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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-12-07

FOR RENT-Furn. six room modern
fat. 3 l. \. Times. Hammond. 1875
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FURNITURE

We pay highest prices for used furni-
ture. stoves. etc. Phone 3079. Hammond
s. H. Furniture EXch. State St, oppo-
site postoffce. 1853
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Board and Room.

FOR RENT-Rooms with board If de-
sired. sol State Line st. (2nd floor),
Indiana side. l2:4:7
WANTED and room in private
family. near car line. for two gentle
men. b ., Times. Hammond. 1858
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rOR RENT-One FIVE room fiat furn.:
also hskg rooms. Apply IS Sibley St.
Hammond. 1917 Il
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Lost and Found.

IOST-Pair of chi1ds glasses. Bijou
theater or from there to 365 Truman.
Please return TO c. A. Smith, Monon
hotel Hammond. Reward 12:F:1
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Wanted to Rent.

WANTED TO RENT-House and barn
with one to 5 acres of good garden
land. between So. Hammond and Dyer.
Address C H. Times. Hammond. l2;4;a
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FO2 SALE-Electric motor, brand new
Weston Electric, h. r.. 5 phase. NJ
J. Grimner, Highland. Ind. 1878
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FOR SALE@s15O first payment. balance
monthly same as rent. will buy one of
the best home values on north side;
prices $3.50 and $3.50. Gost2inS~ Meyn
& Co, corner State and Holman, Ham.
mond. Phone 40. @lz;o;4
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Clairvoyant.

MADAM LEONE
sra Holman street.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Medium.
when you are in trouble, doubt or
suspense consult
MADAME LEONE.
was born with a strange and re-
oarla BE power-power not meant to
gratffv the idle curious but to direct,
advise and help men and women who
are in trouble and suspense concerning
the every day affairs of life.
Hours 10 a. m. TO p. m. 1913
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-12-07

FOR SALE-Two good springs at 81
each delivered. Call 504 Hammond
12:7:1
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For Rent-Furnished Rooms

FOR RENT-One large furn. front
room; suitable for two gentlemen;
electric light. hot water, furnace heat.
lis Clinton St. Hammond 12:7:2
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FOR RENT-~-ozy furn. room for re-
spectacle man. S3S So. Holman St.
Hammond. 12:1tf
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FrsD RENT-Furn. rooms for light
hskg.: all conveniences. 653 Summer
St, Hammond. Phone 2537. 12:7:1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
THE BONUS SYSTEM

7 s. BACHE. whose weekly financial
letters are widely read, suggests
the bonus system as possible
solution of the railroad wage problem.
He bases his idea on the demand of
employees for an eight-hour day, which
of course, if granted, would indirectly
increase wages. The only remedy
then for the railroads would be in
creased freight rates. In the past,
however, a growth of railroad net
earnings has been a signal for an
other request for more wages.
Mr.. Bache's idea is that system
of bonuses be adopted whereby a GER
tain percentage of the net profits in
excess of certain amounts be paid to
the men, and that the operation be
made reactive, so that when the roads
earnings fell below limits wages would
be reduced accordingly, at least to a
certain minimum.
Probably this would have to be
much modified to make it acceptable
TO the railroad brotherhoods, but at
least some such working plan would
be more equitable and generally salts
factory than the constant negotiations
now going on over wage adjust
ments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT

TONGRESSMAN MANN struck the
II keynote of the national pre-
paredness situation when he
said that this is no time for partisan
debate or petty personal differences.
Republicans and Democrats alike
should join with the administration in
working out an adequate defense pro-
gram.
The President, whose swing around
the circle, has developed into what
appears TO be far more than a mere
pre-campaign oratorical junket, must
be prepared to give and take. The
defense program to be enacted by Con-
gress will not be the idea of one man.
Legislation worthy the name has been
always the result of compromise. The
President. if he is as much in earnest
as he appears to be, must not permit
himself to haggle or bubble over de-
tails. The thing we want now is ac-
ton and the administration will have
the support of all good Republicans
TO that end.
President Wilson has not been as
ApllAlN III MS sptteAASS eiS tAlt phblit
might have desired, but when he says
'let me tell you very solemnly l do
not know what day may bring forth"
he is dealing with the possibilities of
national peril the evidence of which
lies all about us in our strained rela-
tions with England, the bitter enmity
of Germany and Austria, the am
bitions of Japan and the chaos South
of the Rio Grande. The man who
breaches unpreparedness is an enemy
of the Republic beside whom the
"hyphenated" citizen sinks into in
significance.
We all ought 10 stand by the ad-
ministration in this crisis, but the
administration must itself understand
that it is by no means infallible and
that If it is to command the sup
port of the rank and file it must be
willing to yield as well as to demand.
What fine thing it would be if the
President would go back to Washing
ton, call the leaders of all parties, the
army and navy heads and his cabinet
together and endeavor to work out a
program that would be. in a measure
at least, satisfactory to everybody.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
THRIFT DAY
will be Thrift Day"
Thrift Day is the idea of G. Y.

will be Thrift Day"
Thrift Day is the idea of G. Y.
Clement, a Chicago banker, who
believes that the people of the United
States, swept along by the tide of war
prosperity. are spending too much
and saving too little. He would have
Thrift Day" a time for the making
of good resolutions looking toward
the starting of a savings bank account
or the taking out of shares in a build
ing association or the purchase of a
little property-the beginning of any
plan for systematic saving and the en-
couragement of habits of thrift.
Bankers everywhere, who deplore the
spendthrift tendency of people in gen.
eral, approve the idea and are en-
couraging it.
Time was when the average banker
scorned the small account and gave
little attention to the man whose bal
ance ran below three figures. but to-
day the banker worth the name bows
as obsequiously TO the man who de-
posts his weekly salary as to the
customer who sends his money to
bank in a leather bag, and the reason
is not far to find. In the first place
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
ANTI.sALOoN CHAILENGE

IN many of the pulpits of Harris
burg on Sunday the accredited rep
resentatives of the Anti-SaIoon
League presented the purposes and
plans of the organiza ton for the pres
ent year. The most striking feature of
the addresses was the open challenge
of the anti-saloon army to the organ
ized liquor forces. It was plainly stated
that il is no longer mere local con-
test. but has attained the proportions
of national war between two great
forces-one favoring the liquor traffic,
the other strenuoUsly and unalterably
opposed TO it.
There has been a gradual change OF
the public attitude toward the liquor
traffic throughout the country and it is
no longer regarded as only a moral
issue. While the churches and the
Temperance organizations are doing
their utmost to curtail and abolish the
business, the instrumentalities which
have largely contributed to the growth
of the opposition are economic i'm their
character. Great corporations and in
dividual employers are almost solidly
arrayed against the traffic and these
forces combined with the regular anti
liquor associations are presenting a
formidable front in the nationwide
movement
1t was notable in the addresses from
the Harrisburg pulpits Sunday that
there was no bitterness toward the per-
sons engaged in the liquor business. It
was set forth that the contest was
not directed against individuals, but
against the organized and established
liquor evil. Special attention was di-
rected to the increasing interest in
Congress on the question of national
prohibition and it is thought not i'm
probable that the lawmakers at Wash
ington will submit TO the people af the
several states a referendum on this
proposition. OF course, thirty-six
states would have to ratify such a
resolution before it became a part of
the organic law, but considerable
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
THICKER THAN WATER"
"BIood is thicker than water.

Blood is thicker than water"
This proverb is so old that we say
1t unthinkingly. as we utter many an
axiom or platitude. Some of these
sayings do not deserve much thought
or deliberation. The proverb just
quoted does. For it contains a great
truth. AS the years pass we wonder
that we did not know this in our youth
something in the tie of family that
holds one. When that is broken it
hurts far down to the very roots of
ones being.
If were giving counsel to the hus-
band and wife who would make each
other happy and hold each others
love, ! would suggest that neither call
the attention of the other to the dis
agreeable qualities of the family of
either.
My husband loves my people as if
they we're his own.' a wife told me.
ut makes me so happy"
] doubt IL he did love her people
very dearly, but he overlooked those
characteristics which a more selfish
man would have resented. If it was
what a schoolboy would call "a bluff"
it was a gloriously unselfish one.
Most of us can stand the tempers
and idiosyncrasies of our own when we
alone nave TO bear them. 1t Is When
we see them through the eyes of a
third person that they become un-
endurable. That is, perhaps, one rea-
son why so few roofs are large enough
to cover two families.
II each "in-law' exercised toward
the members of the household into
which he or she has married the same
pardoning love that is exercised toward
ones own. the aspersions cast upon
the mother-in law would die a natural
death because they would have Moth
ing on which to feed.-Virginia Ter
hume Van de Water, in the March
Mothers Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
TOO BAD. BUT TRUE
[From the kansas City Times. l


China didn't raise her boy to be a
soldier. China didn't believe in pre-
paredness. China thought her vastness
of territory and her 100000. 900 people
were Sufficient guaranty against the
aggression of any possible enemy.
All OF which. CHINA can now tell to
people probably will allow China 5
statesmen to incorporate il in the pre-
amble of the treaty and China can take
it home and frame ii and hang it on the
wall.
The main drawback about the Chinese
theory of the way the world is run is
that it isn't true: Soldiers ought not
to be, but are. War ought not to be-
but is. Nations ought to mind their
own business. bat don't. The Chinese
think their civilization is higher than
haps it is. But the civilization of the
West has the bigger guns.
The japanese once shared China's be-
lief and not SO very long ago. But be-
ing. an observing people as well as a
polite they noticed that the nations of
the West had reached their forward
positions by gun play. The Japanese
probably thought 1t a very rude and
barbarous practice, but IL was being
done and its success was too apparent
to make IL worth while to look for a
gentler or more refined way of getting
ahead, and besides. Japan was in a
hurry. Japan adopted the Western
method and tried 1T on China. 1t worked.
Greatly pleased with its success. she
tried 1t on Russia and 1T worked again.
A little while ago. Europe being busy
with a gun play of its own, she tried it
on. Germany and it still worked. Now
it is China's turn once more.
IT is all very shocking. of course. 1t
can't he supported on any principle OF
ethics or morals. Nations ought not to
do it, They ought to be ashamed of
themselves.
But 1t may be some years vet before
the voice of reason is audible in a
world shaken by cannon blasts and in
the meantime the -deplorable fact re-
mains that nations that would not he
i'm China's present position must carry
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
ONE-CENT POSTAGE
BY Frederic ]. Haskin

UTILL the familiar red two-cent
Wv stamp soon be q rarity, class
ed with the one dollar stamp
and other freaks that only collectors
know? The signs begin to point that
way. Twenty-one bills have been in
troduced into the present congress,
providing for one-cent postage in one
form or another. If the innovation
becomes law, it will be a change even
more revolutionary than the introduce
tion of the parcel-post system.
The tWo-cent stamp will stay with us
for awhile, however. Bills which have
been introduced only propose the first
step toward supplanting it. They pro-
vide for one-cent postage on all let
ters mailed at post office for deliv
cry within the limits reached by car
rier from that office. In other words,
what are generally known as city
letters" will take only one-cent post
provide for other radical changes in
the rate on first-class mail.
Perhaps the most comprehensive
bill. and one that may be taken as
both typical and inclusive, is the
measure fathered by Representative
Stafford of Wisconsin. The Stafford
bill provides that letters mailed at a
post office for delivery within the car
rier limits of that office shall be
charged a one-cent rate. The same
rate shall apply to letters sent from a
city to a rural or star route served by
that citys post office, and to letters
mailed on rural routes for city deliv-
cry.
The local mail system, consisting of
a central office, a carrier system, and
a number of rural routes may be
thought of as a great wheel, with the
city for a hub, and the rural routes
reaching out like spokes. letter
mailed at any part of the wheel will
be delivered at any other point of the
wheel for one cent, if the Stafford bill
becomes law.
Another innovation no less basic and
sweeping, which is provided for in
the Stafford bill and also in several
others, is the rate on first-class letters
which go over the maximum weight
of one ounce. The date on the first
ounce for such letters will still be two
cents. when their destination is out of
the local district, but the charge for
each additional ounce or fraction will
be only one cent, instead of two as
heretofore. The overweight letter
will be carried for 8 cents instead of
4. The difference grows more striking
as the envelope in question gets heav-
ier. If papers weighing 10 ounces are
mailed frst-class to-day, they must
carry 90 cents in stamps. Under the
new system, the same papers can be
mailed for II cents.
The effect of the change will be tre-
mendous in cities of any size, where
local mail forms a large percentage of
the total letters handled. 1t will cut
the cost of communication between
people of the same city just in half
| All the mass of monthly statements,
announcements, fraternal notices, in
vitations, everything that fills half the
letter boxes of a metropolis, will cost
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
\ GREAT STATE HIGHWAY

a $ one who is greatly interested
"A in the construction of the pro-
posed William Penn Highway
across the State from Philadelphia to
Pittsburgh, Governor Brumbaugh will
undoubtedly take a prominent part in
the forthcoming conference of repre-
sentatives Of the several cities and
towns along the route which will be
held under the Chamber of Commerce
auspices in this city during the latter
part OF March.
No movement has ever had such
prompt and enthusiastic response on
the part of the people interested
Every community is wide awake and
all are doing what they can to pro-
mote public interest in the under
taking. Already miles of good road
along the proposed route have been
constructed and these stretches will be
tied together in some cohesive way
through the cooperation of the State
Highway Department from time to
time. II is expected that the confer
ence will result in the organization of
the William Penn Highway Association
and then will follow the necessary
co-ordinated work and publicity neces-
sary to a successful working out of the
plans OF the originators of the cross
State highway.
one of the purposes of the confer
ence under the direction of the Cham
ber of Commerce in this city is an
agreement upon a definite route for
the proposed highway so that there
may be actual progress made during
the early Spring.
AS a striking evidence of the in
creasing interest in the proposed high
way there is already considerable COM
munity rivalry regarding the exact
route to be followed. This rivalry
shows how popular is the movement
and the necessity for the highway
through the populous districts contem-
plated in the tentative route. Mem
bers of Congress. political leaders and
business representatives and organ
izations of every sort are already en-
listed in the preliminary work.
This week a meeting of the Pixies
Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Asso-
citation is being held at st. Joseph. No.
and it is the plan to have the William
Penn Highway incorporated as part of
this national route. Uranscontinental
travel last year demonstrated many
logical advantages of the ocean-to-
ocean highway which is to-day rec
ognized by national authorities as one
of three main transcontinnental routes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01

one dollar to mail where formerly it
cost two. Incidentally and inevitably
the receipts of the post office depart
ment will go down by several million
dollars.
This will doubtless be the chief ar
gument of the opposition when the
bills come up for debate. Nobody
proposes that the department shall be
run as a money-making concern, but
when it is just managing to make ends
meet, 1t might seem inadvisable to cut
a rich slice out of its receipts. The
men who are behind the one-cent
postage movement, however, point out
"a number of illogical features in the
present scheme.
The first-class mail matter, the
sealed envelope with a two-cent stamp,
is the source of practically all profit
in the post office service. The first
class letter is easily handled, easily
sorted. and its small weight makes it
cheap to transport. If nothing but
first-class mail were handled, it would
be possible to have universal .one-cent
postage in the United States, and still
show profit. Yet if such a universal
one-cent rate were introduced, the
present receipts would go down by
$50, 100000 or $7O,00O,00OO. 1t is OBJ
vious that there is big profit made on
first class mail, and a consideration of
department makes it equally obvious
that this profit must be eaten up by
some other branch of the service.
The loss in transporting and deliv-
ering mail matter, according to some
of the Congressman in favor of the
one-cent idea, comes largely in carry
ing the magazines. Then there is the
mail of the government itself, the
official business of senators and repre-
sentatives, of the executive depart
ments, and of the federal courts, which
travels free, under frank. When the
grand totals of receipts and eXpendi-
lures are balanced against each other,
there is not much over on the profit
side.
The one-cent postage propagandists
admit the small margin of profit, but
they point out that the real issue is
Who pays the bill? There is no doubt
that magazines are entitled to some
thing in the way of special travelling
privileges in consideration of their
large educational value. There is no
doubt that the significant speeches of
congressman should be distributed by
the government through the districts
affected by the matter under consid-
GRAFTON. Even the traditional pack
age of garden seeds fulfills a purpose
important enough to entitle it to pass
in the mail car. But who pays the
bill?
Why, says the advocates of one
cent postage, should John Brown,
whose business is of such a nature that
he has to mail a thousand sealed en-
velopes on the first of every month, be
compelled to pay for the carrying of
magazines and speeches and garden
seeds? Yet the profit on John
Browns first-class mail is what en-
ables the government to carry the
lseeds and speeches free.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

1.-THE world will end at 1890 a. m.
on Tuesday, April 4th." 1t has been
spoken, and all that can be done by
those who are members of the newly
arisen sect which "proves" their as
sertion by quotations from the book
of Daniel is to grid up their loins and
await the day. The new sect does
seem to be very much in earnest and
are seriously preparing for the trum-
pet blast which will in nine weeks find
them ready in their home town of
Hazleton, Pa.
Frank Arndt, "the human squirrel"
who has been languishing in the house
of bondage known to the regular
reader as the Lehigh county Jail, on
Sunday scaled the 30-foot wall of
the prison yard, leaped to nearby
telegraph pole, swung himself across
the street on the wire cable, scrambled
down to the sidewalk, movie-fashion,
and escaped.
The question of federal control of
the National Guard has again been
brought up and is being discussed.
Sentiment among the members of the
guard seems TO be largely I'm favor of
the move. which has been tried twice
before but always some sort of a mis-
understanding has arisen and flaws
discovered in the proposed law. Con-
gresham Scott favors a constitutional
amendment to give the Federal Gov
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Prof. A. A. Osborne. who has sue
ceeded Congressman Temple at Wash
ington and jefferson, is former Uni
versity of Pennsylvania professor.
Rabbi Krauskopf in an address at
PhiIad elphia urged the establishment
of a governmental bureau of peace.
Senator Charles A. Snyder, candi-
date for auditor general, is native of
,Dauphin county.
DIR. John b. Deaver, noted Phila-
deIphia surgeon, operated on his own
son the other day.
J. d. Bumgardner, chief of po-
lice of Washington, is about to retire
because of failing eyesight.
j. K. Love, president OF the johns
town Hotel, is going to try his hand al
running a big hotel. The manager re-
signed and he will operate it himself
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
From the Chicago Evening Post.
TELEORAPH'S PERlSCOPE

The President may want us to
be too proud to fight, but he doesn't
want us to be too proud not to be
ready to fight.
War is a checkered game" re-
marks an exchange, but for our part
we never did care for checkers.
Speaking of the activities of the
S. P. c. A., has anybody considered
the way the European dove of peace
has been treated lately?
Spring seems to have beaten the
ground hog to it.
We suggest that those who are
hunting in vain for villa wait until
he issues his wedding announcements
and then get hold of one of his "at
home" cards.
The western man who put his
name on a primary ticket for Vice.
President Just as a joke" must have
been a close student of recent history.