Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 82, Hammond, Lake County, 25 September 1917 — Page 4

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Tuesday. Sept. 25. 1917.

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BESMIRCHING GARY DOES NOT WORRY THESE CITIZENS. As city election time approaches in Gary Wall street's committee of Citsen" Becomes feverishly busy. The committee" has the same pernicious and hypocritical relation to the city election as Wall street's politically packed "civic service commission" had to the city primaries. Wall streel agents have carious noiesome expedients and intimidation processes in their constant efforts to completely overshadow the government of Gary especially the contract-letting department. , Whenever the political butlers of the ar profiteers and those at their contracting trough get busy they cloak their sinister purposes behind a screen of respectability, playing upon the sympathies of newly-arrived and well-meaning ministers and other citizens. But the community always pays a fearful price. The chief results attained by Wall street's local satraps, outside of the furthering of the ends or the enrichment of themselves and their associates or higher degree, are the successful blackening of Gary's name across the continent, thereby diverting attention from more shocking conditions. With some of Wall street's local political 'reformers' vife becomes a virtue and a political asset when it is under the control of their machine, as has been evidenced. "Commissions," "committees," prostitution of commercial organizations to break up labor unions, trumped up arrests of city officials with, the attendant extortion of fat contracts meia nothing at Gary. Turmoil is the commonplace, in this community whose name is crucified by those who pose ps its friends.

LOWER PRICES; LOWER COSTS. When President Wilson slashed steel costs on Monday he entered into a realm of prices that seemed to know no restraint, that disregarded all precedent, that seemed to take no cognizance of their far-reaching effect on everything else, and that seemed to have no conscience or feeling to realite the Gethseruane that mankind is enduring. The president's move stands out as one of the vital acts of the war. It means much to America, to our allies. Not only Is the whole system of joy-riding prices and var profits given a sharp check, but the act, empowered by congress and demanded by the people, may be expected to lessen in great measure the pressure of the cost of living as it was caused by the wide difference between cost of production and selling price. With stable prices labor will be more contented, business will be more stable and small industries threatened with extinction may now live. Steel is the barometer of business, the determining factor of most, price?. Yet steel has been enjoying a prosperity based not on reason, but one in which it wallowed in excessive profits. However, much we may be amazed at lt3 profits and feel its sense of progress, yet its war-swollen earnings are wholly unhealthy. First, the allies were charged too much, and before long the exactions were demanded from the American public. Costs of production went up, to be sure, and so did wages; but where a dollar was given to workmen three and sometimes five and more went to shareholders. The public began to pay and it soon found it had a hard taskmaster. Steel is the mainspring of our industrial snd commercial life, and as it began to soar everything that it influences, from automobiles to building material to tin cans and farm machinery followed likewise. It was not enough that the cost of living went up as the world's food, supply diminished, but an era of price-raising that progressed in its intensity and which soon affected everything was noted. Wages increased every row and then for many, but for the bulk of the people they were not in the same proportion a3 the cost of living. Even when America went to war steel prices, instead of having some of the balance of those of lumber and copper, presented the sinister spectacle of certain lines, needed by the government, advancing 50 per cent. It Is not necessary now to say what men, what concerns are most responsible, or what concerns by reason of their control of raw materials, forced excessive prices and made others pay them those raw material prices, yet one only has to attend to the fabulous dividends made in 191'5 and during the first half of this year to realize that with some companies profits seemed to have superseded patriotism. And when one considers these profits, piled up with the allies, America and her people paying, prices paid in a harrowing time and in a period of unprecedented high living cost, they are dollars that bring no laurels. It is to be hoped that. the. steel industry has learned its lesson. One of the things that has made America great is her place in the world's metal markets. This Industry of iron and steel has progressed wonderfully and nowhere has it had such an impetus as here. But all true friends and wellwishers of the industry have viewed with concern the lecent conduct of the business, especially its war-price attitude toward the government, not over looking that, its prices have been hard and perhaps as much as any cause, f-ave the war itself, the chief producer no' only of economic and industrial

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THE world Js said TO bn changing for the better every dsy HUT the bonehead waiter WHO rkes along with the bowl of soup HUT hurries likcll when HE brings the finger bowl and check is just hs plentiful as ever. ARE MARTIN" thinks that these are the ti;nes that your worth is judged by WHAT you give not what you have. RE not dismayed that the bareleg-ged girl season has passed for a ear THE bare-chestel girl season is just coming- In. WE are also In favor ot bon-flreless days, especially when th.? wind IS comir.gr from our neighbors' side of the street. INFORMING us that a "boy has been born to Frank Fuller who will HENCEFORTH spend his evenings at home" THE Waterloo Courier prompts us to INQL'IEE where Frank had been spending- them. DENVER man has Invented a clamp to aid a carver, enablinr him to hold a roast firmly THEREBY takintr all the pleasure from the company who always wait anxiously FOR the roast to fall in somebody's

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VvE would run this in 12-point but we are afraid our esteemed employers

would Ffe it. WE are now fully convinced THAT it In not the n!ht. air that Is bd for a convalescent man WHO gets home early in the morning TH'T the excitement that happens after he pets in the house. INDIANAPOLIS Times man SATS that rural visitors spend their timi! not in looking at the HIGH buildings there BUT at the short skirts WELL, a fellow gets mighty tired looking: FOR high buildings IN Indianapolis. CHINESE are ready to send 3.000.000 men to France NOW it will all come out in the wash. WHILE frisking: himself FOR the gate receipts Mr. Bryan seems to have found a little patriotism IX the bottom of his left lower vest pocket. WE can't call Bcrnstorft an archplHler RATHER call him a sewer-plotter.

unrest but of the higher cost of living and an excuse for many other businesses, equally as culpable, to ask exorbitant rates. The steel business during the past two years has not kept its quotations within reason, and intoxicated by demand and the necessities of the hour, it seemed to have daily become more unreasonable. Some of its masters, evidently not. content with the high profits of war business, appearfd to have become unmercifully exacting and to have set their eyes hard on the dollar mark at the very time civilization groans under the assaults made on it. But now with cuts, ranging from 40 to 70 per cent and the considerate stipulation that wages must not be lowered, those steel magnates have a chance not only to atone for their part in pyramiding living costs, but to Hssume a patriotic role by making the industry what it should be, restoring it to that respect it had before it entered into its year cf price savagery. What the common every day man in this country is vitally and primarily interested in is not so much a cut in the price of steel, because he does not know how important it is to first cut steel prices before anything else i3 cut, but a cut in the prices of foodstuffs. Tha base prices for iron ore, pig iron and steel products as fixed by the government are much lower than what the steel men expected and will have an economic tendency to checkmate the sky-high figures for almost everything man needs that is prevalent. It may be said that the United States will soon begin to regulate the prices of foodstuffs sewed up by the uaholy greed of the blood-sappers who are growing fabulously rich out of the war. The settlement of prices, it is predicted, will cause a new revival in business. Steel prices have been a disturbing influence. I L. E. Block, vice president of the Inland Steel company at East Chicago, discussed the prices fixed by the government rather freely. He says: "The steel and iron prices fixed by the government are considerably below those prevailing, but I imagine that under all the circumstances the steel manufacturers will be. fairly well satisfied with them. All steel manufacturers have on their books a very large amount of unfilled orders taken at the higher prices. These contracts will stand. "Buyers who have contracted for iron or steel at the hirrher prices must accept delivery at -those prices, but I do cot be! eve this will be productive of any serious inconvenience. Buyers as a rule are protected against declines in the steel market, by their own coniracts for resale or for the sale of finished products in which the Fteel will he used. Steel orders are generally placed against specific engagements of this kind.". We are all vastly interested now in fixtures of prices for products that the food pirates and barons are gouging the public.

BEING a Turk and having a harem is not without its disadvantages. No doubt out of a dozen wives a fellow might find one who wouldn't object every time he brushed his clothes in the house.

"CAMPAIGN", which promises to be lively, opens well. The Gary school system, which is to he one bone of conten ion. is'descrihed by an admirer as a gem in a hog's snaat'." New York Evening Telegram.

CHICAGO Examiner insists that we refer to the I'nited States not as an ally but as an associate in the war. What dif. does the name make, whether it be ally, friend or associate as long as he war is carried on against the Huns?

MOVIE piay lo he shown at Gary this week concerns an affair under the iea and shows pearl diver in clutches of ociorus. However, this will not thrill the average Garyite who is constantly dooging the political octopus of Wall street.

SINCE the reports of Italy's fighting lave been coming in we've changed our opinion about macaroni and spaghetti.

IN supporting Mayor Johnson the voters of G.iry will not cast their b; ilot for ihe candidate of the war profiteers.

TRICE of bricks ought to come down now. Thf t election scare in Ireland has passed over.

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LADY'S DRESS. By Anabe! Worthington.

It really is surprising tow the many little individual touches can change the style of tbese simple one piece dresses, for the construction of them is practically the same. They usually hang straight from the shoulders and have a loose belt, which holds the dress in to the fisrure a trifle. The no given here, No. 8471, has a gracefully shaped collar tf satiE, with a smaller collar of Georgette laid orer it. A n.tirow sash of satin is tacked at each side of the front, drann around to the tack, crossed and brought to the front again, where it is loosely tied. The long, fu.l sleeves are gatherd into deep cuffs of the material. The drees pattera No. 8471 ie cut in s:es o(5 to 42 laches bust measure. Width at lower edge of tkirt is 21! yards. As on the -figure, the 33 inch size requires 4 yards S3 inch material, with l'fc yards 31 inch silk for colic r and sash. To obtain this pattern ecrd 10 cants to the office of this publication.

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Mr. and Mrs. Coona and son Harry of Chicago, visited here) over Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Fiester. Mr?. Borrer Rnd daughter Edna were Chic&KO visitors yesterday. Mrs. J. F. Griffin and son Robert of Valparaiso, are here spending a tew days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. Fleck. Miss Wolfe of Chicago, visited here over Sunday with friends. Miss Wolfa was formerly a teacher In the local high school. Mrs. Ellis transactel business In Chicago yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Shorts and family of Hamlet, visited here Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Raschka.

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