Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 161, Hammond, Lake County, 28 December 1917 — Page 4

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THE TIMES. Frida Dpcrmbr-r -X 1917. THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BY THE LAKE COUNTT PECfTHrO A PTOUSHrfTO COMPACT.

The Tlmea Eaat Chicago-Indiana Harbor, daily eacept n4r. sSntereel at the poatoStc !a East Chloago, November It. ltlt. Tha Lake County Time Dally ercept Saturday end 8unar. Entered at

tha potoffice In Hammond. June 18. lfO. j Tha Lake County Tlmea Saturday and weekly edition. Xnterea at tha ! poatofftca la Hammond. February 4. 111. i The Gary Evening Tines Dally except Sunday. Entered t tha toffloe j (a Oary. April 1. 1912. 1 All under the act of March S. 1ST, as acnd-clei matter.

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AMERICA'S BIGGEST ARSENALS HERE. It ha been disclosed in 'Washington that the frovernnifnt plans to turn this Calumet rp.sjion into a greater arsenal than it is now, and besides the oxtenslon of facilities now available it is, by the acquisition of new plants, to rival the great Bethlehem plant in the production of heavy arti!W. Big guns, armor pla-te, artillery parts, shells and airplane motors are to be produced here, according to plans discussed by the war department. Since 1915 this region has been an arsenal, but each month has seen its production of war materials grow. Out of the mills and furnaces of Gary, Iadiana Harbor, East Chicago and Hammond have gone raw and finished iron

This is how Senator .lonathan Bourne answers President Wilson's "t'on-tenr-to-Abide" speech: " were content to abide the rivalries of manufacture, science and commerce that were involved for us in hr success,' said the president, speaking of Germany, in his address to congress. "'Content to abido." Mr. President? Why you insisted on encouraging it with a tariff law so low there's nothing 'twixf. it and free trad. Gorman scissors cut out Red Cross bandages, and the German workmen who made the scissors got one-third the American wage- German razors cut the throat of the American industry with a wage scale in the German industry of from ?2. '0 to $7 a week. From 1S37 to 1913, under protection, th American production of pocket knives increased 10 S-l.OnO.nno annually. During that period German interests came over to our country and established three factories

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and steel products to this government and all the war fronts of tho woriil

Aetna makes guneotton, Whiting gasoline. Gary and Indiana Harbor benzol. W" an investment of $500,000 and adding 650 men to the payroll of

while Gary. Indiana Harbor, Hammond and East Chicago have produced shrapnel casings In huge quantities. From the mills of Lake county there Rre going trench helmets, plates for ships, sidings for European submarines, Tuctural material for Pershing, and rails for military lines. Building are the great tube works of the Mark Manufacturing company at Indiana Harbor, the Gary gun plant of the American Bridge company, and the howitzer mounts additions to the Standard Steel Car company at. Hammond. 8teel Is also being made here for the nearby shipyards on the Calumet river, which has already turned out several boats now coursing the oceans; steel is also being made here for the great car plants of Hammond. Hegewisch and Pullman, for airplane factories, and for scores of military motor trucks. All of this briskness, the great plans for 1!HS simply means that the Calumet region from Pullman apd South Chicago to Gary is to be a greater place than Bethlehem, the greatest all-around' munitions center in AmericaIt Is hard to say what will be the population a year hence, and we must not overlook the resultant prosperity, of a magnitudeiindeamt of. not forget that thousands of houses must be erected. The year 191S will be the greatest business ysar In the Calumet region's history..

WANTED A BIG MAN. Beyond its desire to see Mayor-elect Brown of Hammond surround himself with a. cabinet of big-calibered men so hat Hammond may not fall behind other cities of the region in its administrative functions, this paper has no interest one way or another in his appointments. The mayor-elect's most biased partisans and he himself 'might sneer at any advice we might offer may rest assured that this newspaper has not the faintest longing to "sit. in" or ask any favors whatever of the Brown administration. There is though an important element of politically-disinterested people in Hammond who are hoping that ihe new mayor will be guided right in his decisions regarding his appointments, and a word for this very large constituency is neither to be scouted nor sneered at. If Mr. Brown makes his cabinet, appointments merely to pay political debts or dangle plums before those who shouted for him, he will sadly hamper his administration. His most important office to fill is that of controllerShould any untoward event leave .the office of mayor vacant, the controller will succeed him, so the mayor-elect owes it to the interests of this city, whom his howling partisans may hoot at but from whom he may yet have to seek favors, to appoint the biggest man he can get to the leading place in his cabinet. There have been a number of names suggested to Mr. Brown lor his consideration for this office. Among them are M. M. Towle Jr., W. A. Hill, Ed P. Demins. and others. They are of the type that will appeal to tne people of Hammond as their controller. They are men of experience in finance, of unblemished integrity, solid, settled, respected and desirable. Hammond is too big a city to Lave as its financial helmsman any man who is a mere political adveniurer. a ward meeting shouier. or a jack-of all-trades. Hammond has been favored with the creme-de-la-cieme of controllers mthe person of John D. Smalley, and we hope that Mr. Brown doesn't descend from the sublime to the ridiculous. There are other appointments that thn mayor-elect may make or may not make, hut if he does make them he will handicap himself at the outset. He may not only handicap himself, which is neither here nor there, but he may handicap a prosperous and progressive city and set it hack twenty ears or more. Wedo honestly and sincerely wish the mayor elec t well in hi- adjudication of these grave problems at the inauguration of his riffirial life. May his v.-jsdom caution him! e 1 s-i --' - - . . . ji ji.j J'ETEV DINK Not to Speak of U.-nricUa's Alroi-itic;

American labor. That showed their appreciation of protection. But in 1914

our pocket knife industry went lingo! because democratic duty rates had turned out market back to the nun exactly as did the Wilson-Gorman law of 1S93-1S97. "There was a German mark on this and a German brand on that and a German label on the other, until a man didn't know whether he was in Buffalo or Bavaria. If he could raise enough loose change to buy his wife and kids some stockings, they came back with a package from Chemnitz. If he ate at Ifome at all. he polished a German plate with the aid of a German fork. Or if he was down to the soup cart and wanted to see how long before it came around he found himself stared at through the jeweler's winclow by a German clock. Finally, i' in despair he took the carbolic acid route, he swallowed the German dope and they called him off to the potters' field in a coffin with German silver handles. ' v "'Content to abide'? Not by a German Jugful! This country will agree lo do its ufmost lo hlp win the war. but the next president who attempts 'o betray industrial America to Germany or any other nation i.-1 going to lind that the American people believe in 'America First'."

Mrs. Vanderhis. mother of Will and nd John Kraay and Mrs. "Waller Krooswyk. passed awav Monday morninft. Dec. 24. at the home of her daughter. Mrs). Zyp. In Harvey, III. Mr. nd Mrs. Kuhlman and son rimer, weie the f-uests of Mrs. Schultz in Lansing. Christmas day. Mrs. D. Schoon save a family- dinner on Christmas. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Peter S'-hoon and dau filter, Mr. ard Mrs. D. Schoon and P. Jalioa y .

Misses Ada and Cecil Van Steenberf wayS Welcome.

and J. Van Steenberf of Lansinf, called at the home of Mr. nd Mrs. Kaske, Christmas night. Mr. and Mrs. P.' Tan is and Mr. and Mrs. C. r. Schoon were the eueRts of Mr. and Mrs. U. Jabaay, Christmas night. Mr. Jungsma has moved in his new bung-alow, and G. Jungsma has moved in the former's house on Cleveland avenue. Peter Schoon of Camp Tayfor, is home on a short furlough.

If You Think THE TIMES Is Doing Its Bit Your Support Is Al-

NOW IS THE TIME; THIS IS THE PLACE where you can save 75 per cent on your clothes by buying here. HAMMOND TAILORING COMPANY n. GRKENBERG. Pros. 538 Hohman St. CXE IV AD SEE THE BARGAIN?. We - ala e Cleaning, Presaibsf an-l Repairing.

Make It The Last War.

THE SENTRIES AT BETHLEHEM. Ca-n you imagine the thrill the British sentries on duty in Bethlehem must have,flt Christmas eve? There in the clear night, alone, and seldom bothered, any one of those sentinels must have had an experience they will never forget. Perhaps as they peered into the skies, the same skies in'o which the three kings gazed over llioo years ago, they must have wondered wh.eih.er a bright star would suddenly gleam out, or whether a portent might not manifest .i'self in the heavens. The soldier lads, some of whom perhaps v. ere in their homes in Ievon or Yorkshire or Lancaster a year af-o, never dreaming that, they would stand guard by the place of the nativity this Christmas, were richly rewarded. Their experience, their thrills for none could be insensible to an occasion of this sort-- as they reflected that it w as Jges since Christian troops last stood walch, that hundreds of years have passed since men from Ihe same Devon or Yorkshire or Lancashire mounted guard as did these English soldiers of today.

ENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE. The L-os Angeles Times suggests it and the Ohio State Journal endorses a movement that English become the world language. With L"o() and some odd tongues it. is. very hard for this world to transact business, it wasn't so had in the old days, but now with the means of travel and communication so well developed the world really has become very small .and a common tongue is needed. Of course, a nation in Europe would make its German the w orld-tonKtie. but because of the savagery of that nation the German

Innguage has become an unpopular one, and happily the world is to be saved i

! from it.

STATE fuel administrator asks that schools be closed for three weeks during Christmas vacation to save coal. All right, go ab.ad. All the kids are willins. '

FOLKS who are married long enough to have a wooden wedding ought to see that it be regarded as a coal affair. A couple of fons or to of Poi o nut or mine run would be just the thing for a present.

PRESIDENT Wilson has again cut down the beer in alcohol, weil start to learn to drink Bevo at once.

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t g AHE picturesque figure of the military dispatch carrier, with his foam-flecked horse, has given place to the Bell Telephone System. Eighteen new cantonment camps, each having a capacity of 30,000 men, are approaching completion. The ulti.mate number of these camps is set at thirty-two. Each camp is provided with an elaborate system of telephonic communication, both local and long distance. At every Army Post and Department Headquarters the telephone facilities have been greatly increased, so much so that in some cases it has been necessary to make complete new switchboard installations. These new and enlarged activities call for enormous stores of telephone equipment and supplies, in order that the thousands of new stations may be properly served. The Bell System is rapidly taking care of this extension of its service and doing so without appreciable impairment of its commercial and industrial responsibilities.

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