gary and his council is the demand of the alderman that there be no booze sold in disorderly houses. In anger ihe mayoij ' threatens to wipe out the delecfable institution altogether. A dive is a dive whether there is booze sold there or not. In .the meantime it is a sweet-smelling institution to see both sides running into print explaining their cases. It is advertising Gary so nicely throughout tincountry. But as THE TIMES always said, when both Ihe other Gary papers froze up on the subject: Why the dives at all?

INVESTIGATE CHCAGO AND ELGIN! The Elgin board of trade is the only exchange in the world that does not at least go through the motions of buying and selling on a large scale. Enormous transacations are necessary to establish prices for stocks and bond in New York and for grain and provisions in Chicago. In Elgin, however, three men meet once a week and, following a sale of twenty-fiv; tubs of butter effected on the part usually of not more5 than two traders, a "market 'is made which becomes basic for dairy products throughout the world. Several years ago, when the Elgin clique was even less ceremonious In its price fixing, a United States court issued an injunction forbidding practices of everj; kind not based tiYon bona-fide transfers of actual commodities. It is held that ihe grotesque little performance now staged every sven days meets all the requiremets of the law. Assuming that this view Is correct, the fact remains that what consumers everywhere pay for butter !h determined to a large extent by a board of trade which is not a board of trade, which arbitrarily puts its prices upon high grade butter and thus asists in the sale at extortionate rates of millions of pounds inferior in quality. Judicial proceedings having failed 10 reach the root of th evil at Elftin. as at Chicago, it 3 to congress that the people must look for a remedy. Publicity is not relished by either of these manipulated v markets.

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Investigation properly directed will exercise a powerful restraint upon wrongdoing and open a way to suitable legislation. New York World. TEN-YEAR-0 D EDITORS. A few years ago when this paper was fighting vicious dites in Garytooth and toenail, the Post denounced it bitterly and called it every name under the sun because, according to the Tost, we were siring Gary the wrong kind of publicity. , The Post has finally become convinced that the dives in Gary must go Last night it said appertaining 40 the way Its crusade was being criticized: "No difference what certain citizens think about mihllritT Tim-tn..

town'; we know where sucn puerile notions as these originate. Tbey come from ten ycarold "boy?." ' ' In other words, several years ago the Post was edited by ten-year-old boys. ,

WHAT KERN IS. Senator Kern voted against allowing James E. Watson to taKe trie oath of office as senator on Tuesday. Of all the whiners and hard losers Indiana politics ever produced Jawn Whiskers Kern is the most conspicuous and most contemptible. He never loses without putting up an awful roar and declaring, himself defeated by fraud and corruption. In free silver days when he was beaten for governor, he howled that be was beaten by the

illegal use of money; in 1908 when he went down as a candidate for the vice.

presidency, he declared that Indiana was lost to him by "the ignorant nigpcer vote"; in 1909, when his own party elected Shively instead of himself to tie senate, he publicly announced that he had been beaten by the bribing of eight democratic legislators; and now he votes against permitting a man elected to the senate on theopposition ticket taking his scat. The worl hates a loser as much as it loves a good sport, and Kern is distinctively in the former clas3. Fort Wayne News. If Watson had been elected by a few hundred votes it would have ben a different matter, but his plurality was twelve thousand. If the republicans in states where Hughes was just "niggercd-' out have accepted the situation gracefully and taken their medicine, why couldn't Kerr, take his?

A SECRETARY OF EDUCATION. E.setimats of department heads at Washington on the amount needed to run the government for the next fipcal year are as follows: Legislative s $ T.691.62G.46 Executive 32.979,663.00 Itidicial 1,395,790.00 Department of agriculture 26,096,907.00 Foreign intercourse 3,700,626.66 Military establishment 300,694,684.32 Naval establishment 360,070,651.67 Indian affairs 12,230,356.67 Pensions 133,560,000.00 Panama canal 25,143,562.35 Public works 145.11S.394. 46 Postal service 325,355,820.00 -Miscellaneous 106,914,738.9;! Permanent annual appropriations 1 43.S64.S30. 32 There is approximately $750,000,000 spent in this country 'for education The amount exceeds that of the combined expenditures of the departments of state, war, navy, agriculture,, labor, justice, commerce and a lot of bureaus thrown in to boot. t There 3 talk of increasing the president'-s cabinet. If it is done there ought "to be a secretary of education. In this country education is our chiei business. The states of the union dignify the business by having a state educational head. At Washington the office has no status higher than bureau honors.

We should do like other foreign governments im portance.

-emphasize education's

- - AS TO SHOE PRICES. Because of the demands of the war in the way of leather and the increasing use of leather in the automobile industry shoes are far higher than they used to be. Maybe there are some needlessly high prices, due ti the activities of certain gentlemen, who Ought to come under the eye of the government. But be this as it may. you probably have noticed that the cost of men's shoes is proportionately less than that of women's. A first class pair of men's shoes can be bad for $10 now; a pair for a woman of a real good grade comes at S15. Of course, there are prices all the way up from $3 to $30 scandalous when you think of it. And they say prices are to mount still higher. The outlook suggests the use of more common sense. -. One reason why e pay such outrageous prices for shoes for the feminine sex is the fancy

ton thev have for them. Colors must be had that match the dress nwj

terial. Did you ever in your life see two women with shoes alike? Well, just take' a look! Isn't it common to see hundreds of men with shoes so much alike that you can't tell them apart? Now if women would be satisfied with leather shoes having black cravenette tcps prices would be far easier. Still, if the leather market continues to tighten they may have to accept shoes that are not all leather. As to the unsensible nature of the greater part of the shoes for women you can appreciate it by looking into the next shoe store window you pass. Just note the sacrifice to fashion because of gaudy and colorful footwear. Then can you wonder why the II. C. of L. is really as bad as it is?

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exchange. What's become of the oldfashioned, man who used to hold that i all times are good for frugality? !

GEXREAL NIVELLE proposed a? j successor to General Joffi'e. Well, he I ought to make a g-ood fl?hter. His name is at least Jrish-soundins. j

THE kaiser didn't get to eat his' Christmas dinner in Paris in 1914 as : he expected, but he can eat it this! Christmas ii. Bucharest, which is said i to be an imitation of Paris. I

SOMEBODY please rush some -safety' first'- pamphlets to Gibson railway!

j yards. Xine men killed and several in-' jured tiiere in past few n-eel.. j

There are 10.000 Lake County people j K It- .11 . - u I

nubxeHption to T1IK TIIES will save oii thr troable of writing a letter to niiy one of them.

PAYS the Gary Times: 'Quit making fun of Mexico. She has installed Military traininsr in every .school In the country." Yes. but how many schools , has she? Muncift Press.

CHICAGO bank found to have loaned i several million dollars to cold storage, speculators. And yet the say all money is being- put out for the benefit of the ; people. ;

STARVING Poland is to set a kins. What stood is that? The poor Poles can't eat a king.

ROUMAN'IA at least has the consolation that the allies really meant to help her. '

tonon? iron & tmz c& MARCUS BROS, Prop Wnoleiale Dealers in IRON, METALS, RUBBEB AND SECOND HAND MACHINERY Offleeat 340 Indiana Ave. Yarde Sohl St. and India Ava, HAMMOND. t; INDIANA, fiffe Phona 127 Re. Phone 1044-B

GARY Commercial club has called its new vicp investigating committee the civic service commission. We 'CP

where Coloneless Kate Wood Ray will i be Retting out an -injunction aga-inst i the gentlemen for pirating the appel-j lation of her regiment, the Civic Serv- j ice club. !

IT APPEARS that if a steamship j hasn't any Americans on board she has j a pretty trood chance of not being sunk j by the U-boats. i

'NOW is the time for frusality," says

FI5M, CHICKEN AND FROG DINNERS. Open tha Year Around. PHIL'S PLACE Sheffield Boat Houaa PHIL 8MIDT, Proprietor ROBY, INdTaNA. Phona Whiting 2$. Nom but reapectablo patronaa solicited.

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Pleasing, Fragrant and 'Satisfying. A Lake County Product Made froia the purest Turkish and Domestic Tobaccos.

A Cigarette of Quality to please the most particular I

smoker, ine onir cigarette made in the middle west. The Western Cigarette & Tobacco Co.

Indiana Harbor, Ind.

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cherislied iormaDv years to come are far more appropriate than those that can be ippreciated for but a day.

Jewelry Has a Lasting Sentiment

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TT IS fitting for any occasion that calls for a gift a .wr-teh is more practical for a boy than a football - -glassware is appreciated more by mother than flowers a neckJice is more welcome to sweethearts than candy. Jewelery of the McGarry Quality makes an ideal remembrance most folks look for the name " McGarry" on the gift box. TTOCJ LL find selection easily made here, our stocks Holiday Goods are most complete.

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"Wrist Watches Brooches

La Valliers' Bar Pins Vanitv Cases

Cameras Gifts for "Him" Watches Sea if Pins Cuff Links Watch Chains Studs ( Lodge Emblems Umbrellas Fountain Pens

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Depository for U. S. Government Lake County City of Hammond and School City of Hammond

. Today We Represent Over $1,300,000.00 A remarkable growth considering that this bank has not combined or taken over any other institution. On this remarkable showing we solicit your banking business. Tj We pay 3 interest on Savings Accounts payable January 1st and July 1st of each year.

DIRECTORS. A..ST0N H. TAPPER. CARL E. BAUER WM. D. WElS. PETER CRUMPACKER JAMES W. STINSON" JOSEPH J. RUFF. F. R. SCHAAF.

OFFICERS. ft. SCHAAF. President. WM. D. WEIS. Vice President. A. H. TAPPER. Vice president H. M. JOHNSON", Cashlaj. L. G. EDER. Aset Cashier.

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