Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 21, Hammond, Lake County, 12 July 1917 — Page 4

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THE TIMES Thursday, July 12, 1917. THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BY IKE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING & PUBLISHING COilPABT. Two

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The Times East Cilcapo-Indlan Harbor, dally azoept Sunday. Bntared t the poetofflcs In Ent Chicago. November 18, 1913. The Lake County Timea Dally except Saturday and Sunday. Batered at tha postofflcs In Hammond. June 18. 1508. The Lake County Times Saturday and weekly edition, fatered at the poatofttee In Hammond. February 4. 1911. The Gary Evening: Tlmea Dally except Sunday. Entered at the poateffloe (a Gary. April H. 181. All under the act of March S. 1I7S. aa aecond-claaa matter. 1

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ONE good thing about being married is that YOU don't have any wedding trips to dread. AVE often start out the day by determining in our quiet way to be extraoptimistic AND then some blithering j.irknss will steal up behind us. raste us on the

back bo , HARD that it knocks the wind out of ous and tell us TO cheer up. L. NO we said he was closing In ou Lemberg, not Limberg cheese it! HEADLINE says that "man's hand was crushed when friend shook it" POOR devil! Well do we remember after shaking hands with John Hack of Lowell WE would always count our fingers when he got through and we got out of his sight.

CHAUTAUQUA society has started a speakers' training table TRAIN them also to shut up when they're through. IF the women have to ry poll tax, it will tickle old Tom McCay

TO know that he is no longer county treasurer. . COL. GREEN whose mother was the late esteemed Hetty seems to BE as mushy as any of them when Cupid iut the bee on him. INDIANA has coal enough in the ground to last 400 years AND we can't get enough to last through the winter. ABE MARTIN ha3 found a darned

stingy man HE wore an umbrella cover for a four-in-hand necktie at his WIFE'S funeral the other day. WE would send out a call for several silk storking bank examiners if we did not know THAT many brave men would be killed and injured in the rush. AH. here's some old friends GEETINGS. Lemberg and Frzybl! ALSO salutations AND best wishes and things of that sort YOU know.

THE STEEL GREY WOLF NEWSPAPERS OF GARY. The Gary Post and Tribune, both of which are similar in respect to the source from which they get their editorial orders and financial pap, were hard hit when the Gary grand jury failed to indict Mayor Johnson or any member of his official family, as was hoped and anticipated by several worthies. But the grand jury, now discharged, vindicated the mayor. You may bet your sweet life that the grand jurors, all reputable citizens and sworn to their duty, would iave been hatching out indictments right and left had there been anything to warrant any indicting. Indeed, in some places no doubt there is a feeling that the grand Jurors ought to be quartered and hung- But it will be remembered that It is just recently that Gary emerged from a hot municipal campaign. As . far back as last December a concerted system of attacks was made to oust Mr- Johnson. Sand bag tactics were used- What with the output of these two newspaper sewers, rival candidates, and a "civic service commission" conceived by rival candidates and politicians and inflicted on a reputable . business organization, the ravings of orators who have been loaded down with favors, and what not, the old system of Gary mud slinging was used to besmirch Mr. Johnson. But the "reforms" fell fiat. Gary has been suspicious of "reforms" ever since the Dean "bribery" frameup was pulled off in 1911, a proceeding that was followed by the acquisition of a 5300,000 contract on the part of some gentlemen. The Post and Tribune slanders carry no weight- Like the patriots who shouted so loudly their shouts turned out to be gas when the grand jury Investigated- But steel grey wolf papers may be expected to continue to howl-

YOUNG GOULD WEDS GRACEFUL DANCER; SECOND SHOCK FOR PARENTS IN WEEK

WHY THIS PENALIZING? Col. Riley of East Chicago and other gentlemen of Lake county who are able to get things done at the state house will have to help us out if the county is not going to be penalized by the war department's red tapeUnless the governor of Indiana appeals, Lake county will have to furnish soldiers on a draft population estimate of some 260,000. nearly twice the number of people here. Gary is estimated as having 110,000 pepole, twice as many as it really has, and East Chicago is charged with 70,000, because of the silly and over-enthusiastic population claims made of some of their citizensNow after this district which leads the United States in recruiting for the regular army, has done its best it is penalized by the war department after all this. One town in this county in one day gave more recruits to the regular army than the whole state of Vermont since the war began, and another has given twice as many as the state of Maryland. Yet the war department, overlooking the patriotism here, which is 100 per cent, for some reason sets ns out as goats. It isn't right. We are willing to do our share, as has been shown by leading all America in giving recruits, and appreciation ought to be shown in not working a willing horse to death.

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CIOAE.ETTE3 AITS CHttl'iTIAlT S. New York City. July 7, 1917. Editor Times: There is quite a disturbance in some of the raptrs East on account of th Christian Endeavor Society, who claim they have a million workers for the war and who are going to exclude playing cards and tobacco from the soldiers

comfort bags and I though before any of their propaganda was printed in your

paper that you would like to know

something about the way Mr. Anderson of the American Bureau of Foreign

Trade put an anonymous name on his

payroll, not John Toe. but Mr. Smokes,

at the rate of $3.00 a week. Mr. Smokes

is one of the highest paid men in the

world, as he only gives his time long

enough to the American Bureau of

Foreign Trade to draw his pay and turn it over to the Tobacco Fund of our

American soldiers abroad.

We have just seen some war pictures at a private exhibition showing the

work that the Red Crofs and other re

lief societies are doing abroad and it

does seem out of all this chaotic condition one human thing still remained and that Is the work that these societies are

doing.

One picture shows a 'French private crawling on his belly past through the barbed wire defenses, telephoning back to his trenches the position of the enemy's gun. During this action his right arm is shot off and he crawls back to the trenches, is taken in an unconscious condition to the field hospital and there fixed up and sent back to a base hospital, as they are carrying him In he regains consciousness, asks his hearers to set him down a moment, rubs his hand over his forehead and tries to get hold of his reason, then he remembers, smiles and with his free hand lifts the card from around his neck. No. 962, wounded in action, amputation of the right arm at shoulder, the smile fades, he rubs his hand over his fqce again and asks his comrade for a cigarette which of us would begrudge him the cigarette? Yours very truly. C. ROSS CORBIN.

THE SACRIFICES we are willing to make for reduction of stocks before we remodel our store, is your premium for buying now. W(89u a special ai

jfohe E. McGarry The Jeweler 599 Hohman St.

ALL MEN SHOULD BE TREATED THE SAME. Congress should pas3 this bill as noted in the subjoined paragraph: "A bill aimed at slackers from allied countries, and also at aliens of other lands resident in the United States, is now before congress. It provides that all such aliens must, within sixty days from the passage of the act, take out first citizenship papers, failing in which they will be deported to the countries from which they came- The slacker and other aliens must soon choose beneath what - flag they will live and to what country their allegiance belongs, or, like the man in Edward Everett Hale's story, such an alien will' soon become "a man without a country." New York World. The need of this bill was never so exemplified aa it was a few days ago when the President was reported to have announced that aliens a3 well as aliens who have taken out first papers are exempt from the draft- This ruling delivers a hard blow to the native-American and naturalized citizens of this region, who are outnumbered by the other class. This is especially so in Gary, where of 1T.000 registrants sixty-five per cent of them are aliens or first paper aliens. As it is some 3,300 Gary men must take their chances for military services . while approximately 7,300 others escape. Now this should not be so- These aliens and first paper aliens come here, earn their money here, enJoy 'the benefits of our liberty and draw pay ranging from $1,200 a year upwards. This is especially so of the first paper aliens, who are allowed to vote in Indiana and njoy all the privileges of citizenship, but none of its military obligations. Congress should remedy this at once in the manner Indicated in the paragraph from the World, and to this end Senators New and Watson and the other members of the Indiana delegation should vote for the bill in question.

Mr. and Mrs. Gwge J. Gould, Jr on honeymoon. Following a few days his brother Kingdon's wedding, George J. Gould, Jr., youngest son of the millionaire barker and railroad man, was married to Miss Laura M. Carter of Freehold, N. J. Kingdon's bride, according to reports, was once a governess in the Gould home. The wife of George, Jr., is known as a graceful dancer.

GOOD WORK OF EAST CHICAGO POLICE. The East Chicago police in searching for kaiser-boosters have done astonishingly good work and the city should be proud of the personnel of the department. Their capture of the men, Kaufman and Batecka. was of national importance- The -East Chicago police do not wait until evidence of pernicious activity on the part of enemy sympathizers is brought to them, but they go out after them, and in several instances they have brought home the bacon. They have set an example to other police departments in the Calumet region that is worthy of emulation and their work shines in comparison. Mayor Callahan's men are all right.

MORE WORK FOR ROOT TO DO. The good results achieved by Mr. Root at Petrograd have had an impressive echo at Washington, where Mr- Bahkmetieff, head of the Russian mission, has emphasized the purpose of the new Russian government to press the war to a victorious end- It fell to Mr. Root to express at a critical moment the Ideals of the American people to the Russian people at a time when conflicting emotions had been aroused by German intrigue and when a separate peace was by no means an impossibility. It was great service that Mr- Root rendered in this emergency; and it will mean a loss to the country if his connection with the government is brought to an end as soon as he returns from Petrograd. There must be work which he can do and which, as has so clearly been demonstrated, .he can do better than a lot of men trying to do things, in Washington. We would be far greater an admirer of Mr. Wilson if he would only be bi-partisan, or rather non-partisan, in hi3 search for war-workers who can do things.

WE see where this patriotism is gofng to be carried too far. Hardly think that shapely girls would look very well in khaki bathing suits.

IT'S a long lane that has no turningfinally gets to jail.

Anarcuistess Emma Goldmann

NOW that the whisky tax of $420,000,000 will be lost to the government, will the prohibition leaders shout loudest when Uncle Sam asks every one to join in to help make up the deficit.

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PETEY DINKHe'd Better Move a Few Fe3t Further Away From the Hat.

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