Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 51, Hammond, Lake County, 16 August 1917 — Page 4

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Thursday, August 16, 1917.

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H th postoff'.co in East Chicago. November IS. ltli. The Lake County Times Dally except Saturday and Bandar- Catered a.1 tfce postoftlee In Kammor.d. June SS, l$0t. The Lak County Times Saturday and weekly edition. Entered at the ostoffh:e In HjmmonJ,- February 4. 1911. The Gary Evening Times Dally except Sunday. Entered at the pssteffloe la ary. April 1,3. 11J. Ail under tne act of March S, 1S7, as aecoDd-clasa matter.

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LAJRGZ2 PAID UP CHICLXATION THAN A1TY TWO OTHEE KEWSPAPE2S IN TEE CALUMET SESION.

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PRICES AND PATRIOTISM. Prices and profits In steel and in ether high and narrow! held necessaries are still joy-riding, while tne mass of mankind drops itseif on its knees from station to station toward its great atonement. So writes William Hard in the New Republic. His paragraph suggests a striking picture. Mankind at this time isengaged in the greatest agony it ever endured- It is undergoing what i.s akin to the mental and physical tortures of a GethesemaneBut leaving aside what the picture suggests. Mr. Hard adds that in 1913 the Steel corporation, after raying all operating, depreciation and bond interest expenses, still had $81,000,000 profits. After giving out dividends on its preferred and common (which was once water) it still had ?30, 000.000 surplus- The year 1913 was therefore a good year, and the sum of 551,000,mm; for stockholders' profits was a good sum. Then the year 1916, instead of giving stockholders SS1.OOO.0OO profits, it gave Them the fat, fat sum of $271,000,000. "The year 1917 is apoplectic. Its market is a diseased market" Prices for 1916 when compared with 1313 were high; when the prices for 1917 are compared with those of 1916 they sre monstrous. In mid-1913 billets sold at $26.50. in mid-19lt at $42. in mid-1917 at $100. If the cost proceeding from the billet stage to the plate stage is twice as great now as it was four years ago, then the price of that proceeding, granted by the market, is fourteen times as great (In 1913 plates -were $33 60, in 1916 they were $73, and then reached the $2 mark in 1917.) . In 1913 the corporation paid out $207,000,000 for wages; in 1316 ii paid out $263,000,000. "That is, for every dollar that went to employes i.r 1313, the amount that went to employes in 1916 was $1 27. But for even dollar that went to stockholders in 1913, for dividends and surplus, tha' amount that went to stockholders in 1916 was $3.34. Will anybody pretend that the gain" for labor was in harmony with the gain for capital? asks Mr Hard. But this is not as important a3 the question whether the wage advances for the first half of the present year advanced in the same proportion as did the cost of living or the advance in the price of steel, say of billets, which went up $25 during the eleven weeks preceding war with Germany an amount nearly equal to the whole price of billets in 1913? Waiving aside all questions cf the need of government price control, the spectacle of war profits high prices that have been demanded in even greater terms of grasping frenzy and severity since we went to war, leaving aside the spectacle of the soldiers dying in France it is suggested that the reader again attend to and ponder over Mr. Hard's statement that "there is no moral analogy whatsoever between the civilized solidarity of the battlefield and the suspicious savagery of the market."

WHAT IT MEANS TO SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. This cantonment natter is such a big thing, we will have to take several trys at it- Most of us no doubt have been looking at it through narrow glasses; with lenses that converge to one center the city of Hattiesburg. But it is a sight bigger thing than tbav It is as big a thing for South Mississippi as it is for Hattiesburg. It will give to all in this section of the state that most needed of all things wide publicity. There is a growing prejudice against Mississippi- Not a mean prejudice, but a mistaken prejudice. General Wood, traveled and able and fair man that he is, '"as prejudiced against this section before he came to see it. He said so. He thought, the. land was low and flat, and swamp; that, th" air fairly buzzed with the song of the pesky mosquito. Ho had no thought of locating a camp anywhere near here when he came. But he saw, and was conquered; and like wise men often do. he changed his mind, and like a brave man, he made the amends honorable by putting Hattiesburg on the map. Now if General Wood could be so mistaken, we can readily understand how "the common heard" could be mistaken, and how that general mistake should grow into a prejudice hurtful to thi.3 part of the stateThe boys who vill be leaving Kentucky and Indiana soon, and their parents, are doubtless imbued with that same mistake. They think they are coming into a swarm of mosquitoes and a malaria-ridden district; a low level, swampy country- They will be agreeably surprised when they get here. When they get out to Camp Crawford and pitch their tents on an elevation thai will give them a view as beautiful as any they have ever seen outside the matchless blue grass region of old Kentucky; and when they meet a breeze, an almost constant, steady breeze from the Gulf to fan their cheeks; and drink the purest, clearest water they ever tasted in their lives, from Sowing artesian wells, they will write back home a new r.nd almost unbelievable story to their fend and anxious parents, and the

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AN UNUSUALLY LARGE TOOTHACHE WAS RECENTLY SUFFERED IN ATLANTA, GA.

THE new dance this fall will be the military shift MIGHT also be ceiled the night shift. THEY are not taking TOMMY to ihurch for an indefinite pcriotl HE heard the preacher SAY that people are made of dust AND frightened the mater to death LATER on by trying to draw his 'oaby sister into the vacuum cleaner WRl.,1,. we don't care whether you believe it or not. HAVE you noticed in your more thoughtful moments how the jrice.s of foodstuffs ARE tiimW.nR down? NEITHER had we. OUR one regret is that we simply have no time to take up the lessons suggested by Kitty Gordon for acquiring a beautiful back. OLD doc Michaelis is now promising peace with honor THAT'S some more of our business doc, the V. S. will look after that and YOU won't have a damn thing to say. -r,1-LD this .weather persist

YOU are not going to be able to see 'em wearing 'em higher AND fewer much longer this year. WE have often noticed in our purely speculative moments

THAT what a married man considers solely a kiss of ardor when he returns from a jaunt IS in reality merely a kiss of Investigation. HOW short the days are getting! WE s.uppose it is rude to notice these things but really AFTER a woman has reached middle "gc and spread out over a great deal of territory AXD her ankles are as big as her knees SHE should be cautious about wearing those knee length skirts. WE regret that there seems to be no effort to get Mr. Gomrers and MR. ROOSEVELT together l-'OR a return match. IT is a mistake to say that our wiff can't see more than one side of a question BECAUSE she can HER side and the boy's side.

stories they tell will find their way into the newspapers, and thousands and tens of thousands of people will have their eyes opened as to what South Mississippi actually is. And they will come and see and be conquered, 'just as General Wood was- And they will find the people as hospitable as the climate is inviting. And the smell of the pine forest mixed with that of the magnolia, will be sweet to them. And they will find as many satsuma oranges growing here as there are apples in Indiana, and every little way they may rest themselves under the enveloping shade of a soft-shell pecan tree. We have been trying to tell the world this these many years, but they thought we had land to sell or something to boost, and 'they would not listen. But they know their own sens have nothing to sell, and when the message comes back home from them, all of Kentucky and Indiana and the Middle West will sit up and take .notice; and the next thing you know some of them will be coming down here to see for themselves; and when they come they will stay and live among us and help us develop this section of great resources; because we sure have got the goods. Think of the publicity thirty thousand letters a week will give to this section. Think of the amount of prejudice and misinformation their rlain, unvarnished tales will dispelThat's just one of th ethings this cantonment means and one of the things it will do for ail of South Mississippi. And Hattiesburg is glad that it effect and good results will reach out so far; because, even from a selfish standpoint, whatever helps South Mississippi help3 Hattiesburg. Come on, boys; lots of IOntuckians and not a few Indianians alreadydown here, and a hearty, royal southern welcome awaits you. Hattiesburg Press.

THE FRIEND OF THE SKIRT-HIDER. The New York Evening Telegram under the caption, "Slackers All." printed the following editorial recently: "William Hale Thompson, mayor of Chicago, who by his behavior part boorish and at times so nearly treasonable as to cause suggestion of impeachment has made the. name of the Prairie City a by-word and reproach, says: " 'They attack me because I don't believe in sending our youths to the trenches of Europe without their consent, instead of providing an adequate army to prevent home invasion-' "Mayor Thompson now appears as the friend of the slacker. He is a conscientious objector lined up with the petticoat pleaders, with the man who has to pay alimony, the. one who has to support a common-law wife, ;he citizen who says he has 'no teeth and weak feet,' and 'the man whose wife faints when he goes away.' "They say a man s known by his company, but why should Mr. Thompson keep talking and betray himself?"

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MISS' DRESS. By Anabel Worthington.

An unusually smart jumper dress is shown in design No. S.400. It is very girlish and yet it has the touches which makr it chic. The front of the waist is in onpiece and is cut in points at the sides. Th' points lap over and button onto corresponding points at the back. The neck i cut in a very deep V shape at the front and the guimpe which is worn underneath shows through. A larre collar has the new deep points over the shoulders. Th" dress is to be slipped on over the hend. The skirt is a straight one piee model, gathered to the slightly raised waist line and forming graceful draperies at the sides. The guimpe closes at the centre front, and it may be made with either long or short sleeves.

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Extracting "Claude's" aching tooth. There is peace and quiet again in the Grant park zoo at Atlanta, Ga. Until a few days ago and for two weeks previous the menagerie was a bedlam of trumpeting and howling, but that is all over now. It all started when Maude, th prize pachyderm of the institution became troubled with a defective tooth. She bellowed and trumpeted and kicked until her keepers began to fear for the safety of themselve3 and visitors, and the other animals through fear or sympathy made such a din with their howling that sleep was out of the question. After two weeks of the racket a dentist was called in and with a pair of iron tones he pulled the troublesome molar.

WHO WILL PAY? OR, SHELLING THE KAISER

By State Defease Council.

(Being a continuation of the neighborhood War Council over the Smith-Jones backyard fence, somewhere in Indiana.) Mrs. Smith Mrs. Jones who's going to pay for this extra fruit and vegetable supply we. are all cannir-.p, is it this man Hoover? Mrs. Jones What do you mean "pay us." Mrs. Smith? Mrs. Smith Well, didn't you tell me the government wants us to put up all the fruit and vegetables we can, before the food rots and is wasted? Mrs. Jones Yes, that is the idea, but I don't see how you expect to get pay for it. Mrs. Smith Well, does the government expect us to give this food to the soldiers and our allies free? Certainly we poor people can't afford that. I didn't expect to charge a thing for my work nor the stuff I am canning, but the cans are expensive and eo are the sugar and spices. Mrs. Jones-'-Why bless you. Mrs. Smith! the government isn't asking you to give the stuff to anybody. Uncle Sam wants you to put up this fruit and these vegetables, simply in order that ou hive

them to feed your own fnmily. That) will leave just that much more in the j market for him to use for his soldiers j and our friends who are also fighting : the kaiser. Besides, it will keep prices; of the stuff on the market lower than j if you and I were bidding against him j in competition and there wasn't enough j such food stuff to go around.

Mrs. Smith Do you mean to tell me. Mrs. Jones, that we get to keep all these cans for our own use next winter, am? don't have to give any of them to the soldiers or the government? Mrs. Jones That' . sexactly what I mean. Mrs. Smith. Mrs. Smith Well, if we get to keep thm ourselves, I see where Henry will save enough on your grocery bill to buy

a new suit before Christmas this year. Say, that will be great news for him. too. He couldn't affird a new suit last year. Mrs. J'-neR Yes. and the best part of it too. is that you are doing just the thine tint will help most to beat the kaiser. Mrs. Smith Well. 1 think I'll send a few more shots toward Berlin just as soon as the children can gather those

tomatoes; I've a few more shells (holding up two tin cans) left and I'll just use them all.

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Wurlitier Company (G. A. Gillett) vs. Michael Pulisi. 16377 Rm. 1 Forecl. Mtg.; Henry Laederarh (L. T. Meyerj vs. AUiaon P. Brown and Katie B. Brown. 16378 Rm. 2 Acct.; Bieker Bros. Co. (J. K. Stinson) vs. C. G. Kingwell. 16379 Rm. 1 Replevin; Eben N. Bunnell (E. G. Sproat) vs. Joe Hassan. 16380 Rm. 1 Replevin; Eben N. Bunnell (E. G. Sproat) vs. George Nestorovieh. 163S1 Rm. 2 Personal Injury to Auto: Phillip H. McLaughlin fTinkham & Tinkham) vs. Chicago & Erie R. R. Co. v 16382 Rm. 1 Acct.: Adrian E. Tinkham and C. Bonar Tinkham (T. & T.) vs. Sela A. Smith. 163S3 Rm. 2 Divorce; Luetta Hunter (L. V. Cravens) vs. William C. Hunter.

NEW CASES FILED.

The following new cases have been filed in the Lake Superior Court, Hammond : 16376 Rm. 2 Replevin; The Rudolph

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