Hammond Times, Volume 9, Number 19, Hammond, Lake County, 10 July 1920 — Page 4

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THE TIMES KEVSPAPEBS BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING A. PUBLISHING - COMPANY h" LaJro County Tim mm ixljr cxct Saturday Ml is -ntar. at to postotuca la ilaimuona, Juu. . Jfh- T,n- -t Chlogo-Indlana Harti. dally except unaay femereO at tha postntflca la kdiat Chlcaga. Mombtr IS. Tha Lk County Time Saturday anl Weekly nialtton. ""I?'1 at th oatofflc in Hammond. February 4. Tna CJary Evening Times Daily except Suuday. Pfflca in Gary. April 18. ISIS. All under t& act of aiarcfci a, cond-claa4 tt-.

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POLITICS AND PROGRESS The masterfully complete way in which newspapers Of all shades of political faith detailed the news and gossip of the national conventions! gives evidence that interest is at high tide In fie proceedings preparatory to th national election. It is an answer to thostt who bewailed public lethargy in the days of the primaries and contrasted 1920 with the exciting days of former years. The public is Quiet, but is not asleep. It is alert and thinking and demands the fullest information on every move of its delegated leaders. If one were seeking evidence of the well-being of out national health, there would be no need to search farther. When the people are thinking, they cannot go far wrong. The right is nearly certain to be established. Proceeding from the collective to the individual view, the man or woman who shows a lively Interest in political affairs possesses one attribute of good citizenship. And no matter how conscientious, or upright, cr intelligent a mau may be. without active anxiety over government he cannot be a good citizen. When you hear some one bewail tnaSThere is nothing in the papers but politics any more,' J-ou. may make up your mind that there is one who LaS not been awakened to the true meaning of America, and democracy and government by the people.

JUSTICE FOR VETERANS. Approval by the president of the Sells bill, providing pensions of from $12 to $30 a month fot veterans f.f the war with Spain, Philippine insurrection and China relief expedition, gives justice to men who have long been neglected by the land for which they fought. AH men who served 90 days cr more, and who are now or may hereafter be suffering from any mental or physical disability of a permanent character which so incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor as to render them unable to support themselves, may, on making application be entitled to receive a pension from the date of making due proof. It is also provided that pension nny be granted to these veterans on account of age and length of service when they reach the ago of 6 2. It is compensate n that these men. so long neglected by a forgetful country, have been entitled to for years. It lias been a long wait and the men who are entitled to pensions under the Sells act may be expected to avail themselves of the opportunity quickly.

HIGHER RANK FOR CHAPLAINS. Essentials of recommendations made by tho Federal Council of Churches which has been working fop recognition by congress of material and spiritual value of the army chaplain to the military organization are contained in a section of the new army reorganization act. It is a move that will make for the liet'erment cf. the army. Low- ranks given army chaplains .have teen the , cause of frequent unfavorable comment 2ut.all efforts In the past to have the army organization: plan changed to give them proper recognition met ,witht no results, 3"o his menial position and consequent loTy-ray was attributed the lamentable scarcity of chaplains during the war, when It was frequently necessary ctovfra in. regiments and it is reported in instance to send them to the front chaplainless. Wh;'e a corps .of chaplains was nof-rmtliorized" in so rjany -words, yet the provisions mad-for a chief of chaplains will, it is believed, bring the results the corps wa.3 designed to accomplish. Rank from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel is provided. A chie? o chaplains Is authorized, who shall have rank, pay animal lowances of a colonel during the timo he serves ps-uerf. The detail of the chief of chaplains shall he for four years and the appointment shall be made by the president with the consent of the senate. Under this commanding officer constructive "work

POWER OF PUBLICITY. Since the close of the war there, has been a great increase in newspaper advertising. This costly publicity must have rendered a service which any ambitious person can use to develop his business, says the Lafayette Journal. The first service which newspaper publicity renders iorr.es through the power of suggestion. If you sug-

j em t.- people the advantages of doing some desirable S thing, they are more likely to do it than if you do not

. mention it.

Take the case of phonographs. The people are constantly being reminded in newspapers and magazines of the advantages cf phonographs. They are shown pictures of dances and home circles and social gatherings

j where phonographs bring happiness and merriment. You

i see pictures of singers whose work is reproduced bv

phonographs, and all that. It makes people want pho- .. .. .1 T. V . ,

; iioKi apu.-j . rrooaoiy ten times as many rhonographs 'vhave been sold as if they were never advertised. People read in their newspapers about bargains 'in shoes. That makes them reflect that their shoes are getting worn and they need new ones. They therefore bny shoes instead of something else that was not suggeusted to them. So it goes in every line. It may be objected that this power of suggestion

,is too strong for the good of turn community, that

they don't need and ought not to have. Hut even if so. no business man can afford to neglect this basic fact of human nature. Unless he uses this power 'cf suggestion to promote the sale of his useful articles, a great deal of the people's money Is likely to be drriwn off into other directions where it will render less service.

ALLEN M'CURDY GIVES THIRD . PARTY KEYNOTE ADDRESS

PEACE OR WAR WHICH T And still the issue is, Americanism with peace or internationalsrn with war. Shall we stay at home and mind our own business or neglect domestic affairs while we middle In all the controversies of Europe? Shall we pile up our own debts while we bear the burdens of foreign nations? Shall we break our own back' In order to satisfy the vagaries of a man who is afraid of breaking the heart of the world?

I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl CHICAGO. July 10 'the keynMe .speech of the third party national convention delivered by Allen Mcfurdy today was as follows: 'On March 21. 1919. the committee of for t y -eiijht comr"?',,d nf men urul v men of the f irt y-eitjht static, is.-u-'l a "call to Americans,' urging ih necessity of a new political alignment.. This Villi' wast bused tipi n the conviction that the two existing political pmtics were united in their determination to perpetuate evil.i he American people were determined to destroy. "There was no thought of a third party. We believe jn the two party system; but we deny the existence ot the two party system in our country. The republican party and the demot ratio party elect representatives of reaction in the. north and south, concealing under these different names an unyielding opposition to the popular will. A successful oi ganizatirin of thexisting liberal progressive conviction would, in our Judgment, introduce a real two party system into American political life. "Our platform is sinpie minded in itspurpose. It seeks t accomplish ail thintr.J or even many Ihirms. hut K "-s straight to the accomplishment of n task which it considers of supreme Importance at this time. Th:-ou?h it we dfclare that just as in lSfpi the paramount issue in American life was the abolition of the special priviliye of chattel slavery, so the paramount sue of lS'O is the abolition of economic privilege, which has grown more powerful than slavery ever became. "The principal source of the power of privilege are two: The ownership and control of the ba.lc resources of tho country: and the ownership and control of the means cf distribution. Our platform, therefore, proposes to abolish privilege by taking away the sources of its power. To accomplish this purpose it proposes public ownership of transportation and the principal resources of the. country and declares thru all land held out for use for speculation to aid monopoly should he forced to use by taxation. 'After years r.f secret slavery the republican and democratic parties come into the. open and reveal themselves to the nation as nothing but the rijjht and left wines of the same bird of prey. it Is no longer possible for anyone to even pretend that there is any difference or any issue between them. I "There is not a word in either of their platforms that might not have been written and unanimously endorsed by a convention exclusively composed of corporation lawyers and' Vail street bankers. Confronted by

the gravest crisis In the history of civilization, they have demonstrated. een to th, ir oun adherents, that they are without the vision of statesmanship, lie courage of leadership or the conviction of patriotism. "Over the trail of these national failures is to be drawn th red ring of International relations. This is an ancient trick of reaction. If it sueceeis in r.cut, the American people will disc-over too late th.it they have assumed the position of a man gaxing intently at the moon in order that the pickpocket more easily relieve him of his present possessions. "Of c ourse we are surrounded - y a tumult ami a shouting intended to make m.ike us believe that a real contest is on, P. ut we are not deceived hy the slim battle. It is merely the tumult and the shouting of two as! business organ. zations bidding- for t ti--opportunity to be the agent of th" i.'iT.acioui interests for th- next four years. "The republican bid is bol l. It reads out of its councils every m.m and wonmn who ever stood for hViy form of human rights, adopts a pi -it form that evades, equivocate., or straddle every living- issue; paves the way for a war by w h;eh, in exchange for the lives and treasure of the people, Mexican oil shall he delivered to the iniercsts; endorses tho famous K.s.-h-Cummtns bill over the protests of the farmers, workers and informed citizens; and consistently crowns ,., work by nom mating- as candidate for the presidency a proven, steady, wheel-horse politician, guaranteed to stand without hitching, who learned all the politics he ever learned in the thorough school cf Marcus A. Hanna and Joseph F. Foraker. back in the Kiden age marked by the Standard Oil scandals. Thus stands tho party of Abraham Lincoln in the last days of its decadent fithlessness. naked and unashamed in its servile service, of a greedy plutocracy. "The democratic bid is more than bold. It is brazen. AVith mild reservations it rot only claims a partisan credit, which belongs to the whole nation for fight mc- and winning the, war. but It declares that It adminteted the conduct of that war without tho taint of scandal! And the ghosts of Hog Island, the aircraft and shipbuilding; and cantorment construction, and nitrate plant appropriations are still stalking through the land! Is it no scandal that in 1317. the year of supreme sacrifice when our boys were fighting and dying for $30 a month, and our people were economizing and sacrificing to buy Liberty bonds, that the V. S. Srepi corporation made ret earnings of I RSS.931.511. r twenty million dollars more than

lt total capital tockt Whit can we call that whole orgy of war profiteering by a set of the most unscrupuloua scoundrels who ever fattened out of the necessities and the miseries of a great nation at war? "The republican rarfy would lead us back to the bondage of Marcus Hanna. Not to be outbid the democratic party, through its endorsement of the administration of A. Mitchell Palmer, would lead us back to the days of Philip II of Spain. To such depths, has the party of Thomas Jeft'eison descended . "Tin platform, which is ubmitted as the basis of the deli b rat b .n s of this convention ha a most serious claim to our consideration. Not only is it a short platform, but it is single-minded In its devotion to pne determination. It cbclnres that the principal cause cf the distress of this people i j economic; in its nature and can be removed only by economic action. Kvery word in it says the s.cme, thing: 'Ah. lish economic privilege." "We have been and are an exploited people. We have not enjoyed, and. u-ider existing conditions, cannot enjoy the fruitd of cur own industry. The fears of our fathers have become the experience of their descendants. Our country has become a plutocracy. "The time has come when it is not merely desirable, but indispensable to the public safety th3t our government ard our ether institptlons should be restored to tho people. The whole system of production and distribution administered not for the public good, hut for private profit, has broken down. We need everything from shoes on our feet to houses over our heads. Many necessities we cannot get at all; and those, available are beyond the reach of every family in this country whose Income is K-ss than $2,533.97. "Throughout all our debilerattons we must maintain our conviction that what America needs today is not more laws, but more liberty; and that given freedom, thi American men and women may safely be trusted to work out their own salvation. That freedom can only be given t the American people by the abolition of economic privilege.""

Delays WILL Happ Make Them Short We try to provide our customers against trouble by giving thera the best equipment ir, the first place. But we always ad visa that they go prepared against delay we urge the "stitch, la time." Give ut five minutes some day and let us fit you out with a supply of Firestone Accessories. This small investment assures you of being able to talce care of your tires c.i the road promptly, efficiently and with little troubli, Ask us bout thaj E. N. Bunnell 504-508 Hohman St., Hammond. Phones: 650631592. Fifth Ave. at Massachusetts St., Gary. Phone 1470.

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Special dance Sunday evening. July 11th, Columbia hall. West Hammond. 7-9-10

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ATTRACTIONS Lake Front Park Indiana Harbor, Indiana

Open air dancing every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings from 7:30 to 11:30. Bathing, motion pictures, boat excursions, dancing, light lunches, refreshments. Music by Johnston.

UNDER THE provisions of the will of a New Jersey millionaire a home for "respectable bachelors" will he established, but the applicants must be more than 60 years old and have been residents of the state for at least ten years. But what "respectable bachelor" would reside In New Jersey for ten years unless forced to do so?

A WRITER, comparing modern wooing with that of the stone age, says man leaves his club at hom. now. And after the wedding, it might be remarked, he leaves home for the club.

"HOUSEWIFE Put Away Much Food In The Olden Days" says a headline. Alas and alack! They don't put away so much nowadays, although hubbies are still maintaining their record.

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