Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 183, Hammond, Lake County, 25 January 1918 — Page 4

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THE TIMES.

KrifUiv, Januarv 25, 1918.

. THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING &. PUBLISHING COMPANY. The L.k. County Times 1 ;'y nrfpt Saturday end ? inday. Entevtd at tn pcfiuflioe In Hammond, June 2 5, lfoifi. The Times East i'!i;ra?o-lr.i.r.a Harbor, dally except Sunday. Entered at tha posU.fnce in Last Chicago. November If, 1313 The Lnk Countv Time ?j!urJav ami Weekly Ed:l.on. Fnteted at the p. --t.. trice :n Hammond. 1'ebniary 4. 1SU. The Gary Kvnmg f;mK Daily eopt Sunday. Entered at the- postoffic Ga:y. April 13. All under the a t of March l, 1!79, as second-class matter.

j our national ei.lerer.oe to terminate. Organized society j can only live by forcing Its will upon that always reeal.j citrant minority which opposes Its dictates, and while. In

nouca limes we may good naturedly overlook such opposition, the requirements and exigencies of war demand obedience. This is no time to finis with freaks, temporize with tramps, or parley -with pacifists. It's a time to treat all those who fail to fail In line when the bugle sounds. Just as though they were deserters from tha army. For In a broad sense that is Just what they are. Fort Wayne News.

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TKI KI'HO.M. Hamnion.i u''-'E" f'.'!,iiiiKi-l 1 0, "101. $103 i Call for w hatover department wanted. Gary Off.ce Telephone 1S7 Nassau & Thmp? .m. Past Chicago Telephone 9il F. L. Runs. I'thi V.caco Telepnone 642-R K.t Chicago. The Time. Telephone 2S.t Indiana liaibor iXms IVlerl MVlephon S'O' Indiana Harbor (.Reporter and Class. Adv.). .Telephone 283 Whiting Telepnone SO-M .."rv.vn rv!r.t Teiephon I.'

Larger Paid Up Circulation Than Any Two Other Papers in the Calumet Region.

If j-i'i have any trouble gett'ng The Time." make comf:alnt immed'ately to the circulation department. The Times not bo responsible for the return of inv unm ':.(.; ,1 nr::, or letters and will not notice anon moua communications. S'uoi t signed letters of general int-res; printed at d:.eretion.

THRIFT STAMPS.

THE TIMES is pleased to accede to the wish ct the executive officers of the War Savings Committee In announcing that Lake county's quota of the $2,000,000,000 War Savin.es and Thrift Campaign is $il.917.S:0. Thit quota Is computed on a basis of $-0 for every man, vomsn and child In Lake county.

WHY THERE IS DIRT IN YOUR COAL. Perhaps you have done as much fuming about dirt, rock and slate in your coal as we have, with explanations from the: coal dealer th.it fuel conies to him iu that shape. lie is telling the truth. This jear there seems to be more dirt in the fuel than ever, and in firing one's furnace great care must be taken to pick out the rack and slate, but despite this the best coala available clinker and clog the fire. In a way it is the fuel administration's fault that there is diit in the coal if we a.e to believe the testimony of Mr. Peabody, rm eminent Chicago magnate, who testified before the senate committee on manufacturing. Mr. Peabody says that fioiu 10 to 11 per cent of coal Ja dirt. Most companies used to wash this out, - but the few that do accomplish It with expensive machinery and at a cost of 5ft cents a ton. The government gives them no extra allowance in price fixing, so operators who do not wash their coal may charge the same as those who do wash if. As a result very little washing is done and the supposedly iucrctire in production is reRlly offset 1 t he dirt that is now weighed as coal, the mining bureau asserts. It would seem that the fuel administration lias several things to do, notably protecting consumers form dirty coal n? well as marking zones sotb,at coal transportation will not overlan itself.

DILUTING THE STOCK.

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"WHY, Anthra Cite, where have you

bin':

ASKS the Columbia Republican.

HIS iiose iind rub it with ice

kicked

the

SINCE her pet poodle

' bucket.

LET us be tolerant of tha sins and faults of others ' NOW Is the time for all (rood men to I stand together EVEN David, you remember, who was anointed with ! PARTLY because misery loves comHOLY oil by the prophet Samuel J rny

AVE who ere about to either

hi 3

6LIPFED a cogr when he taiv

neighbor's wife in swimming. WE'LL say the situation DOESN'T rro any better' WITH the coal bin practically empty end the irospetts poor THE wlft flays ther can be no peace. OUR pet rubber plant has succumbed THEREBY knocking: to pieces our fond hope that wo could grow our own auto tires for 191$. WE regret exceedingly the publicity

we have given to the neighbor cat who i

a short time ago

freeze

i or starve

SALUTE you IT'S a case of don't know where but

we re on our way

ANY advance funerals?

yet la th price of

CRITICISM A DUTY. Thert: it only one possible way for the people of this country to become acquainted with Inefficiency. If any there Is, In our conduct of the war, and that is through the new-spapers. A free press and free speech are inalienable and constitutional rights of the American reople nd it Is the duty cf the newspapers to, print, the new revealed in the senatorial investigation now In prorress. It is the duty of the people to read their newspapers and keep posted, If Is the duty of men like Roosevelt to speak out in meeting, and It is the duty of 'the proletariat to listen. The people of this, countrv do not believe in the divinn right pf kings. They do not make demt-gods of their Rational leaders, and if their criticism is constructire it !s Justifiable. They ought to call a spade a spade. It is their Tribsge and duty to look the war situation squarely In the face. They have too much at stake to do ofheiw'ise. One thing must be remembered, however, and that 'here is no such thing as perfection in this world. E-ven the roost powerful of our allies and enemies have pone through what we are going through now. In KnglBnd the grossest instances of official incapacity "relative to the conduct of the war have been charged and proven, but it is only in this way that conditions have been remedied. We must not fail to remember that our government has made amazing progress in its war prosecution; progress that no other country has ever been known to make. Since it began the conflict its preparation for war has been carried out on a stupendous scale. I of course has not attained perfection. There is bound to be some weak sisters in the high places and the only thing that the people of this country demand 1s that they be weeded out. to obtain for greater efficiency, greater progress, greater speed, and eventually greater success. The criticism voiced in the press of the land will only spur on the government to exert itself to the utmost, and that is all that is wanted. Loyal newspapers should divorce war and politics. They should not leap on this man because he is a republican, or that man because he 1 a democrat. We are in this war td win and it can only be won by the strength that comes from union and union forever. What you want- to know are the facts. It is our wr; it is your boys and your money that make it possible. No matter whether here or abroad you are entitled to know the truth, and a petty, pusilanimous censorship will never give this.

Industrial development in certain mountain fastnesses in Kentucky. Tennessee, and the Virginias Is gradually blotting out the "old stock." There came to the highlands in the latter part of the eighteenth century settlers of Irish, Scotch and Welsh stock, who had roughed it along the seaboard. For 100 to 150 years some of these people have gloried in their isolation, boasted of their a.ncestry and continued in the ways of another day. They have hardly any knowledge of modernity.

But in the upper south industry is approaching, i here a modern mine is opened, a waterfall is harnessed; and the railroad conies into counties heretofore devoid j of that symbol of progress. i Take a region in Kentucky, for instance. There a i great corporation u building a modern town to supply j the Gary oke ovens with coa'. J When that reginti has its full quca of workers and

is deluged with an avalanche of people from all parts of Europe, the "native stock" will become diiuted more than it is now. The territory will learn of other people, there will be intermarriages, and a better Americanism should result all around.

WAS released from the maternity,

hojpiral. because HER gentleman friends from all over Homewood are NOW flocking to Warron et. at. unseemly hours of the night and terrible ALTERCATIONS arise as the disputants swear at each other In the MOST disgraceful cat language milinable. j

A MAN gets mad fifty times a day AND that's ail right BUT If his wife gets made once a flay HE wants a divorce. GET ready to put up the shutters

MONDAY'S a holiday AND wash day; ABOUT as pathetic a per'nsge you can run

CORRESPONDENT arks us why they;

well as could be expected of him? he asks I THE new ripple tack or the semi

I bustle s return.

TE9, that's just the trouble. WE Just rrlnt It for what it Is worth; BEFORE ktssing his wife ' j ONE cf our w: k. husbands ha tr wet

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EXPLAINS THE CONDITIONS. tor Times:

THE ROUND-UP.

The arrest of a large number of young men in this city for a failure to reply to the federal governments questionnaire, emphasizes the fact that not all the dolts re dead. How any man with the acumen of an angleworm or the mentality of a microbe could have neglected hit obligation after the publicity accorded the matter it past finding out or comprehension. For weeks it was dingdonged through the columns of every paper in the country, discussed in every business house, and explained at every street corner caucus of ex-offlcio statesman. There was no chance for any intelligent man to escape the big news, and the only alibi for those who did is groping ignorance or drooling idiocy, preferably the latter, for the armor of mere ignorance can be piercd occasionally by shafts of lieht from the public infortnallon bureau. Yet while many, if not most of the delinquents, may successfully defend themselves on the plea of mental deficiency, there are o;hers who failed to obey the law simply because they did not. wish 'o do so. They were cognizant of their dufy and its imperative nature, yet they negligently, insolently, and defiantly sat back and ignored it. Fellows of this sort merit no mercy and should receive none. If th war orders of the federal government are not binding on those to whom they are directed and can by them bp brushed aside as of no consequence, then, indeed, it is time for

GREGORY GIVES GROUND. The Attorney General lias postponed all pending anti-trust suits until the October session of the Supreme Court, when, as he gives notice, ho will ask that they be passed over until the end of the war. The main reason for this action is that, in case the government should be successful in the litigation, the several companies involved will be compelled to dissolve into their constituent parts and that an undesirable disruption will occur in the nation's business, together with financial difficulties which may arise in the course of necessary new financing incident to the setting-up again of the numerous small corporators which now comprise the big one? which ate under suit. These reasons will apply no less forcibly when the war is over than they do now. When the war is over, we and all the wrrld will be engaged in a commercial readjustment wherein the disruption which the attorney general now fears may he, and probably will be. more disastrous than it is now. Moreover, by that, time the peoph: may have learned that what is good policy for a nation that is at piece as well. " The anti-trust, suits have, been postponed. It is likely to prove that they have been wholly abandoned.

SUNNY ALASKA.

A government' bulletin says: The town of Circle is one of the oldest white settlements on the Yukon. It. was located before the surveyor had determined that the . town was not on the Arctic Circle, as supposed, but ;0 miles south of it. List the nearness of the Arctic Circle be regarded a.s indicative of ice and snow, it should be noted that there ate neither glaciers nor permanent snow in thf Yu-kon-Tanana region. It is indeed a land of fertile ' valleys and grassy slopes, and during the short but warm summers vegetation thrives, many grains can be ripened, and vegetables grow k'luxuriantly. All we have to say is that if any of the folks of t lie Circle ever come into this climate they are apt to freeze to death. They couldn't possibly stand it here.

lcally hundred of our cltlnens, long residinghere, will cease putting off long deferred purchaae cf a home elte and will help out the situation by building a home for themselves. Each home built will release a house or a flat to one of the Incoming strangers. I know severul people who have contemplated build.lng flat buildings but have been discouraged or deterred from doing eo by the fact that Hammonds growth has been so slow. These people when they fee thousands of strangers paying premiums for places to live will Kfet busy. Now as the real estate df-alers. material men and contractors and merchants prosper by this activity, they in

turn should and vili turn a part of i their profits into bulldtng enterprises.

That Is the only thing that will make Hammond the live town that it ought to be. The Hammond Chember of Commerce has adopted aa Us" elouan: "One Thoua-

Iftnd iri-.iiwa 17.. w l;a,n...n ... ., .

. . w . . ' , uatmuutiu ill Jlf 1. it it follows Ih'.s up by co-ordinate efforts this objective can be reached. These efforts should be along the following lines: J. Outside capital to tha amount of J7S0.000.00 to J 1,000,001). 00 must be brought mto Hammond from some source and must bs loaned out on the bayis of 73 per cent of the actual cost of tho completed building and lot at a reasonable rite of interest. 2. Tlv; plins must be city-wlde Irt their score and !! of tht ieal es'ate interests of the city must be ccrisidf red. All avnllaH subdivided rropcrty should be given equal consideration. 3. Hammond must hr: given something of the same kind of general publicity that Gary succeeded m getting and which brought millions of dollars of outside money into that dy for development put-roses. The result, if this program is carried out, will bes beyond the greatest expectations of the peoph- of Hammond. If a thousand houses ara built in Humrnond south of the, river, north cf the present citv limits and t,ot

State Line street and Columbia avenue, they will fill up practically every vacant lot in the territoty outlined above. Why haven't realty values increased In Hammond? Those thousand vacant home sites !. the answer to the ques

tion, our building Operations have been going on slowly and methodically (just tike Hammond always moves) absorbing 3"" to 4 50 homesites a year. For twenty years Hammond has been over-subdivided. For twen'y years Hammond has been trying to till up its va-

' cart cnce Af t ' .

. i - - - . v ..... i' . . , , .it.; e mi i e going it will t3H four years more be-

fore the vacancy will b reasonably ab- ; sorbed and th5 demand for lots will be

more insistent than the offers to sell. Hdt if th Hammond Chamber of

I Commerce, backed up by the citizens of

oetit of the steel trust with w hich it j c,t succeeds in building its 1,000 vorks U apparently never saw evil in bouses in 131 S. the four years- building

Lake County's Roll of Honor

week's Journey now a-

ACROPS

days IS the fashionable Treacher. WHY do you never hear of a Chinese I. W. W. OR a Chink "bo?

rROBAHLT one of the things

that

German people don't have to worry

Lake County's fiead la tht war with Oermany and Aastrla-Hua. ROBERT MARKLEY, Hammond; drowned off coast cf New Jersey. May 28. DENNIS IIAN'NON, Indiana Harbor; ptomaine poison, at Fort Oglethrope. Chattanooga, Tenn , June 11. FRANK MAN LEY. Indiana Harbor: killed in France at Battle of Lille. Aug. 15. ARTHUR BASELER. Hammond; died ot Lion Springs. Tex., cf spinal meningitis. August 2S. JOHN SAMHROOKS. East Chicago; killed in France. Sept. 18. ARTHUR ROBERTSON. Gary; killed in France, Oct. 31. LIEUT. JAMES VAN ATTA. Gary; killed at Vlmy Ridge. JAMES MACKINZIE. Gary; killed at Yimy Ridge. DOl.l'H RIEDZVKL East Chlcajrc; kilied in France. Nov. 27. HARRY CUTHBERT LONG. Indiana Harbor; killed in accident at Ft. Bliss, Texas, Dec. 13. DERWOOD DICKINSON. Lowell; died somewhere in France, cf pneumonia. Dec. 12. EDWARD C. KOSTBADE. Hobart; killed by explosion In France, Dec. 22.

WELL it certainly was not like this in the olden days. GODSPEED the admlnlstratorless da !

IMEMORIAM"

Please inform 1he "One NUio Saw" parue suppowed'y snTiklng front side d'.or of bakery owned by a so-t- rmed hphnaed Gerrrsn-Americnn, but who has probably lived as an American longer than Mr. "One Who Saw,'' that the sales were made only upon insistance. cf parties purchasing, or.e party being a government employe having a large family and who informed the seller that It was an absolute necessity for the iustenince of Ids children. Another sale to a small boy sent by his mother and who pleaded an urgent case. This German-American, so-called, occupies rooms iu rsr of store as part of bis residence. There is no rear door to store. There was no heat in the bakery. The business is such as to, I believe permit of the sales and the writer challenges his Americanism against any so-iermed "watcher," as Mr. -"One Who Saw ." I have tio relationship nor any thing

In common with ill'. 15;ker, but ask you j

to defer rointing the finder of scorn before vou Know detail". READER. ' UNMASKED. Editor Time?: I answer the letter signed "American'' in the Gary Post, which was really an attack on The Times because it gave space to "Fair Play's" argument that the saloons should be given nn evtra eiay after April 2 foe each fuelless Monday they are obliged to be -closed up. "Fair Play's" argument Is that saloons pay licenses and should have recompense. Now it is not my intention to argue prohibition: the legislature has decreed what we have been demanding. Nor will T paint the great distress that has followed the sudden enforcement of the Sunday closing. There has been none save to the saloon owners and the brewing people. When fufl is scarce saloons must expect that they will be the firt to feel its lack, so I do not want any one to think that sincere prohibitionists have takn advantage of the situation

saloons. Why ono of the slghfs of Gary that prohibitionists fliet noted, after they got on to things, is the tog saloon sites the steel trust maintains near the Gary steel works. The robbery in December brought out what nn enormous business these places do with O.'Jf O employes of the. company, tid until recently the steel trust workmen found banking facilities in the company's site saloons. Do the respectable officials maintain banking facilities for workmen in their Institutions for moral welfare? They do not! It seems to me that "American," The Post, and a whole lot of eleventh hour saloon baiters, who no longer cater to the saloon as of political importance, would relieve not only the prohibitionists but a disgusted community of their grandstand tactics. JUNIUS. BEAZ.TT VALUES. Edi;or Times: What will be the effect on Hammond teal estate values, end the market in general, of the employment of E.OtiO additional highly paid men by the Standard Steel Car Co., as a result of the $100. 000. 000. f0 munitions order which that company has received? That is the question that ls'on the lips of every real estate owner, building tradesman, building material man. financier and business man in Hammond. It is a question that Roscoe E. Woods, secretary of Hastings, "Woods & Co., undertakes to answer with such information and opportunities for observation as he has at hand. Will the thousands of newcomers buy lots and build homes and in this way precipitate a great boom in Hammond? Hammond will have a boom, perhaps the greatest in its history, hut it will not come about in this way. The newcomer is not, as a rule an immediate prospect for either a lot or a house. He is sometimes forced to buy in order to get the kind of a pliice in which lie desires to Hit, but these instances are

very rare. I Y ell then, how is Hammond to get I

program w-.;T be encompassed in one. Then what will happen? Let's take Whiting tor an example. Whiting is hedged in by Jlammcnd and E-ist Chicago with no room for expansion. Whiting is the most intensively developed city in the Calumet region for that reason. Accordingly ordinary inside lots on Oliver, Sheridan and Lapcrte avenues are bringing ?t,0.00 a front foot. Think of that with Hhman street lots in Hammond selling for $40.00 to 5"0.00 a front foot with a beautiful Country club but a block away and the finest city part in the region in the vicinity. So our thousand houses would give Hammond the more intensive development that must come before realty values increase alarmingly. But give us those 1.000 houses and every lot on the south and south-east sides will increase froyn 23 to 50 per cent in value. No man is going to pay J?.000.00 for a hoh e residential lot when the one nest to it can be. bought for $1,500.00. No subdivision is going to sell out at fair prices when another cf the same character is being filtered at sacrifice prices. And your subdividers are your real city builders. Well, how does this situation affect the man who already owns his own

home? If a thousand houses art built the value cf his Jot is boosted 15 to 0 per cent. He gets a new house alongside his old one, that adds to Its value. A thousand houses mean an addition to Hammond's population of 5.000 people, and a permanent addition at that, for Hammond has never had a surplus cf homes. East Chicago pcoplei will alway s absorb all of the extra houses we build. If the man rs iu business he will soon appreciate the fact that he is doing business in. a live, double-tracked tov, :i instead of a horse-car town. He will do a great deal more business on tht same overhead expense. And what will happen if we don';, build that thousand houses. Well, suburban trains will start running on the Nickel I'iate. and a lot tf vacant flat in the Englewood district of Chicago will be occupied. And East Chicago may get another 4-flat building or two and keep her $5,000.00 a year men at homv while our builders debate the questi'm as to whether 42-flat buildings are profitable. " Te, company houses and tenements will take the place of separate hom s and welfare workers, police and doctov will be busy in East Hammond. Hammond fell down on its housing problem when the Standard Steel Car Co. ft:." located and the company houses were illogical result. It was more profitable, to sell lots than to build houses an ; take care of the people. In February the first 2.000 additior.il men will be put to work and Hammcn I is still debating its housing problem, ftuild 1.001 houses, make a real tov :i out of Hammond and every body w;:l rrospcr. ' ONE WHO HAS STUDIED IT.

PEEKING OUT OF THEIR BOMB PROOF "MANSION" VESTIBULE IN FRANCE

to further Jab an industry that is so ; any benefit out of the Standard, boom?

near i;s doom. j The present payroll of the Standard What I want to bring out Is, now : has been averaging about $2;0.000.00 a that state prohibition is approaching j month. The 5.000 or more skilled me-

ALIEN GERMANS MUST REGISTER. Between February 4 and ? Germans, who aie alien enemies, that is, not. naturalized must appear at their respective police stations and register their names, finger prints and photos. "Persons required to rogiVt-r should undertand that in so doing they are giving proof of their peaceful dispositions and of their intentions to conform to the law-p of the United States." With alien enemies, who ate not such at beat!, it will be no hard task tor ihtti to register. As lir those who are Huns the situation will he different.

GOODNIGHT.' We that has a coal mine.

are going to move to a town

some of our politicians and office holders, heretofore ailied secretly or openly politically with saloons, arc becoming. Their unflinching heioism and loud demands that the salcou be w h.Hckfd a f -ter we "drys" did that long ago are remarkable. 1 have not a hit of criticism against my follow prohibitionists, hut I do want, to can tho county's attention to the publicity-seeking patriots nlii have just turned saloon baiters because the saloon as a political factor Is about to co from our midst. Take the Tost, for instHnce. In its

increase this amount by $750,000.00 or more: making a total t,f $1,000,000.00 a month. That seenis like a large sum of money but it does not seem so large when you stop to think that half of the cost of a munitions contract is chargeable to labor and the balance to materials, overhead charges, etc. Hence the various plants of the Standard Steel Car Co. will pay out $50,000,001.00 for labor alone. Now- stop and think what it mean? to have local business, the banks, the

palmy days It was glad to get money in stores, milk dealers, and every other line return for stock from a brewer. For of business, stimulated by a $750,000.0'' years it solicited business from liqu,or j increase in the total monthly payroll of Interests, even slashing rates to get it. the city. Hand in hand with the political depart-' 'If this situation should work qut lojr-

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Sheltered entrance to dugout. Kulers have long since been known to have bombproof mansions in which to seek shelter when subjects went on a rampage. And are not the Sammies. Tommies and Poilus rulers now? They have the bombproof "mansions" at least. The photo shows a shelter over the entrance to a dugout. Corrugated iron and munition cases form the shelter of the "vestibule" as well as of the dnpout itself. I"he "residents" are shown peekin? cut. It's at a training camp in France.

PETEY DIXK Xot So Soft, at That

By C. A. VOIGHT