Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 152, Hammond, Lake County, 15 December 1920 — Page 4

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THE TIMES

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS sr T uzi cou'r ptts rvBXJSBxmi co arr. Xh 1XU County Times IMily ecept Saturday ami SttthJay. Entered at the postcftlca In Uaniinuiid. June 2, ,fXba Time Xt Chicago-Indian Harbor, dally exoapt Sunday. Entered at the postofflce La Eat Ocagv. Novenv Thae County Ttmea Saturday and Weekly Edition, entered at the postoiTtce In Hmm"nJ, February I. 19 IS. r, i"ir GtDiii Tlrues Iaily except Suoday. En-

tared at the poavofflce In Gary. April 18. 113. AU under tiio act of .x 3. 1S7. as second-claas anatter. POKEION- ADVERTISING BEPRE3EN TATION O. EOOAN PATNE CO. CHICAGO

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NOTICE TO SUESCRIBERS.

Tf ni fail to receive jour copy of Ths

Times as

rremptly as you hare In the past, please do not think It has been lost or was not sent on time. Remember that the mall service Is not what it used to be and tl.t complaints are generyal from many sources about ths train and mall see. vies Th T:es has Increased its mailing equipment and Is trlring earnestly to reach Its patrons on time, tie prompt In advising us when you do not get your paper and we win act promptly. x BLUE LAWS. Are Sunday "blue laws" the next reform, to follow prohibition In this country? A systematic campaign raa been launched la 30 etateB by the Lord' Day Alliance and an inevitable storm of protest has arisen as a result. If ia fact the issue can Ue denned and the sides lined up on the same footings as the "wets" and tfca "drys," It may become national In a short time. Some auch alignment seems to ba taking place, broadly e peaking. The "ilberals" condemn the rigid enforcement of Sunday ordinances, and the Alliance, which has a widespread church support, encourages It. But a closer Inspection in almost any community shows that the issue Is not so clear-cut as in the prohibition fight. For the clergy Itself is divided on the question. Although this problem would seem to hit at the heart of the church even more directly than did that of the saloon, here are pastors of many denominations who fatly oppose the measures that their brethren of the cloth propose. Let both eldes get a clear vision of the matter, and then go to It and fight It to a finish. Hut let there te an absence of bigotry on the one hand and ot license on the other. Those who favor Sunday amuaements will do well If they protect them from the jast Indignation that arose over the abuse of the saloon. At the matter now stands, the extent to which the reform will co really seems to be In their hands.

AN ORGY OF ECONOMIZING. From the signing of the armistice until the early months of 1920 the American people generally were engaged In what the more flint-hearted critic- styled en orgy of extravagance. Money flowed Hie water; the demand for luxuries could not he supplied; prices of necesitijs went sky high. This summer brought a sobering of Judgment and a cessation of spending. Demand fell off, not only for unessentials, but for essontlals that had been prodigally wasted. Stocks piled up. In many lines production was restricted. Minufacturera and wholesalers made great gashed In price. Retailers have begun to respond, and at last the consumer U beginning to get the benefit of the reaction from inflation. Both conditions. Inflation and reaction, were made possible, to a large eitent. by the average man's manipulation of private purse strings. Are we now to have an orgy of economizing? Is the public to swln?, pendulum-like, from one extrema to the other? It is to be hopd not for extreme saving is little less deplorable than that of extreme spending. Unless mcney is spent in sufficient quantities to k-ep irgularly employed the workers in the necessary Indus-

j tries there can be no real thrift anywhere.

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LIFE EN THE COUNTRY. Considerable discussion ia hoard these days a to the means that may be adopted to keep fclks on the farms. The situation has become serious, for many experienced farmers :tre moving Into the cities, either for the purpose of earning what they consider easier nioc.'v, r to use their savings in giving their children and themselves the advantages of city life. Whatever the cause-, the situation remains, and it conhtitutes a problem that may well engage the attention of national and state authorities. The fear is expressed (hat the production of food may become reduced to 6uch an extent that the scarcity wlU not only greatly increase prices, but threaten the welfare of the people. While the reasoning Is purely academic and subject to the views of each individual, it is probably true that the persons who make occasional trips from the rural districts to the larger towns enjoy these visits and the things they see much more than those who tee them every day. It is a case whore familiarity sometimes breeds contempt, in the matter of better school facilities in the towns, there Is in most cases no place for argument, although some progress has been made in a number of states to bring about a centralization of teaching that gives country pupils soma of the advantages of the city in a course cf study. There is nothing to Justify undue pressure to keep men and women and boys and girls cn the farms. Rural life should be fo attractive In itse!f that enough persons will make choice ot the country life to insure the crops of grain and quantities of other foodstuffs, needed to maintain all the people at a reasonable cost.

NOT WHAT, BUT HCW. Every once in a while these days one Is reminded that In a little while Christmas will be here. Of cours lie merry season is stil less than two weeks away, but many children and grown-ups have already begun to make their plans. To do the kind of thing that old Krlskringle does takes a lot cf planning if it Is to be done well; In a manner of speaking you have to get reay for It. Not that this planning is ever hard work, even if you go at it with all your might and main; because as every boy and girl knows when you do anything to make anyone happy. It is never hard work, and the more patience and -kill you have to employ in doing it, the more fun It Is. If you were to ask him face to face, Santa Claus wal4 tell you that a lot of people miss half the fun of Christmas because they Torget that It Isn't whst id given that counts, but how the thing i3 given. Ha would tell you that what a thing costs, or how much it shines, has nothing to do with it. What really counts is how much affection and kindness and well-wishing you put into it. It'a what you are, and not whet the gift is, that counts. That's why Christmas Is such a wonderful season: and that is why most people who like Santa Claus and Christmas try to plan and get ready for this great day, so that they may have most of themselves to give when that day ccmes. Casta Claus never yet waited till the last minute and then scurried around and wondered what he would do about this and about that. You can guefis from the stories they tell about him, and from the way h looks, that he is the kind who dees things when they ought to be done quite a while before th. last minute. And In these things It is well to follow Santa's example.

THE STUBS in a check book are sometimes interesting, but they are like the mill that will never grind with the water that is past.

EVEN CIDER, and apples in the cellar and hams in the Fmoke-house have lost their attraction for a lot of farmers who are moving to town. .

A LOT OF FOLKS do not seem to care how much the farmers complain, just so they turn out the cfops at a reasonable .price.

THE EIGHTEENTH amendment may be considered a Joke by some but a lot of others are not doing any laughing over it.

PROBABLY SOME of those home brewers think it is punishment enough to have to drink th stuff they mske.

SOMEONE SHOULD suggest Hiram Johnson for f-ecretary of agriculture. He keeps the ground stirred up.

IT SEEMS TO make little difference whether the train hits the automobile or the automobile hits the train.

ARMENIA HAS been declared a soviet republic. Tt Is the soviet end of it that prevents cr ratulations.

THE BUSINESS of letting the office seek the man will probably not be favored more by women than men.

THE FIRST term of a new member of congress i mostly taken up by getting his friends well placed.

The-Passing 'Show

a WD If a woman uses HER clothes for ' advertising purposes SHE should not lose her temper tr there are a few bidders. AVXj these things we suppose will BR satisfactorily arrens"! by an INTEMJCE-NCH far higher than eurs WHET the times cornea but It purales us a ITT to know what hy (rotng to do with all a wife's faiatirea I.V the universal brotherhood pf man. TT usually twitches a man's vanity anyway WHFX he finds out for the first tlm THAT there Is something- in him THAT interests a woman. THERE Is supposed to be a. n for EVR1TI"G but whHt possible use CA" there be for the lace TO find now and th-n on guest towels. OCR memory roes bark to the time WHE5T a girl's idea OF tfce most beautiful word in the language lftS ITuylere but are not THROW much with jrirls tf that ige JOW and are not advised AS to what dialectic, changes, tne years snd modern CO PETITION have brought. "NO woman Is ever so A TTSn ED with hereeli that yhe DOES XT ?pen3 a certain amount ol time WOITRVIX about what the pTFTftimoRS thlolt of her.

AND tiie fact that after a".i fHK thinks as he does about it 'J rot 5CITI('IET to keep a man s wife FBOM contra-lict'-nsr h'.m. AOTHl,n thing that trnds to kep prices up is the way we think It AT be any gnoJ when the dealer offers I S a 40 cent article f ir 75 cents AM Impatiently ask him IF he hasn't something in a little better quality. BT th tlm wrrtfjs gels THROKWf makln fool lawa for VOr to observe, it will be no trouble AT ail for you tOBSERVE the Ten C.'mn,.siid-"''r.tf.

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HERSELF with the reflection THAT tt is better f have bra'r.s than beauty. "WHEX there is sickness in the hour? EVEX If It is only the mump?

' Till" worne-t always seem to like to j have t he MAX of the house around within ' EASY cai! tut we sometimes think this Is I MHRELT for the pupcse of ever- ? lafitinfrly havllr.gr

HIM out for the way he does THIMJS he's told to do.

HOW MUCH

DO YOU KNOW?

1--Wh.it is the duty of consuls? '-'--'Alio discovered- St. Anthony's fall? 3 What is considered the most beau

tiful ruin in the world? 4 What was the "Children's Crusade?" 5 What did Columbus sy of Cuha? 6 what are the five zones of the earth? " ITow --ften are solar e.lips'V! repeated? Hsi any rerson ever seen both sides of the moon? 9 Krom what is bay nun made? What animal lias more tbn 14.000 teeth?

NSWS TO TESTIIDATS QUESTIOITS 1 What was the length of a cubit? Answer: A cubit was ncarlv 22 Inches In length. 3 Tn the Polar regions hw long does twilight la-st? .Answer "Twilight lasts all night in the Voiar rrgtnns. 3 What t a vacuum? Ant. or: Tt Is the region in a closed vessel from which the eir has been largely removed. To obtain a complete vacuum is said to be impossible. I Has tho ser. ling of Valentines any connection v ith Pt. Valentine? Answer: None whatever. The c))om is the survival of the dd practice and Its association with the fcslnt is purely accidental. 5 What Is the rorrr.a! mouth Temperature of a healthy person? Aris.eer: The normal mouth temperature of a person In gord health is SS.5 F. 6 What are the ' black and lans" and how did they frnin the nnme? Answer: They are the auxiliary division of the Royal Trl4i Constabulary. When t hexwere organized the uniform furnish'! them was dark green (almost black) and khaki, ller.ee the name. ? What caused the Franco-German war in 1ST0-71? Answer: The ostensible cfus? of this war was the offer, after the derosition and expulsion cf Queen Isabella II. of the Ppinlsh crowu to Prince HohenzoIUirn. a re-lat!-. e of the king of Prussia. This Franco denied en insult. 8 What is the meaning o "Free Trade?" Answer: It is the tiaire applied to a certain policy of a government regarding forejan trade. Tts main feature is that no duties are I lacod on imported foreign products? S What is the first ma.nuracrurins city in United States? Answer: Philadelphia, I'a. 10 What battle was fought two week after the treaty of peace had been signed? Answer: The battle of New Orleans during the war of 1S12.

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We Have purchased the Entire Stock: of the Reliable Manufacturing Company, of Chicago Illinois, at sixty cents on the dollar. We've seen nothing to compare with them in beauty, workmanship or price in all our previous travels in search for furniture. Here is your chance to buy a regular

$49.80 ROCKER

Friday Only

$5. Cash and 3 Monthly

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Are Upholstered in Genuine Spanish Moroccoline. There are two different styles, one of which is pictured here

At ae Actual Saving: of

An actual saving of $22.45. The purchase includes more than 200 beautiful 0erstuffed Rockers, in two different designs. Al! built by skilled craftsmen and upholstered by experts with moroccoline, which wears equally as well as the finest leather. The highest standard of quality has been maintained throughout. To those who cannot be on hand Friday you may reserve your Rocker before, if you desire.

Come and see these Rockers, whether you expect to buy or not. There will be no effort made to induce you to buy that's the policy of this store. But when we pick up a bargain such as this we like to have you see it. You can judge the real value of these Rockers at first glance. See thew in our windows now.

Large Massive, Roomy Rockers

Wing back, roll arms, upholstered over genuine oil tempered springs, of b-st construction. The upholstering is a remarkable feature of these Rockersit is an extra fine grade of fine moroccoline-looks like leather and wears even better than leather, g We think enough of it to guarantee it. :

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