Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 9, Hammond, Lake County, 27 June 1917 — Page 4

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THE TIMES "Wednesday, June 27, 1917 THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BT THE LAKE COUNTY PSWTING & PTOLISHINO C0HPA3T. .MAP SHOWS WHERE NEW CONSCRIPT ARMY WILL BE TRAINED So- 110PUBLISHED STATEMENT TRUST COMPANY. Condensed Statement of the Condition of the JOHN R. FAROVID, President. M. R. SCHOCK, Vice President. CHAS. P. PACKER JR., Secretary. CHAS- P. PACKER JR., Treasurer. The Times East Chicago-Indiana Harbor, dally axept Bundajr. Bntef e4 j at the po:oftlc In East Chicago. November 1. 1913. j Tbe Lake County Time Dally exoept Saturday and Saaday. Batarad at j tme poetortlce In Hammond. June 18, 1908. The Lake County Times Saturday and weekly edition. Kstarad at the Doatofflce m Hammond, February i. 1911. ! Ciiziens Trust and Sayings Bank at Indiana Harbor, in the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on June 20th, 1917. LIABILITIES.

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AS TO SOCIALISTIC SHOUTERS. It seems to us that it is high time for the federal government to take fwift action with the socialists and their dupesthe pacifists, propagandists, settlement workers, picket-suffs and all the long-haired males and shorthaired' females who are daily raving end traducing the U. S. These creatures ought to be backed up against a stone wall and made to tell whether they are for the President or the kaiser. This gentry denounces war and denounce those who are carrying it on. In many cases they advise lawless resistance. How long is the government to temporize with them? Does Washington not know that the talk of these creatures is having its effect? Does it not know that the socialism of today is almost wholly a German product? It draws itg inspiration from German theorists whose necks are in the yoke and who permit the kaiser Bhouters' to tighten that yoke. These German socialists talk and talk and rant and rave, but where did you ever hear of one of them striking a blow for human liberty? If the socialists and their following in this country want to stay they had better shut up and be good old U. S- A-, not German-

BROADGAUGE STATESMANSHIP. Now the suggestion is made that the railroads of the country shall carry all supplies needed by the government free- Only the other day the suggestion was made that the newspapers should print advertisements for recruiting, for the loan and other thing3 free, and they did it- The advisory council has been busy cutting the prices of copper .steel, lead and other metals needed by the government to about the equivalent of the cost of production. Eminent men are working for the government without pay, but they are willing that that fact should be known. To criticise in a spirit of friendship is not disloyalty or treason.. This tendency is no doubt based on the best intentions. But is it not a mistake? Why not then endeavor to shift our point of view, asks pertinently the Washington Herald. Is the government of the United States a mendicant? On the contrary it is the greatest and most prosperous organization in the world. It should pay for service and pay well. It should not indulge in cutting commodity prices, it should not go around like a beggar asking things for nothing. The laborer is worthy of his hire-

N. Northeastern; E., Eastern S. E., Southeastern;

Military departments f the United States: Southern; C. Central: W WeBlcrn.

The heavy black dots mark the points now chosen by the war department for the establishment of semipermanent eontonments.

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Passing Sholt?

iOMh. one writes us and asks where '

is the ocean deepest? THAT won't get Kaiser Bill anything j though VIIY do you want to know? I

1 GOD pulled out the

THE feminine food speculator who push a long time ago.

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RESOURCES. Loans ?239,54?-40 Overdrafts 544. S' Bonds and Stocks - 18,650.00 Company's Building 9,465.00 Furniture and Fixtures 500.00 Other Real Estate 5,250.00 Due from Departments 22,814.36 Due from Banks and Trust Companies 18,662.16 Cash on Hand 26,817 71 Cash Items 5,453 09 Taxes and Interest Paid 3,717 33

Capital stock paid in 50.00o.00 Surplus , 4.000.0C Undivided Profits Not 2,472.6s Interest, Diecountand Other Earnings 8,562. 1 Demand Deposits, Except Banks . 141.41S.12 Savings Deposits. Except Banks 141.196.9C Trust Deposits, Except Banks : 337.86 special Deposits, Except

Banks

Certified Checks rash-Dver Dther Liabilities

1.200.0C 32-0G 8816 2,000-OC

Hohenzollprn

bought a barrel of flour because she

thought the price was going up i

JAIL, the jolly price jugglers. Nice

eong but don't amount to much.

NOBODY can appear ambitious WHILE climbing down a ladder.

INSTEAD of buying a 25-lb. sack has

discovered that the flour has begun to i MOULD which is a case of chickens !

rw1- j ABOUT the only tzme that some of SOMETIMES in our quiet and unas- us are soing to get a little rest from

suraing way we take a good deal of the demands of secret delight . j WAR lg when IX the fact that the only distinction ' THET take us to a hospital and say we ever hope to enjoy is that j to the nurse

WE did not go to Niagara Falls on our wedding trip.

AFTER all there is nothing

"BETTER keep the room possible."

dark as

WHEN we look at some modest look-

THAT we like to hear about so well ,nS brides we figure It out that they

as two people whose tastes are quite look tnat way

similar

HERE'S a woman who doesn't CARE very much for her husband

BECAUSE they know they are not much of a prize. NOTHING worries this country

and he doesn't care very much for her' h-tttt u ... "r "tr WITH the Hun sneaking In on us WHICH is 50-EO. j scientists are wondering where the vrv-rT j , stegosaurus carried EVERT few days Kaiser Bill gives out a statement indicating in his cheery IIIS tailway that he is not going to I . !T'n:iiT?Tro . . , j SUBSCRIBER wants to know why BEAR God any grudge if He'll do the Sec- Daniel's friends don't take him in right i hand

THING from now on.

PERHAPS he hasn't an

PRIZE RUBE IN A RUBE DISTRICT. Congressman Cox of Indiana, has represented the prize rube district of this state for a good many years, his constituents still cheirshing those sentiments they solemnly subscribed to in the early sixties when a3 Knights cf the Golden Circle they met at midnight in the hickory groves to pledge thteir fealty to Jeff Davis- Cox Is the sort of a bucolic plug that suits them; from which we may gather some idea of his horsey habits and his mental equipment. Such knowledge, perhaps, ia necessary to understand the following statement made by him the other day In a speech at Richmond: "We are in this war and we are going to win it- Of that the country may rest assured- Just when we will win it I do not know, but win It we will. I say we shall win this war when from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 American soldiers stack arms in the streets of Berlin. And they are going to .stack arms in Berlin mark that down." We wonder whether it ever occurred to this bush-beating jay that things would be rather crowded in the streets of Berlin if five million American' soldiers marched in to stack arms there. That's a tidy bunch of soldiers to shove its way into a town with a population of only two million, even granting that the soldiers of Great Britain, France, Belgium. Russia, Servia, t lontenegro, Roumania and Italy would entirely Surrender ttheir own desire to stack arms. There are several million of them, also, and if they, too, insist on participating in this arm stacking stunt it's going to be a mighty busy day in Berlin. Perhaps, the interesting thing about Mr. Cox's declaration, however.

Is its necessary implication that it is going to be up to this country to send ,

something like eight or ten millions of men over the water before we get through with this little game which he so solemnly assured us during the last campaign President Wilson had kept us out of- For if four or five millions are marched to Berlin an equal number will have to be distributed elsewhere over the empire to preserve order and perform duties of one kind or another- If statesman Cox speake with the authority of the president we are undertaking a bigger contract in this war than even our most eminent pessimists have pictured- But possibly the gentleman from Indiana is merely blowing of steam to impress the yokels, says the Fort Wayne News-

THE RIGHT AND 'WRONG OF THINGS. Morals are the product of social experience. The sense of risrht and wrong is no more inborn than is the knowledge of how to build a railroad It is not conferred by a heavenly power any more than a chart of the ocean currents is thus conferred. Neither an individual nor a community can know what is right and what is wrong without applying intelligence to the question- The man who possesses a keen sense of humor is much more likely t0 be just than one who merely possesses a desire to be just, but lacks the sense of proportion which makes for humor. Let us assume that a certain pious city has elected to congress a politician who can deliver the goods. He pulls wires and gets his town put down in the appropriation bill for a postoffice building to cost $250,000; when in fact a building worth $100,000, with provision for an addition some thirty years later, would meet all reasonable requirementsSuppose, further, that a bright young newspaper man should publish a heavy editorial declaring that this extravagant postoffice appropriation was a robbery of the national treasury and that the good old town of Honorburg cculd not afford to receive stolen goods, even with a big flagpole on the cupola and the stars and stripes rippling in the breeze overhead. One does not need to be a profound student of community morals to know that the congressman who pulled the big appropriation for Honorburg would be lauded as a patriot and the editor who criticised him denounced as a traitor to his home town. After all, the disgrace which attaches to an immoral act depends greatly upon theability of the governing body to inflict punishment. We all know that it is theoretically wrong t0 adulterate manufactured products, but until it is followed by prompt arrest, punishment and dlsgarce, we shall continue to respect those who do it. The sense of right and wrong is not a product of inborn emotion, but of acquired knowledge- Those who suffer and permit a wrong are even more guilty than those who perpetrate it.

SOME FACTS ABOUT CREEL. George Creel, who is going to exercise the censorship over the newspapers of America, not only was a democratic press agent during the last campaign, but it now appears from his eulogists that his greatest piece of woik in recent months was a full-page defense of Josephus Daniels administration of the navy department. It is worthy of note that Mr. Creel's colleagues in the censorship board are Mr. Daniels, Mr. Baker and Mr. Lansing. It is evident In advance that some things are goiiig to be lese majeste to the new censor. . The county jail has no fears for us, and that trio will be watched whenever the occasion demands.

SOKE OEBMAW

IKHUMAH DOCtTMZaTTS

Editor Times:

I am enclosing a copy of a number of

German war documents which Ian

Malcolm, a member of Parliament or I'oltalloch, Scotland, sent to the London Times. He got them from a British Tommy who took them from German

war prisoners. I think the people of this country ought to know what sort

of an enemy their sons are fighting. C. B. M., Hammond. Mr. Ian Malcolm, M. P., jr. of Pol

talloeh, has sent the following to the

"Times":

Sir: I enclose herewith two "scraps of

paper" taken from German prisoners In

the region of Bapaume where I found

myself last Monday. Their contents should, I think, be made known far and

wide, for they bear eloquent testimony

to the wpnton and cruel spirit in which the Germans are losing the war. I will add that, for the time being, the originals are in my possession, and that these translations are faithfully done from the originals. No. 1 dated March 9. gives instructions for the procedure preliminary to the so-called German "withdrawal" on the British front, and runs as follows:

1. Pioneer and 1 infantryman will throw dung into thewells. 2. Pioneer and 2 infantrymen will cut down the trees. 3. Pioneer and 2 Infantrymen will carry out special tasks. 4. Pioneer' and 2 Infantrymen will stack wood in houses. No. 2 is a time-table to be carried out at Bancourt, a village just east of Bapaume. In the village of Bancourt it more Important to set fire to the houses than to blow them up: March 5th Straw will be heaped up and tarred. March 10th Explosives are to be ready for the cellars and wells in Bancourt. March 11th Al unused wells and

watering ponds must be plentifully polluted with dung and creosote soda. Suf-J fieent soda must be placed in readiness i beside the wells which are in use. I March 12th Bancourt must be ready' to be set on fire. March 13th Parade In fighting kit,! issue of iron rations, cleaning or arms,! instruction regarding safe roads to bei used and Instructions for the demoH-j tion party. ' March 14th Explosives to be issued' for destroying the cellars and wells ln: Bancourt. Bancourt Church Tower will be blown up. March 16th All wells in Bancourt with the exception of one will be blown up by 6:30 p. m. March 17th The road mines will be fired at 3 a. m. Tha remaining cellars in Bancourt will be blown up at 3:15 a. m. and Bapcourt will be set on fire at 4 a. m.

Total Resources $351,417 91 j Total Liabilities ...$351,417 91 Total Liability on Surety Bonds None Premium Received on Bonds Issued None Premium Reserve on Bonds Issued . None State of Indiana, County of Lake, ss: I, Chas- P- Packer Jr., Cashier of the Citizens Trust & Savings Bank ol Indiana Harbor, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. C. P. PACKER JR. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 26th day of June, 1917. MARY H. JOHNSTON, Notary Public My commission expires Feb- 15th, 1921-

Lake Cotsnty Title k Guaranty Co.

si Abstracters of Titles 1

Abstracts of Title furnished to all Lands and Lots in Lake County.

FRED R. MOTT, Pres. FRANK HAMMOND, Vice Pres.

ALBERT MAACK, Sec'y-Treaa. EDWARD J. EDER, Manager.

Crown Point, Indiana.

Branch Offices at Hammond and Gary.

MEXICO AND INDIANA. Mexico, without much fuss and feathers, has gotten a new constitution. Indiana may get one bye and bye. It Is only In countries that are partly civilized where they seem to show speed in changing their constitutions.

HE WANTS THE TIMES. 3rd Co., Ft. Mass., June 22. Editor Times: Enclosed please find one dollar ($1.00) in currency for which send me Thb; Times for the time it will pay for. Happened to run across a copy the other day nnd it lrought back to my mind the home town. ! I suppose you know that we lost sev-, eral .of the boys from Hammond at this fort Gregory from my company. They.

left June 20th. Wc sure were sorry to lose them. We wore on the range at the time, but the fellows from the company did .not' get to shoot and find out how good they could hit the bull's eye. The fellows from .the 1st Co. are out this week and they surely are having dandy weather for practice. Yours truly. LOUIS PETEREIC, 3rd Co.. Company Clerk. P. S. Kindly address Fort , Mass.

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