Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 5, Hammond, Lake County, 23 June 1919 — Page 4
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though originally designed for sea patrol, were aL-o built .-ith this possibility in view. They are admirably qualified to act as bombing planes, and can carry a big-
) ger load than the Vickers-Vimy, and probably go as far J in one flight. It would have been easier for the fleet of NC'a to fly from Paris to Berlin than from New j Foundland to the Azores. Germany, beaten at her own game, and fortunate in havinc avoided the consequences of further fighting, does well to say nothing.
1 fe f PI - . There Is only room for one flag in Lake county and thai is the Stars and Stripes. There is room for only one languaae and that is the lan0ua3e of the people of the United States.
MAKING THEM PARTNERS. "Make your daughter your partner," the Country Gentleman advises the farmer. It is demonstrated in the article that daughters make pood partners, that they rise to responsibility, develop under confidence and tend to stay on the farm in which they have a personal and financial share. About the same time, the Maryland Farmer prints a poem In which a stranger asks the farm hoy, now a iown-dweller, why he bolted. There is a lot of the poem, but a few lines will give the gist of the boy's reply: I left my dad, his farm, his plow, Because my ca'.f became his cow; I left my dad 'twas' wrong, of course Because my colt became his horse; I left my dad to sow and reap Because my lamb became his sheep; I dropped my hoe and stuck my fork Because my pig became his pork: The garden truck that. I made grow Was his to sell and mine to hoe. So the boy went to town, not because he liked smoke and dirt and noise, but because he wanted something that was his ownThere is a lot of hard truth in it all, and it applies to other places besides farms. Co-operation makes for contentment. An interest in the business for which one has toiled makes all the toil worth while. Nobody who has attained o years of. discretion, and who has any ambition, is going to remain contented very long where another reaps all the fruit of his labor-
A NATIONAL OUTRAGE. Congress is woefully slow in taking action on the repeal of the luxury tax. Probably about the time that it gets too cold to eat ice cream cones the tax will be repealed and the hungry man or -woman who likes to eat ice cream for lunch In a drug store won t want it any longer and the repeal will be of no value to them. The government s idea of what constitutes a luxury la the weirdest of all weird ideasWhy can't a child buy aa ice cream cone without having to pay a tax on it. Why can't a cleanly person buy toothpaste without being taxed for it? Why can't one eat a cough drop to cure a cough without having to pay a tax on it? Take the tax on the ice cream cone. There are many people to whom ice cream is a food. It is a food aud mighty healthful, but if you go to a drug store for a 15-cent dish of cream you have to pay two cents tax lor if. In a restaurant you pay no tax. Why pica on the druggist? During these hot summer months soda fountain drinks are a necessity to many, especially women and children. A child may have a nickel to Epend. yet it has to have another penny before it can buy an ice cream cone. What sort of a receipt does it get showing that the government will get that cent tax? Absolutely none. The most preposterous thing is the tax on tooth piste. Did the congressmen who fixed that schedule ever clean their teeth? Imagine taxing tooth paste as a luxury! It suggests that people go back to primeval days when they used to scratch all the enamel off their teeth using charcoal.
Another monumental injustice is the tax on little necessities that poor people use. like coughdrops A coughdrop, says the government, is a luxury and though i may relieve a troublesome couzh, you have to pay a tax on it. The tax on medicines is another shameful injustice. If vou buy a lotion that costs a quarter the tax is no greater than if it only cost five cents. It is a pennv for every 2,") cents or fraction thereof. The public is just simply being robbed by the imposition of the.-e hardships imposed upon i by this petty penny-extract ing at every turn in the road. Th" people had been load to expert a great deal from the present session of Congress in the way of thu repeal of The luxury tax, now six weeks old, but there is little sien that relief is near. There are scores of other things that ought to b? tax free. The people of the United States have supported the war magnificently and it is an outrage that as great a country as this is should months after it is ever be holding up the people by this so-called luxury tax. Every man and woman in the land should write to their representatives in Congress and demand its repeal. WHAT GERMANY ESCAPED. No comment has come from Grmanv recording the flights of the American seaplanes and the British airplane across the Atlantic. In view of the attention given by German-.- to long-distance aviation during the war, there ought to be considerable interest in this enterprise. Bur the Germans remain silent. Perhaps thev are doing some thinking. They ouehf to he, If thev realize the purpose for which those wonderful craft were intended The Vickers-Vimy plane in which Captain Alcock few from Newfoundland to Ireland is one of a big fleet built by Great Britain for the specific purpose of bombing Berlin, in retaliation for th Gorman raids. It can carry more than a ton of explosives in addition to it? crew- and the necessary fuel The Atlantic flight is four times the distance from the former French ba'tl3 fron to Berlin. The American seaplanes. wih their Liberty motors
j LETTERS AND LETTERS. j While the boys were abroad in great numbers and : subjected to all the soul-straining hardships of life in ithe field, it was urged that no letter be sent to them j which was not "cheerful, confident, inspiriing." Letters were to carry the best of the home news. The love of the j home hearts, and make it easier for the boy to sustain his o'-vn and his country's honor- ! It is possible that many people learned a new philosophy of letter writing through this necessity. It j would be interesting to know how many carry it out now. I For ins'ance, one woman wrote a letter to her sister the o'her day. She retailed the woes of her housej cleaning- She dwelt in such detail upon the recent .hot weather that the thermometer fairly roee in the room 'a the recipient read the letter. She told how ill they I had been with the flu in her household, and how slow i in recovering. She managed most successfully to con
vey an impression of discomfort, ill-luck and ill health which could not fail to depress anyone who read it. As
'even people who read letters have their burdens, such : letters as thi3 must needs make life a little harder to bear. I It is just the difference between intentional optinv j ism and unintentional selfishness which distinguished j the happy letter to the soldier from the heavy one to j the other member of the family. i Since, as the copy book assured us long ago, "Life ! is a battle," all of us might be regarded as soldiers in
the field. If only all letters written to life's soldiers could be "cheerful, confident, inspiring"!
THE DEFICIT OF HOUSES.
Many people wonder why it is that the housing probj lem has become so acute. They know that our national j population has not been swelled much by immigration for
several years, and that nearly S.oo't.ftOO Americans are stil! absent from home Jn military service. Why, then, are the houses not sufficient t.o meet the demands? One obvious answer is that the lack of homes is felt most in the cities, especially the industrial centers, and that it has been made serious by the influx of workers to these cities in greater numbers than before- But this is only a partial and superficial answer. There is an actual shortage nearly everywhere, even in most of the smaller towns where one might expect to find empty house?. The big reason is that during the war, building has almost stopped. We used to build 3f0,00 to 400,000 houses a year to replace old structures and take care of, the increased population. There was already a deficit of
housing in 191f. Since then w-p have bf en building only f about homes a year. The result is an actual deficit of nearly l.noo.Ofln homes, and the nation cannot be prop I erly housed until they are built. j These facts show plainly enough the duty of the fed- : eral, state and municipal governments to do all in their j power to remedy the stuation, and the patriotic duty o: ! builders and building-trades union? to get together every- ! where in a spirit of mutual accommodation.
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pital WE are prepared to chat with the neighbor women OVER the back fence A BOUT the very latest style operations in the ABDOMINAL and other sectors. ONE thins that puzzles us is why a orderly .Il'ST before he prepares you for an operation ALWATS goes out and trims all the HEDGES and lawns in the neighborhood with
child." ONE mirte all love and tears and the next wondering HOW much alimony she really ought to as-k for when the BEGINS the divorce proceedings. WHEN th neighbor women GET to heaven WE imagine the first thing they will do
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covi.D see us dressd in the latest style in OPERATING room attire trying to pull down the remnant of a SORT of an F."3 shirt and TO pull up two legs cut off a pair of old pants WOKN by Barnum's fat man. PROBABLY some operator invented the outfit to give the
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WIEl, be to take awfully long and SEVERE looks at Mary Magdalene AND Cleopatra BEFORE starting in to be real nice to them. GERMANY now says that SHE was defeated by Wilson's 14 points MADE her bed herself AND oh how she lies on It. OUR ida of muium in parvo IP a stout girl in a fashionable tight Skirt. TROBABEY the world today holds no MORE distressing sight than a RECENTLY graduated high school girl EXERTING every ounce of Iit
BUDDING womanhood' in the effort not T giggle any more and only SUCCEEDING rartially. WE had considerable auricular evidence AGAIN last night that, the W. K. NEIGHBOR'S cat has no more idea th;in A RABBIT that summer has come
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Chalk McMahtn ia also on of the East Chicago hoys who came in Saturday. H has been in quite a few ligh's. H saw aetion in th Argonne ai.d S!. Miehiel. He was with the 315th ammunition train. ?nth division. Chalk is going around showing his red chhtvron.
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TAKE a tumble. AT that we feel that it Is going to take U3 some time BEFORE we gt in the old stride.
John Peck, Dick MllllUu and Xav I'osner. three of the overseas beys wih the 315th ammunition train, are back again in Hammond, getting in the ta.l end of the wee,; from Osann. Germany, by way of Camp Taylor. Eddie Fitzgerald who started at Camp Purdue with this outfit was transferred to the artillery and ;s somnvrt er.route. Stanley Fltagtier of Wast Hammond, who has btc-'i eking guard duty around Washington. I. is hij discha-ge ar.i iback home -i-n
J will atay for the next war. But warj r"rs they be and Uncle Sammy nys I warriors they'll remain. Sincerely. ! SGT. EDW. J. BECKMAN,
7th U. S. Engs, th Div.. Army of Occupation. The report enclosed ranks the divisions as follows: 2nd, 1st, 3rd. 43nd. 5th, 32nd. 2?lh. SSth 33rd 4th.
'TENTION! Here's BuHdy!
Arthor Sass, of Whiting-, who is fcta-tann'-d at Douglas. Ariz, has recently finished a course at a bakxr sehool. Hi has been appointed to first cook and has 25 men to serve.
TO THE POWERS THAT BE The Boys' Want to Come Home! Get 'Em Home Toot Sweet!
gram from their son Lieutenant Marvin T!or. announcing that he would be discharge,! and would arrive in Gary next Monday. Lieutenant Taylor has been in the air service at Ellington field. Dallas. Texas, for the last year.
Corporal Leslie J. Parry arrived in Crown Point on Saturday from Camp Taylor, having been discharged from service. Luther Rudolph. John Krost and Charles Johnson also came from there on Sunday. All thete young men having returned from overseas and been honorably discharged from the army.
James Kane, of Whiting-, -who receni. ly returned from France, has again resumed his duties with the S. O. Co.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Petria of Lowell have received a letter from th-ir son Harry, who is in France and expected to sail for home In short time, that he has been ordered to return to his regiment in Germany. Harry was attending school in Paris and expected to pail as soon as school was out H is member of the Fourth division and th" sailing orders for this divi?ion has been cancelled until after Germany signs the peace terms.
Corporal Jay Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs M. ,T. Browr. of Crown Point, returned or. Friday morning from "amp Sherman. H" landed in the U. S. from FVance on June llth and has b?en discharged from service.
Chare S. Perel, Whiting1, who has been sfationed at Ellington Field. Houston. Texas, wrote that he expected to leave that camp on last Saturday for Camp Taylor. Ky., where he expects to be discharged.
SALES GIRLS TOO PRETTY TO STAY UNMARRIED I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! EVANSTON, 111., June. Evanston dots not take- up much room in the world's gaiateer. but the managers of the two department stores in thi3 man's town certainly can select pretty girls for salesladies. And as a result the unmarried male population of the town shops as feverishly as the most seasoned bargain hunter of the female species. Also, the managers of the stores say they are having a hard time keeping the girls. They ail marry thortly after they start to work. One manager lost eight girls in one week, four eloping without giving notice. If there lives a girl, good-looking and with sales abitity. who has no intention of marrying, she will be ab! to land a good position in one of Evanston's department stores.
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Kri. John Bothwell and Elsie Xoich. nhki. Crown Point, accompanied their brother Sergeant Ernest Koschnicki to Chicago on Friday. He left for Denver on Friday night.
Warner MelBser, acn of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Meissner of Clark street. Whiting, has returned home from long service In France. This Whiting hoy was one of the vehy first to enlist from this city.
Doll Connors, formerly of St. John, has returned from overseas and is visiting with his brother Rob and wife at Chica go.
Raymond Keilman and Math Herrman returned to their homes in Dyer recently after receiving their honorable discharge at Carnp Sherman. O. They both were with the A. E. F. io France
! MOST people would appreciate it if. the next time the war department disposes of any surplus foodstuffs, it would offer them in less than carload lots. The ordinary kitchen ice box won't hold that much. ; IN all this talk about presidential candidates, there i is one hUhly important fart that both parties are over- ' looking. Purpose the newly enfranchised women take it ' ino their hpads to nominate a woman for president;
Willlain Donovan, with the 344th Held artillery. ?nth division. has reached Charleston. W. Va., and expects to bo honorably discharged and return to the home in East Chicago he forsook so many months ago when stern responsibilities of war urged h.m to mak a spedy enlistment. While h was engaged in some of the most strenuous battles, word came here that he had boon killed, other rumors were that he hid
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b'en hopelessly maimed ann in spite m all reports he is to march ba k ln'o h;r. parents' arms sometime this w ck. more stolid than when he left East Chicago awaits him eagfrly.
IF the Germans rajuse to sign, the oM question as to whether the pen is mightier than the sword may soon be derided.
Sergrt. Ernest Koachnick left Trlday for Denver. Colo., after srendtng the pat ten days with hi? mother at Crown Point. SergT. Koschnick was gassed while in active service overseas and for the past four months has been in camp at Denver. He is feeling fine new and
! expects to be discharged in the nar 1 future.
Jimmy Johnson cf East Chicago writes from France: "Hope these few lines find you in th best of health. The latter part of July or August will see me on my way back to God's country. At present we are guarding German prisoners. Will no doubt escort them back to Germany after the peace terms are signed "I've been to most all the large cities in France. I have done good deal of singing or er here and in that W T;- I get to see the country as I go to Y. M. C. A.'s all 'over France. I may sjgn up with a company of e n-ert a :ner s and tour the A. E. F. It's extri pay for me and believe me I sure can u;e it. When vou have the money in France you don t have to know how to talk the lingo. "As a writer I'm the same old scratch but then the pen is French, so that has a !o to do with the scratch, v'ompree I sure will be glad when I cross the big drink of w ter homeward bound, when I once get hihind the lady of ti e lake Miss Statue of Liberty she will have to do about face- if sh wsn's to Uok me in the face, b-cause I'm through traveling "
LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS
Dsrtny IiefBChiti, East. CUicago'a old pircel post boy. 1-as sent card from
Gievres, France, and savs he i.s frelir well and hopes to b on his way home j in the near future. j Dr. r. I. Townrley is bok in East j Chicaeoafter being acre-.? Th sea. H j has reopened his o;fi,-e m the Ca'umet , building.
j WHO said the Germans are lacking in Christian spirit? They are willing to forget ail about the ia unI pleasantness, if the Allies will do likewise, i : THE watch' on the Rhine which at present ir, ' largely Americanmay soon be doing its w atchine some j distance to the east of that historic river.
Sergeant Bernard Crotty, with the Seith Tuvision in the machine gur. battalion, just returned from Franc, is visiting in Gary with his siso'rs. Mrs .lames Fahey. 73S Adams street, and Mrs. McCanVi, 60 Massachusetts street.
Andy Roltberj has arrived in East Chicago from Camp Ta.vior. Ky. Andy Just got back from Fran, e where he saw some action at the Me-use, Aronne He was up it the Tou! sector, ftfv eu miles from Met?., for six weeks and then
tor-k sick. Andy w as with the KJnd h'v-s- j
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph It. Taylor, 4lB,p:!a! unit. This unit was cited for i-. Polk street, e;ary. hae wu'ii a tele, j food work s-'- era! times.
From Edw. J. Beckman. Rumelar.ge, Luxemburg; June 2. Editor Times: After having finished readin; two dezn copies of Tkb Times. Just received. I could not help but notice the many arguments set forth by soldier contributors as to who won the war: or who captured the largest number o? prisoners. Some of these articles appear childish in setting forth claims for so-called "best divisions" which are all out of proport.on with the facts. The average soldier just back from France, unconsc'oiji though he may be of it. has a tendencv to exaggerate the truth It 1 th:s exaggeration of the truth that sets up m the public mind a false notion of Just what happened ' over here." I believe that the enlo-ed official compilation of th activities of each division, being based on a percentage of l.ril"" 4ti per cent being given "major casualties." 30? per cent "kilometers advanced. "' l"'-1 pr cent "artillery captured." lr,fl per cent "machine guns captured' and 1nn per . cent "prisoners captured", will afford a fair means of estimating: the credit that should go to each dtv.sion having rartic:pated in tea! action. I am certain that no one will begrudge the first five divis.ons their envious places shown on the enclosed table. the truth speaks for itself. The Lake county members of this regiment and the division had the hard luck to be ordered home and then to have had the orders revoked. Hopes of returning to Hammond before "he 4th of July have dwindled untU nonno one believes an-, thing but that we
Victory Gardens j
IT'S WARM WORK BUT The Victory Gardener smiles in tpite of the heat. Get a garden bk rom the National War Gf rden Commission, at Washington. Banks throughout the United States realize ihit they are doing a valuable service to :hrir clients when th?y urge them, to - ' --.r gardens and help th;-.n in th: tor the homo food pro-l-crr . majority of rr:r: s a thrifty cc.i.-en r.nd Is likely to h? r. '.letter cu&toaier than to vr.v.'Ia he otherwise. O.i this account r.-iny br.nks are cooperating with C:o National War Garden Commission cf Washington ar.d have teen distributing thousands of free gardea books to their patrons. Tha Nenr York Stete Bankers' Association has urged all its client banks throughout the state to back up the victory garden campaign and help spread the. message cf home food production. Following the lead of the Mercantile Trust ar.d Deposit Company, cf Baltimore, more than a score of banks throughout that St3te have begua campaigning for gardens. A history of the war garden movement which has just been published under the title "The War Garden Victorious" a memorial volume not for sale, but being sent to libraries as a permanent record of this patriotic activity praises highly tbe rart taken by the banks aa well by big industrial concerns in timu. latmg interest in this work.
PETEY DINK It Takes More Than That to Kill Off a Veteran.
By C. A. VOIGHT
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