Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 223, Hammond, Lake County, 4 March 1919 — Page 4

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WHAT DO YOU THINK? ! Some of the etuff which passes for entertainment at j picture shows has impelled a writer in the South Bend j Trlhun to say:

"We've heard considerable) lately as to the necessity of running short subjects In connection with a feature

rptcture. Do the patroijs ?to to see the feature only, are

they satisfied when this has been seen, or do they want a comedy, a scenic, a news reel and an educational, to say nothing of the intermislson and its accompanying alkies, in order to pet their money's worth'.' "Likj the average movie fan. I usually reach the photoplay house after the feature has been partly run off, and must, necessarily, await the recommencement of it. rut by the time that occurs other things have been foisted upon the screen; horrors reign where, a moment before appeared William Farnum, Charley Ray. Nazimova or Constance Talmadge. Then I must pS3 througli the ordeal of watching an alleged comedy In which 1 have not the slightest concern. ' After this has run some ten or fifteen minutes I find that the thread f interest I am endeavoring to maintain in ?he feature has commenced to unravel at the place which, at the ending of the picture, had been clean cut. Then comes the intermission with its succession of announcements, some of coming attractions, one cf the musicians ball or the electrical workers" dance, a few commerct.il invitations to visit enterprising merchants, and the insijrnia of the local union. "Then, whether or no, my perceptive powers are weakened by views of far-off battlefields, airplane flights, the fish canning industry, mountain wild in unknown for ests, ctntured submarines and then perhaps another comedy, cartoons or otherwise, and by that time my emotions have cooled, my memory is twisted and I have lost all interest in the start of the principal story. "One way to avoid all this is to come at the start of the picture. Mow- can we do that? Ah. that is the man aeer's secret. Perhaps they'll tell us some day."

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WHERE THE DANGER OF WAR LIES. ' President Wilson declares that the alternative to the adoption of his particular League of Nations scheme It war. - What country' contemplates making war upon this country, and for what reason? Upon what country do we contemplate making war. and for what reason? . Under what set of circumstances now in prospect will we become involved in war? . What possible causes of war. involving the United States of America, are in existence that could 'not and should not be settled in the treaty of peace that the Peris Peace Conference has so far neglected to take up for consideration? When these questions are answered, it w-ui he noted that the menace of future wars exists abroad, and not in the United States, and that what we are asked to do, as a matter of fact, is to Involve ourselves in a situation which will cause the peace of this country to be immediately affected by every European controversy and conflict, the periol of such controversies and conflicts beingapparently greatly Increased by the war, in view of the failure of the Peace Conference to attend to the tak of- settling the immediate problems arising out of the treat straggle.

YOU CAN EXPECT IT. 'Some of you laughed when we told you it was coni'ng. Well, here it is. Frank Hall, former head of the Anti-Saloon Leau of Indiana and now organizing secretary of the NoTobacco League, is going to Syracuse, N. Y., to establish national campaign headquarters. A declaration that the new move must not be consiflered lightly w-as made by Prof. F. W. Roman, of the Department of Economics of Syracuse University, the initiator of the anti-nicotine crusade. "The League." he said, "will father a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of tobacco. I have received hundreds of letters daily from hundreds of people interested in the no-tobacco campaign which we intend to carry out." j So far there have no crusades been started making it a crime for a man not to give a certain part of bis income to the upkeep and pleasure of the reformers, but it can be expected any time.

THE ANNUAL JOKE. For a long time the Rivers and Harbors Bill has been the annual joke in Congress. When the members are tired of wrangling seriously, some one gets out that dear old bill and the fun begins. They write verse about it, they make smart remarks, generally they cut down the appropriation and then they pass it. The fun making: is caused by the fact that there is supposed to be a little more free graft in the waterway appropriation than in any other. It is asserted that large sums of money are demanded for expenditure on back creeks and bayous unused and unusable for commercial navigation as we'l as by states having really great waterways needing development. As a matter of fact, there is hardly a state in the union which could not spend considerable money to ad vantage La these lines. Of course some great expenditures are too plainly indicated to need explanation or defense, but the small project has its honest deserts, too. Rut the thing which should chain the public attention In this very fun making, tjiis hilarious insinuation that all ii not sound in other states besides Denmark. For the fact is only too true that many of the insinuations are founded on fact, though some come merely from narrow prejudice. There is need of a generous appropriation for the development of waterways. There is need also of some sort of system which shall insure its fair distribution and finally its honest disbursement. For if half the fun ny things they say in the Senate are true, it is not alone the rivers of this country which need to have the crooks taken out of them. '

OLT. old friend Abe Martin thinks it Is marvelous that an actress CAN" get her picture taken half naked and still look MODEST and demure. IT is now Hoch der Eben. INSTEAD of Hoch der Kaiser' GOING to cost us'billions for the war debt AND the worst of it is we rhail NEVER know how much is debt HOW much is waste and how much la graft. THOSE little bob-tailed skimpy SWEATERS that we see the girl in every now ami then ALWATS makes us think they either ran out of yarn or are TRTIN"" to pattern them after the skirts they wear. THERE is going to be a ar some day over which is the WISEST way to worship a woman: LOWER hr with money and Jewels OR surfeit her with hugs and kisses and right now we WISH to inform the dear girl friends whose HANDS we love to clasp NOW and anon THAT we hae enlisted under the surfeiting banner. IF the Victory tax is seven billion dollars HOW much will the LEAGl'E of Nations set us back? A COUNTY medical society opposes - PROHIBITION. -What of it? MR. WILSON wants it. There's no

argument. j IN' our absen. e of embonpoint I WE wonder how jersey tops which are

SAID to fulfill their mission admirably IN" the field in which they are nowused WOULD work on pant.

IP there-is anj tiling more independent THAN a trained nur&e, it must be A MAID w ith four jobs offered her. I'OOD article advises that we cut C'J' meats and poultry and ' TRY eggs instead IF we could get birth certificates with them 1 U might be inclined to FOLLOW the ad ice. MAN by the name of Bird was arrested FOR trying to take 30 quarts of boor OVER a state line MUST belong to the Swallow family. NOT haig heard from the clown pnnz in some TIME. it. is possible those slow-thinking Dutch HAVE at last noted the tight waisted e.ffect he effects AND landed hard en him in the area DESIGNED by nature for KICK receiving purposes. AN onion you will admit is the ONLT vegetable that can JIAKE people cry. MONET talks but to most of u it STEAKS in a deaf and DUMB language. WE are frankly disappointed at the news from Tans. George Creel might ha e SENT a few lines sajing they miss Mr. Wilson JUST a little bit. THE very latest grounds for divorce

proceedings i AT our house together with $50 a w eek ALIMONT IS our coming In after midnight at least once a WEEK, leading the neighbor women to think THAT we are inoled in some free love intrigue.

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" EER NO WORK." The no be T'rk crusade is silly and it will os JuM as ineffec J. it is silly, for it will inevitably leatl to-the slrtgaVao work-no food. We are told that the --wQrlrjjig: men of this country are to initiate a nation-wide strike In July if they cannot have their beer. We don't believe it. If they do strike it will be ineffective. The Nw York World says: ; "Intelligent opposition to this uncalled for law cannit be expressed by the no beer-no work formula. That ia altogether negative, and it will bring neither beer nor bread, neither justice nor progress. The place to make public protest is. first, at Washington to the President of the United States, who should be exhorted to call a special session, and secondly, at the office or residence of ever ymember of the new Congress, who should in tins manner be made acquainted with the feeling of his constituents on the subject and their purpose to carry their frieTance to the polls if necessary. ; "Thare are two prohibition laws, one remote and the other imminent. What will happen eventually under the first will be determined by the attitude of the people toward the second. If by wisely directed organization they do not In the next few months compel the repeal of the uanecessary act, of Congress after June 30, plans for the arbitrary enforcement of which are now being formulated, they will get more prohibition from their lawmaker! than anything else for a long timet to come."

WHAT ENGLISH PAPERS THINK. We are assured by the administration supporters of ihe League of Nations and the Tery much excited Mr. Taft. who is rushing around the country defending Mr. Wilson's pet, that the League of Nations will not affect the Monroe doctrine.

Well, let's see. There seems to be an impression 1

that it does interfere with it very much. Let's see what two of England's great newspapers say abo'it the situation. The London Telegraph: "The dispatches indicate clearly enough that American feeling is not prepared for the abandonment of the roe doctrine. The United States will hardly give t- rfer president a mandate for entrance into this lea-".! of Nations without exact knowledge of how matters involved in her sovereignty would be affected th'.. eby." The Mc..iChester Guardian: "The whole idea c. t Leagu-e ri Nations with its burden of common responsi-bilit--nd its demand for common sacrifice is necessary. America in the past has been a long way off. and it has

nugged its isolation. It has had in its traditional policy

two main objects to keep clear of Europe and to keep Europe clear of America south and north. "Hence the almost sacrosanct Monroe doctrine a sort of standing notice board against any political trespassers: hence that steady refusal to have a part or lot in the ever recurring European broils. "Her entry into the war made of course, tremendous inroads into this accepted doctrine. But to enter the League of Nations would be to carry the breach still farther and make it permanent." If the League of Nations does not hurt the Monroe doctrine, how is it that the Manchester Guardian, one of the world s most conservative papers, speak of it as it does?

King ItaOTllaa, farmer assistant rltr engineer. Gary, has returned to Gary from Monticello. Ind. He has been In the service since the U. entered the war and was dibtharged from Camp Taylor.

ergeant Raymena Mutmiitr. wit was in charge of the U. S. Recruiting" Station at Gary when it was closed last year, will again it is learned reopen the Mation at Gary in a short time. It is also state! that he will open a station at Hammond.

laaulrer." vrko tailed tale aaaer fcy phone yesterday is advised that a concurrent resolution offered by Senator Negley. "providing for the memorialing of the congress to th end that a sum of money eq'ial to x months pay." be given to all discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, in addition to such sums as may be yet due them for services rendered prior to their discharge from service, waa adopted in the general assembly yesterday.

Sergeant Otte EMere. Rlverriale. returned home thia week from Ft. Sill. Oklahoma, where he was stationed. He was mustered out at Camp Grant with an honorable discharge

Kdward w Irtt. Jr., Delten. returned home Tuesday frm Puget Sound, where he has been stationed for th past nine months wearing the honorable uniform of a sailor. He had an interesting eperiente as editor of "The Periscope" a sailor's paper, and was given much more privilege than

most of the hoys. "Eddy" gained 12

his honorable discharge from Camp Devens. Mass . where he has been in service for several months.

Oscar Ted er sen of Hnes. las'., has been honorable discharged from Camp Taylor. Uouisville. Ky., and is visiting at the home of his sister. Mrs. Fred Baker of Indiana blvd., at Roller Kdale

Wednesday night. March 5. the Ol of Whiting, will present a second team composed entirely of officers in the United States army and navy to battle the Armour Square heavies. Lt. A. R. Eatton Porter will lead a five made up of service men. Ensign Jim Bartruska of the destroyer Perry, lately on convoy and patrol duty In the Atlantic, will perform at right guard with Tommy Naef of the United States Aero Service as relief. Sergt. Collins will work on the opposite sid of the floor. Pergt.-Maj. Sprlnggate will hold-down the center position while Lt. Exton Torter with T.t. George 4"on attending to the forward positions should be able to keep up a steady barrage and machine gun fire to aid the squad in the "hop-over."'

Ward has heen received that t.eorge Rider. Ben James and Ted Blocker of Whiting, had arrived safely in N". Y.. from overseas this morning. All are -feeling fine and will go to Camj Mills to be dine harmed. Ted Rlo ke: will be romembered as a crack foot Ball star. While over there h played in several games.

Eberhard Derres. St. John, retnrned

THE Mansfield tO.) Shield, an ably edited Democratic newspaper, in grilling newspapers who are criticizing the League of Nations idea, lumps the Shaffer string Chicago Post, Indianapolis Star, et al.. with, a tot of Republican newspapers. Tfce Shield is barking up

the wrong tree. The Shaffer string is not Republican.

God knows what it is: Neither is it criticising the League of Nations. It is for the League tooth and nail, hide and hair. The "insects." as the Shield calls the rest of u. object to being put under the same blanket with Shaffer.

GERMANY blusters and threatens; but we notice that every time Marshal Foch shoves a new demand under her nose she signs on the dotted line just the same.

pounds in wetKnt ana grew- eooui rour i " i"i .... v. ,,, inches in height while in the service, with his honorable discharge. Though honorably discharged he is ..i,i i.-Ki. . e.n hlrt Crte Ssm Floyd Birch. t. Jahn. wba ha. Keen

oe-d him.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scheerv ef Halton, were relieved from great worry

last week when they received a let-

on furlough f..-r several days, and visiting, with his wife here, returned ti camp again Sunday evening.

Friends ef The Tlmea arent to he

ter from their son." Private George fergetting its soldiers and pallors col

Scheer, American Expeditionary" F.. whom they had not h'ard from for 12 weeks.. He is well and getting along fine, but like all the boys over there, wants to set his hob nail shoes once more, on the soil of God's country aod1 he will r real happy.

Henry Hatt. nt Whiting, returned home Sunday from Camp Taylor, Ky., where he received his honorable die-charge.

limn. They are coming back in droves

and battalion., hut the name are noi and the streets ate full of returning soldiers, but our correspondents seem to be taking it for granted that everybody knows they are coming home.

There la a sn officer In arwiy circles. He is a third lieutenant. U. S. A. The Stars and Stripes explain It thus: "Third Lieutenants." the latest thing in uncommissioned officers, are beginning to make their appearance in

John t hildn. Whiting, has received the replacement camps. They are the

U. S. ARMY FIRE FIGHTERS IN ACTION

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American S. O. S. fire fighting erew at work on dock at BasseM. Fraaee. . The fire fighting force of the American section of supplies renderet' valuable service during the war by their efficient protection of vast qnantities of supplies and equipment abroad. The photo shows an S. O. S. crew in action, pouring water on dock buildings at Bassefcs. a suburb of Bordeaux, France, one of the base ports of the A. E. F. In the foreground is a motor-pumping engine with its suction hose dropped over the side ei the dock into the river. The motor truck is a hose and chemical wagon.

mr-i who finished the r.fTieers' training schools after th-r "no more commissions" order was issvied fro.n Washington. ince they are supposed to fit in somewhere btwren a fuk and a second loot, thy rank as 'Dovetails.' MOft of the men wear t.lafk stripes on thir -Ieeve which it ha? teen suggested, inav be considered a" a delicate tribut" to th1 memory of the too-late Sam Br"ne.

"Beddy F.dltori To settfe a dWpunte Setween two civies hill ynj please state what an annn-nit'on train i.s ind its dutlesV" Inquirer. An ammunition fa'n i.- a romplete military unit, created by the .Jemand of modern warfare, wth it own battalions, horsed aid motor, its own headquarters, detachments and it." own personnel and suply Jn'ts. The purpose of the ammunition train is to haul ammunition, to haw! it from the ammunition dump usually t niarht to the batteries or to the infantry. It .Is a true gypsy outfit, traveline always here and there over the front, always under some l:nd of shellflre. camping wherever possible, with true reeard for safety of horses. t:oks. ami men and for the distance from those batteries which it feeds. It is probably the most widely scattered outfit in the Army. It motor trucks range from the coast to as far as the roads will permit: and the motor companies themselves, of course, are al?o w-idelv scattered.

nndy Editor It might be the "Blues" or some other- goat getter, but as an Indiana boy and on behalf of the rest of the Indiana boys in the American Expeditionary Forces. I'd like to know- just w hat Indiana intends to do for her discharged soldiers and sailors of the state. According to the newspapers and letters to the boys from other states or the majority of the states, there is a handsome bonus provided each and every discharged soldier and sailor of that state. Nearly every one knows that when a solHer is discharged there are quite a few necessities of life which he must immediately purchase and with only ne month's pay. which !. $3". in his pockets and with no employment in .-lew he is confronted w!th a very serous obstacle- that wrill be hard for iin to overcome unless he receives .Inancial aid from some source or snther. Indiana has been one of the foremost states in contributing men and money to help win ths war. Is she going to be outdone by others in this matter of aiding discharged soldiers and sailors? M. Maekey..

Voice of the People

SOLEIEES DISGUSTED WITH 'DSTS'. To the Editor: I wish to take this. opportunity of expressing what I believe to be the opinion of the majority of the A. K. P". Having discussed the subject of prohibition on numerous occasions with several hundred of the boys of Uncle Sam. I find they are very much displeased with the "bone dry" amendment. The opinion preails that while they have been in France fighting to make the- world "safe for democracy" the "drys" have taken advantage of their absence and "stabbed them in the back." as lt were. AVho represented America on the battlefields? The prohibitionist, who devoted his time to the "dry" cause, or the boys who went "over the top"? If the boys could have done as some of the dry advocates did stayed at home perhaps there would have been a different view taken of the situation by the Legislatures of the different states. We think the prohibitionists have taken sdvantage of our absence, and lie wonder if they do not feel somewhat ashamed over the way they won their "wonderful" (?) victory. PRIVATE CLARENCE CLAHK. repair Unit "02. M. T. C.. V. P. A. P. O. 772, American E. F.. Fran

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Editor Times: Agreeing with your article on th' i

issue of The Times Feb. 27. 1919. "J .': It True?" I stan dconvicted of a p: -lessness to a ta;k imposed by the lad! of the Equal Franchise League yio wished me as the president to ete:.'I our thanks and appreciation to you for the many editorials and articles con.-

! plimentary to the league"..

Particularly the article on last Ss'urday's issue referring to the "B Scouts" and the Influence it will nece -sarily have on the boys through life, r certainly admire your editorials ' muc h. Tours sincerely. fR5s. M. J. DUG CAN. 551 May st . Hammond

In s letter to the editor. K. V. Flgerald, Hammond's famous newsboy, now in Bat. C, 344th T. A., in Germany, writes from Frier, saying that he is changing trains and leaving for a 14-day furlough in southern France. He will visit Marseilles. Eddie was a member of Camp Purdue and enlisted with the 315th Ammunition Train, but was changed to a battery outfit.

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