Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 52, Hammond, Lake County, 5 January 1918 — Page 4

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A NEW WAY OF GETTING IT. Leave n to thf marines! We acknowledge the receipt of a communication from San Juan, Santiago. Cuba, from two boys in the service.

Thev. wani candv and want it badly. They have the

right kind of a sweet, tooth for they want fudge made uf home. Hero is thf) letter: "Two marines who are a Ion? wa? rtoni home would line to Ret some pood, home made (iiniiy. ""e will rive the girl making the nicest candy J5.00. It must be home made and mailed fo the above address before January Each box is to he accompanied by a letter. "Hoping fo get our fill on candy for once, we remain. "Two lonely marine!?. "JOHN U. JACKSON. "BERT A. HAVENS." I'. S. .M. C. San Ju.n I till. Santiago. Cuba." Now here's a chance for some Lake county girl to make some easy money and some friends. These boys have a foxy plan to get candy. A hundred girls might make them candy and only one would get anything for it They remind us of the country editor who offered a prize of $1 for the biggest potato and pot enough potatoes to last him anil his hungry family. Vet if these boysean get by with' it. they are welcome to the c.ndy. They have a great scheme and we want to see them satisfy the yearnings of their strong young teeth.

LOW BUILDINGS FEATURE ARCHITECTURE OF CENTRAL AMERICAN CITY VISITED BY RECENT EARTHQUAKES

hake County's Roll of Honor

THE RECASTING OF SOCIETY. LONDON, Jan. Z. Universal enforcement of a national minimum wage, democratic control of industry, a revolution in national financial matters, and the surplus wealth for the common good these are the four cardinal pionts war, as submitted in a draft of the British labor party, prepared by a subcommittee of the executive committee, for submission at . the party conference next June or before, should a general election render it necessary. The title of the draft report is "Labor and the New Social Order," and the the report declares that what has to be reconstructed after the war is not this or that government department or social machinery, but "society itself." It is agreed that .the world war will not only bring .bout immense changes that will extend further than the shifting of boundaries of states, but in the whole form of structure of society itself. England, a democracy akin to our own, is further advanced in post-war progress than we are, and the hint in tho dispatch o! 'the move to hare the state control of industries is only one of many nianifetations that will arise. As the war recasted the social structure of the British army, diffusing it with common-born officers, so will .similar changes arise in- civil life. In our ow-n country we see the gradual evolution: state control of railways, government dictation of coal, food and steel prices; making goos for us rather than for sale. And beyond American and England the whole social order is changing. It is being manifested particularly in Russia, China, Japan, and even in Arabia.

GIBBONS AGAINST SOCIALISM.

Cardinal Gibbons lends the weight of his name, position and influence in opposition to government ownership of railroads and in opposition to those labor organizations which have sought by legislation to interfere with the operation of railroads and to gain undue advantage for themselves. It is probable that, in addition to the practical arguments which His Eminence adduces, drawn from his observation in many parts of the world, he is influenced in his position by the general attitude of opposition to socialism which the Catholic church has constantly maintained.

IS IT FAIR TO THE BANKS? The hundred millions which the Farm Loan banks have asked from Congress and which Congress will undoubtedly provide will have to come out of -the money paid into the Treasury by war taxation or from the fale of Liberty Bonds. Thus we shall see money which Is raised for the support of the war given over to domestic 'uses and that under terms which cannot be regarded as other than unfair. The Liberty Bonds, except for h minor exemption, are taxable to their owners. Yet the farm loan bonds will be bought with the Liberty Bond money are not subject to tax. A large share of the Liberty Bond issues have been taken by hanks or by the co-operation of banks. A part of the business of barfks is to loan money on farm mortgages. Vet the bank3 which have taken Liberty Bonds will now be forced to see their money used against them, tax free, ip competition for farm loan business.

THE ENEMY-LANGUAGE PRESS. To the Editor: Will you please enlighten me as to why periodicals In German and Hungarian are still allowed? Are there any periodicals in English or French in Germany or Austria-Hungary? I do not wish in any way to suggest a suppression ef the language, but of these papers. These newspapers were. pro-German and anti-Ally before the United States entered the war, and is it common sense to suppose .that the officials or corporations running these papers suddenly turned friends of the United States and the Allies as soon as the United States declared war on the Central Empire? Were Jhey or . are they hypocrites? In either case the Government would do well to put them out of business. ('. A. There are certainly no English periodicals in either Germany or Austria, but fortunately the United States does not operate like those two countries with reference to the liberties of its citizens. We have no brief for the foreign language papers but Uncle Sam is a worthy old gentleman who was brought up on the bottle of free speech and free -press and it is pretty hard for the old gentleman to shut down on them. It Is true that before we were driven into the war by Germany, the German newspapers in this country made themselves pretty obnoxious but in most cases ihey are pretty well-behaved and acting fairly decent. The federal authorities have suppressed several and are watching the others closely. It is not the German newspaper that is abusing free speech as it is such chaps as Lafolle'te and other supposed Americans of his ilk. They are the men on which Uncle Sam might put the buzzer.

INEFFICIENT SCHOOLS. Sooner or later, and the sooner the better, the business meu of this country, and especially of New York, will bo compelled to take up the question of our inefficient schools. . Whether by th Gary sy.tm or some other does not greatly matter if only the children are taught spelling, sound elementary arithmetic and enough English composition to write an ordinary letter correctly. A contribution from a high school graduate of IS is submitted to the editor this morning. In two paragraphs about the length of this there are four grammatical errors and three in spelling, while the punctuation is purely accidental, and contains the germ of thought. it is not too much to sav of the bovs of 15 or so that in by far the greater number of cases the employer wastes two years in teaching them, at his own expense, what they should have learnt in the schools. It would be bad enough if this were ail, if we merely asked the teachers for bread and they gave us a stone. But recent developments are showing that they are poisoning the bread. Cant phrases are all too readily adopted wrth no real study of their meaning, and one of these refers to the individuality of the pupil and of the teacher. In effert, it means that the teacher is to express his or her opinions upon all sorts of subjects, with an obvious effect upon the individuality of the child. If therefore, a teacher with known socialistic leanings aks .the pupil for a composition comparing anarchy with the government of the United States, it is certain that they will write, not only what they think the teacher will like, but what he thinks. Children of school age have no opinions upon public questions which are worth developing, and all their time is required to receive a sound basis of teaching so that they shall afterward reap the true reward of education in the ability to teach themselves. Every employer knows that we are not getting this, or anything like it. in return for the taxpayers money. The teachers are well paid and not overworked, and yet they showa continual example of discontent to those entrusted to their care. The matter is most important and conditions are growing worse instea.d of better. The product of the schools today is inferior to that of 20 years ago, says, the Wall Street Journal.

Lake Couaty a dead In the war with Oei-many and Austria-Han. JlOBKIiT MAHKLKT, Hammond; drowned off oa?t of New Jersey, May 2. AP.TIICR BASnLER. Hammond: died at Tdon Springs. Tex.. of spinal meningitis. August -6JOIl.V SAM BROOKS. l.st Chicago; killed in France. Sept. 16. AKTHl'R ItOCEKTSOX, Gary; killed in France, Oct. "1. LIECT. JAMES VAX ATTA, Gary: Willed at Vuny i:ldro. JAMES MACKENZIE. Gary; killed at Vimy Ki.lte. DOEPH BirrnZTKr. East ChicaKo; killed in Frame. Nov. 27. II A Kit Y CCTIinEKT LON'C, Indiana Harbor; killed in accident at Ft. lUi.-s. Texas. Doc. 10. EDWARD C. KOSTPATE, IIobart; killed by explosion in France. Dec. 2:'.

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Street fscene in Guatemala City. It is reported that great damage was done to building's and 125,000 persons were left homeles.., . Guatemala City, capital of Guatemala, Central American republic, was shaken by earthquakes lasting nca!!; week and beprinninp Christmas day. An old volcano. Mount Balin, just outside the city, was reported active the quakes bubsiued and its shower of lava added to the destruction wrought by the tremors.

for forty miles in every diioction there is not a desirai.de homestead left unclaimed. Twelve years aa myself and the f'axton Itotbcis bought a section of land subject to irrigation for fifty 'ents per acre, with perpetual water rights at $17 per acre. The present r wncr lias refused $150 pier acre for this land. Last spring thirty-three car load.- of scerj potatoes were, plantr rd in this immediate vicinity and so far n.. re than thre hundred car loads have i.er-n shipped from here. These are but samples of what 1 liappentng in this . nderf tl i ..untry. The TIMES is a welcome visitor out hc.-r a-thousand miles away. I read even the Griffith. Hobart and Scherrerille items, and sometimes the 'Tas.n cr Show , ' Vo u r c. ir. n. w. smith.

Cleanly Food Is Essential to Family Health

By Dr. Samuel C Dixon, U. S. Commucioqer of Health

IF the German administration in Belgium ever gets hard up for new means to frisk the natives they might

I have their secret service study the manner in which

some of the American beef, coal and steel barons got theirs by their pricfc-flxing methods last summer.

THESE wintry, white d:)ys would be e'en nicer to bear did we but only once of an even hear the twinkling of bells and, looking out the window, behold an old-

l fashioned beau gallivanting dow n the street in a sleigh.

his girl by his side.

JOHN" Jasper Diedel, nearly f'O, died the other day at Tolleston. This man, bofn in Germany, fought in our civil war and was proud of hi spatriotism. That is the kind of German-born Americans this country needs.

LITTLE surprise for the scientists. As the Washington Star says, the scientists who for years have been predicting a dearth of coal had no idea it would happen so soon.

THIS lightless night stuff will be appioved by spooning couples who frequent our parks in the summer t iuie.

WYOMING

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Euiioi Tm.es; If you have succeeded in d:f?pinK yourself out of the snowbanks and thawing your frozen fingers and ties, "take your eve and tlirow- it over" these wonderful Wyoming facts: Today January 2, at 11 o'clock a. m., in the sun the murcuty indicated 76 degrees; in the shade, 4: How i that for summer? And with tho exception of about one week, we have had similar weather all fall end winter to date. Furnaces have been permitted to languish or "go out'' entirely, doors and windows stand open, flowers are put out to get the benefit of the bright afternoon sun, and "whene'er I fake my walks abroad'' ah overcoat is a burden. In the depths of your midwinter misery, from these sunny heights I salute you. The rapid growth and development of this section of Wyoming is simply wonderful. This Is an, irrigated region with dry lands surrounding the latter subject to homestead entry; but

Marion Myers who had an operation for appendicitis r turned home on Wednesday from Mercy hospital. Mrs. A;;el Carlson entertained at a

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A wat h service at the Corcrecational church on .Vow- Year's Eve. was largely attended. Kefi r-shm. nts w-cie served durin? the evening. An effort is b-ing made to form a band in the town. Thc:e who wished to participate Lad an initial i;ieetitnf on Decembr 10th. They are now practicing at Eaple Hall. Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Cook and familyspent New- Year s day and the following day with the Williams' larnily in Hammond.

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Wild animals eat their food raw, either vhile freEh or after it has become tender with sge. Thif latter habit is one of the weasel's. They kill quite liberally cf their prey when the opportunity offers snc then allow it almost to decay before they feed upoi it. Primitive man hunted and devoured his food1 mnct like the lower animate. Later in the history of man he learned to makt fire and cook his food, and it is now quite evident from what we find in the Indian mounds that it became the custom, for instance, of the American Indians to have great clam bakes on the Atlantic coast. Sometimes in theee mounds we .Dd bones of deer, showing that

they had more than one kind of foodstuff. As relics of a still later Age, we find in the mounds various Lttl implements that were evidently used for handling and serving the food. This begins to approach conditions in the present state of civiliza-

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people make their sole livelihood preparing food for the table and taking tare of the dishes and the serving of the food, from the email boarding houses to 'the enormous hotels. In these places the health of those thus employed has not had an; police supervision and vet we have known that communicable diseases have -been on the rapid increase 8nd horrible diseases have been passed from one person to another until they have become a great menace tc the health, happiness end efficiency of our people. The state of Pennsylvania, fortunately, in 3915 succeeded in passing a law that recruires those in charge of restaurants, hoarding houses, hotels, etc-, to look after the health of their people. The law han'lk it in this way, that it holds the proprietor of those places responsible for employing people who haje these dangerous diseases that can be communicated to their customers through the foodstuff itself, or througu the dishes, forks, knives, spoons, etc. Cooks and waiters cannot,' under this new law, pursue their occupations without satisfying those they propose to serve that they are clean from these diseases the law is trying tq prevent being thus spread. The moment this new law was signed by the governor, a large number of waiters left their places in the Pullman coaches on the railroads and from the great railroad restaurants, as well as from the large and active hotels. This became well known and the newspapers and journals-endear-ored to spread this news that the people might wake up to what ha i existed and what the new law proposed to protect them frorai TV'hen the bill asking for this law was introduced in the general assembly cme of the great railroad companies that have large restaurants at their termini appreciated that it was a great sanitary measure and before the bill became a law they adopted its good points in the management vt their great eating centers throughout the United States. This law, like all other new laws that mean to bring about a grent change in public policies, has to be sanely enforced, and the old system of preparing food end washing of dishes in hotels and restaurants must not be too suddenly destroyed. The time, fortunately, is here when the public has become educated and the people are demanding that the spint of this good law be carried out. Some hotels advertise on their letterhead paper that the law is enforced in their establishments. As the great cities grow the ways of living change. There becoi fewer private homes and more places where people live collectively c depend upon central places for eating. Therefore this law is becoi:; in ore and more important in regard to these centers, that they may kp-o-i-l Innecrous disease thrnr.cb a community.

IT looks like some patriots in congress want to have Hooverless days.

AIL if we could only tell what it all means, 191S:

Lady Winifred Puyr.

Lady Winifred Pennorer recent wedding in London to R. II. Penaoyert attached to the U. S. embassy, was leas of a social affair than it should have been because of the war. She is the widow of Lord lngestre and ! daughter of the late Lord Alex Paget.'

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PETEY DINK Let's Call It a Da v.

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