Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 3, Hammond, Lake County, 20 June 1917 — Page 4

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THE TIMES Wednesday, June 20, 1917

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BT TEE LAKE COUNTY PBINTIEG & PTOtLISOTSQ COMPABT.

The Times East Chicago-Indian Harbor, dally sxcpt Bandar. Entered

at tSe poatoftlce In East Chicago. November 18. 1913. The lke County Tines Daily xcet Saturday a ad SaadAy." Satered at ae poetoffice In Hammond. June 18. 1908. The Lake County Timei Saturday and weekly edition. & a tared at tbe poatofttce In Hammond. February 4, 1911. The Gary Evening Tlnjes -Dally except Sunday. Entered at the poatefflee f Gary. April IS. 1912. All under the act of March J. Xs7l. as sceond-clasa matter.

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DON'T A RED CROSS SLACKER. Indiana "is literally covered with Red Cross flags and printed matter urging every individual to do his bit in raising the million and a half dollars asked as the state's proportion of the one hundred millions wanted of the nation for the beginning of this philanthropic endeavor. Ignorance of the campaign and its purpose will not avail any ' slacker" who seeks to evade his fair share "of this donation to the country's cause. These are the times of prodigious sacrifices. America must give herself as England and France have already given- So long as anywhere the voice of Buffering and distress is heard we must give and give and give not $100,000,000. but millions moreThis Is .the call of the-American Red Cross echoing across the continent and it "sweeps Indiana today- From national headquarters comes the commandthe Red Cross must stand behind the man behind the gun. Indiana will hare some of its boys on the firing line- When you are solicited this week by a Red Cross lieutenant, don't turn him down- The dollar you give may return a blessing to you. It is estimated that by Tuesday morning 5,000 volunteer workers will be sounding the call for Indiana's share of the great war fund $1,500,000. Forweeks the eloquence of tongue and pen has told the people of the state why the Red Cross needs a f 100,000,000 war fund. This week it is up to Indiana to give. A final appeal from the Indiana director of the Red Cross. Arthur F. Bentley, says: "The day has come for the beginning of what is to be the most magnificent popular single gift of money for the cause of liberty ever made. The $100,000,000 war fund to be raised by the Red Cross Is to tell the whole world how freely the people of the United States are going to open their pocket-books to provide the many things beyond government eqaupment which the army needs in order to give it the highest efficiency. We are going to give and we are going to gTve freely, but we are not going to give in a spirit of benevolence to others, but in a spirit of common interest. Our boys are offering their lives and we are offering a little of our wealth to make it easier for them. . "All the indications are that Indiana is going to respond nobly to the nation's appeal- Hardly a county remains that has nor been fired with the working spirit; and where the working spirit exists, and where people have opened their eyes to what defeat would mean for the nation, there is no doubt about the size of the subscriptions. We have raised a Y M- C. A. fund; we have subscribed our part of the Liberty Loan; we have furnished money for many an enterprise which has keenly urged itself upon us. We may feel that we have done all that we ought to do at one time, but we know that war is a relentless master that it will not wait upon our convenience, and that what we do quickly and do fully is twice done. "We know that our dimes today will yield us greater returns in happiness and peace and prosperity later than the dollars we would have to spend If the enemy once put foot upon our soil, and we know tfcst neither dimes nor dollars nor any other coins can measure fully for us the value of a triumph of democracy and liberty in thi3 world. An invader would cost us our fortunes a conqueror would make our lives worthless. Our army Is going forth, and our hundred million dollars is surely going with it." NATIONAL MORAL COURAGE. As a people the English-speaking race are not wanting in moral courage There was every temptation for England to avoid this war and to bask in a comfortable although dishonorable peace. But as a writer in the Fortnightly Review points out, England staked the wealth and happiness of 450,000,000 people, the possession of one-fourth the surface of the glolje, as well as ancient and historic traditions. It was a great deal to throw down or. the boardAmerica now undertakes to do as much- With infinite pa'tience and skill, through crisis after crisis, the American people restrained their temper; despite all the eolemn warnings of the Monroe Doctrine and of the immortal Washington himself, America did not hesitate to take sides in a European war when their honor was involved. As a nation we hardly think that any one will any more refer to the American people as mere commercial souls. If blood tells the Anglo-Saxon blood and the blood that fuses with it tells. DANCING. To those who had not considered certain aspects of fdancing. we refer them to the subjoined remarks taken from a sermon delivered by .the Rev. Billy Sunday In New York the other evening, the whole discourse being dosed more or less with red pepper English: 'Tm with Li Hung Chang, the great Chinaman, who said, after looking at an American dance, 'Why don't they sit down to hug. "I want to see the color of the buck's hair who can wrap his

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ANY discount for cash? WHAT a fellow editor regards aa quite a piscatorial affair

THE giving up of trousers for kilts is foreshadowed in England WILL, the dear things who ar now adopting men's attire follow suit or DEVISE some other costi.me? THEY surely won't want to back into skirts. BULGARIA rays she is not going to carry the war Into Greece A BULGARIAN' is a natural born liar and you can tell him we said so. THE June wedding seem to.be going slow IS It possible that the jangle caused by a belle ambling down the aisle with a tin horn I.S to be heard i ti-.ore?. AUSTRIAN newspapers are funny HERE'S one who speaks of the "gross selfishness" of President Wilson OF course, sweet-scented Kaiser Wilhelm's sublime generosity is all right.

It s so different., t GERMANY is after 100,000,000,000 marks as indemnity CLAD to know the exact amount

WAS the marriage of John Codd to Mary Perch by the Rev. Wm. Sturgeon and IT really happened. IN Chicago at the beaches women are not permitted to wear suits any higher than FOUR inches above the patella BOY. oh boy, please run up to the doctor's' office and borrow a physiology for a few moments! NEVER shall it he said that we are not always seeking knowledge. AMONG the early arrivals expected ALMOST any day IS the cherry pie. Are you ready to welcome it? GIVE to the Red Cross GIVE cheerfully GIVE freely BUT for the love of Mike, give GIVE!

arms around my wife! I'm going to monopolize all that hugging business myself, take it from me! "Take it from me again, I'd consider it a nuisance to gallop three-quarters of a mile to get a hugging! "If I had the po.wer to make a law for America. I'd have a law that no boy or girt over twelve years of age should dance until he or she was married and then they should dance with each other. "Some people may say: 'Mr. Sunday, you are too severe; we like dancing for the exercise, the innocent pleasure it gives." All right. Then you men dance with each other and you women dance with each other. You'll get all the exercise and all the innocent aniusenuent of the dance that way. But if that system was put into t-ffect I bet the old dance would shut up shop between New York and San Francisco before the end of the week! "It will take your daughter when she is a rose-geranium of purity and make her into a poppy -flower of lust. The Cubanola Glide and the Mobile Buch were not bad enough, so they had to invent the Bunny Hug and the Puppy Snuggle and the kitchen sink and hell only knows what! "How do you like it when you see your wife in the embrace of a man who was once her lover? "Most men don't care a rap for the dance, it is the hug they are after- That'll give your old rheumatic and gout masters a chance. A fellow has got to get powerfully old and decrepit when he doesn't epjoy a hug. I'll tell you that. '1 want to tall- you I don't believe that there are many people who can go on the ballroom ffoor and dance with a pretty girl hug-, ged to his breast and look upon charms under the influence of fascinating music, and then go out with prayer meeting feelings. I will bet you, sir, if ninety men who dance would tell the truth ninety out of one hundred will say: "'You are right. Bill; you are the first one who ever -had the grit to tell it. "I have more respect for a saloonkeeper than for a dancing teacher. "I don't believe the ialoons will do aa much to damn the morals of young people as the dancing school "

LOOKING TO CONGRESS. It is not Germany's mailed fist but Congress that .businessmen fear Just now." Unwise taxation may inflict irreparable damage and there are a few men in Congress who know much about the commerce and industries of this country. Those who are well informed will be abused as soon as they protest against economic mistakes and fallacies. . Now that we are to have war the pro-German newspapers will stop attacking the president, but they will probably try to influence Congress to tax to death the individuals and corporations whom they have been fighting for nearly three years. They will serve the Kaiser and the Fatherland well if they can work through Congress to cripple our industrial and financial institations and drive capital out of the country so that we may be unable to compete with Germany in foreign markets after peace Is restored 4 Already some of these papers are trying to prevent recognition of the just claims of the railroads and thus destroy their efficiency by starving them to death. Everything depends on our railroads, the arteries of our domestic trade and the backbone of ovir land defenses. It ia useless to recruit a large army if the railroads cannot give it mobility. These attempts to get Congress to handicap railroads, steel and munition plants and other industries at this critical time look like giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war and paving the way for his commercial supremacy after the conflict is over.

MR. E. A. GATES, that jolly, good natured, interesting Auctioneer conducting the

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AN INCONCEIVABLE HUMILIATION. This is a world struggle, and if the United States is to win back any measure of the confidence and admiration we have lost in the eyes of the world by our failure to "maintain our national rights since the sinking of the Lusitania we must perforce enter this struggle with every atom of energy we possess. To enter the war, to declare to the world that we are in arms against Germany and then sit hack and make laceB would be a humiliation that it i3 inconceivable to contemplate. . I THEY AYERE FULLY READY. There is a good deal of disappointment manifested among the friends of Mavor R- O. Johnson of Gary, County Treasurer M. J- Brown and Com

missioners Schaaf and Black because of the postponement of the trial of,

the charges brought against them in the Federal court in the election cases. The Lake county men were all Veady for trial and were prepared to fight the charges at the drop of the hat. but for some reason the cases were postponed indefinitely. As they have never had the slightest doubt as to the outcome of the trial, It is hoped that the matter may be soon settled and the cloud against the good name of these men removed. A lot of people will have to be shown that there isn't politics at the bottom of this prosecution.

A LOOK up the alley shows that either some of the garages will have to be made smaller or some of the backyards larger.

says we're going to do things this week it's nearing the time when the stock must be closed out to make room for the HALLMARK goods. It's up to me to sell the goods regardless of cost and I'm going lo do it. Come in and varify this statement. 2:3 and 7:3 SS P. O. Every Day is Talking Machine Day For further particulars see Mr. Gates

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McGAKKY Hammond, Indiana

VOICE OF . THE ' PEOPLE

A GOOD IDEA. To the Editor: The American Press has widely published the fact that it would be a fine work of charity to arrange the exchange of family messages between parties in this country and those living in the territory of the Central Powers. It has generally been realized that the many thousands among us who have not heard a word from their close relatives since 1914 should be relieved of their constant anxieties, especially as this can be. done without endangering in the least the safety of our country. To a few editors, who believed that citttens of enemy countries should not communicate with each other. I draw attention to the following: Our government communicates with the Central Powers regarding many subjects through the medium of a neutral power. Our press obtains censored news from Germany through the medium of neutral countries. Why should not citizens receive family news after same has been, censored by the authorities of the Central Powers and our government, or vice versa? I know through personal experience that the neutral embassies gladly assist in such charity work. Uncle Sam can easily pay the expenses. Formerly, the British authorities would not let our mail through. As we are a neutral power no longer, the British government will now no doubt give consent to let mail censored by our government reach neutral European

porta. Therefore, our government should establish in Washington or in New York City a special office to have all family messages censored and re-written, and forwarded in our embassy bags to our representatives in Switzerland, Sweden and Holland for transmission through a neutral embassy to the embassies of Germany In these countries. Spy worn in connection with these censored messages will be impossible as same take several weeks for transmission. I cannot conceive a single reason why thia charity work should not be started immediately and relieve thousands of anxious hearts. Give parents and children a chance to hear from each other, give husband and wife an opportunity to exchange a few messages after the have not heard from each other since nearly three years. Many among us don't know whether their closest relatives are living or dead. Shall parent and children, wife and husband, brother and sister, not hear from each other for several more years? It is a crime if we do not change these prevailing trying conditions. Here is a chance for our administration to actually and promptly demonstrate to friends and foes alike the high humanitarian principles and unselfishness of our government, of which we hear so much at the present time! Yours very truly. Otto P. Schwarzschild. 112 West 72nd St.. New Tork City.

might at all times grace their steel poles, the price of which would furnish fresh editions of the stars and stripe for a year to come? And there ar others- For the love of Mike and out Country either see that the flag In whole and reasonably clean or don't fly any. H. W. M.. Hammond. Ind.

THE HIGH COST Or 7XtAGS. Editor Times: Is responsible for the old. dirty, torn and tattered rags that are permitted to float and droop under the tortured name of "Old Glory" from some of the principal buildings of town. Hasn't the Hammond school board made provision for its eight or nine school buildings about town that at least a decent flag

AMEmiCA 1917. Editor Timkb: To God the Omnipotent, 'Praise everlasting. Thanksgiving forever.

We have seen His hour Give us the power Not for vain lust of expectations Nor Mammon's dross That's Honor's loss Give us we pray Thee, strength t save the Nations. II. Crush the foul design That blasphemes the Divine And sears men's souls, this cursed autocracy; By the white stars in Old Glory. By our heart's faith in Old Glory We will fight the age old battle f oi a world Democracy. . HI. Honor is ours again. Faith aspires again. The white fire of the Spirit we release: Liberty. Eguality, Fraternity, America In the Brotherhood of Nations means a thousand years of peace. To God the Omnipotent, Praise everlasting. Thanksgiving forever. GERTRUDE COOPER, Mason St. Hammond, Ind.

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