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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
WHITING
HUSTL|NG
FOR QUOTA
Especial to THE TrMEs.l


WHITING. IND, June 2o.-The COM
war fund for the Red Cross are putting
forth every effort to raise the required
sum in Whiting. Frank N. Gavit is
chairman. Fred J. Smith. treasurer. and
Roy Z. Green, secretary. The remand
er Of the committee is Fl. S. Davidson.
Joseph Tapjna and Julius Szudinski.
The committee hold meetings each
evening to talk over the events Of the
coming day. A large clock has been
erected at Roy E. Green's office. the
index hand pointing to the amount of
funds raised from time to time. Up to
yesterday about s1,400 has already been
subscribed. On Monday night night At
torney Walter Smith who is member
of Chicago hospital unit No. 13 spoke
at both the Princess and Star theatres.
Last night Attorney Roy E. Green
spoke at the shows. Different speakers
will be held each evening this week.
Speakers will also appear before the
Foreigners OF the city.
The sidewalks have all been labelled
and the packages from all tie grocery
stores will be placarded. On Thursday
night the Boy Scouts will give a drill
and the Masonic band will give a con-
cert
The committee are hard at work and
with the cooperation Of the public as
this is not only for one but for all
The Red Cross slogan to the citizens
Is: Watch The Clock on One.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

ATLANTA, GA. June 20.-America
must awaken and organize for war on
an enormous scale, or face long period
of ghastly fighting and worldwide suf-
fering.
This was the message brought be-
fore the International Rotary conven-
ton here today by Pomeroy Burton.
an American newspaper man from Lon
DON
BY a long period 1 mean from five
to twenty years or more" said Burton
Burton predicted that if America
doesn't wake up and strike hard and
quick, our own shores will be menaced.
why does the average American
citizen fail to grasp the vital fact that
II Germany should destroy the British
fleet or overthrow the massed forces
of the allies on the western front, the
result would be quick national death
for this greatest of all the worlds re-
publics?" he asked.
The reasons for Americas strange
lethargy in the face of real national
danger are two-fold." he said.
First. the allies policy of close CEN
sorship has resulted in keeping the full
flow of war facts and a reasonable
understanding of the wars develop
ments from reaching the people.
Second, the attitude which unfor-
tuately was taken by the leaders of
public opinion during the earlier stages
of the war. that it was no concern of
this country.
This attitude unquestionably serv-
! IContinued on page seven.1
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
j. s. SHORES
MENACED
BY ENEMY
Mass of People ObIlvlous TO
Real Peril In Which Coun-
try Is Placed.
A Critical Situation.

These are the main factors Britar
finds as America enters the war.
l. Terrific fighting on the yVSsf
ern front, ON a scale such an ts.s
world has never known before.
2. Colossal expenditure of p,ss.
materials and money.
.. Worldwide shortage of food.
=. serious contraction of ship
ping, due to the submarine cam
paign. with the demands upon shtp-
ping growing constantly heavier
o. Increasing pressure of respoz--
Utility upon civilian population.
coupled with increasiEs difficulties,
due to the high cost of living food
shortage and scarcity of labor, and
g. The end of the war mot yet in
sight.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
"The Armyand
Navy represent
the will of the
people, but the
Red Cross rep
reSe ntS the
A m G r iC q N
heart.

lever in all the years of the world
III has the appeal for sympathy and
i Y succor from suffering humanity
swelled to such a volume as now. Never
has the American heart throbbed so
warmly in response or yearned so
strongly to do the work of relief.
The organization for the attainment
of these ends is the Red Cross. 1t alone
of all organizations of relief and mercy
is the legally constituted engine au-
thorized to work with the government
itself to aid the stricken and dependent.
The Red Cross in, all its branches. in
MANY nations, is one of the greatest of
human organizations. More persons
are working for it and to achieve its
ends than for any other single organiza-
ton in the world. They number mil
lions and are approaching two millions
in America alone.
The funds it handles run into hum
dreds of millions. Its ships plough all
the seas. it's trains. its motors and 9TH
er means of conveyance are in every
land.
Since the opening of the great war
the Red Cross has grown at q rate hith-
erto unprecedented. In America alone
1t has sprung from less than fifty thou
sand to more than a million.
A Business Administration
The President of the United States is
head of the Red Cross. Its growth. its
whole future. presented a problem pro-
viding an administration of its affairs
second to nothing in the world. To ad-
minister the affairs of the Red Croso
ICnntinnad On nara seven ! "
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
INTEREST
GREAT At
HARBOR

Interest in the Red Cross campaign
in Indiana Harbor continues to grow
by leaps and bounds.
1t was announced yesterday afternoon
by w. E. Jewell. vice president, and c.
E. Potts. of the Inland Steel company,
that the ready response with which
solicitations were being met had justi-
fed them in raising their limit up 10
$4,000, for the war fund and that S13.-
500 of this fund had already been OBJ
tained.
On memberships there is at present
about $4,000 paid in. the number of
memberships reaching approximately
5000
A big clock will be put up in the Har-
Dor within tn e next few days and the
hands will be moved forward each night
as the returns Of the days work are re-
ported. What is said to be one of the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
BY J. w. PEGLER-
(With the Army Destroyer FlotiIia in
British Waters.l

with the Army Destroyer FlotiIia in
British Waters.l
After a recOrd-breaking dash at
night in response to wireless distress
calls, two American destroyers arrived
at their base in an English port today
with eighty survivors of two torpedo
ed merchant ships.
The rescue was made at a point at
scar further from land than any tor
pedoes had ever been reported before.
The total rurf on this errand of mercy
was several hundred miles. Thirty-One
survivors from one ship were picked
up in boats and n little beyond forty
nine, from the other were encountered.
The flag of the American Admiral
Sims now floats from n flag staff from
n promentory on the coast where 1t In
visible for miles Mt sea.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
SUB LOSSES
ON INCREASE

fBy United Press taDleRram.)
LONDON, June 20.-Losses by Ger
man submarines are on the increase.
An authoritative prediction this af-
ternoon of the showing In an official
statement to be issued this week was
that the number of British ships lost in
the past seven days will considerably
exceed the destruction inflicted the
previous week.
Last week the admiralty announced
twenty-five ships of more than 1900
tons and ten smaller ships lost. 1t is
possible this weeks loss will reach
100 600 tons.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
GATHER THE
CRAP SHOOTERS

Four crap shooters and a gamekeep-
er were arrested at 2204-137th street,
Indiana Harbor. last night.
The names of the men booked at the
police station were given as follows:
Buck Farr and Sanford Overall. color
ed; Anthony Shepard. Peter bunker
and Jack Braya. white. Braya is al
legged to have been the gamekeeper.
The men were before Judge Fuzzy
this morning and the case continued
until tomorrow.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
(By United Press.)

WASHINGTON, June 20.-Incensed at
suffrage pickets who Haunted denunci-
atory banners before the white house
ms the Russian commission entered to
greet President Wilson, a mob of 800
men and women, mostly government
clerks out at lunch hour, charged the
women and tore the banners to shreds.
"Presfdent Wilson and Envoy Root are
deceiving Russia,o was the accusation
printed in black letters on a banner
ten feet high displayed at the official
entrances of the White House.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

NEW YORK. June 20.--Police Com
missioner Woods announced today that
he has found that between 700 and 500
girls had been reported missing from
New York homes since January l.
Woods turned over to inspectors the
complete investigation of the Cruger
mystery and the uprooting of the white
slave traffic In New YORK.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
CBy United Press.)

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, June 20.-
That Mexico may enter the great war
on the side of America and her allies
and that France has agred to loan Mex
leo 2O,OOO,00O pesos is the substance of
an article published I'm an extra edition
of La Raza.
La Rnza Is published here by a close
friend of the former minister of public
instruction in Carranza's provisional j
cnbinet and the head of the civilization
wing of the new congress.
The article was based upon kilograms
purporting to have come from semi
Official circles in Mexico.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
RESORTS FLOURISH
AT NEWPORT
(Rx United Pres..l

WASHINGTON, June 20.-Startling
conditions of immortality at Newport.
fashionable resort, were called to the
attention of the governor of Rhode Is
land by Secretary Daniels today be-
cause of their effect on the naval train
ing station there. Daniels sent a re-
port to the department of justice re
vealing that notorious houses of pros
titution and open gambling houses
were doing flourishing business at
Newport.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

KIRKPATRICK MO-, June 20-Fire
which broke out when seven cars of
gasoline on the Glover Leaf railroad
exploded in wreck here tDday was
under control this noon after 100000
damage had been done. The fire for n
time threatened to destroy the town.
Calls were sent to surrounding cities
for aid. Two elevators were burned.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

PARIS, June 2O.-French newspapers
today hailed the resignation of VI. Hoff-
man from the Swiss federated council
as marking the end of the long contin-
ued Swiss peace move, some of which
has been so persistent as to create ir-
rftation in allied countries. Hoffman's
retirement was directly due to trans
mission of German separate peace bats
to Petrograd and was forced by demand
of Swiss newspapers who saw In such
n move n breach of neutrality likely to
give offense to allied nations.
Swiss newspapers have recently been
bitter In their comments on Hoffman's
'mixing I'm foreign intrigues.-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
RECRUIT WEEK
NEXT WEEK
NV United Pres..l

WASHINGTON, June 20-The week
between June % and 80 was this after
noon designated by the president as
recruiting week in which the presi-
dent asks that 10000 men volunteer
their services for the regular army.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
POLICE CHIEF
is ON TRIAL

INDIANAPOLIS. June 20. - Taking
the stand in federal court In his trial
for alleged election frauds. Polio Chief
Perrott this afternoon entered a gem
eral denial of the charges that armed
policemen beat up colored voters in
1914.
Everything done under my direc-
tion by the department was merely to
pravent false registration and illegal
voting" declared Perrott.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
B. P. o. E. NOTICE

day evening, June 21st. Let there be
no absentees. Important. Very I'm.
portant.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

LONDON, June 20.-FoIlowfng the
resignation of the entire Austrian cab
met late yesterday the youthful en-
peror of Austria-HunGary was con-
fronted today with his most difficult
task since assuming the throne. Dis
patches today emphasized the difficulty
confronting the government in order
to obtain a cabinet which will receive
sufficient support from the various fac
tions in the empire to survive.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
Latest
bulletins


PARIS, June 2O.-A titanic artillery
struggle Is in progress on the greater
part of the French front. North of
Rheims violent bombardment of
French positions was directed last
night Along the Champagne front
guns both sides roared INCREASINGLY
Throughout the night.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

Hammond Ball Park, Sat
urday, June %, Hammond
VS.. Chicago Giants. Sunday,
June "A, Hammond VS.. Muir
leys. ''z0'S
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
(By United Press.)

NEW ORLEANS, La. June 20.-Two
Germans believed to have been prepar-
ing to blow up New Orleans biggest
buildings were arrested here early to-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20
A BROOK TROUT

The best known fish in the waters. S.
silver Manufacturing Optician. the best
known optical house in Hammond. $40
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

day by federal officers. The Germans
are said to have made incendiary re-
marks and to have had In their possess
sion trunks packed with bombs.
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

lever in all the years of the world
III has the appeal for sympathy and
i succor from suffering humanity
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

tContinued on page seven.o
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-06-20

Continued on page seven.)
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-03-31
From q Great Diary.

Evelyn. the great diarist and cour-
tier, is blind to many things which
his readers would gladly have had him
notice and record.
He tells US nothing of the condition
Of the mass Of the people, rarely
speaks of poor persons or servants,
rarely mentions the clothes he wore or
the food he ate, never, ut any rate,
with that pleasure of memory I'M
ashamed which gives such details the
smack of life in Pepys or Boswell.
He never gossips; tells us little Of
his neighbors' vices, and nothing Of
their follies; would assuredly not have
recorded, If there had been any such
matters to record, his wife's Jealousy
Of his attentions to her mind; gives
no such touches of rude veracity as
that of Pepys' sister, for whom hus'
band must be found at once as "she
grows old and ugly" or that Of poor
Mr.. Pechell, "whose red nose makes
me ashamed TO be seen with him.
though otherwise good-natured man.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-03-31
WILL ATTRACT THE TOURIST
City Of Guayaquil Making Bid for
Travellers Who Delight In
the Picturesque.

Ecuador will soon be ready for
greater business with the world and
for the tourist. Guayaquil, the coun-
try's chief port, is now undergoing
thorough sanitating. Streets are be-
ing modernized, and otherwise the city
is improving. The ancient capital of
Ecuador, Quito, lies nearly 800 miles
by railway from Guaynquil. A few
tout lists have used the new railway
"alonc the roof Of the world" and Wis
tied the Interesting old city.
GuoyaQuil lies up the Guayas river
60 miles from the ocean, so the average
ship passenger does not even secure II
passing view of the second port of i'm
portance on the west coast OF South
America. However, on clear days,
when the ship is not many miles from
shore, 1t is possible to sight Cotopaxi
or Chimborazo, the former sending to
the sky smoky column from its snow
white cone.
Northward $40 miles we sight the
foliage-bedecked islands in the Bay of
Panama, and shortly thereafter drop
anchor near the entrance to the
worlds greatest canal.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-03-31
Famous Polish City.

To the tourist the most interesting
building In Galatz Is the Church of
st. Mary's, which contains the tomb
of the celebrated Cossack chief, Ma
zeppa, whose intrigue with the wife
of a noble at the Polish court and his
dire punishment (being bound naked
TO the back of wild horse and set
adrift on the desert) have been i'm
mortalized in Byron's poem. The
tomb is supposed to have been rilcd
Of its remains by the Russians dur
ing one of their several descents upon
the city, for the memory of Mazeppa
is execrated by the soldiers of the
car, inasmuch as he became an ally
Of Charles MI OF Sweden. He died
of poison in the same year that Peter
the Great defeated Charles on the
field of Pultowa.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-03-31
SOUTH CACHE HIGH
SCHOOL NOTES

Hyrum, March 27.-The most i'm
portant event of the year, next to the
final examinations and commence
ment exercises, was the Junior
Promenade" held at the Elite hall
Friday night, March 90. This was
the first event of the kind in the his
tory of the South Cache high school,
and marks another step in the growth
of this progressive institution. The
evening was spent in dancing and
was brilliant success from start to
finish.
The plan of decoration was a
checker board ceiling of white and
green crepe paper. Sprays of apple
blosso ms gave the finishing touch to
the general scheme. The booths fol.
lowed similar color scheme-six
of them served as excellent resting
and visiting places during the inter
missions between dances. From two
of these booths, refreshments, con-
sisting Of frappe, mint waters and
stick candy, were served to three
hundred and fifty guests.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-03-31
THIS 100000 JOB Is
YOURS-ON ONE CONDITION

In the April American Magazine
we are informed that there's an I'M
filled pob in Songland. One hun
dred thousand dollars year, at least,
is waiting for the man or woman
who will come forward and fill it,"
says f. NJ. Wickes. 1T carries with
1t no orders; it requires no particu-
lar training; person who has fin
ished schooling with the second read
er will stand exactly as good chance
of being accepted for the vacancy as
a master of seventeen languages, or
a mathematical marvel.
Song publishing is one of the
greatest CANDLES in the whole world.
Fortunes are won and lost in a
change Of the moon, and for reasons
which no one seems able to forecast
which brings us back to the sub
ject of Songland's vacancy.
IF anyone can prove his ability
consistently to select songs which
will captivate the ears of his hum
bred million fellows, he can become
the official picker of hits for any
number of big song publishers. AS
for his salary-well, he can name a
figure that will make him considera-
bly, better paid than the President
| Of the United States"
But here's the niger in the wood
pile:
incidentally, II you are thinking
of applying for the job official hit
picker" be quite sure that you are
thoroughly familiar with the evanes-
cent fancies and shifting emotions of
young women. For they buy prac-
tically all the music, and what they
do not buy is usually purchased by
some admiring friend or repentant
relative"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-03-31
BRITISH SOLDIERS SING
WHILE FACING DEATH
Transport With Regiment Aboard
Strikes Mine and Sinks Rapidly,
But Is Saved After Troops Are
Safely Transported.

London, March 2S.-The British
transport Tyndareus, with a battalion
of the Middlesex regiment aboard,
struck mine February off Cope
Agulhas, the southermost point of
Africa. The men were paraded on
deck, and after roll call began to
sing, while they waited for the ship
to sink.
The Tyndareus, however, was
saved and the troops were trans
ferred to two rescuing steamers, hav-
ing upheld, as expressed in the Off
cial admiralty report, 1.-The cherished
tradition of the Birkenhead."
The admiralty issued the following
statement on the incident tonight:
THE admiralty transport Tyndar-
Gus with battalion of the Middlesex
regiment aboard, struck a mine at
s o'clock in the evening of Febru-
airy off Cape Agulhas. A strong
southwesterly gale was blowing. and
Immediately after the explosion the
ship began to settle by the head with
propellers out Of the water.
Assembly was sounded and the
men donned lifebelts and paraded in
perfect order. Roll was called, and
upon the order stand easy the
whole battalion began to sing.
1.-TWO steamers, dispatched to the
rescue. arrived on the scene within
half an hour. During this trying
time, although faced by the proba'
bility of imminent death. the troops
maintained steadfast courage and
discipline. Never was the tradition
of the British army more worthily
upheld than on this occasion.
Thanks to the devotion and per
severance of the captain and the Off
GERS, the ship was saved. The troops
were transferred to the two steamers
and taken to Simonstown, where TIN
Tyndareus subsequently returned un
der her own steam, with two hold
flooded and another leaking.
THE king has graciously expressed
his deep admiration for the conduc
of all ranks in UNFOLDING the cher
ished tradition OF the Birkenhead.
The Birkenhead, q British trooI
ship struck a rock off Simons bay
South Africa. February rs. 1852
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-03-31
LONG.LIvED DRY CELLS OF NEW
TYPE

A patent has b cen granted to two
Orange. N. j., inventors recently.
pertaining to type of dry cell in
tended to overcome the defects of an
ordinary cell due to the drying out
Of the electrolyte and the deterior-
alton of the electrode even when on
open circuit. In this new cell a
gelatinous electrolyte of caustic soda
and starch is used, and by this in
genious combination the ordinary
cause OF trouble has been largely ELI
minated, 1t is claimed. When zinc
and oxide-of-copper electrodes. for
example, are employed it is said that
the efficiency Of the cell is greatly
increased. being even greater than a
wet battery employing similar cleo
trodes and an alkaline electrolyte.-
From the April Popura Mechanics
Magazine.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-03-31
GREED MET PROPER REBUkE
Incident on Street Car Case OF
Righteous Retribution and Some
Embarrassment.

The day was stormy and the car
carried only n limited number Of pas
sengers. The Woman Who Saw spied
shining coin glistening on the floor.
Just front :. fashionnbly dressed
woman who might have posed for a
"Daily Hint From Paris" so fault
less was her get ., despite the rainy
day. Everytl bespok, afiluence
and reckless expenditure, and the ne
cessity 10 add to her probable store
of ready money was not apparent.
However, she was cycling the coin as
cat does mouse, ready to pounce
on II at the first favorable oppor-
tunity. simultaneously the gaze of
dapper elderly gentleman, seated next
the glittering object. 1t would have
been an easy matter to have stopped
and possessed himself of 1t, but the
eagle eye of his fellow passenger fol-
lowed his every movement, betraying
her desire to appropriate the coveted
prize. After few seconds Of irreso-
luton he reached down and literally
grabbed the lucky find. Opening his
closed hGnd he took one glance ut the
treasure. A peculiar expression crossed
his face, and his fingers closed tightly
again. This was too much for the
wel-d"essed woman, who could re-
strain herself no longer; greed took
possession of her. and leaning for
ward she addressed the finder in Icy
accents: pardon me, sir, that belongs
to me. l just dropped it,"
With courteous bow the gentleman
replied: Permit me to restore your
property. madam" and he placed in
the immaculate gloved hand, now
eagerly extended, shining tobacco
tag.