Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 48, Hammond, Lake County, 13 August 1917 — Page 4

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THE TIDIES Monday. Aucust 13, 1917. THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BT THE LAKE C0TJ1TTY FEINTINQ & PTTBIISHING C02SPASY. a CUMBERLAND COUNTY PLAN FOR HOME DEFENSE CALLED MODEL FOR NATION SET! J It' - r . nv CUMBERLAND COUNTY

the poatofflce In Et Chicago. No-r.mber IS. ltll. Tha Lak County Time Dally except Saturday and Saada?. Hatara at tha poatcfric in Hammond, Junt IS. 180. The lk County Times Saturday and weakly adlUon. Katarad at tha poatoShs In 'Hammonds February t, tll. The Gary Kvninj Tica Dally avcapt Sunday. Bntr4 at taa pattafflc. t Oary. April t. 11J. U under tha act at Uiroh . lilt, a oond-clasa matter.

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LAEGZS PAID UP CIECLXATION THAN Air? TWO OTHEH UEWSPAPERS IN THE CALUSIET REGION.

It you .hare atry trouble attin T. Timjw ms-ke complaint immediately to the circulation department. Tub Timio will net be reaponelV.e for the return-of any unsolicited minucrlpt articles or letter and will not notice anonoymoue communication, fhort alffned letter of seneral interest printed at dlacretloo.

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WHAT THE SQUAWS DIDN'T DO. We read with a great deal of pleasure that the Chippewa braves in Minnesota have given the ballot to their squaws- Whether this will relieve the latter of all domestic drudgery and permit them to give all their time to bare-legeed dancing we do not know, but there is no record so far of the squaws having picketed the White House and annoyed the President of the United States, which shows that the proceeding is very Irregular.

AMERICA'S CAUSE FOR WAR. "The military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutralThey filled our communities with vicious spies and conspirators. They sought to corrupt our citizens. They sought by violence to destroy our industries and arrest our commerce. They tried to incite Mexico to take up -arms against us and to draw Japan into hostile alliance with her. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of Europe. "This flag under which we serve would have been dishonored had we withheld our hand." Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States.

We f.nd that nothing so Jolly well sharpens up a man's conversational powers

LIKE walking barefooted and with,

silent prayer through a dark room after a MEETING of the Sunshine Club AND stepping into the nut and screw SECTION of our young tyke's MECCANO box WHICH carefree and nonchalently he forgot to pick up when he took to the hay. OUR fe'.low-sympsthizer cogently remarks In HIS own inimitable way THAT the more daring the style the braver THE thin spaced girl gets. THE proposition to t.'tke the word obey out of the marriage service HAS not yet succeeded OH let the poor thing stay IT'S the only humorous thing in the whole blamed ceremony MAN'S got to have something to laugh about. A MAN tried to argue us black In the face that money could buy everything, even happiness YET here's a St. Louis millionaire gives the lie to this theory by blowing out his brains

WITH a mag. THE Indiana Times suggests for the women this apotheosis of conservation per diem WEAK your skirts an inch shorter and your hose longer. WE hear a very pathetic tale of a young Hammond man whose wife gave him a bouncing baby AND he let it drop to see it bounce AN'D it didn't and ETC. THE trouble with a lot of women who keep up appearances is that they DO it by keeping their feet down on the neck OF the old man. OLD doc Michaelis says this will be the last war DON'T worry doc, we'll attend to all that, you've got TOUR hands full. IT Is a fact that watching a girl chew gum has caused more than one man to CHANGE his mind about matrimony. AND they cut out that Kaiser page in the Chicago speller over Bill Thompson's dead body, eh? FARMER wants a man who can milk cows WE know some who can milk corporation but not cows.

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DEPENDS ON WHOSE OX IS GORED. The Gary Tribune is in favor of hanging the food speculators. In another editorial it. says the robbery of the people must stop, and refers to the patriots doing this as the most accomplished buccaneers since the day of the Spanish main. This is refreshing. But what are the Tribune's ideas of punishment for some of the big steel magnates, the patriots who have boosted the price of iron and steel 50 per cent since we went to w-ar in April? What about these hloodprofitmg Arnolds? Has it anything to say?

SLOW DOWN BEFORE CROSSINGS. The stories of automobile accidents which this paper has been carrying daily for weeks with the hope that their perusal may point out to readers the perils of careless driving, proves that repeated investigations of accidents at places where highways cross railways at grade show that many of these acciden's are due to the failure of drivers to slow down a? they ppproach the crossings. For this reason some public officials believe that the roads should be so constructed at the most dangerous crossings that drivers must reduce f,peed to a low rate. The California railroad commission has recently sent a number of cities and counties six plan3 for accomplishing this, with a request that they be tried or at least criticised. In each case there is a conspicuous signal or sipn in the middle of the road near or at the crossing, and the driver must swerve to one side to reach the track. In some of the plans the driver must make an abrupt right hand turn and another left hand turn befora the track is reached, so that slowing down is compulsory and not voluntary.

Cumberland county plan for home defense force. The system of home defense evolved by Cumberland county, Pa., is declared to be the best in the country. The plan provides that the home defense police of each county shall consist of a headquarters and platoon system, the platoons being strategically located for rapid concentration of their component units. Driilmasters will give military instruction and drill units in not, fire and other police duties

ENGLISH FLEET PROTECTS AMERICAN INDUSTRY. "England's grand fleet has done more for the preservation of the pressed glass Industry on this continent than all the legislation congress ever enacted," declared representatives of 80 of the largest pressed glassware plants in the country at a recent meeting in Atlantic. City. The president of the Flint and Lime Glass Workers' union, and the president of the National Association of Flint and Lime Glass Manufacturers, joined in declaring: "England's battle Meet has saved the American glass situation by making impossible the Importation of German, Belgian and Austrian goods. By doing so it has given the American glass industry the greatest, opportunity it ever has had. The suspension of imports brought

about by England's fleet has done exactly what we tried vainly to persuads congress to do." That is pret'y good protection argument, and it comes from capitalist and laborer alike- What does Sam Gompers, president of the American Federation o Labor, and keeper of the President's labor conscience, have to say to that? Department of commerce statistics show that during the ten months uninterrupted operation of the democratic tariff law, which cut the duties on all glass -.nanufactures, compared with a similar ten months under protection the year before, importations increased 40 per cent. Importations of window glass nearly doubled; plate glass more than doubled. The laborers evidently know the reason, and they should be ready to vote for the American policy of protection because the close of the war will find them minus the protection of the British battle flleet-

GEMIINY FILLING

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BT HINEY WOOD. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES. July 25 (By Mail) Germany's last untouched sources of man power have now been completely exhausted. To fill up the constant losses in her fighting ranks, amounting to hundreds of thousands monthly, only two sources remain from which she can draw her boy soldiers of the classes of 1918 ana 1913, all called to the nlors from ont

to two years before their regular military age, and the wounded soldiers who are able to return to the frpnt from the hospitals. This latter category furnishes Germanw at. average of 50,0"0 men per month. These facts are established beyond all doubt by authoritative information from various confirmatory sources. With the older classes called, to the colors with the outbreak of the war, now largely wiped out, Germany is making terrible inroads on her boy classes prematurely called to the front since August, 1914. These youths are being used to fill up the ranks of the infantry, where young, vigorous and enthusiastic soldiers are indispensable for the launching of attacts. It is here thai the greatest losses also ocrur. The German infantry at the present time consists closely to 40 per cent of the young classes of 1915 to 1919. The classes of 1913 snd 1916. both of which are rapidly dwindling, furnish 15 per

cent of the infantry in the fighting lines. The class of 1917 which is now entirely under the colors furnishes another 12 to 15 per cent, while the class or 1918, which is now arriving on the front in large numbers furnishes another 5 to 10 per cent. The remainder of this class which is still in the depots constitutes practically the only reserves which Germany has left. To meet this emergency the class of 1919 is now under instruction while the class of 1920 has already been examined for conscription. The military age in Germany is 20 years. In the case of the class of 1915, it was not called to the colors until April cf that year or at the age theoretically, of 20 years and 4 months. The class of 19 IS was called to the colors at the age of 19 years 6$ months, and the class cf 1917 called at 19 years 2 months; the class of 1918 at 19 years 101 months, and the class of 1313 at 1? years and 6 months. The ciass of 1920, although already examined, has not yet been summoned . The pressure under which Germany has been forced to employ these boy soldiers is also indicated by their periods of instruction. The class of 1915 was thrown into the battle front with only two or three months of instruvtion. but with such terrible losses, caust-d by this inexperience, that even Germany was forced to recognize that it was the costliest economy. The classes of 1916 and 1917 were given instruction ranging from nine to ten months. While this gave better recults yet by the time the class of 191S was celled to the colors, Germany was again in. such desperate straits for men that the boys of this class were brought into th? front again with only three months of instruction. The accuracy of the above figures is ronfirmed in every capture of prisoners large enough to make a basis of com-

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Have the Eyes of your children examined before they start back to school. We do not under any consideration advise the use of glasses unless positively needed. If glasses are required we furnish the proper kind at a reasonable charge.

JOHN E. Me GARRY J eweler Optometrist. 599 Hohman St.

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Coal Prices will soon advance Fake our advice and buy now. When the mercury starts to go down, coal prices will surely go up. THE BIEKER BROS. CO. 144 DUiy n. AST W. Xohaua Sr. rolpAma TIabaa X

The Red Cross the symbol of a tause wide as the world and high as Heaven.

SOCIAL, INDUSTRIAL, NATIONAL EVOLUTION. Do not imagine that there i3 no revolution going on in this country, and do not imagine above all things that there i3 not a revolution going on in the empire. Sir Edward CarsonSir Edward was aJltiding to peaceful .political changes which have occurred and which are still developing This war is a volcano in which all political, social and economic elements of our life are seething and boiling under the crust, preparing for a great eruption in which the old order will disappear for good. Dr. Arthur Shadwell in the Nineteenth Century and Aftef. Dr. Shadwell refers to a spontaneous movement among the people tnat has arisen out of their participation in the war. These two men are British. We know what the war has done for England: subordinated private enterprise to the national good, wiped out war profits, and in happily avoiding socialism has made the state operate for the public good We know what social reforms the war has brought about in Russia, the overthrow of the czar being the most momentous event of it allWe know- how the leaven is working in Germany. Slowly but surely the misguided people of that country are beginning to become enveloped in a democratic atmosphereWe know what is going on in the United States: Witness the steps toward food control, swatting excessive coal prices, gteting after the steel profiteers, the food magnatesIndeed, quite apart from the war itself this country and all countries are quietly but surely undergoing a great change for the better.

KATYDIDS are singing. For one thing this means frost within six weeks, but more important it means that you better get right with your coal man.

THE new clergymen arriving in Gary who have been misled into joining "the committee of fifteen," the device of Wall street's political agents to aid their candidate for mayor, should note that the seme gentlemen who maintain a Y. M. C- A- several blocks away from the Gary steel plant lease out a more profitable saloon right at the gate of the mills Consistency!

WAR is hell. And a war garden is a hell of mosquitoes, cut worms and caterpillars-

LADY'S SKIRT. By Anabel Worthington.

THE WAY TO WIN? The Charlestown News and Courier puts it very pertinently and concisely when it suggests that the way to whip Germany Is to divide this country into two hos'ile camps over the prohibition issue. Incidentally it might be well to remember should the question ever come up that it is the anti-saloon le&sue which started the mess.

Silk skirts are unquestionably the rogne this summer and naturally every woman wants to have one. Ribbons, sport silks and satins, silk poplin and taffeta are or.'.y a few of the materials which are utilized for this purpose. The model shown in No. S,432 is a very 8xd one for this purpose. It has a hip yoke with a straight, one piece skirt section gathered to it. The use of the bias trimmicg folds shown in the large front view is optional. The skirt pattern No. 8,432 it cut in four sizes, 24 to 30 inches waist measure. As on the figure, the 24 inch size requires 4Vi yards of S6 Inch material, with lVa yard 36 inch lining. To o-btain this pattern se.nd 10 cents to the office of this publication.

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