Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 200, Hammond, Lake County, 11 February 1920 — Page 4

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THE TIMES Wednesday. Feb. 11, 1920. It opens the mysteries and delights rf woodcraft to th-j youngster who has regarded such things as Leyond his!

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NEIGHBORLY CRITICISM. You can't hope to escape the criticism of your neighbors. If you drive a car popularly known as a iiu lizzie" or "road louse" there are those who will ay about you that you ought to be ashamed to be ho careless of appearances, that your family should be saved such disgrace and that our 'position in the communitV demands scraething better of you. Freely, also you ar- referred to (behind your back, of course as the ordinal Mr. T. Wad. And if. on the other baud. : on drive a closed car of lovely design. with fresh i or artificial) flowers in a silver vase hung so t.io envious pedestrian may pet a gocd view of your luxury, the neighbors say you are heading toward ruin,"' they wonder "how he does it." and broadly hiut that probably you "don't pay your debts." Even the thrifty fellow who doesn't ride a car is oftn accused of riding on the street cars too often. Adam must have led a happy life. He bad no neighbors.

ken. Naturally all the hikes and camping expeditions cultivate individual self-reliance a quality which la fostered to the highest degree. The Boy Scout" have not been satisfied with the mere physical upbuilding of their membership, however. Certain mental and moral standards have, been maintained, which have doue even more good to the youth of the land than training in woodcraft. A Hoy Scout is taught to "consider the other fellow" always. He is asked to look about him for opportunities, to help others. "Do a good turn every day" has become a sort of national slogan. When one hears It he calls to mind instantly a Hoy Scout, pledged to help the weak and unfortunate pledged to constant courtesy toward all individuals, and under all conditions. It Is hard to get a Boy Scout "fussed" when something goes wrong. He has his temper under good control always, and Is ever casting about for ,the best way of any difficulty. It la an early cultivation of a calm view of life, and how much good It will do the Individual in later yea re cannot be fully estimated . If any one wants individual recommendation for the Boy Scouts let him "ask the man who owns one." Let

him inquire of the father or mother who has a Hoy I Scout around the house, if a quick aud convincing com-i rueudatlon of ths scouting organization is desired. I Meantime there is no copyright on the Hoy Scout! idea of doing a good turn every day. Anybody can follow suit, and "Good Turn Week" offers a splendid op-1 portunlty for starting. I

M'ADOOS A BIGGER DEMAGOGUE. As an all 'round demagosue William Jennings Bryan iu his most demagogic days was a mere piker in ;he profession as compared with William G. McAdoo. who resigned as secretary of the treasury to become the business associate of Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks at S1')0,ir,o a year. In a recent speech Mr. McAdoo denounced the Republicans because in ten months control of congress they had "dene nothing" to repair the incalculable damage don by the present national administration in seven years of bungling and botching of public business. The Republican congress. Mr. McAdoo declared, was blameworthy for nor. having reduced federal taxes. It is safe to assume that Mr. McAdoo ls a former secretary of the treasury department that the financial cbligations of the national government at this time are a heritage of Democratic incapacity and extravagance, that the interest on the increase in the bonded debt of the nation alone creates, an annual charge upon the tieasury equal to the entire cost of running the government before the new freedom was turned cn. and that the estimates of the administration have been cut fully a billion dollars by the present congress. Yet it is apparent that with the present heavy federal taxation, there will be a huge deficit in the national revenues. Some street corner ignoramus might be excused for making the statement, under such circumstances, that the Republican congress is to be blamed for not reducing ihe federal taxes, but for a man in Mr. McAdoc's position and with his information, to indulge in such talk in a public address is about as cheap a performance as could well be imagined. Mr. McAdoo may think that it is necessary for a politician to resort to such methods as this in a campaign for the presidential nomination. The people, however, are looking for men of bigger caliber. Mr. McAdoo and his associates have done more to break down the country financially and economically than anyone would have imagined were possible a few years ago. Silence at this time would well become them. But for men responsible for the present plight of the government to ensaeo in public criticism of congress for having failed to repair the damage they have done is about the limit in partisan hypocrisy. The question is whether the damage can ever be repaired; whether the country can be kept, from the brink of ruin as the result of the frightful incapacity, extravagance and reckless waste which has characterized the official conduct of the political adventures who have well night wrecked what was, when they took it. the finest piece of governmental machinery in the world. IT S GREAT TO BE A SCOUT. The Boy Secut movement made strong appeal from the first because it is founded on a common sense idea. Anything that, will take the growing generation outdoors is to be commended. It is through outdoor life that our sturdy American manhood i to be mainfaicd physically at par. Therq i-3 no substitute for outdoor exercise. This sort of training the Boy Scout organizations offers In abundance.

THE OIL WILD-CATTER. People are prone sometimes to poke fua at the oil iure and the tradin in oil stocks, but there are two tides to the question and the South Bend Tribune has this to say of the other bide: Wheu Pennsplvania crude oil hit $; a barrel the other day the impulse was to sigh and wonder whither the nation was drifting. A dispatch from Pittsburgh pit's another face on the matter. Five-dollar oil means great activity among prospectors wild-catters. If jou will - -and the possibility of new producing wells. While few persons have the hardihood to defend the salesmen of fraudulent or wild'-at stocks justice should be done the genuine and honorable petroleum hunters, the men who risk their money in holes lu the

, ground, the real wild-catters. Every legitimate en

couragement should follow men who go oil scouting, so great is the need for new fields of crude. Just enousrh of the mysterious surrounds pefroi:u to engage the fancies of the pure adventurer. Science has learned little about the pools of fabu'mjs underground wealth, the mineral motor factor that has made the automobile and the airplane possible. Nobody does know where it will be struck next. The search appeals to men with the gambling instinct and $5 oil makes the necessary stake.

TIME FOR CONCERTED ACTION. Of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway In which thii region is so vitally interested. Major Henry AV. t.r(. says in the Calumet Record: "The only lluk in the Lakes-Gulf waterway via the Calumet river that is Dot yet provided for is the sixtnle stretch between Hegewisch and Blue Island. There Is reasonable assurance that the river will be made navigable from Lake Calumet to Hegewisch and the Calumet -Sag canal, to be completed this year, will provide the waterway from Blue Island to the main channel at the Sag. Thence to the Illinois and Michigan canal, the Illinois river and the Mississippi. It is, of course. Incredible that L'ncle Sam or the state, city or sanitary district, will fail to provide for dredging this six-mile hiatus, but. a beginning must in made and it is time to start now arranging for this work. , Seme years ago Congressman Mann introduced a bill in congress to appropriate funds for this work, but nothing ever come of it. The work would naurtally fall to the federal government, but the sanitary district ctn also be Interested, particularly if a larger flow of water Is needed for the canal. At any rate it is time to start something. This last link in the Lakes-Gulf waterway must be provided. Considering the years of agitation and prepaiation that seem to be necessary for all important public works, it is high time that Riverdale. South Chicago, Blue Island and their various civic bodies start beating the tom-toms.

Former Senator Depew advises young men to go jnto politics. Has politics, like everything else, reached the rc aiition where It is necessary to beg the young man to come forward?

WITH ALL THIS TALK about psychic waves and planet talking, the average man would like to retire to the comparative restfulness of a nice, haunted, spooky house. w

INSTEAD OF trying to conquer the world. Leuine

had better make sure of Russia.

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AMERICA'S DEPORTED radicals are said to be "safe in Petrograd." Well, they may be in Petrograd. I 1 SOME OF THE presidential aspirants who think j the people are calling them are merely hearing things, j

THE GERMAN MARK is so hard to see that there i- a suspicion it was made with invisible ink.

MANY A "favorite son" is likely to be spoiled. !

I The Passing Show

A3 w wend our reluctant way TO lii? fast-empt in; icsl bin uc figure it OT7T that there Is no condition existing THAT might not hmc brea wor?" ETin Mr. F.yran m:g-ht ha . e len twins. TSZ neJfhbcr wor.en have, we TnroS&STAZTS switched their medical DISCUSSIONS fr-'m the vrirtou abtfrmiiiiil operations TO the need of ititcrstitnl glands in families , TH1Y wo' of. AKD ovn if men could KAVX their wives made to order THE betting; is that th y WOULD find fault with them. ONE of our esteemed cent em -u n ries XOXjDS. not knout reason. THAT tha pninslakifip .flcMts OF an tlderly person to look ounir

AXE quite worth while IF he (or she) succeed.'. THE wny the Sinn Feiners C03TCXITT31.ATE on the Irih jails ih'ra ISN'T anth.ng they hae a greater horror of. EOMETDUS a rrn IS so busy keeping; an oe ON his enemies THAT his fool friends make him the ?fiat. A BIO storm delajtd the opening of the N. Y. stock EXCHANGE the o;her day and some of those who came WlaE sorry it eer opened before the afternoon was over. '

rEMlNISI nature, as pood LUCK would ha.e j-. docs not change TTJCK as i he ai.. toil sw iTtly on AND v e suppose SJoihc-r Kr USES to woik herself up considerably

OTW thinking how she could neer

HAVE trusted Adam with the other women IF there had hen,, -iny. as indeed WE don't bcliexe phe could hc FKOK wln.t vie know of the old cuss. ir tha "fia" ever does jtet a GOOD start in the league of nations WE doubt whether either Mr. Wilson OK Mr. Lodge will BE sble to d anj thing wirh it. AS far as that is concerned THIS neck-of-the-woods has not oniy MLATXSJAXi for ice president BUT it has at least a dozn men who WOTXID make ruttknir rood presidents AND that's no Ford joke either. IT is curious HOW the kindliest of women WILL rt-rard a hole v.-,.rn in a hus-fcind's

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inSCKTIE as a disgrace TO the family, to the block, and to the ZNTUtX neighborhood WHEN it's Ju! -a wee hole. too.

DRIVE FOR -ARMY BILLED FOR LAKE CO.

L'ncle Sam thinks Lake county a prolific field for recruits. In the tjreat nat'on wide drive for an itroy of 2,SOn.O'io the war department has sent to Hammond for distribution throughout the countv twelve world war vet-

EDITORS ere no; like they- ufd to he: erana who will aid in the hiy drive. , ... ! The men v. ho will he under the dirONE out ill Missouri i . , , , , eclion of .Sergeant Cramer of llamIS worrying about th- food of thejmond are: Sergeants Grady and XVin-

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and Wareghan. The educational and vocational schools now conducted by the army will be explained to pros-1 reotive recruits by these veteran.",' many of whom have been in the army:

six to eighteen years. Kx-service men who still have clothing due them will hereafter write to the Director of Purchase and Storage, "Washington, V. C, instead of applying directly to the local reerutins office. Recruits signed up at the Hammond army recruiting office during- the past week are: Forest G. Taylor. Lowell; Dewitt Anderson. Jusiyones Eendarovicz. Frank Kralowitz. Atton Mortovsvi, ,le,e Saladino and Albert K. Hud-

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