Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 19, Hammond, Lake County, 14 June 1919 — Page 4

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THE TIMES. June 14, 1919.

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or ditch diggers, will be looked at ia a different light. The workers of the world are determined to have a voice in eettlirfg reconstruction problems, that affect them. "Men and women have given their glood for principles and ideals not only for the period of the war. but for the period of all time. In making sacrifices, it was not their intention that the principles for which they contended should be lost sight of when the war was won. They sacrificed themselves by letting their blood, and now they are determined that tyranny, whether it be in political or industrial life shall be no more. The day for that ha passed.'1 ThiB is language of a sort that might have been resented a few years ago. But it is not resented no because of the record of the American Federation ot Labor during the war and since the signing of the armistice. The public knows that it comes from a great body of citizens of proved loyalty to American Institutions, and that its demands on the whole are in keeping with the principles of the war and the spirit of the time. It is not only the more or less disinterested public, assumed to exist between the "laboring" and "capitalistic" classes, which, acknowledges the fairness of such demands. As Mr. Gompers remarks, "employers tDo nave come to see the light of the new concept of right, and most of them are accepting the new order of things " As for the exceptions, the conservative extremists, the Bourbons of American capital, they are growing fewer all the time, and they will have to yield to the inevitable, if organized labor continues true to the principles preached and practiced by its present leaders.

Tnere la only room fo'r one flag In Lake county ar.d that Is the Stars and Stripes. There is room for only one language and that is the language of the people of the United States.

TRUE CASH VALUES. PYed Sims, chairman of the Board of State Tax Commissioners, was in Lake County yesterday in conference with the Board of Review. Incidentally he was Informed by men of affairs that it was an outrage th . way realty and improvements had been assessed in Lake County. He was shown editorials in this newspaper asking that fair treatment be given manufacturers whose plants had been assessed beyond their true cash value. Mr. Sims expressed his interest in the publicity that has been given by this newspaper to th? tax valuations and assessments and gave his interviewers to understand that if wrongs had been done, he would see they were corrected. In the meantime the most intense interest is being taken In the findings of the Board of Review. The red ..sheets showing the realty valuations have been mailed toy the township assessors and there is a wave of indignation at the returns that have been made. One man who bought a little home and lot in Hammond eight years ago for $3,900, and the house nearly ten years old at that, was dumfounded to find his property had been assessed at $12,000, nearly three times as much as what he could hope in his fondest dreams to even realize in cash. The Board of Review will undoubtedly find on investigation that astounding values have been put on taxtables in Northern Lake County and that the deputy assessors have simply had no idea in many cases of the cash value of the property.

It was recognized in many cases in Lake County that property had been assessed too low in past years, but the assessors have taxed values that will nullify the effect of the new tax law and render it the most

odious tax law ever devised in the state. Great Injus

tice has been done to industry and private property in Lake County. Other county's assessments show that

the work has been done here without reason. Lake

County has been gouged properly.

We have no fear but what the gentlemen compos

ing the Board of Review at Crown Point upon fullest

inquiry will find that if the present industrial assess

ment is permitted to stand, some factories In the county

will be hit so hard it will take them time to recover.

and some of them won't want to recover. If Bome of the private property assessments are allowed to stand their

owners will permit them to be sold for taxes. They "will go into the courts and show what true cash value is, and

what it is not.

THE DEMANDS OF LABOR.

It was a bold, clear statement that Samuel Gompers

made in his opening address to the American Federation of Labor convention in Atlantic City, setting forth the

present attitude of American labor. "Men and women shed their blood and" made , gTeat sacrifices during the war because they were fighting for principles and ideals," said Mr. Gompers. "Now that the war has been "won the workers the bone and flesh of the nation do not intend those principals and ideals shall be lost sight of. "When the war began we realized that IT mm-' tarism and autocracy should be victorious, never again would there be opportunity for freedom of any eort, never again would there be any chance for labor to develop and protect itself and the rights of people who work. So we threw our lot upon the side of those who stood for the largest measure of freedom. "Now the war has been won and the day of reconstruction and readjustment is at hand. A new conception of right has been reached and the world has gone through a great change. Hereafter the relations between nations and the relations between men, whether they be employers, skilled mechanics

SOME SOUND PHILOSOPHY. w notice on the last page of an interesting report made of a South Bend financial Institution, whose presi

dent, J. C. Paxton, is a relative of w. C. Paxton, tne

Hammond banker, the following seven mistakes of lite:

1. The delusion that Individual advancement is

made by crushing others down. 2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot ba changed or corrected3. Insisting that a thing is Impossible because we ourselves cannot accomplish it. 4. Attempting to compel other men to believe and live as we do. 5. Failure to refine the mind by acquiring the habit of reading good literature. 6. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences, in order that important things may be accomplished. 7. The failure to establish the habit of 6aving money. This is sound philosophy. If people lived with the

idea of seeking to eliminate in their daily life these possible mistakes, the world would be well-nigh perfect, and

even if a man was unable to dodge all of them, the very

fact that had tried to do so would help to make his life worth living.

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LEARN from Paris that the German DELEGATES still take a gloomy view, of the situation SUGGEST that they pack both the gloom AND the situation IN their little suit cases and take the train home.

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ALVIN YORK, U. S. A., RETIRED. Attempts to exploit Alvin York, the "greatest hero

of the war," who captured a whole German battalion single handed, have failed.

He and his bride were to receive many honors at the

hands of the people of his state, and then were to be taken to a sumptuous private car to the Rotarian meet

in Chicago. But York refused to go. saying that all this hero worship which was to be heaped upon him "fs only

a snare of the devil, and unbecoming to an elder of the

church." So he and his mountain girl are going back to their mountain cabin to live simply and cleanly, preaching

and practicing old-fashioned religion in their daily lives

And who shall say that they are not wise? What has

the big, showy, noisy, acclaiming world to offer Alvin York one-half so wholesome, so lasting and satisfactory as the life he will find in his native hills?

The nation had cause to be proud of this brave men who was sent to Europe to kill Germans and who therefore made killing Germans his business; but it has just

as much cause to be proud of the sturdy independence and the deep religious feeling which made him turn aside

from all pomp and flattery to the simple things he knows make for happiness and peace.

HELL in this world BUT we'd like to know Just what percentage. NOTHING Is easier for a girl THAN to fool a man 'AND quite likely the eminent thinker WHO announced that time, that STOLEN kisses are the sweetest BASED the observation on an incident THAT had been carefully planned for ALL day by the lady in question. WE hope that in view of the excess flesh THAT Toledo has burdened herself WITH these days that 5HE has driven a little extra piling under the town JUST prior to being slid to the operating room.

WE ponder on the fact that TOU can't buy any whiskey but you can purchase ALL the bomb, explosives. T. N. T.. pistols, magazine guns TOU want to pack around with you. ONE thing that , ANNOYS the dark-complexioned wife of a LIGHT-COMPLEXIONED husband somewhat IS the way he gets credit FROM the casual observer FOR being scrupulously clean DESPITE all she knows aout him OR thinks she knows. NOTHING gives us greater satisfaction

THAN to m-atch the wealthy widow of a real TIGHT man spend the money. WE may be lacking In breadth of vision and humanity WHICH an editor ought to have BUT we'll say that as we wait for the outcome of the VICTOR BERGER case A VERDICT which is a distinct shock to the defendant WILL just about tickle us to death. WHEN we hear that some girls' faces are their FORTUNE we try to figure ot'T when they went into involuntary BANKRUPTCY. IT is never possible to figure out or forsee when TROUELE will break out in Petrograd BERLIN. Moscow or WEST 'HAMMOND. WE often wonder'd what on earth the PARENTS of a six months old boy with the colic cying HIS lungs out usei to, do before THEY invented Castoria. AFTER all. the news from Paris is rather dull WHEN it doesn't give us the least inkling as to how MA NT of her 36 dresses Mrs. Wilson has succeeded IN wearing at one time. ANOTHER evidence that a person IS older than h or she was IS the way he orshe. upon hearing OF someone who died very SUDDENLY, will sigh AND remark almost hopefully "WELL." that was a good way to go." AND now for a few DAYS to think things over AS soon as we get free enough of the smell of chloroform to think about hings.

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UPLIFTING THE FARMER. It's the day of the uplift in every line of endeavor. Professor C. J. Galpin, while attached to the faculty of the College of Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin as occupant of the chair of rural sociology and agricultural economics, attracted the attention of the Department of Agriculture, which has procurred his services to enlighten the husbandman on how to make farm life attractive by finding ways and means of transplanting the high spots of city life to the rural districts. How the farm woman may bear her children without the months of drudgery; how a farm child can have playthings and playmates galore without being required to have its body stunted by hard work in its teen age; and how the farmer can wear silk shirts, romp with his children, become a bank director and church elder and be the leisure hunting equal of his city cousin, is what Uncle Sam has directed the professor to make clear. This is cheering news, indeedPerhaps some day a paternal government may discover some professors who will know how to properly pay our naval officers, run the army without scandal, and put the post office department back where it was before it became a stench in the nostrils of business men and even disgusted friends of the administration.

TO THE POWERS THAT BE The Boys Want to Come Home I Get 'Em Home Toot Sweet!

Rufus Klempner. oe of original Co. L boys and son of Abe Klempner. of South Magoun ave. East Chicago, is expected heme almost hourly. He has been across seas fine last October. At one time he was buglar for his company and later transferred to tha office of corporal.

lough, the guest of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. McClure, 495 150th t. He was very ill and in the hospital 1n France before he sailed.

WASHINGTON. June The department of agriculture prfdif-ts for early June a horde of locusts embracing Alabama on the south. Indiana -n the west Vermont on the north and th- ocean on the east. They will be of both the thirteen and the seventeen-y."vir vaierties. The department issues a series of maps showing in what parts of the country these insects will turn up each year, The maps rrophesy for many years to come. Some years show infestations for only a small section: others will have the locusts widespread. Thus 1313 is scheduled as a great locust yeAr; 1923 will be the next one. CICADA NOT DANOXBOUS. The sudden Incidence of the cicada at stated inter vajs and in fabulous numbers suggests the terrific onset of the true locust, which has become a lesrend. Thi one striking feature has given the gentle insect the fearsome name of locust. In every other respect the cicada is as litt'e

I like its namesake as an insect can be. j It does not migrate, as the locust swarm I does. It is destructive only in the slightI est derree. And it is snnthpr UinH .-,f

creature entirely.

F.ural rarts this ve.ir xvil' pninv tp1.

lent opportunities to observe the cicada in its short, merry life in the air and sunshine. The female uses the branches of trees as receptacles for her eggs These she deposits by trusting them into the tender shoot. The fact that the cache of egjrs. If a young fruit tree is selected, is liable to put one of the big two-legged mammals a few dollars out of pocket disturbs the eager mother not a bit. She blithely performs her duty.

the mite seeks the. nearest Crack and descends into subterranean parts. It wanders and digs its way about until it locates a small tender rootlet, usually a foot beneath the surfacs of the groundTo this ihe larva fixes itself and suck the- juices. Quit immobile the cicada's young r mams, feeding and growing until it ha, developed its a4ult form. ' The metamorphosis requires seventeen years in on variety and thirteen in the other and during this to the insect enorrftoui period the larva remains underground. Finally it is ready to emerge. It digs its way to the surface where it shodi its larval skin and takes to wing for iU brief spell of airy life.

Mrs. Mary Schots re-Ived a telesrram from her son. Edward Shutz. who is

in the navy saying that he sailed early j then tranquilly falls to the earth and

this week for Europe. This is hi

fourth trip.

Major T'ono Cutler, who hss been in France with the engineers arrived in Gary yesterday. Major Cutler arrived from France several weeks ago and has been in an eastern demobilization camp.

Mr. Frank NorrU. Gary, ha received word of the safe arrival of her husband at Newport News, Va.. with the 31$th Engineers from overseas. Mr. Norris landed Wednesday and will be sent to a neastern port for demobilization.

Charlea Grannen of Gary, returned marine, was honored at a dinner party owned by a number of young men including William O'Donnell. Edward Harrington, Charles and William Oates and Harry Hallan.

GAB METERS FOR PHONES. A Utica, X. Y., paper proposes a "gab meter" ta measure telephone cills, arguing that it is the long-winded telephone user who should be called upon to piy the increased cost of telephones, rather than the person who uses his phone for brief and businesslike converse only. There is a lot cf sense in this suggestion, and it should appeal especially to those afflicted by conversational pests on the ?ame party line with themselves. Of course, to attempt to measure the conversation of the true "phone hog is a greater feat than to fly across the Atlantic, for it means to limit the infinite- But after all, if one the home 'phone as on the long distance every instant of time were money, and the meter kept on clicking with the same inexorable regularity as does the taximeter, it might be possible to control the matter a little

Th trannport C alainarea docked In Boston today with 2.211 overseas troop including the remainder of the 76th New England division.

Every vesael Kaillns: from Franc, no matter how small, is now being used to speed up the withdrawal of American troops from Europe, it was made known today when the little U. S. destroyer Gregory arrived in New York with four army casuals aboard and he dumpy freighter. Anicortes put into port wtth three more. The transport Henderson was another arrival with 2.121? off-.cers and men abroad.

The alUnjt of 14 trOop hip on Jone lf and the Rfgina de Italia on June 9. bringing home a total of 8.500 officers and men of the A. E. F. was announced by the war department this afternoon. They follow: The .Agamemnon with 7.7SS from Brest, "due at New Tork. June 18. The battleship New Hampshire, with 1.259 from Brest, due at Newport News June 22; the Kaiser-.n Auguste Victoria, with 5.45 from Brest, due at New York. June 19: battleship Connecticut, with 1.22 from Brest, due at Newport News. June 2, the battleship Nebraska with 1.214 from Brest.

due at Newport News. June 22; the Roanoke, with 1.391 from St. Nabaire. due at Newport News. June 22: the Mexican with 2.48 from St. Nazaire. due at New Tork. June 22: the Iowan with 1.59S from Bordeaux, due at New York. June 22: the West Hampton with 24 casuals from Bordeaux, due at New York. July 4; the Hoven. with four casuals from Brest, due at New York on June 24: Prinz Frederick Wilhelm. with 3.S21 from Brest, due at New York. June 19. and the Regtna de Italia with 2.73" from Marseilles due at New York. June 22: the battleship Arkansas with lfi casuals from Brest, due at N wYork. June 19: the Rochar.ibeau with 14 from IeHavre. due at New York. June 21 end the Montpelier with 2.102 from St. Nazaire, due at Newport News, June 24.

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CHINAMAN A WAR HERO r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PITTSBURGH. Pa. The members of the 107th Field Artillery, just returnee home, are unanimous in declaring Wong B. Tiling, a "hinaman. one of ths bravest of men. Wong was setting ut ranges at Fismette when he spied a

(jermsn machine-gun crew trying to

pi-K orf the Americans. Crawling up on the machine-gun nest Wong, in true American style, whipped out a hand grenade and hurled it into the midst of tne Hua gunners, wiping out the entire crew.

METHODISTS NOT OVER THE LIMIT t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! CHICAGO. June 14. The announceseveral days sgo that the Mt-thodlst Joint Centenary camraign had passed V" goal was a mistake, officials announced today. The contributions did pass tha original goal, which was $108. 000, POD; but owing to additions during the cam!'iin the.iuota was raised to $118. 010.800. The contributions to date total

With none of the helplessness of infancy lOmeu h-it more than Sin5.00n.000

Sam Nelson has returned from overseas and is home from Indianapolis on a te nday furlough. He is the guest of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. J Nelson of 519 Murray street. Hammond.

Mac M. McClure arrived on the I.eviathen and is home on a ten day fur-

Mr. Hbrt Trout, of Snmmcr atreet has received word from her nephew. Private John Weiss, that he has landed safely at Newport News. June 10 and expctr to be home within a weeu. He has been overseas for som time.

UPLAND. Rev. Fred Fisher, of w Tork. a prominent Methodist Episcopal minister, wi'.l deliver the commencement address at Taylor University here next Wednesday. President M. Vayhinger will deliver the baccalaureate address Sunday.

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