Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 285, Hammond, Lake County, 20 May 1920 — Page 4

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THE TIMES Thursday, May 20, 1920.

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS Y THE LAKE COUNTV MINTING & PUBLISH1N3 COMPANY.

T&a Laf.a County Tlmea lX-tly excapt Saturday a aoday. idnumi at tua poatoltic la Hatnraona. June . lHt Th Tln.a Uast Cirtoac-o-Indiana Hrlwr, dally excevS Sunday. KnirW at Ui poatotfflca ia At Chicago. Ioasofcex IS, Ids. tb L County Tim. 8arurJy and Weekly "' Entered at the postoffice !n Hanniond. l-'ebruary 4. i"SJ Gary Evening Time Dally except Sunday. tra at the poatofnea In Uary. April 18. it 11. M , . AU uadar tha act uf March a. laii. aa eeconJ-ci atatw.

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to get out a paper. Ho i.s forced to skimp, ami cut down. At a period when the advertising business U better than It has been In years he is forced to turn down advertising, to take less than he could in former years and to economize extremely when he needs all the advertising he possibly can get. He could get it but his supply of print forces him to refuse it. He cannot take advantage of the prosperity others are sharing and yet his overnead rocs on just the same. Material and labor climb in price, yet the publisher, because of paper shortage, cannot go cut after new business because he must cut down the number of his pages. The situation is critical. It is not a cry of "wolf, wolf." Every newspaper is confronted with the same situation and there seems to be no remedy at hand. The newspaper business is not any more a business for profit but just a mere scramble for existence.

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naiuaf , , , , , nirj". - Crown Point I-lepuona J It you bava any trouble a-ectlng- Thi Tinas manes comalalQt immediately to thm Circulation Department. HOTXCX TO SIXBSOUBEM. If yoo fall to receWa your copy of Tnw Trr as promptfy aa yon have la tha past, please do not think tt nea lxa lost or waa not sent on time. Rmmber tnat the mail aerrtea ta not what It used to be and that comptalnta era ceneraJ from many aourcea about the train and mall aeralea. Tu Tma haa IncreaaeC ma"inst equipment and la trtYlns; earnestly to reach 1 patrons on Mme. ba prompt in advising- us when you do mor gti y.ur paper aoj vi will act promptly.

POLITICAL EGOS. The man who gets it, into hist head that he is the one and only person competent to be president of tha Inited States should be entered in a court of lunacy as a candidate for the insane asylum, not in a national party convention as a candidate for a presidential nomination. The exaggerated ego in politics and public affairs is something more than a nuisance, it is a real menace.

NEWSPAPERS HARD HIT. Hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers from one end of the country to the other have succumbed to the prohibitive cost cf news print and many have found it impossible to get it at any price during the past fe-w months. In the past few years the number has mounted into thousands. A more serious blow to the liberties of the country and the freedom of publicity can scarcely be imagined. Wherever these small newspapers were published the community is a loser. The charges that might be preferred against the big dailies axe never brought against the small newspapers. The

majority of them just about make a living for their '

owners. There is more scrambling to make both ends meet in the newspaper business as a profession than there is in any other and it is regrettable in the extrem that these lesser beacon lights of a free press have ben extinguished. The time has come when the larger dailies are forced to meet the same perilous conditions which conquered their smaller brethren. The sun nowadays never sinks in the west but what the cost of something used in newspaper making does not mount higher. In the matter of paper, the publisher lives from hand to mouth. He is unable to say how much longer he will be able to get cut his paper, some days by the most rigid economy of his supply of newsprint he is able

THE WORST EMPLOYER IN THE WT0RLD. That his name is Albeit Sidney Burle.son would be gladly conceded by any postoffice carrier or clerk, we gather our correspondents, ami. viewing the matter impartially, we think that contestants for the post will have to speak lively to stand a chance cf competing. The complaints of the postal force are many and various. Underpay to the point, of starvation would form the chief item in the indictment. The rang"' from $1.00 a year to J t.6.0, the present scale as generously increased to meet the advanced cost cf living, is still below that of the cheapest and most ignorant and incompetent day laborer. It is disgracefully and outrageously low .considering the present purchasing power of the dollar and intelligence and accuracy and fidelity required of the workman. But besides this general prcfiteering at the expense of faithful employes, many of long service, Mr. Hurleson is also accused of gross inequalities and injustices as between different classes of employes. Worst and most egregiously outrageous is the scale paid to auxiliary employes, which is 5 0 per tent greater than that paid to permanent members cf the force. This figure is a practical confession that the standard scale is far below existing wage standards and that to man the service at all a far higher wage must be paid to temporary workers to meet the emergency. Of course, the emergncy is not being met by any such sweatshop tactics and wage puggling at the expense of tire.l and trusted employes. Clerks and carriers are resigning by the score. The postal service was probably never at so inefficient level. Meantime a congressional committee month by month and year by year "investigates." And Mr. Burleson brags of economy nd "profits." All that the American people can do is to apologize for such" a public disgrace and evil example of conscienceless profiteering and promise to see that Mr. Burleson's term comes to its appointed end on March 4, next. New York Tribune.

NO TROUBLE THEN. If the money that was wasted in cost plus contracts and in other ways during the war were now :n the United States treasury the matter of paying a bonus to soldiers of the World War would not constitute so perplexing a problem. As it. is, the problem of how to pay the proposed bonus and at the same time escape national bankruptcy or a financial panic is net .o easy as it looks.

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Batteries Batteries Batteries

$10.00 allowed on your old one. . At the Big Four Battery Plant. Drive over to where we make them.

Calumet Avenue and Gostlin Street. "

THE BIG FOUR BATTERY COMPANY Hammond, Ind.

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A MAN always becomes indignant AT his son for doing the things he himself DID when a boy thM he shouldn't have done - IT a boy is point; to b bad HE ought to do something" novel. SO MX mils paac agreements atem TO threaten international comity eo hard BfclNOZNO up new crises

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THE old 41-45 clas is Retting old-r right along. ONE of our friends is sadly worried HE has a trood stenographer, BXTT unless he. m.irries her be ia AX RAID he'll lose hor.

AHD If ha does marry her ahe won't stenog, SO you see we all have our troubles. ABE HAKTIN says that a PAINTER, makes throe or four dollars PUTTINO on his overalls and SETT IN O up his ladders before he does A ITT work at all. TTNJT7ST criticism is easily borne by the PHILOSOPHICAL mind. falling- off it like

AND we do not like pause. BE IiTO a ranting radical must be awful IW hot we.ther when , j ZTEV wo calmer minds ! BTXCX to the chair, both seat and

back. IT'S no wonder that A XCAIT who leads a fast life IS nearly ala-ays "ran down." TEZBJE is one thing to be said for temptation XT is no quitter. THESE doean't seem to be as many June MAB.SX&GES announced as u?ual AND of cours It is'possible that the girls HATE pretty well picked over THE flower of our youns manhood. A WJLXTEB in another column described the

WHO remembers when IT was cheaper to rent than IT was to buiM? P&XDE is one of the human qualities WHICH ignores the things of real importance AND centers upon trifles, AND generally a woman is more ashamed OP her porch furniture than she would BE if her husband gambled or drank Lk.e a fish. NOTHING- takes the joy out of life more THAN for a woman to buy a nice big fat JAK of cold cream, only to see THE printed statement somewhere THAT cold crea.m makes hair grow.

Try A Times Want Ad.

WATER, as it were, off a duck's back.' AUTS running around-with 1013 li- . censes.

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writes AND says that he gets tired cf our drivel, WBT it gives us pau?e '

BUT honestly, that's nothing IP you give the cars the up and down TOU fan eee some of them that AREN'T wearing any licenses at all.

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There is Not a Better Investment in the Whole District

This brick four family house would cost $18,000 to $20,000 to build today, according to Hammond builders who know. Our price is $9,500.

These houses are of Brick Veneer Construction. Contain four separate apartments. Separate basements, each with its heating plant, Hot Water Heater, Laundry Trays and Coal Bins. Each apartment has four rooms and bath, all modern. Street Improvements All Paid in Full. Hence carrying charges are small. Lawns and Shrubs in.

Wliy This is a Wonderful Investment Purchase Price $9,500 Annual rental return should be: At $30 a month for each apartment $ 1 ,440 Expenses would be Taxes, $125.00; Insurance, $15.00; Repairs$100.00 Total,... $235.00 Net return 1 2 per cent, or $ 1 ,205 This Apartment Will Pay for Itself in 8 Years and Then You Have $100.00 a Month Income 1 . The United States Government is you creditor, interest only 6 per cent. 2. You may be sure of your title. Abstract is furnished free. 3. The above figures are based on reasonable rentals, which will increase. 4. The houses are new and repairs will be few whileyou are paying for them. 5. No street assessments to make the burden heavier while you are buying. And Only $950.00 Cash Needed to Buy Duplex, or two family, houses sell for $5,500 to $7,500, and are just as good bargains. Smaller houses for a single. family may be bought for $360 to $500 cash; balance as rent.

PoMic Interest Tremendous Sale Starts 9 a. m. Saturday and Ends Sunday Night

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SUBDIVISION OFFICE. Highland St. and Wallace Road. Phone Hammond 64.

DOWN TOtfN OFFICE. Hammond Trust & Savings Bank, Fayette and Hohman Sts. Phone 5.