Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 160, Hammond, Lake County, 24 December 1920 — Page 13

Friday. December 24. 1920.

THE TIDIES Pase Thirteen RwainnaBani Jiimuaiajm.'WJi-iJL!uuuji" GOLF LINKS AT GATUN COST 8 MILLION -

1116 Past year has exceeded in volume of busi- ifYl lA XL ness that of any year since we enpagcd in I V CrYdSC business- We ish our many patrons and A ien a Icrry Christmas and a Happy New JN "JL Yk J, oilver . jC cx VLil JeweIes and Mnfacturinf Optician SoC

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Did you know the price of our Light Six Sedan with Cord Tires is only $2275 delivered to Hammond? Also that .all of the Series 21 Models are out now? It is quite true. P. J. Bauwens Piitributor for Hammond, East Chicago,

Whiting and Indiana Harbor

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Our Greetings A Merry Christmas to All La Vendor Cigar Co. Hammond, Indiana

That is Because Sporty Course in Panama Canal

Zone was Laid Out Gigantic Gatun Dam.

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My IMMI) H. CHIRCII OATL'X, Canal '.one, Lee. Zi, The moet expensive golf course in the entire world !s blasted by Gatun. An eisht-mlliion dollar golf cotirssounds like a wtM dream of r-port-dom. et that Is Just what the employes at the Gatun Locks enjov. This will probably briny visions of great extravagance into the minds of many, for It smacks of wasteful expenditure. These worries are useless, however, for Oatun'a eight-million dollar golf course Is a necessity to world commerce and a benefit to some fortyfive American men stationed In this Jungle spot. The elght-mUilon dollar golf course is the Great Gatun dam. The darn which made the I'anama Canal successful, and it Is only a golf course because It offers a most convenient space for links ai'l because the tn-

j ployes at the Gatun Iock.s had sufTI-

Hrr.t Initiative and energy to lay out one of the i-poitleot courses In the world over the top of these acres and acres of builded dam. ".Tack" Walsh, who calls Jersey t'lty Ms home, but who had lived on "v; Canal since the (irst American fteam shovel pushed Ha nose Into the tiopical soil of Panama, Is largely rcfponslble for the Gatun golf course. '"Jack" is foreman iri charge of construction at Gatun. lie Is responsible for keeping Ihe Gatun dam and the Gatun spillway In the best of condition. In hl.j spare time "Jack" works on the Gatun golf course and his associates spend many of their spare hours with him. rolling fairway and clipping greens rRESiUEXT-curxT Tiyns ir President-elect Harding, Senator Frelinghuysen. of New Jersey and Senator Hale, of Maine, recently played ever the Gatun course and pronounced II the sportiest course they had ever j iayed. The first hole Is IT.'i yards and t make it the player niurt drive drwn a fifty foot wide fairway with the Panama Canal as a liaiard on the other side. The second hole, some two hundred yards. Is a drop from the top of the Gatun Ixjcks to the bottom of Gatun dam. The third hole Is played up the side of the darm The fourth hole Is laid along three hundred yards of the front facing of the dam. and It Is necessary for the player to drive down a fairway pitched at an angle of thirty degrees toward Gatun Iake. It was on this bole that Senator Krellnghuysen lost eight balls in Gatun Ivike the first time he played Iie course. After the first four holes the course approaches any difficult course In the United States. New players go over the nine holes a'. Gatun with weeping and gnashing of teeth. Yet the lock tenders, the electricians and the blacksmiths and mechanics of Gatun Locks, who play fie course daily, p'ay along oblivious to the many hazards, mental and otherwise, and turn In cards showing 40 and 45 for nine holes over the world's most expensive and most hazardous golf courses.

DESCRIBES PRESENTDAY FOLLY OF CHASING AFTER AMUSEMENT

DENVER. Dec. 24. A return to the conditions prevailing during the socnled "Dark Ages" is predicted byMrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, retiring Superintendent of Public Instruction In Colorado. Mrs. Bradford was defeated for reelection to the position in the November Republican landslide In this state. The movies, automobiles and other amusements have now lured the people away from learning, declared Sirs. Bradford, a widely-known educitot and former president of the National Education Association. She said another "Dark Age" by 1950 is the inevitable goal of the present-day folly of pleasure chas4ng. Mrs. Bradford's startling statements were made at a "regional conference" of educators at the State capitol here, presided over by I'. 1". Claxton. Cue United States commissioner of Education. Delegates were in attendance from Wyoming. New Mexico and Colorado. "Unless there Is an abandonment of the folly of pleasure hunting and a revival of learning what kind of human will we have in another generation?" Mrs. Bradford asked. "Right now we are spending four times as much for chewing gum in the United States as we are for educational purposes. "We are rpendlng seven times as much for tobacco as for education, and fifteen times as much for sodas and scft drinks as for the Inculcation of learning. TlltX A WAV 1'HOII HOOKS. "Before the day of the movies., the fiutomobiles and the other extensive diversions of to-day, the boys and girls turned to books for amusement. They became well read and acquired learning. "But now they follow the l!ne of least resistance. The boys and girl of this age feel abused If they are not allowed to attend movies three times a week. They like to Joyride. They l'.ke to be speeded around from dance to dance, from one social function to another, from one theatre to another. "There la only one thing that can save us. The parents must awaken. They must realize their responsibility. The problem of education has ceased to be one for professional educators alone: they are doing all they can. but the parents must co-operate." In support of her claim that illiteracy Is bound to grow unless there is Instilled Into the younger generation a desire for knowledge to replace the mad pursuit for pleasure, Mrs. Bradford declared that 2D per cent, of the boys drafted Into the army of Uncle Sam were unable to read and write. w-h!Ie 60 per cent, had progressed no farther than the fifth grade in their schooling.

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