Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 66, Hammond, Lake County, 4 September 1919 — Page 4
Pag Four.
THE TlMEa Thursday September 4,' 1919
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THE WILSON JUNKET. President Wilson and his wife started last night on anot&er palatial junket which will last for thirty days and extend all over the country. Just how this will reduce the high cost of living is not known. Perhaps we shall all be wiser when our European travelers return to Washington; perhaps they will be wiser, who knows? We di not believe, however, that all the talking in the world will reduce the cost of foodstuffs and clothing and shoes and school hooka one iota- The Fort Wayne News believes that ten thousand miles of riding: and thirty days of campaigning will not bring down the cost of living and it will hardly influence the people; of the invaded states to sob with longing for the blessings of the covenant, but If the experience doesn't teach Mr. Wilson something to his advantage it wi!l be his second appeal within a year that has brought a lesson he could not learn. Just before the congressional elections last fall he staked bis hope on the delusion that to get what he wanted needed only that he should demand it. The answer was not what he expected, but it was conclusive enough to have taught him something, though evidently it did not.
3Vi-cent sugar, the 5S-cent wool or the 58.35 cattle of before the war. Those prices have been doubled and nearly quadrupled. sOme of them, since that time. It was thirteen years after the Civil War before the pre-war leyel was reached- The situation today is world-wide, as contrasted with a national problem In those days. Will Dur problem of returning to the p-ewar level be longer delayed? Economists answer emphatically "Yes!" An investigator for the department of labor declares that "The principal cause of the return to the pre-war level (in 1878) was the fact that there was such abundant opportunity for the development of new and more economic methods of production in the shape of new forms of machinery and new kinds of business organiiations." These opportunities we do not have at the present day in any measure comparable with the previous period. There are many who do not believe we shall return to our prewar standard. V.'hat is of paramount importance, then, is that the "vicious circle" be stopped. When the constant mounting of commodity prices Is stemmed, then readjustment will be a simple matter. It is probably that Immediate recessions will point the way to stability. And when stability is reached most of our problems will be solved.
The Passing Show ij
H ousehold Hirrt
K. YES, we remember when we thought we wore
distinctly
REACHING STABILIZATION. There Is increasing evidence that we are arriving at immunity from continuance of mounting prices for commodities. The spectacular drop in the price of hogs is one. What influences were at work in the live stock market to bring about this collapse in price It is needless to inquire. The fact is outstanding that the cost of one basic food went tumbling, dragging grains and provisions down in sympathy. They .In turn. my be reasonably expected to effect other articles of trade. And when once a serious inroad has been made upon commodity prices, then we may see the whole cost of living probletD'speedily solved. But that the sensational decline In the hog market is permanent or a measure of what may be expected in other table necessities there is grave reason to doubtThe fall was so abrupt as to Indicate abnormal conditions: and on the theory that for all action there is reaction most amateur economists will look for substantial recovery. The extremes do not much concern the average man; what determines his welfare are the means. So -t is when hegs and potatoes and beef and cabbage strike their average, when they are stabilized in the market, that the fate of the family market basket will be known. The very fact of a sharp decline in a leading commodity upon top of a lcng-maintalned advance evidences that that stability is nearing. It is unlikely that we shall ever see the old pre-war levels prevail. Economic experts have been preaching for months that the day of a new price standard is here. Not necessarily are present prices to be this level, but most assuredly those of 1913 will not. As the government sets out to reduce the it or living, then, it is futile to contemplate a revival of the
HIGH COST OF OFFICIAL EXT RAVAGANCE. The biggest fingle cause of the high cost of living at this time is the excotslve high cost of government. The chief of 6lnners in th's respect ha6 been the national gove; nment under Wilsmian direc if.n. The national alKMnistration has set the p-.. in extravagance and wasteful expenditures. This has reu':eit noL only in hisner taxes, in heavier burdens upon trade and industry, which have been passed on to the consumer to a considerable extent, but the government, as a buyer of supplies hat been the biggest booster of prices. Purchases aave been made without regard to cost and the result has been that every consumer has felt the effect. Other prices have risen systematically. Moreover, vast stores of food and clothing and other materials have been drawn from the usual channels, and until recently have been stored, thus depleting the market to that extent. The people generally have caught the "drunken sailor" attitude toward expen
ditures adopted by government functionaries. The result !
has been a riot of wasteful spending. More spending has called for more income, more income has imposed more burdens upon production and distribution, this has increased costs to the consumer- So the endless cycle of increased cots has been started and kept going. Why does not the administration make some start in curtailing governmental expenditures? There ore more
'federal office holders in Wasihngton today than there were
at the time of .the sighing of the armistice. When a de-' mand is made for some remedy for the high cost of living, j the response is a demand from every' department for more i money to hire more employes. This, of course, means, 1
not relief from high governmental costs, but an increase ia those costs. An effort is being made by the administration to make the manufacturer and the merchant the "goat" of the existing situation. The people are being taught that he producers and distributors of the country are the robbers of the people. This is all a part of that general socialistic agitation intended to impress upon people the thought that the way to eliminate all the evils of he economic order is to let the government be the universal employer, provider and proprietor. But everything the government has touched under this administration has been disorganized and demoralized. Every service it has performed has been at Increased cost to the people, and on a lowered standard of efficiency. Take the railways for instance. For years these same state socialists have been telling us that if only the government could take over the railways, the employes would be given more pay and the people would get lower transportation rates- The scheme has been tried. The employes of the roads are thoroughly dissatisfied with their compensation and rates have been increased one-half. The average business man is just about as honest and as efficient and about a3 anxious to treat the people
, right as the average politician. It is, therefore, true that
the people will get about as square a deal, to say the least, under private as under public ownership. The administration now has a chance to sho wgood faith in the outcry against high living costs by reducing thoge costs
j in so far as they are Increased by the extravagance of the
administration itself. There is not the slightest evidence that anything of this kind is contemplated however.
SOME dresser in that white lawn tie and SEERSUCKER coat. AND when you come to figure it out BAD men and bad women are not NEARLT as plentiful as the selfrighteous WOULD have us beliete. AS we pause for a few moments prior to SLIPPING under the covera WE are never able to figure out why the FASHIONABLE figures in the clothing ads SHOW pictures of youths "WHOSE legs run clear up to their collar bono. ONE rather sad commentary on our BOASTED intellectuality is the fact that THE man with a thin piping soprano v61 ce STANDS a darned poor show in an argument
he may kave something
THOUGH good to Say.
WHEN we meet certain people nowadays we can SEE that prohibition has fairly taken their breath away. "WE have seen some people very solicitlous ABOUT upholding their reputations AND they are usually found to have REPUTATIONS like Id stockings full of holes. IF a man'e bank account IS O. K. you won't usually find that chap HAVING much fault to find WITH the way things are gMng over the country. IN Moscow the bolshevlats PEP.MIT some of the people to bathe twice A MONTH, some once a month and SOME never WHICH is not our ida of a way to MAKE them all smell
FREE and equal. WE wrote a piece recently scoffing at the idea that THE French dancer with the most beautiful lega in the world HAD arrived and said there were plenty of girls round here that COULD give her cards and spades, but none of them seem to be willing to back us up. GIRLS, you don't have to feel flattered
WHEN somebody in the room sug
gests "PLAT something" OFTEN he wishes to talk to somebody near AND doesn't want the rest of ths BUNCH to hear what he is saying. IT seems incredible but If all the girls d res sod LIKE Theda Bara we suppose WE would pass them on the street WITHOUT thinking a thing about It cr tven j LOOKING around to see how they LOOKED in the back JUST the way all the class of 41-46 which LIVES In Zuluiand are said to do WHEN a beautiful Zulu girl GOES by In her best pair of beads. IF the way to judge the future
IS by the past a good many folks are GOING to have a tough time of St IN heaven or wherever they go for that matter. WELL, we guess all the girls art 6LAD the war is over THEY can go out now with I5c worth of FLOUR on their faces WITHOUT being regarded as wasters. SOMEHOW gravy doesn't seem TO be nearly as dark as It used to be AND it is a sure thing that it doesn't taste AS good somehow THOUGH it does make Just as
BAD a mark on the tablecloth, cording to our NOBLER half.
MENU HINT. Breakfast. Blackberries Top Milk Sour Milk Griddle Cakes Syrup Buttered Toast Coffee
Bran Muffins
Cookies
Luncheon.
Jellied Fish
Apple Sau:e Milk
Dinner. Cottage Cheese and Nut Loaf Buttered Beets Tomato Salad Gooseberry Sponge Ice tea
RECIPES FOR A DAY. Jellied Fish One and one-half Cups cold flaked fish, two tablespoons
chopped capers, one tablespoon
CTanuIated gelatin, two tablespoons cold water, cup boilinp water, two tablespoons lemon juice, one-quarter teaspoon salt, mix the fish and caners. Arranpre in a meld. Soak jrelatin in cold water, ftir until dissolved, then add lemon juice, boilinjr water and salt. Pour this jelly carefully over the fish and set in a cool place to harden. Cut into portions and serve on lettuce with plenty salad dressing. Hard-boiled eegr slices may be added to the fish. This dish may be prepared in the morning early and is a change from the heavy summer luncheon hot dish. Cottage Cheese and Nut Loaf One cup cottaee cheese, one cup nut meats, one cud stale bread crumbs juice of one-half lemon, one teaspoonful sat, one-quarter teaspoon pepper, two tablespoons chopped onion, one tablespoon butter, substitute, meat dripping or oil. Mix cheese, pround nuts, crumbs, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Cook onion in the fat and a little water until tender. Add to first mix-
ture the onion and sufficient wat or meat stock to moisten. Mix well, pour into a baking dish and brown ia the oven. This dish furnishes plenty of protein, is easily prepared and takes very little heating compared to meat. Two cups cooked oat meal may be used instead of the cheese nd bread crumbs. Left over beans, about a pound, cold, may be put through the meat grinder and used or American cheese grated may be used. The amount of liquid will vary and seasoning may be varied to suit the esse. FOR BERRY SEASON. Berry Muffins Place in a mixin bowl one and one-half cups of cocked berries, four tablespoons of shortening, one egg, one cup of brown sugar, two and one-half cups of flour, five level teaspoons of baking powder, one-half teaspoon of cinnamon. Beat to mix and then bake in wellgreased and floured muffin pans in s moderate oven for twenty minutes. Cool and ice with water icing made from sugar and sufficient hot water to make the mixture spread. Berry Shortcake Place in a mixing bowl three-quarter cup of sugar, one egg, four tablespoons of shortening, two cups of flour, four teaspoons of baking powder threequarter cup of water. Beat and mix and then pour into well-greased oblong pan and mitke in a moderate oven twenty minutes. Cool and then split and fill with prepared barries and serve w ith custard sauce. To prepare the berries for the shortcake, place in a saucepan two cups of stewed berries, one-half cup of cornstarch, one cup of brown sugar. Stir to dissolve and then cool an U6e for the filling.
Stop Itching Skin
There is one safe, dependable treatment that relieves itching torture and skirt irritation almost instantly and that cleanses and soothes the skin. Ask anydruggist for a 35c or SI bottla cl Zcmo and apply it as directed. Soon you will find that irritations, pimples, blackheads, ecxema, blotches, ringworm and similar skin troubles will disappear. A little Zemo, the penetrating , satisfying liquid, is all that is needed, for it banishes most skin eruptions, makes the. skin soft, smooth and healthy. The . W. Hose Co., Cleveland, a
DELUXE THEATER HAMMOND NEXT WEEK Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Mary Pickford IN "The Hoodlums" Wa thin It's the greatest character study ia Mary Tieti ord's eatire earecr
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DR. KARL MUCK evidently has some doubts about th desirability of Germany as a place of residence at presenL
"FOOD prices soared three per cent in July."
the public soared 300 per cent.
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Hammond, Ind., Sept. 3. Editor Times : The newspapers have announced that President Wilson Is about to tour the country. The president has stated that unless we agree to a league of nations we will have another war. Without a doubt in my mind, the president thinks that if we had had a league of nations the recent war could not have occurred. Prior to the CivMl War we had a league of states, the league did not cause the Civil War. It was conditions within the urion that caused the Civil War. Can President Wilion deny that we did not have a league of nations before the recent international war. What was not legutd or international before the war? "In the year of 1778 Great Britain
.sent representatives to America to lobby
at Washington, D. C, un3er instructions
to usa their Influence to demonetize silver." so the so-called democrats said once uron a time. I know in the past and at present money is more powerful than h 1 and when Great Britain demonetized silver she forced all nations that used money coined not at a national standard, but an international standard, to a league of nations. Regardless of what our president may say to the pople, he cannot make me believe we do not have an international cemetery. I see another war evolving not on account of the world's internationalism, but on account of conditions existing within the international government. To agitate the world is not leagued obscures the vision cf the people regarding the cause of war. J. K.
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