Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 152, Hammond, Lake County, 14 December 1916 — Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE TIMES Thursday, Dee. 14, 1916 THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BY THE LAKE COUNTY PEUTTIHG & PtJinSEDTa COMPANY. DREAMING OF CHRISTMAS

9h Tiniee Eaat'Cfctoato-Indiana Harbor. da!ljr except Sunday. Entered I tfce poetoffice 1 Eaat Chleaj. November II. lili. Tfc Lake County Time Dally esoept Saturday and Sunday. Catered a le poatofflce In Hammond. June It. 10. Tba Lake County Time Saturday asd weekly edition. Entered at the estofftc In Hammond, February 4, It 11. Tba Oary Evening- Tlmea Dally except Sunday. Entered at the pevtefflo U Oary. April II. 111. All under the act of Jaarca a. M7. a aeeond-claea matter. . III! I III I ' ..... . I rVKKIGX AATKRTISZXQ OFTICB. U lUatar Build in Chlca TXUEPHOTTIta. Haaucood (private) excBanse) ......... ............. .Hi (Call for whatever department wanted,) Oary Offloa .'. Telephone HI Kaaaau A Thoropeon. Kaat Cblcaco.... ..........Telephone MO-J r. X Evan. Eaat Chicago Telephone TI7-J Eaat Chicago. Tbs Tins Indiana Harbor (Kews Dealer) oa Indiana Harbor (Reporter and Claaeifled Ada) Telephone WnlUn ...................................................... Telephone 0-Jl Crown Point Telephone 6t tteae lech ............... ........... ..... ........ .Telephone IS tAEGES PAID UP CIHCT7LATI0N THA3T AITY TWO OTHER HEWSPAPEES US THE CALUI3T REGION.

If you bay, any trouble -ettln Tu Tnat make complaint Immediately to tka circulation department. Tu Ttxis wlU not he responsible for the return of any unaollcltad manu oertpa article or letter and will not nottca anonoymoua oomrnanloatlonei Chart airaed latter of general lntereet printed at alaoreUoa.

HE CALLS IT BLACKMAIL. A ruan -who does a great deal of thinking on economic questions insofar as they deal with the every-day problems of existence has this to say of the high cost of living: Too many are busily engaged in complicating life instead of producing something. Too many are turning things over and demanding pay for turning them over. Too many are adding the , touch of their useless toll to the products of the soil before they reach the consumer. The cold-storage cornerer all 'of these In endless variety and in infinite ways divert or dam up the streams of supply. It is as difficult to get a big red apple that falls blushing to the ground as it is to carry a football through Yale's doughty eleven between the goal posts. The commission merchants and the middlemen are keeping the goals. - You ask me what I would do if I were king. I'd make as straight a line as geography would allow from the corn fields to the cities, and from the orchards, the truck farms, the ranches; and in those cities at the end of that line I'd establish storage plants, and I'd allow the man who produced them to hang up his product, freeze them if they must be frozen, but only long enough to sell them; to keep them if they must be kept, but only long enough to dispose of them. The milk is turning to whey in the succulent udder and the grapes are withering in an atrophy of inaccessibility; the fruitful hen robbed of the brooding joys of motherhood by the Insensate 4 incubator, divorced from her richly plumed pajamour by commercial greed, and reduced to the tasteless diet of bone dust and sea shells Is made to lay in season and out of season, all for the purpose of choking the storage plants with millions of eggs until their shells become as silver and their yelow yolks as gold. to convert the great, rich earth into a vaat gambling table, , with all of nature's be-autiful and necessary products as the pawns and wagers, until everything is stamped with a gambling value, and every human being drawn Into the game whether, he plays or not, " and every one suffering the losses whether he wagers or not, and nobody but the dealer reaping the profit this is demoralization; this ' is not commerce this is chicanery; this is not business this is blackmail! ' - - "

MODERN PERILS. This world is getting more complex every day. Unmarried couple proceed from Missouri to Chicago and now a Mann act prosecution is conaidered. But as she paid the railway fare the man is the "white slave' in the case. Great Jupiter! Is there no help for the unfortunate male "white slaves"? Who knows that the traffic may not be one of alarming proportions? Consider how many thousands of innocent men may be led into horrible lives of slavery by designing females! 13 there no one who will organize an association to guard males against the terrible pitfalls ot "white slavery"?

STEEL AT $70. Tr1-!; about the high prices of living, look at steel $70 a ton, never as high as that before, and all the plants are working at their highest capacity and refusing further orders. This is what makes eggs, butter, potatoes and flour high. There is an invisible relation between steel and food, but everybody, caji see they pursue parallel lines and go up arid down together. Steel enjoys a 16 per cent adralorem duty, but it has no effect on the price now. When the war ends- and foreign competition returns, maybe the 15 per cent will not be enough an then steel will take a tumble and will' it wages, butter, eggs, flour and potatoes. See how we are all bundled together at one fell swoop. As long as steel is $70, eggs are likely ' to be 50 cents or thereabouts. Maybe this is not a good, workable philosophy, but we give it to gnaw at. Ohio State Journal. Why blame steel entirely? Take the ubiquitous fords and consider a scale of ascent and descent instead of a parallel ascending one. As Henry make- the fords cheaper steel andeggs doti higher get so goes gasoline. 'Tis a merry world, and blame the high cost of being a human being on what you will.

RICHES IN TIPS.

Some years ao an aged negress who served as maid in the household of Alexander H. Stephens in ante-bellum times, told an interviewer that the princely 'Robert Toombs, a most frequent guest, never failed to give her two dollars at the conclusion of even his briefest visits at "Liberty Hall." Though such tips no doubt enabled her to accumulate a snug sum in the course of years, this Georgia slave-woman belonged to an age and a section lacking in the opportunities for speculative investment enjoyed by the doorman of Delmonico's whose fortune founded on tips is now estimated at a million. It may be doubted whether James Hebron chuckled over a two-dollar tip a3 often as did the Georgia slave mentioned above, but of course he was tipped far more frequently, and be learned how to place his accumulations to advantage. "Being college bred," he explains, "I was able to converse intelligently with prominent men who dined regularly at Delmonico's, and

I 4 - . ,' '.-: :' v, - v . - .

jF t " , ' - ' " j f lit J A -7 f " " ' " ' ' N"'Jkv VlS

it Is neeless to say that without the friendly advice I got on such occasions

I could never have made a million dollars in Wall street." The fact that tips of two kinds added to a salary of a dollar a day en

abled a restaurant doorman to become a millionaire in the course of thirty

years is an interesting reminder that the ways of making a living and be

coming prosperous even by honest methods are legiono.

ROMANCE. In the marriage yesterday of Mrs. Marie L. Castle of 5325 Sheridan road and William B. Simpson, president of A. M. Castle & Co., Iron and steel manufacturers, a romance is revealed. Chicago

' Esajniner. ; There's romance back of all weddings. Whether It is in high society or whether it Is the daughter of Slavia, lately a hired girl in a crowded boarding house, full of foreign steel workers, there's a story. If the world provided enough of them there would be authors who could pick out the threads of romance back of all unions, threads not always vis ible to ordinary eyes.

MISSOURI CORNCOBS. English tommies in the trenches are to know the satisfying fragrance of Missouri corncob pipes, a British agent at New York having just placed an order with a Washington factory for 144,000 pipes for the soldiers. In addition to affording comfort to the Tommies, the pipes should make Missouri's exiled mules feel more at home. We have it on no less authority than Charles Phillips Cushing, the widely known New York writer, that "a mule has no use for a driver who doesn't smoke the riht kind of a pipe." Kansas City Star.

I IJandom I A Things and Flings I ' n

SOME people are never satisfied. Local man kicking because he found his dental work wasr of copper and brass instead of gold.

ONE thing can be said of the . government. It always aims to keep up with the growth of population by supplying about half as many mail boxes as are needed. , ' .

THE next time certain Gary gentlemen engage in reform efforts they should have employes of the editorial staff of their paper searched for poker chips before Btartinff the day's work.

NEW YORK man whose flivver was stolen and then wrecked refused to sweep up the remains and as result was arrested for littering up the street. Nothing like strict law enforcement. Quit spitting on the sidewalk, too.

WE HAVE at last found out what part Ging George takes in the great war. Whenever the English ministry changes, the new members call on his majesty who gives them the necessary seals and permits the- gentlemen to kiss his hand.

NEW battleship proposed to cost $28,000,000. What's become of the oldfashioned man who used to gasp with horror and figure out how many agricultural colleges the cost of a warship would buy in the good old days when we only paid a million and a half a piece for 'em?

MR. HARKXESS, a millionaire, who died the other day, left JS8,00(,000 to his heirs. What, you never heard of him? Of course not. One can't be expected to remember all the flivver-sise millionaires.

VOICE OF THIP P BO P L E

WHY FOOD IS DEAR To the Editor: Seeing so much said in the papers about the cost of living and the causes, I take the liberty of writing to you concerning conditions here In Southeastern Ohio. Fruit on most of the farms rot in

the McGarry Quality Is the Best of All

Here you will find a world of pretty things suitable for every member of the family Platinum Gold and Plated Jewelry, Men's and Ladies' "Watches, Bracelet Watches, Sterling Tableware, Toiletware, Umbrellas and Cameras. The McGarry line affords a range from plated wares to the finest art pieces of solid gold or silver and each is distinctive in its respective class for high comparative quality and reasonable price. The New Hallmark Line Which We are Now Stocking , is another example of this store's aim to sell high grade merchandise at a reasonable price. Hallmark articles are produced co-operatively with positive quality, supervision and at a great saving in cost. We'll tell you more about the Hallmark line tomorrow. JOHN E. McGARRV The Hallmark Store"

Jeweler Optometrist

an-

HOOSIER BRIEFS

WABASH. Following a rabbit hunt, farmers near Lafontaine appeased their appetites on oysters.

orchards, as it costs more to pick and market it than the dealers will pay. My neighbor hauled a spring-wagon load of fine picked apples to market his fall and could not sell at any price in Zanesville, a city of 30,000 inhabitants. He brought the apples home for the hogs. ' ' ... My fruit has been disposed of the same way for the last six yars. Before that time I could always sell it in the fall, before our mud roads becamo impassable, to grocers and families who stored it in their cellars for winter use. Many families made apple butter and canned a considerable amount, but nothing of that kind is being done here now. The modern home has a heater In the cellar that makes it impossible to store away any vegetables and fruit. Almost all the groceries are equipped the same, so it puts all the trade on a hand-to-mouth basis right through the fruit harvest, and the result is that most of the fruit in the farmers' orchards of two to three hundred bushels cannot be saved. The reason grain is scarce in this community is not because we have not the ground to raise it or don't know

now, but the scarcity of help. I

None of the young people of today will live in the country and be called "Country Jakes'" if they can manage to simply exist in the city and be considered somebody. The fact that they can live better in the country, make more money than clerking in stores and have considerable time for pleasure, with the farmer's speedy and will

ing servant, me automobile, giving

mem me advantages of city life to a great extent, won't persuade them to take up their abode with people that the world seems to consider an Inferior class. These conditions have compelled us farmers to raise what we can ourselvea and let the rest of our farms lie idle, which has resulted in a shortage of grain. Many farmers that should have three or four hundred bushels of corn to sell have hardly enough to fatten hogs for the family. That these conditions prevail in the counties of Muskingum, Licking and Guernsey, O., I know by personal experience and observation. What measures should be taken to create a market for this waste fruit and provide competent help on the farms is a problem to be solved worthy of the consideration of all mankind. My object in writing this is to give you some idea of existing conditions here on the farms which we farmers think are causing to a considerable extent the high cost of lieing. S. H. B. Gilbert. O.

RUSHVILLE. Declaring that the price of corn makes, feeding hogs unprofitable, large numbers of farmers

Jiving, near Rushville are selling both

their corn and hogs.

GARY. Gary's house famine has grown to such proportions that during

the last month 303 persons have asked for lodging at he police station. The city has been invaded daily by men who wish to work in plants, but who are unable to find lodging.

FRANKFORT. The Frankfort council has repealed an ordinance which provides for peddjers paying a license fee of S250. Consumers declared that the high fee removed competition and caused higher prices.

Saylor Wins Bout. DETROIT. MTCir.. Dw.. 14. Milburn

Saylor defeated Pty DroulllaM at the Windsor Athletic Club la,t night. Saylor made himself unpopular with the crowd -when he hit his opponent low several times.

Deep Dent. Brlggs- "That was a great dance. I hope I made an Impression on that tlrl.- Grlgs "I guess yon did. She has been limping ever since." Christian Register. Bright and Breezy Trarse nawa.

THE

TIMES

PRINTS MORE AUTO ADVERTISING THAW ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER " IN THIS DISTRICT AND IS THE BEST WAY FOR DEALERS TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THE PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMER

BE2

IjTTEvery Man in Lake County Who nlhas Money to Use in Buying an Automobile Reads THE TIMES.

A i

i I 9

Ifj I ; ' J em. Miiw'JiiwM'iiiwi'uii'ii'iiii'iiitiiiij.i.'ii iiijWi'Miipiii. .iiiiwii!wiiji awwwmni , mmtiimiytiftmmmpm '4f n i . i Hi, in tf niiiiii rrrffrrrm t-njMI iirmngrniiiiinn tmtm n m rn iwiiii--i . r---:r--'-;iiiiiiHTfr "-i-rir- i lif'ii nifini n ' in iT-efy ifrftl

PETEY DINK " Waan,t Tt Fortunate About Petey's Beating?

By C A. Voighi

6ivm MRi.VAu Soo-B !i T smtt sufec AAComes home J vSI V VShe's so j?icm J t To Give Me owe V -. f-7 ( tt. v"" 7 T V JS tffm - -ITS Aki Awful Mer) wlu r yk y f'S " Xfl " VL ) U A T J '