Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 77, Hammond, Lake County, 17 September 1919 — Page 4

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PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED. Because intricate and puzzling problems in reconstruction are presented by the war the present generation is disposed to believe that these are the most troublous times the world has ever seen for the reason that the situation 13 new to our experience- Yet there have been tumultuous eras at many dates in human history, and in each instance there was a final emergence into conditions better than before. The French revolution and the- subsequent wars presented problems that for that day were certainly not less difficult than those that confront us now. The Civil War imposed on this nation a long list of questions of policy that required many years for their working out and some even yet are not fufly solved. Just at present the subjects to be dealt with may seem alarmingly numerous and almost impossible of satisfactory disposal, but, while we may indulge in some unprofitable experiments in groping tie way out, to doubt that we shall finally find the light is to deny faith, in the capabilities of human kind to discover its ultimate good, The present situation is fertile in . the offering of panaceas that are guaranteed as short cuts to ideal conditions. That some of them in practice seem a denial of civilization is the best evidence that they are destined to disappear after being tried, leaving only the unpleasant story of the orgy of their trial by which to be remembered. It is unreasonable to expect the world to settle down at once to a sane existence after such a convulsion as has afflicted it. It is necessary to pass through the period of convalescence where latent bits of hallucinations will bob up from time -to time to annoy us- The fever patient does not get well in a day. It may take some time for the world to work out its full recover', but the day will arrive and the world will be a better one than before the war mania seized mankind.

i-onian administration who declared this country wouM never go to war while hevheld office. He had seen hundreds of American lives and hundreds of millions of American property destroyed In the neighboring nation of Mexico without response from this country other than trequent gushes of rhetoricIt was this policy, coupled with the idoption of that pathetic ditty. "I did not raise my boy to be a soldier," as the Democratic national hymn; this "he keeps us out of war" cry with which President Wilson fooled the people in 1916 and as he is now trying to fool them for 1920, that, more than all else, made It necessary for us to sacrifice sixty thousand lives and forty billion dollars.

WHY DID HE LET GERMANY DREAM? If Germany had dreamed that the United States would enier the war she would not have undertaken It, President Wilson declared at Indianapolis. i he logical consequence of that statement is that it President Wilson, inspired by those motives of world service he now claims prompted us to enter the war, had notified Germany that unless she withdrew to her borders when Belgium was invaded, or before Belgium was invaded, and we knew, as a competent diplomatic service could have learned, that this act was in contemplation, then the war would then and there have ended. In other words. President Wilson, by thi3 statement, loads upon himself the responsibility for the continuance of the war, with its vast loss of lifp and treasure, for failing to make clear to Germany that this country would not tolerate such a war as Germany waged. Why did Germany not dream that we would enter the war? German diplomats had reported to headquarters the inauguration of a secretary of state under the Wil-

A PARTIAL LIST. The Wilson administration has not done one thing to REDUCE the cost of living. Hera are twenty-six things it has done to INCREASE the cost: Adopted a cost-plus system of war contracts. Paid unnecessarily high wages to war workers. Permitted notorious "flacking" on well paid government jobs. Delayed preparedness until an emergency raised large industries inactive while inexperienced officials quarreled over matters of policy. Concentrated war activities in a few large cities. Kept inexperienced. Incompetent men in high positions. Created new and needless offices involving large expense. Employed so many clerks In departments at Washington that they were in each other's way. Seized the railroads and increased cost of transportation. Maintained publicity bureaus to boast of things not done. Continued needless peace-time work during the war. Needlessly transported soldiers from camp to campInflated the currency under the Federal Reserve system. Hampered food production by drawing workers from the farms. Permitted waste of material at army camps. Delayed peace by forcing league of nations issue. Made a gift of $100,000,000 worth of food to Europe. Spent lavishly in trip to Paris. . Expended millions on housing projects, many not completed before closing of war. Burned $1,000,000 worth of airplane material in France. Kept political appointee as head of shipping board. delaying ship programDiscouraged coal production by its shortsighted policy. Manipulated prices of stock foods until dairymen

Kiuea cows Decause or iacK or pronts. Hoarded army food supplies until public opinion forced sales. Established prices for lower grades of wheat which were unjust to farmers without compensating benefits to consumer.

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PASSING OF THE BREVET.

The disclosure that only one officer on the active

list of the United States army. Col. W. E. Wilder, holds a brevet commission calls attention to the passing to this

method of honoring gallant soldiers and raises the question as to whether it will be permitted to lapse into com

plete desuetude. A brevet is a commission bestowed by the senate upon the nomination by the president as a

recognition of meritorious service performed in the fieldBrevet rank entitles the holder to wear the uniform and bear the title of the grade to which he is breveted, but not to draw the pay or take the command or precedence usually belonging to the grade. Brevet commissions were bestowed upon many officers for service in the Civil War. Colonel Wilder won his in the Indian campaign of 1890. No instance is recalled of the warding of a brevet since. President McKlnley nominated a considerable number of officers for brevets in connection with their service in the Spanish War and the Philippine insurrection, but because of a situation which developed in the military committee the senate failed to act on the nominations. McKinley died shortly afterward and modesty restrained President Roosevelt from resubmitting the list, which was headed by his own name. It is gratifying to learn that two of the officers whom President McKinley desired to honor have recently been awarded the distinguished service cross. And this suggests that, coveted as the brevets are, the medals and other badges of distinction which have been issued with such liberality during the last year compensate iu large measure fo rthe passing of the honorary commissions.

WE see that tha French actress with the $100,000 legs has DECIDED not to come to the Calumet region SHE'D better not unlesa she wants to enter some pretty fierce competition. O.N'LT one ground for divorce, but one that WOULD call for at least $100 a meek alimony DEVELOPED at our house yesterday AND that was Imbecile husband's REMARK that PER BONA LLT he believed that a stt of black cat FURS lookfid Just as fetching as lynx AND would be a darnsite cheaper. IT'S all right to go along on THE theory that the Lord ielps them who HELP themselves but don t forget THAT the Lord also helps thosa who helps others. WE believe that our beloved minister SHOULD have an increase in salary AND anything- he wants as long s HE doesn't ask for time and a half for over-time WE don't believe In over-time in churches. THE world Is our oyster all right BUT somehow or other when we get ready to DO business with It we seem to have FOROOTTEN to bring along a knife to open It with AND our fingernails are about worn off. ANOTHER thing we confess we have TROUBLE In understanding IS why when a man has run himself down HIS doctor will tell him to take MORE exercise. ANOTHER good bet IS that when a man does his work WITH an air of resignation IT Is a cinch that he won't last very

LONG at the Job. SOMETIMES we wonder whether it is better TO be ruled by the bolsheviki or THE food retailers but we finally decide for the latter BECAUSE we have always inclired to prefer BEING robbed in a quiet and gentlemanly MANNER TO having our head cut off with a rusty knife In addition. IF our mind warn't continually occupied

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GETS the idea that his wife TALKS all the time to DISGUISE the fact that she has nothing to say. A LOT of church members rave about the Land of Promise HUT they like to do a cash business AS well as any one else. THE constitutionality of the prohibition law AS we understand it TS to be tested to . SEE whether or not the constitution FOLLOWS the jsg. PERHAPS one of our most embarrassing moments CAME yesterday when we met a DEAR old girl friend and asked with much SOLICITUDE how her husband was getting along calling HIM by his first name ONLT to find out that she has had two more SINCE the first died. SEC. BAKER tells of an aeroplane that ran WITHOUT a pilot WELL, that's nothing, we know a war that ran WITHOUT a secretary of war.

Industrial Catastrophe Is Rapidly Approaching

(From the LAFAYETTE JOURNAL.) "On a previous occasion we ventured the opinion that perhaps a period of economic disaster and Industrial depression would be required to bring the Uinted States to a realization of the fact that the millennium has not arrived, that Altruria is far distant, and that industry and the exercise of calm Judgment are necessary to restore the country to a normal basis. At present all values are fictitious and tha national temperature is dangerously feverish. From past experience we have learned that overproduction and inability on the part of the people to buy, will result In stagnation of business, unemployment and widespread distress. Today we are approaching the same national distress, but by another and ne wroute. It matters not whether unemployment Is voluntary or Involuntary on the part of the workers, the result is the same. Today the markets of the world are crying for goods of every description, but Americans are each day manifesting less inclination to work and greater Inclination to play, with tendencies toward extravagance that are positively alarming. Strikes are everywhere being called with very scant pretext of justification and behind the greater number of them Is to be found merely a disinclination to work. As a people we have been on a financial spree that promises to leave us with a splitting headache when we finally sober up. Just at present we are in that state of intoxication where we decline to listen to reason or be guided by the wisdom acquired at gigantic cost in the pastTurn whichever way you will there are strikes in progress or strikes threatened, and in practically every case they are strikes that are calculated, if settled In a manner satisfactory to the strikers, to add to the per

plexities that already beset the Individual by increasing the cost of living for all. The industrial chaos that it seems is eventually requisite to a return to sanity on the part of the delirious patient is approaching rapidly, though from a direction other than the one anticipated. The country Is threatened with railroad strikes, steel workers strikes, coal miners strikes, to say nothing of strikes In less important, lines but, in the aggregate, invoivfng vast numbers of persons. It now looks very much as though the country was going to squander the next twelve months In bickering and violence, finding itself at last compelled to readjust its affairs on an individual basis vastly different than that which exists at present and very much different from that which the unthinking hopeful are demanding. It is a deploraole fact that men waste much valuable time out cf their lives, and destroy much that has been created through patience and toil, because they will not learn from experience. The wasted time is gone forever, but that which is destroyed is built anew by another generation. The result Is that men are forever kept at a task of laying foundations instead of adding to and beautifying the structures already erected. Each day we, as a nation, are called upon to assume new obligations that can only be fulfilled as the result of industry and universal employment and right living. Unless we awake soon to the realization of the situation that confronts us we are due for a very unpleasant experience that will leave us much further down the industrial scale than the position we occupy at present."

The Times' want ads bring astonishing results if their users are to be believed.

ERREBLE TESS

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CHILD'S EMPIRE COAT.

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