Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 59, Hammond, Lake County, 26 August 1919 — Page 4

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ia th' evenin.' TdaV after It became known that Lark bid organized a couple o' auto tsalesnitn an' three phonograph agents called t' see bini. He wuz very rolite f 't-ru, but told 'em ho wuz at present undecided as t' Jest what car an' music bos would best suit hia demands. "It's jest about reached th' point where a feller can't buy a collar button or take a long breath without runnirT iat an organization," commented 'Squire Marsh Swallow, while Uncle Ez Push asked. Where's this organlzin gain' f end?-' Tell Binkley said, ' It's been my observation that jest as soon as a feller feels that he's backed up by a powerful organization he assumes th' arrogance so often noticed in the landlord of th' only hotel in town." Many veryin' views on organization wuz expressed. Pinky Kmt held that th' idea o' bavin' a strong backin" before you go after a thing is as ole as Madison, Indianv. whllo Kz

3ioo 3101. 3iiii I pash declared that not until th' great money Intercuts

t' control ever'thinc but elderberries did th'

f"" peop,e look about ffr a 'ormidable weapon f com

oat em. whatever may be th caue o all th' unrest, all

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IJtOES PAID.TTF CTHCTTT-ATTOTf THA!f A1CT TWO OTHSS PAPEES T THI CiltnTKT HZOIOIC.

WOTICB TO STTBSCXXBMS. If yoa fall to receive your copv of Thb Ttvks es rromrtas you hare In th re nloa. vinv ..,. ,..

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th' organizin' an' walkin' out an' back an' out agin, a serious condition confronts us. As Tell Pinkley says. "O' course workin' men kin afford f strike an lay idle fer weeks, but what about clerks an1 bookkeepers an' editurs an' things?" Some apprehension wuz expressed as V what effect a lot o' brick makers all dolled up au' motorin' about town would have on th' breat bulk o' unorganized citizens. "How a. school teacher holds up is one o' th' mysteries o' th' day. I saw one t'day an' be didn't look like he'd seen a watermelon in ten years. There's no tellin' what school teachers '11 teach our child

ren u someinm r.amt aone t fatten em up an pav em

ie. Thb Tmrs bs increased its mailing eouipment and wants t teach children t

promrt in adviatnr no Tv,n An JT most prosperous an eniig

we will act promptly. he's livin' on lettuce sand

erviee la not what it used tn he and tfcnt rfnin1(iiit A i en thiiv lri of lui Viva.! b- 01 An " I ' L . . -1 i 1

reneral from manv sources about th. train and mall er- - svnou, leacner

love th grand old flag o' th'

htened nation on earth while

iches that she may eventually

work up t a pair o shoes? Patient, lovin'. faithful, hungry, intelligent penniless teachers watchin' o'er an' moldin th' lives of our young on wages so meager that they can't afford t keep a fern:" declared Prof. Alex Tansey. "It's my understandin." said Uncle Niles Turner, "that th' school boards, unlike big dealers an' manufacturers, haint got no consumers t tack wage Increases on but taxpayers, an' ther purty bard t' handle. But it's my opinion that our teachers are too tired an' hungry t' walk out."

READ IT! Every man who is involved in a strike, or is about to be involved in one, or who figures in the revolving cycle of recurring wage demands that is driving industry to shut down all over the United States, a shutdown that will be a concomitant of business paralysis, hunger and perhaps revolution, should read President Wilson's reply to the shopmen in which he refuses to grant their demands. The situation in this country is so grave that the man who won't look it square in the face is blind as a bat.

INDUSTRY AT MERCY OF FEW COUNCILMEN. It is of course impossible to estimate how many thousands of dollars manufacturers and business men of Hammond and other cities in the Calumet region are losing because of the stoppage of street car service on the Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago street railways. None of them would be bold enough to even approximate an estimate, but it would aggregate a vast sum. The attitude taken by a few members of the city council is responsible entirely for non-existent service. It should

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have been possible, it could have been possible, for the

questions involved in the street car strike to have been -of monopoly, paralyze the plutocrats, pulverize the pro-

THE H. C. OF L. AND THE COVENANT. The preposterous theory is advanced that one of the means of reducing the high cost of living would be to ratify. Immediately, without deliberation, without consideration of the consequences involved, the dangers- invited or the obligations assumed, the covenant of the league of nations, without qualification, reservation or amendment. This argument is advanced on behalf of an administration which took the responsibility of delaying the formulation of the peace treaty many months because of its insistance upon involving this country in the "league of hallucinations"; an administration which had complete control of the administrative and legislative branches of the government for six years, and in all that time did nothing, admittedly, to fulfill the pledge upon which President Wilson was first elected. to break the grip

arbitrated without the cars being stopped. If the city council had not been so intent on throwing a wrench !n the machinery steps might have been taken to grant temporarily certain concessions that would have permitted the street cars to continue in operation while the matters at issue were being thrashed out and adjudicated. As this newspaper has pointed out more than once, this was no time to get revenge for any grievances the city had against the street car company. If it was not living up to its franchise there were ways to compel it to do so. It looks like a spirit of spite and revenge on the part of the council while the people are at their mercy. Hammond's industries and stores were prospering as never before when the street car strike broke, and It looks like killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

IT MAKES ABE RUMINATE. Abe Martin, Indiana's greatest home-made philosopher, is much concerned over the fact that his friend, Harley Lark, came home the other evening and told his mother not to worry any more because he had just organized. Abe, in his homely way, says: Young Lark has had t work as late as five o'clock twice th.'s summer, an' once he had t" work a couple o hours Saturday afternoon. "Th" workin' conditions at th' brick jard jest got so intolerable that us boys Jest decided t organize. We expect t' demand a thirty-hour week an" a fifty per cent raise f begin with. Later on we may decide t' limit production. O' course these re

forms '11 have f be worked out as we go along," said

young Lark as he wuz selectin" a dollar watermelon later of Fundy. Every man of common sense knows this.

fiteers, smash the special interests and reduce the high cost of living. The truth i? that high living costs are due to the very relationships with Europe which the covenant of the league of nations is intended to strengthen and perpetuate. What is aimed at is a tort of world-wide communism; "an equality of trade conditions," a universal economic jackpot, a general leveling of the standards of life in America and throughout the whole earth, in order that the world's anxious heart may not be broken by our refusal to continue to be an easy thing. We have been feeding, clothing and financing Europe. We have robbed ourselves to do this. The drain of our foodstuffs, clothing, raw materials, and money is what, most of ' all, has sent the cost of living skyward in the United States. Our excessive prices here are in sympathy with European high prices, these being due to the fact that since the war Europe has not gone to work. Disordered political and economic conditions have prevented the resumption of industry abroad. There s every evidence that European populations will continue

to run amuck 60 long as the people of this country, ia the exercise of altruistic internationalism, are willing to pay the freight. The idea is for us to raise wheat and corn and cotton in America while Europeans raise hell over one thing and another left unsettled by a peace conference the world will yet realize made a horrible mess of the job committed to it. The ratification of the peace treaty will have no more beneficial effect on living costs than the tide in the Bay

IN hrr milder and more TOI.ErtANT moment n vmmun's way of dlrectlns hr hiia ud'd ATTENTION to , Kriirr.il I 'SELES 8 NHS a i mi iil Hi- housw hrn ohe WANTS Burnet IiItik rjfnr

IS to remark that rvl'"ly ni'h n fTnXn of sense j I

WOl t.n do thlnaa IN the way he Jits, rrrnirltlni H at least ONCE a d-iy fir rah thlnK ANY time one woman lenda nmiihrr a quarter SH12 remembers (hat quarter mnrnlna; NOON and night uni! SHE nets It bark AND when tbe otlier woman dot.3 pay It back THE woman Is sine ' siv as she TAKTS the money "Oh. that's all right. I'd forgotten all about it." t THI-RE Is an old one to the tffect THAT one cannot eat hts cak? and hae it WHICH naturally makrs one wonder VHAT the weather man IS point to unload on us next fail and winter. IT is going to get so chilly very soon THAT congress will begin to TAKE the one-cent tax off ice cream cones WHICH in most eaes th go trnment NEVER gets. BEFORE he gets her HE is always telling her that f-he is a vision AND after he get her he Is always TELLING htr what a sight she is. WE notice, according to the public prints THAT former Senator Jim Ham Lewis

DRESSES himself still In his VEUY reddest and f.ery whiskers and

MAKES a public rch on huw this or

THAT iouIJ not be permitted TO f-n to the dogs If anywhere. WE are not nil good judges of human nut urc AND It takes a sharp man TO cut an undesirab!r acquaintance. MAYBE you've noticed THAT the more stuck-up a man is THE less other people stick CP for htm. WE often used to wonder how OLD Frank Slmonds

WOULD be able to take any satisfac

tion in life AFTER the war was over BET we see that a little thing like that-did NOT dishearten him AND that he has found plenty of other thiiigs IN the outlook to be dismal and UNHAPPY about. WHENEVER you see a man WEARING more than one black eye in THE course of a year the CHANCES are that he is altogether too gabby AN individual. ONE of our doctor friends says that when he hung out HIS shingle he was advised to write his PRESCRIPTIONS illegibly and his bills plainly and he would EE very successful. Guess he was. THET certainly never get too old to love in Mansfield. Ohio, WE read of a man living there who had been a cripple for II years AND eloped with another man's wife LORD only knows what'll happen to him now.

to take away from the meat packers their refrigerator cars, not because of any misuse of them, but simply because all firms do not operate their own. It Is as though a law were passed which

compelled you, the owner of a modern I

press, to make it common property, hecauA someone desired to compete with you for business, but was not possessed of proper mechanical equipment. We do not aver that such foolish laws will tvtr be enacted, but they are no more foolish or unjust than the proposed law to license packers, limit their activities and take away from them that portion of their equipment which others would like to use.

We have written you in belief that you. as a moulder of public fiplnion. j should be fully alive to the nature of the; legislation being considered by Congress.! We will welcome the aid of men who believe as we believe. that such legislatiun is vicious, improper, and danger-'

ous to the future welfare of this nation, Very truly yours. J. OGDEN ARMOUR.

LOWELL

Soldier Boy News Seraran-Major sh'rrtood Mot, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ingwald Moe, or Gary, is expected home this wee'K from an eighteen months service overseas. Sergeant M'e was formerly an Emerson high school student and enlisted In the service i nl917 and was a member of the Central Record? office at Eourges", France. He was it member of Gary's Co. F organized by Major I'mpleby and trained with that company at Camp Shelby before going overseas. His parents are now residingat their summer cottage at MUler Beach to where he will spend some time before entering the contracting business with his father.

Mra. W. E. Eelhsaw returned lay' evening from a viest with her daughter. Mrs. John Hinsley and husban j. at Lafayette. F. L. Weakley was In Chicago or. business yesterday. Charles Wool went to the hospital at Hammond last evening for an operation for hernia. Miss Emma Miller left for r.er rim in Cajiforniu yesterday morning after a visit here with her mother. Mrs. A. Miller and other relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Will Chappe'.l ana children of Grant Park, visited at th home of Mr. ani Mrs I. w. Rayon yecterda y . Clyde King is remodel Ins the bus -ness rr.m he lately purchased of Mr-. Mildred Carstns and will move h-s store into it as soon as completed.

ST. JOHN

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Godfrey McKlnzle, wouo ded In France during the last part of the war, over there, has returned to Gary. Godfrey is a former Emerson high school student and Is the son of Lieut, and Mrs. Alex McKenzie, former resi

dents of Gary. He is one of the

three brotherswho served in the war, one of who, James, was the first Gary bav killed in action. Godfrey re

ceived a terrible facial wound and he

has since last December been In a base hos-pital in New York undergoing treatments. He has now received his

honorable discharge and will probably

make hla home in Gary. He Is at the present time, visiting with his brother Colin, who is living at his sumer cottage at MUler Beach.

Eorn to Mr. and Mrs. Norbvit Bohlintr. a little daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schmal and family of Michigan are visiting here with relatives. Roy Weaver, agent at the Monon, U enjoying a two weeks vacation. John Gilby has purchased a new Ford touring car. Mrs. C. L. Fritts spent MonSay at Chicago. The coming marriage of Joseph Ttiel and Miss Helen Vicar of Richton. 111., was announced on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thiel have moved to Hammond to malte their future residence. Mifs Betty Starck of Chicago, is visiting here with her parents. The Fall Festival held at the Spring Hill Grove on Sunday was well attended and a good time was enjoyed by all.

Don't throw your paper awa7 without reading the want ad page.

Anything and Everything in Music and Nothing But Music. THE MUSIC MART 151 State St.. Hammond.

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A X.ETTX8. rSOM VOL AKJVOUS. Chicago. II!.. Aug. 12, Editor P. A. Parry, Times: Dear Sir Whose concern Is it that Congress is considering legislation that will restrict the meat packers from competing in the general food field and put them under complete domination of some government official? Of course, our concern is apparent: it

hardly need be said that we will protest emphatically against such legislation. We believe that others, too. will protest. because, under the Moses

amendment to trie Kenyon Bill the Act becomes applicable to all interstate business, which means that the baneful effects cf this proposed legislation will not be confined to the packing- industry. If need be. we will make this fight alone, hut we are writing to record this thought:

"This proposed legislation affects

every kind of business because it sets a precedent inimical to enterprise in all

fields. It puts business under the heel

of bureaucracy and the logical result would be a return to the medieval prac

tice of craft and guild domination, which kept initiative in a straight-jacket." When it comes to pass that a business can exist only by leave of some official holding temporary office and not necessarily conversant with the business involved, then industrial and commercial progress in this country will cease. If the wholesale grocer can, by law.

eliminate competition at the bands of the meat rackers, as if the intent of pending legislation, then there is no log

ical reason why the tailor could not in a similar way stop the sale of clothes at department stores; or why automobile distributors could not rrevent wholesale grocers from handling accessories: or why cigar stores could not stop the sale of tobacco by druggists; or, in your own case, why the fiction magazines should not make it illegal for newspapers to print serials. It will be a terrible blow to American business when Congress begins deciding for the firm or individual what legitimate activity he may or may not engage in. Of similar significance is the proposal

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