Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 47, Hammond, Lake County, 12 August 1919 — Page 4
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THE TIMES.
THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING PUBLISHING COMPANY.
.. J County Times Dally except Saturday and:
t! 190 . i- m vusiuiuo j:j iij.uiiKu.aa. juuo Th" T,n-es East Chfeaco-Tndlann Harbor, dally except Sunday Entered at the postofflce In Last Chicago. November 18. 1813. .. Th Lke County Times Saturday and Weekly Edition, e-ntered at the posfofdee in Hammond. February 4, 2914. 7h Evening Times Ek1!t ;rpt Sunday. Enat the postof.lee in Gary. April 18. 1912. All under the act of March 3. 1S.79. as secund-cUsa natter.
meet is jest out from under th' knife, or '11 be riprcd open t'morrow. Years ago th' president o' th' Peoples Bank kept a hops an' phaeton. T'day you can't cross th' Mreet fer autos. T'day a feller don't think no more o' eittin' a antn
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overhauled than hw used t think o buyin' a new mainspring. The' ftllin' stations take in twice as much as th' ole
! time saloon an' set no free lunch.
A feller now spend. as much on his wife's feet a? lie used f spend on Ids home. We used f keep th' butter in th' cistern, but now we buy 43-cer.t ice. We used f mak? a pi'eher o' lemonade occasionally. tint now ;ve take th' whole family f th' sody fountain ever' evenin'.
m i cv t r uvrarimt-nt wanxea i We used f have chicken dinners at home, but now East Chicago ' Telephone 931 j we buy 'fm out at two dollars a plate, not includin' caso- . .a hap an we.ii- on tirp-.
We used t" carry a umbrellar, but now we wear a $3."i
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WELL, we ffp the holies of the SOCIETY ISLAND? in the South S-as HAVE substituted high-heeled shors
FOK their oil-cloth pantaloons AXD while they lire said to experience!
w-Bitins V' - 'rf!nhonf so-M rain coat.
If you '2ZZZ"Z7 7""1" TtUphoiia 42 a feller used f have a wild, reckless Saturday night
TrL -,ate,r, tn The Circulation Department. on fifty cents onsollcited artiriei TJ-rons,ble for the return of any J you don't git
5omrn"nct,c,n- Short slrued letters or ceneral ' used f Kit back from a dime
includin' shave an' Floridy water, but T'day as cuch change back from a dollar a? voi
Interest printed at discretion.
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live at home, but t'day we only git our
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eeos a smokins one OK preferably nnr'o HK f -r 1 renewed confidence in the busin'-s? outlork. AS a rule a stu'.tr-rint; man in
j I.N?ITI'K and hasn't much to ay LITTLE difficulty now In promcnad-! ,.,,., ink- LIT douht if a little speech irnI pudim. nt ALONG th? fashionable btach walks ! ; LIKl. s' u t eriiir' i:ou.d keep a woman's
suppose they t'.nd it . ont-idf -rnbiv ti.outh
as you have In th. , Py of Ths T:v':9 Promptlost e? n-l Past Please do not think i? has beet;
j LIVING ON THE 50-CENT DOLLAR. Investigate the profiteer! Throw wheat into a free
tnail , market acain! Do e-.rrything that can posfcil)!v bring
kc is not what it ued ts , ; . """i'J"-ei n,iiu. i'o e'.rrxtnin mat can POsfcK) v Dr.ng reneral from ,nv 1 Be ani tha complaints art, i n vice. Tm, t-..? i.BO?ree' about the train and mail ser- : some means of relief to the nconle from the burden thev
l?KS?Zr & raat'ror, lpSST aB.;are carrying: But when all is said and done, it stUl rewin act promptly you do not et your Pafer and j mains a fact that the dollars we are now earning are fifty-cent dollars, and that they are good for only about SOMETHING IS WRONG h3lf 33 much as they WPre before tbe war Whit it ! The fact of xh(u matter is that the salaried man has are 1 I rLlVl T ?, CvnClUIOnS f an-v Vai'Je ! been terribly hit by the Nation, and so has the man who ' , f C.Et f UV,n qUeti0?1has ar.d investments made before the Mr f: 1 "l5.!1 d be Wa-"td oke out. The man who works for HO a week is
Profiteer. VnT t7t il-; I 7 J.t " T.ri "' b a the widow with a savings account
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posed to lay practically all the blame upoa the expensive tastes of Americans. This is rot the turn of individual extravagance to be considered. Tie inquiry, if it is to amount to anything, must be
ce.a strictly to seeKicg whether the natural law? of sup
k ? j j . . . r m..-o, iuu Hum inai point it is common to make
of $1,000 has in fact but half that amount.
This is the angle that the students of finance take when they discuss the present situation. But the public looks at it from an entirely different viewpoint. Instead of the depreciated dollar most of us speak of appreciated
prices, and from that point it is common to make any
dealers and to what extent. The prices now charged make almost any manner of living appear extravagant compared pared -with the costs some years ago. The trouble with the vat majority is that, no matter how carefully they watch expenses, they have difficulty in making both ends meet. Besides, the standard of living in this country is expected to be high, with adequate food, comfortable home, and modern conveniences. Those who are wasteful -will be considered in their turn. Nothing should be alldwed to divert attention from the specific object of this investigation. It remains, "after everything has been said and done." that there is something wrong with prices, and the answer must be to this.
ABE SUGGESTS A FEW THINGS
Abe Martin is one of the old-fashioned philosophers
wno coesnt believe in burning up money. He declares that the only way to combat the high cost of living is to cut out the necessities and go barefooted. The following are a few high spots in one of Abe's recent dissertations: Fortunately th' high tide o' prices has hit us at a season o th' year perculiarly favorable f light diet an' bare feet "vv'e used t' shine our own shoes, whereas we now pay $1,359,576 annually inf th' coffers o' th" Greek. Women used t' wash ther own hair, but t'day ther's a half dozen beauty parlors in ever' buildin' in town an' no perceptible increase in beauties. We used t' slick up on Saturday night, but now we're dolled up all th' time. We used t' write pustal cards, but now we wire on th slightest provocation. We used t' be content with Xiagary Falls once a year, but now we're alius on th' go.
Farmers didn' used f know any better, but cow ther educated an 'discontented. We used f run three blocks t' see a dude, an' now we're all dudes. ! You kin buy a pair o' socks or a fairly decent lookin" teak for what it costs t' have your nails manicured. Calico is no longer worn cept in th' reformatories. You kin keep a cow fer what it costs f wear silk tockin's. Years ago th' doctors occasionally operated on som-v buddy o great consequence, but t'day ever'buddy you
the profiteer. It is so easy to think that something has
happened to commodities rather than to the medium that enables us to buy these commodities. The worst feature of this inflation is the fact that it is hard to stop it. The increase in prices is met by a demand for an increase in wages, and the one reacts upon the other, the vicious circle is established and there eems to be no way out of the dilemma. Certainly we all must realize that the more wages go up the higher prices are
going to be. Relief must come from another quarter. We must ttimulate production. We must cut down exports. When supply equals demand in foodstuffs and in manufactured articles, the period of readjustment will have arrived. For instance, we sent abroad during the year ended last June 30th more than $7,000,000,000 worth of manufactured foods, ra wmaterial and food. Every month we export
more than we did during an entire year preceeding the war. We must feed and clothe these people of Europe and elsewhere, until they can fed and clothe themselves. When they can do this and the foreign demand drops, the farmer and manfacturer will find themselves with more goods upon their hands than they can dispose of and the public will wake up to remarkable drop in prices. When this will occur nobody knows. It will not come this year. Maybe it will take place in 1920, but come it will, and quite rapidly too after order is restored in Europe and the normal times prevail there once more. What will happen then is clear. The fanner will retrench. He won't pay the International Harvester Company fancy prices for farm machinery and the Harvester Company will not pay a wage scale now 100 per cent above what it wa3 before the war. The manufacturer who has lost his market abroad will curtail at home. Wage scales and wage agreements will be thrown to the winds or else the
corporations will go into bankruptcy. Both wages and
prices will find their level automatically. This readjustment will not be without a certain amount of industrial disturbance. There is great unrest throughout the world and in such times the agitator flourishes, for the people are suspicious and like to saddle
their grievance upon persons rather than upon conditions Class prejudice will be aroused. Nevertheless, the solu tion of this great problem lies in the reduction of inflation, thrift, industry and in getting back to a national
economic basis Buffalo Commercial.
EASIER to sit down than formerly.
WK don't .suppose we will over soUej
wiia i. to us IS one of the strangest things m the world HOW a corn-fed Rirl'i food seems TO make her fatter AND how a skinny one's food seems TO make her thinner. YESSIR, it's a fact, when we went to college we got LOVELT board and room for FIVE dollars a week. THE most flagrant example of the WOMAN with a hammer
CLOSED for any length of time.
Soldier Boy News Jam's l.!!i'er. WLStinK. nbo was with the S2nd Eel. Battel ion. Medi.a! Corp. returned Sunday, having: received his discharge from Srrv.ee Mr. LaPrt was with the Army of Occupation in Germany and has brought home with him :i wonderful collection of ton vf-nirs. He j. fending at 553 Hath street.
Tiir-sriav. August 12. 1919.
CHAMPION RIFLEMEN OF AMERICA TAKE PART IN CALDWELL MATCHES
IS the ore who will come back to visit in a town in WHICH she has once lived AND knock everybody and everything in fight. IT Is a wonder a reil wonder THAT Sec. Baker doesn't MAKE a ruling fixing the length of time AFTER his discharge a soldier MAY wear his wrist watch. THE average man KNOWS that there is no harm IN knocking you when you're ilive BECAUSE he intends TO speak well of you when you're dead.
THE girl who marries a MAN because she feels sorry for him is QUITE likely to spend the REST of her time feeling sorry FOR herself. ONE of the interesting problems RAISED by the so-called bank bandit wave IS why bankers leave big bundles OF Liberty bonds and oceans of money lying AROUND loose where the bandits CAN grab thern with no trouble whatsomever. EVERY folly must be paid for in one way AND another and we supreme when THE dear girla wear their SKIRTS too short and their stockings too thin THEIR legs freckle proportionately. 1 SOMEHOW a man expects other MEN to be ugly that is he likes the plain kind better j
BUT it does give him a pain to look AT an ugly woman. DESPITE recent scientific testimony THAT it is no worse than anything else of the kind IF as bad THE old prejudice against the eigaret LINGERS and we suppose WHEN an enterprising undertaker
"Jos',," I,:nn. the erstwhile !ve wire r.ew- hov connected with the Gary Evtr.ing Times, who enlisted in the Navy over two years ago has t.-en Uischarjte. from the service and returned to Clary at the home of h:? aunt. Mrs. E. C. frmith in South Wa.-h.r.f ton street. During his serx ice and while the big struggle was en Joh" was with a
j crew :n the na transporting amnuI nit ion to Fiance and he ha? some very
thri:!;!! talen to relate.
Major J. A. I'niplchy, former rommamler of Co. F. organized by him at Gary to 30 to the Mexican border and then '.- the world w-ar, held an open meetinsr for members of that company at the Gary Y. M. C. A. last Saturday n.-rht. The Major has the pay vouchers du the former members 01" Co. F. for services rendered from April ti June 1017, during the time th-y were called to the Mexican bor-
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Nicholas Keiln.an, of Hobson, Moiitar.t. visited relatives for several dU's. .Mr. Teter Helljgonds and fajnily, moved to Lansing, 111 . on Friday. Mrs. Mary SchaiUr and daughter-in-law Ruth, visited with Mrs. Thos. Spencer of Chicago Heights. Mr. Frank Schlaiss and family of Chicago visited several days w itn his mother. Mrs. B. Thiel. Harriet an,j Arthur Brewer, left on Saturday for Dubuue. Iowa, where they will visit fer several weeks with their sister. Mrs. Verna Helligonds. Carl Keiln.an and children of Hammond visited with his mother. Mis. M. Kciiman. Miss GrazeKa Chevigr.y of Hammond spent Saturday and Sunday with Marie Fasen. Mr. and Mrs. Cash Allen of Crown Point, visited w-;th Mr. und Mra. Peter Ehrsa in . Mrs. Jacob Hoffman of Chicago, spent several days with her mother, Mrs. Miry reschel.
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