Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 303, Hammond, Lake County, 5 June 1917 — Page 4
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THE TIMES Tuesday, June 5, 1917
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er would be worth only its weight in. bullion. Hidden away as it is it draws no- interest and it does no work. It is in chains, and it serves no useful purpose, says the Fort Wayne News. If the owners of thi money, who apparently are afraid to trust either the banks or their own ability to Invest in the various forms of property that return incomes to their owners, would only pause to think they would realize that a golden opportunity is offered to them in the liberty loan bonds that are about to go upon the market. These bonds cannot be lost through the failure of a bank, by tthe destruction of an industrial business, by the depreciation of farm lands, or by any other misfoi tune, save the extinction of our government and with the government extinguished the hidden money of its issue has no value anyhow. Thefe bonds are secured by the credit of tha United States government and by all the resources of the country. They are as safe us anything human can be safe and in addition they return an income which money hoarded in a hiding place does not. Unless it is owned hy irresponsible fools every penny of this money will be brought forth from its hiding place and invested in these government bonds. Thus will the owners of the money be benefited by the income and the government will be assisted by the increment in It a fund- Patriotism and self interest here have a common call to make for once they make a united plea which should appeal to even the most sordid. It is an appeal, too. which is directed to others than money hoarders ami which presents a business preposition which U not half "bad. A three and a half per cent return on a non-taxable security, which is absolutely safe
pnd which can be cashed at any bank any aay, is preUy iair m ims Indeed it is so fair that it is a good guess that within five years these bonds wll be commanding a neat premium. Buy .bond, therefore, to the extent of your surplus, if not for patriotis-m. then for the reason that they present ,;n attractive business proposition.
WHO WILL PAY? By Harvey Cormick Egan, Gary, Ind.
1 THE PASSING SH0W
"SEED America first." Wall Street Journal.
SUMMER is near: Women's furs are getting into fashion- . t . OUR commission to Russia has Just arrived in time to see the fun or the misery- as the case may be.
OUTLOOK is that skirts are going to be higher this summer both as to cut and as to price. Where's our blinders?
UNCLE Sam will get around to 'em all directly. Butter and egg speculators Just Indicted, the coal trust has been- Next!
YOUNG man. if any one chides because you are going to be a conscript knock him down. Then knock him down again-
OUTSIDE of the war the world, on the whole, is rather quiet. The only places where there are revolutions or something akin to 'em are China, Mexico, Ireland, Serbia and Russia.
NOW if any of the slackers possessed the least bit of brains they would have joined the Quakers or Seventh Day Adventists about a year ago and thus escape drafting on account of their religious beliefs.
IT is significant that there is always a "reform" movement started in Gary jut about the time the steel company's political and contracting department patriots see a quarter of a million dollar contract in sightA BIG LITTLE PAPER. The exigencies of war hare told hard on European newspapers. Thus the Daily Chronicle of London is now reduced to four pages. Paper is saarce and this newspaper is practicing economy. Of the four pages one Is reserved for classified ads, and the other three page3. minus space for display ada, are given over to the news. Within these narrow confines, less than half the space of this newspaper on a day advertising is not heavier, the editors of the Chronicle must tell their ftory. They must record the doings of London, a city of 7,000.ono people and as populous as many European countries. They must tell the news of England, then of the great empire of which it is the central pivot, and last, but not least, the Chronicle being published In an imperial city, must print the news of the great war in these the greatest of times. And it is very interesting study to see how a newspaper printed in a city three times as big as Chicago gives local, country, empire and world news in a paper half the size of the one you are reading now.
SHERMAN LAW UPHELD. Today we witness the summoning to Washington of the leaders in all tines of business whose products are needed in this great war. The names
of the chairmen of these various committees are such names as Bedford of the Standard Oil and Gary of the United States Steel corporation. These various producers are called together by the government for the purpose of co-operation and fixing of prices for the sale of necessary products to the government- The price of copper is fixed and aft copper producers are asked to furnish at fixed price a certain amount of their production. The same thing applies to other commodities, says the Boston HeraldA transportation committee, headed by Mr. Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio, is arranging for the practical operation of all the railroads of this country as a single whole, to the end that there may be an elimination of inefficient competition, the cutting off of competitive trains and the pooling of equipment, so that the government and the public .may receive more efficient service from the facilities of each unit. For just such combinations, in the past, some of the very men now cummone dto Washington have been indicted, or at least made defendants in proceedings under the Sherman act. The government recognizes that the necessities of the country demand the very thing which the Sherman act apparently makes a crime. Leaders in the commercial and transportation business of the world for years have claimed that what, the government now requests, and almost compels, is absolutely necessary for efficient business.
A CHANCE FOR MONEY HOARDERS. It is estimated that, there are stored away in the safety deposit boxes and the "hiding places" of citizens many thousands of dollars. Much of this money is in silver and paper currency. It Is money yes.. But if our government collapsed the paper would absolutely valueless and the sil-
Kvery patriotic citizen owes his services to his cnunfry in one form or another. His life, his fortune and, above all. his Intelligence. We have mharked in a great war. AVe are told it is to democratize the world. We hve hen a great democratic nation in niont everything: but real action. Now we should not let our enthusiasm fret the better of our intelligence. This war is being carried on three or more thousand miles away. ' Distance lends en
chantment to the view." We are going to feel it right here at home and feel it mighty hard. AVe are feeling it now. We know it wllen e pay $1" for a barrel of flour. 40 cents for a round of bacon, $4 for a bushel of potatoes. 17 for a rir of shoes and other things in proportion. True, our pav envelopes are a little fatten but even at that we are much poorer than we were a few years ago with smaller pay checks, because our purchasing power has diminished more than 87 per cent while our wage increase has n-t reached half that. Po you see. while the country has been getting richer, the average people have been getting poorer. This Is not a psychological fact, but a cold hard mathematical fact. The richness of this country has not been distributed. We are not here to argue on that point. We are groin? to face some facts. This war is going to cost a lot of money. Congress has already appropriated seven billions of dollars. Tou and I cannot comprehend the vast sum. AVe are more used to thinking in dollars or hundreds of dollar. Those seven billions of dollars have to be paid somehow by some one. There may be more billions to pay. War prices have already placed the average American in a financial position where h cannot decently be asked to ray for the war. I was very conservative when I said our purchasing power diminished more than 87 per cent. Dun s Index figures show the Increase between April 1. 1914. and April 1. 1917: Dairy and garden products. .84 Meat -3 Clothing -3 Foodstuffs 1"5 Coal - Indeterminate The increase in wages and small incomes has been insignificant in comparison. The index figures published in the April Review of the U. S. Pureau of Labor Statistics show that in the large field of union labor there has been a raise of only nine points from
1912 to 1916 inclusive. Index figures for 1917 are not available, but suppose we are real extravagant and double It for 1917. AVe have only 1? rer cent. Figures for non-union or common labor are not available, but from my own personal knowledge the increase has been from twenty-five to fifty cents per day,' which would probably average 20 nor rent. Arain we see when we stop
to think and are not carried away by flowery speeches and bunk headliners that we are getting poorer very fast. Actual mathematical facts are sometimes hard to swallow, and It is pretty hard to sugar-coat this rl" Our population is estimated at about one hundred and ten millions of people. profp,Sor" King of the. University of Wisconsin states that 2 per cent of the people of the t'nited States own 65 per cent of the total wealth. AVe now have men in Congress framing a revenue bill to produce money to finance this war. Those men voted to conscript men to do the fighting. Now
' it is up to those men to vote to con
script wealth to pay for that fighting. It is not fair to ask the wage-earner to do the fighting and pay the bill besides. That is Just what Is going to happen if we dont watch out. Remember in this democracy of ours there are several things happening that don't spell Democracy with a big "D." Only for the alertness of our preis. Congress would have slipped something over that would have Killed the word an$ made It spell Autocracy. There Is a powerful lobby at AA'aahington fighting taxation on special Interests. There are very few fighting the ordinary man's battle along that line. It is true there are some men
fighting hard for the great mass of people, but these men seem to be in the minority Just now. There Is a big argument on both sides. The members of this Congress are going to make history as it never was made before in this country. Some are going to represent their constituency and the gr"eat mass of American people, while others are going to dig thetr political grave forever. There Is vreat wealth In this country as the following statistics show, but it is. not in the hands of tTie great mass of reople. Forty-two industrial corporations in the United States show net profits in 1916 for an aggregate of $729,953,233. These corporations cleared a net profit last year of nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars. The list does not Include the railroads or mining interests, which would add a great deal more. If only 60 per cent of this wealth
was conscr-.pted there would be no trouble in getting the first billion dol- j lars. It is up to us to urge our con-1 gressmen and senators o see that this wealth is conscripted. England has found a way to do It In her country and there is no reason why we shouldn't be able to do it in our country. We claim to be a democracy. Let us be a democracy in fact and deed as well as talk. Let the people who can afford it ray the bill. Don't tax our necessities and the few pleasures of life we have. The great mass of people in ftie United States are facing great difficulties now to make both ends meet. Many people will be facing starvation by winter time. How In the name of deeencj can those people be asked to carry th burdens that rightfully belong to others Tax the big incomes and conscript the excessive profits and reduce the high cost of living or else raise the wages by law so people can live decently. A united, contented people are aa necessary to the winning of the war as an efficient military power. AVhen a people have to go cold and hungry they cannot be united, nor contented, nor efficient, nor even patriotic. And that condition ia staring us In the face and should be taken into consideration in framing our revenue bill. If we are fighting to democratize the world as our present administration tells us and we dare not say it is not true even If we don't believe It let us watch out that we don't take Russia's old place in the autocratic world. In spite of our protestations, we are fast drifting towards the rocks on which democracy has been broken up before according to world's history. Ever since the inception of our government a gov.
ernment for the people, by the reople it has been the aim of Europe to smash it. Today we are drifting far away
from the sage advice and admonition
of the great men who gave up all t: was dear to them to make this coun
try free from European entanglements, and from the men of only a generation ago who staked their all to keep it a free country. Talk .dofsn't cost anything. Many people ara doing a lot of it nowadays. Today presents the opportunity for some of those people to back up their talk with their fortunes. Will they do it? It did not hurt the conscience of some to urge the voting away'of men's lives. Will it hurt their conscience to vot-i away their fortunes? Many of the men who lobbied for the conscription of lives are, now lobbying against the conscription of their money. The former did not affect them, but the latter does. Let us see that they don't get away with It. Use your intelligence and thinking powers before it is too late. Urge this Congress to do the right thing. Watch them carefully, and if they don't, then see that when the next Congress is elected that men who will do right by the people at large are sent to AVashlngton. AVe are fast arriving at a one man government, but we won't reach the destination if we do our own thinking and act accordingly. Don't let some one else do your thinking for you. AVhen you do you forfeit tne right to be free.
TRUST that Herr Ballin with his chatter about an early peace may not make the KaUer too nervous. THE woman whb didn't raise her boy to be a soldier IS a blood-siater to the fellow WHO didn't earn his money to BUY a Liberty Bond. OLD Abe Martin -musta stayed home yesterday HE says, "Little Amy Moots put her dolls away and painted her cheeks AXD wont down town today." THE editor who gets through his daily duty these days without working 28 hours out of the 24 IS not a good editor. LOOGOOTEE has organized a calf club to help along the war. and a jealous MITCHELL paper claims to have the best collection of slim and fat calves in the country AA'E doubt it fAATE and watch the. south-bound
ITomewood cars from the Four Corners
between 5 to 6 p. m. any night.
AVHAT a lot of perfect children there
are who don't bring anything like a
rERFECT report card home from
school!
THE young men who are drafted
should be CONSOLED with the thought that THEY won't have to GO until
THE strawberry short-cake season f
all over vith.
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that
OFFICIAL Russia
TAKES its crisis and puts it nicely
to bed every night
THE crisis wakes up in the morning
as peevish as IT is possible for it to be.
AVE are vastly interested in the announcement that at an altitude of 6.000 feet corns cease to throb BOY, please page the Aviation Corps and see if there is a chance to get a good second-hand FLYING machine. IF we had our pick at a place for the war it would be in one of the ambulances DRIVEN by those society girls nattily dolled up in men's breeches, but as we never had much luck WE are prepared to curry the Colonel's horse or dig trenches nHEN our time comes. TOO many men are waving the flag with one hand and HOLDING their palms out with the other. ,
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