Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 20, Hammond, Lake County, 11 July 1919 — Page 4

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

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fnrTniH v ! , r" so mucn ror beaut v as it does for cold, hard explanations. At least the country at Urge needs !es3 beauty and more facts. The address , the acme of pedagogical perfection polished off while our wandering President looked up from his papers to see o' the SUmr SUD daDCing on the blue waves rJSf. w-k nd th maniflt orchestra of the U-iil"1"1?!!. W3f PlayiDg its "uctive strains Mr. Wilson probably slipped in a few adagios at this point about "breaking the world's heart." ,o?e d not.,bellv he People of this countrv are so much concerned with the world s heart as thev are with Americas stomach and backbone. Our beloved President seems to have no apprehension whatever about our national backbone as long as we are tenderlv nursing HZtZ rrt, Hf,sPr"d " altruism with a brush nstead of a pencil. He would have America sacrificin itself until the end. Mr. Wilson knows so much about t!ffl v0 ?vyWayv He 6o&ri't wat us to be nationally seinsn. here has this country been rationally selfish for four years? And who has been paying the 'bills for all this unselfishness but the people? Mr. Wilson somehow seems to have become so saturated with Europeanism notwithstanding the fact that Haig stood upon his hind legs yesterday and roared that England won the war that he is never apprehensive about this country his country. He is only concerned about its future long enough to tie it up in pacts with France and England. He is an internationalist more than he !s an American. You never hear of Mr Wilson's saying anything about the constitution. We fail to see where Mr Wilson has helped the League of Nations. His altruism is confined to Europe Shantung is not in his geography. His humanitarianism stops at the Atlantic. Taken by and large, the President's treaty addres fail definitely to answer the fundamental objections against this country's being engaged as a wet nur'e for decadent Europe. The people have still to be heard from. PROVERBS: XIII, 15. Lloyd-George stated the peace problem in a few -ords: "There will always be criminal states until the rewards of international crime become too precarious to make it profitable, and the punishment of international crime becomes too sure to make it attractive." Any man whose acts intentionally or inadvertently make the punishment of the Hun less sure is aiding to make future international crime more attractive. The best friend of perpetual peace is he who shall do most to write in bold letters across the pages of the history of the World War. "the -?ay of the transgressor is hard."

TVHAT THE STEEL-OIL MERGER MEANS. No more momentous news has been made public for some time affecting the interests of Indiana Harbor and East Chicago than was revealed in the bij merger story carried in these columns yesterday. Intfed the significance of the merger has hardly yet en sensed. When capitalizations affecting industries in the area of a few square miles reach the enormous some of five hundred million dollars it means to the Calumet district. If it does one thing it guarantees a city within a few years in this corner ot the state, whose power and wealth cannot even now be guessed at and the man who would dare make a prophecy would be dubbed the veriest visionary and dreamer. Some cities have for their slogan "Watch Us Grow." It is impossible to watch the cities of the Calumet region grow, just as much impossible as it is to watch a humming bird fly. Their growth cannot be kept track of If a man goes away on a six months' visit from this region, when he omes back he is astonished.

lawyer had a new "girl." and then she proceeded to pat her hair Into shape and affix her trim sailor hat firmly on her head the while she smoothed her skirt carefully over her knees in order that it might not become wrinkled Now if the girl wished to win back the affections of that attorney, she took a very crude and ineffective method of doing It. A dead lover is worse than none, we should say. But if she wished to break into public print and be wept over and get her pictures in the newspapers and be made much of. and finally lo be married by some weak minded, but emotional nut. she took exactly the right course and displayed a wonderful knowledge of human nature. Wonderful perspicacity, we call it. But this shooting business is getting too promiscuous. Nobody can tell who's likely to get shot next. It used to be that only innocent bystanders were shot up. Them was the happy days, for almost everybody then stood equal in the eyes of the shooter, who played to favorites, and every bystander's chance of escaping was equally as good as every other bystander's. But nothat they've got to picking them out before they shoot them, that is some thing different again already. Muncie Preps. TOO LATE. Senators Pomerene, of Ohio, and King, of I'tah. both democrats, are making vehement and fully justified attacks upon the extravagance and inefficiency of the Railroad Administration. But they are too late to sve their Tarty from the stain and stamp of its socialistic polirie.-i It must go before the voters in 1920 as the communistic party, discouraging individual enterprise and initiative and favoring paternalistc government. THE CHILD AND THE GUN. "Hurrah for the Fourth of July." It was a ten vearold boy who was talking, and as he talked he waved a revolver before the awe-struck eyes of his little companions. Of course he pulled the trigger, and of course an acciaent was the result. The child shot himself through! the left hand, so maiming that member that it will alwavs be a crippled, unsightly, useless thing. That the child did not kill himself or one of his comrades is the marvel. Volumes hive been written on the follv of keeping loaded fire-arms where children can get hold of them, but there are still people in the world who fail to recognize the danger, and so long as this is true neither children nor their elders are safe. Any kind of gun, loaded or unloaded, should be kept from children, and handled by their elders onlv for a real reason and with the greatest caution. And lone before a child is old enough to handle a weapon ha should be taught never to poin it at himself or at another, even though it be onlv a tov.

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THE BARTENDER'S FUTURE. That even bartenders have discovered there is no need for the fear they could not get employment elsewhere is s subject of comment for the Christian Sciec.ce Monitor, which says: "Now that prohibition has come, and the men who formerly tended bar have found other employment, or are seeking other vocations, it has become clearer than ever that there was no ground for the "sympathetic" appeal that the saloon must be spared, in order that a large number of heads of families should not be thrown out of work. In those tearful pleas heads of families were invariably affected, though one might have supposed that aji occasional, liquor vender would have been a bachelor. But the worst blow to the doleful conjectures as to the barkeeper's ability to exist, once his occustomed occupation is gone, is the ease with which the liquor sellers have found other employment, employment nearly always more agreeable than selling beer and whiskey, and often more remunerative. It is an interesting fact that many of the men who have passed a considerable time in the liquor business have expressed their relief that the law has at last forced them to take the step they have, long wished, more or less halfheartedly, to take.

SHOOTING FOLKS. Killing folks is becoming too dinged popular a pastime. A California boy, who used to live in Indiana, shot a firl to death because she was somewhat diffident in the matter of marrying him. He sought to take this unique method of convincing her of the correctness of hi? argument. And yet it was wholly illogical. Dead. sh could not possibly marry him and thus he defeated the very Object he sought and besides he may now suffer the noose. Of course if it had been the girl who did Vl w . ... the shooting she would be sobbed over by numerous tearwringing sisters of the public press and by the emotional grandpas that usually sit on juries that try such persons and would be acquitted in triumph and proclaimed as a heroine. But even so Ihe example is not altogether heartening. And now while the papers were filled with stories of the California shooting a Chicago girl of 17 seeks to get in on the game, so she goes gunning for an attorney who she says had wronged her, and when she finds him, shoots him dead in his office. While he !s dying there she turns to those about her, so the story' reads, and tells them she is entirely justified since the

SOBER SONS AND HUSBANDS. There ought to be great rejoicing in the countrv because ol the many noble and long-suffering women who are happy now for the first time in their lives, because their husbands and their sons come home sober and because the money that went for liquor goes into he family exchequer. When you think that many women lived in mortal dread of their males coming home you ought to sing the doxology. The amount of distress and the number of heartaches that this alone has caused wives and mothers is inestimable. They know that the craze of liquor on the part of their men was nothing but a disease and now they can't get it and they are coming hom happy and smiling. These men themselves admit that they are happier without liquor and. oh, what a relief to the good women. Detectie Burns says prohibition will greatly reduce the crime in this country. There is no better au thority in this matter tnan Mr. Burns. He knows the ins and outs of crime and all the Influences surround ing it and he knows that the liquor traffic is the cause of a great deal, if not most of "it. And still there are some people even yet who are trying every device possible to kill off prohibition and keep up crime. There are no two ways about it. The leading criminal class are those who are trying in every way to overthrow prohibition. Why don't they stop it? Why do not they let this great crime destroyer, have its full sway? It does seem if they thought anything of society and humanily the would rally for prohibition rather than keep awake at nights trying to devise some trick to defeat tt. Sobriety will be worth all it cos's and many times more.

A FRinxn having advised that It is best to aim higher '.ban the murk CAt'SKS one of the dear (rirls whose hands we love to -Iasp now and anon ea ootto voc THAT she does hale to h kissed on the nose. EVERYTHING has its drawha.ks A LOT of women sem to recret prohibit ion THF; way it leads f their HL'SBANPS hanging around the

house nights. ONE of our friends seems to think THAT we blame Wilson for a great deal too many things BUT as a matter of faet we do not THINK he is accountable for all the lettuce lie, radish grubs, potato bugs and d'T WORMS in our recons'ru't ion garden WOMEN' are always defending othr women TU T you may have noticed that WHEN they hate a room to rent THF.T aenerally stipulate, "For M-n Only." DON'T shout because you are not getting what you want BF, thankful that our are not getting what you do not want.

JI.'ST as we have about recovered from th effects of our ETON jacket operation j F. read that the way to insure pr-j

fed health IS to stand by the open window every day AND laugh aloud. JL PT as merrily as one ran for five

minutes at a j STRETCH and while we , WERE trying 1t out one of the peds-! trians passing who ! THOUGHT we were laughing at him j

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her ;s. ISIS, has dedicated the follow- !'! on the tfuptVme karrlflte. The Architect of all the earth Drew plans for him upon the Trestlebr.-ard of life. He read them Through, and understood, and in The camp and on the battlefield He worked them out He did the Job and did it well. The wage, vow ask? His body lies I'pon the battlefield of France Hr madp rhe sacrifice xjpreme. Rut the real man. th s.ul of him. If with the Architect above; Hnd There pereharn e is beinjr taught To tra'e ihe lines ujion the chart For othn- men. in.1 belong them "I unde-rstand and do their jnha as well. And nmv oiJr Muster nrl our '",od. Vouchsafe to us he wase of service and of sacrift;e. May love for Thee incite to deed. of love. And though our days be marv or be f.-w. At eventide the Job complete.

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Mr. and Mr. W. H. Burkay, K.oaady avenue. Hessviile. hae received a messes'from their son. V. W. Rurkey. stating that he has arrived safe and well from o-.erseas and r.ow i ramp MerHtt. N T. He was wi-.h the 145th trhiisportation corps

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Sergt. Wilbur Butchar and CpL Albert Scholz. both of Whiting, who have been with the 62nd Engineers overseas, have reor.-.ed their discharge from ?rvic ind returned home.

Lao Helman, 'Whiting', of the V. 8. Navy, has been given a release from service at the Great Eakes and returned home. Ensign Donald T. Spurrier, W. S. IT. R. T.. who has been pilot in the naval aviation at Mooreh-ad City, N. C. for several months, has received his honorable discharge and is now at the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs. W. G. Spurrier of Whiting. Word baa bean received that Edward M Olson has arrived in New Tork from "over seas " His mother residas in East Chiiago but he enlisted from Hammond.

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army of occupation began leaving the Rhine district Wednesday morning said a Cohlenz dispatch to the Daily Mail today. The troops are nroute to the v. S and shortly will be followed by other

MaJ. T. O. Leffel, recently returned frqm the Texas oil fields, visited his sister. Mr. Albert Kites, at her home. 63 Gostlin st . Hammond. Tuesday. . The Xoaehmicka family of Crown Point have received word of the safe arrival of Clarence Koschnicke from overseas. They have also been made happy by the good news that Sergt Kmet Koschnicke, who was gassed and has been in a Denver sanitarium, has passed a splendid physical examination and will soon be able to return to his

Whan Harry Juag-johaa of Valparaiso reached home yesterday morning from service in France, he was informed for the first time that his mother was deal, and that the funeral would take place this afternoon. He wag fortunate in arriving in time to attend the funerat

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SUPPOSE IT WERE POSSIBLE? When the turmoil is over and the remaining 900.000 of the A. E. F get back home into life's strugzie. what, is to be the result? Thi6 army of nearly thre million is not the .ame class of men that went to France. Broadened by the wonderful experiences each soldier has found himself a new and better man in man ways. The main factor is that he has gained in intelligence 50 per cent. Perhaps that may be putting it mildly. In the future he will have to be reckoned with. Many soldiers go back to their old jobs, the average drawing a bigger pay envelope than when they went away. Hundreds search for bigger things. This old world is (ai too small in its prospects. The ex-soldier- of today is a thinker. He ha had an'ple t:ir;e and opportunity to reason life's f-obleis out for nimself- He now has an ideal and he not soin to s;op until he reaches his goal. Lupros it were possible to band this little a.-vi of some 4.00n,oor men together for nobler Ideals, whir an 31 mv of thinkers this would be. One can hardly imagine their power or their possibility.

CHUMLEY CHATTERS. Not long ago Secretary of the Treasury Glass dismissed the head of the War Risk Bureau and charged him with "insufferable exaggerated importance." The man discharged was Col. H. D. Lindsley, who had brought some sort of order out of the chaos in the bureau, which is expected to pay to families of soldiers the allotment due them. Mr. Glass appointed R. G- Cholmeley-Jones to fill the vacancy. That Mr. Jones is not troubled with "insufferable exaggerated importance" is indicated by a circular letter which he has sent to the 15.000 employes in his bureau. The letter is dated June 17, 191!), and reads as follows: "My Dear Associates: During these few weeks I have had a most interesting experience in trying to work out with you some of the very difficult problems of the bureau. Naturally, in a business as large as this, and in which there are so many people engaged, there is a great opportunity for studying human nature. It is the most interesting thing in the world to observe how certain people just naturally come to the front in an emergency, and I often wonder what it is that keeps the others from doing the same." WEDDINGS AND HEALTH. A recent issue of the Oregonian has an article about a breach-of-promise suit lately tried in the London courts. After the engagement of a certain young couple had been announced it was found that the young woman had tuberculosis. Notwithstanding, she proposed to go on with the wedding as planned, but the young man refused. She sued, and the jury was unaoie to agree. It seems that in London tuberculosis is not a legal bar to matrimony; hence it may be that, legally speaking, the young man is culpable. But there must have been a strong sprinkling of old-fashioned common sense in that jury, since it failed to find him guilty. Legal or illegal, any person suffering from a com municable disease has no business to marry. If the disease is curable, as tuberculosis is held to be, and

there be sufficient faith and affection to bid people wait until the sick one is cured, that is all right: but that any person who knows himself to be the victim of so lingering an ailment as tuberculosis should hold another person to matrimony argues a selfishness which bodes ill for the success of any marriage. The young man miy have been guilty of a breach of contract which will eventually bring him within the action of man-made law. but by all the laws of health, which are the laws of God. he is right.

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SO w guess that it is a poor way to j get healthy. j NOT until a man ges a boy of hisj

own to lick DOES he like to brag that when he vt as a boy HE never got a licking that he DID not deserve. TIMES change Indeed WHEN we used to go to school THE Sahara desert was the largest dry spot IN all the world. IF the girls take any satisfaction IN getting into new clothes and thinking they HAVE straight line fgures IT is nothing In our young hfe but many SUCH eases, nothing. In our opinion

COULD look rounder lir.e. ONE thing that makes u rejoice I IS the fact that none of our glo-iou- j but sick and defenseless prisoners ARE left in Gori.ti.ny now AND we suppose the highborn and ultra refined LADIES of the exclusive social set IN Berlin find it rather ODD to be using cuspidT and srit- ;

! toons all the time j

THE wiff seems to think that I ARGUE so much at home we ought , to be glad to j KEEP quiet when we get down town j P.UT we can't. 1 WHEN a man eats like a hog NATURE tries - warn him PT building his stomach so big that: IT crowds him away from the table, j

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Soldier Boy News

Mr. Byn of Man Mlrhlxaa aTenne. Indiana Harbor. siter of Josph Parrough, received word from him stating that he arrived in Newport News after being in France two veari. Joseph has seen some t:fT fighting and writes that there is no place like home. Joseph sas that it will he December when he gets his discharge papers, due to his be ng a regular armv man. but m the meanwhile he will he stationed at Newport News, and will he home on a furlough shortly.

l ea Keh ot CaWey arenae. Hammond, has returned from overseas. He was in France for eighteen long months.

MANY of the U boat commanders w ho were to be demanded for trial have fled from Germany and are living elsewhere und?r assumed names. Still other have committed suicide. "Thus conscience doth make cow-ards of us all "

ALL of the Kaiser's sons except the Crown Prince have offered themselves for trial in their father's place. But then the C. P. has always been a Trial for father. EVERY man who intends to operate a machine of any kind should learn his "three R's" says the Department of Agriculture "Running, Repairing and Readjustment."

Mr. aad Hm. C K. Cooaa f Gary, have received a menage announcing the afe arrival of their son. Raymond Coons from over there Corporal Coons enlisted m 1S1T and went across early in the game. He saw action in ;he Argonne. Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel battles. After the armistice was signed he was sent with the army of occupation into Germany. Corporal Coons Is a graduate of the Froebel school and later an employ of the. American Bridge 'Company at GarJ. He is expected home any day.

Report of Condition of First National Bank GARY, INDIANA At the Close of Business, June 30, 1919 RESOURCES Loans $1,749,701.45 Overdrafts 1,210.39 U. S. Bonds and Certificates 1,401,144.11 Other Bonds and Investments 1,3S2?700.39 Bank Building . 8o!996.79 Cash 808,230.86 $5,423,983.99 LIABILITIES Capital $ 200.000.00 Surplus 50,000.00 Undivided Profits and Special Reserve 114,643.70 Circulation 200,000.00 Due Federal Reserve Bank 380,000.00 Deposits 4,467,340.29 Dividends Unpaid 12,000.00

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$5,423,9S3.99 . $2,881,656.00 $3,421,635.22

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Gary, has arrived at Camp Mills. N. J.. from overseas. Corporal Dedless is a member of the Baloon corps and has been In the service three years, two of which was spent !n France. Corporal Dedless for a number of years was a resident of Gary and will return to make his home in the magic city after receiving his discharge.

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J. R. Meser, Gar7, achool troant officer, who logt his son. Sergeant t"5o. m '..t.r rn the battlefield, of the

June 30, 1919 .... $4,467,340.29 OFFICERS F. R. SCHAAF, President. E. C. SIMPSON, Cashier. R. R. HEMINGWAY, Asst. Cashier. B. T. LEMSTER, Asst. Cashier. DIRECTORS H. L. ARNOLD, President Gary Trust & Savings Bank HOMER J. CARR, Editor Gary Tribune. F. RICHARD SCHAAF. President Citizens' National Bank, Hammond. E. C. SIMPSON, Cashier. E. G. SEIP. President Calumet National Bank, South Chicago. LEO WOLF. Kaufman & Wolf. Hammond. Ind. M. W. WINTERS, Real Estate Owner.