Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 23, Hammond, Lake County, 18 July 1921 — Page 4

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THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS o"sr tom t.-ttb cquwtt ?-srxTXjra ft vuBuacamra coss?ajtt. The I .. County Time DaUr except Saturday anil Sunday, iianared at the poauxuce la ii,juuni.. Juu it, Tbe Tirana Et Cl-loage-Inalans, liar so r, dally .xcpl Sunday. Jatered t the KteIXie la Jhk-et Cinoi-go, Kovu bsr 18. I9i. The Latt County Tim Satorday and Weekly Edition, Watered At the poatofiUce In Hammond. February 4. Tb. Gary Evening- Times ixiily except Sua-ay. lared at to,, poatoaic im Oary, April 1'-, 111. Ail i-r Lba act of Marck i, 1J. as second-claa suUr.

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NOTICE TO BUISCRIBIR3. If you fall to receive your copy af Tm Tisnw a Promptly as you have in the paat. pae do uol think It has fceen lot or was not tent on tlaia. Kernember that the. mil service Is not what It uand to be- and ti.-t complaints u-geu-ryal from many sot. ran about the treln and natal -r-vioe. Tit Tims haa Increased its Dialling equipment and ta fctTlvln earnestly to reach It patron on tune, lio pr.uipr in advlrlntt ua whan you do not set your paper ana wo wui act promptly. PRESIDENT'S SOUND SENSE. The position taken by the President Harding In his personal message to the senate may be disappointing to former soldiers, yet that it is based on sound sense must bo apparent to everyone. He says that the effort to reduce taxes will be thwarted if the amor.nt which, "would be involved in a softiers compensation grant were placed on the treasury at this time. That, we believe, will not be disputed even by the most earnest advocates of the bonus, because it is self-evident. While thers lias been disagreement as to the probable burden that the bill, if enacted into law, would impose oa the treasury, it at least would amount to a large sum. The Question Is not whether the former service rucn deserve the amount asked, but whether the government is able at thi3 time to pay it. The president takes the latter position, while admitting the gratitude due those pleading for the measure under ' consideration. The situation certainly is not a pleasant one. Unquestionably many former soldiers would be helped greatly by the receipt of a modest sum. As a nation we owe them much. As a nation it happens that our resources have been strained to the limit, the president . states. To pile on top of our present obligations an additional load might make the discharge of all doubtful. That is the view aken in asking delay of the matter An individual who has no money cannot meet demands. A nation that has exhausted its resources is in the same position. The United States has not exhausted her credit but a further increase of dobt T-n-iH prohibit a reduction of taxes. Which of th alternatives should be chosen is the question at Issue. The president has made his choice, and it is the choice of -all clear-thinking citizens.

UETUKN IT TODAY By what kind of inscrutable mental process or word jugglery dees it come about that there are some objects which; no one but a professional thief will take end keep if he can, while there are others which are appropriated by eminently respecable men and women, who would feel hurt if they were told that the method in which they acqolred hese- objects is something very clcse to stealing. No one of these amiable and respectable people would take a. dime out of hi3 neighbor's pocketbook or a $20 bill, even if he could do so without fear of detection. And still hotel keepers complain continually of a shrinkage of their able silver supply, pocketed often by people who have more than enough of it at heme. This irresistible impulse would not drive any of these persons to steal an empty milk bottle from somebody's porch; and still, before we took ot paper cups, it was recesasry to fasten by chain the public tin drinking cup. In the cao cf.Luoks the moral law seems to be suspended altogether Many persons who could bring numberless affidavits on their honesty and integrity In every other walk of life, will borrow books, and though their former owner may pine for the want of them, the bocks are not returned. Practically every one cf us can recall he fact that someone has not yet icturned the book he borrowed two years ago. And

very likely on going over our stock of books we should !

come uron one or two which we? have not ret urned. In some of the largest libraries the world over it tras been found necessary to subject all out-going individuals to a search and seizure process to keep down the number of books stolen each. year. Apparently this is fill international affliction. It Is a tribute to the inherent gocd nature of men r.ntl women that this failure to return books has not .put an end altogether to the lending of book3. As we are wont to say in matters political. "Something ought to bedoneaboutit."

"AS SHE IS SPOKE." The king's English, can be put to strange and varied uses. Ou suitable occasions it may be used to induce mediation to the point of drowsiness on the part of persons whose avowed purpose in attending this devotional exercise is really not that of going to sleep. From the lips of a firebrand orator it may fan into tiames primitive passions that have long lain dormant. Quite the most unique use of the king's English, however, is to be found in the annals of sport. The average citizen secure in the belief that he understands his mother tongue since he has written and spoken it all his life will find many a paragraph from the sport page to the understanding of which, neither dictionary nor grammer text book will help him. For instance: "Wallie Pipp greeted the newcomer with a slap against the barrier of the right field stand for two bases and Peik crossed the platter, while Ruth stopped at third. Lee caged Meusel's lift. Thereupon Frank Baker hanged the globule to deep right centerfor a triple, which conveyed Ruth and Pipp over the disk. After Ward had fanned. Baker tallied off Shang's one base jolt to the lett. Jack Quinn whiffed for the curtain fall." Here, as everyone will admit, la English' composition which addresses Itself to a large reading public. Excepting the proper nouns, every word ot it is in good standing in the dictionary, and still to one not versed in the jargon of baseball the paragraph is altogether unintelligible. But what is still more baffling than its uniutelligibility is the fact that to those skilled in the vernacular of baseball the very strangeness of tbe language is intended to add a charm to the message conveyed. Verily, the H.-g's EngliJh may be put to a variety of uses.

WAR. The greatest argument against war is, of course, war. Like all platitudes, it is trite and in the laboring weather of a warm June hangs heavy over one's head. War itself is a great scorner of seasons, and men died in June of 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918. People of the world, therefore, are Justified in declining to wait cn seasonal favors before discussing the tremendous question of disarmament. It. is not difficult to make people think about disarmament; but it is extremely difficult to marshal that thought, give it the Impulse to action and make it not only articulate but effective. It is unfortunately true that most of us are eager to agree that the time for action is at hand, but gaze appealingly from the comfortable depths of our on apathy for some one else to show what the action should be and to do it. War never can be abolished by compulsion; there are some things you may not legislate out of existence, and human nature is chief among them. Righteousness, which is another word for universal peace, must be the cause and not the effect Sf disarmament. Righteousness in the minds of men elevated to a plane of principle. To appraise contemporary righteousness is not an easy thing; all men are not righteous. But are the majority? Does the majority of mankind abhor war, not because it is afraid the ether fellow has a gun that shoots more miles, but because of antipathy to war itself? The answer to that question is the answer to the disarmement problem.

Monday, Jury 18, 1921.

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SHORT TsIGTIES for women is a style edict from Paris. Kothing new, the only change being that they "will be worn nights Instead of days.

LEAVING IT TO CHANCE. Wheels of chance have been placed on the tables

of an Ice cream and soda water establishment in New

York City for the benefit of those who are afflicted with indecision. The names of the drinks and confections served appear on the wheel. If you do not ;now precisely what you want and have trouble in choosing from among the various flavors and specialties you give the wheel a spin and ,4et chance decide for you. The proprietor saya he was ledo install the wheels by the fact that so many customers were unable to make up their minds promptly as to what they would order. They vacillated between this and that; one thing would no sooner catch their fancy than they would be attracted by something else. It is a common failing, and a deplorable one. How comfortable it would be for all such if they never had to make up their minds but could leave every decision to the caprpe of chance with the assurance that its choice would be satisfactory as that made by the soda wheel. The persons who make their mark in tbe world are those who are able to decide for themselves. The ability to reach a decision promptly after all the facts are at hand 13 one of the conspicuous characteristics of these who achieve greatness. Wavering is a sign i;f weakness. This was one of the lessons on which emphasis was laid in the training of officers for service in the United States army during the war. Learn to make quick decisions and stick to them, the candidates were told. If several courses of action are open, weigh the merits and demerits of each, and even if two or three seem to be equally attractive pick out one and go ahead. Your choice may not be the best that can be

made, but you are likely to accomplish more in the

long run than he who dallies, unable to make up his mind and waiting for some one else or for chance to point the way.

STO matter how ornery sl husband 5A Y 'be. his writ a la usually HILLIXG to give him A. Uttle credit FOR hi gnod intentions, N we are glad to see that a writejf HAS come out In a fearless WAY In defense of th Ireckl THIS which nothins CA.' ba cuter if tha surroundings ARE satisfactory. XVE do not blamo the boys la tha composing: llOO.U these days for aeinff which can SHED mora clothes PRINTERS or eirla.THE reason why a plump IADY knows that she- la getting SUEXDER Is because SHE has to loosen her corset STRIXGS every week. THE Ford seema so much like SEXTIEXT beingr that sometime we expect IX our absent-minded way ta IELIj out of the front door TO some delivery boy to drive on a FEW feet farther for fear tho Ford may XiBBtn at our young" and tendr privet hedge "which is having -enough trouble as it is. THE leopard cannot CHANGE his spots but a. HEAL uptodate girl HAS something on a leopard, A magazine writer says that THE ostrich when PIRSIIXG its intended prey OFTEX covers 28 feet at a single bound AX1 we suppose th mas', writer AFTER getting far enough ahead SO that he could safely do so

CIRCLED around and came back AXD measured the distance BETWEEX footprints in the sand.. OCR memory goes back TO the time when a family IX about the same

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OXE that has at least a Cadillac now

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ostentatiously in the front

yard. A man always gets so rattled WHEN' a girl proposed to him THAT she can easily make HIM believe after they are married THAT he did it.

NEW YORK JUDGE is quoted as saying American children are not properly reared. So thre are some American children in New York, eh?

How Much Do You Know? 1 What country has such, law abiding citizens that it does not need police system? 2 How many presidents of this

country saw service in the senate?

3 What sort of a disease is sita-

' phobia? t 4 How much territory did the original forests of America cover? 5 "What is the area of the District of Columbia? 5 What is the origin of tha expression "Indian Giver?" 7 What was Lincoln's favorite poem? What ia the estimated age cf the earth? 9 What river contains on-tentb. of all running water on the globe? 10 What state has the most colleges? ANSWERS TO SATTJ-IDAYS QUESTIONS 1 Which, are the New England States? Ans. Maine, Jfew Hampshire. Vermont. Massachusetts, Khode Island and (Connecticut. 2 When will the next eclipse occur which is visible in the United States? Ans. There will be a partial eclipse of the moon October 16. 3 What is seasame? Ans. It is a genus of Indian or African herbs. The j seeds are used in pudding and confec- '

tionary stuff and the oil obtained from them is used a food and a cosmetic. 4 How many gills are there la one pint? . Ans. Four. B In cloth measure how many Inches equal one nail? Ann. Two ana one quarter.

6 Wliat did the navagen use as ldola? Ann. Groteitquo figures, half animal and half human. 7 What goddesa was supposed to have the power of restoring the aged to youth? Ans. Herbs. 8 -What made Disraeli's novels pop

ular? Ana. Because many of them described real person In the society of his time. 9 What city did Alexander the Great found? Ans. Alexandria. 10- -By what name did the Greeks call the city of Troy? Ans. Ilium.

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CHICAGO. The middleman is roused. While fctiant organizations of vorkmen, farmers and other classes have been forming, he has been the nnhappy buffer of all disputes. Kow he is organizing for selTpreservation and preservation of public welfare against class legislation and radical agitator!.. R. I. Mansfield, well known Chicago business man, has been named chairman of the new general educational committee to combat these alleged evils. Associations in the movement or expected to join include the United States Chamber of Commerce, national associations of millers, flour dealers, cotton growers, wholesale grocers, lumber, coal and produce organizations, grain exchanges, tountry banks and Atlantic and

Pacific export era. The organization, 2fr. Mansfield explained, stands for sound economic principles, for a free, open competitive market and against Fooling of gTain by any interests, fnmediate action is necessary against this program of national Townleyism," he said, for unless it is defeated the grain tradeTfacea annihilation and tbe country disaster. "It is a menace from which no line of business is safe," he said. "The attack on the grain trade is merely the first symptom cf what threatens to develop into a national malady, a malady that would endanger the entire industrial structure." Meanwhile preliminary steps will be taken to deal with other special interest groups and the general campaign against all class laws ad

vanced. Education received by farmers during the fight on the Lantz antirrain exchange bilks in Illinois has brought failure to attempts to sign p Illinois farmers for grain pooling, Mr. Mansfield said. When Illinois farmers learned thedr market would be destroyed by tbe very bills whkh they had been told would benefit them, they marched in protest on the state capitol, filling the galleries and overflowing the corridors. Their protest was effective. The bills were killed. Associations cf managers of cooperative elevators in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio have declined to grant the preferential treatment which the pooling plan contemplated, it was announced, and will handle all grain on the same basis.

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Marie Prevost, ex-bathing beauty, is to star in a series of productions for Universal. Hope she's in good shape for the coming season !

Irvin V. Willat is shortly to begin work on his fourth production for Hodkinson "Fifty Candles," written by Earl Derr Bigger. A light comedy 2

Kuth Stonebouse will play opposite Tom Santschl in a series of two-reel-ers for Pathe. Remember Santschl in "The Spoilers" with Bill Farcum?

Humor hath it that Marshall Neilaa will make "Penrod" for First National, featuring Wesley Barry. But perhaps it's only a kid!

Chaplin's next comedy 'will be ealled "Vanity Fair." That noise you Just heard, was William Makepeace Thackeray turning over In his grave!

The well-beloved "Walllngford" will come to the screen next Fall. A Cosmopolitan production. t ought to ke a great picture.

Bayard Veiller will Jrect Viola Dana in 4 picture tenUtlvely titled "There Are No Villains." Who says there ain't?

Director T. Hayes Hunter, the man who made "Earthbound," is finishing up "The Light In the Clearing," the screen version of Irving P.acheller's novel for Hodkinson release.

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