Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 51, Hammond, Lake County, 29 December 1917 — Page 4

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hundred and ton thousand men. A national council of dt-fen.se lias been created with branches in stales and counties . , Food production has been stimulated and a food administration safeguards against waste and insures equable distribution. A fuel administration has been established, and war trade, war industries and war council boards have been created. Hundreds of thousans of younK men have been sent to cantonments for tiainins and a large officers' reserve corns has been built up through training camps. Great loans have been flouted, and liberal aid given to the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. ;;nd other excellent projects. Our army surgeons have been increased from a few hundred to over sixteen Thousand and nearly four thousand dentists wear the khaki. "While there have been many delays, signs of incompetence and other undesirable things the national war machine iias moved very smoothly. It bodes ill for the kaiser.

Lake County's Roll of Honor

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SNOWBOUND. Human nature is a peculiar thing. There was the most beautiful picture in the world to be seen by peering out of the windows this morning, and yet few failed to see it though they looked at it, but if any comment was made it consisted of cuss words and complaints. All the dirt and sordidness of th world was shut out from view and the gorgeous and fantastic shapes that dazzled the eye with their sculptural purity failed to engage the attention. It was a picture to be seen perhaps once in a decade and may be longer. There are adults who never saw the like.' The wizardry of the snow shapes, the very trees of snow and the curious mounds of white were something that, commanded awe and a silent tribute to Heaven for the beauties of Nature in winter. Yet we complained. There we:-e walks to be cleaned, a shortness of coal, the daily journey to life's grind, and these things irked people when they should not have done so. Why not enjoy the snow and think of the winter wheat it covers? Look upon earth's white bosom with the reflection that it is good to be alive to witness it. Get out in it- Shovel paths and exercise ycur flabby muscles. Give your stagnant blood a chance to circulate. Make the kiddles go cut in it. If they have no leggings tie some old newspapers around their little shanks

and if you have no leggings tie some around your's and j plow through it. It will do you good. T V. o I'i n afn.. i v. fhA .... J t .-111 .J - I

i .'vu tmic J clqj ill V-inr uuu?T It v 1 1 I UU )UU &UUU to do that. Hunt up your copy of Whittier's beautiful ' Snowbound" and read it. Compare your days with the good, old-fashioned days of yore when you were a child and when big snows were a part of a joyous winter. Get acquainted with your home. There's a host of little things to do. . There are many joys you pass up in it for the movies and the parties. Put a record on the Victrola and go to the windows and look out at trie the glories of a great snowfall. Be happy. Snow won't last forever. Why. it was only yesterday you were complaining about the heat and the dust and the mosquitoes. They will he here very soon. Get a picture for that time in your mind's eye of the beautiful picture of today, and thank God you aren't lying down in muddy trenches with a piece of shrapnel "Somewhere in Ye- " Sure, we shov-.ed snow this morning, a hundred feet of it; that is why we wrote this-

PROHIBITION BY REVOLUTION. The Jiomovratic party is going to have trouble explaining ihe fact that in the House of Representatives more democrats than Republicans voted on the Prohibition amendment to end local pelf g-veKnrnent. By this enterprise it is seriously proposed, for the first time in our history, to put the personal liberty of the Citizen under the mastery of centralized authority and without an appeal to the people in any instance. Heretofore, with such Questions left to the States, where the founders of the Republic wisely placed them, prohibition has not been applied even to a township of village as majorities so decreed. In the present movement it is contemplated that by legislative action alone thirty-six states having less than one-half of the population may force upon the majority population of the other twelve restrictions of individual rights as objectionable as they are tyrannical. The two-thirds vote by which Senate and House have proposed the amendment was gained by a bullying and intriguing lobby, better supplied with money than with scruples. It is now the plan of this lobby to transfer its activities to the State Legislatures, where by like methods it hopes without an anpeal to the ballot-box to deprive the American people or home rule. The New York World goes on to pay that if the authors of the proposed revolution in our form of government think that by introducing the novel provision that Congress and the States are to have concurrent power to enforce the article tliey have glossed over the iniquity of their project, they are mistaken- There is nothing but mischief in such a makeshift. To the usurpation which they have contrived they have added the certainty, thata if successful, of confusion and strife not only over the law itself hut in its application.

XAk County's d4 la th war with Ctormaay a-ad Aiiatrla-CKon-r&xri ROBERT MARKLKT, Hammond ;- drowned off coast of New Jersey. May 2$. ARTHUR HASE1.KR. Hammond; di:sd at Lion Springs. T., spinal meningitis, Aueust 86. JOHN SAM BROOKS. Eat Chicago; killed In France. Se.pt.' IS. ARTHUR ROBERTSON, Gary; killed in France, Oct. 31. t 1.1 EUT. JAMES VAN ATTA. Gary; killed at Vimy Ridge. JAMES MACKINZIE, Gary; killed at Vimy Tlidge. DOLPH BlEPZTKi. East Chios ko; killed in France. Nov. 27. HARRY CUTHBERT LONG. Indiana Harbor; killad in accident st Ft. Bliss. Texas. Iec. 10. EDWARD C. KOSTBAPK,' Hobart; killed by explosion in France. Dec. 22.

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Miss Viola Graham. MISS VIOLA GRAHAM, daughter of Captain 8. V. Graham, former naval attache at Vienna who returned with Ambatrador Penfield in May. Joined the musical tire. Mis Graham was irraduated from the conservatory at Dresden and then arig In rrand opera in Austria. After tha outbreaJi of war. she returned to thia country with Cptain Graham and will now be heard in "Daa Ilreitraeder Haua" brought to Chicago bOuatar Amborir of New York, and which opens at th Buah Temple, Theater Tuesday. All tbe music is by Schubert and tha plot revorvaa around his Ufa and lorea. Mix Graham will sine tha part of Hannerl. the girl whom Schubert lovad and to whom many of hie eon its wer dedicated.

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wishes HE wants her badly BUT hasn't the sumption to t-U her that his only wih Is her AND jet we pose as the superior sr x hellit: MOVE to let some of the red-blooded girls go to war AND let some of the. slackers stay home and wash dishes unless it MAKES their hands too rough. MR. M'ADOO aeems to be the Lawrence Hecker of the UNITED STATES. THE only kind of an enemy THAT you have to be on 'he watch for in this world IS the guy who refuses to stay down and CONSIDER you seriously. ALL. the spies seem to be adopting the motto also "DO your damndest." SACRED PICKLE is not a cuss word IT'S the name of a nice little blonde. Red Cross worker Down in Green Co., Mo. V1ERECK, George youknowwho

SAYS the American pres hunt been fair to Prussianim GEORGE'S brains are still rattling around IN his bean pod TOU can't be fair to a rattlesnake Viereck! THEY ought to change the motto to "EAT, drink, if you csn afford to, and he merry."

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WE don't find msny little male newcomers IN this world of trouble being christened FRITZ. ONE of the most distressing things THAT you get for your fifteen cents at some of the nickel shows IS the amazing lot of garlic smell. YOL know sometimes you hear SOMEEODY say about somebody else HE hasn't an enemy IN the world" AND when you come right down to brass tax he really doesn't amount to a HILL of beans.

WHEN A TOWN GIRL GETS PROUD. Whenever a town girl etg too proud to marry a man with 100 acres of land and twenty red pigs just, because he can't tell the tango from a slow goricky, you can set ;t down as a fact that she will either die an old maid or marry a $6-a-week clerk with a head full of cr.one and only one change of holeproofs, opines the Gr?at Bend Tribune. We would rather see you hooked up with some fellow who wears 49-cent overalls and knows wren to hit the top of the market than be yoked to some Cuthbert who plays the mandolin, smokes Turkish cigarettes and Iive3 off his father's pension. Still, there's no accounting for tastes. That's why they are establishing courts of domestic relations here and there.

AMERICA IN THE WAR. The closing of the yeat 1917 finds America in the war eight months and activities produced on a vast vscale. There is no way for the public to know how many soldiers we have in France, but we do know that when congress declared war with Germany on April 6 that it placed the army and navy at the disposal of the president, authorized the treasury to borrow eleven and a half billions, appropriated nine billions for the array and navy, enacted a new tax law to raise two and a half billions, allowed our allies credit of seven billions, and 1 provided two billions six hundred and forty millions for aeroplanes. Power to commandeer ships and plants as well as materials, enforcement of conscription before Kngland fully had it or Canada hegan it. with the registration of ten million men, sending of an armv to

Prance and a VR?t naval fleet to Europe are among the .accomplishments. The country has placed one million eight hundred thousand men under arms, built thirty-five cantonments, engaged in ship building, ordered the building of seven hundred and eighty-seven navs.l vessels, and provided for an aeroplane fleet of twenty thousand ships and one

SAUCE FOR FIGHTER, FOR WORKER. T??e Committee on Public Information has recently given to the press an article telling "how good food, good clothing and good pay make Uncle Sam's sea fighters the good men they nre.'" That's bully! No man can be a good fighter on an empty stomach. He may be a bitter fighter for a short time, but he won't be a good fighter a dependable fighter, unless he is well fed and clothed. Nor can any man he a good worker on an empty or half empty stomach. Poor food and poor clothing will make him a discontented and ineffective worker. Entirely aside from the economic phase of the subject, the dictates of humanity require that both fighters and workers shall be v eil fed and clothed. Such has always been the fundamental principle of the Republican policy of protection. We insisted that our workers shall not be placed upon the same standard of living, with the workers of Europe nd Asia. In order to prevent tbe establishment here of the standards prevailing across the two oceans, we have advocated a tariff that would give the American producer a margin of advantage at least equal to the higher cost of production incident to the higher standards of living. That policy has always been opposed by 'the Democrats, who insist that American consumers should buy where they can buy the cheapest, thus forcing the American producer to the scale of wages and prices prevailing in foreign countries. We tried that policy in 18:1 with deplorable results yet fresh in the mind of men and women of mature years. We tried it again in 1913, and the workman lost, their jobs in large numbers and joined the bread lines. We shall try it again when the war ceases to afford us protection, unless a protective tariff act shall be enacted in the meantime. What do the American people propose to do about it?

What Ails Germany By SAJtral. B. HARDING Professer of European Iflstary, Indiana I lerilty. 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.

Falsehoods About the Red Cross Hurt America and Help Enemy' By Stuart H. Perry

GERMANY AND THS MONROE SOCTUHE "From all this it appears .that the Monroe doctrine cannot be justified. -So it remains only what we Europeans have described as an aspiration. And to it remains only what we Europeans .almost universaly consider it. an impertinence. With a jiot?y cry they try to make an impression on the world, and especially wUh the stupid, succeed. The inviolability of the American soil is invoked without there being at band the slightest means of warding oft the attack of a respectable European power." Johannes Vollert, Alldcutsche Blatter. Jan. 17, 1303.

"We must desire that at any cost a German country containing some twenty to thirty millivn Germans may grow up in the coming century in south Brazil and that, too. no matter whether it remains a portion of Brazil, or becomes an independent state, or entprs Into close relationship with our Empire. Unless our connection with Brazil is always secured by ships of war, and unless Germany is able to exercise pressure there, our development is threatened." C.usrave von Schmoller, Handels und Machtpolitik. 1, p. 3i. Schmoller was at the time of his drath in the first year of the war the most distinguished historian in Germany.

SACRIFICES OF ENGLISH GIRLS. It may be of Interest to our girl readers to see the measures of self sacrifice of the Knglish girls as shown by the subjoined clipping from the London Chronicle: "The first customers when the Tank Bank opened on Saturday were ten girls, each of whom had lost her sweetheart in the war. "They had all saved up to buy a Hond 'to help other girls to get their sweethearts batk quickly.' They intend their money to be a gift to the country, and are not going to redeem their Bonds, w: -.h they will keep and frame in memory of their lost ones."

Voice of the People

ONE GOOD EFFECT OF WAR. The Grand Rapids Press ha,s figured it out that one good feature of the situation is that there are a surprising number of young girls convinced that they are peculiarly fitted to become Red Cross nurses who only a few short months ago felt that their abilities lay in the direction of becoming movie vampires.

DEPARTMENT of agriculture proposed that 10.000 acres in this county be sown with wheat, but only 7.772 acres are under cultivation. Farmers will have to move faster.

The war spirit in Gary 13 running high. Now they are talking of declaring garlicless days. Muncie Press.

AH. my friends: Look at the proud Christmas tree, cast out into the alley.

TOB GERM AN-AUK BJ CANS. Hammond. Ind.. Dec. 2$. Listen, you so-called German-Americans, you Americans of German descent, you who have one vestige of pro-Germanism left in your un-Amrican makeups. Listen to this article. It might have been written by Carl Schurz or Von Steuben, or or Pretorius. or Fulitaer. It is written by an American with pure German blood in his veins. Read it and think: "Once there was a man eame into our country from Germany. He came not out of love for American, since be knew nothing about America. He came not laden with wealth. He brought onty his strength, his wife and babies, his good brains and a desire to do things. He came here because he knew be would he received here with open arras and given a chance to "make good." And be made good. He may have become a millionaire, he may have become a big business man. he may have become a successful shop-keeper? But anyhow, he made good.

"The United States of North America'

Liberty and he should forever bless the day that he passed that statute in New York harbor"He owes his success, his freedom, his fortune to the United States of America, and by the Holy God of Justice if he don't realize that he s-hould be stripped of everything he made in this country, stripped down to what he possessed when be came here, and told to go back from whence you came with a strict order never to return. "Mr. American of German descent, everything you are. or have been or hope to be you owe to your Uncle Sam. Pay your debts, brother, pay your debts! "You are an American citir.en with tbe- right and privilege to serve and even die in thg army and navy of America, even as your father served in the Civil War. You lave the holy privilege and, right and honor to serve in the great effort to stamp out for all time those things which drove you and your forefathers from the land of Prussianisni. ray your debts!" F. G. M.

Is it not suspicious the number of false reports, unfounded rumor?. misiinderEtandings and falsehoods that spring up with regard to the Red Cross? It keeps the officers and workers busy denying them and explaining them away. There was a ctory that enormous sums of money were to be given away to foreign countries, and that a great marble palace was to be erected in Washington, both equally false. Some start from a misunderstanding, or are mere distortions of harmless facts. Some, are known to have started from disloyal sources with the deliberate purpose of crippling the work of the Red Cross. The malicious sort will be dealt with in due time in the proper way. It will not be long before it will be unsafe for any disloyal person to start such a story or pass it along. But in the meantime the Red Cross members themselres can do a great deal toward stopping all fafse reports. When you hear a harmful rumor sbout the Red Cross, remember: 1. It i3 a lie. There is nothing wrong about the Red Cross. It is admirably organized, efficiently managed ; it is doing exactly what is best and wisest, in the light of the most far-reaching experience. It has been free from all seriou3 blunders, incompetency,' unfairness or scandal. 2. It 13 your duty to stop it. It is not enough to keep still. Speak out instantly, telling your auditors that the rumor is false, showing thero why it must be so, and warning them not to play the enemy's game by spreading it. 3. Report the matter at once to Red Cross headquarters. If the story was an innocent misunderstanding, steps will at once be taken to correct it. If it bears earmaiks of malice, it will be dealt with in anothc way. If it hurts the 'Red Cross, it hurts America and helps Germany.

THEY'RE TOMMIES SPIKED HATS ARE JUST SOME SPOILS OF WAR

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Good luck and God bless you!' f rom j the United States government. . "He had to pay no excessive taxes to maintain a monster army. He did not" have to get off of the sidewlak to allow j some Junker Lieutenant to go by. Ho did not have to serve three years in the army. He did not have to meet

with a spike-topped soldier and 'erboten' signs on cery comer. He was allowed to choose bis. own government and In many cases he was elected as a part of that government. . "Now that government that treated him so well is at war with the government which did not treat him well. He owes Germany one thing and one thing only. He owes Germany a bushel of thanks for making it so miserable for him that he headed for the Statute of

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NEW YORK. PeC. 23 Lieutenant Edward J. Roberts, an American member of the Uritish royal flying corps, told the Aeronautical Society of America yesterday that Germany would make good her threat to bombard New York from the air. "The Hun has said that he'll come over and bomb New York. He'll do it." the aviator said. "He has the machine. Kngland at this moment has one that will fly continuously for thirty-eight hours, and the Atlsiniic can be crossed in thirty."

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