Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 36, Hammond, Lake County, 15 September 1917 — Page 4

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THE TIMES September 15, 1917.

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The Timea East Chicago-Indiana Harbor, dally except Sunday. Entered at th poatofllce In Eatt Chicago. November 18, 191S. The Lake County Times Daily except Saturday and Sunday. Entered at the postofflre In Hammond, Ju:- 28, li'OS. The Lake County Times Saturday end weekly edition. Entered at tha postoffioe In Hammond, February 1911. The Gary Evening Times Daily except Sunday. Entered at the poatoSlca In Gary. April 13. lf!2. All under the act of March S. 1S7?, as second-clas matter. FOREIO'V A DVERTI!1 (i OF FIC E. 912 Rector Building Chicago TELEPHONES. Hammond (private exchange) 3100. 3101, 3102 (Call for whatever department wjntfl) Gary Office Telephone 137 N'tsaau & Thompson. East Chicago , Telephone 640-J F. L. Evans East Chicago Telephone 737-J East Chicago. Tub Times 203 Indiana Harbor (News Dealer) s3 Indiana Harbor (Reporter and Ciasiti-1 .v.n 'IViejii.otie 4 1SM or i.'5W Whiting Telephone 0-M Crown Point Telephone 6J Hegewrisch Telephone 1

residents can hardly pay the price asked by industry for the water to sustain them. Wives and children of aliens in Gary live in crowded, 6Tualid rooms, often refused; even the right to buy pure water by the hard-fisted hirelings of the wajer company. Instead of grass, flowers and trses theirs is an atmosphere of sand, garbage and flies, of the indiscriminate mixing rf tVlO V ll. en J . V. I A. .

u'.,u" ".dn aim wiuio races, ana taioons at every turn, which periiaps exist mainly because Wall street seems to have no interest in its alien workers'

living conditions.

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If you have any trouble getting Thb Times make complaint Immediately to the circulation department. Thb Timss will not be responsible for the return of any unsolicited manu acript articles or letters and will not notice anonoymoua communication, Short signed letters of general Interest printed at dlacretlon.

VALOR AT HOME. The Gary Post, which by the way is valiantly serving war-profiting Wall streets political cause in Gary in this hour of national crisis, fearlessly attacks by innuendo and otherwise a lady, the mother of two children. This lady, a park official, has committed the damning ofTene of not being in sympathy with the "Gary thought" and, of course, in not taking

j order's from the street's agents.

Like its companion advocate of Wall street's politics in Gary, the Post has been assisted in its work of valor by the Gary Tribune. Doth have thrown restraint aside in their bombardment of the lady in fashion that must warm the hearts of the officials credited with influencing either newspaper in the chivalrous work. And all this has been done although Wall street's agents have no iron crosses to award for intrepid conduct in action, such a tribute ought to be granted for the rest's attack on the lady last Saturday. Now while these attacks are going on it is notable that the gallant editor of the Post is credited with aspiring to the cartaincy of the home guard. As a starter he has procured a place on the committee to manage the company, an honor said to be equivalent to definitive offlcership later on. If the editor of the Post puts on the captain's sword he will already have had the valuable experience' that tomes from directing a newspaper battery to hurl its blasts at such a formidable opponent as the mother, who is trying to aid other mothers and children, to get more park and recreational facilities.

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AMERICANISM! The famous Brothers Mayo, surgeons at Rochester, Minn., have endowed the University of Minnesota with 51,50,S"4. the bulk of their fortune. Humanity will benefit from the research work of the Mayo foundation. In addition to returning the greater part of their savings of a genera tion giving back to the people the money that came from the people the Mayos are to take turns serving in the army, at base hospitals in the trench sone. The Mayos are real Americans. They have received big fees, but on the other hand their skill and brains hare saved hundreds, perhaps thoueans of lives, and measured in what they have dene for humanity they were not overpaid. Yet the Mayos feel that they have far more than they need and that the money that came from the people should go back to them. Contrast the patriotism of the Mayo brothers with some of the steel, food and munition war profiteers, some of whom have piled up millions of blood profits. The Mayos made their money relieving suffering; the pronteers made their ill-gotten profits through the sufferings of soldiers who die and widows and orphans who survive. They were not content with legitimate earnings but they entered into the ghastly realm of extortion, plundering the living, ghouling the dead. Without doubt it will not be long until the country, chastened by the Cres of war, sees in their true light the big profiteers and then they will receive their proper place in the halls of infamy. The Mayos stand out in brilliant contrast with these men.

A KINDLIER REGARD FOR THE ALIEN. This war haa brought about a different feeling for the alien, those who lire of countries that are our allies. It has also called attention to the shocking negleot Industrial managers have imposed upon the alien in the way of housing conditions, and this Is clearly brought out in the Iron Age by Dr. Winthrop Talbot, adviser In alien industrial education, bureau of industries and Immigration, New York State Industrial Commission. That Dr. Talbot la conversant with the living conditions of aliens in this country is shown by the subjoined: "Short-sighted management in Hopewell, Va., built a huge powder works and utterly neglected the human side. It created social conditions worse than ever existed in Goldfield or earlier In Leadville. or any of the other. wild mining centers of the west, with the result that Hopewell is wiped out of existence by fire. Colorado became a byword and a reproach so long as the alien human element was neglected. Its wasteful management had to be revolutionized. We could say the same of Laurence, the West Virginia coal fields, Bayonne and dozens of other alien centers wnere management has never sensed the fact that industry may be divorced from home, that industrial concerns are responsible and by the public will be held "responsible more and more, where they fail to take their share in establishing right standards in the civic communitiea that cluster around them." GoTng on, the doctor points out that the neglect of Industries as far as alien worfcnen and their families are concerned has been followed by a prolific number of saloons in foreign districts. Denied social co-operation the alien has sought the warmth and companionship of the saloon as his social center. The doctor ventures to say that "the saloonkeeper has been a better friend to the alien than his employer," and adds that the employer has neglected to better the alien employe's civic conditions. Besides being his adviser the saloonkeeper has become the alien's banker, eustainer in time of non-employment and even helps him in sickness and buries fcis baby. From the disgraceful results produced at Youngstown, where riots bowed how the alien was ground down, to the troubles at Laurence, one tnust become sensible to the widespread industrial neglectAt home there Is no better illustration of the neglect of the alien than at Gary. True, he Is neglected at East Hammond, Whiting, Indiana Harbor and East Chicago, but Gary was built from the ground up by the steel trust and was heralded by It as a model city. As far as the housing conditions of a small percentage of American wortanen are concerned in Gary they are very good, despite rentals and terrific charges by their corporate landlord for gas, water and electricity. But the Bteel trust's benevolence seems not to extend to its alien workers and their women and children. It has built parks, tarkways with flower?, etc, but not whpre the foreigners live. The ISO saloons Gary had even In. 1910, when the population was one-fourth what it la today testify to what Dr. Talbot says. Today's shacks, hovels, shanties, where eight to twelve families are packed; the bracken surface water used, the outdoor privvy vaults, and other mediaeval and disease-breeding conditions illustrate the civic neglect of the alien by industries in model Gary. Although Gary is eWen years old there is not an improved civic green spot in its alien quarter; and lawns, trees and flowers are conspicuously asent in a place where

WORTHLESS SMATTERING. For adequate reasons, the news that any American city has ceased to vasts, and worse than waste, the time of its public school teachers and its public school pupils in order to give the latter what is in 99 cases out of 100, if not in 993 out of 1000, an entirely worthless smattering of German, miftht be commended as indicative of Increasing intelligent in that community. New York Times.

THE steel political ring that used the Gary Tribune and tried to engulf

Dr. Smith and failed in the attempt, seems to be so hard up for a goat that

it has selected no less a personage than General Superintendent Gleason for the sacrifice. However, Gleason is a man among men, so keep your

eye on him.

STANDARD Oil of Indiana heretofore a manufacturer has also become a producer. Getting in line with the trend of the times! The war more and more emphasizes the value of the producer.

SEEMS that some of our eminent war profiteers sent Pershing ammunition which was one-third defective. Might have been worse. They deserve credit because two-thirds of it wasn't bad.

NEGROES massacred at East St. Louis, mobs and riots at Springfield, meetings and official anti-Americanism at Chicago. Otherwise the state of Abraham Lincoln is getting along very nicely.

IT seems that all the German youths who showed tendencies of doing the wrong thing at the right time were induced to enter the kaiser's diplomatic service.

WHAT all this war and delaying of marriage will result In is something for the furniture houses that thrive on young bridal couples to figure out.

THAT stink you smell Isn't the fertilizer yard. It is the foul and hypocritical purposes behind Wall street's "Committee of Fifteen" at Gary.

THE difference between the mayor of Gary and the mayor of Chicago in the matter of peace meetings is patriotism.

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It's a rirl! And It came to a warm welcome late Thursday night, to the home of R L. Meyers. J. Cameron has sold his summer cottafre. In the woods on Lake avenue, to Albln Larsen. Mrs. Cameron has gone to Chicago for the week-end. Iter daurhfer arid baby granddaughter will return with her for a week's stay in Miller. C. Mayer has bought an Elsrin Six. A surprise party by her neighbors was given to Mrs. K. Clirner, Friday afternoon. After refreshments were served, the guests brought out some dainty gifts fur the hostess. Mrs. Climer has been 111 since the house was struck by lightning about a week ago.

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HIGHLAND

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Daugherty and family were entertained at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Hlue, Wednesday evening. Jacob Blom and friend returned from Michigan, Wednesday right, where they spent a two weeks' vacation, visiting relatives. Mrs. Edward Krooswyk was the guest of Mrs. G. Krooswyk, Wednesday. The small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. X. Wagner, is reported to be very ill. Mrs. C. E. Hollett of Hammond, called on old friends here Thursday afternoon.

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George M. Roiph. ! George M. Rolph, of San Francis- i co, is in charee of the sugar depart- j ment of the United States food ad- j ministration. He has been associat- j ed in the raw and refined sugar busi- : ness for nearly twenty years, and is ', one of the most successful men in !

the business.

Dance at Spring Hill Grove, Wednesday evening, Sept. 19. Good music. 9-15-3 Mrs. Joserh Michaels of Whiting, spent Thursday here with her sister, Mrs. John Pfeiffer. The funeral of Arthur KelTman, son of Mrs. William Keilman, was largely attended by friends and relatives. Tha child died Monday morning of pneumonia. John Miller. Jr., Is tha owner of a

Stutz limousine airtomobile. j Joseph F. Gerlach. Is running his I

Liiree ensilage tuners hi iuu idHcuy. Joseph M. Gerlach transacted business in Crown Point, Friday. Alex Lauerman is employed by Gerlach Bros. Mrs. Josle Jordan. the attending nurse at tha home of Mr. and Mrs. Nick J. Ludwig. Jr., returned to her home at Hammond. Friday evening. Miss Roslna Keilman was a Hammond visitor, Friday.

mother-in-law were Hammond visitors on Thursday. Miss Lizzie Hugo and sister, Mrs. C. Dff?trick. were Hammond shoppers on Wednesday. The kraut makers at tho Meeter plant are very busy. They are working twelve and fifteen hours a day.

Eyes That Are Strained can secured the desired relief at our finely equipped optical department, which is in charge of Mr. I). O. Elliott, O. D.t a registered, optometrist. .Mr. Elliott will tell you if glasses are required and fit you with the proper kind at a reasonable price. JOHN E. Me GARRY Jeweler Optometrist. 599 Hohman St.

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LANSING

Miss Grace Hughes was a Chicago tihorper on Thursday. Mrs. A. Kindt Is entertaining company from Chicago this week. Mesdames Allslck and Martha Schmidt were Chicago shoppers on Tuesday. Mrs. William Beckman and her

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Mrs. Isadora Gragg went to Shelby last evening to visit Mr. and Mrs. John Fehlman for a few days. Frof Brosey went to Lafayette last evening to visit relatives. Born, to Dr. and Mrs. F. retry. Sept, 13, a daughter. Ike Gershman of Chicago, visited his father, II. Gershman here yesterday. Mrs. Krgd Buse of East Chicago, came yesterday to visit her son, Ceylon and family. Mrs. Will Sisson left yesterday morning for Winona. Minn, to visit her daughter. Mrs. Thorn Clark, who is taking treatment for her eyes in a hospital in the city. Mrs. J. E. Davis went to Chicago last evening to visit her son, v Dr. Achilles Davis and wife. Albert Chipman, located at Fort Ben

jamin Harrison, visited friends here nt latter part of the week. Mrs. James Finkerton of Shelby, visited relatives here yesterday.

RECORD-BREAKING

CROP PREDICTED FOR SOUTH AMERICA (By United Presa.) BVEXOS AIRES. Aug. T5. (By mall.) Reviewing the crop estimates for the current season, the Buenos Aires Standard draws the conclusion that the republic seems likely to have a record-breaking yield, but it Questions whether this will do the country much good under existing circumstances. "The outlook would be most encouraging," says the Standard. "If we could count upon freighters to carry the grain to 'hungry Europe." "But will Europe be hungry enough to purchase Argentina's grain in bulk? That will depend upon what the allies think will be Argentina's position politically when the harvest is gathered. They are making every effort now to so harmonize their pooled produce as t make purchases from neutrals as light as possible, not because neutrality is a crime to be punished, but a policy that will not be encouraged. "Freighters will be very scarce when neutrals ask for them to carry their produce to tha war-bitten markets."

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