Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 273, Hammond, Lake County, 16 May 1918 — Page 6

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The Lak County Times Pally except Saturday fnf"y- Fntered a; the postolftoo in Hammond. June 2 5, 190 9. The Times East Chlcao-Ind ijina Harbor, dally Sunday. Kntrei at the postcrtlce in Kast Chicaso. November 1. 1913. The Lake Countv Times P.iturda v and Weekly Edition. Entered at th post .-.ffice in Hsraniond. February 4. lhe ;ary Evening Times Ia;iy exc-pt Sunday- Entered at the postofflo in Uarv. ADiil 13. 1912- . ,

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le.iW and out- on "How io Live Longer," by lr. I.'. '' Robinson, chief surgeon. , i'.ere are some of the war slogans that are seal , tered appropriately throughout the publication: "Safety , First Always Pays--So Do Liberty Honda." "Save th waste, control the taste, fat corn bread and rye, meat . less days, wheatless days, eat lss c-pani and pie." "How much of your pay do you tbir.lt you could keep if ; Germany won this war?" "American hoes will heal the

foes." "We'll win victory', shouting the battle cry of feed 'em." "Come across or the kaiser will, buy V. S S. and Liberty bond.' "Bonds or bondage, you have your choice." "Keep the home soul turning, food will win the war," etc. The publication Is a most commendable one.

EAST CHICAGO LEADS THE COUNTRY. In discussing Liberty loan quotas the New York World remarks: "The award of Liberty loan honor flags reveals a curious disparity in the record of oversubscriptions of quotas by districts and cities. Delaware leads all the states, and of the 20,000 flags distributed more than half were won by the districts of Chicago, Minneapolis and Cleveland. "Hartford led all the five classes of cities with a perctntage of 231, and other New England cities of the same class on the list are Portland, Holycke, New Bedford. Springfield, Manchester and YVa'erbury. No other city ia this category further east than Evansville, Ind , passed Its quota, and the others to which the honor belongs are Salt Lake City, Tacoraa, Savannah, Jacksonville, San Antonio, Houston. Fort Worth, Dallas, Duluth, Des Moines, Kansas

City, Kan., Wichita and Oklahoma City." The treasury department seems to have spoken before full returns were in, for Hartford, 251 per cent, does not lead American cities of all five classes of population, but East Chicago, with 274 per cent, leads. Not only does Lake county furnish the city that led all five groups, but it presents the record of Gary, second in percentage of American cities of populaMon between 50,000 and 100.000. The county Itself made a creditable showing. Asked to give $3,000,000, it came across with $5,779,000. East Chicago, population 35,000, furnished 18,758 buyers and gave $2,137,600 instead of $780,000, its quota. East Chicago-Indiana Harbor deserve great credit and the chairman there. Col. Walter J. Riley, and his associates can feel the gratification that must come from premiership.

MORE PARLIAMENTS FOR ENGLAND. It is not at all Improbable that there will be as a result of the war a recasting of the parliamentary system of Great Britain. Now the parliament at London legislates not only for England, for Scotland, Wales and Ireland, but in general for the whole empire as far as the imperial neds of the colonies are concerned. Proposed are five parliaments in the British Isles the imperial at London, possibly one for England at London, one for Wales, one for Scotland and one for Ireland unless even's should decree two for that isle. It is believed that the home rule parliaments would solve many of the difficulties that can hardly be handled by a body of Imperial size. Canada, Australia and South Africa have their federal parliaments as well as their provincial legislatures, and Great Britain could avail itself of several legislatures with the same advantages that the states in America do.

A PATRIOTIC PUBLICATION. One of the most patriotic, helpful and interesting little magazines that has reached our desk in a long time la from the Inland Steel Company, Indiana Harbor, under the title of Safety Bulletin No. 51. for April. It is edited by J. C. Smith, head of the department of safety, sanitation and relief. The cover and several pagps are given to gardening, war savings stamps and food conservation. The cuts are excellent and the subject matter well selected. One article on "How to Make a Victory Garden" justifies the publication, if nothing else. It contains diagrams and tables that are not only suggestive, but clear and definite. Several pages are given to accident prevention, one page to "Our Boys nt the Front," one to "News About the Harbor Works," and one by Mrs. Jan Scott Schilling, visitin? nurse, on "Ii.n's to Make Happier Homes." Then there is an article by Senator New on "Arooriean-

KINDERGARTEN MUST STAY. The people of Hammond will do a very unwise thing i they follow the suggtst ion that has been made to abolish the kindergarten system of the public schools to fatten the salaiies of the grade teachers. They will do an unwise thing if they- insist on the abolishing of any other department of educational work in the city school.'., and wo d.) not believe the school patrons will stand for any of these department cuts. There is no question but wiiat the salaiies of the teachers should he increased. There is no discussion about thai. The teachers rue entitled to more pay, bur the way to make these inert a.-es L; not to !: roy the city's splendid educational sys:e:a by hacking off it.' most necessary in .inches. Hammond's public school- have reached the state of efficiency when they are recognized its models all over tin- United Sta'er. among educator.'. The work of the public schools has been so inter-grooved and interwoven that to take one or two stones out of the tint' structure would naturallv be to weaken it. If the kind

rgarten work is abolished the very founda ion of tin? whole system will be d. alt a s- ( re blow. There i- no mor important period in u child's life than M:e k;nderpart en ace. It is then th;U the first sed- of its futu'v education are planted. Industrial education should r.t.l be tampered with for a moment, neither should any impediment be put in tiie way or' t lie boy or girl's physicv education. Some economies, no doubt, can be effected in ti"way of school operation that might be brought about. The abolishing of the teaching of German is one. I . should be lopped off not only in the public schools but also in other schools of the city, and the school board, if it looks around, may be al.ie to sao elsewhere, but the fundamental strucure of the system itself should not be touched. Get rid of the German teaching anyw . Mayor Brown's speech before the school board in which he points our the need of more revenues by taxation is the only real solution of the problem. The loss of the saloon revenues is badly felt, as we sa:d it would be, but the increase in teachers' wages must not come by diminishing school efficiency; it must come from taxing revenues. Great good may come of the meeting of the committee from the Hammond Woman's club and the school

board. That these women have ib.e best interests of the city at heart has been demonstrated in many fine causes they hae championed before the city council and the chamber of commerce in the past, and now that they have been shown the injury worked upon the city by the low and unequal valuations it i; expected they will become a power in bringing about a much needed reform. The loss of $12,000 a year revenue from saloon licenses can be more than overcome by a safe and sane increase in valuations. Mayor Brown preached a sermon in one sentence when he said it was the duty of every taxpayer to interest himself or herself in getting equitable valuations. When he was asked why this paper had nor told the people about the existing conditions, he said that it was every one's duty to learn for himself. Th records at the city hall are public property and for public inspection and Mayor Brown would be the last to conceal anything. , It is very probable that the committee of the woman's club, after due consideration, will not favor suspending the kindergarten to give the underpaid grade teachers a raise. Throwing fourteen teachers out of a job to give forty others more money and at the same time turning f.Oo children away from school is lobbing Peter to pay Paul. Th plan was advanced as a sort of desperate means when the committee saw ihe financial situation it was up against. If the members of the woman's club can use their keen minds to bring about the tax reform that Mayor Brown wisely advocates and awaken Hammond from its sleep, they will have performed the greatest service the city has ever received.

AMERICA THE SYMBOL

By GEO. W. GOETHALS Acting Quartermaster Ceneral

Lake County's Roil of Honor

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T7VERY Ampriim citizt-n sliotili l. pron.l of the American l Red Cros.-. It is i:iily, i i n I - - 1 hourly, t,'ivitm an example of mercy to the whole v.orM. Through its operations the sufTering of soldiers and civilians is W-ing alleviated. The American people should continue to support the American Red Cross. Through it they are helping their own men and helping the allies. Through it they are making America the symbol of faith and hope in a distracted world. GEO. W. GOETHALS. Acting Quartermaster General.

IT nlways puzz'os A HI.o.N'lii: to i;n.b t'.'sin.l what o: earth n MAN i nn ffp in a . tte. THERK is no reiifle wii" nre rifM meter fans UK would rather drle i:rn fnt SHK WellUl ratl.er 1 i.- t ee.ik FO they gr-t abilijr i :.". OX remarking

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war THE precious wiff t!eUKht VK ought to be as'ninil ef eurs'-t; to wish puch a tiuog v. Ii n v WIT.E in sui'h V.. ;lth. KINDLY soul says rn"!..b. rs of I. W. W. are defectives AND wants th-m trented v. r 'tl SO were Here i. Cain. N i e, Ju i-is lcariot and SO is Willi. IPdi' n.'-eib rr. WOULD you treat thorn kir. 11 ? WE were dispesnl -"i r J-.s

eailleux of l-'rare e u ho v. as ::i lim I I DISPATCHES yr-vterday. :::. ( ;.t ;v,t il proven guilty ; i HUT our mat syndieatc - n.is us a 1 ricture of him j DIKED out in a Hi If-nry and j RAISIN'', a paras, .1 . r him' !f s" we W'.Fll to i

i U'KSS tie Huns over here had IH'TTKi: lv p a little c'.es. r Waeht 1 , 1 I . ! e i n ( I.'' "li ! Il !,': bit so hard! WE Ik pe See. i ' k r Wli.l, t'-'ii'd- n t!f for remarking that n ' : n:u.-.!-l" time js wasted in i- -a st ol.I Kir.K Co il MAY he a m- rry o'd S"ai I'.' T he h;.f a p. culiar sense of humor THAT we don't ''t iN .-' 1 id:-: i NO that we have started I ' ' .i.ini.i! -il AEIiEADV our next winter's supply. ;r.l:M X Y'S latest ri-:.'"I-: e!T.-.-n.,. has eems

TA i E :Y t!.e whisk-r! we know y.ni! "i i: are st :il in the latk AS to li.it we arc to do for snake i ; e KEMEDY i:"t stinm-.T

Z.atk Ccanty'B dia la tha wai v lth Germany and An3triaHns Srnry: P.OIiERT MARK EE Y. Hammond: drowned oft coast of Nao Jerey, i:.ay 2S. PENNI.-i HAXXON, Indiana Harbor; i.torr.alne po'aon, at Kort Otltthrope. Cliattaaoo?-. Tdo. J un 11. JAMES MaeKENZIK. 5ary: kilhd in r.etion in Franc while ftjrhtirie with the li'th Scottish lai'ie;:; Mny 3, 1917.

roi nt.i.si. waiting; i. ;3. I. Died at i-ort Sam Houston I t. f Fpioat meiiingiti. July 23. I

iiilT. FHAXK M'A.'i'EET. Indiana Harbor, kilitid in Krar.ce at Battle ,f i.ilie. AtiK. 15. AKTlIl'lt MASELEK. Hammond; died at Eion .Srr.css, Tel., of spinal irteniriKit is. August 2G. ijtu, k.ilud in ir riutt, bept. 16. Ail'lIiLI'. lCOL.L-i.IoON, Gary; kil it.! ia France, Oet. 31. E1EUT. JAMES VAN ATTA. Gary; Killed at Viiny liidge. JAiIi;S MAOia.N7.lE, Gary: killed at Vni. l.idi,-. I'OEl'il Ei!JJ:ij;i, East Chlctxya, kiilftd in France, Nov. 27. E. BUKTON KUNDL,EY. Gary; Killed in aviation accident ai Taliaferro fields. Evtrra&n, Tel.. Dec. 1, 1917. ilAKKY CUTIIEERT LONG. IniiiatiR llarb'.r; kiiied in accident at It, BiiSK Texas, Dec. 16. DEKWuOD DICKINSON, Eoweli; uitd sornewtiere ia Frame, of tneumonia, Dec. 12. EDWAUJ C. KOSTIiADE. Hobart; killed by explosion In France. Dec. 22. THOMAS V. P.ATCEIFFE. ua:y; kiileJ soio( -.vl.ere sn Fiance. IVb. 21. FILED SCHMIDT. Crown Poi-it; died cf pneumonia in Brooklyn. March 7. afttr bting on a tutjniotd s. tamer. COIiPOKAI KDWAT.D II. SUEDIVAN, Oary; ki'.ltd somc-wbcM in France. March S. MICHAEL. STEPICH. Whiting: Camp Taj lor; i neumcrna. Mate's 14. ROEKRT A?riX. Gary; Co. F. 151.t Infantry; Camp Shelby; typlvid: March 17. CLIFFORD E. PETTY, enlisted nt Hammond. Jan. 8. in V. S. cavalry. Died at Delrio, Tex., April 3. PAUL rUETOX. Tolleston. died in hop:t?l. Ma 'fa, Texas, April 6, 191S. Sergeant, machine (,-jn bp.ttalion. th cavalry. VICT' lit SHuTEIFF, Gary, killed at aviation rump. San Antonio. po-n 1. 1:1. JOKf'T BE' 'KHART, Gary, died at an e.i'-rn cantonment; v.-' f k endire- April 20. I'MS. ElEl'T. IRA ?. KIN'". Gary; reported killed in Franco, April 2i. r."'!;. XF.WEEI. rEACHER, Gary; flrav"' Kepis t ration Unit 304, died in w Jery. 131$. E. Btr.cit HIOHES. Gary, ordtiance depf'Ttment, died in Philade'phia, 1!1S. WOUHBED, ROBERT M. lii'ATTT, Hammond. Trench mortar. France. Feb. 26. R. A. SPARKS, Hlphland. Trench mortar. France. Feb. 27. HENRY PA K EM A X, Hammond; 6th engineers. France, April 7. JOSKl'H ADA.MIC. Indiana Har!"r. Artillery. Franco, May

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MEMORIAMT

GUARD YOUR TONGUE. In the future, no innttor v hither they be Ame-rican citizens or eublectg of other nations, originators and on Triors of false or nialiciou rtiraors in connection with the wr will be jndictfd, tried, and if fo'tnd guilty under the Kspionape

Act,, can be given th extreme penalty of twenty j of twenty years' impriinmnient and $in,000 fine. j The preceding paragraph heads a storv about a wo- i man doctor of Iloston, Emma Uulber'scn, who named ; in a presentment returned by ti-.m federal grand jury in , New York charging that she had uttered f.il.u- state- j ments about the Red Cross. This woman is charged ; with having told the young women of Vassar College, j many of whom plan to take up war work, that a mater- j nity hospital in New York has 200 beds ready to receive i

Red Cross nurses, coming home from France and expecting to be confined. There vh; no ba::is for the story and a woman, who should have known better, uttered a malicious, unfriendly statement. fntlT the new espionage act men and w-omn wish cr?cr00 tongues may suddenly learn that they have drawn the wrath of the government. This applies to those who make up false talcs In connection with the war or who repeat lies they have heard.

SECOXTj a met ien t " HAVE him shot at sunrise t;a,ior or no traitor. A FT ER a wonvin

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THE POLITICAL WORLD If! IHDIAHA rroa VxIE TZZ.-iT'J' Own Xn. tMMlLt Boroas. -

In a district where it is plain that a candidate counties on the Ji.lr-ya1 vf.ie and If not actually seeking it, will plainly receive it. '"The congressional enmmitteps are

between t twenty and thirty rnn- i inkiiic notice of the fart that tnine

ti.- -si ei.al (! .-:: i ts in v, l.i.h (ho pro- states, aliens, even enemy aliens. nre terman ot- is large cnomili to hold permitted to vote. Sine this ae.thorthe latnnee of power. T1-- situation, j z-ition is written in the censtit'i' ion il is holi-v.d. nUO.t res'Ht in tli lee- i ot- t;.osr states, it cannot he corrected

! t'on cf several ii-oj j;l m f m ': e-rs of I c nui-e. s. r at ' -t th- . t -i i of no 'i to the !,.,.:s.- ..f . o . i.t.i-

tn . s w ho .-.;:M not be ! ,-. ield upon , ,., .-is. .---.an.! he the s;..Vr i nmont '. a r j.eh. y. As y. t t.o st. ;.

TlMKS BtRFive. At mate i 'a c:ta ;,. INDIANA I 'LIS. Ir;d . May The following interesting di-p'C'h fro:n Washington it pnldis'ied iti Indian a pel i s New s : "Th ronirress'. nnl ron-.r"-." t tee of tha two old political naitos h-!iee theie

itume.liately. So it i evident that there is oniy one i p y to rrpke sure the enein;es of the cot ntrv do not. exert a cent I ollinp influence in any election. r d that is for n't leva! A meri-"ans to st ir. together reeardless of party af-

ha-.e been t-i'.i- tl t- ft-, t sit -h an o:u-f.iiat

I llllli' KS POCTUS j.os.- .Oi" I'l I,..'-- ..--! 'i ts. loit there is the po-i: iiity, tin- I i-.-liC- a! le;.,ers fry, that s.one s'ici; j

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ns in the past.

"I'n t'o t una t ey some cf the nnrrowni'n.i.d ; ti . ians in both the old parato ii"t 'et ieady to titee to co-

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1 s , . i 1 ! v . f i!:-!'. al men cotnins to th" rn?!'. would, of co-.u-j ... have to pt-o td-. tl.at the t w o .-id par ties should aaree f.. stir port the 1 .yal candidate

(operation in the twentv or thirty ron-

pressionnl districts in which there i sei-mir.Piy a possibility of the alien vote h.-coming a menace. However, the fof.va: d-looking ;nei: in both the old parties ate to wok out tli" prohle:ns and t'neie is now th fair prospect, it is li.ii. ed, of a co-o pe j'a t i e p'ln b.-iniT w.oked out"

In an old Norse tale, the dragon which almost overcome the herr trop.ns at it finally expires defeated. "He was too strong there were women behind him." It h&a been said that the morale of an army deiends upon the spirit of the nation's women, more than upon any other vtngl factor. That t good anse. The woman at home can be a dead weight on the man in the field, or she can double h!s strength and courage by making him feel that she Id as truly Lb the service an he is. Unfortnnately, the woman at home does not alwaya realIre this. A lad I know writes from camp : "Can't you drop a hint to sister to cut out the sob stuff? I didn't go Into thia thing for a picnic I know what I'm up against all right She needn't rub it In." One icnaglnes what siater'a letters must have been. Compare that picture with what this shows you of a different kind of sister I quote word for word from the middle of a friendly letter: "Christmas Eve I had word from Dad that my youngest brother had been officially reported killed in action. We had a teieram Thanks- ; giving Day that he was reported mlss- ' Ing, but, of course, we hopd. o far we have do details, though Dad has cabled to sereral. Went Gladly Prepared to Die. "My brother had ben in the servira pine? 1915; he went absolutely gladiy and quite prepared to die if needs be: he had juat gotten out of the hospital after an attack of tret-ch ferer an i In a letter I have from LIm. writteu the diy he was killed, he said he was feeling pretty fit except that hia arms ani legs still ached a bit, and. of course, I ache whe.i I think he may . have gone back too soon. lie wouldn't mention any little discomforts. "We are wonderfully busy. I par celed 320 sweaters. 270 pair socks, 75 scarfs and 75 pairs wristlets last i week so far we have sent 1,500 sweat- ; ers, 1,600 pairs socks and over 500 of the other articles Just frcm this valley; we are very proud. Our knitters can use 301 pounds of wool a week xrltTa ; ease, if we could only pay for It. j "I wish you might 'have dropped la ' Mor.dnv evening to see 15 ladies, heads i ; of the Mormon Girls' lyeagtie. and 15 I ladies, heads of the Mormon relief workers, all here planning Red Cross j work. It will be a good thing for our I church to have them know us better and fear us less. They are such a splendid lot of women."

So many could have a spirit like th!s. if they wonld. So much of the "sob stuff" is due simply to thoughtlessness and to lack of habitual self control. I wish that every woman in

j this country might have a day on duty at the d-or of the hostess house at an (embarkation camp, a dr.y given up to ! seeing how other women hear the or deal of goodbye, and how their artltude resets upon theli men. After my first such day I felt I neTer could I whimper again. One meets all phases jo? weakness ar.d strength the hero-

Ism is not sensational hut of a quiet, matter-of-fact kiid that grips the heart. He Has Never Seen Me Cry. To one woman with a baby in her arms I had to break the news

1 that she had made her long Journey too late her man was gone. She ! this may seem Incredible, but it is true she was sorry for me. Another ; a pretty, plump little dimpled thir.'' ! who did not look ns if she were made of heroic material, told me that slv i was leaving that afternoon as she di l . not want to wait to see her husband j go. "You see." she explained, "l.e j hasn't seen me cry once since the war j began, and I don't want him to. I'm plad and proud for him to go and do j his little bit. and he knows it, too. But i If he should see me cry he couldn't ' help remembering that sometimes." A friend of mine, a young teacher, j was married only a short time age. Now her husband, physically disrjunlii fied for the army, has gone over as a I Y. M. C. A. secretary, and she has gone back to her teaching to support

herself while he Is gone. She ooes not call it sacrifice, either. She, too, is glad and proud. If the understanding of what our spirit means to our men is once fully burned into the consciousness of American women, if we, like our s'sters of France and of Knglnnd, fall in behind our fighting force to hack up their efforts with every power we have In body and mind and heart, the war for liberty and democracy is won.

PETEY DTXK Mrs. Dink Won't Take TVtey's Mistake as a Compliment.

By C. A. VOIGHT

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