Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 13, Hammond, Lake County, 3 May 1919 — Page 4
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THE TTMES. Mar 3, 1919.
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Magazines (or years have printed articles urgin?: pood roads, with wonderful Illustrations to show the con trast between the road which has received even a little care and the one which has had no care at all. The moving pictures should do more pood than the magazine.
since they will reach a larger audience. Furthermore, the moving picture must be a photograph it can't be something that one of those artist fellows made up out, of his own head. This is only one of many educational forms which the motion picture is taking. It is being widely used in agricultural extension work, to show all the steps in modern farming, and in a thousand other fields equally ueful. We shall come to wonder before long what we ever did without these films of such vast possibilities, and
? their use in the campaign for better highways will be
one of the things which will make us wonder.
WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER?
The world is divided into two classes: the burden
bearers and the burden shirkers. To which class wo you belong? The nation asks you now to range yourself on one I ide or the other and to stand with the burden bearers or
iAEGm pai-o-ttp ctrcttt. atiott ttt aw ant TWO J tnp burden shirkers, and yet it does not ask you to as-
'TENTION! Here's Buddy!
TO THE POWERS THAT BE The Boys Want to Come Home! Get 'Em Home Toot Sweett
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TEAR DOWN THE RED FLAGS. It surely should not be necessary for police in any city in the district to look for any authority to tear down red flags or prevent their display and under no circumstoances should any flags or banners of that color be permitted on exhibition. The red flag is the emblem of disorder and anarchy. No organization would us? it that believes in the Stars and Stripes. The red flag on display in a private yard where the public can see it should be tabooed by the police authorities. If officers of the law give an inch to the foreign red flag wavers in any city in the Calumet district they need not be a whit surprised to see them take an ell. This is the time to be firm and unyielding with foreign gentry and their sympathizers. It is poor policy to let them "go ahead this time, they are not hurting anybody." The snake doesn't hurt anybody until someone accidentally steps on it and then there is trouble. Bolshevism in this country must be uprooted and exterminated or there will be helj to pay sooner or later. If there is anyone in the Calumet region who wants to martyr himself for Bolshevism across the water is the place for him.
EVERY MAN'S NEW WORLD. The only way to improve the world is for each man to improve his own little section of it. Our dreams of a better republic are only realized by our making ourselves truer citizens of it. It is not to be done on any wholesale plan which constitutes so large a part of our dreams. Oratory is not going to make it, nor literature, science, education or organization. Every man and woman will have to create their own new world. This can be done only by the practice of those virtues and duties that build up a fine personality. If a person is individually great he does the wrld more good than by trying to corral society into coteries of good intentions and vague aspirations. Said Southwell: "My mind to me an empire is." So the kind of empire depends upon the quality of the mind. If that is just, pure, unselflish, noble and faithful, so is one's empire. If every man would make his own empire after this fashion, the world would be so close to paradise that one could step over into it and not notice the change.
sume any burden in doing this On the contrary, it offers you the most gilt-edged security in the world for every dollar it asks you to invest in Victory bond. It gives you the opportunity of becoming a bond holder Ip thp mightiest nation of earth, and in doing so to have the satisfaction of knowing that you have done your duty to your country. This is your nation and your government. Its honor is your honor; its debts are your debts, and its achievements are your achievements, to the extent that yon do your part. This nation is made up of one hundred min ndividuals. It has no power except as each individual dos his part. Every man whi fails to do his part 1 a burden shirker, and is making someone else carry his burden. The call for subscriptions to Victory bonds has eon forth throuchout the land. The clamor and tragedv of a mighty war, which stirred the nation'' patriotism to Its utmost depths, are to some extent lackintr. because the actual fighting has apparently ceased. But the army i still in the Held: the great fightine machine cannot b abandoned: its expenses to som extent must still eo on. Because the glamor has for the moment passed, there is all th more reason why every patriot should work with redoubled energy to make the Victory loan a gre.iter success than were any of the Liberty loans. This is the nation's call to the manhood and womanhood of the country. What shall the answer be?
With her uteerlnK arenr cripple. the transport Canandalgua, carrying 1.383 overseas soldiers, limped Into port today at Boston. She was Riven a rousing welcome of whistles and cheers as she steamed up the harbor. The 312nd field artillery headquarters and staff supply ordnance and medical detachments and batteries A. D and F returned on the transport. Other troops on the vessel Include the 145th machine gun company, ordnance and t-ariltary detachments and Companies A. B. C and I First Army Artillery park motor sections: First Army headquarters truck D company. 17th photo section; air service casual company, . .. TO. The troops were sent to Camp De vens.
More than JMWMI returning ve-terans arrived here today on the Cruiser Frederick, the flen. fjoethals and the Western Hero. The Frederick brought the l!5th field artillery complete, the 464th aero squadron and several casual companies composed of Michigan. Ohio. New York. Montana, Kentucky and Missouri men. Four aero squadrons, the 90th. the 161st. 147th and 65oth arrived on the Ooethals which
today. Aboard the liner were the following troops; The 302nd field artillery, staff headquarters and supply company, ordnance and medical detachments, batteries A. B. and F. 143th Machine Oun Headquarters Company, Ordnanca and Sanitary Detachments. Companies A to I Inclusive: First Army Artillery Park Motor Section, headquarters truck company I, scattered 170th Photo Sect. on Air Service. C3rd Photo Section Air Service. Casual Company Xo. 70, 158th Casuals and two civilians.
"William Black. Mho In atattloned at Fort Thomas. Ky., will ispnd Sunday with Harold Kaskell at his home in Jackson street, Gary. Harold who Is also home on a furlough, has been stationed at Fort Thomas. Ky.. fnr two IfHiB and has not yet obtained his discharge.
also hrought the 433rd battalions.
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IT FELL VERY FLAT. "When Euegene Debs was seneenced to Federal prison for his disloyal activity during the war he made some prophecies. When he was taken to prison he made another. h said: "That means by May 1, the day on which T begin my sentence, a general strike will have culminated. It must not be forgotten that that day is the labor day of the world. On that day I had ben assured that if the Supreme court had not ruled by that time more than 5.0"0 labor meetings would have been held asking for my release. "The miners of my own state. Indiana, will start the strike. These men came to me at my home in Terre Haute before I started on my last speaking tour and told me' that from the day I went to the penitentiary there would be no more coal mined in Indiana until the day I was released." Mr. Debs will have to issue another prophecy. If there was a general strike it was not discernible to the naked eye and it looks as though his followers were trying to discredit him.
REASONS SOT SHOWN. President Wilson sent word from Europe that there was a special reason for every word in the league constitution and asked that debate be deferred until he could come home and explain. He came but he did not explain. Is there any wonder that the American people distrust
f not only the league constitution, but the man who is its
chief sponsor?
UNDER THE LASH. "No wonder the results of the last election," remarks a country editor, after enumerating a long list of, the Ills from which the country is suffering under the present administration. The constant fear of having hig paper held up in the mails by a post office department that happens to take exception to something he says, the endles red tape, tbe demand for free space for the government while others were being paid for commodities suppiid to the government, are some of the evils of which the editor complains, but which he expects to Buffer little, in the future as a result of the rebuke the administration received last November. But the editor is only one of many who have felt, the evils of bureaucracy. Practically very one in active business, from the proprietor of a corner grocery to the president of a railroad or the cashier of a bank, has been under the constant fear that he would offend some petty agent of a bureaucratic administration. It was largely the desire of the country to remove the menace of bureaucracy that caused the overthrow of the Democratic party last November. The time will soon pass when any man engaged in legitimate bu-inss ned fear the autocrats at Washington.
GOOD ROAD MOVIES. The National Highways Association is using moving picture films all over the country in its campaign for good roads. One of the best films offered has "Good Roads" for its title. It has been prophesied that this was to be a roadbuilding era. Surely there is no better way of educating the public to the best way of building such highways, and of maintaining them once they are built, than through the medium of the beloved movie.
THERE is to be a campaign against the common house fly conducted at every army camp and station this summer. Different kinds of traps are to he tried out, and swatters are to flourish everywhere. All this is doubtless a good thing, but about the only fly our soldier boys are interested in right now is "fly away home."
As an indication of what we are coming to a State Senator of West Virginia proposes to place a quart of rye, a quart of bourbon and a quart of Scotch in the State f)e partment of Archives and History for future generations to marvel at. Birmingham Age-Herald. Does the statesman mean marvel at or gargle with?
Rice growers of California are alarmed over the increasing importation of Asiatic rice, and demand a restoration of the protective tariff. And rice-growing is bnly a minor industry in the Ions list of those adversely affected by importations.
WEIjL, the decision of the Supreme Court in the Debs case has taken one candidate out of the presidential race for next year, but of course that was not the real reason.
THE Allies now owe the United States nearly $10,000,000,000. Every time they think of that it has a
wholesome effect on their attitude toward Uncle Sam.
llotd Davis, Mil of Mr. and Mrs. Ren Davis, one of the first hoyg to leave Iowell after war was declared with Germany, arrived home yesterday after having been nearly two years In France. Soon after entering the service he was assigned to a machine gun corps and after seven weeks training In this country, he was sent across for training. He was in all the b.g battles over there and came through without a scratch until about ten days before the war ended, when he was gassed, but not serious enough to Impair his health. Boyd saw some of the hardest service of any of the Iake. county boys and he is being welcomed home fv a large circle of riends.
lira.. I.. I. William f llMfnii ., Fast Chicago. received information from her son, Ilewlyn. who has been In across seas' service with the motor supply trains and arrived at Camp Merritt yesterday from where he will be transferred within a short time to Camp Orant and await hs honorable release. Young Mr. Williams is a graduate of the East. Chicago high school. He is a brother to Mr. Wayne Miller whose husband also has recently been mustered out from military service.
Major J. K. Metealf. a former l.arr physician, who has for the past year been supervising the work of base hospitals on the Pacific coast, has just received a commission to go with a group to far off Siberia among which he has been chosen to act as surgeon and the destination of the group will he Vladivostok. The Metcalfs left
"?ary over a year ago and the doctor I
has made for himself a name In army circles of great credit.
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Harry Hennlnirer, WhltlnKT, who ha been at Camp Fustis. I-ee Hall, Va., has received his honorable discharfe from service.
Radio Sergeant KIHott rromiin, of the 3Sth C. A. C. Hammond, arrived in Xew York last Thursday, April 24. on the transport Panaman. after a year's service over there and a year's service on this side, having enlisted during the middle of April. 1317. His regiment participated in most every important battle during the war the Inst one being the great offensive against Metz which was scheduled to take place at the time the armistice was signed. Having been in the thick1 of the fighting so long you would naturally suppose him to be immune from any sort of surprise, but his greatset surprise greeted him April 25 when he was handed his discharge from the service, exactly two days after arriving on these shores. The shock was so great he wandered in a daze up and down Broadway and from last reports he seems to still be wandering. I-ater: His happy parents. Itr. and Mrs. S. Grossman. 610 Oakley avenue, Hammond, have received word trom relatives In Xw York tht Elliott will leave for home In a few days.
Mrs. Harry Hawker and baby Hawker photographed at their home. Surbiton, England. Mrs. Harry Hawker, wife of the English aviator, doesn't seem to be fearful of her husband's chances for success in his attempt to b the first man to pilot an airplane across the Atlantic ocean. At least the photo doesn't show it.
AMUmment to early kmiviit of the headquarters of the Eighth Army Corps. 214th Military Police company and the 513th Engineers, was announced by the war department today.
Mr. nna Br, I4f Clinton street. Hammond, has received a telegram from her son. George Race, stating that he had arrived In this country from France and was then at Camp Merritt. X. J. He reached Camp Merritt April 2S.
Otto Kath, a former Chesterton hor now living in Valparaiso w-ith his
mother, has been awarded the disting- I uished service cross for his bravery j under fire. Although given an onpor- I
tunity to escape, he remained to assist a number of fallen comrades, and
was captured bv the Germans. He '
succeeded in getting the German captors to remove the wounded Americans and give them proper care. The wounded men were recaptured by the Americans the next day and through them the bravery of young Kath waa learned. Kath himself waa 'not as fortunate as his wounded companions and he was taken to a. German prison camap and held for several months, not being released until the signing of the armistice. The citation for bravery has Just been received by the youns
Bringing oversee soldiers, the
transport Canand ag.ua was due here man's mother in Valparaiso.
STATEMENT FROM THE 22i ENGINEERS IN FRANCE
Comratiy "E," 22nd Engineers, Tost Montierchaume. Indre France, March 31. 1910. To the Editors of The Rocky Mountain News and Times. Denver, Col. The Fort Wayne Daily News. Fort Wayne. Ind. The Gary Evening Times. Gary, Ind. The Indianapolis News. Indianapolis. Ind. The Hamilton Republican News, Hamilton, Ohio. The Pittsburg Gazette-Times. Pittsburg, Pa. Oentlemn: Several issues of papers published in
remained on duty with the light- railways In the Toul and Verdun sectors up till the rresent time. On September 18. 191S, the Ind battalion was, by command of the commander-in-chief, through the chief of staff, assigned to the firet army, and was ordered from its location at Abain-
practical'.y impossible to bring up rations. On October 3 the first ration and supply trains were able to bringi up supplies to the divisions fighting there, and from that date until the signing of the armistice on November 11th that single line kept four combat divisions supplied and they never lacked for any essential. For some time after the armistice this battalion remained in the Meuse-Argonne district, building, maintaining and operating light railways in the Verdun sector. Meanwhile, the other battalions of the regiment had bein attached to the second army and -were building and maintaining the light railways for the second army in the Toul sector. That the performance of the light railway trops was satisfactory to the commander-in-chief can be judged by a letter which General Pershing sent to General Langfit. chief engineer of the A. E. V., which has just b"en circulated and made wublic, and from which we quote the following extracts: "The department of light railways and roads furnished the indespensible link between the front lins and the railroads" . . . "It's record in the construction and operation of light
I railways and roads has seldom been J equaled."
light railway construction regiment in the A.K. F.. the major part of the construction work during the drive naturally fell to this regiment, although we received considerable assistance from several regiments of light railway operating engineers, road construction engineers and pioneer infantry. The entire regiment remained on actiie duty in the Verdun and Toul sectors until it was released from duty on the light railways on January 20, at which time the other regiments on the light railways were also released. By that date much of the system of light railways had been taken up and arrangements had been made to turn over to the French military authorities the lines still remainingintact. Through some misunderstanding these plans were not carried into execution, and. although the other light railway regiments have been either returned to the Cnited States or hae been placed on priority list for selling, several battalions of the 22nd Engineers are still retained on that project. Until January 24. 1919. no man of this battalion had been granted a leave of absence of any kind, while on French soil; most of them had not seen a civilian from Sept. 26 until that tinje;
verv few had seen a house or a build
while less than 40 per cent, of the S. O S. troops will leave for home during the same period. In as much as we are now S. O. S. troops it can be seen that we have considerable less than an even chance of leading France before the middle of the summer. While we can readily see that it will be necessary to hold a number of S. O. S. troops here for some time, there are several angles to our situation which have not been made quite clear to us, and we fail to understand why this battalion was assigned to this branch of the service of supply. From the beginning of the offensive on Sept. 26 until the signing of the armistice, this battalion was a part of the combat forces of the first army; we endured the hardships incident to that campaign the same as other combat units of the first army; and we did our little bit towards the achievement of that victory in which every man of the first army justly feels some little pride. There are thousands of troops in Engineer, Quartermaster, Pioneer infantry, and other units, as well as labor battalions, wh'j have not been placed in a position where they found it necessary to make the same sacrifices that we made, and it is our honest opinion that there are enough of those troops to make our presence, here unnecessary. But comparatively few of the combat units of the first army have been transferred to the S. O. S. and we fail to understand why we have not been allowed to remain among the combat units and to return to the United States with tbem. If we were good enough to go into the Meuse-Argonne offensive as a combat unit, and with the combat divisions, and to be entrusted with the execution of an important detail of the offensive, we believe that we would be good enough to go home as a combat unit with the corrbat troops, and without our status being changed. Without any intention to criticise, and in the spirit of fairness which America typifies, we have a few remarks to make wheh we believe merit consideration. Even though it may not be possible to return us to the United States immediately, it seems reasonable to suppose that we could be given some Information regarding the approximate time of our return to our homes and the dear ones we left behind. This would prevent the uncertainty which now prevails and relieve the doubts which now prevent us from being even partially resigned to our enforced stay here. Ti is the uncertainty of the situation
ing" during that time that was not inlhich grates on our nerves.
ruins. JJuring xne most oi mat tune the men worked at least ten hours per
the six days from Sept. 19 to Sept. 24,
the battalion marched the 100 kilometers to Aubreville. with full equipment, reporting upon arrival of the chief engineer of the first army. One company was assigned to some important work on the light railways, completing the line which the French
had built as far as Auzeville, (Mouse)
different cities have stated, in answer corr,panips -jy an(j -E- WPrP assigned
to inquiries, that it was impossible to locate the 22nd Engineers. This is not surprising, as we have reason to believe that the army authorities themselves have loi-t stght of us. The first battalion of the 22nd Engl-
Mr. Bryan is in favor not only of a league of nations, but a "league of sober nations.'' Well, they're all feeling pretty sober just now.
IN these days of reconstruction when there is bo much work to be done to make up for time lost during the war, a good motto will be, "No work, no eats."
neers landed in France in July; the 2nd terminals was "Xo Man's Land." battalion, to which the writers belong. I When the Meuse-Argonne offensive landed early in August. 191g. and the opened on Sept. 26 the two companies 3rd. 4th and 5th battalions landed short- moved forward behind the infantry ly afterwards. Soon after arriving In troops of the first army and for six France each battalion was in its turn days and nights labored under heavy assigned to the department of light .shell fire, machine gurf1 lire and hornrailways and roads, of the advance sec- bardment from aeroplanes; completing tion of the services of supply. The the connection and running the first commanding officer of the regiment was train over the new line on October 2. placed In command of the Light Rail- Considering the conditions under which way Central shops at Abainville, Mcuse. this was done, it was a remarkable
and all battalions of this regiment, with the exception of the 2nd battalion, have
ville to Aubreville. (Meuse). During ,jay for seven days per week, no matter
what the weather. We had no rfcreation or amusement of any kind for the greater part of that period. But the men knew that there same some measure of necessity for those conditions and bore them willingly. There was no "kicking" or grumbling while those inevitable ond unavoidable conditions existed. On March 1st the 2nd battalion, having been transferred to the department of forestry and construction of the S. O. S., was moved to the present stations; Company "E," to which the writers belong, being sent to tho engineer, construction and storage camp at Post Montierchaume. Indie. According to a memorandum which has just been issued by the general staff of the service of supply, the schedule for the return of troops to the United States calls for the return of about 470.000 divisional troops and about 194.000 S. O. S. troops between now and June 30. At the present time there are. according to this same memorandum, 720.769 divisional troops and 494.411 S. O. S. troops in the A. E. F. Tris mean?
to the very important task of building and maintaining a connection between the terminus of the French and the
i German light railway lines of communiI cation, at Aubreville and Cheppy. respectively. The gap between these two
achievement. During this time the menthat about 66 rcr cent, or the divisional had barely enough to eat. as it was troops will be sent home before June 30.
The 22nd regiment of Engineers s
composed of men from practically every state in the uaion. Indiana. Colorado. Ohio. Illinois and Pennsylvania being well represented. It is in behalf of the men from the states mentioned that we take the liberty of writing this letter and it is to be sincerely hoped that the editors will find it convenient to present these facts through the columns of your publications to the friends of the regiment who reside iA the districts in which these papers are circulated. Thanking you in advance for any consideration that you may be able to give this communication, we are. Yours very truly. CARL A. HERBST, Denver, Col. SERGT. CLIFFORD W. SNIFF. Fort Wayne. Ind. CLARENCE J. KOSCHXICK. Gary. Ind. PERCY A. O'CONNOR. Indianapolis, Ind. SAMUEL LEVI N'E, Hamilton, Ohio.' EDWARD E. REIXSEL. Clarion, Pa.
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