Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 150, Hammond, Lake County, 5 December 1918 — Page 4

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THE TIMES Thursday, December 5, 1918

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If you hava any trouble retfinr Tha Tlmaa rnaka complaint immediately to the circulation department. Till Tlmea will not be reaponatble for tha return any unaolicited article or rattara and will nui notice n"inoua communloationa. Short elnad lattara of gauerai tataraat printed at dlacretlon. 'TICB TO SUBSCRIBERS. If you fall to receive your copy of Th Tj ai romptly aa you bare la the paat. pleaaa do no th'n" !t haa bean loat c waa not aant on time. Remember tha tha rallroada are aag-ag-ed with the urfc-ent njovemant ! troop and thalr upplian that there Is unuaval praasura . . i 1 . .v.. tor food and fuel: that

tha railroad have mora bualnaaa than they can hdj promptly. For that reason many tralni are late. THa Times haa Increased Iti mallln aqulprnent and la o peratlng- la avacy way with tha poatofflce department to expedite delivery. Bran so. delay are Inevitable betausa of tha anormoua demand upon the railroad and Ua withdrawal of man from many line of work.

advice as laughable. If you saw a man in a row boat battling 'desperately with his oars in order to keep from being swept over a dam you would possibly regard it as unnecessary to cry out to him to pull as hard as he could against the current. ' And so it is just as absurd, Just as superfluous, just as laughable and just as unnecessary to fall upon the American people to conserve food while the present high prices obtain. They'll do it without encouragement or advice from the side lines. Such encouragement and such advice are lost motion.

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IT WON'T WORK. At a recent meeting of several patriotic organiza tions held in the New York Chamber of Commerce, plans were discussed for the boycott campaign against Ger man-made goods, and it was decided to form several committees to take up the proposition of breaking up any attempts on the part of Germany to flood this country

with its goods after the war. These attempts will be sufficiently frustrated by the return of this country to the protective tariff policy, and the quicker we get back

to it the better it will be for us. This boycott burets presents so many complications that it can be discontinued in advance as an effective instrument for punish

ing Germany. Suppose, for instance, that Gernrauy Eplits n Into several states. Bavaria. Saxony. Prussia, etc. Is

the boycott to apply to each new nation? There is a

stern demand on the part of our Allies that Germany hall indemnify the various countries with which she

has been at war, the indemnifications aggregating sev eral billions of dollars. But if German goods were boy cotted from the markets of the world, how could Ger

many pay the indemnities? German capitalists have for

Ihe past three years been active in new manufacturing

undertakings, and they have established plants in Hoi

bind, Norway, and other neutral countries, which will

be used as trade emplacements for commerce with the

rest of the world. Would it not be difficult to enforce

a boycott against goods manufactured with German capi tal In neutral countries? This agitation for a boycott Is the outgrowth of a de

lire for revenge for the outrages to which Christendom has been subjected by the Hun, and in the heat of the moment, we are apt to consider it more as a punishment

to be visited on a brutal murderer than as a means to

fend our markets from ruthless competition. But re

renge Is a poor counselor. The politician and the demagogue In days to come would be sure to exploit a boy. eott to their own advantage. With the protective tariff however, we have long been familiar. It will restrict the incoming of German goods to an extent which will pre Tent Germany from flooding our markets, and it will serve a similar purpose with respect to the goods of all other nations who are considerably Interested in the fact that the American market today is absolutely free pad open to foreign exploitation.

QUACK DOCTORS FIGHT BACK. A strenuous phase of the TJ. S. Public Health Serv Ice's campaign against the spread of venereal diseases and against prostitution is that which is directed toward driving out of business the quack doctors who ad vertlse to cure "Diseases of Men." These quacks are worse than useless in the treatment of venereal diseases. Sufferers resort to them because the nature of their disease, with Its supposed stigma, leads them to try and keep It secret at any cost. But these quacks extort all the money they can get and seek to frighten their victim into believing that he is worse than he is. In many Instances the quack doctors get out of town as soon as Investigations of their business begin. In some places they make attempts to fight back, as in Toledo, Ohio, where one of these gentry was arrested for tearing down placards announcing the opening of a free venereal dis ease clinic and trying to substitute therefor his own ad Tertisement.

THE PRESIDENTIAL HEGIRA. It won't take a prophet to predict what will happen to President Wilson on his trip to Europe. He will have a magnificent time. No one will begrudge him that. He will hob-nob with royalty and our distinguished president will be made much of. Leave it to France and England; they will see to that. He will be feted and courted. He will undoubtedly be decorated by both the British and French governments and Mrs. Wilson will get plenty of opportunity to wear all of those thirty gowns she has taken with her. Entertainment will be lavished on the couple and it will require a mighty hard head to receive without turning the homage the diplomatic and international adulation that royalty and nobility bestow on those from whom it wishes favor. That is why we believe Mr. Wilson made a mistake

in going to Europe. It is not, for us to 6ay that our hard fighting allies, centuries-trained in the suavities and amenities of diplomacy had any ulterior motives in ex-

Jending an invitation to the president. They certainly.

however, would rather have him in Europe than in Washington. A long-distance view of a problem often

makes for an easier solution than a close-up. Mr. Wilson

will need a cool head to withstand the glamour and pomp of London and Paris. It is heady as old wine. Overseas he will not be able to disassociate personalities and

eliminate the close-at-hand influence of those who sit in the seats of the mighty when it comes to the question of international polity as he would at his typewriter in the

White House far away from the maddening crowd.

We must remember that Mr. Wilson stands alone in

the conference. The fellow-countrymen whom he, not

congress, has chosen to circle as satellites to his sun will

stand in just that light to him. Mr. Wilson will dominate

absolutely and without any qualification.

It Is impossible to say that Mr. Wilson has taken

either the people of this the greatest nation in the world

or its Congress into his confidence and as a matter-of fact the country will reserve the right to reject the pro

gram Versailles will adopt. Mr. Wilson will represent

American but he cannot force Congress to ratify any

representation's he may make. It must be admitted that

there is more apprehension than enthusiasm expressed over the presidential junket. Who here knows what his views really are on the great questions to be presented

at the peace congress the freedom of the seas, the league of nations, the dispositions of Germany's colonies. These

are the words of one well-known publicist on the presi dent's trip: The President has embarked on the greatest venture in our political history. He has chosen to follow his own impulses and his own ideas, without regard to the views of his fellow-countrymen. The danger, therefore, is quite as apparent as the possible gain. All depends on the single circumstances still hidden. We do not know his purposes, his program, therefore we can only ,wait until we hear from Europe what American policy is and from Versailles what Washington believes. Meantime it will be well If our European associates recognize clearly what the fact is. It will serve to clarify much in the future. It may eliminate possible bitterness hereafter. Not until the United States has an opportunity to pass

on President Wilson's policy will it be an American policy, will it be more than Mr. Wilson's own

policy. And that time has not arrived. It will be well to study and watch the trend of events They will be momentous. The country has not forgotten that Mr. Wilson's program despite his importunities was defeated at the hustings on the fifth of last November. He has strayed much farther from the people Bince then. He invited the test vote himself. Above all things we must not forget that the problems of reconstruction we have to settle immediately in this country mean more to it than the outcome of the Versailles conference. For the time being when they are so vital and so urgent and so pressing the nation's executive has deserted them. Why? - Nobody knows but Mr. Wilson.

THE PASSING

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HOW many bombs he haa in his HAND at the buck of him?

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HONESTY of sreat manufacturing- interests

Private William Peter Bock, Hammond, left last evening for Camp McClellan. Ala., after a ton day furlough epent with his parenta, Mr. and Mrs. Emll Bock of 635 State street.

AFTER all and you can't DENY It WE are All creatures of ain and SOME f us are pretty DARNED proud of It when we ousht

to be ashamed.

IT isn't at all hard to tell a MARRIED from a stng-le man when

you see them

WALKING the street adown WITH one of earth's fairest

he ll help her up

IF they're aing-le

from the street

TO the curb If the walk Is only two

inches

HIGHER WHEN they're married hell let her

climb unassisted

IF there's

noarly

a gap of a foot and she

SPLITS her skirt. ITS Just aa great an error to suprose THAT every bachelor has been DISAPPOINTED in love as It is to think that every MARRIED man hasn't been.

one of our

IS to mower

take his ball-bearing lawn

APART while season ,

oiling It up for next

AFTER he has worked his gizzard out for ten yrars rrSHIN'G it hither and yon TO discover that it has no more' balls in it THAN fhe snow shovel. AVE do not know of anyone who has any better IDEAS of strategy than our milkman AND by holdlnp the bottle up to the light each morning IT is easy to see he is convinced THAT cream won the war. PKr.TIAI'S we went through the war without .

Ollle Rota, a second ltentenaat, la home in Hammond, from Camp Mills, with an honorable discharge.

I-leut. Lor In A. Wltlse, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Wiltse, has returned to Ilammond to take up civil pursuits after receiving an honorable discharge from the army. Lietu. Wiltse was stationed at Carnp Sheridan, Ala,. with the 74th Field Artillery.

Wilbur r'antrall, a clerk at Summer's Pharmacy, who enlisted in the navy, is ill at the Cleveland. O.. training school with influenza.

DOING much straw hat

more than to wear a

peace

WONDER which

delegation CAN speak French which will

BE the official language at the peace conference? THE wlff noticing that the Wilsons had a 30 pound TURKEY for Thanksgiving and that there WERE 85 eggs in their Thanksgiving cake POLITELY asks where Mr. Hoover Is keeping HIMSELF these days? WHILE the ex-kalse is ' CLAIMING to be an abdicant

THREE seasons BUT it amuses us that a few well-to-do WAR STAMP slackers WHO Jive around here won't speak to us on

have said

Boyd I.nkena, Indiana Harbor, who conducts the news agency In the Central drug store. Is home from Camp Dlx, Wrlghtown, N. J. He was assigned to duty In the service tank corps and has been given an honorable discharge.

ACCOUNT of about the Huns

things we

AND intend to say If we can think OF anything stronger and still not too profane. ONE dear girl whose hands we have never yet held NOTICING our remark that the skin doesn't fit ANY better than silk stockings WRITES us, "No, by gosh, but it wears better." ONE of our esteemed subscribers who is evidently a ERT observing WRITES that the Joke is on us when predicted , LAST December legless girls for 1D1S.

When Governor Goodrich learna the date on which the Rainbow division, in which is the 150th field artillery, formerly the Indiana national guard, is to arrive in New York he will appoint a committee to go to New York to welcome the boys on behalf of their native state. The Governor said he probably will call on the mayors of Indianapolis, Fort Wayne. Lafayette and Bloomington. the headquarters of the batteries, to name members of the committee.

KfTort Is bclns; made to muster out 7,000 men this week at Camp Taylor bringing the total discharged, since November 26 to 12,000. This will clear the field artillery central officer training- school and the depot brigade of nearly all of their men. Muster out of the 9,000 men in the field artillery replacement depot probably will not start until December 16, because of transportation complications.

Jacob Groot, . of Highland, came home from Camp Custer, the last of the week, to spend a four-day furlough with his parents, he returned to Camp Sunday evening. The bis; army hospital at AVrat Baden Is being made Into one of the major operation hospitals of the United States army. Col. Raymond W.

Bliss, the commandant announctd today. Wounded soldier from other states than Illinois, Missouri. Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio designated to be received at the West Baden hospital are arriving.

Captain P. H. Hake, of Cary, formerly a Purdue univesity football star here arrived In Lafayette today from Frence, where he mada a brilliant record as an officer In the heavy artillery branch of tha army. He has served in many engagements of the war. Captain Hake was gassed twice and wounded, and has been Invalided home for treatment. He expected to spend several days at the university here before proceeding to an army hospltak He played end n savers! Purdue football teams and wa captain of the team In 1S17.

Among the Whltlnsj boys mastered out of service are Lieut. Charles D. Gainer, who was at Camp Merritt. N. J.. Thomas O'Hara. who was at Camp Travis, Texas, and Frank Kowalski. who was at Camp Grant at Rockford.

M. D. Rcddlrn, former Gary attorney. Is home from Camp Gordon. Ga., to recuperate from a recent severt attack of Spanish Infiuenxa. The Gary attorney has been at Camp Gordon for some time but on account of his illne?s could not finish his schooling.

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SOME TRUTH IN THIS. The Fort Wayne News says taat there is no need of telling people to conserve food while such outrageous prices are being charged for it and -declares that they will conserve without advice or encouragement from the side-lines. If you saw a man hurrying for shelter out of a hard shower you would think it absurd for anyone to call to him that he should come In out of the wet. You would think It superfluo to shout to a ma? trying to put out a fire on his roo ??iat he should by all means quench the flames. If you heard some one cry out to a woman in a red skirt scurrying across a field ten feet ahead of an angry bull that she would better hurry you would regard the

HANG TO THEM.

The United States government is resolved to do Us best to restore every wounded American soldier and sailor to health, strength and self-supporting activity. Every Liberty Bond holder who holds his bond is keeping up a part of this great work of restoring to health, strength and usefulness the men who have suffered for their country. Until his discharge from the hospital all the medical and surgical treatment necessary to restore him to health is under the jurisdiction of the military or naval authorities, according to the branch of the service he is in. The vocational training, the re-education and re habilitation necessary to restore him to self-supporting activity, is under the Jurisdiction of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. If he needs an artificial limb or mechanical appli ance the government will supply it free, will keep it in repair, and renew it when necessary. If after his discharge he again needs medical treatment on account of his disability, the government will supply it free. While he is in the hospital and while in training afterwards the soldier or sailor will receive compensation as if in service and his family or dependents will receive their allot ment. A wounded soldier or sailor, although his disability does not prevent him from returning to employment without training, can take a course of vocational training free of cost and the compensation provided by the war-risk insurance act will be paid to him and the training will be free, but no allotment will be paid to his family.

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