Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 291, Hammond, Lake County, 22 May 1917 — Page 6

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THE TIMED Tuesday, Mav 22, 1917

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BT THE LAKE COUNTY FEIHTINQ & PUBLISHING COMPACT.

Tha Timet East CBlcego-Indlana. Harbor, dally except 8nday. Entered t the poatofflca In Eaat Chicago. November li, 1118. Tha Laka County Ti.-nea Dally except Saturday ana Sunday. Entered al the poatofflce tn Hammond. June It. 1904. The Lake County Timee Saturday and weekly edtUon. Katered at tha pottoffice in Hammond. February 4. The Gary Evening Tlmca Dally except Sunday. Entered at tha poatafflce la Gary. April It. 1911. Ail under the act of March J. lITt." at ae'cond-claaa matter.

strengthened by the action of department heads like Secretary Lansing, who has undertaken to clamp down the lid on the State Department and prevent the publication of any information that has not received his official approval. It is even more essential rti time of war that the government should work harmoniousjy and sympathetically with the newspapers than with the railroads and factories- The World is quite unable to understand the new spirit of suppression that has shown itself in Washington. Whoever 1a responsible for it needs the immediate attention "of the President of the United States, says the New York World, one. of the strongest friends imaginable of the administration.

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PRACTICAL APPLICATION: OF TAIUFF.

LAEGES PAID UP CISCLXATION THAN ANY TWO OTHER NEWSPAPERS IN THE CALUMET REGION.

If you have any trouble getting Tu Times mke complaint Immediately tv the olrcuiation department. Ti Times will not be responsible for the return-of any unsolicited manuscript articles or letter and will not notice anonoymoua communication Short signed letters of general interest printed at discretion

The Democratic tariff law made a j0 per cent reduction In the duty on school slates. Germany has been our chief competitor In children's slates.

j and this inexcusable reduction doubled their hold on the American market, j Because of German competition the Wise School Slate company of Bangor,

Maine, went out of husiness. Recently Griffin Brothers, of Flicksville,. Maine, purchased the plant of the Wise company, which they Intend to operate jn connection- with their Klicksville plant. The capacity of both plants will be about 20.000 slates a day. Griffin Brothers have seized this opportunity of enlarging their business because' the war has excluded Germany from our market. School children in South America and India are now clamoring for American slates, where formerly they were obliged to use the German makes. Griffin Brothers might start a very wise propaganda, if they would put a t-iicker on every slate that gets into the hands of a school child, something like this: "Bocaiiso of tlif high wajjps received by American workmen, and the higher mst of op.rltiiK our mill, it cosh three times a much to make a slate hero as it lnes in Cermaiiy. but the German slate will be. sold in this tminfy, in inao.' turns. Mt just rnougl under our lowest possible pH.'e t ririxe us out of busings. And when that is done you will !ise ti u?e a Cerman slnle. Tell your daddy to vote for the party that wants slates 'M.oie in America. and be will vote for the Republicans."

I THE PASSING SHOW

YES, YES, GO OX.

A wise owl lias discovered that it is unhealthful for two people to occupy the same bed. regardless of the fact in the Book of Books that Moses slept with his forefathers and then lived to the ripe old age of 278 years. Another savior of the health of his brethren has learned that, it is unsafe to ride a horse another fellow has hidden, to attend church where other

I people attend. The kiss has been branded as a tempter of death in all manner of cases. Handshaking is considered extremely dangerous and an j exchange thinks that if things keep up it will be unhealthful to be buried ' in the same graveyard with other people. The only place a person can be 1 safe from disease or getting run over, is in a store that doesn't advertise.

savs an exchange.

WAR MUST AND WILL HELP INDUSTRY.

TRUTH AND FICTION. nniMONP. Ind.. May 17. lie v. WV H. Motely, of Spartanburg; Christian church, eloped with Mrs. William Mann, wife of a prosper-, pus farmer. Mrs. Motely found a note on her husband's desk saying he had pone 'for pood and an unfinished sermon on the theme, "Thou shalt not commit adullry." Who is there who would no: think that the pcwer of suggestion may not have impelled the preacher to sin? If truth is not stranger than Actum in this worll, then life is not a mjstery. If one were to read an incident, like the above in a novel he would say: ""Sue.:! an impossible situation could never occur in real life," yet well, there it is.

"PO your Liberty Bonding early."

NOT enough that Spring ?ees flic war worse, but there's housc-clcaninj

too-

There ha been even among bankers and business men themselves J WHAT is needed is thoughtless talk about economy. It is about ti:ne that people became aroused! down hjph. iriees.

:ood markmanship. so the government can shpot

iu luu ususti oi ioousn taiK. auour me necessity ior economy that is

threatening the business of the country. Legitimate economy ought to be GERMAN plot to seize Costa Rica. That's one way lo get bananas practiced now and at all times, but there is no justification for the urging J frp(.

or a raise economy wnicn can serve no good purpose except to interfere with the circulation in the arteries of trade and create a stagnation that will make the payment of war taxes not only onerous but finally impossibleBusiness should go on as usual. Men should buy and sell, build, trade. eo about their customary' occupations, making a greater effort to stimulate business. The people should eat, wear clothing, entertain themselves as they are in the habit of doing- To do otherwise is suicidal to prosperity. The main thing is to increase in every possible way the productive resources of the country, raise more corn and wheat " and potatoes and garden truck. Keep things moving. Nobody Is going to starve to death

The war wlU help the mdustnes rather than hurt them. There wil, be i THEY are building 'a new wheel mill at the Gary steel plant; they have p,enty to do and there is no occasion for panic. Just don't borrow trouble. j whj,inK w, more ga,oline than evpcems Act so that the curse of war.jin the alchemy of industry, may be trans-K all around here t0 makc auto, ,f a certain common make is a

muter! in'o a national blessing, adds the ashington Herald. Feople must realize that there is a wide difference between economy

EGYPT and Ireland thinking of becoming republics. This republic r-.ovonient has ben growing ever since the word got around we had seven billion to loan lo hew and old democracies. : PROHIBITION continues to unfold its wonders in the model state of Kansas, for Editor Wiiliam Allen White of tjie Emporia Gazette notes that

manv voting married men in his town eat their breakfasts in restaurants

because their wives don't get up in the morning.

that all we need around here to make au'.o; f a

honk-honk factory.

TOU know what they say about a bad penny turning up again. ANYWAY a little jape may help to subtract from the world's terrible total of suffering: and anguish GOD knows there's little enough sunshine. AN occulist has discovered that baby's white raiment injures his vision. Great land of Goshen, they've TAKEN away his cradle, all the oldfashioned remedies, Santa -Claus, fairy stories and now they WANT to rob the poor kW of his diapers! AND we must devote now and anon in our droll and harmless way A LITTLE attention to the June bride.

WONDER, if they took Harry Thaw s whip away from him? WK miKht suggest that if Miss Fpriug hasn't any other date she has to keep we ( WOCLD be glad to have her femove her cbapeau and LIN'GKR a while. WK like old Gen. Joff but why he 'should be so afraid of perms as to pass up the lips of pretty mayor's daughters AND buss them on the theek is more than we CAN understand. THE wiff's beans, we are glad to say, are growing so fast that she hasn't time to ram 'cm BACK into the ground wsth a stick any more. LIQUOR dealers say that the war tax on the little saloons is going to close a lot of them up for good. If this takes place where ARE all the poor flic going this summer? WE have but to look around us to find

that the main question for some peoplewhen they think about the war is WHAT is there in it for me?

' THE government still sends out those nifty little circulars asking us to CURB our appetites for meat, drink, clothing, etc., etc.. etc., and to tell the truth we ANTICIPATE an order shortly ASKING us to refrain from getting our hair cut OR breathing too much air during the war. THE President is to take no vacation this summer AT the risk' of giving out valuable information to the Central-Powers it cn be stated that we HAVE decided on the same course. FRIENDS calling at the house, henceforth and finding it locked and in darknes's will remember we CAN'T take too many chances WITH the family drawers full of Liberty Bonds.

LETTERS FROM LAKE COUNTY SOLDIER BOYS AT DIFFERENT BARRACKS

NOTE THE TIMES will be glad to print brief letters from Lake county soldier boys at the front. The big county daily is going to scores of them each day all over the land. They may make it a medium. The letters must be brief, interesting, signed in full, with name of company, regiment, etc. The letters will be censored but they will be welcome. EDITOR. HARBOR BOY ; TELLS OF ROUTINE Private C. Vl. Wilcox, a former resident of Indiana Harbor, now at Columbus Barracks. Ohio, writes of the routine a recruit must go through before he becomes a United Slates rookie. "Applicants are first measure for shoes, leggings and uniforms they they have to take a bath fnot that they are dirty after the measuring, but just to give them a clean start in the army.) Then squads of forty men are. sent to the preliminary examination room where they are examined as to weis'.U, chest measurements, teeth and body. From there they go to main hospital and are photographed and finger prints taken. From the finger print room doctors take them in hand anjd examine their eyes, ears and throat. (The examining physicians are experts and when a man gets by them he can feel that he is mighty near perfect.) Passing from the eye and ear room they are taken to the final examination quart

ers. (Here is where many of the recruits fall to pass. It is a most rigid examination and if the recruit has any disability the 'eagle eye' of the doctor find it) After passing the final examination rooln they are sworn in (!vow they belong to Uncle Sam) and instructed in regard to sickness. They are then vaccinated and get typhoid

innoeulation. After the innoculation they are assigned to their companies

and receive their equipment. (Tn their

minds they are regulars, but to the oldtimer, they are just plain rookies.) "As son as a rookie gets on his uniform the first thing he thinks of is a photographer. He is crazy to send his sweetheart, mother and sister a picture of himself 'dressed up." "Few recruits are held over four days. In that time they are taught the fundamentals of ramp. life.

"Men leave here at the average rate of 500 a day for different points. For instance, cavalry recruits are sent to Texas; signar corps men to Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; coast defense to For'. Williams, Me., etc. 'We are receiving approximately 50') men a day and when drafting start w.expect to accommodate 1,000 a day. They are rushing work on seventy new buildings which will cost $200,000. ' C. B. WILCOX. Private, Columbus Barracks, Columbus. Ohio. WHITING BOY WRITES. Hewey Templeton, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Templeton, 406 Fishrupp avenue. Whiting, in a letter to his parent? from Fort Thomas. Ky.. paid: "People around the fort are certainly fine to the soldiers, giving parties in their honor often. I have plenty tc tat. For dinner we have potatoes, roast beef, bread and butter, pie and miik. What more could one ask for? We sleep on rots with two warm blanket ;tnd plenty of fresh air, and we sleep like tops. I have met many of the boys that lived around home and they all feel the same as I. Army life can't be bet. I get TheTimes daily and would feel lost without it. IiEWET TEMPLETON."

and waste-

"LET us stop the- eclat and go to shoot inp." demands the Editor of the

ANOTHER GUARD COMPANY.

If any

: Ohio Slate Journal, who wants an army sent to France at once

1 is (loin? any ecla'ing they will please stop it.

"With two national guard companies alreadv existine in this countv order ' " have been jnren to Captain Umpleby to organize a second unit in Gary. At ! DEAR r;veror Goodrich; We make in this County of Lake more iron war strength the Gary and East Chicago companies will have 4?,0' men. 'jand teel than FralKe loes: wo "rtiake Euncotton, dynamite, nysol. benzol. There is a particular reason why the national guard "should appeal 10 j shrapnel casing-, bank-ship plates, gasoline, military acids, cement, railway young men. In many respects" the organization is preferable t.o the regular j carF- munition jilcohol, chlorine gas and army hospital supplies; we've sent army. For one thing a young man joins a home outfit, is with men he!1-8"0 mPn to. war- Yet you named no one from here on the State Council knows and is commanded by hoaae officers- Service with the regulars is j - defense. ' ' .different- ' ' ( j ' ' In this war the guard is to be on an equal footing with regulars. Most "THE dunes pageant, on Memorial day should be a hint to the home of the guard regiments retain their young veterans whereas regular regi- "guard along the lake tha! while public attention is centered on the w-ar the reents are to be split into three battalions, each battalion to form the nucleus pand grabbers must not be allowed to invade the dunes.'-' Indianapolis Newsof a new regiment. Regulars and guardsmen will get the same kind of j Cease worrying. No danger of the land grabbers grabbing the dunes. They training, the same kind of pay; but regular regiments will have two-thirds have had grabbed them for seven or eight years.

of their makeup consisting of green troops, while most guard regiments! will be almost wholly seasoned as far as companies' will be concerned Of ; course there will be a few- exceptions to this rule. Since those of draft age liability may have to go why nor go out with i a home company? In the long run the soldier will fare better and will b j