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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03
WILL PLAY
WOODLANDS

The Hammond Community Gymnas-
ium Giants" composed Of N Thomp-
son. c. Thompson. p. Parker. High Pol
lard and II Hudson. viii play Their FIRST
home game Of the season Monday night
when they VIII meet the fast WoodlaNn
Athletic Club team of Chicago.
This is the first Of a series OF big
basketball games for the Hammond
fans. 1t is the plan of the team to play
two games week for the remainder oil
tho season. the games viii be played at
the Community Gymnasium. The team
is to appear in new suits Monday night
and it IS hoped the fans viii he out in
force 10 help onen the local season. The
time set is $3.50 p. m
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03
HAMMOND DEFEATS
CROWN POINT HIGH

Hammond high school eleven defeated
the Grown Point high school at basket
ball IN the Irving gymnasium at Ham
mond with score of "a to is. At the
end IF the first half Crown Point led.
IA ~ TO- but Hammond took the lead at
the resumption Of play and piled up a
safe margin. The schools used their
regular hneups. Warne being substirut-
cd for Olta ard Rhind for Gavit in the
Hammond team duFmg the second half.
Hammond started with Hickman and
Potts At forwards. Oltz and Hudson
guards, and Gaxit at center
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03
WHITMAN RAP5
BOUTS AND BETS
FOR NEW YORK
Fight Decisions.

Decisions OF fight representatives ares
At New York-Stanley Yoakum beat
Patsy Cline (0).
At lphia-charley Thomas beat
Johnny Krause (6); Mickey Gala
CHER beat Joe Phillips (6).
At Toledo-Jack McCarron beat Gus
Christie C12); Johnny Calmars beat
Clarence willard (1o).
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03
BROWN BOOKED
FOR 3 MATCHES

CHICAGO, Feb. Six Q. Brown is
getting plenty Of work and behind all
this ring activity looms up the posi-
bility of match with~-Eeshe Darcy.
Tommy Walsh. manager Of the local
Greek yesterday declared he has George
booked for clash with George I'M
Youngstown. o.. on February 10. Two
days later he VIII battle Buck Grouse
in Pittsburgh. On February Ne Brown
is matched with jeff Smith at Racine
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03

WALLOPS
RENSSELAER,

LOWELL. IND. Feb 3-The Lowell
a. 6. won again last evening when they
defeated the Rensselaer, team by the
score Of "a to IL. The game was very
loosely played throughout. Petrie scof-
ing with Nc points. Rhoades for the
visitors made half Of their points Tie
score at the end Of the first half was.
is to o. The lineup.
Rensselaer, (I2l J. a q l42l
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03

A live newspaper for people who are
EtIII ON earth thar's whit THE
TIMES IL.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03

Whiting High school found itself out
classed last night in a game with South
Englewood at Whiting The visitors
RAJ away with SIS TO 12 victory Watts
was the heavy man for the winners
scoring p points. White starred for
the losers
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03

4 live newspaper Tor people who are
still on earth - that's what THE
TIMES is.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03

NEW YORK. Feb S.-Gov. Whitman.
in a talk before he left here yesterday
afternoon to return to Albany. express
I'd his dissatisfaction with the way box
ing is now conducted in this state and
said he could not understand the talk Of
establishing the pari-mutuel system OF
betting at the racetracks inasmuch as
the constitution prohibited gambling
Any such bill as the one suggested. 20
he said. would be unconstitutional IN
order to have the system legalized
there would have to be a special amend
ment to the constitution. which would
have to go before the people"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03

Gov. Whitman said he was not
against boxing but was certainly
against such exhibitions as the one in
Albany a few days ago when the con-
tests continued after boy had been
KILLED in the ring.
The boxing situation has not been
what it should have been for year. "
he said. 1T is my personal opinion
that the fault has not been so much
with those who have been in the ring
as with those who have been sitting in
the chairs"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03

Field soals-Petrie tS). Sburte co.
Clayton go. Minninger. Healy. Eiglcs-
bach, Rhoades g. Referee-Hayhurs
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-02-03
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21

rench and British gains since last spring, though
seemingly slight and slow bulk large in the aggre-
gate; large indeed to suggest that far
reaching if not almost decisive German retreat
would have come this year, had it not been for
the Russian collapse. The fact remains, however,
that despite heavy losses and much yielding of
ground and weakened morale the numerically
inferior forces of the Kaiser still holding their
Western lines. That they are able to do so argues
superiority on the part of the German soldier,
for matter of fact he lacks the finer qualities
of the French and English but simply illustrates
the tremendous difficulty of breaking through
strongly defended positions in trench warfare
The Germans strove for seven months, with unex-
ampled sacrifices, to pass Verdun, but all in vain.
The Allies, however, have demonstrated not
only that they can withstand the mghtest and
iercest of German onsets, but also that in time
they can smash the stoutest of German defenses.
But to make all the adhesive stroke, or rather
series of strokes they must have forces augmented
considerably beyond their present numbers, IL
they are to win without prolonging the war well
beyond the next two years. At the present juno
ture Prussanism stands baked but not defeated,
as President Wilson aptly expressed it. 1t is the
glorious privilege of America to pour the decisive
weight into the scales of and strike the con-
elusive blow for freedoms and humanity's cause
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21
SIN PER Sc
BY DR.. Frank Crane

susannah Wesley, mother of John, was, from
all accounts, a remarkable woman She had
dozen children, and to match.
One day, for instance, neighbor, amazed at
the quiet patience of Mrs. Wesley, asked: why
do you tell that child the same thing over twenty
times?"
Because" answered she, nineteen is not
enough
But it is another saying of the great Susannah
upon which now design to animadvert. To w.t.
namely, a sentence from of her letters to her
John. Like great many other young people
John wanted to know exactly what Sin is His
mother told him, and in these words:
Would you judge of the lawfulness Or unlaN-
fulness of pleasure, take this rule Whatever weak
ems your reason, impairs the tenderness of your
your relish for spiritual things-whatever in
creases the authority of the body over the mind
that thing is sin to you, however innocent 1t may
seem in ITSELF
l do not know that l have seen anywhere, in
or out of the books on theology and ethics, bet
ter and more understandable definition of sin.
Everybody wants to know what is right and
what is wrong, the lax well as the virtuous and
much of the wrongdoing of the world arises from
confusion of mind. Sin lies not all in the warped
will.
And if everybody would lay Susannah's words
to heart, and, to use phrase of Johns, read,
mark, learn, and inwardly digest" the same,
'twould from many moral middle
And if you can't master it all, possibly don't
approve of it all, just take a part of it, those
words whatever increases the authority of the
body over the mind that thing to you is SIM"
think it Amiel-or was 1t Joubert?-
who said that all culture consisted in transferring
our pleasures from the body to the mind
so that the arts and sciences are the landmarks
of religion.
But the chief excellence of this excellent wom-
ans dictum is her emphasis upon the fact that sir
is personal. 1t lies not in the infraction of any
code or rules. but in our inward cowardice and
moral fabbiness in disloyalty to our own con-
vction, in refusal, for whatever reason, to fol-
low our sense of Ought.
If man simply does what seems right to him
he will win past all the creeds in Christendom
There is no sin Per &c. only Per Me.
Copyright, 1917, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21

Realizing that a united and freshly militant
Russia could overwhelm his Eastern front, the
Kaiser grows more and more anxious to make an
advantageous truce before that darkening menace
materializes He has his latest designs against
the young democracy crumble away. Despite all
that German intrigue could do to foment mutiny
in the Russian ranks and to rend the country with
civil war the situation at Petrograd and in the
army and amongst the masses of the people APP
pears more reassuring today than for months
past.
The promptness and ease with which the Korni-
o revolt If so quixotic adventure may be called
a revolt was put down has added greatly to the
prestige and stability of the Kerensky regime.
Furthermore the proclamation of republic and
the definite assurance of early election through
which the people can directly voice their will has
done much to abate political unrest, even amongst
the more radical elements. Thus at time when
the Kaiser hoped to see Russia torn with revolu-
ton and apsing into anarchy, she faces new day,
still weak and beset with dangers but still true
to herself and to the Allied cause, still capable
of making her way back to the battles midst and
dealing decisive blow.
IL Russia did no more than keep several mill
lion Teutons engaged the Eastern front, she
still would be important factor in Germany's
defeat But she bids fair to do much more, with
unstinted American aid in reorganizing her i'm
mense resources and bringing her giant strength
into effective action. What a may bring
forth in that vast and bewildering nation of pc
culiar genius and peculiar perils, one say
with assurance But it is altogether safe to say
that the Kaiser finds from his present outlook
scant comfort in watching the Russian recupera-
ton.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21

Just how low is the German larder, and to
what extremes of hunger will the Kaiser's subjects
go to shield him a while longer from just and in
evitabe retribution? The ratoning of the civilian
population under the Government card-allowance
system is nearing the limit of resourcefulness and
fortitude. if may judge from the following bit
of grim humor recently published in German
newspaper, under the caption, Instructions to
puzzled cooks"
Take the butter card, stew it down with
the meat card, and add the egg card In
separate saucepan cook the potato and veg
etabIe cards together, and when done add
these to the stew. For dessert warm up the
Potato card, add the milk card, sweeten with
sugar card. and bake with it the bread and
biscuit cards. Then wash your hands with the
soap card and wipe them dry with the table
linen voucher"
It is true as one observer remarks that "a
people who can print this kind of humor and laugh
over il are not yet in dire straits" One doubts
however that many millions or many thousands of
the German people laughed very uproariously over
5 this HohenzOllern Joke A sard0nic SMILE or a
stoicaI one, is far we fancy, most of them
got no matter how stanch their loyalty or how
keen their normal of the Iudricrous II the
German army is being duly nourished. the people
. are not; and six eight months of the American
embargo shipments to the neutrals adjoining
Germany viii cut big gap in the army's food
supply.
Hindenburg and Ludendorf and the rest of
the Kaisers plainly enough the gaunt
shadow OF the coming wolf. No wonder they are
so desperately eager for nconclusive peace. But
having gone thus far. in their heinous adventure,
they will not turn back. They will fight on until
they are conquered and crushed. from without or
from within. We cannot depend on hunger in
Germany to win the war, though we can safely
count Il as an effective ally.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21

In the course of a meaty discussion of the
wars incentive TO greater production in the
South. particularly the production of foodstuffs,
the Waycross Journal-Herald observes:
The farmer who thought he would have
to raise his own potatoes this season or go
without potatoes. has produced more than
ne needs for home consumption, and has sold
his surplus at such prices that he has more
ready cash in his pocket today than he has
ever had before. By working to Keep the
wolf away from his own door, the farmer
has had revealed to him this same eternal
truth that greater production than consVmp-
ton brings wealth, and is his way to
wealth. because next year he will not only
raise more potatoes than this year, but he
will be looking around for something else
that he can raise and sell for real money"
Nowhere is this encouraging condition of af-
fairs more manifest than in Georgia. For num-
Der of years preceding the farmers, at
least the progressive and thrifty amongst them,
we're raising foodstufs in steadily increasing
quantities, and the States prosperity was grow
ing apace. But it was not until the war thrust
upon them the patriotic duty and downright ne
cessity of keeping the larder supplied that the
possibilities and the prohtableness of food pro-
duction truly appreciated. Georgia will buy
less corn and meat and other staples abroad this
year than ever before. and in consequence will be
worth more than ever. both to herself and to the
country.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21
In Less Than Six McnthS.

Some idea of the increase in Americas sea
strength since entry into the war may be gath
cred from Secretary Daniels recent statement that
the navy now has in commission three times as
many ships as it had six months ago. Equally
striking is the fact that the enlisted men and ma
rines, exclusive of the Naval Reserve and lesser
units, number approximately one hundred and
seventy-two thousand, which exceeds by some
twenty thousand men the personnel of the British
navy at the beginning of the AT that time"
notes the New York Evening Post, 1.-The British
naval strength composed of four hundred and
seventy-eight fighting units, while last November
navy comprised hundred and sixty
units, or exactly one-third the British strength.
From this it is logically inferred that to en-
ploy a personnel much larger than England's was
in 1914 indicates fleet as great, though perhaps
not yet altogether as powerful, the Brit
ish fleet at the wars outbreak. This record, of
course, takes no account of the dreadnaughts and
battle cruisers which provided for in the five
year building program adopted last year; the ad-
dition of these they completed, will make
the American feet lncomparably more formidable
The nsvy's present personnel, all units included
numbers two hundred and thirty-three thousand
hundred and seventeen.
No less remarkable are the energy and en-
been recruited. Within less than six months after
entering the war the United States has raised
more than a million men. The Regular Army
was brought up to it's maximum strength of
three hundred thousand within about four months
after the declaration of hostilites the average
daily enlistments numbering thirteen hundred.
Early in August the National Guard, now approx
imately three hundred and fifty thousand strong,
was taken into Federal service. Thus force Of
six hundred and fifty thousand men, all of them
volunteers was under arms before the mastering
of the National Army under the Seective Service
act fairly began. That army, the units of which
are now rapidly forming, adds six hundred and
eighty thousand men to the colors, making the
total more than one million, three hundred thou
sand And beyond these, not many months future
ward stands the second National Army of five
hundred thousand more.
The significance of this achievement is the bet
ter appreciated when it is remembered that
recently as January, 1916 our Regular Army num-
bered fewer than ninety thousand men, while the
National Guard prefgured but family its present
magnificent strength. The year 1916 far
reaching progress in the way of preparedness leg
islation and considerable addition to the fighting
ranks under the stimulus of the border trouble
But by far the greater portion Of present land
strength that already under and that now
being mustered, has been organized since the
gether we now have, either in service or training,
upwards of one and half million men. And that
isn't bad beginning.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21
GEORGIA'S PATRIOTIC PRESS
THE TRADE MARK OF TREASON
(Athens Herald }

Il had rather have my son go to Heaven in
France than go to hell in America was the reply
of a Dallas (Texas) father to one of the tribe of
whispering traitors who ask: why should send
our boys to fight in a foreign land?"
If Germany should win the in France she
will lose little time in transporting her own pc
cuar variety of hell to America. Herr thinner
manns little note, that got lost, shows she has
been doing her best to bless with kultur even
under the restricted circumstances long imposed
by the British navy and our allies who have been
holding the western front.
Men who have invested their most precious pos
sessions-their sons-in this naturally are not
choice in their words when they reply to the in
situations of the traitors who begin II approve of
everything the president has done, but" These
phrases the trade mark of treason-no true
American has time for such talk.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21

not contiguous to our enemies and, therefore not
affected by the embargo.
Holland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden i'm
ported, last year, only 900 bales of American
cotton, and Switzerland received about SO, 900
bales. Thus, 1t appears, all of the neutral coun-
tries in any way affected by the embargo used
fewer than $780, 900 bales of cotton last year. How
unfair illogical and deceptive becomes the argu-
ment of the cotton bears, in the face of these
facts,
It is matter of common knowledge among
Informed persons in Washington that the action of
the exports administrative board respecting the
movement of cotton to neutral countries simply
relieves the British government of the duty Of con-
rolling cotton movements to these nations. In
Tune 1915, the British government assumed con-
ro of cotton shipments to the neutrals contiguous
% the Central Powers, and since that time no
American cotton has reached either Germany nor
Austria.
The world today is consuming far more cotton
than it is producing, and this fact, among others,
was clearly developed by Senator Hoke Smith, in
his discussion of the cotton situation In the senate
the other day. His remarks this score are
quoted herewith:
mr. President, since the war began, in
spite of the large crop which we raised In
1914, the world has consumed 100000 more
bales of lint cotton than the world has pro-
duced Last year the world consumed nearly
1000, 900 bales more than the worlds pro-
duction. The surplus cotton that existed be-
fore the war began has been practically wiped
out. Last year 10 100000 bales of cotton
raised in the United states were consumed
American consumption of cotton has enor-
mously increased. The German and Austrian
consumption of cotton by their mills, and
the product they manufactureded was only In
part consumed in those countries. At first the
loss of those markets great blow to the
cotton producer but American mills and other
mills Japanese and Spanish mills, have reach
ed out for the trade formerly belonging to
Germany, and they now consume much more
cotton than they did before the war began and
have taken the place as a market for at least
half of the cotton consumed by German and
Austrian mills.
Last year I said, the world consumed
1369O,O0O bales of cotton raised in the United
~, States; our allies consumed 5,223,371 bales,
and the United States alone consumed 1854
S13 bales, that our allies and the United
States consumed last year 13, 600 bales.
The agricultural departments estimate for
this years crop is 12,499,O00 bales. The
United States and allies consumed last,
year 500 900 more bales of cotton raised in
the United States than this years crop will be,
and other friendly neutrals consumed
than 100000 additional bales. So that, Mr..
President, if should stop every bale of cot
ton going to the neutrals contiguous to Ger
many and Austria still the supply this year
would fall 700, 900 bales below last years con-
SUMPTION and as I stated, the consumption of
the past four years has consumed million
and half more bales than the world has pro-
duced."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21
The Odds on the Western Front.

Trustworthy estimates OF the relative man.
power of the Central Empires and the Allies in
dictate that regardless OF what happens in Russia
there is scant likelihood Of the Kaser's being able
to transfer from the Eastern to the Western front
enough troops for anything more than defensive
tactics. Germany is supposed to have under arms
about five and a half million men, of whom prob
ably five million available for the battle front.
The greater part of this force is already massed
against the Allied line in the West-as much as
two-thirds. some competent reviewers calculate;
at least three million, IL is commonly believed.
Pitted against these three million Germans are
between two and a half and three million French,
and something like two million British-fgures
which give US, as the New York Evening Post OBJ
serves 1.-The usually accepted ratio of five to three
for the Allied preponderance in the West" Even
IL Russia should be eliminated altogether as a war
factor and the Kaiser thus enabled to concentrate
all his available strength in the West he still could
not match the Entente forces, to say nothing of
the Americans, for man.
But these estimates, while confirming the as
sumption that we have the last of German
offensives, also point to the necessity of still
greater preponderance OF Allied man-power on the
Western front before the TeutOn defense can be
crushed and Kaiserism sent packing forever. The
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Messrs. Grab Wincase, the noted firm of law
yers, busy and the head clerk nearly run
off his feet. portly lady sailed into the office
and demanded to Mr. Wincase.
The clerk replied breathlessly:
"Tend to you directly, ma'am Take chair"
The plump raised lorgnette and glared.
do you know who you addressing, young
man? | Lady Slitherspoon."
"A thousand pardons!" said the clerk, still
more hurredly Take two chairs, beg of you"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-21

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