Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 309, Hammond, Lake County, 12 June 1917 — Page 2

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THE TIMES

PEACE AT ANY PRICE? MOT FOR C. I SHARP

"There ia peace in a grave yard because there is death." That was the answer of Rev. C. J. Sharp, pastor of the First Christian

cnurcn. to the pacifists and peace at any price" advocates. In a sermon Sunday mornlngr Rev.

Sharp said: There are a number of kinds of peace. Some people uant any

old kind of peace, just so it's peace. There are some prices that can't be paid for peace. "This war isn't the f.rst time that injustice, HU and death broke loose in the -world." he said. "The devout prayer of every Christian is that God will use this war to brinp about the peace Christ talked about. I don't want to see peace that is a truce. I hope that the terms of peace will be so no

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nation Is oppressed. I hope Germany will bo sick of her materialism and higher criticism; England awake on her knees to God not to some other nation, however, and that Franca will feel the need of Christ. "Surpose tomorrow it could be brouRht about that not another gun would be fired, every foot of territory returned, every wound healed, every child starved in Poland and Belgium brought back, every babe murdered in Asia made to live again, the slain soldiers restored to their families, every bridge and building and rebuilt would that mean the peace of God? "There would be millions of men and women suffering In their hearts as be

fore the war. Ninety thousand Ameri

can girls would be buried in harlot

graves and millions of men in drun ard's graves. "What the world needs 'he peace of Christ.

"I would rather all my boys and my

self too would die in the trenches of France than all live with the devil in our hearts." The minister said that rather than have their country in danger and their

rights and principles taken from them

pvery man should shoulder a gun.

1 flon i Deiieve l nrist meant ve

should be disloyal." he said.

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RASTIV1E TO-DAY Last of "PEARL OF THE ARMY" Second of -"DOUBLE CROSS" and a two-reel Fox Comedy, "A TANGLE IX, BATH HOUSES " WED. "A DAUGHTER OF WAR" with MAY HOWARD.

EDWARD SMITH DEA

Edward Smith, a millwright at th

Hirsh-Stein Glue factory. West Han-

mond, died this morning- at St. IVgaret's hospital from injuries received

while at work in the mill a wee

today.

In working about a washing

chine his clothing was torn fron

body when it caught in a swift

inp shaft. He dropped to the flo

distance of about eight feet, badly

ago

ma-

his ov-

jured. He was rushed to the hosp;tl

Officials today said that it was

mystery why Smith climbed above the

machine, the trouble being below. Smith was 20 years old and lived at 513 Plummer street, where the funeral will bo held Thursday. Burial will be made &t Oak Hill cemetery.

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STEPHEN D. DUNIGAN TAKEN IN DEATH

Stephen D. Dunlgan. a Red 53 years, a road contractor, died at his home In 32 MasoV street, yesterday of peritonitis. He been falling in health for six month but was not taken severely ill until al few days ago. Mrs. Dunlgan and aj daughter. Marian, survive. Mr. Dunkan lived in Ixuisville, Ky., before coiiinsr to Hammond six years

funeral arrangements have

completed but it is probable

funeral will be held Thurs-

ins with services at All

church at 8 o'clock, and burial lvary cemetery.

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FAT CHANCE NOW The man who uses a box car for a

arlor car had better keep away from

ammond Chief of Uoliee refer Aust-

gVn. unless he has a register certificate

with him.

The chief has bought a new "Hawk-

aw spy Klass" and preambles about

own "looking for men without the

proper government tags. Every man he catches between 21 and 31 without the O. K. card he will shove In the "booby hatch" and turn "em over to the federal authorities.

COSTS HIM $35 It cost Peter Scheidler, a Baltimore & Ohio railroad detective, exactly $35 to shoot in Indiana Sunday morning. He was arrested for carrying concealed weapons, and this morning

Judge Barnett assessed a $25 and costs fine upon him. His etory of being a railroad detective was found to be true, but he should have been on duty the night he was caught here. He told the court

he had Just come from Burnham.

RS. COSNER DEAD

Mrs S. B. Cosner, 68 years old, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. FrVnk DeVault. 373 E. State St.. HammonJL Monday afternoon, following a illness of nine weeks, caused, by a complication of diseases. Mrs. CosneY was born in Moncie, Ind., May 2. 1S49. She was married to Samuel Cosner, who survives. Dec. 25. 1871. Mrs. Cosner was a member of the Baptist church and was a highly respected member of the community in which she lived. Besides her husband and daughter, Mrs. F. DeVault, she is survived by Bayless Cosner of Gary, a son. The funeral will, be held from the residence of Mrs. DeVault at eleven o'clock Wednesday morning. The body vvi be shipped over the C. & O. ratway to Muncie where burial will ba made.

Tuesday, June 12. 1917

premo court this afternoon granted a writ of prohibition to prevent Federal Judge Iindis at Chicago from taking jurisdiction over the 373 damage suits against the Indiana Transportation Company, arising out of th sinking of th excursion steamer Eastland.

WHITING BOY ON WAY TO EUROPE (Special to The Times.) "WHITING, IND., June 12. Another Whiting boy has gone to the fighting line in Europe, this being Ralph Brenner, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Brenner of LaPorte avenue. The card received by the Brenners conveyed the Information that he sailed from New Tork on Sunday enroute to . Mr. Brenner enlisted several years ago and has been doing service In Mexico for several years.

ORKEX?Bl'RG.-William H. Lockridge of St. Paul, who died recently, willed his farm In Nobble township, valued at $6,600, to George a Gregory, a friend. HORRORS OF GERMAN WARFARE (Continued Fro.u rag Oni)

COURT GRANTS A WRIT

(By United Tre. WASHINGTON, June 11. The

ing to the wife with the brutal message that he wasdead. The Hell la Poland. While in Belgium the German officers asked Mr. Walcott to go to Poland, they frankly admitting that the starvation there had caused typhus to . spread which menaced the German army. The German troops were fed first and what was left went to the civilian population. As in Belgium a policy of terrorism and slavery was used to subdue the Poles, something that man never thought of before. Arriving in Poland Mr. Walcott soon learned how Prussian militarism had drawn a curtain over a nation of 15,000.000 people and was crushing them to death. It took the Prussian 150 years to subdue that part of Poland now In eastern Prussia, but It only took a little more than a year to grind down Russian Poland by using starvation.' Die By The Boadslde. When the Russian army retreated it burned or destroyed every house along a wide line 230 miles long to hinder the Germans. The result was frightful to the civilian population along that portion. They became refugees and sleeping in the roads at night; each morn, ing saw some left dead. In other parts of the country, where the Germans Invaded, they confiscated the food and in many cases civilians got but one meal a day. T7e Dead's Boui For Fertiliser. In company with German officers Mr. Walcott motored along one of the three military highways.. He found a constant line of skeletons, bones and cloth-j Ing. Crows had picked the bones clean

and the remains were those of humans of every age. from babes in the cradle to old men. Following the crows the German military wagons came along and collected the larger bones, to be used for fertiliser. Ghaatllness of Starvation. Issuing an order forbidding any Pole to give food to any able-bodied Pole simply meant that the heads of families had to accept slavery in Germany to work in the factories. They slept on the floors and their wages paid for their food. They got no word from their families. In concentration camps Mr. Walcott saw the effects of starvation. Sores break out at the ears, the abdomen swells, the glands of the throat puft out and the eyes become bulging and the victim suffers a fever and delirium. Clothing" haa to be sewed on. With very

little water and no chance to get soap these people were in an Indescribable state of filth. Vermin becomes thick

and typhus thrives.

Mr. Walcott told of the effects of the "Big Bertha" YKrttpp gun) which shoots a porjectile 17 Inches in diama-

ter. 6M fet high and weighing 1900 lbs.

One of these shells fired a distance of 13 miles landed in the heart of one of the 26 citadels guarding the fortress of Nova Georgsk. It caused a hole in the

earth as deep as the theatre Auditorium wrecked the citadel completely and re

duced to pulp 423 soldiers. With this the whole chain of forts surrendered. Mr. Walcott gave this as an Illustration of the terrible might df Prussian mili

tarism. Tlaita Trenches. The speaker told of a visit to the

German and then the French trenches on the western front. At one place the

Germans have a system of 4.000 miles of trenches to guard 400 miles of front.

"In Europe 22,000,000 men are living in holes in the ground, existing under

conditions that would be deemed cruel

to horses and dogs here. Aghtlng each other like wild beasts, burrowed into

the ground like rats many of them do not understand what It is all about." Studying the Prussian Mind. Mr. Walcott told of his many conversations with Prussian officers of high rank.( The Germans have had a philosophy of Germany first drilled Into them for a half century. It permeates the military aristocracy. The officers are all able men, big men and highly trained men, but they are tainted with the obession of militarism. Their policy is to attempt anything for the glory of the German state. He gave an instance of this by showing . their crushing of the Poles and Belgians. In Serbia the same thing ensued where Austrians and Bulgars, officered by Germans, cruelly treated the population. In Armenia 600.000 inocent Christian were slaughtered by Turks commanded by German officers. As to the German People. All during the evening Mr. Walcott showed a kindly regard for the German people, especially the peasants. He, said he felt just as sorry for the Ger

man -women as he did for the French

womnn. Germans are duped by their militxtry lords and a systematic scheme of lyitng in the newspapers. They see that mo German soil is invaded and are told that everything will soon come out all right in the end. But, Mr. Walcott believes that this poison of militarism. whichexists among the officer class, is in danger of spreading to the German people themselves. ' If this war is to be ended itmust be by the aid of the German peile who will set up a United Stateso Germany. Mr. Walcott was repeatedly cheered and atitilmes when he told of the horrors itNfcad a marked effect on the audience. He warned that it is now

America's part to crush the Prussian serpent, and to convince the German people so strongly thai they will berin to recognize the hellishness of their cause. Postmaster H. B. Snyder presided at the meeting. Capt. H. S. Norton in a brief speech said that the $100,000 Gary will give next week in the campaign which starts at a dinner at the Commercial Club will only be the first of a scries of war demands. D. Burr Jones of the National Red Cross will organize the Gary workers. America is to raise $100,000,000 for Red Cross 'work. It will be this country's lot to succor ravaged spots like Poland and Serbia.

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