Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 282, Hammond, Lake County, 27 May 1918 — Page 4

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THE TIMES.

Monday, May

1918.

. THE TIMES M EVS PAPERS BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING t PUBLISHING COMPANY. - The Lake County Times Da'lv except Saturaay and F'.inday. Entered at the postolttoe in Hammond. Jun 2F, ls08. The Times Kaat Chicago-Indiana Harbor, dally oP Punday. Entered at ths postofflce lu Kaat Chlcaso. November is, 1913. The Lake County Time Snturtlav and Weekly Edition. Entorcd at the postoffloe hi Hammond. February . l'he Gary Evening rimes Daily except Sunday, entered at the poetofftce in Gary, April 13. 1912- , . . All under the act of March 3. IS 7 9. as second-ciaa matter.

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tn.-m any other day during the drivt:. All the fool Hunu have to do is to stir up our people like this and the war spirit in this country will grow in such volume that America's millions of men and bil Hons of money will ram war down the kaiser's throat in such bitter doses that Germany for Fenerations to come will rattle around like a dried pea in a pod. And we believe that's saying a pageful.

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Larger Pald-Up Circulation Than Any Two Other Papers In the Calumet Region. If yoti have any trouble getting The Times make complaint Immediately to the circulation dfpartn.Pni. Tile Times wilt not he responsible for the return of ativ unsolicited art;.es or letters aiui wiii not n.'U.-o anony. BP'jj communications. Short signed letters of general Interest printed at discretion. NOTICE TO M JKCRinritH. If you fail to receive your copy of Thk TtMtrs as promptly a you have in the past, please do not think It ha? been lost or was nt sent on time. Remember that

the railroads are engage with the tirgent movement of troops and their supplies; that there is unusual pressure in various parts of the country for food and fuel; that the railroads have more business than they can handle promptly. For that reason many trains are late. Thb Times has Increased Its mailing: equipment and ta cooperating: !n every way with the postoffl.-e department to expedite delivery. Even so, delay? are inevitable because of the enormous demands upon the railroads and tb withdrawal of men from many lines of work.

THE PRESIDENT'S WORDS. It was fitting that when speaking for the Red Cross President Wilson should say something of the Administration's position on the war, and if will be noted with satisfaction that there has been no recession from previous understandings. We must v. in the war. We are not to he diverted from the grim purpose oi winning the war liy any insincere approaches upon the subpect of peace. "1 have tested the German intimations on peace and have found them insmiviv." There must be no limit, say of 5,000,000, put upon the army. Men and ships and supplies must go until '. ictory is achieved. There was a mild rebuke of profiteering and the disgrace of it and the positive announcement "so far as I run concerned I intend to stand by Russia as well as France."

This is a call to speed up all along the line; to go far beyond the high water mark of production we have just reached.

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CREEL AND HIS PAL.

OH LORD, HOW LONG! If George Creel's committee on public information at Washington is operated in all its departments, as is the department which deals with the press it must be a Jim dandy. This paper has received three typewritten letters and three copies of the May 16 Official Bulletin, now two weeks old. Each is exactly alike. In other words, where one of them would have been enough, three have been sent. Xow if that isn't a gross example of governmental waste and inefficiency we cannot imagine what Creel would call it. The postoffice department is cluttered up with this kind of stuff. The business of this paper is hampered because letters, matrices, packages, merchandise, newspapers and other mail reaches It sometimes eo late as to b rendered valueless. We have economy dinned into our ears until the tympanum is almost cracked, yet the government permits Creel to load up the malls with this junk three sixteen-page bulletins and three letters all alike. For over a year examples of this fearful waste have been described in these columns yet it goes merily on- Pounds and pounds of V. S. waste paper are dumped into our baling press, because of this shameless lack of organization in Creel's department.

HUNTING ALIEN ENEMY PROPERTY, It takes Uncle Sam a long time to wake up but there are no motes in his eye now. About alien enemies of this country, no matter where they may be. Federal Alien Property Custodian Palmer has ordered the Lake County Council of Defense by special bulletin, to collect all information whereby all property in the county owned by enemies or allies of enemies may be identified. "The term enemy.' as here used includes every person now living within, and every company incorporated within German, Austria-Hungary, and all territory occupied by the armed forces of the central powers. Similarly the term 'ally of enemy' includes every person now living within, and every company incorporated within any Of the allies of Germany and Austria-Hungary, residence, and not citizenship, is the determining factor. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, etc., residing in the United States are not by reason of their nationality considered 'enemies' or "allies of enemies,' Germans and Austro-Hun-garians held in the custody of the War Department are Included within the term 'enemy.' Americans residing in Germany or Austria-Hungary, or in the territory occupied by their forces- are included within the term 'enmy'; and Americans in Bulgaria or Turkey or in territory occupied by their forces are included in the term 'ally Of enemy.' "Enemy owned property includes all kinds of property, tangible, or intangible, money, chattels, securities, lands, accounts receiveable, etc., belonging to an enemy. If the property is held in the name of another by a dummy or in trust it is enemy- property, provided the beneficial interests belong to an enemy."

THE HUN AND THE CROSS. The TIMES of May 23 told of a German air raid on tn American Red Cross hospital in France, 100 nurses, sisters and attendants being killed. It was a great day for the Germans, especially that the nuns were done to death. It added to the German glory of wrecking cathedrals and shooting old priest?. To the Huns the workers of religion and of Merc seem to be anathema. Even the Teutonic attempts to stir up revolt in India failed because of the Moslem horror of a people who would profane churches. The Moslem's religion and their mosques were always respected by the English. They wisely knew that they could expect nothing from the Huns when they profaned ancient and noble edifices of Christianity. It was a great dav in Lake county the day after. More money was contributed for the Red Cross on Fridav

For of what is it that we are to be proud? Of having demanded of embattled Germany "strict accountability" while deliberately avoiding the most elementary preparation to exact it? Of having delivered n series of ultimatums which had no intention or power to enforce? To have been prepared, says Mr. Creel, "would have given the lie to everything we believed in." Would it havegiven the lie to our demands that Germany stop murdering our citizens? Or to our championship of the rights of nations and the sacred principles of humanity? Or to our championship of the rights of nations and the sacred principles of humanity? Or to our faith in the democracy which was won and preserved on bloody fields of battle? Surely false sentiment was never more audaciously supported by false reasoning. But turn from the dead past to the living, threatening present, and inquire what this sniveling pride in our unpreparedness means. It means, if it means anything, that we are not to he proud only of having rejected the duty of making ready but of all the lamentable results of that policy. We are to be proud of soldiers shivering in winter camps, without overcoats: of military hospitals lacking heat and sanitation and water supply; of American troops dependent upon our hard-pressed Allies for artillery and machine guns and the verw uniforms they wear; of the fighting tons of the republic sent into the trenches without an American airplane to defend them from marauding Huns; of seeing war-worn Britain and burdened France battling against cruel odds because American aid is meager and belated; of being lookers-on at liberty's Armageddon. For when full weight Is given to governmental errors and inefficiency, the all-sufficient reason for every one of these failures is that America entered the war unprepared. "We have every reason to believe," said a German paper a few months ago, "that the menacine words. "Too Late,'' will be the title of America's help when it is recorded in history." The boast is a vain one. The help of American, splendidly aroused at last, will not be too late to make sure the smashing of the hideous Thini; which has sprung up at the throat of civilization. But it will be too late to save this nation from the everlasting reproach of defaulted obligation; too late to re-establish freedom without sacrifices which no mind can measure and which might have been averted; too late to save the tens of thousands of gallant men who are perishing in France and Flanders today by reason of our belated coming. Because of these things America now will fight and endure with sterner resolve. But of them never, while God gives her reason and memory, will she be proudPhiladelphia North American.

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The aenate committee on military affairs. iTv1n'warhas ?,iven th.s committee a prominent part to play in the nation's affairs. These men must pass n. all bills of a military character before they may ba considered by the upper houe Front row left to right: Senators Beckham, Chamberlain, Hitchcock (chairman) and Fletcher. The others left to r-'ht- Wads worth, New, Sutherland, Hoke Smith. McKellar. Weeks (with mustache), Sheppard (below Weeks) Kirbv ana Johnson. J

years of work by glar-ir-rs and the elements. Krot. rain. snow. wind, and sun have taken their turns In molding this srreat monument to nature. In the paintings by Dudley the dunes are shown tinder various circumstances. The fpell of winter lies on some, and other glow under the warm hand of spring or blossom under th mafic touch of summer. And over still other canvases the scarlet cloak of autumn is liunii with royal splendor. There are thirty paintings In all and each different. "A Garden of the Desrrt," "A Winter Trail." "A Dune Forest." and The -.iadow Mrch" are but a fw. They serve perhaps more ns an introduction to the beauties of a spot ton littie known thrm as an exhibition complete jn uif. Since 1915 efforts have been under way to make of these 'luii" l.tids n national park. That they should be preserved in their natural stHtn and beauty has been felt by all th'.-N- who l.as-.- visited them. The Lake Miehicnn dunes nre one of ths wonder sr-o- of AtturicH. Mr. Dudley in his palriir.K has tivn forth this message

r.d it is r.no that citizens of thslate slvuld lird.

Our boys are making sacrifices over there. What sacrifices are your making for the Red Cross over here?

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ABE MARTIN pertly says THAT you get Just as much exercise and fresh air in raising potatoes AS you do in playing pelf and you also get THE potatoes. TIMES certainly are changing

IT may come about soon that using the wrong towel, or the wit"s fragrant SOAP may be grounds for divorce.

BARRAGE.

f.KRO HOI Hi "W1IKV YOf ART, READY."

GARDEN SASS I cannot join the army, for the army told me eo. And lots of men are heavier an' wiser. Rut I'm ready for all comers with a garden rake an hoe. And I'm raisin peas an' beans -.o beat th kaiser! The. navy doesn't want me messin' up a rretty deck. They've chased rne out of each recrultin' station. Rut me an' Hcrbie Hoovers gonta win the war. by heck. An' Ive got the finest garden in the nation!

given a farewell dinner by his friends jv.h'ti he announced h was "off fnr the

I front" J.-t fail, and is still about town '.

1 in civilian duds.

It's eq-jy enough to see how kaiser bill could go out and cry before the movie men and staff correspondents. Baying. "What have I not done to prevent this slaughter:" Anvbodv who

could frame up a war like this could do !

that. Hut what we can't understand is this: How could he go home, and face Mrs. Kaiser that evening?

The British didn't sui ced in destroying the entire mole of Zeebrugere at the first attempt, but almost nnv lady who

j has given strict attention to beauty can ) testify that that is no cause fcr worry. I Mole eradication reoulres ratience

HOrS are being used in Germany as j W(p , a. f ,-,rt j, U(ir A SUBSTITUTE for tobacco j i The most emharassing situation in MAYBE the kaise has the hop, ; ,if js not u, of th ,nnn who .. th WHO knows? I weeping family farewell and says his

carefully chosen last words, and then

WE have about exhausted the subject of war PAPER rants EXCEPT to say that the manufacturers will BE hard put to it to make a PAIR strong enough to hold Col. Roosevelt in. MORE than ever ARE we convinced that the

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SAND DONES PAINTED BY NOTED ARTIST

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By SLEANOB JEWETT. j There is hung in the new wing of j the Chicago Art institute an interesting collection of paintings by Prank V. j Dudley showing the stranpe beauty en 1 j rare charm of, the sand dunes of Ind;-j Ann Cont-trarv fn the ?r nernlv arffnf. I

rd idea, these dunes are not rr.erelv the' Koumania, fcndS RJS fcirh Office a r.suit of vears of accumulation rf the rather empty honor. Though prera-

sands spumed up by Lake Michigan and .

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Peter Carp.

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DISAPPEARANCE of round garters. ; HINDENBERC. told the German edi- j tors that be would soon Ik: in Paris I

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THE KAISER AS A KNOW-NOTHING. When Emperor William said to the Town Council of Aix-la-Chapelle the other day that he believed "it is now time to abolish all that is foreign" foreign to Germany, of course what could he have meant? What is there of foreign origin in his empire that is not already outlawed? Good faith disappeared long ago. Treaties have been scrapped. Humanity has become a jest. Chivalry js.

heard of no more. Idealism is openly rejected by th j professors. Religion is perverted by the pastors. Tn: is denied. Democracy is punished. The idea of eauaiitv I as between nations, like equality among men, is reviled. Force and not morals is preached; fear and not security j is advocated; submission and not justice Is upheld. For

the will of the people there is no substitute but the cap rice of a sovereign or decree of a military clique booted and spurred. What, therefore, that is foreign in Germany, unless it he here and there a conscience, and how is the kaisri to abolish that? asks the New York World.

A PROUD RECORD.

"One year ago we took urt the gage of battle flung in our faces by Germany." Postmoster General Burleson. Yes, Hung in our faces two years before we took it up, by the Kinking of the Lusitania. Europe was informed that we were "too proud to fieht." Playing politics with the national safety having achieved the election of 191 '1, we are on our way to Berlin, after letting two and a half years slip by with no preparation. It is a proud record for Mr. Burleson's party.

WHILE the audience is applauding the increase the railway men are to get it can also prepare to pay the increase in freight and passenger rates that will come right after.

WHY is it.

somebody is ALWAYS trying to kid an editor? OLD Irv Cobb is to stay in France UNTIL ftfter the war and a biting CONTEMPORARY POINTS out that this is just a survival Of the fattest. AS a general thing AFTER a man begins to acoumulata a family HE wonders what has BECAME of ail the money he had before HE w--.s married. JI - No. we said he was at a rest resort, not a pest resort. Till! reighbor women undoubtedly think we ought to go to church oftener than we do AND If they could hear us sometimes when we are filling I'P three or four hundred or more urease cups WHILE prostrate and prone AND a gob of po'.arine PROPS off and bits us in the eye THEY would hastily d'eid" that another BRAND just ought to be snatched FROM the burning.

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