Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 70, Hammond, Lake County, 10 September 1917 — Page 4

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THE TIMES Monday, September 10, 1917.

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FAILURE AT VERDUN SOUNDED DOOM OF GERMAN HOPES FOR WORLD EMPIRE

The Tlmei East Chicago-Indiana Harbor, dally except Sunday. Entered at the postofflce In East Chicago. Xovtmbtr IS, 1918. The Lake County Tlmei Dally except Saturday and Sunday. Entarcd at tha postofflca In Hammond, June 28. 1S08. The Lake County Times Saturday and weekly edition. Entered at the postofflce In Hammond, February 4, 111. The Gary Evening Time Pally except Sunday. Entered at the postoffica In Gary. April 18. 11J. All under the act of March 3. 1ITJ, as second-class matter.

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KAISER S MORALE SQUAD HAS ITS HE OH 0, S.

Shaded sxeas indicate greatest advance of the German. (1) Germans defeated in Flanders. (2) German wedge at St. Mihiel. (3) Gap Germans hoped to make into France.

News from the south is that the schools have been successful in curinmountain youths of gun toting. What is the secret? We have even better schools here, but so far this vear twrntv-two persons have been murdered in this county because we let people go around carrying concealed weapons.

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PEACE MOVE AND CHURCH UNIT Y. Writing in the Indiana Daily Times. Rev. Charles Stelze r.sks whether the Pope s peace drive is the beginning of another movement for the re-establish-rnent of organic union among the various branches of the Christian church Rv. Stelze points out that if the Pope's peace plan goes throuch it will give him a chance to call a general council of the Christian church, and the attainment of peac may see the birth of a league of states to enforce peace The clergyman points out in connection with the movement toward church unity that Benedict early this year appointed four cardinal., to open negotiations with the Anglican and Greek Catholic church with a view 0f organic union. Rev. Stelze also might have added that in the eighteenth century the Anglican and Greek Catholic churches considered union for. a time and Just before this war there was talk of a religious unitv between Canterbury and St. Petersburg. Now comes the proposal of a triple organic union. Quite apart from the European movement is the definite tendency in America for organic union among churches. Then another great religious Question is what course the Greek Catholic church in Russia will take will it effect a union with Home? As Rev. Stelze says, the organic union between the two hundred Protectant denominations in this country will be slow it probably will be accomplished by the merging of two and three of them at a time. Nevertheless, significant changes impend in the religious sphere and as the world is whirling through a series of important milestones in' secular history it is also about to establish certain ecclesiastical landmarks. Quite contrary to the belief that the war is making mankind forget God, the com mon tie of suffering and disaster is only serving to increase faith in the Redeemer. For churchdom the future discloses rays of bright portent

THE MOXTESSARI SYSTEM. It is with pleasure that, we acknowledge receipt of a marked copy of the Christian Science Monitor, which contains an editorial on "The Education of the Senses." It deals with and x-rays the Montessori system of teaching children. The Monitor is apprehensive of the system; it has been so for some months, and this is not the first time it has discussed the subject. Apart from the body of the editorial, it gives us satisfaction to see a newspaper of such international reputation devote time to education. So fewnewspapers give this phase of our national activity th PttenMon it should receive. Although education is the first business of this republic, as far as news and editorial columns are concerned in America, it is almost the last business of editors and editorial writers. The Monitor sees in the Montessori system an. insidious training of the senses "The education of the senses, in plain Erglish, is bound to end in the education of appetites and passions, for these things are the senses." Our neighbor's analysis of Madame Montessori's structure is not wholly without good foundation. Vet we believe, so far as America is concerned, that her tenets might command more solicitude were they more popularly accepted. As it is, they are in plainer English the toy of "highbrowism.'' In no way is Montessori to be thought of in terms of Froebel, Mann, Dewey, Postalozzi and Wirt; and the Monitor's concern over education of the senses should not have such broad boundaries.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. When will we learn to regard men and women merely as individual human beings, to be measured by individual standards, and not as sex creatures -with contrasted virtues, excellencies and failing?, and differentiated in all essentials by reason of th fart? Th anti-suffra.ee man fears the universal franchise because of the old fiction that certain peculiar, mysterious, undesirable qualities attach to woman becau.- of hr sex. She is in all respects to him what Vance Thompson calls "the Straussburg goose," born to her sex, thinking in term3 of sex, living sex, and given to those artifices, deceptions and inanities that result as a necessary penalty. The militant suffragette arises and takes the opposite extreme by claiming superiority for the woman superiorities peculiar and growing out of sex. Every ten minutes or so you encounter one or the other of these types and they provoke ascerbity, the one from the other. The man derides the -women.

ti.e --.'.man berates th men. says the Paris (Mo.) Mercury. As a rule the man knows little of women, at best only foolish women, and almost without exception the woman's life has either been devoid of intimate contact with men or she has had an unpleasant experience usually of sex with some single individual man by whom she persists in judging the whole male frfbe. The entire contention is piffle. .No peculiarities whatsoever attach because of sex. Every man is a son of his mother and every -woman is the daughter of her father. They have like virtues and like vices. Men lie and steal, so do women. Men some men are unclean, and not all women are chaste. Both are selfish and both cart rise to the loftiest heights of self-abnegation. Either will betray you, either can be your enduring friend. Save in a physiological difference there is absolutely no distinction. Both are just human beings and to be judged as individuals alone.

A BALANCE SHEET. Three ears ago Germany began this war for conquest of middle Europe. "What has she gained? What has this gain cost her? She has gained by her arms the territories of Belgium, Luxemburg, Servia, a small but rich section of northern France, and parts of Lithuania, Poland and Roumanla a total of a little less than 204,000 square miles. She has lost: Except for an insignificant corner in southern Africa, all her colonies, over a million square miles. Practically all her shipping not bottled up in Bremen and Hamburg, a loss estimated in tonnage as 3,600,000. Of the flower of her youth, over 2,000,000.' In cash, nearly ?20,000,000,000 to be added to her national debt. Before the war, though unpopular as a people, Germany was honored among all nations for her intellectual scholarship and her industrial efficiency. She has lost irretrievably this respect and won in its place the mingled hatred and contempt of the civilized world. Scarcely a considerable neutral nation is left, except those whose safety compels their neutrality. No one thinks Germany can retain her gains. No one imagines that she can recover her losses. It is not strange that some of the German people are seriously discussing among themselves the question whether it is not time to change their business managers. The Outlook.

VAUDEVILLE theaters are opening up again. And for that matter so are the city campaign orators. God bless the deaf!

THINK cheering about assertion of scientist that -we'll soon be a legless race is that the shoe trut magnates will then get theirs.

MUNCIE now ought to make only one-fifth as much noise as Gary does

Gary's city budget is now five times that of Muncie's.

(By United Press.) WASHINGTON, S pt. S. Watch your step, America: Also your facial expression. Kaiser Willie has hi eye on you. looking for ins r moral weakness. If he sees em. he'll figure our moifilf is breaking under the etrain of war and thnt he's winning. Fcatt-rd through every bf!!iK(-r-nt country fifth! ing (ermsny, the tale I tolii via I'aris and P.rr.e. th Wonder Man of Wilhelmntrssse has stationed a flftcit o (toggle-eyed psychologists with two-tun tirains. "Watrh the imupie"' le what th;y read when they Rot to their post and opened their seeled orders. There are. it is understood, a few sample of these heavy-headed watcher in WashfnRton, Nw York, Chlragro. Denver. San Francisco and here and there In ether cities in the country. Maybe one of them Is especially detailed to watch the president. If o, be muat send some discouragingiy cheerful report to Berlin, for Mr. Wilot. has spring in his te"p. a ready emile. a ruddy camplexlon, clear views on the situation and an unimpaired thinking apparatus. Iteports from America to the "phycholofcy bureau" in .Berlin are expected to Influence the trend of German's diplomacy. If the brain students in American cities report: "Americans drafrfrir feet listlessly, faces register blank expreaslons. mental progress foggy and blunted, eyes flat and fthy."

That will he irrmny's cua to redouble its flagging efforts to 5ink democracy with its submarines, to patent a few more choice brands of frightfulness (commonly kno-rn in Germany as Fhrechllchkeit ), c laim victory and the whole of Europe and let it go at that. But if the watchers find us keyed up and capable, determined to sweep up the wreck of the Prussian machine with the kaiser's mustache and use his nose for a pick-axe to dig his political grave, that will be a tip to B rer Vrviaelis to use a rat-tail file on his raucous utterfitices. "I do not think." said Miss Harriet Underwood, lecturer on psychology at George Washington university and an Huthorlty or. the study of the mind. "That these German observers will find any evidences of a weakened morale here. Our present attitude. I should say. Is one of indifference, but I believe that will disappear when the casulty lists begin to come in. "The American is. as people go, stable. So far we had no great calamity to break down our morale. When the crisis comes I have no fear but that we will respond in our normal way." And that's the way several other of our own experts locked at it. They

s said, in short, that the kaiser's morale pq,uad won't get any satisfaction out of

its observations In the I'nited States

until a certain torrid and justly famous locality is coated over with a thick slab of Ice.

NURSES TO BE GIVEN SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS

( (Special to Thb Times ) INDIANAPOLIS. SPt- To meet the insistant demand for nurses for service durlnp the war, the Indiana State Council of Defense has arranged for a special examination of candidates for registration September 12 and 13. Ordinarily the next regular examination of student nurns would be held December lt- Inasmuch as the hospital units are now beins organised, any many ofthem are already in the field, the need for skilled nurses is very pressing. In fact, it is represented to the State Council, the need of capable nurses is as great, as that of competent physicians and surgeons. The .Red Cross society accepts only registered nurses for war service. It is absolutely essential, therefore, that patriotic Indiana young women who desire to serve should secure the

necessary credentials before they leave their homes. A certificate from the Indiana State Board of Examination and Registration of nurses Is recognized everywhere by the Red Cross society and it requires only a brief period of trainingto qualify the applicant for a permanent assignment. The opportunities for practical experience, an exceptional educational advantage, are said to be far greater, in view of the advancement of the medical and nursing professions, than ever before. Indiana Is expected to furnish her quota of nurses the same as she has of recruits for the army and navy, her subscription the Red Cross fund, end the purchase of liberty Loan bonds. The State Council of Defense Is particularly anxious that every young woman interested be given an opportunity to qualify for this splen-

The Evenings Are Growing

Longer and cooler; pretty tine to sit by the fireside and read. But how about your glasses? Are they correct in every way? Can you read easily and with comfort? If not. we advise that you consult our Mr. D. O. Elliott, O. I). He is an eye specialist of wide experience , and c a n readily tell you your trouble and fit you with the proper glasses. Examination free.

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did branch of the service. Persona interested In the special examination September 12-13 are akd to convmunicate with Miss Edna Humphrey, secretary of the state examining board. Crawfordsvilie. lnd., before September Sth. in order that the desired information may rach them in time. The information contained herein is made the subject of Information Bulletin No. 35 just addressed to county councils by the State Council of Defense.

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TUATION WANTED COlimiSSor RESULTS

CARGO of Scotch consigned to New York saloons sinks with ship. This j Davy Jones is going to have a fearful bun on unless this stuff is recovered, j

GREAT Jupiter! Snake sfx feet long slain in Hammond. There may be more of 'em! They may bit some one! And Hammond's only distillery is closing down. Oh, dear!

IF this coal situation doesn't ease up we may all have to go in for politics this fall to get warmed up.

MAYBE the German soldiers are so eager to push on into Russia because they want to see how it feels to be in a free country.

IF some of those mountaineer feudists of Breathitt county, Kentucky, come around here and see how many killings are going on every month, thanks to the gentlemen who are allowed to carry concealed weapons, they are going to feel like pikers.

THAT we begin to think heavily as soon as we get up is shown by fact that we get our B. V. D.'s on inside out and find that when we go down to breakfast that we have on one tan shoe and one black shoe.

IN refusing pro-German pacifists the right to hold a "peace' meeting in

,Oary, saying he will have bis police on band to stop any attempt, the mayor

of Gary displays some traits of Americanism that the mayor of Chicago might copy with profit.

ir uu wane- up m luk mumms uu nxiu your arms ana tegs aecoratea j.with red splotches, and then discover half a dozen plump mosquitoes in the jxoom, you lose all prejudice against circumstantial evidence." Toledo ' Blade.

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