Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 47, Hammond, Lake County, 23 November 1918 — Page 4
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BURLESON THROTTLES A FREE PRESS. The people of the United States will surely resen the gagging of their congress and their free press b) tthe autocratic seizure of the trans-Atlantic cables. The war is over, but Burleson has taken upon hiiuelf, after giving the country a miserable postal servici during the war to grab the cables. He is the czar of tht wires now. Nothing can be sent over the cables that he doesn't like. The great peace conference at Versailles will havr 3urleson at one end of the cable and the much-criticized Jreel at the other. 'Whatever the president wishes Creel lo give out about the International meeting Just that much and no more will Creel give out. What Burleson wants to have the peace delegates know about congTess, just that much will Burleson give out and no more. Senators in congress and the news papers all over the country are denouncing this unheardof order. The people of the United States have no other means of knowing just what takes place in Europe except through their newspapers and this constitutional ight is to be taken away from them. The South Bend Tribune points out that this censorship Is Imposed on congress and the press and the people of the United States after the chief executive himnelf had publicly stated that the war emergency ha ceased to exist. It Is done, nevertheless, in the ru'se of a war emergency measure and with that war authority which congress all too willingly handed over to the president some -months ago. Of all the unusual things done by the war administration none so belittles the American people as this, none smacks so strongly of autocracy, none savors so of petty peanut politics. Between now and Dec. 3. when the peace ship sails, congressmen should do all in their power to prove that thy are men and not school boys to be locked in a dark closet when the master is away.
WHY WORRY?
Don't let the "readjustment" bug-.boo frighten you Into becoming a watchful waiter. As Samantha Allen used to say, "Be ca'm!" Great periods of industrial depression have always been caused by over-producdon, but no such situation meets us today in fact, along some lines, our shelves are as bare as the cupboard of old Mother Hubbard. Production and consumption will quickly level up and proceed alons normal lines. Wages will go back somewhat gradually to normal a republican normal, not the democratic bread line normal of 1914. Republicans will be in control of both branches of congress when the reconstruction measures are brought up, so we may feel assured of sane, non-sectional legislation needing but the presidential signature to make it function for the nation's welfare.' So why worry?
AND AGAIN, MORE AIR. We were greatly surprised the other evening on entering a street car to observe that all its windows we.-e tightly closed and remained so during its whole trip. Here is another instance of that strange unwillingness to take necessary precautions against disease and to heed the lesson of the dangerous malady not yet stamped out. The air in a closed and crowded street car is impossibly dirty, worse than tht in any theater we ever entered. We have noticed also that many stores are relaxing their vigilance in ventilation. Why in the name of all that is "next to godliness" are people so afraid of fresh air, especially in such mild weather as we have been enjoying lately? And why do we cast aside the lesson of the epidemic before the plague i even over? If such examples of easy carelessness were Isolated we could understand. But they are general enough to
be next to criminal. If fresh air i3 a necessary prevrn tive of disease (and most physicians seem to think so), why not insist upon having it wherever we go? It is the cheapest thing in the world and the most necessary. Modern thought is opposed to the morbid dwelling upon disease. Very well. But we must not forget, says the Ohio State Journal, that equally dangerous is a slovenly and sloppy neglect of sanitary conditions. There is
widely prevalent a certain fatalistic philosophy that is capable of much harm. The "our-own-will-come-to-us" and the "what-naust-coniewill-be" schools of thought have their values, but they are not good working bases for a crisis, when conditions, not theories, confront us. We can usually find some result of our own actions in what comes to us. And right now we have no doubt that cleanliness, scrupulous cleanliness, in the use of air an well as water, will have its usual happy result. There is neither fear nor fatalism in keeping clean just plain common sense.
WE MUST PAY.
In the Joy of victory the country will overlook much of the sectionalism, partisanship, nepotism and favoritism which have resulted in waste and inefficiency. But the wrongs the country has suffered ought not be so readily forgotten. The cost of this war must be paid, and it will take years of taxation to liquidate the debt Those who have needlessly increased the burden should be held to a strict accounting. '
THE EASTLAND ECHO. Three years ago the steamer Eastland sunk at her dock in Chicago carrying 812 persona to their deaths. Investigation proved that the accident was due to the sross incapacity of federal steamboat inspectors. It is an f'ablished principle that the government is not re sponsible for the acts of its agents, hence the only recause of the relatives of the unfortunate victims of the disaster was to sue the owners of the boat. The claims have been carried to the supreme court and a decision has been handed down under which all the claimants lope their fight for damages. Doubtless Jhe matter has been settled strictly in accordance with the law, hut if the accident had occurred on a railroad, owing to the faulty inspection of rjnlling stock, millions of dollars in damages would have been demanded and paid. If mor" responsibility attached to the government on account of its officers charged with the security of life and limb there would be more hesitation in appointing to such r'-ees political henchmen entirely lacking in qualiflca tions.
COURT THE LIGHT.
Disease, danger and death lurk in the dark. Shadow menace and threaten. B'ackness conceals; the unseen and unknown ar feared. Lands where the night is long are more promitiv -r 'f.Ss populous than those where the sun favors pro gress. . , Gloom lends itself to the forces of evil. Germ li thrives where the sun's rays cannot reTh. Villa'ny and vandalism cling to closrd shutters an ' drawn blinds; plotte-s and pillagers plan and split spoil? !n places ill-lighted, not' illuminated. Darkness cloak3 crime. Many outraees of history were conceived, connived and directed in the dark, dampness o'f cellars. On the othr hand, genius is often fostered In garrets, where light filters in through the eaves and cheers thouph poverty sniffs hungrily at the latch of the hatch. Many has long associated dath and oblivion with blackness; life and hope with brightness. The torch, of knowledge has advanced the world while ignorance is a bandage to the eyes of progress. Modprn buinpss gives gTeat cons'deration to the value and influence of l'ght. Industr'nl insurance com panies find it a formidable factory in their field. F-u'ty lightfne is rpppohs'ble for 23 to 30 per cent of accid.-nts resuming in darnae claims. But the lifht that is individually vital is the Hch WITHIN. Don't let morbid thought or morose rumination snuff it. .
THE CONQUERING OF WILLIAM'S THREAT. The Christian Science Monitor is authority for the statement that a visitor in shining armor called at the French embassy in Berlin on one occasion. A presidential election was taking place in France at the time, with M. Brisson and M. Faure as candidates. "I want to see the ambassador," said the stranger to the footman as he opened wide the embassy door. "His excellency is engaged." "I must see him at once," replied the stranger, throwing off his mantle and revealing himself as the emperor. "M. Herbette," said the emperor, on being immediately admitted to the ambassador's room, "I am told there is a chance of M. Brisson becoming president, and I wish to state if he does I mobilize immediately." Brisson did not become president, but Faure quite unexpectedly did. Th kaiser would perhaps have regretted his call at the French embassy had he be'en able to foresee the part which Felix Faure played in bringing about the Franco-Russian "alliance. i . BULLING THE MARKET. it is an ill wind that blows nobody good. The great slaughter of dairy cows and heifer calves by farmers who could not get feed at a price which would justify milk production will cause a scarcity of dairy stock that will make a good market for men in a position to buy heifer calves now and raise them for sale later on. There is pretty certain to be a high market for cows for several years and the loss of some dairymen in the past year or two will be the gain of the men who get in right in the future.
GERMANY'S FUEL SUPPLY CUT. Germany has been cut off from its usual supply of fuel oil and gasoline as a result of the armistice- with Austria and the consequent stoppage of al "traffic between Austria and Germany. Germany has been obtaining fuel oil and gasoline from Galicia and Rouruanla. Up to the time of Austria's complete collapse and surren der, it is .understood Germany had been planning to import large amounts of oil from the fields of the Cau
casus. Germany has no fuel-oil supplies within her own borders and has been using for lubricating oil a derivaMve of coal tar benzol. This source, however, will not supply Germany's wants. Demobilization of the Aus rian army means that thousands of miners will return to the Austrian coal fields so that it is probable there will not be a great amount of suffering because of lack of coal this winter in Austria.
Hensselaer Republican, who for four month past had been at Camp Taylor. Ky., arrived here this morning on the early north bound train and continued to his home at Hamlet on the milk train to Shelby and then eat
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Here's Where Some of the Money Is Going
Often you wonder where all the money th horde of salaried unemployed.
wntl Woll, whero some of It la going the"e Pensioned mn. and women of v. t . . . . . leisure who put la their hoars of labor th. North Am.rtcan Kerlew'. war wk- dJnU(r gQlng aad go IT will tU yom , lug to bod, only to ris the nazt morn. "Th democratic administration, said lng and begin th bored routine of ldlethe Soosevelt-Taft statement, haying &ss all over again f Vhey ar supposed pent billion of treasure and exercising to do that which If left undone 1 a mora absolute power than any ad minis- treacherous, brutal wrong to our splentration In our history, must give an ac- Old soldiers who hay been fighting for count of i-s stewardship. ' our liberties. They are supposed to see "We know already soma of tb Item to It that th soldiers' allotment are of flagrant wast and worse than wart promptly paid. Zf there Is any depart, which will hav conspicuous plac in ment In Washington where, above all that formidable accounting. I tilings, quick, efficient work Is lmpera"But there stlU remains vast fields as tlvcly demanded It Is this War-Bisk Bnyet but partially explored. Bepresen'a- rean, whose duty it is to se that the tive Madden, of Illinois, gave a glimpse crying needs for support of the mothers into one of them In the course of a re- and wives and dependent little ones,
cent debate in congress. He revealed a whose bread winners have risked their tat of affairs in the War-Bisk Bureau lives on the battlefield, shall be without which literally caused his fellow con- a moment's unnecessary delay supplied i
gressmen to gas for breath. The sub- from th funds these brave men are ; Ject under discussion before the commit, confidently entrusting to th hands of ; Tony Scheldt, formerly of Dyer, tee of th whole was the deficiency ap. the administration for that purpose... j from Chicago, who ferved In the navy propriation bill. W quote from the pou- "And that thing is precisely what th , aa visiting his aunts. Barbara and gresslonal Record of Tuesday, October War-Bisk Bureau, with its 14.COO clerks, Tillie Scheldt, for a few days. He has 17th! : doing. one day's work in a week, leisure. ! a fifteen day furlough. He had very "Mr. Madden: Mr. Chairman, X want ly pensioned Men About Town, dawdling ' interesting news for ail, as he has to correct a statement X made to tb ovr dinners and killing time at the been to several countries overseas and Sect that the War-Bisk Bureau ha Hr- theatres, ar not doing. The allotment has had some experience. He was on OOO clerks. X have ascertained that they of soldiers' money to their dependents the Mount Vernon when torpedoed and hav 14,000; that they have Increased back homo have practically ceased.' wan among the fortunate ones to es'he number 4,000 within the last few Wives and mothers dependent upon has- . cape unharmed.
very norrjf that he could not fail to France, before. Carl has been made corporal.
Mr. and lr. George Bailey, or Lowell, have received a letter from thnr fon, Lieut. L. 7 llnilrv rUmn i .....
hiy had Just been discharged from the Virginia. He is in a replacement unit
ana expects to go overseas. He praises the. "Y" organization and what it doe for the !l!ers.
army. He was still in uniform but had instructions to return his army clothes to Camp Taylor within ten days. The government furnished him transportation from the camp to his home. He was accompanied as far as Monticello by Private E. Connell. whose home Is In White county. These soldiers were among the first discharged from Camp Taylor.
Srrareant Walter D. Whnlen. Hammond, was thrown from his motorcyI cl aned qiute severely Injured while j riding to the barracks from the Union
.Station whre. he had been checking cars and in the hospital at Fort McIIenry, Baltimore. rS. E. Hoffman, of Camp Taylor, at Louisville. Ky., returned today after visiting his father, T. J. Hoffman of 120 Clinton street, Hammond.
MeKlnley Ileathe U at home In Lowell on a tn day furlough from tho Aberdeen I'roving Grounds. Maryland, where his work Is testing guns, tanks and shells.
weeks. bands and sou for snpport hav not In "Mr. Butler: Does the gentleman thousands of cases received a penny of mean to say that they have 14,000 dark tb money th absent soldier directed In that on bnroau? the administration to give them. J "Mr. Madden: Fourteen thousand, j "The complaint from these needy de"Mr. Butler: "Whew (Laughter.) pendents all over the oountry have be"Now, even for what our democratic come a national scandal. They have friend, th New York World calls a been pouring in to such an extent that 'slacker congress,' we submit "hat here In som Instances it has bea necessary was an occasion when laughter' wan for congressmen to employ a special anything but timely. Still less amus- force of clerks, stenographers and typelng Old It appear when Mr. Madden writers to take euro of them. Congress, launched his staggering Indictment of man Denlson, indeed,' went so far a to the criminal wast that th employment suggest that an 'expert Heaven save of these 14 003 clerks involved. He said the mark! be detailed from th Warhat he had documentary evidence to Bisk Bureau to the house office buildshow that there was not one of these lng to relieve congressmen of this burclerks who did m"or than one day's den that Is rapidly growing Intolerable, work in a week; that clerks supposed to "And now the defiicleccy bill Is askbe working at night report for duty at lng for ove- seven million dollars more 6 o'clock and lmmofliaely thereafter go of the pc"pl's money to support thesou": to dinner, and 'when the theatre is 14.00 whsw Idleness Is as much a open they go to the theatre and never shame to many of them personally acome bncV; that the clerks themselves It Is a disgrace to the administration say they are d' lng no work, and 'laugh They ar not necessarily to blame. They on the streets at the ease with which ciske for Jobs and got them. Por dethey can ge money ott of the treo uvy j servlug democrats It was a come-on of th trnltea. States'; that they know com--all Invitation. And they all cam, their services aro not needed; 'hat those Naturally. In authority know they ar not needed; "The "administration asks for ove fcat they ar such a throng in the bu- S7.000.COO more . to pension them tha reau offices that there is not standing they may continue laughing in throom, much loss desk room for them. t streets, if they hink It good taste, a "And what are they supposed to do. Uncle Sam as an 'easy mark.' "
Carl Krederlck, Dyer, write that he was ready to sail overseas, when he got word the war was over. He Is
A radroad ticket office la being established at Camp Sherman tp take care of the 12 000 men who are to get discharges, b.-g'nning Saturday. Pa.iKenger trains will bo switched inu camp, which will eliminate the neces'ity of the men going to Chillicoth.! After the men have received their par. noncommisNloner officers will rondu-t them to the railroad ticket office and ther to their trains. Transportation will be provided by the military authorities, t.) points from which the men were sent to ramp. It will be the aim of the authorities to see that ail men are returned to thetr homes. Oner tboiuand military registrants, now in training at the' vocational school at Winona Lake. ,are to ha transferred to Indianapolis, whre they will receive training at the stati fair grounds. Orders to that effect from the war department at Washington were received yesterday by Capt. William Ostermaier, the commandant. Preparations already have been stared to move the men and the transfer is expected next week. The Winona camp then will be abolished. It Is understood.
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NOTICE. Friend of thr Times, who hove sent In soldier letter must exercise pntlence. They will nil be printed hut must be published In the order of !hMr reeelfct. Hy government order, our poe la limited because of newsprint shorf-re ni we ere only allowed to ue certain "mount of printed matter dally. Dn't fear that the letter . will not appear la their turn. All soldiers return line from the ramps and cantonment are kindly aked to register their name for this column. The Time In going to nearly a thousand soldier from thi county who are in France. Many of them won't he bark lor a year or more. They want to know where their fTnd are. This column will telllfhem, o' oldlers and their frlen.lt will plrna let us know when they return end from whenre they return.
28. Battalion 7. He Is enjoying the medical training and makes mention
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Word ha been received that Ml" Emma Gruel, of Hobart, who enlisted f.r overseas duty as an army nurse. Eailed Nov. 11 for France.
Mr. nnd Mm, V. Kramer of Hohnrt, have, received word that their son, Louis, has arrived safely overseas.
Mra. Flrk of Myrtle avenue, received th news from her son, Lawrence, that Ft. Sheridan a quarantined on account of pan!?h influenza.
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The editor of The Times wishes to acknowledge the receipt of the Camp Jackson. S. C. Trench and Camp, the bright and snappy publicity orgran of the camp and thanks Private Ben S. Wagoner of Hammond, who sent It. Private Wagoner Is with the 7st Balloon Company.
C. A. Harmon, who Is well known In the. Twin Cities, havlnir been a former electrician snd telegrapher for the New York Central of Indiana Harbor, writes from across seas of conditions surroundine: Camp Surrey. Frensham Pond, Knsland. where h is at present stationed and quarantined with many others during- the Influenra epidemic which Is raging there at the present time. Private Harmon enlisted for signal corps service mit as that division had been previously filled he was assigned" to other - service work which he performed with willingness as the quotes "there is no use for Idle hands across seas." His address is 2011726, C. E. F. V. 114 Army P. O.. London, England.
Dr. Ralph Hile, of East Chicago, I heard from at his post at Camp Greenleaf. Chicamaufra Tark. Ga.. with Co.
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OFrMCERS. F. R. 6CHAAF, President WM. D. WttIS, VIM President A. H. TAPPER, Vie President. H. M. JOHNSON, Cashier. L. G. EDER, Asst. CathUr.
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