Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 290, Hammond, Lake County, 20 May 1919 — Page 4

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dage through the League of Nation, pact., these dc-uio-critic contemporaries have a series of cat fila everv hour. If a League of Nations is a good thing now, it mul have been a Rood thing on May 16, 1914. On vthat day Woodrow Wilson did deliver a great address and in it he said: "Every man who worthily stands in this presence snouid examine himself and see whether he has the full conception of what it means that America should live her own life. Washington saw it when he wrote his farewell address. "It was not merely because of passing and transient circumstances that Washington said that we must keep free from entangling alliances. It was because he saw that no country had yet set Its face in the same direction in which America had set her face "We cannot form alliances with those who are not going our way; and in our might and majesty and in the confidence and definitcne&s of our own purpose, we need not and we should not form al

liances with any nation in the world. "Tho6e who are right; those who study their consciences in determining their policies; those who hold their honor higher than th .advantage, do not need alliances. "You need alliances when you are not strong and you are weak only when you are not true to yourself. You are weak only when you are in the wrong; you are weak only when you are afraid to do right; you are weak only when you doubt your cause and the majesty of a nation's nvght asserted." We hope ih.it every man interested in politics in this coun'y and every woman for women .should be just

THE PASSING

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U-BOAT CHASERS RETURN TO PACIFIC SASE THROUGH CANAL

THERE is still every reason FOR conserving our food supplies HI T ever since the signing up of the armistice WE have be-n using our INFLL'ENCi: to have it stop short of v. arming up H.VKIMi powder bis-mits the s-coii'i time. ONE thing that we never could Q LIT E understand IS why a man cant carry an umbrella

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a ill clip this excerpt from Woodrow League of Nations is ail signed up

Wi!.-on's speech for future reference. In fact, it would i . i !;t-v ,,,1 he ihf only free na-1

L'. S. submarine chasers in a lock of the Panama canal.

Th seven U. S. U-boat chasers did their bit in ending the reiRn of the (icrman submersiblcs iurlnp the war and are now on their way back to their base on the Pa

cific ocean. They are taking the short cut the Panama canal. Each boasts a frold chevron and one carries a gold star for sinking a "sub." On the way to Panama the

chasers struck sneh roueh weather for four days that no food could be cooked and the crews lived on canned foods aid crackers during that time.

ant ."Uris'eon t the Clary before entering the service.

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prompt tn advlsirg us when vou do not get vour oarer nd I be ei.c-. Ueut to comtuit it to heart for the people of thi:. . Hon on earth

wi.i ac: promptly.

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nation are one of these days going, to vote on whether Wilson w:is riLbl in I'll! or richt nna- We exnert to

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Mr. W ikon thought j wor'd '

have a sood deal to say about wha in 1914.

A letter rfefhfd Slonday by E. H

I dgon of the Gary Kon iiK Times

from Sergeant-Major Mo. a Gary soldier now in the Central Records official V.ourges. Fiance, states that he has

succeeded in getting mat! to Mr. TLa - lime In June of July. A cablerra n son's son. Forest, who had not recelv. (was received by Mr. and Mrs. Ragon

ed any for seven months untU Just recently. Sergeant Moe states that he

rcmeniDers meeting Marine Chandos

Saturday from Forest Ragon, slatinc that he expected to get home soon. !

I was dated from Esch. Luxemburg

RaKon at LaMitrs. France, during the armistice da:-s Fergeant Moe says he r:.oec: t .- get 'ome n Gar'-' some

It. A. parka, Jr., Mn of Mr. and Mr. R. A. Sparks, of Highland, returnee hnm from France Tuesday. Mav 1 ;t

There Is only room for one flag In Lake county and I that Is the Stars and Stripes. There is room for only ene language and that is the language of the people of j tha United States. i

AIR IS STILL UNTAXED. On thins that the republican congress, -which met yesterday, must do and that is to repeal the so called "lusury ta-xes." W"e have no doubt but what they will. No better example of the slip-shod manner in which the last democratic congress handled the business of making laws, controlled as it was by the administration party, can be given, than the so-called "luxury taxes" which were tacked on the revenue bill of 131S and which went Into effect May 1st. Until the congress takes action to repeal these taxes. It is clearly the duty of the com missioner of internal revenue to collect the taxes. That congress will repeal these "luxury taxes" is almost an assured fact. The democratic congress which drew up the bill, including the sections taxing wearing apparel above a stated value, Ughtiag fixtures, umbrellas, carpets, rugs, trunks, toilet articles of all kinds and so on indefinitely, claims that these sections would have been repealed during the closing days of the last session had It not been for the congestion of pending legislation. While this may have been true, it did not excuse the drawing up of taxes on articles which although termed "luxuries" are used by peorle in all walks of life and used because they are necessary to the modern mode of living, especially after the signing of the armistice and ths wax was practically at an end. Certainly the articles included as "luxuries" are not luxuries at all. Is it a luxury to have carpet or rugs on the floors of your home? Section 904 of th revenue act says it is and taxes you 10 per cent, on the amount in excess of $5 per square yard. If a man pays mofe than J5 for a hat or his wife more than $15, the tax is leVied. Kni when it comes to a necktie, the tax is right on the job. And when It comes to pajamas, night gowns or underwear for either sex, large or small, and the pns is over $5, again the 10 per cent, tax looms up in front of the purchaser. And if you or your wife pay more than $10 for a pair of shoes the amount in excess is taxed. A man may be able to purchase a pair of shoes that will last a while for less than $10, but there are few stores Felling women's shoes for les3 than the stipulated $10. And when It comes to perfumes, toilet waters, tooth pastes and the like the law is quite clear. The tax is one cent for every 25 cents or fraction thereof. Perfume may be a luxury, but we are quite sure that tooth paste Is NOT. Then too, the soda fountain hound is hard hit. With most of the country already dry", and the rest of it going on July 1st, the soda fountain is the only thrist quenching establishment left. The tax is 10 per cent, and there is no alternative. In other words, a 10 cent drink or dish of Ice cream will cost 11 cents and a l.i cent soda or plate of cream, 17 cents In all of these cases the tax must be paid by the purchaser, to the retailer at the time of purchase and cannot be included in the retail price. All during the war the American people paid taxes, no mallei what they were, quickly and without a word of protest. They watched the tremendous waste of money on all sides without a whimper becau e we were at war. But

FASHION IN A PICTURE.

Looking at a page of female fashions is about a.'-'nifaH.-ble a looking at the Chinese characters on a tea chest, especially if a mere male person is the observer It is to him the same old thing, from one year's end lo another. He sees nothing new. For instance, in our paper eiterday we had the picture of a radiant damsel show-, ing off a "hand made blouse." It looked like an old friend. We had seen the same blouse on our kitchen maid 10 years ago. We had often Feen it, or something very like it, many timc3 since. We asketl a feminine friend if she saw anything beautiful about it. She gazed at it with some rapture, turned her orbs to the ceiling and said, "How exquisite'." We lxiked at her admiringly for awhile, and then said to otirself: There is no use comparing our ideas with a w oman's-she lives in another world when things really ugly to the masculine mind are to her indeed lovely, because, being a reflection of herself, they could not be otherwise. Now don't take this as flattery, it is only philosophy. If that "hand made blouse" had been transferred to her shoulders it would be exquisite. Fashion without the wearer is bare.

SEEM det erm ine-J to borrow trouble

i EVERT day there is always enough

to go around MEN are so stubborn THAT if a f'l'ow had to pay a tax

FOR having rheumatism, he would

NOT EVEN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

When Chancellor Scheidemann .shrieks that th allied peace treaty aims at the "murder of a nation." he only reminds the world that Germany undertook to murder several other nations, and very nearly succeeded with some of them. A more fitting term for Herr Scheidemann to use would be "capital punishment," a technical, name for the legal execution of an assassin.

The allies, though, have not really gone so far as i

that. They do not propose to take the criminal's life. They merely intend to impose a rather moderate sentence of fine and imprisonment, and letting the guilty nation work it out at hard labor.The sentence will be indeterminate. The time may be shortened by diligent work and good behavior. . It may keep the Germans occupied, and unable to devote much attention to their own national projects, for or U0 yars. They will be getting off easy enough at that. The German empire deserved to be torn to pieces for Its monstrous crime. The allies are leaving it almost intact, with all the strictly German states out. of which the big federation was was built still united. The head, which is Prussia, is still on tha shoulders, merely minus an ear a? it were; and not one German limb has been lopped off.

tfie REFORE he would walk lame. GLESS we d better see if we CAN'T find out what 'he Anti-Saloon

League j IS going to recommend for SNAKE bite after the first ef July THE bolsl is ts CONTINLE to deny that they have a ract with Germany OF course not. it's a little early yet THE wobblies have a hard time UNDERSTANDING that KEEPING up appearance is net folly WHEN it means a clean collar. THERE is at last" a real tang of spring IN the air AND we never felt It as mu:h as we did TESTEEDAT while walking home

FROM church with a dear joung girl

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THRIVING NEW DEMOCRACIES. "Self-determination" is really doing pretty well at present. The new republican lies 6et up by several of the loDg-oppressed races of Russia and Austria-Hungary are getting on their feet. Reports received by the American Relief Administration are said to be surprisingly favorable. There is high praise for the strength and ability revaled by the Polish government. Poland has been beating the Russian Bolsheviki with one hand and holding off Prussia with the other, and at the same time getting her own affairs established on a sound, orderly bar-is.

Finland, which for a little while, showed a disposition to

fraternize with Germany, has established complete inde-

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u vou. dnu lu- aerage American is the i pendence. won recognition from the United States and Kind who will not protest at the expenditure of $mo when the allies, and is standing as another bulwark against it. Is Justified, but w-.ll kick like a mad bull at paying 1 Bolshevism. The Russian republic whose government rent tax on the necessaries of life, especially w hen the i is established at Omsk, gains strength steadily, and seems necessity for the tax is gone. It is a cheerful thought j lo deerve lhe recognition accorded it as the foremost to Pay tax on an umbrella .that was our first experience . representative of the old Russian empire. Ukrainla is with th:s thing. May 1st coming in with a pouring rain ) i makin!; fair progress. too. Roumania is said to "remain in order that we may send more wheat to t.h- gentle I stable beVond anticipation." resisting the "Red" peril. Bolsheviki or the defeated Germans. Ire-organizing her own political and economic life anj

provided a strong, disciplined army to keep Hungary subdued. There are some "weak sisters" in that continental family of democracies, to whom the allies will be obliged to extend a helping hand for some time yet. There are regions that will need policing for years. But on the whole, the situation is cheering. The "white man's burden" assumed by ,. e victors of this war may not. be po

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PF.ESSING surreptitious!;J EST be patient think of

quartette of j BLRLVS who will b" hollering f or j mercy one of these days i AUSTRIA. Turkey. Bulgaria and Hun- ; gary UGHl i IT Is easy enough TO say that an editor should !

HAVE neither friends nor eiiemie; BUT it is hard to see how a conscientious onCAN" b more than 8P per c"1' RIGHT under this rule of life. AND then there is another thing a WOMAN may do she may GIVE $16 Tor a pair of colored highheelers BUT she doesn't run a FOOL or a bowling biil of twice that rum. A?? old woman In Serbia carried a barrel of WINE without staggering AND .vet some fellows can't carry two glasses and WALK home straight from West Hammond.

WILSON THEN AND WILSON NOW.' Pome of our democratic contemporaries are verv ready to claim that Wilson is a sort of superman and that he has the only set of brains in the world. They ascribe to him in their idolatry a deity on earth. They would have you think that it is a crime for a country editor to doubt his Impeccability. When a newspaper

dares to question the idea of putting America in bon-heavy. after all

Soldier Boy News

ergt. I.uelen nirrh. f the 3.1 rd division, wired his parents. Mr. and Mis. Dave Hirsi h. of Hammond, that he had arrived n Philadelphia and will be sent to Camp Dix for discharge.

Major Frank Merrltt. wha b been in France In the medical service for over a year la now at St. Maurice, In Franre, and writes to friends in Gary that he soon expects to sail fr home having gotten ready and things packed on !-eeraI occasions "hut no shsp was coming." Major Merrttt was an assist-

Let Us Send You a waft Dollar For a Pocket Piece t It will interest you.

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It shows where the money goes that Swift & Company takes in. It shows that out of every dollar received by Swift & Company from the sale of meat and by-products in 1918 1 Swift and Company paid for live animals - 85.00 cents 2 r-Swift & Company paid out for labor, freight and other expenses ----- 12.96 cents 3 Swift & Company had left a profit of only - - - - 2.04 cents Total 100.00 cents The 2.04 cents remaining as profit equals only a fraction of a cent per pound It is too small to affect materially the price of live stock to the farmer or the price of meat to the consumer. A "Swift Dollar" will be mailed you on request. Address Swift & Company U. S. Yards, Chicago

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