Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 311, Hammond, Lake County, 17 June 1919 — Page 4

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In every muscle and will eat everything he grows, whether, in his previous existence, he liked it or not. And none of the pots in the beauty parlors can give the glow which comes from out-door exercise and interna use. of milk, whole wheat and garden pass.

NOTICE TO ST7BSCXXBTSXS. If you fail to receive your copy of Thb Tires as promptly as you have in the. past, please do not think it has beer lost or was not sent on time. Remember that the mail service is not what it used to be and that complaints ar general from many sources about the train and mail service. Thb Timbs has increased its mailing equipment ana Is striving earnestly to reach Its patrons on time. Bs prompt In advising us when you do not get your paper and we will act promptly.

There Is only room for 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.

OFFICERS IN DEMAND. An official of the war department tells of a young man who, two years ago, was a waiter in a small town restaurant, making $12 a week in wages and tips- He had been in the national guard, and when the war began got an appointment at an officers' training school. He was sent to France as a second lieutenant. He returned a captain, with a medal and a citation for bravery. His former employer offered him his old job. "Nothing doing!" he replied with a laugh. "No more $12 a week for me! I'm a $3,000-a-year man now." He proved it by getting a job at that salary with a big concern. He has a large number of men under him, and he gives and takes orders with equal ability. The story well illustrates the big advantage gained by thousands of young Americans as an incidental byproduct of their army experience. The officers have had an especially valuable course of education. It has fivea them a general mental awakening, and it has taught them discipline, self-confidence, presence of mind, the handling of other men and the necessity of fitting into a big organization. These are all qualities that are almost as valuable in business as In the army. Employers are beginning to appreciate the unusual supply of good men thus providentially provided for them, and as the business- machinery speeds up the demand for them to fill important posts Is sure to grow.

EVERY COMMUNITY HAS ITS SPEEDERS. Some automobile men from another town got to talking in one of the garages the other night, and it was interesting to get their point of view. They talked more freely than they would have done in the presence of a newspaper man from their own town. They were exchanging notes about the varioas drives of their home community, and some who had a special reputation for speeding. One man. accoidins to them, was the terror of the neighborhood. He seemed to be utterly up.-et when a car came along that he could not pass. , He would be sore for days. He was never content until he got in front of anything in Fight. He would work some queer stunts to get bv. they was a line of cars ahead of him, he would never stop to consider whether he could get by more than one. As soon as there seemed to be half enough room on a narrow road, along he would go. If he couldn't pass the second car, he would nose his way in between that car and the one he had just passed. Most drivers usually would give up their right of way to sav accident. But within recent weeks the man had partiy come to grief. While passing another car at 40 milea an hour he had collided with a tree. Through the machine was wrecked, yet by a miracle he had escaped. A man can work that kind of thing about so long. Then he runs up against some driver who will stick by his rights even if a collision does result at high speed. Ii seems strange that there are in most places drivers who have a reputation about like this, which is commonly a matter of garage gossip, yet no one will complain. The many people who know about it realize that the man is a menace. Yet they dislike to make trouble and won't do anything as long as they are not personally injured- It will be impossible to stop speeding on the highways until the automobile using public shows a disposition to complain of people known to be Fpeeders. Lafayette Journal.

LIVING AND DEAD TAKU GLACIERS THRILL ALASKA TRAVELLERS

GIANTS NEEDED NO LONGER. In talking about the American national game, a wellknown manager recalls the days when the players were

j1 chosen for their size, and every baseball team was a i company of nine giants. In a game, as a Martian making j his first visit to the United States might deduce from

'an afternoon at the baseball park, that 13 often won by the ability of a man with a stick to hit a ball that another man is trying to throw past him, and knock that ball as far as possible, size and weight were held to be necessary qualifications: "Unless a man was a sixfooter," says the reminiscent manager, "he wouldn't command much attention as a player." Then a few smaller men managed to get into the game, and made up in agility what they lacked in weight, for "the little man was not only faster than a human elephant, but he could hit quite as often if not so hard " And the game became what it is today, an exhibition of individual judgment and kil as well as of strength. Christian Science Monitor.

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Taku Inlet, Alaska, 900 miles north of Vancouver and 400 milos south of Juneau, capital of Alaska, is unique in that it can be visited by all the coast steamers and because it is the only place in the world where a dead and a living glacier of any magnitude can be compared side by side. The dead glacier is on the left when steaming up the inlet, and, according to Indian tradition, has not moved for over 200 years. In that time, however, it has actually receded about 1 miles. Its length is estimated at 60 miles, width ah-vit two miles, depth of its face about 250 feet. The live Taku Glacier lies a mile and a half from the dead one. It is li miles wide, 800 feet high, from the water level to the apex of its pinnacled face, and about 80 miles long. Its movement varies somewhat, but it moves on an average about ten feet a day into this arm of the Pacific. Where the wall of ice leaves the rock channel forming the shore line, the mighty walla break and give birth to icebergs which at times are more than half a million tons in weight, with a roar which can be heard for many miles. A terrific crashing and grinding is heard continually. The face of the glacier when exposed to the sun for any considerable time turns to dead white. When the

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walls break, most wonderful colors flash in the sunlight and the face f the glacier looks like majestic turretcd architecture. The serrated crags of the ice wall form an amazing variety of contours and the person gazing upon its face can readily imagine domes, moeques, spires, castellated battlements, minarets, colonnades in fact every form of architecture all fashioned by th

hand of Mother Nature out of solid ice and gleaming and scintillating as though studded with innumerable jtrwels. It is a sight which once seen can never be forgotten and it is one of th8e stupendous forces of nature which must make even the greatest egotist realize what a perfect pygmy he is in the eternal scheme of things.

beautiflcation. Agriculture will be appreciated as one of the greatest industries by those who become Interested in this arboretum, and landscape gardening will have a laboratory where everyone can study. This is the one great institution Chicago lacks, the one great thine that will stand out and make our forest preserve internationally famous. The forest preserve in itself is a rreat blessinp. but it can hardly be great as a natural stretch of woodland, such as we have always had but never fully appreciated. An arboretum, however, will be the schoolroom 1 for the forest preserve, where a love and knowledge of what the forest preserve moans can be developed. It will be the educational featur'-. the center of attraction and the great advertising agency an inspiring spot that all will fro to see and. having: once seen it. will return ayain and again to watch tho ever changing colors of th laves and Rowers and to har the birds repeat their songs. FAMOUS AMXRTCAJT OAJLSEIT. The Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, established in 16S, is the tree museum of Harvard Vniversity. If you could drive through it today you would feast your eyes on the most magrsiScent sight of thousands of lilac bushes in bloom, hundreds of varieties. Thousands of plant lovers from all parts of America make a pilgrimage to Boston at this time of the year to enjoy this never-tn-be-foreotten sight. Then there is Shaw's botanira in St. Louis, the second greatest arboretum in America, where hundreds of our best practical gardeners and florists have received their training. Even commercial New Tork has been most esthetic and scientific in the development of its arboretum in Bronx park and it has a horticultural museum which is the finest, in America. Pluladelphia, too, has an arboretum In its 1.S0O acre Fairmont park. Commissioner Goodnow and hjs coworkers will have many organizations supporting them In this worth-while effort.

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perseverance. A number of men of similar type have promised Colonel Arthur Woods, Assistant to the Secretary of War to volunteer their services and help rehabilitate the men who were hard hit in the f.ght to make the world safe for democracy.

DEFICITS AND POLITICS. yV are now informed on good authority, Congressmen Moore and Fees, that unless this nation adopts a more economical policy it will face a big deficit next year and must again appeal to the people for a loan This information is not at all unlooked for. The nation has poured out money like water and even spent fabulous sums in getting the people to approve its policies. It seems to have gone into the market and paid for every little influence that contributed ot its popularity. More little projects and schemes of alleged patriotic import have been supported by the government; more salaries have been paid to men and women for trumped-up servteea tendered ia the name of patriotism and humanity than could be written in a big book. We are not astonUhed at the prediction of coming deficits. Those deficits will come in like a thunder clap at the coming elections n4 the government will squirm over the exhibits of javishness that will be shown. We cannot understand what the party in power is thinking about.

HELOGLAND. Nothing in all the big peace settlement could be more emblematic of the new world arising out of war than the proposed transformation of Helgoland. The British Royal Society for the Protection of Birds wants to make the island a bird refuge, and the idea is said to be receiving favorable consideration. Helogland, as the world knows, is the great German stronghold in the North Sea. In itself it is a trival bit of rock jutting out of the sea, hardly more than a square mile in extent. It derives its name, "Holy Land," from the fact that It was formerly a heathen sanctuary. Americans used to know it merely as the birthplace of Richard Mansfield. Great Britain, after owning it for nearly a century, ceded it to Germany in 1S90 in the, belief that it was of no importance. Germany proceeded to make it an impregnable fortress, the key to her whole naval system. In the present war it served as an impassable barrier and kept her coasts safe from British attack, while it sheltered cruisers and submarines that went forth to harry allied commerce in the North Sea and beyond. Helgoland must now be dismantled. The victors have commanded it. The ruin left will be of no more use to Germany. It may be of no use to anybody. Only a few fishermen can get a living on that bare rock. It is a happy idea to give it to the bird3. That would make it. by contrast, an impressive monument to ruthless ambition.

WEAR OLD BERIBERI. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who owes much of in, -rrn-deserved popularity to the fact that though more than seventy years old he Is able to assimilate new ideas and change his mind completely when the old one needs discarding, writes "A Tribute to Beriberi." Not that he approves of beriberi in itself, no matter how carefully compounded to contain protein, carbonhydrate, fat and minerals, will keep people from disease and death if it be deficient in vitamins is pretty important for the human race to know. Citrus fruits, fresh meats, vegetable, fresh milk, are necessary in some form tor the human system. And here is where beriberi helps out the high cost of living. If you -do not want to have it, live largely out of your own garden. Beet-greens and spinach and lettuce and beans and peas for the present, followed by carrots, beets, turnips, onions and such like for the winter will prevent not only an obvious, horrible disease but will ward off a host of minor disturbances and unpleae-antness-"That tired feeling," "nerves," "disordered liver" and various other things set down in the almanac as needing patent medicines will disappear as if by magic If the gardner will work in his own garden till he aches

NEW ZEALAND is busy with a new war all its own. The kea, one of the most marvelous birds in existence, is attacking sheep in large numbers, and flocks everywhere are menaced seriously. The kea is described as a kind of parrot with a very strong beak and claws. It attacks the sheep day or night with equa! ferocity, and one flock of the birds has been known to kill no fewer than seventy sheep in a single attack. Somebody ought to page Sindbad.

THE Wood boom i3 growing, accordin gto the papers.

! It seems as if Wood ought to make good timber for anything, but probably his political opponents would rather ! see him cut down.

THE big war is now ending. It only lasted five years. The war in Washington may last longer than that, from present indications-

JAMACIA GINGER is henceforth barred from Maine by court, order. Maybe they don't need any ginger down in Maine.

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

Slxty-fouj army and asvy war briass arrived at New Tork yesterday aboard the transport Plattsburg. which brftught 2,231 officers and enlisted men.

On today's casualty lists appear ths names oJ Private Frank C. Lewis. Gary, died of disease and Sergt. Louis M. Lowe. Gary, killed In action, previously reported missing.

Allan O'HOurka, son ef Mr. and 2ffrs. F. J. O'Rourke of 420 Msy street. Hammond, has arrived at Camp Taylor. Louisville, Ky, from France. He was In France for nineteen months with Co. M. 23rd Engineers.

'J I,ieutaaat JoUjx W. Scott, a Gary soldier and before entering the service was associated wtih Prosecuting Attorney Clyde Hunter in the law office, has arrived in Gary. He has seen nearly two years of army life eighteen months of which was spent In active service in France, being wounded three times in some of the fiercest battles fought over there and he was confined to the hospital for months recovering from his wounds. .

Th War Department lias arranged a series of intimate talks to the men convalescing from wounds and sickness in the military hospitals, to be given by prominent men who have made good in the face of obstacles. John Hays Hammond and Charles Schwab were the first to volunteer for this sort of work. They are making addresses throughout the country, telling the men in the military hospitals what can be achieved by a combination of hard work, ambition and

Tom Bobbins, one of Gary's most popular "T" dormitory men. was killed in action many months ago, according to news just reaching Gary. Toung Robbins enlisted at the age of only 18 years when war was first declared. Very little was hoard of him aftpr he entered the service only some time ago it was rumored that he was killed in action but this could not be verified. The details and exact date of the death of young Robbins are as yet unavailable.

THE Turks are summoned to Versailles, and the Allies will proceed to "talk Turkey" to them-

Watch the German's gait change from the goose-step to the side-step.

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Washington, Juna IS. Bring-in; noma a total of 27.900 officers and members of the American expeditionary forces, eight transports sailed from French ports on June 12. the war department announced this afternoon. They are: The Maui wth 3.6SS from Brest, due at Newport News June 22: the Great Northern with 3,333 from Brest, due at New York June 19: the H. R. Mallory with 2.092. from Brest, dua at New Tork June 21; the Imperator. with 9.TST from Brest .due at New Tork June 19; the Taormina with 2.4 31 from Marseilles from New York; Princess Matoika with 3.772 from St. Nazaire, due at Charleston June 23; the Eten, with 1.829 from St. Nazaire. due at Newport News June 24: the Dekalb with 2.177 from St. Nazaire, due at Newport News June 23.

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CHICAGO WILL HAVE A GREAT ARBORETUM

Br J- K. PRO ST. The forest preserve commissioners on April 14 passed a resolution introduced by Commissioner Charles N. Goodnow for the establishment of an aboretum. which In Its completeness Is to rival the great arboretums of the world and bring a love and knowledge of forestry, horticulture and agriculture into the daily life of our citizens. An arboretum is a park where plants, trees, shrubs and flowers may be seen growing in their natural perfection, where all native plants and those that can be Introduced by man are grown at their best. Our nature lovers, botanists, ornithologists, etomologists. foresters, horticulturists, agriculturists and landscape gardners will fully appreciate the value and importance of such an institution for Chicago and the middle west. But the general public and the school children will receive the greater benefit, for they will learn to love plant life, grown to harmonize in kind, form and color. CAN STTJDT BUB.DS AND PLANTS. In this arboretum they can see and study wild and cultivated flowers, watch the birds nest, and leArn to know them by their songs, collect and study the Insects, enjoy the magnificent moss displays, of the shrubs in flower and learn how to propagate them for home

Yanks. Who Fought in British Army Long to Return Home.

Floyd MacGriff staff correspondent i. n. service) VTCNCKESTER. England, June Fifteen thousand Americans who joined the British army, either because their ardent and adventurous natures could not wait until America declared war or because hcy could not pass the physical standards of the United States recruit ing officers, are being demobilized In fniall batrhoB at Morn Hill Camp, near here. Weeks ago Winchester was evacuated by the Yanks, who captured this historic capital of England of King Alfred's day and held it during the war as a rest camp for American soldiers ferried to France via Liverpool. Morn Hill Camp, which has accommodations for 10.000 soldiers, is the demobilization camp mainly for those Britishers of the four parts of the earth who heard the country's call early in 1914 and hurried to England. They areawaiting not only honorable discharges, but also ships to carry them back again to the frontiers of civilization in Africa. India. Australia, South America and Canada. The Yanks are thrown into the camp for good measure. They con

stitute the 'foreign legion" of the British army.

The Americans now want to get back homo. Their appetite for adventure has been appeased. Nothing looks better to them now than that "little oV town" In Missouri or Oregon or Texas from which they happen to hall. Normally, from 800 to 1.200 Yanks are In camp here at one time. The Red Cross has provided a concrete clubhouse, 175 feet long and 45 feet wide. Just opposite the Quarters of the men who are waiting repatriation to the Argentine, Two flags, the Stars and Stripes, and the Red Cross banner, float above the building. Inside Americans lounge about, reading old American newspapers and magazines afid swap ping yarns. Groups of Yanks In British uniforms while away time around tables, playing games. Their chief ambition is to wake up some morning and be handed credentials for free passage home. Windows from the Red Cross building, seated on a knoll, look upon undulating scenery which appears ns though It has Just ben gone over "by a landscape gardner, plus a carpet sweeper. German prisoners may be seen constructing a railroad spur not far away. From the opposite side traffic may be. seen moving along a well-kept highway toward Winchester. At evening time groups of Americans gather about a piano and sing to an old Scotch tune verses composed by one of the Yanks, which run: "Men of mettle, all of them, soldiers of fortune true. They fought and won their noble cause. 'neath the old Red, White and Blur. From far off places came these men. red blood to the core. As volunteers for daring deeds they stood out in the fore. They fought in France and Meso. and every other region; Take off your hats, boys, I say, to the British Foreign Legion,"

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