Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 76, Hammond, Lake County, 16 September 1919 — Page 4

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THE TIMES.

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS EY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING & PUBLISHING COMPANY. ihe Lai county lime luly exutpt Saturday an Sunday. Entered at the postofftc In Uammoaa. Jun 14. 1301. Th Tln.es fast Chlcigo-Tndlana Harbor, dally except Sunday Entered at the postoXflce In East Chicago. Notember IS. 191S. The LcJte County Times Saturday and Weekly iidltlon. Entered at the ;ostofnce !n Hammond. February 4. in. The Gary Evening Times Uallv ecert Sunday. Entered t th postofflee In Gary. April 18. 1911. All under the ct of March 3. 1879. as second-class natter.

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A GREAT DAY COMING. It will be a great day for the United States when we et back to the Constitution. How different It will be. We shall then hare no usurpation of legislative functions by the executive, there will be no attempt to curtail the power of congress-by sinterlacinp "a league covenant with a peace treaty, there will be no unconfirmed advisor of the president like Col. House, there will be no attempt of the executive to force the people of a state to send a jitney statesmen to the senate, there will be no presidential effort to save I. W. V. murderers from punishment after they have been convicted by a Jury of twelve good men and true in the courts of their states, there will be no suppression of free speech, there will be no official coddling of Bolshevism, there will be no class favoritism in administration, but there will be sane, orderly, deliberate, dependable action that will inspire confidence .in. government. It will be a great day when we get back to the constitution back to government by law instead of government by men.

IN DARK AS USUAL. "Baker in Dark on Silesia"-news headline. Al Jolson would say, "An' that ain't all."

And as

NOW FEARS FOOD SURPLUS. No less an authority on food than Herbert C. Hoover eays. today, what long has been suspected, that warehouses in northern Europe are filled to the limit with foodstuffs and other commodities sent thither by speculators in all parts of the world (notably from the Upited States) who had taken a gambler's chance that the blackade would be lifted early. Now these speculators find themselves confronted with the fact that orfly the neutrals have money with which to buy, while currency in the nations participating in the World War is so greatly depreciated as to be of little use in the purchase of these supplies. Mr. Hoover sees a probable resultant surplus of foodstuffs, especially in America, where prices have been held at the highest possible figure, largely by these same speculators who have flooded the European field. Mr. Hoover says much of the evil of speculation In foodstuffs abroati and resultant high prices in America migh have been prevented by an embargo on exports from the United States. But there has been no embargo, and now. it looks rather bad for the speculators, with conditions . shaping for further decided reductions in food prices, especially in the United States Boston Transcript.

per cent of the addresses upon which the bureau depends I

for mailiu."; checks are acknowledged to be wrong, and the parties for whom the checks are intended cannot be locited. As a means for securing more efficient action in the luture the investigating committee recommended that the bureau be decentralized and that executive branches be

established ln each state. But while that suggestion will j

doubtless prove very effective in bringing beneficiaries Into closer- touch with the bureau, why has not some action been taken long before to prevent such a tremendous failure in accomplishing the object for which that branch of the government was created? Take, for instance, the lapsing of three-fourths of all policies taken out. In the want of proper explanation that condition can be attributed only to a lack of proper Understanding on the part of the policy holders as to what their rights were after they had been discharged from the military service. There was no trouble on the part of the bureau when it was first organized in interesting the men in what it had to offer. The fact that 4.000.000 of our soldiers took advantage of the insurance feature, and voluntarily surrendered a large part of their .nonthly compensation to pay the premiums, demonstrates that the officials of the bureau lost no opportunity to induce the men to accept the benefits of the war risk law. But once those officials! found themselves flooded with applications they appear to have lost all further interest in the policy holders, and to have devoted themselves to the management of the 17,000 clerks in their organization. It would have been an easy and simple matter to enclose with each check easily understood information concerning the importance of keeping up premium payments, the paldup insurance features of the law, and other data that every soldier and his beneficiary had .1 right to know. The same is true in the matter of addresses. The director of the bureau sh6uld have realized that all his efforts would be negatived unless his mailing list was kept corrected up to the last moment. Had he possessed that realization he would never have allowed his lists of addresses to reach their present condition. Of course- with such an enormous correspondence there are bound to be some discrepancies, but there is absolutely no excuse for almost one-third of the addresses to

be in error. Proper co-operation with post office officials

would doubtless have succeeded in preventing many mistakes. It is rare that a postmaster, through his carriers if in a large city, cannot keep himself informed of the whereabouts of his patrons, and he could have been Instructed to exercise special vigilance toward those persons who were receiving treasury checks regularly. From the beginning the War Risk Insurance Bureau has been one of the monumental war failures of the government. Designed by congress as a relief to the soldiers from all financial worry on account of their relatives, it has woefully failed, through gross mismanagement by Incompetent political office-holders, and utter disregard of all civil service rules ln the appointment of the hordes of clerks, to perform the duties for which It was created.

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bad. Of course, it might bo unpleasant to open It. but most thinking people want this kind of an tgg and believe It can be obtained. At present there Is only one egg in sight, fcha'.l we determine whether It is good or bad? J. r. DUNN'.

Tuesday, September 16, 191 y

RED TAPE TO BLAME. Washington postofflce officials complain that there has been so little public response to the sale of army food that it has practically been decided to abandon tlis sale. This probably means only the parcels por. sale in the national capital. Hammond and Gary have received tome of the food, but not by parcel post 'ncugh the people ordered it long ago. The attitude of government officials is more to blame than anything else if public interest in the sale of this food has waned. The sales in New York and other large titles did not evidence any disposition by the people to ignore 'he opportunity. But If any single thing ia at fault it Is the red tape which is bound about most boons canning out of Washington.

1 HE recent capture of, two of Chicago's biggest crooks and auto bandits by the Whiting police, det.pite the fact that one of the latter was shot in the leg in effecting the capturej is a testimonial to the bravery and efficiency of Chief of Police Collins' men- The pride that Whiting has in its police force Is well grounded.

THE advice given by union labor officials in Inuiana Harbor n Sunday to the workmen that in the ei'n: of a strike they should remain awav from the mills and avoid liolodshed Is a! end id advice.

WAR RISK BUREAU A FAILURE. The recent investigation of the War Risk Insurance Bureau disclosed the appaling fact that approximately seventy five per cent of the 4,000,000 insurance policies written on the lives of soldiers and sailors had been allowed to lapse. It was also brought out that about thirty

CHICAGO, boozeless except for private stocks cached and threatened with an ice cream-famlne, may conclude that the old saw that "misfortunes never come singly" is true.

FORECAST of a domestic sugar cron above thn

average offefs promise of two spoons to the cup of coffee.

THIS Is reported to be the fifth tlm WE have reached the TEAK of the high cost of living BETTER commence to keep count. AVE see that Mr. Wilson is reported as having HIS fighting clothes on SOME think he has a horseshoe In his mitt. A MAN seldom thinks seriously of death FOR that is about the last thing THAT he ever expects to do.

ONE of the most mystifying of the

feminine

MYSTERIES which we hear so much

about Is THE way a 146 pound girl "WHO feels that she really must have the FASHIONABLE straight silhouette '"AN" realjy come somewhere neqr attaining; It. AND if the war department HASN'T anything else for Pershing to do it might START him at the Mex. border AND let him finis-h the Villa job he started ONCE before.

EVERY man in a company of men

be HIS own natural self

nt'T let a woman come into the rrowj AND evc-cy man jack will become an actor. IT doesn't take a married man MORE than a couple of years to dilcover THAT he can save a lot of tii.se HY letting his wife have the last word THE skirts are so narrow nowadays that we live IN fear" and trembling'of what may happen when SOME of the dear girls forget themselves and let out their

LEGS for a good stride In crossing the street to get out of the way of ah auto. THE new head of the Elks Is CALLED Rain

"WHICH looks like another effort to

make THIS country wet again. THE federal reserve board reports THAT the price of food and clothing are GOING down

WE suggest that the members of the

board be SENT to some psyenopathic Institution. IF it wasn't for the new fall fashions WE think that women would RE tastefully and becomingly dressed.

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INSPIRING, we'll say that the Old Onken Bucket IS intoxicating. FROM the attention that Mrs. Wilson IS attracting on the great Junket now Koing ON ln the west SHE must be wearing those T'eris dresses THAT make people hold their breath WHEN they see pictures of them

COMri'LSORY education helps a lot J

after all THERE are not nearly so many FORTUNETELLERS an there used to b. EDS EL FORD now announces THAT It may be several years yet BEFORE he lias time to get around to putting

THAT new $250 car on the marktt AND we wonder If the young man IS thinking of enlisting for service in Siberia

WET IS XT! Hammond, Ir.d., Sept. 15. Editor Timks: Here are a few questions, if you cn answer them, very good, also found 3 ads from Los Angeles, Cal., paper where food Is always supposed to be high: 1. In a small town. Bloomindale. Mich., sirloin and best cuts of round steak were bought for 30c on Wednesday. Sept. 3; on Saturday, 6th. same thing was bought in Hammond and charged 42c. Bloomlndale is about 130 milts from Chicago, Hammond 25 miles. Why Is this 12c lb. difference charged here so close to V. S. yards? 2. Why Is it that you pay 15 ar.d 16c for a quart of milk in Hammond and go to store for it and is delivered in Gibson for 14? 3. Why Is it that you can buy a quart of Ice cream at corner of Calumet and Sibley street for 40c ar.d walk to Maywood and Sibley and pay 50c? 4. Why is It that the Fair and Boston store or any other of the large stores ln Chicago can sell meat 10 to 12c a pound cheaper than Hammond? We. know that they buy large lots but why such a difference? 5. Why is it the government was to sell canned goods to the people at cost, then allow the large wholesale houses to buy. relable and sell at profit of 25 to 30 per cent. Government man in charge at Chicago claims he did not receive or

ders as to how It should be soi l until Just a few days ago after the hi? fel-l

lows had their thousands cf cases, when any one who reads papers knew it was to be sold to the consuming public only. The Boston Store was to handle a great deal of these goods free of charge to the government. Last week they hf'd a sale of 2,000 cases of tomatoes, was this government goods? 6. Is It a fact that some time ago the state sent two men to Hammond to investigate scales and weights and

measures. It rained the day they arrived. Some one tipped it off to The Times they would not go out thit day on account of rain (no crtTen.e), Times stf stated and shortweight boys were all set the next day? 7. Why is it St. Car Co. does .not keep their tracks wet down like other places of this sire? Every time car passes a cloud of dust follows Into stores and houses. Sure is fine for flu germs. 8. Now that landlords have bled the life out of working clas: and other they shouid ?e compelled to keep their flats

heated. There should be a man appointed to answer all complaints In person and invetslgate. If landlord will not keep up the heat that Is paid for tenant shall be allowed a reduction for that month. The war is over as far as we are concerned, let Wilson, go back to the White House where he belongs at present and try and be on the square with each -t'e-once more. M. C. M.

A FEBTTNJ3NT QUESTION. Editor Times: The following incident may throw some light upon the cause of the advaca.cy f.f the projected league of nations tvhlch is so pronounced in influential financial circles. I relate it precisely as it occurred. Early last May there called u pon me it my office a Mr. J. J. O'Neill, whos engraved card dlscribed him as London manager of the Manchester Guardian, of Manchester. England. Mr. O'Neill, who was a tranger to me. Immediately introduced the subject of the league of natlors and took me to task because of my opposition to that project. Upon Inquiring of him why an Englishman should be in this country Instructing an American in the latter's national duty, and receiving no clear answer, I asked him bluntly what was the actual purpo.se of his visit to the United States. He replied th.it he was here upon a mission connected with the Internationalization cf the war debt. I asked him if he meant me to understand that he was here upon th- business of inducing tho L'tlited States to guarantee the war dcl-t of the nations recently at war. including that of Great Britain, and that of Germany. Hi Faid he was. I told him that he would .Tnd little sentiment ln thi.i country favorable to such a project. This seemed to surprise him; he said that I was thi f.rst American h had met who UU1 not favor It. 1 then td him whom ho had seen. an-, h.roo'ied that upon he previous dfty he rW.l seen Mr. J. f Morgan, and hut Mr. Morgan had expressed himself as being In favor of the plan. "Whether this was or was not a cerreel statement of Mr. Morgan's position I have no means of knowing. Rjt it might be valuable at this time tj !n'jire publicly what plans, if any, ar afoot to induce Europe's proposed new partner the United States to assume the obligations of the financially hard-hit members of the projected co-partnership, who are about to open the business of pooling their troubles under the title of tho League of Nations. Yours very truly. HARRY A. WISE WOOD. New York, Sept. 13, 1919.

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Voice of the People SENATOR JOHNSON'S ZOO. To the Editor: Senator Johnson's speech against the league-of nations Is easily the cleverest utterance that has been made on thai side of the question, and the whole matter is put ln a nut shell, or rather an eggshell, by his statement: v'They tell Us that all the sacrifices our boys made abroad are in vain unless we have a league of nations. The commonest argument ff all Is that this is the only league we have. On that theory If you have only one egg and It is rotten, you ought to eat It." This is more than a mere Joke. It Is genuine wit the wittiest thing that has been said in the whole discussion but. like many witty sayings. It involves the complete fallacy of the' speaker's position. The egg is a league to prevent war. Senator Johnson's position is that "tier ain't no such egg." As he puts It. "There afe twenty-three distinct and separate wars on now, and thus It will be In the future." As Senator New stated It to the Loyal Legion banquet, til February, "It Is a fancy in sotrie respects a pleasing one. but dreams are for the meist part pleasant." President Wilson went over to Europe and after much'coaxlng Induced the conference hen to lay an e. which he

brought back In his little basket from I

the high-cost-of-llv.lng market. Then Senator Johnson and the rest declAred, "it's a bad egg." "Why Is it bad?" they are asked. "Well. It doesn't have the right shape. It has a hectic flush. The hen th.it laid

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it had a bad disposition, and was full of secret treaties., and Other diseases. There

nevet- was such'an egg before. And, be-j Bides. President Wilson did notj show! sufficient courtesy to the Senate. I

"It Is the only egg we have." answers the President, "let's crack it open and sco whether it Is hcjl." "Heavens.' No!" replies Senator John-" son. "If we crack It open we are In honor bound to eat it." And there is the fallacy. It is the opponents of the league, who insist that we have to eat the egg, even If It la bad. The'constltution of the United States and the decisions of the Supreme Court give a treaty the same rank as a law. Either a law or a treaty which provided that the nation t-hould declare war except by act of Congress would be unconstitutional and void. Other nations must take notice of our constitution, and eoull itst fKH a oas4ct-trm- em a 4rtv tbat .would violate our constitution. If the Senate does not understand that. It can get rid of most of Its objections by making a simple reservation, "No provision of this treaty shall be construed as an engagement "of the United States In violation of the constitution." The remaining objections are predictions that the league, or other members of It, will do something in violation of the ract as we understand it. If so, their action would annul the league, for necessarily every nation, party to a treaty, is its own judge of the meaning of the treaty. The usual course In such a case Is for the aggrieved nation to declare that the other nation has violated the treaty. No nation tver violates s treaty, from its own point of view. We do not have to eat the egg if it is

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