Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 184, Hammond, Lake County, 28 January 1918 — Page 4

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THE TIMES.

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS

BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Tii Lake County Time Daily except Saturday and S mdn .'. Entered at tho Pu.f'.old -o jn ! iummonJ, June 28. 1S0 9. The Tim F'ast "i !' Indiana, TCatbor. daily except i'jndav. Entered at law pmtofrh in Kajt c'hiongo, Novembtr IS. 1U. The Lake Coun'y Time Saturday anil Weekly Editton. Entered at the poMof flee in Hammond, i'ehruary 4. 11 1. The Gary Evening f!iiif Daily rxc pt Sun jay. Entered at the p,i.u4ilfo in Gary. April 13. 1912. AU under the act of March 1879. as second-class n . a tt v r.

FOHKlfiX ADKHTIIU OKFKK. i'Z K-rtor b;i!U!n

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tu.i.i:phof.. Hammond private s.'li!is'') SI 00. SUM. (Call for whatever department wanted.) Gar?- Offlc Telephone- 13" Nassau a- Thompoon. Eaut t'liicao Telephone S31 P. U Uvans, lVi3t '"he-ag Telephone nll'-K Eil Thi'-nso. Th" T:me , Teiepbone Svl Tridtae.a Tiirhnr (Npm j Dealer! Telephone SO J Indiana Harbor t Reporter and C'aM. Adv. . .Telephone '.! Whl inc ... Te!-!io!i SO-M I'rwn Point . T U-phon l."

Larger Patd-Up Circulation Than Any Two Other Papers in the Calumet Region. Tf you have any Double fretting The Times make complaint immediately to the circulation department. Tlie T!m will ti -t be responsible for the return of any unsolicited art lea it !i tier ai.d will not nuti-e ancnv. mens rommunicat !ons. Short signed letter of general interest ptiatvd at d.soretion.

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pany in tills respect Is unjustly taxed (a. It views the cese). But. on the other hand, the company monopolizes thousands of acres of unimproved laud In Gary. Its monopolistic control of railway, harbor and factory sties practically enables it. to keep out competitors, dictate to labor, and virtually impost lis own rule in the city. Compa led with Its assessments on its industrial improveproveuients the valuable unused land pavs but littlo i taxe. yet It is constantly growing in value, and us a I loarned economist has reckoned it, the property has no-

cumulated unearned increment that runs Into the millions. Due to the pressure of war the steel trust has or is adding at Gary a benzol plant, blast furnaces, twentyfour tin mills, coke ovens, ship plate mills, and huge artilleiv works. Tor these valuable improvements for the government it will pay a handsome yearly tax. As stated, the penalizing of improvements and the advantages of single tax, which are int ransmutable, are well illustrated at Gary. Were there single tax perhaps there would be no need of a corporate political department " be a governor on the tendency to increase taxes, and were there no corporate political department officials would not follow the human impr.No to make objectionable use of their vast power. And that means usurpation of civic functions, the manipulation of politics partly to bring contracts to their own numerous private enterprises, and all the evils that come when industrial officers function as political bosses of workmen who are their subordinates. Whether single tax would eliminate this uhdesira ole condition offers much opportunity for speculation.

Lake County's Roll of Honor

Morula v. Januarv 118. 1918.

ld In any of tha following employlnenta will t able to tail a hand: Acetylene and elactrlool wehb-rs; asbestos worker, blacksmiths, boliermak-

er. carpenters, chlppers and eaiker. ; electrical worker, foundry workers, la

borer, loftemen, machinist a and machine, hands, painters, plumbers nod

kiln. fltt. feltA.t.inAl ti I rq ftnH I

coppersmiths, structural Iron oikera. So necessary Is this work of building ships that It Is understood between

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THRIFT STAMPS.

HERE AND ANON.

THE TIMES is pleased to accede to the wish of the executive officere of the War Savings Committee In announcing that. Lake county's o.uota of the $2,000,000,000 War Savings and Thnft Campaign is $3,91T,S20. This quota is computed on a bais of $20 for every man, woman and child in Lake county.

PRA!t; FOR BARNARD. Tha "work of Dr. Karry K. Bafnard. federal foort aHlaiinlstrator for Indiana is work of high order. His arUTlMes are phenonemal and if there is. any branch of food administration service he has not covered and invrerd well we should like to know what it is. We rfotibt whether there is a state in the tinion that is so well taken care of as Indiana in this respect. Dr. namird ta entered heart and soul into th!3 campaign and th war would have Tt-i over 'ong tgo if every man end thse include pro-Gei man criic of Dr. Barnard hd done his hit ss well.

SUMMER THE TIME FOR COAL WORRY. It i no sinecure that fuel administrators have in Lake eorxnty these days. Thy sre hard put to it in order to keep peopl from freezing to death. Outside of the loss of their sons thei- is perhaps no way in which war could be brought closer to the people than ta deprive them of coal and food. There is plenty to eat, but of fuel there is a scarcity. It has gone past ibe time when It Is a mere matter of keeping industry supplied; k is now a question how to keep the home fl.res burning. The fuel administrators have a difficult and thankless Job and they are in no wise to he blamed for the coal shortage. In seeking a remedy they ate not able to consider the individual but. they must take care of the mafs. People must be as patient as is possible and remember the one vital fact, that this extraordinarily severe winter only accentuates the shortage of coal. If the relentless weather we bavo experienced in January had not come to pa, there would hsve been little trrwi'ot. Nature has been pi'iless and we have all been iaiproTlder.t. Indeed the lesaon it has taught us will probably be a bitter one pnd one not forgotten next summer. People will fill their coal bins as they have never filled them before. .s a matter of fact summer is the time to coneider he coal question and not permit, it to go by default until winter. The good old summer time is the time to make coal sacrifices, not In the wiirrer. If people get their coal supply then, they will not have to suffer when the mercury hovers around zero. Next summer don't listen to what Tom, Dick and Harry have to ftay about coal, see that vour bin is full.

Instead of the term "wren" being a llippant way of speaking of some members of the feminine sex ia use is now- sanctioned in England. Over there they call members of the Women's Royal Naval Service corps "wren?" and the ewoet things like it. When it come to ereiting munition and armor

I plate plants the I'nited r-"';ttes is ;t country located in

Dixie so far as the ordnance bureau seems to be

concerned. Here comes the Springfield Republican saying' the unpreparedness advocates shouldn't be blamed for had we become ready for war in l'19 all of our equipment would be out of date. In Palis they are using a card rationing system that our troops may have more ships. If the gallant French, who have sacrificed ?o much already, Iihvc done this, we should not grumble over food rest riot ioii9j. Government control of railways also means the disappearance of railway advert isine as e!l as th massing of the lawyer who traveled ftee because he'ns the road's local counsel. As for advertising the government doesn't encourage rssnengcr traffic, ?nd when it comes o freight as far as it i- concerned all routes are alike. The war does odd things to men and to buHnc.-s.

Xiaka Countj's Caad la the war with Germany and Auatvl-Kun-r.ryi ROBERT JIARKLKT, Hammond; diowiitil oK coast tf .Netr Jersey, May 28. I'KN.MS HANNON. "Indiana Unrboi; ptomaine poison, at Fort I'lflethrope. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 11. FRANK MANLKV, Indiana Harbor, kille.1 in Frame at Eattle of I.ille. Aug. 15. AKTHL'R UASE1.ER. Hammond; died- at Lion Spring. Tex., of uplnal meningitis, August 2S. JOHN' SAMBROOKS. East Chicago; killed in France. Sept. 13. AUTHCIi 1 1'jlJEJtTSON, Gary; Killed in France. Oct. 31. 1.1 C IT. JAMES VAN ATT A. Gary; kllkd at Vimy Ridge. JAMES MAt'KINZIE, Gary; kili-d .'it Vimy KidjEe. lH)I.rH I5IEDZYK1, East Chlcag; killed in France, Nov. 27. HAltllY CI TlfltEHT LONG. Indiana Harbor; killed in acclnt at I t. Uliss. T x.'is. Doc. 10. LEKWOOD 1)GK1NMG.V. Lowel!; rib d somewhere 1n France, of pneunn'ina, 1 o . 1'.'. EPWAKD C. KOSTEADE. Hnbart; killed by explosion in

Fiance, Dec. 2 2.

the Ship Eiilldlne corporation and the war department, thut mm who make themselves useful in h1 butldinir. will b exempted from military ptrvue, po long as they remain at work building ship. The kov riiinent Is inking men skilltd In the above employments to send In their name and addr-B Hnd express their willingnesH to ivork for the t'nlted States ilup Corporation. Those workmen of Indiana who desire, to enroll m;iy address X. E. tulbb, elate director. Room 3, State House, Indianapolis, Ind. Workmen Mho take this employment will recfie fair wages and a comfortable living, ajid will be entitled to the liame honor that la given enlisted men. as their work la really more important than that of the soldiers, because without ships the soldiers are uaeleas. If any mechanic or tradesman want to enroll hia name In this T'nlted Ftate public service- reserve, the undernifrned will gladly taik the matter over with him and explain the facta and write

i nucU letters as he may desire to Mr. I Squibb, t-tate director at Indiana pells, j Tills communication is llng sent i l Th? Times Newspaper with the rerqueft that It be published. The writer will give all of Ins time that is r.ecesj s;try to Inform tradesmen and merhan-i-s with reference, to this ship building I employment end will do all the ownsI ponding neecss-ary for their enrollment. D. J. MO RAN.

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J.K.lll more blue Mondays. THE Trotzky bunch sre now making new paper money and we. R EXPOSE our friend Vllia feela that he could giro old Trotz cards and upadi s

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IS a ten-round scrap between a tuovi Cowboy and a r.EAL cowboy WE d"n't believe that won.tn WILL ever be content aft' r this w h k over TO go back to rubbling wafn A.SIJ fuss around a card tibic t i r -"r four days in the wek.

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souvenir post

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I'ltOM old Gen. January ONE of thep-e days.

EVERYTHING else that is bad. j

know on unmarried man who j

MICHIGAN CITT has a couple name .1

OFFERED sympathy to a widow and Tuntys who ate suing each, other for

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LOCAL DIRECTOR

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Stores For Foodstuffs Determined By Local Man.

has regretted It ever since. A CONTEMPORARY ssys with some asperity that SOME men are under the impression that LCNGS ate brains.' SOMETHING Is t Tewing !u Germany AND by ix It isn't beer either. THE next thing we (now some of these "less" days will be R RINGING on sleepier nights. OUR furnace struggles manfully every tim the nurcury eil'hors down 1 15 below

"RET Is evidently troubl-d with rnlr.utri'teui. THE w lit thinks that what Dr. Garheld DID may have been all right BET she doesn't like the nasty way he did 1!.

divorce.

PROBABLY airing their linen Jr. ti.. courts.

THE correct W-O-R-K.

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WHAT FUTURE FOR SINGLE TAX f TVe wonder how the single taxers are viewing th stern necessity for improvements in industry and housing conditions and the natural resentment of creators, who object to the growing burdens of taxation that, are being Imposed on their extensions. To broaden out is to invite a heavier load. However the site taxers are viewing the situation they must not see it. in a light other than in their favor. The country ia accepting such radical departures that it wouldn't be surprising at all if in the near future it adopts a more or less form of modified single taxation. Anything is possible these days. In their contention that land, ihe site, not the improvement, must be iaxed in order lo Insure equable distribution of the costs of regulating society, the single taxers put up a principle that withstands great assaults. Witness the case of the great A si or estate in New York, which grows richer and richer bccaue of increasing land values. An example of what they call the unjustness of taxaiton on improvements may be found right at home. Take ihe case of the steel company n Gary. It is constantly adding improvement a to its magnificent, plants in the sand dunes. As it improves so it is ta.d. Naturally it maintains a well organized political department to aid ; In keeping its assessments within the bounds it thinks rich!. By 'he terms of law those tissessments may he 100 low, but theoretically they are too high and the coro-

THE ATTACKS ON ROOSEVELT. The personal attacks on Colon! Boosevelt because of his criticism of war preparations. r hes;d- the mark. The only qus'ton to h considered is; are his charges title? If is of small importance whe-hr-r he is ambitious or indifferent to personal advantage, v'hether he is blindly partisan or trulj patriotic. These are matters about which most Americans will have their own opinions. The thins that, is paramour.tly important, b; whether he deals in facts in his public di.-cusfion of covernmental shortcomings. ! is no answer to ascribe mean motives to him. If he is .-peaking the truth, there is no sedition in his course even thouch Senator Intone, recent convert from pro-Germanism, may arise in the senate to say so. Senator Lodge "stated the chsc admirably in the senate Monday, when he said: "The senator (Mr. Stone 1 says Mr. Roosevelt is guilty of treason because ttf these articles criticizing the administration. It is treason to say that our lack of preparation has already cost tho allies thousands and thousands of lives. cost hundreds of our own and millions upon millions of dollars? That is the naked truth. Is it treason to point to conditions in our camps? Then General Gorgas ought to be court mat ialed, for h" was the first to call attention t some of them. Men ail over this country, and Roosevelt is one, have one idea- "o win this war. They forget party, they tortrct everyt'nin but that purpose. But these men won t sit silen1 and accept mistakes and delays which they think may cause disaster in the war." Some of the attacks on Colonel Koosevelt come from sources more than suspected of connection with German propaganda. Doubtless, the German high command would be glad to sec silenced a voice that has such power to stir the American people to action. Sedition? We need a lot more of that sort of "sedition m this country. Minneapolis Journal.

TWENTY YEARS AGO. The battleship Maine made a swift run to Havana harbor and already is anchored in the harbor. With Captain Sigsbee in command, the big warship reached the Cuban capital at 1 1 o'clock this morning and was saluted hy the forts and war vessels there. While the author! lies at Washington insisted the sending or Ihe Maine was only a precautionary measure, if i Hie genera! belief that she is at Havana prepared to take whatever steps may be necessary to protect Consul General Fitzhugh Lee and American property. The preceding paragraph is from 'Twenty Years Ago" column of the Chicago Post of January Zo.

Little did the nation realise what was to happen on

February i:, and perhaps no one sensed that, the incident would make America a world power.

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LOT of homely names for American places, some of hem famous, some perhaps to be Spoon River. Hickory Hollow Salt Creek. Devil's Gulch. Murnham, Medicine 'dat. Spider Lake. .'..JIL A1 J... . i

Buttsr Instead of Stigav. To the Editor: Inte;,,i i f t .ins with i-Kinv i. us.- f-uit. nd butte;-, vv i

."on r'" --ream or rr.!k. Th; might be ca!!"d the old-fashioned w s y e.f taking; ca'ment. I believe it is t' us? "-.trisry method in Ireland ant S-'otland.

.Mativ tbn isnd of peopi tnsti ad of sr;t nd butter

mejil nb if tbej vr.ee accustomed themselves to the of the latter w on Id never return to sweetened por

ridge, again. lvj-"na!! 1 have ucf1 both methods I and prefer the unsweetened style every J time. I' des.rnbibty en the s. ere of j h' -ii i ' h f u i ii"s s ungues' loned. i Who aad What? j Editor Tunes: I Who and what i the AntisaloonJ; iesaue anywak" Mostly an organize?i"n that takes the ere, lit unto Itsetf , for ail of the work-done by other tmperane organizations such. ss the Woman's Christ ian Temperance union, i the prohibition j-arty and other oigari-j tntioi.s that would ha made the n- j 'ton diy ere .this bad the Antlsaloon iac,.i" kept on; of the way. I surely J eoir.es with peer grace for them to 1 accuse others of political Intrigue when ! they themselves have been 1n political intrigue, sinte. the day of the birth of! the league. i The Antisatonn teatie managers claim to have, the finest lot of expert vv orker4 in the nation. J'-rhaps po. Anyway tl ey hav. drawn some good salaries when other goo, people of 1 oilier good organiieations have given of j their means bou n 1 1 m; 1! y and w orked for j not h ins to d"w n King Alcohol. t

INQUIRER East Chicago. Ind. The Nation's Ned, Shipbuilders.

Editor Times: Th nation's neupaper for ti;e last ) few davs have be,rn full of eriticisni of . the training, ordance and eauipment.j This criticism may bo useful, but it is i

S' areely t lmeiy. If t!i Untied S'a'es bad today in.oon.ooo perfectly trained soldiers, all eri'.nppei nr.d armed it would tnke years instead -.f months to land, them in France and maintain them there. Soldiers. food, end ordnan''e , a re useless unless th.'V can be j.'.it down in France, ami there is 3.D00 miles of water between us and France. It takes practtcailv l'.v e tons of freight spaco to

ransport S'ddier and his erjulpment and supplies to Fram e. The fact Is. I w e haven't ernuiKh liips to take a mil

lion men to France or to tak care of them after they ai there. And whatever else may be claimed, the fact Is that, taking the .ships of 'ail the nations of the world, the submarines aie destroving shlrpir.g faster than it is Delink" built. The United States neds ships and it needs them quickly, and it is the plan to build several millions tons of sh ipinK within the next few months, but to do tins, the United States Ship Ru.hlitiK corporation must have SS6.000 men. "j'het. ni. n do not need to be skilled shipbuilders, and any workman skil-

( State Council of Defense ) INDIANAPOLIS. Jan 26. Loml food administrators will hive authority to puss upon the needs of communities a affected by the order cf the .National Fuel Administration requiring that wholesnie and retail stores dHilnsr in foodstuffs, shall close at nc-n Monday January 2S to 5iar h 25.

i Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Tndiana has just been)

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OBSERVE that day? A FRIEND of the witT's said THAT she just bad to jot some warm NIGHT gowr.s for this seasrn of th1 ear HOW h'Telfssly out of tic she i-:

Idrr-t thine to a young pej-s,.,i,

THE f Is to GO to

he movies and se tb

HANDSOME hero in the cmbra. c the lovely leading lady AND then find out that he is

MARRIED little person

rather fat dump

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cute kiddo

one aris. as to the ned for such food distributing agencies continuing business as ufuiI. The new has been communicated to county food administrators who havebeen instructed by Dr Barnard to co-operate with the local fuel administrator in adjusting any diff ereni s of opinion as to the wisdom ot enforcing the Garfield order, involving the question of the existing "need" for such stores remaining open, ss on any other day.

GARY HEATER

notififd by the Federal Food Adminis-

GETS LICENSE

give his occupation as heater" and Artie M. Hamm of Michigan ":-. -cured a marriage license at the cltk' office this iriornirisr. Shortly sf'rt 1 they were married by .lusti-e of Feaee John Kerr. The bride's fthr is Walter w. Hamm of "tVashirfet-.r. Ind. In se. uricR the license from I w-put v ri' rk Arthur Kiciefeld1. Miss llarnoi said ibis vviis her second litarr'ajre and that her fit s' marrio ge was ceded by fiive.f.-e. Some time afer the ii.cpir h.i been married it was discovered t'tin the license ppIiction stated that she scon re -1 her divorce February ' , j:IT. The year 1917 was pot a bap vear.

sujar t ration at Vshlngton that th rc-om-

th oat-i mennat ion of ounfy food adininis'r"- MH lil'.A.N 111. J.ND.. .Tan. i. -1

tors whall detrmine the Issue, should ' Gha ries E. Fowler. Jr.. of Gary, who

Make It The Last War.

What the Bell System Is Doing

"TELEPHONE development has called for the distribution of many millions of dollars amongst the skilled workers of the country.

In the year 1916 the Bell Telephone System expended over sixty-one and one-half million dollars lor equipment and construction an amount seldom exceeded during any year of its existence. During the same period approximately six million dollars additional compensation was paid to the employes of the System to cover the abnormal working conditions. Transcontinental and wireless telephony are being developed, and offering increasing scope to the scientist and electrical man. The vast army of workers of the country are asked to realize that telephone development to-day is limited only by the factors of raw material supply and production capacity. CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY

PETKY DINK Looks Like It's Kiftv-Kiftv.

By C. A. VOIGHT

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