Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 3, Hammond, Lake County, 20 June 1917 — Page 1

WHAT SACRIFICE ARE YOU MAKING FOR THE SOLDIER BOY WHO IS OFFERING UP HIS LIFE?

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Vital human interest surged In Hammond's Red Cross campaign on the eecond day of popular subscription when messages were received from Boston thi afternoon telling that the first blood had been given by a local recruit for the cause of liberty. It caused a mother to be tearfully rroud and the stay-at-homes to vow they too, would make sacrifices. Charles Miller of 20 Gordon street. West Hammond, la in an army hospital. He volunteered to give his blood that an injured sailor boy might live. Surgeons took a pint and a half of the rife-giving fluid from Miller and injected ttinto the sailor, dying from loss of "blood, whose arm had been torn off in a collision betwen submarine destroyers in Boston harbor. Other recruits will allow surgeons to graft skin from their bodies to that of the sailor. While not an act of battle It was a deed of heroism and indicated the willingness of the hundreds of Hammond boys, now in training and preparing for service in France, to lay down their lives for their country. Can the folks at home do less than give liberally to the Rerd Cross? An Appeal to the Women. The women of Hammond will have to help if the Red Cross campaign this week is to be all that it should. It was announced today that at 10:30 tomorrow morning girls and women who care to assist will be instructed by Chairman A. M. Turner and other workers at a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce. All girls and women are t urged to attend this meeting. They can be of great service the remaining days of the campaign. In the neighborhood of $6,000 had been subscribed at 2 o'oclock this afternoon following noon talks by Judge Relter at the Bet and Reid-Murdoch plants and soliciting In all parts of town. "Hammond MUST win." said Chairman A. M. Turner of the Red Cross war fund committee this morning. "There are no two ways about It. I wish I could Impress upon every man, woman ami child in Hammond and vicinity the absolute seriousness of this proposition. I say Hammond must win not only on account of her duty to the country and to the Red Cross, but because If Hammond did fall down in this campaign, it would virtually mean that 'we are failing or refusing to support the hundreds of young boys who have enlisted and the many more that will go to the front within the next few months." From present Indications Indiana will more than live up to her reputation as the home of genuine dyed-In-wool patriotism. Reports received at the Red Cross ctate headquarters up to noon Tuesday were most encouraging and if all counties and cities not heard from will do their share the state will exceed the allotment given it.

SUB LOSSES ON INCREASE (By I'nlted Press Cablegram.) LONDON, June 20. Losses by German submarines are on the increase. An authoratitatlve prediction this afternoon of the showing in an official statement to be issued this week was that the number of British ships lost In the past seven days will considerably exceed the destruction Inflicted the previous week. Last weeV the admiralty announced twenty-two ships of more than 1,600 tons and ten smaller ships lost. It is possible this weeks loss will reach 100,000 tons. 800 GIRLS MISSING By Inlted Press.) NEW YORK. June 20. Police Commissioner Woods anndunced today that he has found that beiween 700 and 800 girls had been reported missing from New York homes since January 1. Woods turned over to inspectors the complete investigation of the Cruger mystery and the uprooting of the white slave traffic in New York. A BROOK TROUT The best known fish in the waters. S. Silver Manufacturing Optician, the best known optical bouse in Hammond. 6-20

An Appeal to Our Readers It is splendid to see the response made on behalf of this great Red Cross campaign, but when you give GIVE CHEERFULLY. Last night we heard a man to whom we were appealing complain. In an injured sort of a way, as though he were about to be forced to give up something he should be allowed to keep: "Oh, I guess I'll have to give," he said, "but I'm hard up and I HAD PLANNED TO USE THE MONEY In a different way." We wonder if It occurred to him that some of the joung men SOON TO MEET DEATH HAD PLANNED not as to how they would spend their money, but as to how they would spend their lives. Nor are these who are about to die for their country, says a contemporary, the only ones whose plans of life are to be shattered by the rough fortunes of war- Not long since a great eastern paperproduced a cartoon showing a young man, who had been blinded in battle, now being Instructed in broom making. Its title was "The youth who was to have been an electrical engineer." HE, TOO, HAD PLANNED. Why, a year from now in the nameless graves on European battlefields will be lying the bodies of thousands of our young men who had planned, WHILE IN THE HOSPITALS . OF SUFFERING AND PAIN WILL LIE IN AGONY THE BROKEN FORMS "OF THOUSANDS OF OTHERS whose plans have crumbled to ashes like the apples of Sodom. Plans for the future! That paradise to which youth ldoks with bright face and eager anticipation! Plans for a career, for marriage, for a home, for children ALL SACRIFICED ON THE ALTAR OF THE NATIONIn the face of supreme immolation like this, what can we think of men who grudge contributions of mere money to the relief of those who have offered cheerfully the "last full measure of devotion?" What is' the disturbance of a plan to spend money when compared to the wreckage of a plan to spend lile? THE EDITOR-

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Why War Fund ot One Hundred Million is Needed at Once by Organization ot Mercy. "TheArmyand Navy represent the will of the people, but the Red Cross represents the American heart." NEVER in all the years of the world has the appeal for sympathy and succor from suffering humanity swelled to such a volume as now. Never has the American heart throbbed so warmly in response or yearned bo strongly to do the work of relief. The organization for the attainment of these ends is the Red Cross. It alone of all organizations of relief and mercy is the legally constituted engine authorized to work with the government itself to aid the stricken and dependent. The Red Cross in, all its branches, in many nations, is one of the greatest of human organizations. More persons are working for it and to achieve its ends than for any other single organization in the world. They number millions and are arproaching two millions in America alone. The funds it handles run into hundreds of millions. Its ships plough all the seas, its trains, its motors and other means of conveyance are in every land. Since the opening of the great war the Red Cross has grown at a rate hitherto unprecedented. In America alone It has sprung from less than fifty thousand to more than a million. A Business Administration. The President of the United States is head of the Red Cross. Its growth, its' whole future, presented a problem providing an administration of its affairs second to nothing in the world. To administer the affairs of the Red Croso (Continued on page seven.)

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GARY'S BIT' UP TO 100 Splendid Red Cross Record is Made in Gary Magic City Expects to OverSubscribe Its Quota in Time Limit. At noon today subscriptions for the Gary Red Cross fund totalled over 120.000. Yesterday in an unprecented "drive" of a few hours by the campaign teams $10,349.18 was raised. Nine teams did not report. As the Alaskan sled dog strains at his leash, so are the workers putting forth every effort in the near super-human struggle for flOO.OOO in less than seven days. If the "drive" averages its present totals every day of the campaign Gary will "over-subscribe" its big allotment by several of thousands of dollars. Never before has the city of Gary been hit by as serious a campaign. Never before has its people been brought (Continued on page mix.) RESORTS FLOURISH AT NEWPORT (By I'nlted Preaa.) , WASHINGTON, June 20. Startling conditions of immorality at Newport, fashionable resort, were called to the attention of the governor of Rhode Island by Secretary Daniels today because of their effect on the naval training station there. Daniels Bent a report to the department of justice re veallng that notorious nouses of prostitution and open gambling houses were doing flourishing business at Newport. GATHER THE CRAF SHOOTERS Four crap shooters and a gamekeeper were arrested at 2204-137th street. Indiana Harbor, last night. The names of the men booked at the police station were given as follows: Buck Farr- and Sanford Overall, colored; Anthony Shepard, Peter Dunker and Jack Braya, white. Braya is alleged to have been the gamekeeper. The men were before Judge Fuzy this morning and the case continued until tomorrow. B. P. 0. E. NOTICE Bed Cross War Tund meeting .Thuraday evening, June 21st. Let there be no absentee. Important. Very Important. 6-20 B. C. SLATES, Exalted Ruler.

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INTEREST AT Interest in the Red Cross campaign In Indiana Harbor continues to grow by leaps and bounds. It was announced yesterday afternoon by W. E. Jewell, vice president, and C. E. Potts, of the Inland Steel company, that the ready response with which solicitations were being met had Justified them in raising their limit up to $25,000, for the war fund and that $13,600 of this fund had already been obtained. On memberships there Is at present about $10,000 paid In. the number of memberships reaching approximately 6.000. A big clock will be put up in the Harbor within th e next few days and the hands will be moved forward each night as the returns of the day's work are reported. What is said to be one of the (Continued on page six.) POLICE CHIEF IS ON TRIAL (By I'nlted Preaa.) . IXDIAXAPOLIS, June 20. Taking the etand in federal court In his trial for alleged election frauds. Polic Chief Perrott this afternoon entered a general denial of the charges that armed policemen beat up colored voters In 1914. "Everything done under my direction by the department was merely to pravent false registration and illegal voting," declared Perrott. , RECRUIT WEEK NEXT WEEK (By I'nlted Preaa.) WASHINGTON, June 20 The week between June 23 and 30 was this afternoon designated by the president as recruiting week in which the president asks that 70,000 men volunteer their services for the regular army.

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Latest 'Bulletins (By Inltrd Tresa Cablegram.) PARIS, June 20. A Vltanlc artillery struggle la In progreaa on the greater pnrt of the French front. Xorth of Rhelma n violent bombardment of French poaitlona mi directed laat night. Along the Champaigne front Kuna on both aidea roared unceasingly throughout the night. ... .. ... ..... (By Inlted Preaa.) KIRKPATRICK MO, June 30 Fire which broke out when aeven cara of jraaoline on the Clover Leaf railroad exploded in a Trreck here today wa under control thia noon after f 100,000 damage bad been done. The fire for a time threatened to destroy the town. Calls were sent to curroundlng citiea for aid. - Two elevators .were burned. (By Vnlted Preaa.) WASHINGTON. June 20. Incenaed at suffrage, pickets who flaunted denunci atory banners before the white house las the Russian commission entered to greet President Wilson, a mob of 300 men and women, mostly government I clerks out at lunch hour, charged the women and tore the banners to shreds. "President Wilson and Envoy Root are deceiving Russia, was the accusation printed in black letters on a banner ten feet high displayed at the official entrances of the White House. , (By United Press.) SAX ANTONIO, TEXAS, June 20. That Mexico may enter the great war on the side of America and her allies and that France has agred to loan Mexico 20,000,000 pesos is the substance of an article published in an extra edition of Ls Rasa. La Rasa la published here by a close friend of the former minister of public instruction la Carransa's provisional cabinet and the head of the civilisation wing of the new congress. The article waa based upon telegrams purporting to have coine from semi official circles in Mexico. (By I'nlted Preaa.) NEW ORLEANS, I.A June 20. Two Cermana believed to have been preparing to blow up New Orleans blggeat buildings were arreated here early to

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day by. federal officers. The Germans are said to have made incendiary re. isarki and to have had in their possession trunks packed with bombs. (By I'nlted Press Cablegram.) PARIS, June 20. French newspapers today hailed the resignation of M. HofTman from the Swiss federated council as marking the end of the long continued Swiss peace move, some of which has been so persistent as to create irritation la allied countries. Hoffman's retirement was directly due to trans, mission of German separate peace baits to Petrograd and was forced by demand of Swiss newspapers who saw In such a move a breach of neutrality likely to give offense to allied nations. Swiss newspspers have recently been bitter In their comments on Hoffman's "mixing In foreign Intrigues. (By rutted Press Cablegram.) LONDON, June 20. Following the resignation of the entire Austrian cab. Inet late yesterday the youthful em peror oi Austria-Hungary was eonfronted today with his moat difficult task since assuming the throne. Dis patches today emphasised the difficulty confronting the government In order to obtain a cabinet which will receive sufficient support from the various factions In the empire to survive. BY J. W. PECLER. (With the Army Destroyer Flotilla In British Waters.) . After a record-breaking dash at night In response to wireless distress calls, two Americaa destroyers arrived at their base In an English port today with' eighty survivors ot two torpedoed merchant ships. The rescue waa made at a point at sear farther from land than any torpedoes had ever been reported before. The total run on this errand of mercy was several hundred miles. Thirty-one survivors from one ship were picked up in boats and a little beyond fortynine from the other were encountered. The flag of the American Admiral Sims now floats from a flag staff from a promentory on the coast where it la visible for miles at sea. Hammond Ball Park, Saturday, June 23, Hammond vs. Chicago Giants. Sunday, June 24, Hammond vs. Mur-leys.

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II. S. SHORES BYjpy Mass of People Oblivious to Real Peril In Which Country Is Placed. A Critical Situation. These are the mala factors Brttssi llnds as America eaters the war L. Terrific fighting on the Wwtern front, on a scale such as dt world has never known before. S.. Colossal expend! tore of man, materials and money. 3. ..World-wide shortage of food. 4. Serious contraction of shipping, due to the submarine cam. paign, with the demands upon shipping growing constantly heavU. 5. Increasing pressure of resposalblllty upon civilian popalatloa, coupled with increasing difficulties, due to the high cost of living food shortage and scarcity of labor and & The end of the war not yet in sight. (By Vnlted Press.) ATLANTA, GA, June 20 America must awaken and organize for war on an enormous scale, or face a long period of ghastly fighting and world-wide suffering. Thla was the message brought be fore the International Rotary conven tion here today by Pomeroy ' Burton, an American newspaper man from London. "By a long period I mean from five to twenty years or more," eald Burton. Burton predicted that , if America doesn't wake up and strike hard and quick, our own shores will be menaced. "Why does the average American citizen fall to grasp the vital fact that If Germany should destroy the British fleet or over-throw the massed forces of the allies on the western front, the result would be quick national death for this greatest of all the world's republics?" he asked. "Tne reasons for America's strange lethargy in the face of real national danger are two-fold," he said. "First, the allies' policy of close censorship has resulted In keeping the full flow of war facts and a reasonable understanding of the war's develop ments from reaching the people. "Second, the attitude which unfortuately was taken by the leaders of public opinion during the earlier stages of the war. that it was no concern of this country. "This attitude unquestionably serv(Contlnued on page seven.) FOR QUOTA (Special to Thb Times.) WHITING. IND.. June 20. The committee in charge of raising the $10,000 war fund for the Red Cross are putting forth every effort to raise the required sum In Whiting. Frank N. Gavit is chairman, Fred J. Smith, treasurer, and Roy E. Green, secretary. The remainder of the committee Is jH. S. Davidson, Joseph Tapjna and Julius Szudinskl. The committee hold meetings each evening to talk over the events of the coming day. A large clock has been erected at Roy E. Green's office, the Index hand pointing to the amount of funds raised from time to time. Up to yesterday about $1,400 has already been subscribed. On Monday night night Attorney Walter Smith who is a member of Chicago hospital unit No. 13 spoke at both the ITincess and Star theatres. Last night Attorney Roy E. . Green spoke at the shows. Different speakers will be held each evening this week. Speakers will also appear before the foreoigners of the city. The sidewalks have all been labelled and the packages from all the grocery stores will be placarded. On Thursday night the Boy Scouts will give a drill and the Jlascnic band will give a concert The committee are hard at work and with the co-operation of the public, as this Is not only for one but for all. The Red Cross slogan to the citizens is: Watch The Clock on One,

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