Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 77, Hammond, Lake County, 18 September 1922 — Page 4

The Times Newspapers BT TttO UKB COCSTT PBTM A rCB'L'Q CO. -w.,?.h Cwaty Tiroes Daily except SaturdaJ ua SattUw",,d l Poto21ce la Hammond. Tb Times Jst Clloao Indians, Harbor. dU Bunday. KcUnU at U poatoffloe in ttasl i-al;aco. November IS. 118. T J-v- County Time Saturday and Weekly muUon- liJatTd at the poatoiXice la iiauiruoncL February 4. lait w,3 ""y Evening Tlmea Dally except 8uaday. tred at Ut poataflloe ia Oary. April IS. 1IU AH uader tbe act of Maxell 8. aa second wt Better. FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATION; O. LXAJ i-AYKB XX...twfc.. caiCAOO Gary 0oo ... Telephone 117 gaeaau Thompson. East Caloa.o. . . .1'eioj.Utine SSI fcaet Chicago, (The Time.) Icicpfcoae SJ JndlAna Harbor (,Nwi Kaler)..A..Telepaone 11S4-J Wbiiiatf (KnporMr) Telephone sO-M lii-Y? iU'WB ier aad Claaa. Adv. lelephoae Haauaojtd (private exobaasea) 100. J101. 3103 (Call tar whatever department wanted.) If roa bare any trouble ettlar THE TI1LE3 (cake couapiatnt Immediately to tbe Circulation NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS: If you fall to receive your copy of THE TIMES aa pT-otstftiy aa you have In the past, please do not think ;t haa been lost or was not aent on time. THE TlMi-d eaa Increased Its mailing equipment and is striving earnestly to reach lta patrons on time. Be prompt In advUlnar when you do not set your paper and we will act promptly. achievementthe"reward .. .. Recently Luther Burbank called attention to the difference in reward that accrues to the inveator of a useful device or the author of a popular book and that which is reaped by one who propagates a new and valuable plant. The inventor is protected by patent and is insured payment for the product of his genius. The author is guarded against piracy of his work by copyright. But the plant wizasuch as Mr. Burbank himself is, is guaranteed no adequate reward. In a much limited way ne may profit, but once the improved plant is out of his hands it is beyond his control and yields no return to him whose genius had delved Into nature's secrets and had assisted her to produce something better than had hitherto been. While Mr. Burbank himself does not lament this situation, it would be impossible ot alter it were he of a mind to do so. Suppose one were to develop a far moreproductive variety of wheat than has hitherto been grown. The propagator might sell seed at a high price, but he would have competitors the second season in all to whom he sold in the first season, so that the monopoly would cease quickly to exist. It might be thought that this condition would operate to discourage study and investigation and research to improve plants, but what ever effect might be expected it remains true that development ancf improvement goes on. crude grain of its earlier development. Corn likewise. There has been improvement and it ahs been to the benefit of the race that it has been impossible to corner for long any marked betterment in quality and yield of any of the

products in which nature has so large a part. Perhaps there was design in this. We can get along, if need be, without inventions and without books though not so comfortably, perhaps, but we cannot get along without those things for which we are dependent mainly on -nature. Increase x of population makes imperative increase in food through quality as well as quantity. Luther Burbank may not reap great financial profit from his discoveries and investigation and experiments, but he has the reward of merit, the satisfaction of having served well his age, and there is no higher reward. It is well that there is one avanue where selfishness finds small invitation to enter. THE DAYS are getting shorter. Not so with congressional speeches.

THE "YOUNGEST VETERAN" The coming encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Des Moines has brought to the fore numerous claimants to the rather paradoxical distinction of being the "yojmgest veteran" of the Civil War. Warren D. Second, of New Rochelle, N. Y., in applying for reservations says the honor is his, since he is only 72 years old. He has never missed a meeting of the organization. When the subject of youthful soldiers of the Civil War is mentioned, the name of Johnny Clem, the "drummer boy of Shiloh," invariably comes to mind. He was born in Newark, Ohio, in 1851 and in May 1861, attempted to enlist as a drummer boy with the Third Ohio volunteers,

but was rejected on account of his diminutive stature as well as his age. The following year J he was accepted by the Twenty-second Michigan : Infantry. At the battle of Shiloh his drurn. was shattered by a Confederate shell. At the battle of Chickamauga, when he was only twelve he carried a musket instead of a drum and displayed conduct that brought him promotion to the rank of sergeant. After serving in the thickest of the fight and receiving three . bullet holes through his hat, he became separ- j ated from his companions. A mounted Con- , federate colonel called to him to halt and sur- j render. Johnny halted, but did not surrender. Instead he raised his gun and shot and killed i the colonel. He served throughout the war and in 1871 was appointed, a second lieutenant of infantry by President Grant. This was followed by a course of training at the Fprtre;. Monroe artillery school. Today he is a retired major general liv ing in Washington after a distinguished career ir. .t the regular army, including valuable service a.: quartermaster general in the Philippines. I would seem that Mr. Second, of New Rochelk

will have to yield the title of "youngest veteran" to Gen. Clem, but he may gain the place on the list indicated by his name. The Civil war more than any of our wars was notable for the conflict, and the southern army had its share.

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SEEK JUSTICE IN COURT, Many well-intentioned people believe that the government ought to take over the railroads and the coal mines and operate them. They argue that these are natural monopolies furnishing necessities and that it is dangerous to have them entrusted to private management. ' Government service, they say, is free from strike interruptions. The employes of the post office never strike; th( soldiers and the -boys of the navy never strike. Thus those who hold that the only solution of the strike problem lies in the government miss the point that the opportunity is crying for the government to solve the problem by the institution of an industrial relations court. In their belief in government ownership of the railroads and the mines, they lean upon the same authority for justice between employer and employe that they would if they demanded a federal court to settle industrial disputes.

THEY HAVE been raising the roof of the treasury building at Washington, but not to make room for that European cash.

IN TOO many automobile accidents the individual at the steering wheel is in reality that well-known ostracized citizen, Mr. Barleycorn.

Eventually, just possibly stunt flying will be given up as a rather impossible stunt.

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SLEEP. Sleep, divine Sleep! how Boothing is yonr kissi How murmurous your win.zs! how bland your breastl Embrace me. Sleep, and surifeit me with bliss! Would in your gentle arms I e'er might rest! Wrap me in sweetest dreams with a caress Whilst lullabies still linger in my ears! Your lips breathe langour and forgetfulness! With Bmiles allay the flowing of my tears! Ah, life is restles-s, and the world is mad! Sleep, dull my senses with an opiate kiss! Ah, life is joyless, and my heart is sad. And Sleep's oblivion's the only bliss! Dreams, dreams! Life is a dream that's fraught with painl Dreams, dreams! sweet dreams of sleep content my brain! Frank Schenck Schlesinger. . It is no crime to give a bogus check to a bootlegger in payment fcr his wares, but even at that it is a hard trick to get away with, for the reason that bootleggers do not accept checks. e Mihiel Mordkin, or Mike as we call him who know him well, is coming back to America to leap from crag to crag in the mountain goat skin. Mike used to be one of the Russian imperial court dancers and came over here with Pavlowa and danced all over our landscape for several seasons. He was the one who invented "The Dying Swan," "The Perturbed Porcupine" and other classic dances, and was quite the rage for some time. Later he returned to Russia, and is now ballet master in the Bolsheviki Opera House at Moscow, having ceased being an imperial court dancer about the time the imperial court was chased toward the Crimea. Mike was never much afraid of the Bolsheviki. TTien he got to leaping good, the Bolsheviki could never catch him, and so, being unable to arrest and deport 'him, they decided to let hira run the opera house dances. We don't know just what Bolsheviki skids Mike is going to show us. but we hope he won't omit that favorite Russian dance, the Leon Trotzky. , e In Russia Trotzky has revived the form of kissing hands. It is to be hoped this was preceded by a revival of the form of using soap. e ' One ad says: "You can play for hours on a saxophone without becoming tired. But you can't do it for an hour without making everybody else tired. James M. Cox, former candidate for the presidency, says America must pull Europe out of the hole to save civilization. We thought Jim got all over that a couple of years ago. If those European diplomats would only form a union and then go on strike for seniority or something the world might get somewhere. Long Island woman whipped her ten-year-old boy for smoking cigarettes. They were her own monogrammed ones. It is always easy to spot an enforcement agent in a dress suit, because he doesn't know how to wear it.

The Farmers' Mutual Insurance asoclatlon held its annual meeting- In Taylor's theater at Lowell Saturday and elected these officer: President J. K. Berger; vice president. Jottin E. Frass; secretary, N. P. Banks; treasurer. Jesse Little.

On complaints of parents, the faculty of the Whiting high high school Is investigating stories of hazing: of tooth boys and girls of the freshman class by sophomores during- the last week.

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MATCHES may be made In heaven BIT we will never blame a GIRL for not wanting to wait UNTIL she gets there to strike one. AFTER all the-greatest QUESTION that confronts us IS, where do we go from here? OUR entry to the county fair THIS year will probably BE couHned to the neighbors C.Ct and the "result of her VISIT to the maternity hospital. AVE don't know much these prefall DAYS but we do know that OLD Noah would have avoided a LOT of trouble for this -world IF he had known about the fly swatter. IF you would become popular WITH indolent people all you HAVE to do ts to let them impose on you. oi'R pastor who also SEEMS to have his memories REMARKED yesterday that it SEEMS strange to regard BEER as a medicine and not neerbeer WHEN the latter tastes so much more like It. IF nothing else such as slight TOUCHES of rheumatism and high MORAL standards kept us from KNEELING to girls now, the fear that THEY would see how thin our HAIR Is on top, would. WE believe In preparedness FOR whatever -may betide , AND already we have taken THE definite position I.V the domestlo circle that It's WOMAN'S work to milk the Ford. THE estimate that the people of

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"Prof. Lee" Michael, medium and fortune teller is In Jail at Crown Point on a charge of larceny. Later he will have to answer for runing a confidence game and duping his clients. He had been operating In the cities of the Calumet region and was arrested in Chicago by Deputy Sheriff George .BJlockie.

1 Does General Pershing

hold the rank of full general? In what county in Ireland

Plarney? 3 Is there any particular shape for a box? 4 Of what country are giraffes native? 5 What was the Holy Grail? 6 Where did hammer throwing originate? 1 Of what were the first hammocks made? 8 Into -what river does the Cumberland empty 9 What is cytology? 10 Where do we get the word divorce? ANSWERS TO SATURDAY'S QUESTIONS. 1 What language has the greatest number of words? Aus. English language. 2 Has Canada a good automobile road across the country? Ans. One is being built. 3 How much merchandise did we export to Canada durlnar the last

fiscal -year? Ans. $375,445,1 S2. j 4 Does the Denver mint coin pen. nies? Ans. Yes.

5 How many words are there In the English language? Ans. About 450,000. 6 Can a state church be formed In the United States? Ans. the constitution forbids. 7 Who were the contestants In

the battle of Thermopylae? Ans. Greeks and Persians. 8 Who was the mythlcan queen of the Amazons? Ans. Hippolyta. 9 How much merchandise did we export to Germany last year? Ans. J350.444.438. 10 'How many words are there In the Spanish language? Ans. About 120.000.

Political News of Day In Indiana

TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL1 IN-DIANAPOLIS. Sept., 18. Although the 1922 campaign Is hardly under way the machinery for printing and guarding more than 1,000,000 state ballots is already under way. In 1920. the last general election, the state printing board, produced ballota on the basis of the registration of 1,446.374 of which 719,641 were men and 600,332 women This year the state board is confronted with the difficulty of how many bollots to print. Common sense assures the officials that the number of ballots needed this year will be less than two years ago when Interest was at white heat because "t was a presidential yar. The light registration last Saturday was a further indication that the full voting strength of the state will not turn out Nov. 7 to participate In the election. Thomas J. Carter, acting printing clerk of the state board of election commissioners and Ed. D. Donnell, assistant clerk, rcpresentlnp the democratic party, are now at work obtaining estimates of the size of the vote from the various county clerks. When these estimates are received the state board of election commissioners will add 25 per cent to them. The only names that will appear on the state ballots will be nominees for United States Senator, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, clerk of the supreme court, superintendent of public instruction two Judges of the supreme court and two judges of the appellate court. Congresion.il, legislative and local officers will be printed on the county ballots.

As a basis for arriving at some conclusion is to the probable slxe of the vote In Tndlana this year it la

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Dis wai u per cci'i less loan in 1916, a presidential year. The vote In 1918 was 672.60S and In 1916 It was 718, 848. This I the first time women have voted in a by-election. If they show the same inclination as the men to stay away from tha polls in an "off year" then the probable total tote this year will not exceed 1,000,000. The total vote in 1920 the first year women had franchise was 1,249.762. It Is estimated that less than one-half of those who will vote have been registered. Generally over the state the registration Saturday was 80 per cent of the 1920 total. This makes the registration so far total only 433.000.

Ohioans to Outline River Project Plans

li.iitFnAiiunL news stKYltt I CINCINNATI, O. Sept. ConvpletloaV' of, river projects now under way on

the Ohio will be urged at the next meeting of the Ohio Valley Improvement association, which is to be hel4. at Lo-utarviiie, Ky., on Octoiber and 4. W. C. Culkina, secretary of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and of the Improvement association, ha.H sent out a call to all towns and cities In the Ohio valley urging them to have representatives at the meet Ing -who will support a.n active pro gram

Son Picks Ash Can for Bed; Father Proud IJIXGHAMTON. X. T., 6epL Hen. ry Heeman, of this city, whose trad ts reseating chairs, said that he proud of his son. Jasper Heeman, who was found asleep in a garbage can in Paris as stated in press dispatch?! When told that the lad had been found in Paris the father saidt "Now I am getting proud of him, sleeping in an ash can in Paris when he might ibe learning a good trade.

The Hamond hoard of works today took up the matter of opening Kenwood avenue, from Hohman street to Calumet avenue.

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Charles Schnlke of Chicago drowned yesterday in Wolfe Lake at Hammond when a -boat In which he and three others were riding capsized. His companions were rescued.

Steve Barzo of Gary suffered a broken leg yesterday In the motorcycle races at the Crown Point fair grounds. His machine left the track and went through the fence.

John Adler who owned a smd ridge south of Gary worth $1,500 was declared legally dead In tha circuit court today. The property will be sold nd divided among twelve heirs.' He has not been heard from since shortly after the Spanish War.

F. H. Mott won the president's cijp In the Hammond Country club golf tournament. Ills net score was 45.

With imposing ceremonies, the cornerstone of the new Masonic Temple at East Chicago was laid Saturday. High dignitaries of the' lodge presided. A large crowd was in attendance.

Whiting, Ind., Sept. 14, 1922 Editor Lake County Times, ; Hammond Indiana. Dear Sir: It may be of Interest to others that upon comparing an old Geography with a new one I found, some rather astounding things were occurring. t Does the public know that this old world of ours must be growing and growing fast? If not, it had better wake up! My old geography gives a total area for the following countries: North America, South America, Europe, Asia. Africa and Oceania as 30,8000,000 square miles, while for the same countries in the new geography of today th total area Is 52,720,000 and that mafcea a difference of 19,200.000 square miles In the last ten years according to the copyright dates for the latest is marked as copyrighted In 1920 while the old book was copyrighted in 1910. As to the oceans! Well we seem to have more' water too! The new book gives a total area for the Pacific. Atlantic. Indian, Anartlc and Artie oceans, as 143.464,000 square miles and the old book an area of 142,000,000 a difference of 1.464,000 square miles. What Is the old globe coming to anyway? G A.RLANTJ STICKLE Y.

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