Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 37, Hammond, Lake County, 31 July 1917 — Page 2

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THE TIMES Tuesday, July 31, 1917.

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BY GXO&QB XASTX2T. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON; July 3"). "Political pull" died a sudden and violent death when America went to war. It was, In fart, first on the casualty list of "oldestablished customs" which have met a sad fate since Uncle Sam began to battle for democracy. Careful investigation today proved this. The politicians, congressmen, senators, professional lobbyists and "influential citizens" are still staggering from the blow. But, bit by bit. It Is being borne In upon their consciousness that Washington is a great world war capital. Go Into any of the teeming department offices today and you hear men on all sides dictating frigid and squelching replies to Judges, county chairmen, state and local politicians from Maine to California and from the Great Lakes to the gulf, explaining to them crisply exactly what has happened. Here's an example, heard in the office of a cabinet member replying to a flea for a special favor, regardless of me welfare of the nation, from a certain big politician and office-holder in u.e Middle West: Dear Judge: "I have your letter concerning BlanK. Blank Blank. I must decline to make any recommendation to the Secnetary of Blank concerning the disposition of a matter which is, after all. his own business. Very truly yours." Today came a letter from a Cham TT

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ber of Commerce secretary in a midwestern city begging a once influential Washington politician to use his influence in "puiting across" an aviation training camp for his particular city. The politician sat down and wrote this reply: "Don't waste your time trying to get politicians to plug for you. Don't send a lobby down here to 'put the thing over.' It won't do you a bit of good. "Politics ha been absolutely eliminated from this war. Merit alone wins. Make your application direct to the proper authority for what it is worth from the standpoint of war efficiency. That is the only basis on which it will be considered, anyhow. "All the government departments have been three weeks ahead of congress at every jump in the road since war began. TheyVe formed congress into everything it has done and they have not time to listen to whines for political favor. In peace times department heads had time to listen. Some of theri did. But not now. They don't have to. For the first time in their lives they are in a position to tell congressmen, senators and professional politicians to go to hell, and they certainly are doing it." The selection of Des Moines as an army cantonment site is another case in point Sioux City was wild for the camp. It learned that its big lobby, its letterwriting campaign, its personal pleas for Senator Kenyon and all the other frantic efforts it had made to land the t O a f Where

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camp had been of no avail and that St. .Paul had been the chosen spot. Immediately Sioux City set up a plot against St. Paul. It produced exhaustive reports to show that St. Paul was the only "wet" spot for many states around and that Sioux City was morally better than St. Paul for the troops. Result: The War Department recalled its decision in favor of St. Paul. Off for home went telegrams from the Sioux City lobby yelling "Hurrah, we've won." Put no sooner had they turned away from the telegraph office, and hotfooted it back to the war department to hear the sweet word that Sioux City had been chosen than they were met with, the announcement that the camp would go to Des Moines. Now not only had Des Moines never asked for the camp, but It was the home of Senator Cummins, who was looked upon as not at all friendly to the administration and who never lifted his voice to make a single plea either for or against the location of that camp. The Sioux Cityites were furious. They were informed that after, they had succeeded in spiking St. Paul's guns. Secretary Baker had called for the War Board's report on the. list of available cities, and. find;ng Des Moinea next on the list after St. Paul had quietly marked off St. Paul and substituted Des Moines. These are only a few of hundreds of instances in America's, war capital every day, which show the way the cold and uncomfortable political wind blows. POLICE SUFFER IN .HEM CLOTHING Senseless Rules Deny Them Relief of Removing Coats. The Lake County Humane society might be interested to know that, there ere nearly two score silent sufferers in Hammond who are made miserable In body and soul by a senseless custom. These martyrs during the torrid wave are the members of the city police force. As though the terrific heat were not enough they are compelled to wear their heavy coats. Xo Palm Beach garments for the police. The board of police commissioners are responsible for this inhumanity to man. with the mercury near the ' hundred mark day and night they refuse to permit the police to remove their heavy double lined wool coat3. which when buttoned, as is required, are like overcoats. Many of the patrolmen are dressed at present just as they were in the middle of winter. The Spanish inquisition, couldn't invent worse torture than to send men out in the sun in such unseasonable

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clothing during the sweltering weather. The police should have blouses such as the V. S. mailman. Carrying a heavy gun, club and search light is enough excess baggage without a heavy coat that would be warm enough to weather a blizzard in. THE TIES' HI July 31. Atchison 99 H American Car Fdry. 76 American Locomotive 72 V Anaconda 78 8i American Smelting . 102?i Canadian Pacific 161 American Can Co 4S',4 New York Central 88 Colorado Fuel 60 Central Leather 88 M Chesapeake and Ohio S9?4 Erie 244 American Steel Fdrs 68 General Electric .' 154i Great Northern 104 14 Maxwell Motors 34 Mexican Petroleum 954 Norfolk and Western 121H Northern Pacific 100 Pennsylvania 53 Vi Republic Iron and Steel 70 T Reading .' 84 U. S. Rubber 60 American Sugar 121 Southern Pacific 94 Chgo. Mil. and St Paul 65 Texas Oil 186 U. S. Steel i 123 H Union Pacific 135V4 Utah Copper 104 Wabash 11 Willys Overland 33ft CHICAGO GRAIN Ft'TVRES. WHEAT July. $2.74; Sept.. 2.17, CORN May. J1.16H Sept.. $1.64 : Dec. $1.17. OATS July, 85c; Sept., 60c; Dec, 0c. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK. HOGS Receipts. 10.000; market. 10 higher-.' mixed. $14 6018.20; good. $15.4016.15; rough. $1 4.40 15.65 ; light, $14.7516.05; pigs. $1 1.50 14.40; heavy. $14.40ig 11.05; bulk of sales. $15. 0Cg 16.00. CATTLE Receipts. 2.500; market, strong. 10 higher; beeves. S7.60 14.10 ; cows-heifers, $4.50?J 11.65; stockersfeeders, $5. 80 9.00; calves, $8.7513.00. CHICAGO PRODUCE. BUTTER Creamery extras. 38c; creamery first. ZlVtC firsts. 36 37c; seconds. 33 36c. EGGS Ordinaries, 2S'a29U; firsts. 30Mi32c. LIVE POULTRY Fowls, 15Ul9c;

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Horses Run Away. Two horses drawing a Wclls-Fargo Express company wagon tore up E. State street early this morning and plunged through the big plate glass window of the Hammond Optical company. 141 State street. One of the animkla was badly cut, it being necessary to take nine stitches in its side. The window was valued at $75.. The run away started from the Erie depot. STREET STARTED Work began yesterday on the improvement of Forsyth avenue. East Chicago, that thoroughfare that leads in a direct route to and from Chicago. For the last tw years this road has been almost impassable and tourists to the south now route south from Chicago by way of Calumet boulevard. Just as soon as this street is completed. Calumet will lose much of its congestion. The rebuilding of the street is in charge of the United Construction Co. and their men appeared on the ground yesterday, staking the layout in accordance with the blue prints provided by the city engineer. They will begin at the canal bridge and work north on the west side of the street to the city limits, then return on the east sidu to the canal. Then the work of improving the street from 145th street north to the canal will be taken up. At the meeting of the board of works yesterday the bids for the improvement of Dickey place were opened and it was found that on Plan A which provides concrete on a sand foundation, the United Construction Co. were again low men. their bid being $2.63 as against $2.65 from the Williston Construction Co. and $2.73 from the Shea & Co. The work on public road is well under way under the contract with Shea & Co. . E. CHICAGO R SEES E Mayor Callahan lef' East Chicago last night en 'route for Indranapolis where he will confer with Jess Eschback. conscription agent for the state of Indiana. In addition to his argument that the conscription quota of this city was based upon a population of about 100 per cent too high, he will have with him the Chamber of Commerce list of volunteers who have enlisted from this city. This list will show that the city has not been given credit for enlistments made from Indiana Harbor nor from Hammond and Chicago. The mayor hopes to reduce our net quota from 403 to a figure more in pro portion to quotas from the rest of. Lake county.. The actual work of the exemption board of East Chicago has not ye begun and will not begin until the preliminary clerical work is all completed. Stenographers are busy preparing notices to those who will be summoned first to take the physical examinations. The sending of these notices will probably start the latter part of this week. WHY HAVE GRAY HAIR? Q-Ban Will Quickly Restore Its Natural Colon Q-Ban Is all ready to use. It is not a dye. It is guaranteed to be hnrmlesa. A large bottle costs only 50c. It is the only guaranteed preparation for the purpose. Your money back if not satisfied. Get Q-Ban at Jos. W. Weis. 9S State St.. Hammond, or at any good druggist's, or write Hessig-Eliis Drug Co., Memphis. Tenn.. giving your druggist's name and address. Try Q-Ban Hair Tonic. Q-Ban Liq.iid Shampoo and Q-Ban Toilet Soap. Also Q-Baa Depilatory (odorless) for removing superfluous hair. Interesting illustrated booklet, "Hair Cult ire," sent free. Adv. TO LATE TOO GLASS1FY WANTED Girl In restaurant. Apply 171 Conkey ave., Hammond. 7:31:3 Just

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The news of the death at Lake George, N. Y., of Mrs. Bertha Ann Wirt, wife of William Wirt, the Gary and New York school superintendent, comes like & bolt out of the clear sky. Mn. Wirt, according to messages received yesterday afternoon, died Sunday. Her relatives, including Chester A. Wirt, the banker, and her sister, Mrs. Hugh Sudabaer went to Eluffton to attend the funeral. The Wirts left their Gary home, 648 Connecticut street, a month ago for their usual summer vacation at their residence in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Mr. Wirt divides his time between his offices in Gary and New York and on Friday he was here to attend the school board meeting. Dr. Wirt then left on a tour of the east. Mrs. Wirt was 42 years old and was the mother of three children: Franz, 13, one of the Gary E-enlng Times carriers; Blanche, 6; and Eleanor, 4. Her maiden name was Miss Cook. "Who's Who in America" states that the Wirts were married at Bluffton, Ind., on August 6, 1900. HOW TO TELL THEM. When you meet a soldier on the street you may tell at a glance in which branch of the service he is enlisted by noting the color of his hat cord. The various designations are: Blue cord, infantry: red cord, artillery; yellow cord, cavalry: red and white cord, engineers; lavender and gray, hospital corps; buff cord, ammunition and supply trains; gold, officer of rank of lieutenant colonel or higher; gold and black, officer lower than lieutenant colonel; red, white and blue, member officers' reserve camp. rs LIST OUT The men ordered up for the first day's examination in the first exemption district of Gary are as follows. Examinations will begin at 6:00 a. to. Friday morning at Major McFadden's office in the Reynold's buildinr. Dr. T. J. Toner, tf he In charge: Call Serial No. No. 258 Dr. T. F. Kollmar. 701 Virg. 2532 A. D. Douglas Hart 704 Con. 458 A. C. Landis. 329 Ambridge. S408 Forest H. Bell, 600 Polk. 1436 R. F. White. 549 Jefferson. 6. 2624 T. Hadford, 790 Broadway. 7. 854 W. L. Bell, 764 Washington. 8. 1894 -Julius Anderson. 440 Jeff. 8. 1878 F. W. Stephan. 433 Marshall 10. 3357 Max Isay, 29 E. 6th v. 11. 1095 J A. Sipe. 714 Wash. 12. 222 S. H. Cohn. 424 Harrison. 13. 3383 H. Goldstein. 673 Conn. 14. 3382 E. W. Galligan. 713 Penna. 15. 1455 O. M. Albertson. 418 Brwy. 16. 3679 N. Providzalo. 723 Madison. 17. 3735 V. Yanjheic. 816 Adams. 18. 783 P. B. Whitson. B25 Delaware 19. 1813 W. H. Eller. 354 Ambridge. 20. 2787 J. R. Phelps. 779 Polk. 21. 1858 T. K. Myler. 861 Marshal. 22. 2389 J. H. Frost. 578 Broadway. 23. 3567 S. J. McNally. 745 Madison. 24. 3637 W. A. S. Thomas. 775 Jeff. 25. 1753 H. Lambros. 603 W. 5th A.v. 26. 3494 G. Cooparickos. 543 Conn. 27. 3674 S. D. Payser. 745 Madison28. 3200 A. Angelovich. 612 Mass. 29. 3082 E. R. Insley. 541 Harrison. 30. 3505 G. E. Robertson, 521 Conn. 81. 1117 S. J. Stockwell. 715 Adams. 32. 1572 C. E. Cougeon, Commerc'l H. 33. 2762 R. C. Clark. 779 Polk. 34. 1748 c. W. Lennerta. 600 Jackson. 35. 2195 J. Maury. 346 Jefferson. 36. 837 R. C. Cole. 615 Wash. St. 37. 2036 N. Delardas. 377 Tyler. 38. N. Zacovlch. 645 Csrolina. 39. 676 Henry C. Nolt, 537 7th Ave. 40. 375 W. Markman. 537 E. 5th v. 41. 3827 T. Kuasis, 202 Vermont. 42. 809 M. C. Kulick. S77 Jackson, 43. 1185 R. M. Loudon. 676 Adams. 44. 564 U E. C. Pio. 732 W. 4th Ave. 45. 2166 C. Jarvis. 332 Jefferson. 46. 945 J. S. Hewitt. 637 Adams. 47. 1913 R. A. Brady.644 Madison. 48. 59 Steve Thorse, 348 Van Buren 49. 3543 L. Vance West, 663 Pierce. 50. 3067 C. R. Dunn, 521 Harrison. 51. 2620 E. Plutes. 660 Broadway. 52. 2936 M. Kaifesh. 321 Fillmore. 53. 1267 L. D. BakeV, Gary Y. M. C.A. 54. 3746 M. Sltnich. 331 Fillmore. 55. 2148 J. W. Hall, 404 Adams. 56. 536 A. H. Pierce. 264 Ellsworth. 57. 3812 W. Taylor, Police Station. 58. 14C5 J. Martin. 306 Adams. 59. 2453 C. C. Webber. 412 Adams. 60. 3840 H. Truman, 775 Jefferson. 61. 648 C. O. Shaw. 169 Ambrldge. 62. 126 P.'Gerkovich. 554 Rhode lid. 63. 3070 B. W. Fishburn. 569 Harris'n 64. 1679 H. Webdell. 469 Wash. 65. 3604 C. N. Chiolos. 745 Madison. 66. 3331 L. N. Goodman, 813 Monroe. 67. 1837 D. J. Redding, 673 Adams. 68. 784 A. E. White, 772 Delaware. 69. 1732 H.- F. Smith. 600 Jackson. 70. 755 J. A. Marshall, 713 Delaware 71. 107 Tony Tuca, 716 Tenn. 72. 3786 K. Karavokyros. 221 W. 7th. 73. 1546 L. B. Kellman, 877 Taylor. 74. 1563 R. W. Forbls. 431 Adams. 75. 2099 M. Lukos, 308 Tyler St. out of the High

76. 1369 J. S. Cupples. Gary Y.M.C.A. 77. 2691 N. D. Zint. 706 Broadway. 78. 615 F. J. Weiss. 368 Van Buren. 79. 373 S. Razymky. 775 Virginia. 80. 1876 L. Vasalll. 444 Broadway. 81. 1266 O. B. Atwell, 412 Jefferson. 88. 1891 C. E. Wolfe. 467 Ambridge. 83. 775 M. Swolios. 418 E. 6th ave. 84. 3183 J. Strom. 564 Van Buren. 85. 2684 H. P. Williams. 23 W. 6th a. 86. 3557 W. J. Strohl. 800 Mass. 87. 8159 L. J. Parrott. 400 W. Sth a. 88. 486 G. Groponis, 340 Van Buren. 89. 3539 E. O'Neill. 76$ Conn. 90. 692 J. J. Kilgallon, 718 Delaware 91. 3721 M. Schultze. 341 Fillmore. 92. 600 G. Vanatas. 336 Van Buren. 93. 3256 L. D. Hunt, Broadway Hotel 94. 3496 D. J. O'Donohue. 736 Penna. 95. 1956 C. W. Schneider. 520 Monroe. 96. 3529 A. C. Rockstraw. 636 Pierce. 97. 619 P. Thirkos, 418 E. 6th. 98. 1536 W. J. Farwel. 686 Van Bu'n 99. 2969 J. Mulligan. Fitzgerald H'tl. 100. 1582 E. G. Zarth. 619 Adams. 101. 507 J. Kowach. 700 W. 4th' ave 102. 3653 L. H. Spiker, 653 Mass. 108. 306 F. E. McGuire, 747 Virginia. 104. 437 A. J. Deranloon. 213 Ambri'e 105. 2987 N. Luchas. 339 Fillmore. 106. 3264 W. Hudson. 30 E. 6th ave. 107. 3566 P. Blglich, 832 Adams. 108. 1824 J. O. Lord. Gary Y. M. C. A. 109. 604 C. J. Smith, 265 Harrison. 110. 3317 Chas. J. Tighe. 421 Harrison. 111. 3359 H. E. Williamson. 813 Mon. 112. 43 J. Curtis. 670 Vermont. 113. 3706 D. L. Loether. 752 Jefferson. 114. 2181 L. P. Krelser. 561 Madison. 115. 3852 J. H. Dixon. Police Station.

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