Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 42, Hammond, Lake County, 6 August 1919 — Page 4

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investigating and give the people action and give it in i hurry. The people of this country refuse to be held up for the necessities of life any longer. They don't want the league cf ar. They want their president to pay attention to their problems, not Japan's. They want cotnnptent men in the high offices. Wilson's chickens have come home to roost w ith a vengeance.

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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 language and that is the language of the people of the United States. HE LIES. Colonel OrimFtead. testifying before the commission Investigating the irregularities of Lieutenant "Hardboiled" Smith on the charge of ill-treating military prisoners, lied out of the whole cloth when he said that thousands of American soldiers were deserting the battle lin in France at the time the armistice was signed and that wholesale executions would have followed had not the was ended when it did. Grimstead will not get fax with such barefaced falsehoods. The men w-ho were in France know he is a liar from first hand knowledge and Americans at home know it from that fact that deserting comrades in time of stress is not an American characteristic. An officer who' would malign his comrades in arms to save hi3 own reputation is a yellow-back and doubtles.If there had been many like this Grimstoad-Srnith pair in the ranks the wholesale desertions of which Grimstead tells would have occurred. But the records show that the A. E. F. was made up almost entirely of men of another type. Their record at Chateau Thierry, St. Mihlel and the Argonne prove that they stuck to their jobs through frightful odds and won while the little white crosses scattered broadcast over a hundred fields of France prove that the only way the 4mencan soldier. knows how to run forward and that he dies, but never retreats. Grimstead's testimony only blackens his own name. The reputation of the American soldier in France is above reproach.

WANTS CONGRESS TO SAVE HIM. Upon the false pretense that the wage situation of the national railway system is critical and must be dealt with at once. President Wilson has appealed to the hous not to take its contemplated short recess. We say this is ,a false pretense, for what the president, wants congress to deal with is not the wage situation of the national railways, but the whole acute problem of the cost of living. Seven years late and because in the suffering that is universal there is the menace of a betrayed people's wrath, the president now comes to a Republican congress bagging that it will redeem the promise upon which h and his party went into power. It was the demagogic plea of Mr. Wilson and his party that the cost of living was too high and would be bought down with a dull thud if the democracy were entrusted with full power that wrought the political changes in the capital seven years ago. For almost six years and a half Mr. Wilson has been at the head of he govemuien', and until March 4 last his party, during all of that period, has controlled congress. Was the cost of living brought down? Was the problem even tackled? Was anything said about it at all? No. indeed. What has happened, meanwhile? The cost of living has been rising constantly. Nor dot's ihis mean that the rising level of prices of everything used in American daily life began after the effect of the European war became marked on this side of the Atlantic. From the 4th or March. 1913, when Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated and a Democratic congress assumed power, when the complete control of government passed into the hands of the Democratic patty until this day the movement of the cost of living ha? been not down as Mr. Wilson and his party promised it should be. but up, up ever up until today the prices of everything that everybody must use haw skyrocketed to heights never before known. Fort Wayne News.

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AND THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE IT TOO. The remonstrances made by this and other Republican papers against the administration's neglect of internal problems, the greatest of which is the extortionate cost of living, are beginning to have their effect. They were feeble at first. The Democratic partv Ecouted them, but the terrible denunciation of a party which permitted its leader to go abroad and haggle with other nations over matters far less vital to the people of this country is sweeping the country like a tidal wave and hi3 own party is beginning to repudiate Wilson in scathing terms. The profiteers are already beginning to tremble in their boots, but they will tremble a lot more when an angered people get after them. The damnable practice of gouging the common people by unheard-of prices is going to be stopped and if the administration "has sense enough to read the handwriting on the wall it will stop

WIDESPREAD ECONOMY NEEDED. The war with Its food saving campaigns and its Liberty loan subscriptions and War Savings Stamps taught

Americans a great deal in the matter of thrift, and yet j the lessons apear to have been lost on a large proportion j of the people probably on those getting high wages,, for 1 there is today what might be called a modified orgy in I spending. One of the foremost business men of the court- ! try. noting this tendency, declares plainly that common-

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States Is the only thing that can bring down high prices

and save the country from a financial panic. The people of a country cannot throw their money around recklessly and escape the consequences. "The way things are going now," says he, "the only thing that will change conditions is a panic a great big panic, bigger than any we ever hid that will level everything to where it belongs; and then we'll start all over

; again. The only thing that is going to save us rrom sucn j a panic is downright economy. And the sooner people -ealize that, the better off they are going to be. War wages have turned their heads and they must come to

their senses. If you want to give them good advice, tell them to economize and do it quickly." The cost of labor is beyond all previous hi?h marks, and yet production is down in many instances, frequently because the laboring people are making so much that they will not work full time. Some political economists say that the way to keep the labor happy is to give him more money, and the way to keep the farmer happy is to give him more money for his wheat. Then the laborer has to give his increase for the increase in the price of wheat, and the farmer pays more for the things he buys. It is an endless chain. The principal sufferers are the men on salaries and their families who are not getting the increases of the farmer and laborer. They are caught in

! between the two and get no consideration from either.

WILSONIAN MORALITY. It looks as thought the president is determined t fasten the short and ugly word upon himself. He signed a treaty with France and, in the last clause of that treaty agreed that the treaty "will be submitted to the senate of the Untied States at the same time a3 the treaty of Versailles." Instead of submitting the treaty as he agreed to. he expressly informed the senate that he "took the liberty" of reserving it. France can scarcely help recalling past expressions of a much distrusted ruler who spoke of treaty agreements as "scraps of paper."

THE evolution of the corset IS one of the most Interesting phenomena OF our times and we learn now THAT what Is railed the toplesV model is the MOST popular kind for medium figures WHEREAS our memory GOES bark to the time when morher thought the TOT was the only essential part of the garment. SOMETIMES we ftfrure it out THAT if we realized how little we knew WE wouldn't be half so ANXIOUS to display t. WHEN some men get mad every time they go AROUND a (tolf course

YOl ran t blame women for wondering WHT the dickens they lndu'ge. IT used to be you couldn't buy anything for a cent NOW you ran't buy anything for a nickel PRETTY soon It will be a dime. WE yield in our loving admiration TO nd man for the gallant soldiers of the war BUT it does weary us a little TO have some one who never got away from A CAM!' on this side of the water TELI. us what the other boys who fought over there OUGHT to have done BEING poor is nothing to be ashamed of BUT if you are poor and rroud of it YOU'LL probably never be anything else.

WE have been asked to attend a very high class MUSICALE but about all we KNOW about music we are sincerely sorry to say IS that scherzo is pronounced MORE as in skirt than in shirt AND we didn't even know that until yesterday. NOW that they are talking about RAISING all the rest of. the money they think

THEY nerd by inheritance taxes of hitherto UNEXAMPLED severity WE guess about the only really safe thing FOR the rich to do Is to die right away AND help us all out a little. IT wouldn't be har4f for you to give up smoking IF you had to smoke the SAME kind of cigars some men smoke WOULD it? ANT girl knows that a BEAUTIFUL face and figure get her A GREAT deal further along life's pathway THAN a beautiful disposition THAT'S why there are so many UNHAPPY marriages. AS we wend our reluctant way TO fill about three hundred greasecups WE find that philosophy

HELPS you to explode other people's theories BUT it doesn't seem to be able TO prove your own. WE wonder if those is American sailors WHO married Turkish girls HAVE got them in the habit of using SOAP by this time? TDK r-aon why a girl would rather have a CLEAR conscience than a clear COMPLEXION is because if YOU throw a stone up in the air, it will fly away. DO not criticize the poor fellow who HAP whiskers, maybe he hasn't ANY chin.

Soldier Boy News Stmt Hedjerrii of hMinic, who overseas ov-r a year, has returned find aam taken up h;s residence at 415 Sheridan avenue.

Anthony O'HrM", WhltlnK. f the A. E, V., who was stationed at Archangel. Russia, has returned from servic and Is again residing at 553 115th st reet.

Mother-Hungry Woman, Adopts Brown Eyed Babe Then She Finds It Is of Colored Ancestry Bringing Both Heartache and Tragedy.

After havins lirrn officially reported dead twice by the war department

Mirhael Drake entered hi home here. ;

yesterday afternoon, an dhis mother, who did not know he was romin2T. thought him a ghost and fainted. Prake was in the flghtinar on the Aisne-Marne front in the world war, and was ga.esd. He was sent to a hospital and the war department reported him killed in action. After being; released from the hospital, he returned to the front and was shot, and had to go back to the hospital again The second day after being in the hospital he was sent to the base port at St. Zazane. and the authorities reported him as having died of wounds.

F"rel Armstrong, "srr eighteen, of NorthManchester, a world war veteran, wag drowned at Lukens lake while tiyir.g to save a girl companion yesterday evening. Armstrong and Miss Glen Keeter. also of North Manchester, had started to swim to a raft a short distance from the shore. When sbo'it half way they both went under ar.d. coming up, called for help.

f INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE1 NEW YORK. Aug. i. A cooing little baby of five months, rirf-sf l in clothes of finest texture, and with a skin that Is gradually becoming darker, is waiting in New York for some one to adopt it. It is a negro baby, and sinrr its bir'h It has had a good home in a well-to-do family, members of which until a few d;ts ago did not drearn that the little stranger they had adopted was not of white bloodA scene of tragedy and heartache was enacted in the oTice of Dr. Mary Helton, In East Thirty-eighth street, when the dis overy was bared Dr. Halton had advertised for a horr,.-- for an Infant girl (white) whose parents had died. When Dr. Halton arrid at her office a few days ago, a woman who gave her name as Mrs. Maroin Rlake. of Albany, was waiting. She told this story: "I am a widow of comfortable means and live with my mother in A'har.y. For years I had one servant girl. A year ago j.he married a soldier but rame baek to us when he sailed for France. Make Awful DlscoTery. "A few days before she gave birth o a child she received word her husband had died in a French hospital. The shock killed her. She died as the child was born. For years I had wanted to adopt a child and I took her baby. "The babe was fmall and plump, reddish, as new-born infants usually are. and had bright, pretty brown eyes. I adopted her legally and had her christened 'Barbara. ' The lives of both my mother and myself were glorified by the advent of the little orphan. Every day found the tiny mite occupying more and more room In our hearts. "It was when she was three months old that we first noticed that her skin seemed to be growing darker each week. Neither my mother nor myself put fear into words, however, until the baby was four months old. "Finally I took her to a hospital for an examination. I had to go home and tell

my mother that Rarbara was a colored boy. "Rut I vowed that I would nver rsrt with her Then I realize.- ;th a rang that F.arhara would not always be a. baby. Ea-h morning I would awake and remember, nml each day tell myself r was or.ly a bid dn am. Takes White Child.. "The Last month has been one agony. She is five mcn'hs old now. and I realize tha' sooner or later I must giv her up. It would eventually bring unhappmess to all corcerned and the most unhappiness of all to herself. "When I read that you had an infant girl for adoption I thought : 'Perhaps, if I had another baby p.enr me it would be easier to part with mine." The exchange was made Dr. Halton i ton ernei about Barbara. That the drama may end happily for all. little "Bab." too, must find a home. Dr. Halton said: 'Somewhere there must be good colored people who want her. I want to f.r.J a Koorj home for her with her own people."

XL S. ARMY MAN ONCOMMISSION ' P- TCFi NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! PARIS. AUGUST 5. Gen. Banghol's of the U. S. Army, was today appointed American member of an inter-at-lied mission wh.ch has been ordevei to proceed immediately to Rudapes- . The mission is under orders to disar M the Hungarians and to report to tbpeace conference on the stability . : the new Socialist government that Bticceeded the F.e'.a Kan regime In the meantime the blocad r.; Hungary will be lifted temporaril-- t allow the importation of food in b '",' this will ameliorate conditions.

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TERRIBLE TESSIE

By Probasco.

John K. Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Roberts, of Hammond. Is back home after serving sixteen months In France. He w-as discharged from Camy Taylor. July 29. Mr. Thomas served with the Fifth division of regulars on three fronts. He participated in two drives in the Argonne

i two on the To il sector and was In on

the Ft. M;h!el cleon-iip from start to finish.

Mike Koiiris of Hammond, nhr han been overseas for 15 months with a bakery outfit Is back again In Hammond and will resume his post at th Majestic.

SEYMOUR "The Hilltop Lumber Ciub" has been formed by lumber men of this section of the state as a branch of the Indiana Lumber Dealers' Association. LA PORTE Twenty pretty young women with coffee pots will receive donations for the Salvation army at a concert here August sixth. SEYMOUR Jackson county people are opposed to the county building up the Brownstown road with concrete They pay the state will do it later.

WHEN TESSIE STARTED TO PLrVV STORE WTT H HER. FATHEP'S 'TWO FOP A CXAt?TEG" OGA?S SHE HAD NO IDEA THAT" BUSINESS WOULD & . . . SO GOO O . WONDERg&Tj HA, HA, HA1.!! - THIS S TOO A WHAT THAT f -rc is WHAT I CALL. nP 00 D TO BEy cw.lois f- i 1H,b lb WHAi 1 CM-L VV TRUE'.! UP to ), ) A BARGAIN -CTlMNlE: ) LLV NOW ! J fFr-( A Qu ARTEC 5 vyoRTH J "rX --f( Or THOSE CtGARS. Pgppppp LITTLE G,RL'-

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