Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 159, Hammond, Lake County, 27 December 1917 — Page 4
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OUR COUNTRY'S VITAL NEED. Men with a quickened sense of national responsibility, who will galvanise Into immediate action those who consider this war Incidental instead of crucialthe better that every phase of it may be vigorously prosecuted regardless of their personal sacrifice.
THE RAILWAYS TO THE GOVERNMENT. The action of the president in directing seizure of the railway and boat lines by the government, while new here is not a radical step viewed from the old world, for England at the very beginning of the war seized its transportation lines. - Hampered by stupendous traffic, subjected to the varying -legislation of states, robbed by the charging of war profiteering prices for steel and other materials, subjected to the variances of the money market, and some otthem having had history of shady financial operations, the railways "have been and are in a bad way. These things plus labor troubles and not to forget the long uncertainty that attended the period prior to their being flowed to raise rates, dealt them telling blows. The railroads could not Increase tarlJTs without the consent of Washington; on the other hand they had to meet the rising demands for labor and the uncalled for exactions of steel and other material companies, it was only natural that our transportation system got wobbly when the strain tame. With government war control It will not be surprising if the natural result gravitates toward government ownership. The same may be expected sooner or later of coal and steel companies. '
A QUESTION. "We'd like to ask a plain, simple question: When roost people are observing meatless and wheatless days with rigid zeal why is it that the days before these meatless and wheatless days you can go in any market and find ppopl buying white bread and all kinds o? TBats for the wheatless and meatless days? Isn't it time something was done about It?
DON'T HURT BUSINESS. We trust that people will continue to differentiate wisely between wasting and economizing. If they waste they will hurt this country's war battles, but if they economize they will kill business. Both are hurtful. We should save, but not economize. America's business in all lines must be encouraged to the utmost, for as soon as business Is discouraged irremediable harm is done. Urging to the fullest the maintenance of "business along normal lines," James J. Phelan, the Boston banker and a member of the Massachusetts Committee on public safety, decries the hysteria of war economy and says the only way for America to carry her financial burden is to keep her industries at top speed of products ity. He says according to the Wall Street Journal: "We are embarked on a campaign to raise $2,000,000,000 by the sal of thrift and war saving stamps. I believe in this heartily, but I do not believe that "thrift" should be to adversely affect business and thus imperil the prospects of future big locn campaigns to provide ten billions or twenty billions. "If we are to raise these loans we must have prosperous business. Th" president last June remarked that not only was this no time to allow any slowing up of business, but that it was a time when every sensible process of stimulation should be used"I heartily agree with Secretary McAdoo when he recently said that the nation had borne the financial burdens of tiie war well because of healthy business conditions. And the corollary is that, if we are to continue to bear those burdens well, we must preserve and niit impair those healthy conditions. "There must be no waste there must be conservation of food and fuel. There is a danger the public may carry economy to a point where it will cripple business. And if anything could better give aid and comfort jto the enemy than a business depression and panic. I do not know what it is. "England, France and Germany have been waeing war for more than three years. Germany has raised over It per cent of her money by taxes, SG per cent by loans; France. 16 per cent, by ;axes and S4 ppr cent by loans. But we. in our eight months of war have raised 37 per cent by taxes and only 6;! per cent by loans.
SlCir a jam WK came near not bung WITH you tonight WK mot a fat lady who stopped in a revolving doorway to adjust her garter AN'D tie her shoestring. MFNCIE Treys wants to know what HAS become of the old-fashioned FARM KR that used to WALK around town with the buggy whip IN" his hands? WK found him on Main street tort:iy hustling a
1he fool TOV" can't olame folks Foil thinking you one. SlNi'K Washington went dry WE are reading that there is a gnat increase IN" cases of pcrjoiisovtrcome BY automobile fume. . WK read of a number of weak-lunged citizens IX dry state WHO wear on their chests, hot-water bottles
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FROM freezing up WHILE li went in to get the quotations on wheat. SANTA OLA I S had to throw up his HANDS
HE couldn't beat the Red Cross drive. TES we are prone to be a little superstitious WK never walk under a falling safe AND so far have NEVER lead in a fnneral procession. MOXTCLATR. X. J., is to have a frugality dance IT suggests possibilities FOR the Hammond Country Club in the shape of
The Tellolv Vho Can't Understand It Prepared for the Indiana State Council of Defense by Kin Hubbard (Abe Martin), of the Indianapolis News.
STAT U S Ml U. S. GUARD EXPLAINED
' FILLED with whiskey JF.ii, wo print the suggestion what
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between money and, nf,..(.nt vnnion anrl fhiMrn tlie Binlfn without iirnlnir nf neutral shlnnine-
aggregating many millions of dollars, ard the virtual making of war on the United States on American soil. The imperial German government forced
: the president of the United States to declare war on her by her own double dues-j cealing and arrogant attitude throughout all the brutal provocations which lead up to it. . No country in all history ever went to combat an enemy ai
Larbaric and well entrenched as Germany. No people ever took up arms against a foe with such bristling mustaches and heavy jowls as have the Germans.
in. party gowns.
man advocates kissless
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THERE'S a hopeless cuss for you. P- TOU know little one if you play
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success ' We try to convince t lie wifC If that you can inherit mone RUNNING close second to th
tionnaire puzzle IS the income tax blank enigma. GOD bless the ladies HERE'S one who writes her hubby, "I paid for the suit $10 FOR the shoes and Sl for the llHt DO you think I pnid tod much'.'" A HELLUVA lot of choice' he had in the matter. -XD just to think there ARE thousands of young people who NEVER saw a petticoat . AND wouldn't know what it was if one came up AND shook hands with them.
It is not an uncommon thing to meet a fellow who does not know who Tony Pastor was and it is more than likely that there are a few bewhiskered peasant in the sparsely settled districts of our country who cannot remember 6f ever having heard of Harriet Beecher Stowe, but it's inconceivable that, there should be Americana, clean shaven, substantial lookin' Americans, walking about processing not to know .why their country it at war with Germany. The other day a tall, well dressed man, with a thick massive forehead.
f.nd wearing a linen collar and a neat cravat, was heard to remrk,"why preferred members will be beyond th should we take up the troubles of England and France and send our boys I raft age and men of former service ir ., . . .,. i,. , v.o. n-voro.ir.r.r. l, i c Mmmmnn uhn ' the army, navy, marine corps, we!!-
ti v I vm.- t iic reao i j nt.iii tuo uci uiauc Fuutrj;uu ' ' - . ... j ........ , ..... . , , , ... , organized militia, police and fire deyar'.
iouM.ru lino lie ai jonsi iuuiw u. coaij ur.ppci, - - it. Why are w e in "this war? I have asked myself this question a dozen times." Our declaration of war on Germany was the culmination of a long
series of insolent violations of international law, the brutal murders of in
Harry B. Smith, adjutant general of Indiana, is in receipt of a letter fron. Brigadier General J. Mel. Carter. at Washington, jn which the status of ll new Uriited States guards, nation army, in set out. The letter follows: "1. These are special troops raised by the president in pursuance of Section - aet of May ls.1917. "2. This force is designed for immed
iate use and not for training, hence tin
ments. "3. i Application for enlistment inaj be made to any United States recruiting officer. The officers will rcei commissions. Applications for ccmmis sions should be made direct to tb Chief. Military Hureau. Washington. ! C, and state age. address, service, military and civil, and highest rank attain ed. Classes Not Available. "The following classes should not a ply. as it simply interferes with tin transact ion of business: "(a) Those, civilians within the dra': age, unless rejected for physical defe-' at close of training camp, where tlu
But the United States is resourceful enough and big enough to whipjhavp qualified for commissions in oth-;
Germany and it is squarelyup to every American worthy of the name, of j whatever blood, color or politics, to plant himself squarely behind his!
government ana give it every aia and encouragement at his command until a triumphant American army either flies over Essen and quiets the Krupps or marches down Main street in Berlin and shells a few shrines and destroys a few orchards-
Those taxes fall chiefly on industry and the wealth produced by industry. If industry fails they fail, too."
THE AUSTRO-IIUNOARIAN WAR DECLARATION AND LABOR. This Calumet region has many counterparts as far as the Austrian war declaration and the problem it brings. Jn Voungstown. a community essentially like this steel belt, they have the same conditions, and the subjoined editorial from the Telegram of that city sets forth a situation that is duplicated here: The steel business is vital to the successful prosecution of the war. American steel mills helped stave off Prussian domination of the world even before America went to' war. The steel mills will help crush this beast permanently, but thVy cannot do it unless they are kept running. Steel mills cannot operate without unskilled and semi-skilled labor. The great sources of this sort of labor for the last twenty years have been Italy and the Austrp-Hungarian empire. Of the thousands of unnaturalized men la the Mahoning valley it is a certainty that more than one-half are natives of Austria or Hungary and all these will become enemy aliens when America declares war on ' . the dual empire. If all these were actual enemies as welj as technical enemies there would be no question of how to dispose of them. They could be put under severe restrictions and "imprisoned at hard labor" as President Wilson suggests if they defied these restrictions. Yet at the maxi, mum. snot more than twenty per cent of the unnaturalized natives of Austria and Hungary residing in the Mahoning valley are Teutonic Austrians or Magyar-IIungsrians by blood. Excluding pure Austrians. Hungarians and Transylvanian Saxons, from eighty to eighty-five per cent of the natives of Austria and Hungary In tbis valley are iPlavs and Roumanians, Slavs in this instance
being a generic term. These men are subjects of Austria and Hungary, but all, or almost all, of them are pro-ally in sympathy. Rightly or wrongly, they look upon Austria and Hungary as' oppressors of the Slav and Roumanian. They want America and her allies to win; they are necessary in the operation of the steel mills, and et they are alien enemies under the law. This condition prevails to a certain extent in all manufacturing centers. Some remedy must be found for it. The logical solutionis to permit the naturalization of Austrian and Hungarian subjects for a limited time at least, csre being exercised to dose the bars to any who seek naturalization for evil purposes. Those who refuse naturalization can rightly be considered alien enemies, but there is not likely to be many who will choose to retain their allegiance to governments they instinctively dislike when the penalty for such loyally is imprisonment at hard labor with but a pittance for pay.
What Ails Germany By SAMtBl. n. HARDING ' Professor of European History, Indiana lolvenlty. i i n pi i Selections from German speeches and printed utterances showing the state of mind which caused the war. Chiefly from publications of the Committee on Public Information, Washington, D. C. ,
THB QSKMA NKEATEN. "War is the noblest and holiest expression of human activity. For us. too. the glad, great hour of battle will strike. S'till end deep in ihe German heart must live the Joy of battle and the longing for it. Let us ridicule to the utmost the old women in breeches who fear war and deplore it as cruel and revolting. No; war Is beautiful. Its august sublimity elevates the human heart beyond the earthly and the common. In the cloud palace above it sit the heroes. Frederick the Great and Blucher. and all the men of action
the Great Emperor. Moltke. Roon. Bis
marck, are there as well, but not the edd women who would take away our joy jn war. When here on earth a battle is won by German arms and the faithful dead ascend to heaven, a Fotsdam lanre corporal wdll call the guard to, the, door and old Friti (Frederick the Great), springing from his golden throne, will give the command to preSuch are the doctrines taught to young Germany" Jung-Deutachland. official organ of Tourig Germany, October. 1913. B.. p. 212. Such are the doctrines taught to young boys of about the same age as our Boy Scouts.
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"b" Those civilians without previom training as mentioned above.. "(c) Caiididatea from training cam who were not recommended by thai company instructors for commissions. "4 The pay and allowance of tliii force are the same as prescribed for tin regular army, infantry bran-lie. "5 The services of the members this organization will be used as far s possible in the vicinity of their home but there is no assurance that such ti:will continue throughout the war. H i however, possible to furnish informatioi to the effect that the men in this fori' will not be used on the battlefields o Europe. Age Por First Enlistments. ' i For fu?t enlistments the ag should be brfAeen, 31 and 40 years sprHsl permission may be obtained f men beyond 40 years, who are speciail;
well preserved. There Is no limit t the as"- for re-eniistmciil other tha: physical fitness. This force will b used in carrying out the provisions o the president's proclamation, pertatnim to alien enemies and may be used f the purpose of preserving and protect ing major utilities essential to the con duct of the war in Europe. "7 It is m?t intended that these troop' take over the duties of private watch, men of the local and municipal depart ments in lieu of the present agencies The standard of physical fitness is h same as that required for entrance ii the army. Minor physical defects ma! be waived upon special application ii earh case. Dependency is not a bar ti enlistment."
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REPORTERS enlisting so fast in Canada that Toronto editor is now hiring only young women, declaring that he is tired of training a cub one day f-nd presenting him with a wrist watch and farewell the next.
i JESSE James must turn over in his crave as he reads nf exnlnita of n:iv.
roll bandits.
AT that the payroll bandits are pikers compared with the profits thej Chicago beef barons get, according to testimony at Washington, or the prices! some of the steel magnates asked this summer.
GOOD even! Any of your neighbors suffering from Mania Teutonia?
NO hope for Russia now. Judas among nations.
New York World pronounces country as the
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