Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 222, Hammond, Lake County, 9 March 1921 — Page 7

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THE INAUGURAL TARADE' WHEN HARDING BECAME PRESIDENT

TXUCXS AITS XOAD Willi. North 10th Avenue, ilount Vernon, N. Y. To the Editor of The Time?, Hammond, Indiana. Ir Sir: From time to time of la-.e I have rad with Interest various news Items nd comment in The TimM conoprnins: 'he very important question of motor trucks and their relation to road wear. It sefis that there is a market tendency on the part of legislatures not only In and around Hammond nd the vate of Indiana, but In other par: s of the country as well, to feel that larsre t-apar.ity motor trucks, by Irtue of t.-eir s'ie. are destructle to the road.-. They seem to feel that thev are sorvinK 'he best Interests of the country by plac '.pit restrictions on the size of motor trareport units. Tt. occurred to roe that inert reffie fail to realize that motor transportation ! r;orv a recognised economic necessity, that there is a definite increasing amount of material that m;i?t lio snipped by truck and cannot txj diverted to other agents. The roads of today have aJready failed in their effort to support present traffic. What will be the situation ten years hense if m.;n :n responsible positions continue to 'ook upon the rroblem throne'i smoked glassesT Anyone, at ail familiar with the history of commerce knows thai lawn favoring- Rhort-sijhted restrictions can. at best, be but temporary. Did the absence of mammoth piers and dee? channels prevent the development of the ocean greyhound of commerce? Did the absence of something better than Iron strips nailed to wooden string-era prevent the development of our present day loD-ton locomotive having a single pair of drive wheel."" that weigh more than the entire first steam engine? Did steam railro.id interest finaily prevent the securing of "rights of way" for the much needed m'.srurbAn trolley? The flying- ship has beoome a thinij of commerce that literally shrinks the map of the world. Wil us development cease because of the Fcarcltr of landing- fields at convenient points across the earth's surface? Did the early opposition to the horseless carriage upon our turnpikes prevent the present horseless ase? o! And can the development of the efficient present nay motor truck which is yet In "knee trousers" be checked by men who cannot read the clear handwriting upon the wall that a new epoch ha-s dawned? Unlike other history making inventionsi the present gas engine Is not a ubstitute for something antiquated, but acts as the most powerful ally to the railroads that has ever been dreamed of. It is eliminating: the unprofitable branch lines and main line short Hauls and bring-ing freight from isolated sections in a manner that Vanderbilt. Hill or Harriman had never even hoped for. If the present railroad systems were relieved of terminal congestion and the unprofitable hort hauls, they would fake care of the demands of today with, their present eo,u!pment. It is gratifying to note that constructive minds are coming to see the modern motor truck as a solution in the form of an evolution that will be felt by every family throughout the coun-

try, as great an evolution anj havir.s as f ar-reaebing an effect upon the hfe of each individual as did the ".ntroducI tion of the steam engine. I It is known by the people that alnv-'n 50 per cent of America's perishable j farm products are absolutely lost be- ; cause of lnsdenuate trar.spt.-rt fafili;j-.

Do these 110 million people of the L'nited States still hold that the nxijm -"The greatest good to the greatest number" iv sound'.' Are they finally goir.x to vote to restrb-t th": mot .-r tni'-k'a economic development or to restrict uneconomic road bui'.Jing '.' The Inadequate r resent day overland motor haulage companies operating upon railroad f-chedules have already brought many marked changes. There aro close to 73 concerns operating trucks on 16 regular routes, passing through New York City. In Southern California, fnct the lie ginning of the war. Intercity motor truck trans-ports have increased at leas; 400 per cent. Seattle, Spokane. Portland and Tacoma In the extreme northwest are alive with motor truck transport companies. Likewise the states of Nevada. Arizona, L'tah and Colorado are equipped even to ore carrying fleets. The South today frankly acknowledges its great economic handicap In having to use llsrht

i capacity trucks or no trucks, du to bad

road?. Tremendous tonnage of farm products and manufactured goods gathered through this medium directly from

j the farm and factory has been a great ! assistance to the railroads already but the motor truck will daily have to bani die thousands of tons more in every state before there is any perceptible relief.

Has the j-n.all capacity truck held this intercity and suburban field against the economics o.f the large capacity truck for this purpose? Not any more than the old type of 15-ton box car and the 6(S-ton engine has held out against the iO-ten car w ith its accompanying 150-ton locomotive. The ' Inexorable law of commercial economics takes care of such matters in

! its effort to pay dividends to the very

legislative stockholders who persistently refuse to build a substantial base for

the truck that lays the golden ogg. The day will come, regardless of opposition, when the states who held out for restrictive truck legislation will awakejt to find that ther backward step leaves their stato years behind those who facel the situation squarely and promptly adopted progressive measures. The gas engine with its wonderfully compact power plant suddenly places the world in an entirely new era and the sooner every individual steps up to the window and looks toward the horizon with a clear vision, just that much sooner will we all get down to work and prepare to meet the irresistible force plainly visible. "We have got to stop demanding the greatest possible stretch of roadway for each dollar expended and insist upon less mileage with the best of sub-grades obtainable. And the government must back and control fiach progressive step If it Is going to bo done intelligently and economically. Roads of today are a different problem than those of yesterday and no man can foretell the definite requirements of fie roads of tomorrow.-

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platforms w.ll be built around th highways and the motor trucks and the sooner every vot-r be.-om'-s familiar vt ith the basic economic principles of eommeroia.l advance!!'.' r.t Just that much vooner will we realise the long wished for agricultural and oon'-siercial stability. V ry ru ly j our", II. C. BAIIET

BERGER LOSES ! HIS APPEAL! V.-ASHINOTO.V. March 7. Victor L. ! He: her, editor of the Milwaukee leader j today ion: h;s appeal to the United States wjprrnie pouri to compel the posti.iaster general to admit the Lead-! tr to the mails under the second clans privilege. I'oslmast'r (General Burle- i son denied maili.-ig pr, lieges to tho newspaper on the gro.ind that it p-ib- j lisr.ed matter circulated to embarrass i 'he enforcement of the selective draft iaw. The case fas bright to the; United ftatf.i .s'jpro.ms court from the i I:trict of Columbia court of appeals on an appeal from a denial of a write of mandamus orderir.ir the postmaster1

to allow second clas mailing privileges to the Milwa.ikf e Leader" wh,ch was barred from the maiU under the. esponage act. The supreme court sustained the lower court In denying the mandamus. J-jst'.ce Brandeis dissented.

Panes and dine at Cafe Lafayette. Gorman Orche?tta tonight, Satur'i y

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Rheumatism

A Xtemarkalsle om Tresrmeat OlTen By One Wlia Had Zt. In the year 1S?3 I was attacked by Muscular and Sub-Acute Rheumatism. I suffered as only tho who are thus aff'lcted know for over three yerj. I tried remedy after remedy, but such relief as I obtained was only temporary. Finally I found a treatment that cured ine completely and cuch a pitiful condition nas never returned. I ha given it ta a number who were terribly afflicted, even bed-ridden, nome of them -eiit to eighty yexrs old. and the resui's were the same os in my own o,so. I want every su'ferer froin ai. y form of muscular and puh-ftcit' (swelling at the 'olnts) r'xumaiism to try til's great value of my Improved "Home Treatment'' for ir remarkable healing power. Don't rend a cent: simply mail your ns,m and adress. and 7 will send it free to ty After ou have used 1t. ni it t s proven Itself to be that lor.!- i-ed ftr mea-n of getting rid Of i.-.h forms of i beiimalisrr.. you my send the price of it. One Dollnr. but i.ririerstand I do not want ycur ii.au y unless you are rerf. --!!;- astl.".cd t, "end it. Isn't thef fair? V.'hy suffer any longer, when relief Is tins offered free. Don't t'--... Write toda'. Mark H. Jacksot. 207-' ljrt -i Ridg. Syracuse, ,. T. Mr. Jackson is responsible. Abova atatemeiit true. Adv.

Try a "Times Want Ad"

AboTf, the auto bearing Wilson and llarding to the inaugural ceremony, escorted by the troop of cavalry, the only hint of pomp or splendor. Below, the thousands standing before the stand to see inauguration.

The simplicity of the procea- J ecch side of the presidents' ear ion which traveled from the i and the othev four in the proWhite House to tho capitol to j cession. The then President-elect convey Wilson and Harding to Harding called for the retiring

the inauguration is clearly

shown above. A troop of caval-

executive at the White Hou:e shortly after 10 a. m. Aft a

ry was the only official esco-t. ! brief stay there the rid. to the The cavalry rode double file on i capitol bejran. The president

elect and president rode i.. the rear of the first autc In the auto with them were Rep. Joseph Cannon and Senator Philander Knox, representatinjr .oneress. Coolidge and Ma. .'nil, Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Wilson and the other members of the purty followed the machines.

The prophecy Is well founded that within the next ten years the motor truck will be a direct auxiliary to the main railroad lines throughout the country ani) that the railroads will not only refuse to tV-iHa' further branches but will have abandoned those not showing a profit. In place of theise branch line, motor trucks will act as direct feeders, gathering ve.st tonnage systematically nn' literally converting every farmer's and manufacturer's gate into a freight loading station. The railroad will then be in a position to put all its finances and energies into the problem of handling the tremendous volume of freight delivered

daily from these thousands of far ranging trucks.

Sooner or later. many apparently complex nations.! issues, policies and

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Ttheumatlsm Is "pain only." Not one case in fifty requires internal treatment. Ptop drugging! Ru'i the misery risrht away! Rub soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs OH" directly into the sore, stiff Joints and muscles and relief comes instantly. "St. Jacobs Oil" conquers pain. It la a harmless rheumatism cure which never disappoints and does not bltsten.

Limber up! Quit complaining! Gt a Fmal! trial bottle of old-time "St. Jacobs Oil" at any drug store and in just a moment you'll be free from rheumatic pain, soreness and stiffness. Pon t suffer! Relief and a cure awaits you. Get it! "Pt. Jacobs Oil" is just as good for sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, backache, jprair.s and swellings. Adv.

Oa Uml affidavit. John Hart Brittara, business mia, certified to this: "My head at the top sad back was ebMlatsly Aa expert aid that be thought the hair roots were extinct, and titer u a hope of ray erer baring a new hair growth. Yet mw, at an age over 66, I have a luxuriant fro-wth f soft, strong, lustrous hair! No trace of baldness. Toe pictures shows here are from my photographs." INDIANS' SECRET OF HAIR GROWTH

nr. tinttam esrened nmber: "Ata time wDwa l A I had become diacoarasw) st trying to rrow bit 4

hair again, I came acroea, In my trarela. a Chero- A' --

.Pf MUlU KUWHuv IIHU WUW UU U F H All t.ll be asseverated would grow mr hair. Although I bad bt little faith I gave it a trial. To my amaxesaeot a light foss sooa sppesr wl, t ' developed. dy by day, into a healthy growth, and ere long, my bat

was aa aralilia mm la mr )HMil oava. True Hair Grower at Last "Thai I toas OMttmikd and kappy is snrrwMM esar 01 mf ajtanal

f"krt f vikn hiL fnCdif. ObvKntslj, the hair roots had aot been dead, bat wcr dormant is the scalp, s waiting the fertilising potency of the then mysterious pomade. I negotiated for and came irto possession of the principle for irepanng this, now called K.OTALXO. and later had the recipe pat into practical form by a chemist. That my own hair srewth vh siiaant has been amp) preyed.

It baa heee proved la very many caaes that hair roots did not die even when the hair felf out through dandruff, fever, aiopeeia awaoia, or certain other hair or scalp disorders.

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By WILLIS H. BOOTH Vie Prwldent Guaranty Truit Company ef New York. NO GROUP of our citizens Is more dlrectlj affected by the state of our foreign trade than the fanner. This is dally emphasized as the world applies Itself to a study of It difficulties and seeks remedies. Tflth the coming of a war that Involved the great producing nations, we berD to see how closely the interests of each were linked with those of all others. The realization f that fact Is now complete. In the present stage of human progress Internationa!, commercial and financial relationships nre not merely desirable on the ground of convenience and comfort; ther are absolutely necessary If life Is properly to be sustained and the future ef civilization made secure. No nation, no community, no Individual can live alone. Economic interdependence Is such that distress or disaster In one country Is Inevitably reflected In every other country. When Russian markets fail, for example, the Industries of Great I'ritaln. of South America, of the United States, feel the effects. AVhen the great sources of raw materials fall or the free flow of such materials throughout the world Is erlously Interfered with then. Industrial countries must close their plants and workmen must leave their machines. Thus a Massachusetts truckfarmer, for Instance, might fall to lift the mortgage on Ms half dozen teres because fas ceased to come out of Russia. Because there wns no flax Irish linen manufacturers turned away their operators. These I'i turn ceuld not buy shoes, and LLat act swept across the Atlantic

to New England. These shoemakers left their lasts and curtailed their purchases at the m"ocery store, and the grocery man, In turn, cut down his receipts of vegetables from the truck-farmer. It may be that the truck-farmer's analysis of the situation would extend no further than the city which had been his market, because the effects of a flax shortage !n Russia were communicated to him slowly and by Indirection. Had he been a producer on a large scale, however, one who tiad built up a foreign market and maintained it as 'the source of that marginal profit through which his domestic business was buttressed and stabilized, his understanding of primary causes would have been swift and sure. Whether the effect comes slowly or swiftly, directly or indirectly: whether It Is clearly understood or not, eventually and Inevitably It does come. And that Is why the American farmer cannot escape n direct Interest In nhat Is happening In Europe. In the financial crises In Japan and Cuba, tn the depression In Australia and South America, The part which the United States played In the world-wide Interchange of commodities before the war was Impressive, but today, because of the peculiar position in which the war left ns with respect to the rest of the world, the amount and value of our foreign trsrie Is beyond anjthiug ever before dreamed of. In the year before the war the toUl value of the foreign trade of

Oreat Britain was nearly $7,000,000,000. that of Germany was about $5,000,000,000 and that of the United States was nearly $4.2G0.0(X,000, a total of approximately $16,000.000,000. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 19"0, the foreign trade of the United States alone was $13,729,061,000, and for the nine months of the calendar year ended with September last the total value of our foreign trade was $11,948,000,000, of which exports were valued at $f5,O82,0O0.0OO as compared with S.",SGG,0O0,000 for the corresponding period In the preceding, year, while Imports totaled $4.r8,000,000 as compared with $2,097,000.000 for the corresponding period ending with September, 1919. The enterprise of the American farmer, the dependence of the world upon him, his Interest In maintaining and extending his markets, Is written all through this record of America's foreign trade. Convincing as the figures of pre-war years nre as to outward bound trade routes that hxve their bginnlnps In the broad acres cf the United States, those of last year are fairly astonishing In their size and in their implications.

COTTOI ON THE GALVESTON WHASVES-AMERICAN COTTON EXPOfiTS DECREASED 2.SO.OOO BALES IN -

The valne of breadsfr.ffs exported from this country during the fiscal year nded June 30, 1014, was $165,302,385; In the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920, the value of breadstuffs so exported had risen to $808,471,228. This Increase did not represent on Increase In values only, but also In the amounts. In 1914 there were exported 92.393,775 bushels of wheat, valued at $S7,953.450; In 1920 the number of bushel was 1 22.430,72 and the value S300.ia3.023. In 1914 there were exported 11.81.4C1 barrels of wheat flour, valued at $54,454,175: !n 1920 the amount wag 21,651.261

barrels and the value was $240,574,670. The roost notable of the very few reductions in amounts of exports Is that tn the amount of cotton exported in 1920. a decrease of about 2,20,000 bales, although this decrease was anip' offset by the rise In price. W'hat it means to our Southern cotton planters when the textile mills In Central Europe are running at only 30 per cent of normal can be realized by recalling that In 1914, when their output was normal, we sent to Germany nt the then existing low prices $1S2,000,000 worth of cotton and to Aus-

trla-ITungiiry $7,000,000. France's great nonhern Industrial area, which was deliberately devastated by the Germans to kill future competition, was full of textile mills, which bought In 1914 $73,500,000 worth of cotton from the United States. England, the same year. Imported cotton to the value of $230,000,000; Italy, $34,250,000, nd Spain. $19,200,000. In the fiscal year of 1913-14 the total value of merchandise exported from the United States was 52.329.084,025; In the fiscal year 1919 20 the value was $7,950,429,180, an Increase of $5,020,743,155. We cannot hope to continue exporting at such a pace In the face cf exchanges bo adverse to other countries as to make continued buying Impossible or, if persisted in, ruinous. On the other hand, we know that a sustained period of reduced consumption or non-consumption of any product by large numbers of people constitutes a loss that can never be regained. Non-consumption In onr foreign markets means an accumulation here and conseqnently an unnatural lowering of prices which would produce stagna

tion In Industry. We are rpacn. Ing a time when such non-consumption of American goods In foreign countries will have to be reckoned with. Already our exports are falling off ond cancellations of con-

iTiacts are reported from many parts of the world.

America's great task la to assist other nations to a position where

j they can resume production and

distribution of the products with which In other days they paid for imports from this country. We have the frod and raw materials nnd machinery which the remainder of the world, and particularly Kurope. urgently needs. And we have also the foundation 'for such an extension of credit as win make the purchase of these requirements possible. Under the Federal Act known as the Edge law It Is possible to organize corporations, supervised by the Federal Reserve r.oard, by means of which long-term Investment funds of American capitat can be converted Into funds to finance Immediate exports from the United States. A natural question arises ns to why the ordinary commercial banks do not arrange for such vital financing. Tt must be pointed out that no commercial bank can afford to tie up the money of Its depositors, a they are essentially demand deposits and must be held liquid. When used to finance foreign trade the funds of the commercial ban must be employed Id nuch a way that It is reasonably certain that the transactions which they cover will he self-liquidated within three or four months. It Is obviously not ordinary commercial banking but tni investment that Is Involved when periods longer than a few month! are In question. But If anything Is to be done with this credit machinery there must be created an Interest in foreign Investments on the part of our people. A very widespread Interest in this subject Is required, and every class of savers or 'nvestor must somehow be reached and convinced that A portion of our capital devoted to foreign Investment purposes Is now essential to preserve the prosperity of the world. Farmers have prospered. As investors they have always preferred to place their surplus funds close at home. Can any large number cf them be stimulated to study the International situation? tan they be convinced that It i a matter of deep and present concern to them? When Edge Law debentures, bareu on foreign securities and issued by responsible American banl;irg groups, are offered to the public will they pass them by? We h.iva a conviction that when they under stand what they mean the farmer will do their full share and they will see as clearly as any other class that the task of getting the world back on a sound, stable basis Is Just as Important as w- (he winning of the war and, considered from the viewpoint cf enlightened selfishness. Is impemfhe if th farmers would rreserVe their own prosperity as well a that of th country.