Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 34, Hammond, Lake County, 28 July 1919 — Page 4

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There le only room for one flag In Lake county and thet Is the Stare and Stripes. There Is room for only one language and that is the language of the people of the United States.

BKT THINGS IN LIFE. Lst evening -we chanced to be near a town lot ball field where a team of coming American leaders, aged about 14. was busily preparing to defeat a team composed of similarly aged players in a nearby town this afternoon. Enthusiasm was the keynote- of the hour. There wasn't a lad that arrived within hailing distance that wasn't immediately Interrogated as to whether or not he had been able to raise the carfare necessary to maie the trip and would be among those present. And the boys were bent on winning, too. They expected to came back with the bacon. It was on of the big moments in life for these lads. It was really good to hear such genuine enthusiasm for anything, and that old school-day question came back to mi Ad: "Make me a boy again just for tonight" These lads who are realizing their plans of making these little baseball excursions, and other boy plans, are at one of the high points in their lives. There is nothing that ever duplicates the joys of boyhood. They'll ever be the dayB that will be most readily recalled. So, when you see enthusiasm for lads for a venture like that which we stumbled onto last night, lend it encouragement. Don't be a grouch and spoil boyish enthusiasm. Those lads were happier last night than if they were millionaires, even though the carfare they had raised only totalled 24 cents each way. It's a real tonic for doubting humans to come in contact with genuine, bubbling, boyish enthusiasm once more.

A LEAGUE OF NATIONS FOR WAR.

They tell us, do some of these League of Nation idola-

tors, that manufacturers and bankers are for the League. W showed last week where all the manufacturers were

not for it Here Is a New York banker, J. S. Backe, who calls the. Wilson pact a League of Nations for War. He cays: "War is rarely made by the people. In the case of democratic governments, it may be declared by representatives of the people, as in the case of the American congress, or Hous? of Commons in England; under autocratic governments, which, thank God. are rapidly disapt pearing, it may be declared by a coterie, as in the recent great war brought on by Germany; but. at all events, a declaration of war is made by individuals, and it seems to me that if the great statement assembled in Paris had really meant to make war in the future impossible, the first clause of the League of Nations covenant, as drawn up by them, would read about as follows: "'All war except in the defensive, is illegal, and an International code shall be drawn up in every way qnali tying what defensive war means.' "The punishment for violation of this first clause of the treaty should mean death to those making said declaration or affixing their signatures thereto, and after that Clause It seems to me that ' any further clauses would be almost needless, except those defining the methods of trial of the criminals. "This would be a real League of Nations for Peace; instead of that, we have a document, which, while no doubt meritorious in many respects, Is nothing but a League of Nations for War. And I have heard Mr. Fred Coudert, the eloquent and eminent defender of the proposed League, state in Carnegie Hall that this 'was no League of Nations for Peace, but a League of Nations for Peace through war. "As for me, the crushing results of the recent war do not make the League of Nations for Teace through war sound very attractive. "If such a clause had been inserted, the trial of the. criminals would be a routine matter, and the result inevitable. The present contemplated trial of the parties, who, under the present international code, are not criminals, in my opinion, although I make no pretense of elng a lawyer, I believe will result in a farce, which will only bring ridicule to the Allies, and add to the insolence of the German junkers, and give them a renewed standing in their own country, which, it seems to me, might have keen avoided."

AND THIS WAS 50 YEARS AGO! While critics in the Vnited States and England are having their flings at the outrageous doings of the modern girl It is Just as well to remember that they used to say the same things about the girl that married dad, remarks the Referee, which reprints the following from the Saturday Review of fifty years ago: "The girl of the period is a creature who dyes her hair and paints her face as the first articles of her personal religion a creature whose sole idea of life is fun, whose sole aim is unbounded luxury, and whose dress is the chief object of such thought and Intellect as she possesses. Her main endeavor is to outvie her neighbors In the extravagance of fashion. If a sensible fashion lifts the gown out of the mud. she raises hers. "All men whose opinion Is worth having prefer the simple and genuine girl of the past, with her tender little ways and pretty bashful modesties, to this loud and rampant modernization, with her false red hair and painted skin, talking slang as glibly as a man, and by preference leading the conversation to doubtful subjects. . . . All we can do is to wait patiently until the national madness has passed and our women have come back again to the old English Idea."

THE LUSITANIA. It has finally been decreed in the admiralty branch of the Vnited States district court that the Cunard Steamship Company "is absolved of all liability for the sinking of the Lusitania, torpedoed by a German submarine on May 7, 1915." This exempts the company from 64 damage claims representing between J5.000.000 and $6,000,000. The decree recites that "the sinking of the steamship Lusitania on May 7, 1915, and the consequent lots of life and property were caused solely by the illegal act of the German imperial government acting through its instrument, the submarine commander, and that the petitioner is not liable to any extent for any loss, damage or in; Jury." That decree, it is related, is in accordance with law and justice. The crime was the illegal act of the m: perial German empire. That being the case, why cannot the heads of the former German government, directly responsible, be punished? Punishment of those guilty of the dastardly crime would not bring back the dead victims of German criminality, but it would serve as a precedent and a warning for the future.

THE "TIGER." It is well-nigh impossible for reople outside of France to understand why there should be any serious opposition in that so recently rescued nation to her chief savior. For that "Tiger" Clemenceau undoubtedly is. When hesitating premiers who faltered before "OVfeatism" were exposing the Republic in their care to final destruction the French nation turned as one man to the one leader who could save them. They called Clemenceau from his critic's seat and demanded that he turn his variolic powers against the Hun and against the coward or traitor Frenchmen who were doing the Hun's work behind the French lines. Clemenceau came. "Veni, vidi. vici." He struck twofisted at the enemies of France, one fist for the Germans and the other for the Bolo Pashas and the Caillaux who were stabbing her in the back. He saved France if ever a statesman saved a nation. And now that peace has come and Clemenceau has guided his nation most successfully through the difficult and trying times of treatymaking, enemies rise against him ln the Chamber; and his fate, in spite of his preliminary success, is still in doubt Why? In the first place, gratitude plays about as large a part in politics as elsewhere. No nation chooses its rulers for what they have done, but for what they will do. And intensely democratic, industrial working France Is by no means certain that it likes the sort of civil gov

ernment which Clemenceau represents. Clemenceau was

not a very popular office holder in the pacific days before the war. He was a far better slayer than leader of cabinets. A "Tiger" may be a fine enemy to let loose on one's enemies but less attractive as a domestic pet. The Socialists are irreconcilably opposed to Clemenceau because of his drastic measures toward them when in office. His "tiger" springs have made a lot of enemies through the years, and peace has once again released their enmity. Then he is an old man. Thai, counts minus in politics so largely personal as the French. Rising young politicians will not rally heartily and steadfastly to a sinking sun, be it ever so brilliant. The allied world, outside of France, would today elect Clemenceau unanimously to the highest position in France. But it is not so certain that it would keep him In high office at home.

SKIRTS are likely to be tighter this fall because of the scarcity of materials. With. trains delayed now a account of the time required by hobbled women for boarding them, the railroad men might as well prepare to revise their schedules.

RICHARD Croker's children now assert that "the dark-eyed beauty" whom he married after their mother's death was not a Cherokee princess, as was alleged, hut a cabaret singer. But that will make her none the less a dark-eyed beauty.

WHILE John D. Rockefeller questioned the gallon measuring of gasoline by a roadside garage, the question that's mostly biting the rest of the automobility is what has become of the gasoline kick.

INCIDENTALLY, those much-heralde dsubstitute for gasoline not only seem to have gone through a hole in the ground, but to have pulled the hole in after them.

IT did not require a statement from Henry Watter son to make the American public understand that he is "ferninst" the League of Nations plan as viewed.

JUDGING from the way London is treating General Pershing, our British cousins hate us about the way a drowning man despises a life guard who rescues him.

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Ford YOU can hear the door slam without having your ears covered up. THE man who spends FOUK hours telling what he la going; to do USUALLY accomplishes aa much as THE horse who runs hla race in the paddock. BKFORK he goes to the post. IT Is not always fair to Judge others by oneself HIT we do know that If we wore those LITTLE thingumbobs over our ears the way SOMK girls do IT would be a terrible temptation to us never to WASH our ears a no one could EVER know the difference. SOMEBODY writes to inquire what salary Frltx Kbert TH7 new president of Germany gets $250,000 a year FINK trade harness-making, eh? AVK read with the usual degree of interest that we have IN such things that corsets make a girl SAY AY BACKED BUT since it is admitted that this deformity DOES not reveal Itself when "ne Is dressed "WE do not think it would make much DIFFERENCE Inasmuch as no one but one's own FAMILY would ever see the deformity AND we all have to overlook A GREAT deal In those we love. NOTHING in all this world LOOKS more forlorn and deserted than AN Ice box when a man's nobler half IS away on a two weeks' vacation. RAIN is the most beautiful WORD in the English language Just now. WHEN nsture gives a girl a good share she goes around acting as

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THOUGH she did it herself. WE might be tempted to purchase a consignment HAVING seen three nursing bottles for a DIME in a store window 1 V baby buggies weren't so darned high AM) the doctors would reduce PRICES a little. SOMETIMES in our incurious way we WONDER what has become of THE o. f. boy who HAD warts all over hi.s hands. AS the wiff has Just returned from her summer outing THE neighbor women have undoubtedly DISCOVERED the reason WHY we have been so particularly nice to them DURING the last few days of her absence

AS we do not believe there is a tattler on , THE entire street. BEFORE you scrouge down in that dish of ice cream YOU might call up the maker and find out whether it has enough BUTTER fat in it. A WOMAN offten goes shopping AND forgets to take any enoney with her but SHE never goes shopping and FORGETS to take her hand-bag and purse AWAY with her. ABUSING the. stomach in the 41-46 claAS IS almost as much a pleasant procedure AS it is in youth's halycon days BUT the aftermath is a darnsite more 5erious. FOR some reason or other IT is simply impossible for us to PICTURE an editor PAYING a man Jinn.noo a year TO look after his DEGAL affairs.

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CROWN POINT NEWS Happening Of A Day In Lake County's Lively Capital.

The vaudeville show put on ny the Masons on Friday night was a decided success, both nooially and financially. A packed house greeted the performers tnd each number on the program was loudly en.-ored. Masons from Gary. Hammond and Hobart wera present. Over 600 tickets were sold and after the expenses are paid a neat sum will be realized for the Temple fund. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Farley are ?pen1lnK this week with their daughter. Mrs. Will Ellwanger in Chicago. The Pre department was called to the Tuthill coal yard on Saturday afternoon where a Male caused by spontaneous combustion was making quite a headway, hut was extinguished with but slight damage.

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Donaha are spend-

Soldier Boy News N'ed "aef. wh nerved wtt tfce Egineers overseas has returned to the home of hlg parent, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Naef. Whiting. Following the Figning of the armistice Soldier Naef attended school in Paris. He entered service Immediately after h's graduation from Purdue University.

!ng this week ln Chicago where Mrs. Donnaha is taking treatments at StBernard's hospital and may possibly undergo an operation. Miss Ila Barnes who is teaching in Gary, spent the week end with her relatives here. Mrs. Elizabeth Cook left on Saturday for Huntington. Ind . where she was called on account of the death of a cousin. Mrs. Elizabeth. Bauer Miss Stella Sadler who has been a house guest of the Hixon family for the past week, left for her iome in Rockwell. Iowa, on Saturday. Mr. and Mr Karl Krost returned on Saturday night from a two weeks' bridal trip which was spent at various Michigan points. Miss Ella Tjottes spent the m ek end with relatives in Chicago.

TwoSon Enter Army, Mother and DogWork for Red Cross and Father Goes Oversea for "Y."

A 110 per cent American family! That is, if a fine patriotic American eoliie is worth 10 per cent, and moat Americans will acknowledge he Is. This is the, proud record of the family of Louis Goldsmith Jone?, a newspaper and publication man, who servf-d for the last eight months Hh the Y. M. C. A. in France. Father, mother, two boys and the coHie al! enlisted la America's Cght and not one of them was required to do so. The two sons of the family, then aged eighteen and nintitevo, enlisted in 1817, and are still serving in the army. Mrs. Jones next enlistad in the Red Cross, and last summer Mr. Joneg joined up with the "Y" a a hut secretary and wont to France. This was too much for a real American dog, w-ho was already aching for action. Upon him had fallen the responsibility of guarding the home with the thre men away, and only hi3 presents permitted thera to go But he took more than that upon hig silken shoulders, and volunteered to carry his mistress's packages to and from the Red Cross each mo"rning and nlsht. Mr. Jones, wht'e abroad, had tho honor of working entirely among heroe.. Irnmediatfily upon his arrival in Paris he was ordered to

Beau Des&rt near Bordeaux, whert tho largest convalescent camp in the world Lad hen planned and was la the first stages of building. He put up touts bre and started his Y. M. C. A. activities whl'.o work was bfjng carr.ed forward cn hi3 hut. Tee men at this camp were all Eoldiers Y'no b3 ST1 actio7r, had be"?n wounded, nd were now coavalesciDg to go back into the Cgat. They were a long faced lot when the "Y" man arrived among them, and vfhfgi ho first started games, about the most strenuous the? could cope with was croquet. Pitching horseshoes and quoits caw next, then some tpnnls. and som football kicking, but v&ry little actual baH playing. Those of the men who were well enough helped with the building of the srmy barracks, and it was a common sifP.t to sea a man waiting with a cane and carrying a load cf boards oa his shoulder. Mr. Jones was assisted in the athletic wcr' at different tima bj IlusEel Starkey. Al Orth and Fred Hulz, all Y. M. C. A. athletic directors. Mr. Jones has worked on the edl torial staffs cf the Kansas Cltj Journal, tha Chicago Herald, &ni the Curtis Publishing Company, and has Ixsen tha Northeastern Representative of the Pictorial Review

tion, warnd that prices are in prospect '.so high that no man can justify theni." He also called srecial attention to high prices prevailing for mi'.k. Several cities, including Cincinnati and Dayton have been investigating: food conditions independently.

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AERIAL MAIL SERVICE RESUMED

' Nt lN ATIOM A L NEWS SEKVICEI NEW YORK. July 2 Aeiial mall service between New York and Chicago was resumed today following an agreement reached between striking pilots and the postoftle department. Pilot Harold Lewis took off In the first mail plane for the west at S:27 o'clock, after a delay of more than three' hours. He carried ten pouches of mail for the west and headed for Bellefonte. Pa., the first scheduled stop Officials stated m.uls would start for Washington before noon.

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THEY CAN'T PUT ANYTHING OVER I IN TERNATIO'NAL NEWS SERVICE 1 DON" DON. July 5 (By Mailt. The Paris correspondent of t:ie Westminster Gazette, commenting upon "Japan's perpetual .iesi.-e for expansion "

"Not only are we in peril of Ea rn troubles, but the Americans are :: -xrA. "totrer or later if China (iocs nn ffn'Tl 'o sijrn the present treaty e. Versailles he will ha' e to make a separate peace with Germany. Certainly the attitude of Germany towards China wii; be that of a wolf towards a lamb, but the faet that China, -In self-defense may "e Compelled to conclude a barotain with Germany cannot he viewed with equinamity. It may he at the txpense. not only of China but of the wnrl-i in' general.

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I INtEBNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! COI.UMBCS. O.. July 26 Cox-. Cox today ordered a state-wide probe of food prices. Declarmg that "a crisis is ahead," demanding drastic action upon the part of the state, the governor in a letter to Atty. Gen. Price ordered him to. set in motion all agencies of the state in a peneral probe of food conditions and prices. The governor's action followed a preliminary investigation as a result of which Gov. Cox declared. "I have no hesitation in saying that there are evidences of unlawful practices In the traffic in foodstuffs. "The war Is over," he added, "but too many Interests do not seem to recognize U." As a first step in the move, Atty. Gen. Price directed every prosecuting attorney in the state to meet him in Columbus next week. This save rise to a rumor that wide rropecutions may !t Imminent. Gov. Cox. referring to the coal 5itua-

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