Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 152, Hammond, Lake County, 18 December 1922 — Page 4

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HUMAN FOLLY It is nothing new and unprecedented, this tragic realization that war and its various heritages must be paid for over and over when the war has been long dead and buried. But we are recurrently most aware of the folly and its cost when the bill comes round. Then, if anyone is reluctant to admit that war is the most senseless waste of human material man can possibly devise, he is forced to admit anyway that it cost in dollars and cents to a participant nation is patent evidence of insanity. The budget bureau a week ago issued an estimate of appropriations for the fiscal year of 1924. Just about two-thirds of all the moneys the government plans to spend next year is to be devoted to war and its accessories, to maintenance of an army and navy, to caring for victims of old wars and paying holders of bonds that made prosecution of war possible. Tne whole budget total is a little more than three bil lion dollars, the item of war expense a little ?vss than two billion. Sincere administrators and legislators can howl for economy until they split an artery, but the war charged is fixed. They may economize o the bone, cut off every government salary, wipe out every department, abolish congress, release every ambassador and janitor and cabinet oificer and elevator operator and still have this stupendous ftezn of $2,000,000,000 that must be paid. For example, the shipping board might be wiped out entire the saving to taxpayers on every dollar would be one and two-thirds cents.

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be suspended; the cut in taxes would amount to just about one penny in a hundred. This it an old complaint. So is war. And it is exactly as futile and tragic and expensive and lunatic as it was when the first man took up arms. The budget merely recalls this to us. What if the world's 1924 budget had been available to every able-bodied man on earth one July day eight years ago?

on All Soul's Day the priest at the Church of Our Lady at Pompeii will light its meagre stub for the last time. That date is almost as far ahead of us as the birth of Christianity is behind us. It is a date far beyond any the prophets have cared to meddle with beyond very vague" and general terms, A'cst of our own troubles,, it is pretty sure, will n'jt then be found on the records at all and all these momentoud years and thrilling days of adventure which make up our life may be compressed into a spiritlesfj paragraph. Even so, one ia tempted to speculate on the pilgrim who will visit the Caruso candle, say, in 3500 A. D. We shall have been dead 13 centuries, which puts us in the same class, relatively, as Diocletian and Constantine. These visitors will come by a means of transport probably unknown to us and scrutinize the dwindling flame surmounting the name of the great tenor of the dawn of the industrial age. Doubtless books will be written if books are used then and legends will grow up; as we should feel could we have a glimpse forward to that. Eighteen centuries!

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LIFE'S FLICKERING CANDLE The most expensive candle in the world has just been completed in honor of Enrico Caruso, at a cost of nearly $4,000. But that is not the fascinating thing about it. It Is the gift of an orphan asylum of New York, and that is not the most interesting fact, either. The real imagination-propelling circumstance is the intention to make this candle last for 18 centuries, so that, in or about the year 3723

POLITICAL DOCTORS AT WORK Recurrently over a period of 99 years pre posals have been advanced seriously to do away with the electoral college and choose the president and vice president by direct popular vote, these momentous years and thrilling days of far, get their impulse from individual desire to capitalize "political unrest" as it rises from time to time, which is not to say that all of those who have given support to them have been self-seekers without genuine concern for the public welfare. But the fact that no great popular enthusiasm for changing the constitutional system of electing the national executive ever has been developed warrants conclusion that the people are reasonably satisfied with the present method or have no confidence in the reform suggested. There is significance in the reappearance

now of this hoary scheme. It is to be presented j

to the newly-elected congress by Senator Norris in the form of a constitutional amendment. Ostensibly it is to accord to the people what the Nebraska senses as their dearest desire, though it is not unlikely he has confused a notion of his own with popular aspiration. But Senator Norris holds the present the favorable time for making a change because a third party movement is taking shape. This latter is also designed to afford the people opportunity for free expression in the choice of officers of government, but Mr. Norris daubts that it will accomplish this. In advance ofa demonstrated popular swing to a third party it is idle to estimate results. . , i "5 As to direct election of presidents, though, which would include direct nominations as well, it would not be effort wasted to calculate how many elections might have been necessary in 1920 to ascertain the people's choice. If we can afford the time and cost of a multiplicity of pollings, is it likely the general result would be more satisfactory than that we are able now to achieve? MR. CLEMENCEAU has not been greeted with many cheers. His prediction here of another world war has served just possibly to make his audiences more thoughtful than demonstrative.

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Within my heart there liveo a fool Who does not wi3h to learn; I never sent him to a school, Nor taught him how to earn. I never crowned him with the cap That knaves make dunces wear; He knows not he's a fool, dear chap And I. I do not care. Sometimes, 'tis true, I lock him up. Or make him go to bed While I feit late and sadly aup With dull old Care instead. And every day I make him grieve, And each time he forgives I hum and frown and make believe That no such creature lives. But often, when I've quite forgot That he is there at all. He breaks his bonds, as like as not, With many a squeak and squall; He holds me up to ridicule, He covers me with shame And yet, God bless the raving fool, I love him, just the same! "Swiped" from Ted Robinson's column. e e -ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER." That's the headline suggested by B. G. for tha paragraph In a Cleveland paper which said that Clemenceau was escorted down Lake Shore drive, in Chicago, by a troop of "calvary." e INFANTS AND SERVANTS A correspondent is Interested and alarmed by two recent headlines one in a Chicago paper and the other in another western paper. The first reads: CHILD STATES U. S. DEMANDS IN TURK PARLEY and the other: HARDING PICKS BUTLER FOR SUPREME BENCH. No wonder our country is going to the bow-wows! exclaims our correspondent. WHY NOT ROLL YOUR OWN WANTED -Dishwasher. Mona Cafeteria. Coshocton (O.) Tribune. Yanto clips and begs ua to send a section of Lake Erie down to Coshocton. lie says it's been a dry falL , One statesman says the income tax Is "a blessing In disguise." We beg leave to add that the disguise is Impenetrable. Winter hats are trimmed very neatly. So are the buyers.-

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i' " Dorothy Fenron. Lore will And a way," says Dorothy Fenron, demure little chorus irlrl with George White's Scandals, anent her proposed marriage to William M. Garland. Harvard student and son of a Los Angeles millionaire. A Eoston marriage license clerk denied them a license when they stepped up to the cage in Beantowo. "Ws'll be married yet," aavs Dorothj

his mother and old hom frltnds whom he had not aeon tor thirty year.

Toiic of the Calumet regien have been asked to aid ln the eearch which is belngr made for Isabel Jaklns, 15. of Crown Point, who las been missing elnce November 5.

The "Whiting- Savings & Loan Association has applied to the secretary of State for permission to Incrrase its capital stock from $100,000 to $200,000.

K x - a 1 6e rn.an Battleaze Castleman. of Gary, has Intimated that ho tvill enter the race lor mayor on a citizens reform tickist and will clean up the town.

Sneak thieve rifled the pockets of ovtrcoats and wraps left in the basement of the Gary M. E. Church Sunday, while the owners were worshiping: upstairs. PMNM$TOfflES The Rugby footballs wes talking rather loudly it liis club. "Rugby football." he war saying proudly, "is the roughest game l. the world!"

"With one exceprlon," timidly sugeested a miij-looking man. "What's that?" asked the prood one sha.-ply. "Marriage!" answered the meek man, as he hastened ont of th room.

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WIRELESS trlephone messages have been sent across the Atlantic. Still, even vithout that Europe has been able, for the last two or three years, to hear the dinner dishes rattle all the time in the United States.

WHO dealrea to bleach heir neck OTJK heart and home department PBXSTT3 a formula which it says WHl do very well If the COKBXSPOITDErrr is not in a hurry. BUT we Imagine that anyone who HAS decided her neck needs BIEACHEIO Is in a hurry. WX erufrss those enthusiastic feminists WEO jxroufily aasert that woman has FEOTZD her ability to do anything THAT a man can dc overlook the matter Or cleaning a pipe for him satisfactorily. BOITE eminent Btatiatlclan WHO probably oug-ht to have BEEN carrying the ashes out instead HAS flgrured it out that a typist In DOITTO her elsrht-hour-a-day work

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POOTPOTTiroa of energTr and we understood THIS does not Include CHSWXSTO bar gum. fixing- her hair ADJUSTING her v-neck OS pulling' down her ekirt either. T-TT a man try to crowd a feminine CXCHXST2ZAS -shopper away from the counter AND see which Is the weaker sex? WE don't clearly g-et how ira, Rockefeller made his first dollar,. y HTfT beinc one of his steady patrons WE have a fairly good XSXA how he made one of HX3 late dollars. TT2TZE33 our knowledge f these things IS less than we think It 4s, even. BEDinrDANCT could hardly b illustrated MOBJ3 forcibly than by the expression WHICH we find ln an ad: "STEP in bloomers." TOT can hear radio muaio from America ln ETJK.OPE, tut all we gret from Europe over here IS discord In the European concert.

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THE way tome of them dress IfOW a fat g-irl often X.OOXS exactly like a kewple, BUT we have to admit that we TKXSTCfr kowples are cute. S T.Tpr,T ATTfrwrp may be defined AS what it would take to SXZiZt oil stock to the nritTOCENT small Investor now. 2TO matter how you look at it TUT the absence of Christma:spirits THE HE Is a certain amount ol Erloom AS OUT the Christmas -spirit.

Griffith and Highlands are up in arms over the action of the C. & O. railroad in cutting- off two of the trains which hitherto had been stepping- at tUelr stations.

Tom McCarthy, proprietor cf the Lincoln Hotel, at Indiana Harbor, returned from a tour of the Frttlsh IsVs He visttci

A dusky rookie was dhi- g-ard duty for the .rst time. Alongcame one of those officer's who wear silver chickens on their should The rookie naturally got excited and flustered. "Halt!" he yelled and then stopped. "Well, what are yon k.trr to d next?" inquired the coLel after he had remained on t'-.e spot C".:o a grraven im&ge for some seconds. "I ain't sure, Boas," admitted the darky. Then he added darg-er-ously: "But by golly, yo' better stan' right whah yo' is till I thiala what it is Ise gwine to do."

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Fred Sauter, a farmer residing south of Lowell died today In St. Margaret's hospital at Hammond where he was taken to undergo an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Seuter was taken 111 Friday evening, after he had exhausted hlmeelf fighting a prlarie fire to save his home from being destroyed.

"Uncle" John Barge has wlthdrown from the race to succeed Henry "rhltaker as alderman of the Second Ward in Hammond. John r. Klein Is now being Urrocrii for the pla1.

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