Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 40, Hammond, Lake County, 3 August 1917 — Page 4

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Tbe Time East CMcago-Indlaca, Harbor. dslljr except Sunday. Sntared at th poetofflce In Eatt Chicago. November II. 1S1I. The Lake County Times Dally escept Saturday and Sanday. KBtr4 at the poatofTlce tn Hammond. June 18. Hit. The Laia County Tlir.es Saturday and weekly edition. Entered at the B-otoftic In Hammond., February 4. 1911. The Qary Evening Tlmei Dally except Sunday. Entered at the peatefflc im Oery. prll lS. 11J. 11 ttEder the act of March 8. 1171. a second-class matter.

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WALL STREET AXD THE PEOPLE OF GARY. The Gary Post attacks Mr. Geist, one of the principal stockholders in utilities companies in Hammond, Whiting, East Chicago and other Indiana cities, referring to him in terms of a non-resident "robber-" . But the Post overlooks, and as it is known, dares not attack the way in which the utilities company in Gary is conducted. This concern, the Gary Heat, Light and Water company, like everything else in Gary, is dominated by that giant octopus, the Steel 'Trust. Of the 12300 shares of this subsidiary of the Steel Corporation, only six shares are said to be held by other persons, and they are by men termed as the dummy directors of the concern. Naturally, the Post, which may not spit unless the V. S. Steel Corporation or one of its subsidiaries permits it, has to take up cudgels for the Steel company's utility in Gary. Mr- Geist took some nice business away from the Gary concern recently. Naturally there is much irritation. But a little more about these utilities. Do the people of Gary know that the'r Wall Street concern charges them $75 a year for arc lights, whereas Mr. Geist's company gets but 152.50 in Hammond? If Mr- Geist is a non-resident ''robber," then in what degree of banditry would the Post class the real manipulators of the Gary Heat, Lisht and Water Trust? Now Mr- Geist's lighting plants are normal concerns, but the Gary concern buys its electric current fromits sister subsidiary, the Gary steel plant. Does the Steel Trust sell its employes electricity at cost or a slight figure above cost? It does not. According to sworn testimony, the Steel Trust makes Its current at a cost of three-tenths cents a kilowat hour, and the lighting subsidiary buys its current for ore cent to three cents per kilowat hour (according to conditions), and then retails it to the steel-workers and the other people of Gary at nine cents per kilowat hour, or thirty times the cost price to the parent concern! Whether this ig In keeping with the Steel Trust'3 ideas of commercial morality and its conception of war profits is not known, but if electric service should be cheap any place in Indiana, it should be cheap at Gary instead of heing one of the most expensive in the state. The electricity that the people of Gary use fs a by-product from the Gary steel plant and is said to amount to little more than one-half per cent of all the current generated- But Wall Street's porcine interest in Gary is to goad on its satraps in Gary and Chicago to squeeze out all the dividends poEsfsleHow the Gary Heat, Light and Water company manages to get its

clutches into the city treasury is shown by the statement that the city ha3 appropriated for the current year $39,287 32 for lights and $30,858.61 for water. This is a total of over $70,000 that the tax-payers of Gary yield to this poverty-stricken utility besides all the ordinary charges for individual service and the placing of deposits by consumers ranging from $5 to $23 to "protect" the company for payment of bills incurred, a fund that is said- to yield handsome rates of interest. Besides demonstrating its tight-fisted-ness in other ways, Wall Street has to have a guarantee of ten per cent from the city of Gary for extending water mains to certain portions of the city, and these were only placed after toiling steel-workers, no longer ablp to stand the brackish surface and typhoid-breeding waters they and their wives and children had to use, pleaded in the name of common humanity to be allowed to buy pure water- This water comes from Lake Michigan and as far as the lake is concerned this is the only benefit the Garyites. get out. of it as the Steel Trust has usurped and set off the seven miles of water frontage in ruthless disregard of any rights or birthright the people of Gary may have. When the Gary Heat, Light and Water company got its franchise from the old town board of Gary ten years ago tone of the three trustees being a steel official), there was no idea 'hat Gary would grow into such a large place as soon. : j high rates were fixed. Since then the history of the concern has been one of high prices, poor service and an attitude of official arrogance- A few years ago when the company declined to furnish water to on portion of the city, where the Steel Trust does not own real estate, for sale, and where it does not manifest the same degree of interest, voters voted overwhelmingly to establish a municipal waterworks. This brought the concern to terms for once. Even Superintendent Wirt of the Gary schools, unwilling .to pay out the people's money for the prices demanded by the concern, has had private power plants installed in several of the Gary school-houses, and towns nearby Gary have taken the Geist service in preference to that of the Steel Trust because of better rates. What Gary people would save even on their sidewalk and street lights had they Mr. Geist's service would run into thousands of dollars annually. Ore of the high finance spots in the history of this spawn of Wall Street dictation in Gary is when in 1913 it authorized a $4,000,000 bond issue the day the Indiana Public U'i'ities Act became operative. This law was devised to restrict certain bend issues- Of this amount, J1.250.COO

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ti it , . - is:-.- no AMONG our friends Is one who fays hr notion of heaven .- a. jjiacr wnere sue could take a reul deep breath when she is all dressed up WITHOUT tl.lns. fear of busting eomePROBABLY feeling rather tired out by the heat it only adda to our weariness to read THK advice of Reginald Double X Sweetfaee the handsome movie hero WHO advises young men to enlist SO the big slob can go on raking in the Jits we suppose. WHEN in an you want a good line on a DON' T Ko and talk to him JUST go and ask his wife what the thinks of men in general. RACE of pygmies living i.OO.) feet high discovered in Guinea THE highor the fewer! ONE reason we opine wh a toad always '-as such a sad look is that he HAS no ears AXD no hair. PROBABLY so hard up Billy Mason's wife got FOR something to brag about "THAT she had him get his picture on

worth have been issued, a sum equal to the capital stock, and probably done to replace the original investment. Last year this hard pressed utility company had a total income greater than Its total capital stock, taking in $1,507,712 99. This year is probably will do even better. Pain'ed as a public benefactor devised to "aid" steel-workers, the Gary Heat, Light and Water company has been one of the most potent coin separators in the Gary district Only six shares of it3 12,500 shares of stock are said to be held outsidet of the Steel Trust, and theE? six are declare 1 to be in the possession of as many employes of the concern, tw? in Chicago and four in Indiana, the holders serving as officers and what is known a.dummy directors of this out-of-town monopoly. , The history of this grasping offspring of Wall Street finance Is Vx-.z piggish and interesting, and the people of Gary ought to acquaint them selves with it and also find why Gary has to pay $75 to Wall Street for eiectric lights when Mr. Geist makes a living by giving them to Hamnmd for $52 50. The difference between Wall Street's rate of $75 and the Geisr rate cf 152.50 speaks volumesWhen the Post sticks its foot in its mouth next time It won't be over Mr. Geist.

GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF STEEL PLANTS No less a person than Senator Francis G. Newlands, chairman of 'the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, expresses in an interview giver, in the New York Times Magazine Section that unless certain big industries fire able to acquire nore patriotism and modify their conception of profits they face commandeering by the government. And it is not at all unlikel: that they will revert back to private ownership. Senator Newlands talks within the scope of bar-bred socialism or collectivism. He says that had the coal operators, who suggested $3 as a fair price for their output, hal made it $2 to $2.50, the march of the United States toward the goal of socialism would not have gone so far- ' "Our war conditions," says Senator Newlands, "now require supreme collective effort, and that, carried out to the fullest extent, means socialism." He commends the lumber, copper and aluminum interests, but holds that the coal, iron and steel interests are not as patriotic as they should be As for iron and steel interests, instead of being helpful to the government, they have indicated that they will even demand higher or double than prewar rates- If so, the government will have to deal summarily with them, not only for its own interests, but for the benefit of the public. In connection with Senator Newlands' statements comes announcement of the earnings of the United States Steel Corporation for the quarter just ended. They are in excess of $144,000,000 as compared with over $113,000,000 last quarter, a total of over $277,000,000 for six months as compared With some $280,000,000 earnings for all of last year, which were again greater than the year previous by over 300 per cent. Happily, a large war tax will bear on this year's earnings. As the leading steel interest, so there must go to the directors of the steel corporation its share of whatever blame there i.i for the unreasonable rise in prices of iron and steel since the war began. Instead of being lowered when we entered the war in April, iron went up over 33 13 per cent and many steel products in proportion- It cannot he denied that these excessive profits of the steel trust and other concerns have a vital affect on the cost

of living as they concern every man. woman and child in America, and the whole sinister system of war profits is reflected in helping to sometimes' almost wipe out railroad profits, cruelly taxing our Allies and sorely impo.;- j ing upon the farmers, auto-makers and all users of steel. The continuance' cf such tactics will only serve to breed socialism, which is far from what i we want, but perhaps the government, either through Congress or the Ffderal Trade Commission, will soon find means of stopping this orgy of war ' profits with its frightful effects upon the American people. !

WAIVING of exemptions now more

NOW if they had only held these peace conferences when the war beginstead of waiting till its end things might have been different.

SEA serpent is not a myth, says the Nw York World. That's the trouble. In this modern age they even want to take away our myths from kj

"CHICAGOANS Should Have the Use of Their Lake Front. " Chica:ro American. They do have the use of fifteen of the twenty-six miles of the: lake front. Wall Street forbids Garyites to have any use at all of their seven miles of lake front. Do you think Chicago would stand for Wall Street doing anything like this?

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the patent medicine ad for taking nuxated iron. IT'S a funny world ONCE tn a while woman in an eveninK will see a GOWN THE rear of which 13 cut almost as low as the Hindenburg lino AND then the hawkeyed dame who sits all night in a locking chair near the punch bowl will INFORM you THAT she is a woman who puts everything she has on her back. THE underwriters down Long-haired Gumshoe Bill Stone may as wen Vardaman and AS total losses. PROBABLY after seeing howDoc Michaelis is mussing up thing.-; old BETH-II OLXAYEG is causa he was ditched. rejoicing l.ePOME of the chaps at Washington miht SHOW their patriotism by NOT making speeches THE country's ears aie cracked now listening to flnannel mouths. A BE MARTIN is trying to solve the I pacing mystery HOW a woman can sit on the FRONT porch all morning. important than waving of flags. concern goes on the rocks. S:i:iwindniills who preach patriotism

Wifaiting And Its People

Buy tk $50.00 Liberty lionet. Bask ol Whiting, open 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. 6-11 j Mrs. P. Seil'er of I.aporte avc.iue, is j fiitcrtalntntc her brother. Herman Bern-; ate-in of St. Louis, who will tpenl a couple of moat hs" here. 1 Mrs. Thonuis Md'urmick of Pt. Richmond, f'ul.. has been visiting at the Hem home in Sheridan avenue. Mr. and Mrs. .Michael S -naffer and daughter Virginia, of Mt. Washington. Va., are the gu-sts of the former's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Schaefer of Sheridan avenuts. Miss ocie B. McCool has gone to Missouri to pend a few weeks with her parents. Mrs. lMwa.-d C. Shaef-r of Balston Spa.. N. Y., is hi re visiting her sons, Edward and Walter Shaefer of Atchison venue. Princess theatre. tonight. Jesse L. La sky presents the wonderful star, Vician Martin, in "The Wax Model." A very strong photoplay in five parts. Altso a Burton Holmes Travelogue. Adm. 5 .-ind Hie. Don't fail to see this. -3-l Mr. ind Mrs. Louis H. Heyl and Mr. and Mih. George K. Fanner of Cleveland, Ohio, were the gu-.-sts of Mrs. Catherine Stewart and family of Sheridan avenue, yesterday. A. Conrad, the shoemaker, was arrested on Wednesday right on the charge of going to the left instead of the right side of the traffic guide at ih" Front street corner, wiih his cycle 1 icyi-le. He was released on bonds. The Whiting r-ity court, following the! 'xamplf of the lo.-al stores, is planning on holding no co irt in the evening if 'his (an be satisfactorily arranged. T.e -luestiop as to whether cases will be tried at 9 a. ni. or 1 p. m. is to be put to a vote of the policemen. Mr. nd Mrs. fit Has J. Bader and son Clarence, and Jesss Gill will leave today for a trip to Colorado Springs -ther western points. Fred J. Smith of Oliver s'reet. ri'ertaiiiing hoy aunt.'

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Hammond, arrested on the charge of i II forgery on complaint of James Henderson, was lined $50 and sentenced to six months at the state penal farm. Mrs. William Urie of Michigan, who formerly resided in Whiting, was the guest of Mrs. George S. Hilliard of Oliver street. Dr. G. H. Hosklns and family have returned from a month's auto tour through the east. William, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Roe of Kischrupp avenue. Is ill with scarlet fever. Lawrence J. Hoffman. haberdasher and tailor from Hammond, has purchased the Eeal chothes shop, 119th street and Sheridan avenue, Whiting. Mrs. W. R. Jenkins and daughter Alice, have returned from a isit with friends at Wanatah and Hanna, Ind. , Mr and Mrs. Kaine have purchased the Sellers home in Amy avenue. John Mania of Central avenue, has gone to Pensacola, Kla., where he will visr his brother, Alexander J. Manta, a member of the ctast artiilerv. who Is stationed there. CHICAGO AS A MUSIC CENTER In the last six years Chicago has taken the leading place in 'the country as a musical center. Even New York nd Boston have had to yit Id the palm t their "rah" western rival. When a musician establishes a reputation for superiority ! Chicago it is certain that they will be welcomed anywhere. Theodore Thomas twenty years ago had faith in Chicago's musical future when he established the world renowned 'Thomas Orchestra." Oamr-aninl had faith In Chicago music loving and ap- , preciation when he established the grand opera in Chicago six years ago. j And the Chicago public have justified j these men by supporting them. Today the finest singers. Euch as GalM-Curpi ' make their debut in Chicago, If a person is contemplating the study 'of mp.sic the very finest schools In ( the country are found in Chicago. We would be sorry to see any of our young j people look to the east for the finish i of their education when right here, at I thir very doors is the very finest to

and be had. And in Chicago are the very finest musical entertainments. Whatis ever your liking, it could be found in the musical life of our bisr neighbor.

All association members close at 6 o'clock except Friday, Saturday and Paydays.

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Did you enjoy yourself-sure you did. And so did our sales people. Thev told us todav. Even if they had not said a word we could have told they like the new closing arrangement by the way they worked today. You benefit by the 6 o'clock closing Mrs. Shopper; and you too, Mr. Man, for part work and part play makes everyone feel happier and more cheerful. You are served better, more quickly, whenever or wherever you shop. Whiting Merchants' Association

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Remember the Adage "A stitch in time saves nine." This proverb can easily be applied to glasses. That's the reason we advise having the children's eyes examined now. Glasses at the right a ..i. ii. , lime may suenguien t the eves to such an ex- S tent that they need not ti le worn in later vears JOHN Mc' GARRY Jeweler Optometrist. 599 Hohman St. Orpheum Dancing Academy 152,,2 STATEs STREET?, HAMMOND Prof. X Gregory Hraac ef Chicago. STAGE AND BALL ROOM DANCING. Classes in ball room dancing every Monday and Friday evening. Private lessons 9 a. m.-lO p. m. TEL 31 3fi. a