Hammond Times, Volume 9, Number 24, Hammond, Lake County, 14 August 1920 — Page 4

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MODES AND MORALS. No doubt Eve's first ccetume was criticized as Immodest by her husband, fcr ever since the dress of womiin has been under masculine displeasure. It seems strange with the incessant change la the dre3s of -woman that it does not by accident some time strike a mode -which should meet -with the approval of those for whom women are generally believed to aim to plea.se in their dressing. Even the skirt, -which has been of every length and shortness possible within the past few years never seems to be exactly right and so is kept In a state of perpetual motion. How ceaseles3 are these changes may b illustrated by the statement of a popular motion picture actress, who declares that in her journeys over this country and Europe it has kept her Bsald busy shortening or lengthening her skirts to keep pace with the styles of the times and of the places visited. Then there- is the woman's bathing suit, which every summer furnishes fresh food for moralizing. To say nothing of the recent discovery of a local authority that the stockingle33 woman is no mere Immodest than the barefoot man. there are indications from several sources that the skirt to the bathing suit whose dmilnlshirg length during the past few years ha3 been the subject of much Impassioned debate, will soon be abolished altogether, as the march of the one-piece bathing suit comes steadily from the west to the East. The day may not be so far distant as some of us Imagine -when the skirt will be a thing of the past, and -when there will even be laws enacted against the

wearing of it as a source of useless controversy and tending to divert the minds of both men and women from more important subjects. At least there should be a law fcrbldding a change in them during a presidential campaign.

big headlines announced that they were dlbaatlsfied. Of course, they were, for publication. They asked for a billion and got a little more than half. On Monday a week ago, there was considerable nervousness in regard to the rail stocks, and the stcry of it was told in the prices. This probably pleased those who know that, when the present period of deflation has reached its logical conclusion, rail stocks are going to be th eleaders. Such men are buying rail stccks and bonds at today's levels. Regarding the proposal of the Tenns.Wvanla to lay off 12,000 men marie early last week, if the action means anything at all it means that railroad employes are going to be compelled to give service iu return for all the wage incerases they have been receiving. That the railroad labor leaders should rebel at the reduction in the working frrce of the country's leading railroad seems foolish indeed. It simply means that labor leaders think the roads should keep men whether needed or not and let the public pay the piper. It is ventured that the railroad employes are losing friends every day at least the .leaders are. The Financial World ventures the opinion that the action of Pennsylvania is but the starting y.clnt in a nation-wide fight on the part of the managements of the roads to cut wherever it is possible without injury to service to the public. And, a year or so fcenc the railroad, earnings will be infinitely lmprov ' Financial "World.

EUROPE BEGINS TO FEED HERSELF. Some interesting deductions are possible lr:n the report just made by the department of couinic-rce on the foreign trade of the United States In foodstuffs. It appears that we are buying more food abroad and selling less food to foreigners. During the fiscal year ending with the last day of June, 1920, imports of foodstuffs into the United States increased by more than $580,000,000 over the previaus year, while exports of foodstuffs shewed a decrease of more than $360,000,000. Europe is evidently getting back to pre-war production, while America find3 i necessary to supplement its own production of food by increased purchases abroad. ;

thi?' HARDING SENTIMENT GROWSf ienator Harding grows in popular favor as the campaign progresses. We knew he would. He 13 that type of man. He declines to be led into a back fence squabble witi Mr. Cox, -who speaks disparagingly of

front porch campaigns. Mr. Cox relies on Mr. Harding's sense of fair play not to dip into personalities, which the democratic candidate himself has indulged In, but, if Mr. Cox is wise he will go a bit easy on that sort of thing, for Mr. Harding has friends who may decide that-there are some things in the life of Mr. Cox that will prove interesting to the public, if not precisely pleasing to the democratic nominee or beneficial to his candidacy. Senator Harding is pursuing not only a dignified but a very vigorous policy. He has declined to be drawn into a "wire debate," but he has had all the better of the argument to date. As for his front porch

campaign ,If he continues to strike the keynote cf situations as they arise, as he has done since his nomination, there will be no ground for complaint. Sometimes a candidate loses as much as he gains by a "swing around the circle."

ANOTHER WARNING. The tragic end of J. Frank Hanly but serves to emphasize again the fact that railrcad trains are no respecters of persons and that they do cot stop or turn abide for the automobiles cf the great. Thee horrible butcheries, which 'are of daily occurrence at grade crossings and which are becoming more and more frequent as the number of automobiles Increases and the self-coufldence of drivers grows apace, demands drastic laws to be rigidly enforced. Ia very truth it would seem to warrant a law in every state reuiring an automobile to come to a full stop before crossing the tracks of any steam or electric road. Thi

seems unjust and poseibly is unjust for the thousands o.' drivers who exercise prcper precautions and are duly vigilant, but 6ince it Is impossible for a law to decide who are careful and who are reckles3 drivers, all should yield to a statute designed to protect human life. Wise men always have been penalized by the folly of fools and doubtless will be world without end, says the Fort Wayne News. At any rate the grade crossing evil is becoming intolerable and public opinion 13 unanimous that something 6houid be done We may be sure that if automobiles had o stop be fere creeping tracks the fatalities would be few and far between.

THE NEW passenger rates are beginning to be felt. Want ad. in Detroit newspaper: "Going to Florida. Will share freight car with another going there."

IF IT HAS NOTHING else to recomend it. it can at least be said that the vcting machine keeps young men from voting the way their fathers did.

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IN THE NEXT great war military engineers should consider the grade crossing as an instrument of destruction

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HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.

There Is a hopeful feeling abroad in the street reSardiag the outlook for the railroads. It is the gen

eral bellaf among men qualified to pronounce judgment on the situation that the roads have turned the corner I In their long discontent and adversity. I The railrcd wag Increases, large though they !

were and in fact much larger than was anticipated, were received with approval as far as the street was concerned. As for the workers, the newspapers in

FROM WHAT we had seen of that young man's escapades, we had expected Mrs. Charlie Chaplin to sue for divorce.

EUROPE SEEMS to be trying to see how close it can stand cn the verge of war without falling iu.

WITH THE Increase in railroad fares, "there Is no place like nome" has a literal meaning.

TTte Strike That Flirted With National Disaster The Blow in the Dark It was late in March that a number of switchmen on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad struck under the leadership of John Grunau (recently indicted with others by the United States Grand Jury at Chicago for conspiracy to tie up the necessities of life). The reason for the strike given to the public was that Grunau had been taken off his run and that run given to a passenger crew. On April 3 the strike spread without warning to many lines, including this railroad. The management was given no reason for the strike, but circulars, announcing that the strikers wanted more pay, were distributed in the streets. Some twelve years previous the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad had signed a contract with the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and this contract, with certain amendments, was then in force when the strike occurred. The vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen explained that the walkout was wholly unauthorized, that the men in so doing had violated the obligations of their Brotherhood and that the Brotherhood disapproved of the strike action. The Railroads were assured that the Brotherhood recognized its -solemn obligation to carry out its contract, that it would make every effort to do that, and asked indulgence on the part of the Railroad companies, a request to which the latter assented. Under the terms of the transportation act of 1920. commonly known as the Esch-Cum-mins bill (in force March 1 , 1 920) provision was made for the adjustment of disputes between railroads and their employes. Upon passage of this law the railroads and the 16 railway unions agreed with the President of the United States to adjust the pending wage matters in accordance with the provisions of the transportation act. This act required, first of all, that certain questions be determined by the interstate commerce commission, a preliminary necessary before the United States Railroad Labor Board could pass upon the wage demands. All of these steps had been taken when like a bolt out of the sky the unauthorized strike of the' switchmen occurred. Looking back one can now realize tne seriousness of the unauthorized strike of certain switchmen in this and other industrial districts in the country. That strike, now a dead issue,. curtailed railway service, crippled industries, threatened the very life of organized labor, and menaced the security of the country. No less an authority than Major-General W. G. Haan, assistant chief of staff of the United States Army, recently said that the switchmen's outlaw strike was the supreme effort of the 700-000 radicals in this country. "Seven days more," said General Haan, "and the radicals would have controlled New York through the switchmen's strike." Probably the public will never know how close that sudden and unexpected strike brought it to suffering. Had not. railway officials and loyal employes filled the gaps in the ranks even the milk supply of the cities would have failed..

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