Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 63, Hammond, Lake County, 31 August 1920 — Page 4

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If vcj fajl to receive our cry of Tm 1m" " pfOttPtJv a ou have in the past, please do not tnit.k teen lost or was not S'-nt on time. Renumber iha' i.iservice is no. what t used to be and that complaints j.e s-e.nerysl fr-m many pource- about th tram and rv.e. The T:hm. has Increased its miuimtc equipnn. an. d l striving earnestly to rea-h its patrons on fine. !-. . r. nip In dv:sir.r us when you d" not get our paper and - vm aet promptly. .

SHOULD BE GIVEN AH INCREASE. There Is no justice In the theory voiced by the Ignorant, and unthinking that cce public utility company should be permitted to raise its rates, yet another should not. People cannot expect that the trend of higher costs and higher prices will not hit everybody or that a public service corporation should le expected to operate at a low any more than a butcher or a baker, just because It is a corporation. As a matter of fact the public utilities are. the very last to ask for an Increase in their rates. We cannot get along without them, yet they have refrained for years while prices have been climbing for asking for relief until tt become? a matter of solely self-preservation cr go into receivership. Prices have been climbing steadily for five years. Merchants and manufacturers have lor that length of time been Increasing the prices of commodities, but it has only been within the past year that street car companies, gas companies and other utilities have asked permission to raise their rates. We have in mind to the Chicago Telephone Company which withstood It prayer for a raise in rates until the present day. The step was not taken only as a last resort. The company has seen operating costs mount steadily without considering a petition to the State Utilities until they reached such a height that the petition could no longer be deferred and its announcement that it would ask for a raise la telephone rates followed. There Is no reason why the Chicago Telephone Company should not seek the relief other utilities have been forced to ask and to get. fl"bere is no more reason to expect the company to continue operating at a loss than there is to expect it of a private business individual and this newspaper believes that the phone company is entitled to an increase In rate. We believe that when the public know the conditions it will also agree that the petition for increase should be granted and the relief asked for be accorded. It is only just to admit that a public utility and one of such necessity as the telephone company i not in business tc lose money any more than the merchants who sell you "flour or meat could be expected to do so. Prices on what the company must use in ita business are net fixed by it. It tuust pay what Is demanded of It.

SOME STAYIUG HARDING AND RUNAWAY COX. It 1b not e.y to imagine anything cheaper that: the pretense of Governor Cox. as expressed in th South Bend address, that his program of hopping around over the country proves that he loves the people, while a candidate who does his talking from hom thereby demonstrates his lack of affection tor the populace. Everybody knows that every candidate Just loves the people to death while a campaign is on. i that respect. Gov. Cox is no exception to the rule. Bui is he more of an apostle of the people than Abrahai . Lincoln, who stayed in Springfield, III., throughout the course cf the campaign of 1S60? So one knows better than doss Gov. Cox. as ;i newspaper man. that a thousand people read the speeches made by a presidential candidate where one person could see and hear the candidate, even if be spent al! h:s time barnstorming. Today national campaigns are won cr lost on the printed page. When the pro feedings at the Cox notification were delayed tnc Other day. Gov. Ccx said to a friend who expressed the fear that he might not have a chance to make his speech: "What's the difference? It is the audience that reads this Speech, not the one that hears it, that is va-stly more numerous.'.' A presidential candidate should weigh his wcrds. Indiscriminate "shooting off the mouth" i ueithei dignified nor politically safe. Gov. Cox has already

mac.- a few imprfcmptu remark- that mlsat tatter have remained unsaid. The candidate who la blppodroming about haa no time for study and reflection. And it is far more Important that he should give thpeople a true picture of his poiition on public Ques tiona than that he should kiss a few dozen thousand babies, squeeze the hands ot a few scores of thousands of voters, and prove- that a presidential candidate can draw nearly as many people as a circus. Thl3 lsu t a race for constable, or a beauty ehow, or a backslapping contest. It is a battle of ideas, and ideas can be setter formulated and expressed in the quiet ot the American home than in a Pullman sleeping car.

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BOLSHEVISM LACKS COURAGE. The public hears considerate these day. about the ideal- of th Russian bolahevlst., how the Muscovite he a great principle of government lor which they aie willing to sacrifice themselves in order to lmpreaa it upon the "capitalistic nations." The defeat of the Russian hordes by a smaller number of heroic Poles, fighting for their national exUten.ee. provides no encouragement for the beliet that bulshevisnj represents even tlw lowest type of naticnal principle. Men who believe in the rishteousueps ot their cause do not run like frightened rabbits. It mu.-t be plain, even to the preachers ot sovietis:u m the United States, that bolshevtsm, deprived of !ta incentive to loot and take without compensation the property of others, is the most cowardly and contemptible thing oo earth. Some of the most thrilling storif-s in world history te.l of a few brave men, fired by the love of country or adelity to a great cause, who withstood torces which gieaily cutnumbered them, men who would rather die than give up the defense of a principle. The Russian have been deceived into acceptance vt a political creed that has nothing In it ot the morality that is necessary for the success of any cause. Lenine and Trotzky have been trying to capitallte the ignorance and cupidity of their followers. The at tempt gives promise of dying of lte own poison.

COMING INTO HIS OWN. Terhaps the world has not given to the lazy man the credit he deserves for the progress that has been made toward the ideal life. It is coming to be known, when the lazy man is censidered dispassionately, that tome ofthe important inventions are the result of hia disinclination to work. Kor example, there is the riding cultivator, whlc is said to be the product of the ingenuity of a man who was sure that his legs were never intended to drag a "hand implement. Net only does a man ride in cultivating now. Put gets much more work done. There is not much to be said about the man who refuses to .? any work at all. but the man who is just lazy enough to do his work in the easiest way haj been able to hit upon many ideas that, have added to the sum total of human efficiency. Many devices that have contributed so largely to production may be traced to the desire of seme individual to save himself from unnecessary physical effort. Many an inventor who has a reputation for in dustry may have had only a commendable kind o laziness. It may not be too late for the world to cap italiie It's lazy men.

A OTHER aign that the honeymoon 19 all 6er la wtiea ha WAJTT to occupy a chair aU by himielf. WE aee that pickled natturtlum aeeu ARK a substitute tor capers BI T If wa had tha caper habit

WE should try to be man enough to I: leak RIGHT oft without contracting another. AS Cheap as sympathy ic ftOUODY wanta to waste any cf it OV the party ho married KOR mcrtey and didn't ;et any cf it. THE. old tsw that "whatever goes up must COME down" no linger holds good IMThovemknts are being male every season on all THE automobiles, hut aomehow th)

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ARB getting into the courts ATVU we suppoae the perlshabld foods MAY (is well make up their minds to perish . THB loafer with the greasy derby and the MinKOil on the seat of hla pants LIKES to pan the thrifty hustler FOR being a tightwad and a grouch, (l I 1TK a lot cf persons would be willing to PRACTICE thrift If they did n it HAVE to give up thlr pet indulg-en-

A man Is hard up tor a way to ATTRACT attention WHEN he Insists on wearing a silk hat

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THERE has betn no decrees IS the output of stumbling blocks. THE man who teiia the d-jclor that his TROl'BLE comes from orerwork HOES nt deceive the latter any more THAN he does himself. SOMETHING we happened to see In

the course OF our datiy walk yesterday MADE us feel It our duty fv resume

Ot'R campaign to persuade everybody TO have everything hang from the 8HOYLDERS not only because that ARRANGEMENT la so much better for the VITAL organs but because thing FASTEJNED on that way ARE much less liable to come eft at nOrPORltE momenta. ANOTHER reason why a horse IS credited with having horse sense 19 because It can't talk and MAKE an ase cf l:s:f.

AVTJ yon can't mke a wife that any man CA!V be so busy that he needs A girl secretary.

TWO LAW OFFICERS KILLEDBY BANDIT ST. LOUIS, Mo . Aue. 3. Eugene S. Conrey. 42. night sheriff at Clayton, and Benjamin corner, city marsha.. were shot and killed during- a revolver battle with a highway man in Clayton at 12 30 o'clock this morning. The bandit escaped and prJ re and derctIves r,f Clayton and tit. Louis are n scouring the c!y and surrounding country in an attempt to effect a capture.

WHAT WELL RUSSIA DO ? It will be Interesting to watch developments in Russia during the next few weeks. It is not entirely improbable that far-reaching results at home will follow the defeat of the Red armies in Russia. It would not be the first time that military d?ra' ended in a thorough accounting at home. Russia would appear to be about ripe fcr a house-cleaning.

THE doctor who says ever-eating kills more than starvation is talking in past tense.

THE MAN WHO gives the most unsolicited advice aardly ever has any on which he can get the cash.

EVERYTHING COMES to the man who wait?, but i bald bead seems to be about the bureet.

MOTHER LOOKS after the home Ste-r. hile 'ather gives attention to the home brew.

IT TAKES A lot cf nerve these days for a man to vow he will not shave uatl! his candidate is elected.

THE government is run by a lot of optimists who insist that price? will be lower.

THE practical value of a wisdom tooth U aiiout the same as that of the ouija board.

THE man who can get an option on a lot of gocd will hfcs reason to consider himself fortunate. A LOT of folks who complain of the rest of ?ugar never fjuestion the quotation on a silk shirt.

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