Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 52, Hammond, Lake County, 17 August 1917 — Page 4

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THE TIMES Friday, August 17, 1917.

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BT THE LAKE C0TTNTY PRISTINa & PUBUSHmO COJiLTAST.

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at & poitoftMce In East Chicago. November 18. 1911. The Take County Tlram Dally except Saturday and Wand ay. Batarad at the poatuiTlce in Hammond. June 18, 1801. The Like County Tlmei Saturday and weakly edition. Btard at poatofftoe in Hammond,, February 4, 1811. The Gary Evening Time Dally except Sunday. Bnttred at tae poat.ffioe la Gary, April S. 1818. AXX under the act ot March (. 18TS. aa aeoond-claaa matter.

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ULEGES PAH) UP CISCUXATIOlf THAN ANT TWO CTHES HEWSPAPESS IN THE CALU1IET EE3I0N.

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NEVER do e admire more the independence of woman THAN when he starts to give her baby his lunch no matter WHETHER any one is looking or not. THE Prussians declare that republics are a peril BY GOSH, they're death on Prus ians if that's what they mean SOMEHOW while wo were patiently waiting the evening bath tub we figured out that THE fellow who spends his time BRAGGING about what he Is going to do tomorrow DID the same thing yesterday.

NEARLY all the golf links which were not ploughed up early in the

HAVE now been ploughed up ty. divot eers.

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THE POPE AXD DIPLOMACY. The appearance of the pope raising his hand and beckoning to Christendom to attend to outlines for peace probably is accepted more as a matter of course in the old world than in America. Overseas they .are more apt to regard the Roman pontiff not only as the head of a great church, hut also as one exercising no little influence in the chancelleries of many countries. Yet quite apart from his prestige in temporal matters his holiness commands attention as an ecclesiastical leader, and being the spiritual shepherd of millions engaged on both sides in the war he stands out preeminently as an exalted figure in the religious worldFor many ages, save only at remotely unconnected intervals, the pope was an earthly ruler- Not until the time of Pius IX in 1S71 did this percgative pass from him. The papal states had a population of more than 3,000,000 and territory of 16,000 square miles, quke an area when srace is considered in that part of the world. It was the realization of the unity of Italy that saw this temporal authority pass elsewhere, and until that time the pope was a prince, the head cf a- state as much as any European ruler ever was. Hi3 government levied taxes, functioned for the people, raised armies, and when the stern necessities of the times required it, used them. On several occasions the papal army took the field, if not to save Christendom then to go to the assistance of princes exhorted by the pope to protect itAs for the Vatican's present place in the sphere of diplomacy, it still

persists as an innuentiai racior, ana, perhaps at times, like the present, as a timely and consiliatory one; one that may use its good offices of

disinterestedness to bring men bark to. the realisation that arbitration sometimes effects what long resort to arms seems impotent to accomplish. In its relations with other states and heads of states the Vatican communicates through its secretaries of state. While the United States maintains no diplomatic mission at the Vatican, nor does Mexico, vet nearly

all the Central and South American republicans, as well as several Euro

pean powers, do. These envoys are accredited to the holy see, and are quite apart from those who officiate in the embassies and legations at the court of Italy. Thus besides the American republics. Portugal, Russia, Spain, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands and Prussia and Bavaria (for Germany) have ministers or ambassadors at the Vatican; and at the capitals of those countries are papal envoys. To this list must be added the new English minister at the Vatican- After an interval of centuries, when the great war broke out, England resumed direct diplomatic relation with the holy see- As far as this country is concerned, the papacy has a delation at Washington, the delegate's functions "being wholly ecclesiastical in character. He is the channel through whom American Catholics transact business with Rome. Having a world-wide organization, with world-wide facilities for information as well as ancient prestige and diplomatic recogniton from most of the great powers, the vatcan's state department possesses all the mechanism for addresses to the different governments- Besides, the Roman diplomats are men of broad education, and have a training that conies from direct acquaintance with the usages of international diplomacy. So, peace suggestions from the Vatican bear certain weight regardless of whether the warring governments accept them. They come from a source whose chief and chief adv'sers are men who have not only mastered the formulas of religion, but who are versed in the science of statecraft a3 well. .

OF course, it's none of our blamed business, as you have frequently re

marked.

BUT parents should realize that

these are great niehts for the moth

and the flame business

AS a little evening auto Jaunt in the

country bears witness to.

HOW

against

does a man really his luck

stack up

WHEN he Is up against it or down

on it"

ABE Martin has been thinking it

AND says the big cabbage crop may be part of an insidious German SAUERKRAUT propoganda. A MAN may be a great and shining success in the business world AND yet in the wife's eyes never amount to a hill of beans UNLESS he can go down to a store and exchange an envelope chemise for her without BATTING an eye. LAFAYETTE Courier says Thomas Haywood is having a furnace put in his houae to be regulated by a thermostat GOSH, ain't that wonderful? WE called attention recently to the Indianapolis Times' idea of conservation

BY having the women wear skirts an Inch shorter and

their

THEIR silk hose a day longer AND now the Beaumont. Tex.. Enterprise butts in and says that, IF they wear the skirts any shorter the hose will have to be longer, or OUTSIDE of that it seems to be fine weather for the corn. GENERALLY & loafer has lots of spare time and little spare money BUT some of our gilded youths seem to have it FIXED differently AND how they do it nobody knows

Mme. Petrova to Produce Own Photoplay

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they would start an anti-tobacco campaign to keep themselves In clover? Cynics say that human beings crave a certain amount of abuse or impositionIf they find themselves free they proceed to fetter themselves Just to feel miserable. Under an autocratic government the people are free to drink, to smoke, to dance and to sin. An autocracy understands the distinction between crime end sin and leaves the latter to the private conscience and the church. When the people govern themselves they TArie1aiA a(n . Al t 2 . e,

.r6.o.ir oni. as we:i as crime ana men proceed to regulate tastes' and habits, as well as acts that concern the public. j In Germany before the war all cities and towns were "wide open" and 1 yet efficiently administered. The report of the Rockefeller Foundation I proves the lack of restriction- The German autocracy gave the people j practically unlimited freedom of action in personal affairs as compena-1

nua lur iron aiscipnne m tee service or tne empire- That is the extreme example of our day and Germans seemed to like the system better than the political freedom of the United .States coupled with restrictions of personal acts that do not constitute crime even when regarded as sinful. Americans are free to do whatever they please in the collective senseThey can change the form of government by marking their ballots. Having gained such liberty, they have at all times since the revolution shown fondness for restricting the liberty of the Individual. At various times and places in the United States the use of tobacco in some or al forms has been prohibited. Restrictions cn the use of spirituous and fermented beverages have taken every imaginable form. Only the constitution of the

United States has stood in the way of the establishment of religious tests and the proscription of certain forms of religious worship in some states. I The governor of a certain sta:e of the Union now declares that he will not appoint to office a member or adherent of a certain Christian church that counts its members in this country by the millions, and. Incidentally, he holds up Bismarck as his guiding star in this' policy. We must have organized self-control, but why treat ourselves as children? Thomas Jefferson understood the difference between sin and crime and the reason for ignoring private sins and punishing crimes against the state. Sin Is violation of conscience; crime Is violation of law. Mr. Pease has a r:ght to think, and he therefore enjoys the personal privilege of be

lieving that it lg sinful to smoke; but he has no right to make smoking a crime and neither has a ninety per cent majority of the people. Carried to its logical conclusion, such legislation will destroy personal liberty. The next step will be to make it a crime to eat garlic or onions. The prohibition craze wil yet reach foods, cards, amusements, clothes and other personal affairs if our lawmakers continue to surrender unconditionally to every 2-iuf of faddists that sets up a lobby in the national or state capitalsThen we may welcome an au'.ocrit in order to regain a little personal liberty of thought and action. N;w York Commercial.

.Mmc-.PETROVA Pc6roir Picture Cow-fvfW MME. PETROVA, the distin-ruished Polish actress, now heads the Pf -tf". Picture "company, a new organization backed by unlimited capital, will have absolute control over every detail of her new product: mMme. Petrova"s salary is the largest ever raid a motion picture ar-tre. acording to Frederick L. Collins, president of Superplctures Distributins i-: poration, which is to market the new Petrova pictures. Mme. Petrova"s new productions will be in seven or more ree!s. She di--o-not hind herself to make any certain number of photodramas in a year, lie only ambition Is to make the finest photoplay possible, and as head of he own company she will have unlimited time and capital at her disposal.

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Shop

235 East State Street. Hammond, Ind.

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

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Saturday Peanut Brittle ISc a lb. Choice refreshments trade from the highest Ai-nde products. Delicious ice cream and i'.'t'S. Our soda fountain is the latest and most sanitary known to modern methods, combined with the hot "water system for -leansing silver and glassware. Hammond Candy Co. 166 State Street. Hammond, Indiana.

NOW WANT TO STOP SMOKES. It was hound to come. The president of the Non-Smokers Protective League of America has addressed an open letter to President Wilson protesting against giving tobacco in any form to American soldiers and praying that the cultivation of tobacco be prohibited because the land should produce food. He calls supplying tobacco to soldiers a crime and abuses the American Red Cross for being a party to it.

Were Mr- Pease not an earnest fanatic his letter might be construed as a parody of the arguments of the extreme prohibitionists- He thinks tobacco is as bad as whiskey and a?ks President Wilson to put them in the same class- If the minority Mr. Pease represents were as well organized and as well supplied with cash a3 is the prohibition lobby at Washington, senators and representatives would jump at the crack of the antitobacco whip just as they hasten to obey the mandates of the prohibition lobbyists. They may one of these days, for, if national prohibition should become the law of the land, it would deprive these professional agitators cf their livelihood, and what would be more logical and likely than that

A GRAND jury in Mississippi has indicted the kaiser for murder, arson and conspiring against the peace 'and dignity of the state. This seems to be a bet that the local grand jury overlooked.

JUST as Hennery ColdbottI? points out, the government asks that during the war you carry home rot a package, but a bundle-

KERENSKY is going to halt 4tho Russian elections because the people aren't ready. No doubt Wall street would like to hire Kerensky for a few weeks to halt the Gary city election, for as the case now stands its candidate hasn't a ghost of a show.

THE army is short of apparel. New If we had a feminine army like they have oyer in Russia, such a little thing wouldn't worry the army at all.

NO doubt if the scheme for a park in the Little Calumet swamps, which is a plan to divert attention from the move for a lake front beach, goes through the Gary park -board will provide 'the citizens with mosquito lotions as well as boots and spears to catch the festive frog and crab.

PROHIBITION autocrats thould take warning. The greatest prohibitionist the world ever saw, the czar, has just been banished to Siberia.

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PETEY DINK Yes, But She's Keeping a Lot Home.

By C. A. V0IGHT

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