Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 25, Hammond, Lake County, 30 June 1917 — Page 4

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THE TIMES THE TaMES NEWSPAPERS MONDAY AND TUE3DAY AT DeLUXE Teaching Her the Fairbanks Smile Free Souvenirs to Ladies Every Afternoon BT IKE LAZE C0U7TTT PEDrTDTQ & PUBLISHHJG COiLPAST. The Times East Chicago-Indiana Harbor, dally except Bundar. Sntered at the poetofflce In Eat Chicago. November 18, 181$. The L-ake Count Timei Dally except Saturday and Bmnday. Cater al the poatclTlee In Hammond. June JS. 1908. The Lake County Tlmea Saturday and weekly edition. Eatered at the postofTJce In Hammond. February 4, 1111. The Gary Evening Tlmea Dally except Sunday. Entered at the pottefflce In Gary, April IS. lll. All tinier the act ot March 3. 187, aa aecond-claae matter. i roaEics ADVERTISING OJTlCa IS Rector Building ....Chicago 2 '

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SURE! Let'B have prohibition here to save grain so that it can be sent to England to make beer.

AH, lovely woman! She will pine for a cool summer resort and then buy a $275 set of furs to keep her warm. PETERSBURG, Ind , chap with red hair had barber cut it in form of Red Cross. And yet they say the West ain't patriotic.

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"Smile and the world smiles 'with ;ou. frown and you get the gate," is :he admonition advanced by Douglas Fairbanks to all newcomers in hli film .'ompany. Topular Douglas is one of ihe greatest exponents of the smile ind naturally feels that his associates

should work with the proper spirit The athletic screen star Is here disclosed teaching the art of the smile to' his pretty leading lady, Eileen Percy, who makes her film debut In the new Fairbanks-Artcraft picture, "Wild and Woolly."

-6timulant used by steel workers, some of whose work is terrible and exacting. But the lighter drinks are no longer used by the thousands of Virginia

tsteel men. They now consume whiskey and brandv. not eood whi&key and

brandy, but for the most part a cheap type- This they get by spending a nickel to ride across the Ohio river ferry into Ohio- Under the West Virginia law a resident is allowed to import one quart of booze a month

1 into the state, and as no systematic check is employed probably many West

Virginians Dring in a good many quarts- Beer is too bulky to transport, so thanks to the action of the dry element the steel workers have been turned

nnto whiskey drinkers. However, all parts of West Virginia do not face

wet border states, but that inconvenience is easily supplied by the distillation of moonshine liquor, made as near as a mile or two in the interior- In inland West Virginia the state has long had a reputation of housing illicit iiquor distilleries, located in lonely 6pots and hard to find. It is argued that when the Webb-Kenyon law is enforced there will be no interstate importation, but assuming that national prohibition does not nsue it will be very easy to smuggle booze into West Virgiina just as it is done in Arkansas, where the state law prohibits its importation. And if riational prohibition does ensue it is a pretty safe guess to make that moonshine liquor will be distilled in greater quantities than ever in'the mountains or even in homes, for any one by means of an attachment on the teakettle can make liquorThe liquor question and the steel workers' plight in West Virginia is not without interest in this steel belt, where the nearness of the Illinois border or the facilities for violating the law will obtain if national prohibition comes or when the state dry law goes into effect next April. If national prohibition comes it is a big Job to predict what will result from the legislation fostered by misguftled zealots. Neither France, Ger-

WE want to be patriotic, but we'll be hanged first before we let thatfmany nor England have decreed prohibition, although they have wisely

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THIS country is slightly balled up. We are asked to crush autocracy in Germany and theh see a lot of chaps in congress trying to deprive U3 of liberty under the guise of war prohibition. U- S- cuts coal prices for us all. Food, steel and clothing prices next. MACARONI! Italy announces invention of Bhip that's unsinkable. Probably also unpronounceable. NOW if the Gary grand jury wants to get a rising vote of thanks from every one. let it figure out some way to make motor speeding unpopular. SOUTH BEND has done its bit la the food conservation movementWag there has suggested shampoos be abolished and 2S8.976.p67 eggs saved as a result. IN plain English the government has told the coal barons to cease pickpocket operations.

flag record, "Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You" come into the house.

UNTIL the missus went on a visit to the farm we used to be deviled when we unintentionally bought a ham or mutton roast that contained too much fat, but now that she has learned how to make home-made soap from lye and kitchen grease, thus defying the soap trust for charging eight cents a bar, we are asked to buy bacon or salt pork for every other meal in order that. soap can be made twice a week.

AS TO THE LIMELIGHT. It is said the grand jury is to invesitgate the. letting of the contract for the building of the big west side sewer. It is also said the fact that the city engineer "estimated" the cost of the sewer by over $100,000, the price the contractors took the work for, will be put under limelight. It must be admitted these figures are mighty curious Gary TribuneThe suggestion has also been made, now that investigations are said to be in order, that the grand jury probe into the charge that the Gary park board had let contracts to a newspaper concern in which one or perhaps more members are stated to have an interest- This refers to the park board printing work. . Perhaps a waiting public would like to know whether there has been any violation of the statute that prohibits such work, whether any or all members of the park board are amenable to the law wMch says that officials who let such contracts face punishment, and if such law were violated whether the city of Gary has received the return of any money not taken legally from its treasury, and if the city attorney at that time was guilty of neglect of duty In not taking the proper steps to effect Its return-

made regulations and restricted output. To summarily kill off existing in: riustries, attack the source of governmental revenues and to try to curb tthe appetites of a people by taking advantage of a crisis is the establishment of autocracy, the enactment of legislation that may not be respected, and a move that brands those who father it as citizens whose regard for the welfare of the country needs the closest watching.

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Editor Lake County Times: Just a few lines so you will please put th:3 news in your paper for the boys that received the Times will know where we are going, as we do not know where they are We leave for France in the near future as soon as we get field equipment and horses we will sail from on a transport. "We are stationed at this fort for a while 'till we get supplies and horses and then leave for some place in France. This French siege battery is the first one 'of Its kind ever mobilized in the United Ptates. The officers only pick the best men of the Coast Artillery for this battery. They picked these men before, they asked for men to transfer to the field artillery and the infantry, as they wanted only soldiers for French batteries. We are on the

river opposite Fort . Just down the river is Fort . AVe are several hundred feet above the river. We can think of Hammond as we look over the river and see

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PROHIBITION IX THE STEEL BELT. With persons having misconceptions of liberty working to , inflict an autocracy on the country by means of national prohibition, it is timely to speculate on some of the effects of state prohibition that now exist in West Virginia communities akin to those here. Part of that state is bounded by wet commonwealths. For instance, in the steel mill district of West Virginia, which Is much like our own, they still get liquor, but in a form that makes the traffic an undesirable one. The big steel mill region of West Virginia i3 in the Wheeling district, on the Ohio river, opposite Ohio, and not far from Pennsylvania. Until West Virginia went dry the steel workers of the Wheeling-Benwood district consumed beer, light wines ?ni liquors; but hop- the mainstay and

WAR AS IT IS. The weight of the conqueror's heel is no more graphically portrayed than in Madame de Turczynowicz's book, "When the Prussians " Came to Poland" (G. P. Putnam's Sons). Just issued, the volume is a notable acquisition to current-day war literature, an unofficial transcript ot war's grim reality as set down by one of its victims. Says a review: Here, as in Belgium, large levies were imposed upon the people, their food was commandeered, and their women, if no more unhappy fate .awaited them, were forced to do menial service for the conquerors. The prisoners, if uninjured, were made to work for the Invaders on starvation diet; if wounded, they were ill-attended and ill-fed, in hospitals ruled over by brutal physicians. The peasants, induced to buy seeds at exorbitant rates from the German authorities on the understanding that the fruits of their planting would be theirs, found their crops when ripe confiscated by the enemy. Finally the "crowning injustice," Madame de Turczynowicz calls It when discontent became menacing, the Germans deliberately debauched the population by encouraging the sale of rum, the revenues from which they appropriated. Here also, as in Belgium, frightfulness was no mere sporadic excess on the part of an irresponsible soldiery, but a deliberately countenanced policy. Madame de Turczynowicz's recital adds another argument why America should take steps to avoid war by being prepared. The picture of the position of the unfortunate Polish women alone is a possibility America never cares to invite for its womanhood, yet it is one that is always potential under present conditions.

all lighted up. Well, I gruess I must close for this time. We also sent a piece of news to our recruiting sergeant at Hammond, Sergeant Welch. I hope he has returned to Hammond by now, as what he said about the army is right. We like nothing- better. Well, we must close, as It Is time for retreat. From all of your soldier boys from Hammond. JOSEPH W. O'NEIL. ROBERT il. BEATTT, AN'CEL B. JACKSON", CHARLES EVANS. EDWARD P. RIGBT. BEXNT HOPKINS, GUY ROBISON.

You can be a "chooser" young man if you enlist this week. After, you must go where you're put.

The Hirst National Bank: of Hammond STATEMENT OF CONDITION, CLOSE OF BUSINESS, MARCH 5, 1917 RESOURCES. Loans , .,...$1,44308.47 Bonds and Stocks 612,189.18 Real Estate ... 7,303.65 Cash and Due from Banks... ...... t 577,591.88

OH, yes! There's plenty of room at the top aviation corp3 need3 a big batch of young men.

OHIO State Journal demands that they cease teaching German in the C-chools. If this is done how is a fellow poing to he able to correctly pronounce pretzel. hriFenpeiTer, wienerschnitzel, gefilte fish and Pilsner when ordering in a restaurant.

Money to Loan On Hammond, East Chicago and Gary, Flat and Business Property. 5 j-cars, six per cent interest. E, E. Pierson Hammond.

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$2,640,893.18 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock $. 150,000.00 Surplus 175,000.00 Undivided Profits 1 6,413.74 Reserved for Taxes anjl Interest 6,825.58 Circulation : 149,997.50 Deposits 2,152,656.36

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DIRECTORS.

jyf. TtTRKER - - President P. W. METN President, Lake County Savin r A Trut Co. JOHN E. FITZGERALD Hammond Distilling Company. FRANK S. HETZ President. F. S. Beti Company. JOHN N. EECKMAN Gostlln. Ateyn & Company. CARL, KAUFMANS Kauftnann & Wolf. OTTO KNOEKZER President, Champion Potato Machinery Co. FRANK C DEMINO Lumbtr Dealer. W. C. BEL, MAN Cashier.

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A. M. TURNER J. E. FITZGERALD V. C BELMAN V?. F. MASHINO M. M. TOWLE

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