Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 70, Hammond, Lake County, 10 September 1917 — Page 10

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Miss Emily Beattj-, (Jauhter of Admiral Beatty of the British Grand Fleet, is to wed Captain Charles Henry Drayton of the American navy.

HIND GETS PRAISE. 1 DETROIT

Tie Detroit N'evra recently contained an article on Hammond and Gary by "W. J. C." which la being widely copied. It lollows: "Everybody knows about Hammond, Ind.. Gary, and auch places. That is, ererybody knows about them In a way. For example, when I tell you tliat the relative of Americana In Hammond wrote and telegraphed bers'nsT them to come away from the city and escape the rlotlns that was certain to happen on Registration day. some of you will say, "Yes, that's Hammond. That's Gary. That's all those foreign communities.

"Well, Hammond Is a foreign community' no doubt about that. So much ao that they somtlmes save time by telling you how many Americans live there. Instead of how many foreigners. A social survey gave Hammond's population as 68 per cent foreign born, which, with that 68 per cent's first American-born generation, made the foreign complexion of the place pretty nearly unanimous. So there seemed to be some basis for the fear of outsiders that Registration day would eee disorders. It was an ideal time for a violent pro-German demonstration. Moreover, there had been plenty of pro-Germanism thereabouts previous to our declaration of war. I think I saw mors of the inwardness of the American brand of pro-Germanism In Hammond than I have been able to see anywhere else. I mean the pro-Ger-manlsm of common, honest folk. First H Is the national clannishness of race. It is instinct to cleave to one's own people when the coirwnon name is being ragged about in every kind of denunciation. In a war between one's own clan and another, one's sympathies lire inevitably with one's own, regardless of right or wrong. It is like standing by a son who goes wrong. And then, second, it i3 the tie made tighter by relief work. The intensity with which right-minded Ger-man-Ame-ricans threw themselves into work for the German Red Cross tied them to the German military cause with tlea forged of pure human sympathy, and postponed their considering the war from any other angle. I found much evidence of this. And It is entirely natural. The people we help in their emergency are the people we come to like. If you want to take a lively interest in a man. do something for him It attaches you at once. Thus did relief work produce much of the quality which we stigmatised as pro-Germanism, though it was only pro-humanity with a clannish or national emphasis. There was much of this, as well as some cf a less lovely sort, in Hammond. "But when the United States declared war on Germany, it forced a sudden and serious readjustment upon Hammond's foreign mentality. Hammond claims the largest percentage of voluntary enlistments in the United States. "Th first man to go was the leader of the Lutheran young people's society. Ha was the first of 7S0 men. I hop you will read that figure again and try to realize that it relates to a city like Hammond. "In fact. Hammond's enlistment is st high that t'.ie quota to le supplied by the draft U very low. "I have Just told you about the parade of Americanism. But ever since

the war was declared there have been daily parades of recruits to the depots. The Masonic drum and bugle

corps invariably leads them, whether there be ten men or seventy in , the procession. And the recruits recruit themselves they are not the fruit of

impassioned campaigns.

"So much for today as regards this 'foreign community.' Tomorrow, perhaps, a little more of some of the types who make up the community.

"There remains a fragment, possibly

significant, which I record from a

sense of duty and wholly without pleasure. It regards the attitude of

the Americans. The exemption board

memibers will tell you that it is in

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pretext. ,-I am sick at heart." said one examiner. "Americans of all classes try every means to avoid service, while "foreigners are doins their ut-

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permit them to serve. From what I have seen here it makes me wonder who has the right to bear the name 'American.' "I have heard that so often that I have been set to wondering. University professors have told of the pressure brought to bear on them to use their supposed influence to obtain exemptions and always by and for Americans! "I am a poor man," said one professor of international reputation. JIy own boy went without a murmur. But only yesterday a millionaire came pleading- with me to help secure the exemption of. bis son."

What does it mean?. It means to me. assuming- the' superior attitude which "Americans" adopt toward"'foreigners," something like that which Christ m-eant when he told the Pharisees that publicans and sinners would bto to the Kingdom of Heaven before them. It means that our American heritage may pass from us to those who . have shown themselves worthy of It. If it be true that the "stranger within the gate" shows a nobler appreciation of our country than we do, they are the heirs of the country, fcnd we the natural sons shall be disinherited. And why not?

If You Think- THE TIMES I Doing Its Bit Your Support Is Always Welcome.

GARY AND OTHER SCHOOL SYSTEMS By JOHJT ANSOM TOBB. That our educational problems are being . included in America's present tendency toward profitable self-searching is evidenced by Randolph Bourne's "EDUCATION AND LIVING" (the Century company) and Helen Marie Bennett's "WOMEN AND WORK" (Appletons), the latter having as a subtitle "The Economic Value of College Training." Mr. Bourne stays closer to his thetr.e than does the second author. His belief that education is a process incidental to living is shown all through the book, and the layman who remem-

j bers the harshness of his old school room and the forbidding welcome that

it gave him will here find many of his half-formulated accusations against that educational system sharply defined and ably analyzed. The old idea of "salvation through drudgery." still too prevalent in our educational endeavor, isvmade short work of by Mr. Bourne. In "Women and Work" we find evidence of the legitimate questioning of the efficiency of America's educational system, which Mr. Bourn shows to be poorly adjusted. Women are making good In business, is-the belief of this woman author, who is manager of the Chicago Collegiate Bureau of Occupations, but If they had a truer sense of values they could render a larger service, she believes. Mr. Bourne believes that tha Gary school system is one of the best embodiments of the ideas which must find

general adoption in American education, and one wonders if more of such educational philosophy applied to the higher education of women would not go far toward improving their economic training.

Helen Bennett's work is of value to all who are associated with women workers and to college girls who want to get the point of view of the business world, but it is too discursive, spends tr much on generalized discussion.

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