Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 211, Hammond, Lake County, 28 February 1922 — Page 8

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torm-trtcken and lee-loclteol tiar them Michigan communities Phut off from the outside tworld for six days, re receiving their first help todny, rushed from an East Chicago plant. A OO-MILK IIOLIt DASH Throvrh the coM and lonely forests

of northwestern Michigan thre raced ! tljrlnic the night a.nd early morning, a apecUl train, drawn by the Pennsyl-' "vanla system's fastest passeng-er ocomotlve. On .board the peclal Is! powerful anow-fijfhtlns and ice-rip-' .ping equipment, built at the O. P. Jordan company plant, which la to be us-! ed to rip Its way through the all inch-' e of Ice that has "buried ail railways

ncrth cf Cadillac. ASK HEM MERKi GET IT The etory of the a'xty-mile-an-hour daah from E.wt Chicago to northwestern Michigan began ystrday. It was then the executive officials of the northwestern region of the Pennsylvania lines appealed for help to the 0O. f. Jordan Company of which Colonel Walter J. RUay is president. Immediately a crew of Jordan workmen gave a thorough Inspection to the

newest and most powerful spreader-i

snow plow In the Jordan plant. The air compressing machinery, plow?, Ice ripping attachment, and other parts of the giant 40-ton machine, mounted on its own wheels and almost as long a locomotive, were found to be In fighting trim. EXPERTS ni'jnEl) SOUTH. Then thn Pennsylvania system provided Its fastest passenger locomotive and a special train, made up of the Je-rdan enow-ice fighter and two roaches late yesterday began the race fTem Eaat Chicago far Fort Wayne, and from there north, via the Grand Ttaplds and Indiana branch, to the Icelocked lands. On board the train were railway official., Manager A. L.. GrenabatiTn of the Jordan company several of the Jordan company experts, and a motion-picture camera operator. The relief train was given clear rlrht of way over all New York-Ohicatjo traffic, and the welcome news of Its comlngr was flashed to border of the Michigan ice blocked zone. A BrP!,IG STORM. The whole northwestern rart of tne upper peninsula of Michigan, south of Mackinaw City end ni-e- v

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to bo stnrm-hound six days ago. It i.a said to be most disastrous storm in th history of (hat part of the peninsula. miiir.n hk.xkatii the ick. For 72 hnvira sle-t and rain camdown until a layer of solid ice Six nchos thick rested on top of the isnoManketing the land, bliiidipgs, tre:ind railway tracks. This condition w-ifrht-d down and wrecked telephon telegraph and electric wires, Ftallcl trains for days 'n the open, and stopped all rail communlcntl'-n . A dispatch scnt yesterday from Tniversfi City, the only inepcAR to hr gotten out in six Hays, mid that "n snow plow at present in iiortherr Michigan could !renk the ice c -t and rcnK'io on the nl'wv ''a'k' THOt .MS AHV. STORM notM. It was then that Northern Michigan nppealed to the Jordan Spreader people for heVp. The Jordan company has for many years provided the stormflghtlng equipment that has enabled Canadian railways to attain better operations In winter time and keep Amerloan,g railways open in mountain passes and in the bliziard zones. Po severe Is the storm that ruffled grouse and pheasants, wildes-t of game birds, have waddled pitifully into barnyards, seeking food, their wings frozen to their bodies and their tail feathers a frozen lumn of i- e. Their natural food is buried beneath the ice crust. ?ome communities liavc had to resort to candle and lamp litrhtiner since the storm began, and trains are reported to have been lost and unheard of for four days. To rip through the loo and plow through the snow, pushed by powerful locomotives, is the work to be done at the rate of fifteen miles an hour by the Jordan spreader. which lias on many occasions opened up other stormstricken communities.

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To recover money which ho advanced to Peter Pzarmack for the purcie of some more, fixtures froin Jacoh rgach, Joseph Jablonskl today asked that a receiver be appointed to take charge of a business building at 139th and Butternut streets, Indiana Harbor, and collect the, rentals until the amount of the claim has ben satisfied. Jahlonski's petition was filed in the superior court at Hammond by Attorney W. It. Van Home. He says that Szarmack was really tn partnership with Pteve and Valorya Pzarmac, wi.it that Peter always did such business for the firm as was conducted in the cpn. Th fixtures were purchased with the understanding that Tetcr was to use or sell them 'n connection with his business as a contractor. He is said to have used them in the building t 139th and Putternut streets, which is listed as belonging to Valerya Szarmack. The building is worth $30,000 but has mortgages against It totaling .3.100.

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Now 10,000 to the Dollar, Dr. Graham Writes From Soviet Capital of Austria VIUNNA, Feb. 1. (Letter to the Times). The kronen still continues to go down and prices climb. Last week Checko-Plovakla made a demand for moneyand the kronen went to 10.000 to the dollar. All the coal used in Vienna is bPought from Cheeko-Flo-. vakla w hich was formerly a port' of Austria. There is much suffering here on account of the severe weather and the shortage of coal. One of the saddest cases I've .heard of tn yienna Is the case of a prominent professor of the University of Vienna, Prof. ScaefTer. He is a man eighty years of age and a few years ago was the world's leading hlstologist. His works are still used as text books in the universities of Burope. His pension amounts to 20,000 kronen monthly two of our good America n dollars and the poor old man tries to keep body and soul together on this paltry amount. There are more beggers on the streets than I have ever seen in any city and despite the fact that the people are hard pressed they give freely, especially to the crippled soldiers. Instead of being "Huns"- fts the propaganda pictured them they are very soft hearted people and very generous. Several days ago I went into a cafe and in a sidu room there was a crowd gathered about a chap who fit in a chair and fumbled helplessly In his pockets. He was in a state of collapse. The proprietor and several waiters together with a number of guests were crowded around him, tiptoeing and whispering. Each one seemed to vie with the other In trying to help the poor creature. As I came In he managed to get a hypodermic needle out of his pocket and one of the bystanders loaded it for 1:1m and when he had his shot he slowly came to. The proprietor didn't yell for the rollee and the attitude cf the bystanders was that he was Pick and fortunate man and needed assistance. It wasn't because the use of dope Icommon here. It Is not a common vice and as for drunkenness I have only seen two cases. But the people are very tolerant Of the weaknesses of Others.

The people of Vienna are great lovers of winter sports and Mrs. Graham and myself have lived out-doors a great deal this w inter. Old and young go In for sleighing, skiing ard skating. Then there is the opera. While they have not the high salaried principals wo have there operas are more generally patronized. They ar far inferior to us in dancing. In grand opera the ballet is passable but In light opera the chorus is terrible. I rlnn'f 1, . . It n -. CM n 7iirfolil Unil the

j Schuberts get them but American chorus girls are so far superior to

J those of England and the continent j ! that there b? no comparison. American I ! women are most beautiful women of

wiw worm. When you go to the big opera house ' here you will see some proletariat

family occupying the old Frans; Joseph box That is suggestion for McCuteheon's "Changing World." I must say a word about the moving pictures here. They are simply beyond the pale. If some keen Yank would only come over here and teach these people the art of photography. On the ether hand, Vienna can show us cards and spades in the matter of public baths. There is nothing any place In the world like the public baths of Vienna. They are located In buildings five M-id sis s'otii'rt high nod in connection with othr fine appointments they have large swimming pools At certain periods waves, five and six feet high, nre produced In the swimming pools by pome mechanical arrangement. The boxing matrh that we promoted at the hospital was a bloomer. The

American who was to fight turned out ; to Vie a negro and he hit his opponent j

every place except the soles of his feet. I n?ver saw so much fouling in one ring. The Austrian didn't seem to care much but the referee stopped the match. Iniffy. Sweeney and McrVvy, threq Tank marines stationed in Vienna were disgusted. In my nest letter I will be serious and try to give you the Ideas of the people I have talked with regarding the peace treaty and the disarmament conference.

MAN'S TALE SHATTERED BY POLICE

TrucKdriver Arrested for Embezzlement Aiter Telling How He Was He!dup and Shot

SPECIAL TO THE TIME51 WHITIN'; ,IM., Feb. 2 One evening two weeks ii?', a truck st"pp-d In front of the Whiting police station and a man, apparently wiik from loss of blood, staggered in. He was Walter Tomszewsky. S060 Kiast Ninety-third sf., South Chicago. He drove a truck for the Rottenberg & Sia Grocery Co., of South Chicago. Ulood (lowed from a bullet wound ih his right leg. i'etor he was taken to t. Jlargaret's hospital in Hammond to have ;i .3S calibre bullet removed he told h'.s story. He n:iid he was on his way to South

ASK DAMAGES FOR HARBOR AUTO SMASH

Edward Blacewica today filed suit for damages aaginwt Sam Lam bora in the Ilamm nd superior court because of an aut .mobile aeei lent which occurred in Indiana Harbor November 8. P.lacewb z' wa.s o'iilng s- utb on Crape- ' inc street, which is a'l-ou 'e v.ird . At 13St.h s're'-t, I.;; mbora's car collided with the p.Sa.eewi.- machine. li!ac -wicz says lyinibori did not obey the traffic role nf stopping before turning into or o rosing a bnult-vatd. He asks for jriC. W. l.t. Van Home Is his attorney.

DEMOCRATS HOLD GINGER MEETING AT ROBERTSDALE fContlnued from J"aga One'i

thrown out of the building when he askd that Luke county contribute li"r t..,r'',rn of the jrtO.OO') If 20 enmpaien deficit. At t-.ie sound of funds, the boys cr.inm-vtcl climbir.g for tti-Mr caps, the bulies straigh'ened tip and pulled their furs closer to their ears. But still the bad news was audible

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Chicago from tlary where he tiad been What! liaising a counle of tli--.nsnn-i making deliveries during the day and d lriug these hard time and depieshad collected $:joj. Near the plant ofjsion just a m--e trifle. And upon sip-

COAL OPERATOR KILLS HIMSELF

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE PA EM BEACH. Fla.. Feb. 2V Lincoln McCandless, 3S, vice president of the Hutchison Coal company, Philadel-

Iphia, shot and killed himself at a

prominent resort hotel here yesterday. A coroner's jury rendered a verdict of suicide after an Inquest. Ho is survived by his wife and two children.

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i i. j Local Paper "I'nnsuHlIy larpe, handsomely furnished room, with hath j Bccorumodntlng threp." We should want th faucet end of the tub. BosI ton Trnn script.

the Mark Manufacturing 'u., in East (.'hi en go, an automobile had passed him arid then deliberately plowed down until he was forced t the curb. He suspected that robbery was the motive and bad attempted to force his way past the machine when ons of the oc

cupants fired at him. Tho bullet struck him In the leg and he stopped the truck. The bandits then searched him and took the $300. In spite of his injury he was forced to climb into the truck and drive to Whiting, while the Pundits turned and Ted towards Gary. That was his story. Since then Whiting and South Chicago police have been investigating. The result was that yesterday Mr. Toirszewsky was arrested and brought to Whit ing where he is being held ia jail on a charge of embezzlement. '1 be police are not divulging all of the evidence which they have gleaned against the driver, but it is intimated that Tomyzewsky's story is all shot to pieces. They expect to prove that th missing ?300 was not taken by bandits at ail and that the bullet wound in the leg was inflicted by Tomszewsky himself to add color to his story. The prisoner fo far has refused to change his original story.

talked about tne alleged pra.ctico of making slates eight years in advance. He said taxes were too high. "Do you knoy, gentlemen." he said, "that the rin - actually picks county officers eight years In advance!" "Dusty" Ithoades, a committeeman from Gary, a member of tho old political school, rounded the keynote speech on organization work. The meeting came to a close sf a late hour last night after Chairman Hersh man hud appointed a committee to complete a denvocrat'C ticket in Like cou nty . e.rg lierMiman who s-jececed Alien Twyman as (ouii'.y . hnirmnn head of the Oddfellows cf Indiana ncd ii verv well HM.cvn m 1 1 o- t rv.

P A R K E R'S D O N U TS ARE LIKE the KIND MOTHER MADE

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orid thought the visitors regained con-s.-i-.u.-n.-s. nod en led tbems.dv.-s for the worse. Then Dr. Balsaar told the ImM county d-mocjatic representatives

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he felt reasonably sure that in such a prosperous ooi imunity like Lake, county, the stunt could be accomplisned without much rroit. His climax was depicting a beautiful picture of democratic time and what wonderful pvospe. tn lay in their path to elect a full democratic ti'-ktt this spring. Organization work was the theme of the in?e;ir,g. it is noteworthy of such an assemblage that whether the subject be "banuuet ing, funds' or wiat not. the topic finally drifts to "organization." Dr. P.alsaar proved to be a whale on organization work as he was on getting funds. Col. L. T. Meyer of Hammond was the leaning staff and prominent figure on the floor In the discussion of organization and the function of wtl;"r in perfecting an organization. Tboo. C. Kiotss and the entire delegation from Hammond, headed by Ed Simon", were In charge of the, meeting from the opening to lis close on lending suggestions for organization. l;uss"U Smith of Whiting, the opponent cf Mayor S'chrage in the recent city election, was the wild-cat i f the meeting for a house cleaning of the republican party. He had a great deal to say aiti.ut

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But Not the Waist of Time. Desirable additions to everyone'; wardrobe are t lie mantle of charity.

the ties of friendship, the thinking cap j wou!d hardly cause the cheeks of the

and the skirts happy chance. county officers to f!u-h with pride. He

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LOTS OF FUN BATHING in a beautiful sanitaiy tub with adequate appointments. Lots of good health, too, no danger from germs as with the old style plumbing. Let us convert your old bathroom into an up-to-date lavatory with sprays, showers, etc. It wul be an investment you will be glad you made all your days.

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'HAT Is child labor? Wnere

Is It found? To what extent does this long fought economic evil still exist In

to-called free America? What class f little unfortunates arrfistUl Its tlctlmt? In ansrwer the arerage reader pees t once a vision of factory towns, rf squalid, crowded city tenements, f pale, malformed mites of humanity tolling hopelessly for long dreary hours in clanging wills. In knlnea or In Quarries. This arereape reader Is some years behind the times. As a matter of fact out of the two million children ten to fifteen years of age engaged In gainful occupations in the United States according to the census of 1010, those laboring in factories, mines and quarries were nly about 13 per cer.t. In other words the average reader's impression was never more than one-sixth correct Today It Is even less true as the result largely of the work of th National Child Labor Committee, organized In lPOl. This minor phase of the problem has been pretty well solved, at least as far as the enactment of laws goes Most states of the Union have adopted at least a fourteen-year-old age limit for the employment of children Id factories. If not id all occupations. The federal tax on child labor lias further clinched the matter. It Is at last well established In this country that children under fourteen years of age shall not be employed In mills, factories, ennnerios nod workshops. In siiort. it is the American farm and not the factory which is the troDho!d of child labor. Of the

two million child laborers In this country between the ages of ten and sixteen years at least 70 per cent, or nearly one million five hundred thousand, are nt work on the farm and practically every state specifically exempts agriculture from the provisions of its child labor law And unfortunately In somf sections, notably In the sugar beet fields of Colorado, Michigan and other states, this army is still further augmented by a considerable contingent of little laborers under the age of ten. While the evil of child labor exists generally throughout the farming section of the country, one of the most flagrant examples of It at the present time Is found In the sugar beet fields, the source of the raw material of one of the largest American Industrie?. One of our general renders with the usual stock of wrong impressions suffered his first rude awakeninz while traveling through Colorado. Passing by a great Held of sugar beets he was amazed to And much of the work being done by young children, boys and girls alike, some of them under eight years of ajre. lie found that from early spring until the late fall, excepting for n slight !et-up in midsummer the?e children worked unceaslncly. some of them eleven hours a day. thinning out the small beet plants In the spring, hoeing the crops through the summer and pulling up the beefs and cutting off their tops at harvest time. While the conditions In the Colorndo beet fields are particularly fingrant, they nre fn no way exceptional. . The National Child Labor Committee's investigations in the same industry In Michigan showed conditions equally bad. Other lines

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of farming revealed the same general conditions, although usually not quite so acute as among the beet growers. Such conditions were found by the National Child Abor Committee's investigation In the cranberry bogs of New Jersey, and among the itinerant berry and vegetable pickers of Delaware and Maryland In the cotton fields of Texas, little children were found working long hours, living in unsanitary conditions and being kept out of sehoo. This was also true In the cotton fields of Oklahoma and In various kinds of agricultural Industries in North Dakota, Kentucky. North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia. California ar.d elsewhere. In oilier words, to quote Oertruda II. Folks, who has made a considerable investigation of this subject, "When is child labor not child labor Every state In the Union

answers: when It takes place on a farm." In seventeen states agriculture Is specifically exempted from the provisions of the child labor law regulating the age and the number of hours the chiidren may work. In the other states there Is no definite exemption, but agriculture is not listed in the ?aw. Why nre such conditions allowed to exist? In the first p'ace. the general public, including parents and law makers, are under the erroneous impression that farm work Is not only not Injurious to children but is actually beneficial. At a recent hearing In the senate Ir; .Washington when the question of exploiting child labor by th sugar beet industry came up. Senator Heed Sinoot said perfectly conscientiously. "So far as child labor in my state Is concerned. It is a God send to the children. It keeps

them off the streets and out of mischief. Some of them earn as high as three dollars a day." Senator Smoot did not add, because he probahly does not know, that. In Colorado, the work Is s much more extensive and the system of school administration so in-

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as hard. He considers play an nnrcessary waste of time. As a result of this attitude, It Is almost impossible to get any direct legislation protecting farm children. Farm child labor exists in three forms First, where children work for their own parents on the home farm; second, where they hire out to others for wages; third, where they work with their parents under contract to others. The form most prevalent In any given region varies with the stage of agriculrure. Usually ach farm section passes through three stages, exploitation, trpeelaliJiatlon and diversification. The first stage Is the boom period when the region Is opened up. Families move la, take up land and aim to cet as much out of It a-s possible and as quickly as possible and move on. Tfce labor supply is strained Families are rr.igratlrg. Child labor reaches an unfortunate point. School facilities are inadequate. Proper home conditions are totally lacking and recreational and moral surround

ings at a low ebb While the child usually works for his own parents his condition Is about as bad as when he works fnr others. Intherecond slace, that nfspecial-

ferlor to that In his own state, that

It also keeps the children out of ; Nation, the region has discovered the school and that in the majority of , rrop to which it is !-et adapted cases the children themselves do and gone in for It iic.v.ily. 1? is not receive or have the spending of! in these one cr. p rc-i-us whera

the money they earn. If a roan like Senator Smoot has this Idea, is It any wonder that the interested farmer holds much the same opinion? The farmer from the nature of his Isolated existence Is an individualist. He believes he can do with his own children as he pleases. lie has always been a herd worker as were his parents before him. He sees no reason why his children should not work

farming Is Ja the sec r.'i siago that the greatest amount of ciilid labor and its worst form Is found. The children of farm Inborers and tenarts are the chief sufferers rather than the children of the owners of farms. More than one-half the families who live on the land and do farm work nre either tenants oi farm laborers. Conditions of life for tenants and laborers have become harder as conditions of

wage earners In the city hav t. come easier. There is much work in these regions that children can do. The returns to tenant farmers are so low that they must have the

j work of children In order to make

a living. Owners do not provide modern machinery for farm tenants. It Is largeiy hand work which chiidren can do. This work Is not training them to be any better farmers. It Is mere drudpery anl the parents get the returns from their labors. Tenants move about continuously which Interferes with schooling. Such a changing population in a section creates an attitude of indifference toward the school development. In one community, for itv stance, the avernce schooling wat found to be only six months a year. Owner parents, who nre able, send their children to town schools. Very generally in these one crop regions child labor Is contracted for In f'.Tnlly groups. This is particularly true in the sugar beet fields. The genernl result of farm labor upon cltiidrcn In after life is strikingly shown by the tests made upon soldiers in the army. It was found that the younj? men from the

fsrw not only are not as well educated as young men from the cities, but they have not the same degTee of mental alertnes.s. It was found that farm work over-deve'oped the major muscle whiie the finer mtisc'es were neglected The surprising result was that the farm-reared young man tired out more quickly, than the city-reared young man, under physical strain that demanded the use of the whole body. It was ai.i found that the farm boys have a greater number of correctable physical defects tnan the cityreared hoys. When it comes to educntlon II Is well known that the percentage of illiteracy In the country Is twice that In the city, one In every ten of the rural population being classed a3 Illiterate. One lnvestlgstor finds that of the sixteen slates having ft percentage of illiteracy creatcr titan that of the United States as a whole, fif'een have a foreign population pprocntajre far below 14.7. that of the United States as n whole, the average being only 2.0 per cent. These fifteen states Include all

: but one of the thirteen states which

have a child labor percentage fn excess of the average for the United Sfatf-s as a whole. T'ut aside from fie wrpckir.g et the health and the educational equipment of the Individual child b farm labor, there Is another serious effect upon the nation at larcre. Oppressed by the hard and unsatisfactory life at home and the greater lures of the city, the country boy Is leaving the farm. Every year It Is getting harder for the farmer to find labor to tlil his crops. At the same time, the sons of farm owners ere unwilling to stay on the farms their hard working fathers leave them, and the old-

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Is giving way to the migratory alien teuant