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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
UNCLE SAM ASLEEP?
WELL. TRY HIM

PHILADELPHIA, April Ie.-As a
Pennsylvania express train from
New York came over the Scnuylkill
bridge yesterday morning a man
looked out the car window and saw
the soldiers on guard. The man
made a highly disrespectful COM
ment.
He didn't notice that directly be-
hind him sat an unobtrusive indi-
viduaI reading a newspaper. This
second parsonage kept near the man
who had made the remarks about
the soldiers, and when the latter
stepped from the car in Broad Street
Station the other touched his arm
and said:
"You and Will take a little walk
down to the Post Office"
In amazement, the man, presuln-
ably German sympathizer, protest.
ed until the other showed him the
badge of a United States Secret
Service agent. And they took their
w11k.
p. S.-If you think Uncle Sam is
asleep. you had better wake up
yourself.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
WILL FIGHT
t OUT On
THE FLOOR
(By United Press)

WASHINGTON. April 19.-The pres
idents plan TO raise a great American
army by selective conscription Will be
fought out on the house floor. Tn
swerving in their determination TO force
all responsibility for any draft system
on the administration. the house mill
tary committee reported the greater
army bill. putting it up to the presi-
dent to choose between volunteering
and draft Those standing behind the
president viii deliver a minority report
which Will show how politics and fear
of defeat at the polls caused the com
mittee to cast off responsibility.
The bill provides in its conscription
that all physically able males between
q. and 40 are eligible. Through an
agreement between leaders debate is
limited to eighteen hours of general de-
bate with further debate under the five
limit rule While this preliminary ac-
tion occurred in the house. Senator Nc
Cumber introduced in the senate an
amendment to the administration meas
ure proposing to raise the army needed
for calling for volunteers proportion
ately from each voting district. A re-
sort to draft is made possible only after
the volunteering fails
Senator Swanson reported his bill for
the increase in the marine corps of
from 1900 to 10000 and in. the navy
personnel. from $1,000 to 10000. Other
bills introduced today were:
To prevent the sale of explosives
throughout the war except by special
license.
Making artificial speculation in food
stuffs punishable by a fine from $500 to
$4,000 or sentence from one to five years
or both.
And a bill providing for government
supervision of the making and use of
explosives
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
BOARDS
DECISION EXPECTED
TOMORROW
q

Representing the 100 petitioners of
the Irving school district who have de.
manded the ousting of Mrs. Carrie P.
Herendon. principal Of the school. by
the board OF education. Attorney James
Stnson declared today that his clients
VIII not appear before the board tornor-
row night having made their case at
the last board meeting. 1t was to have
been a public hearing ny Attorney
Stainson says there is no need of hay-
ing general wrangle and as the
board IS in possession or the facts it
can act on the case without any fur
ther testimony on the part of his petit
TONERS. He Will await action of the
board which was petitioned to discharge
Mrs Herendon last fall pe-ore taking
further steps.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
ANYONE SEEN THIS
RUNAWAY LAD?

Wilbert Bonideld. nine years old. is
missing from the home of his parents.
Z. V. Boniheld. 2449 Prairie avenue
Chicago. according to a letter Chief
Forbis of the Gary police received
Wilbert told his playmates he wasing
to run away to Gary
The boy is of the size of 11-year
old lad He has light hair. blue eyes
fair complexion. he wore a cloth hat,
a gray avercoat with black collar.
black shoes. black stockings. Other
details Of the clothing are not given
The child had a scar over his left eye.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
Latest
Bulletins

Kenneth Stewart,

W AsHINGTON, April I9-The door
of the senate naval affairs committee
In the capitol building Syas ajfInmfed,,
during the night. Early today it was
round standing open Police believe
the job was the work of spies seeking
Information about naval plans and in
vestiSation is underway. The force of
gunrds about the capitol was question
ed A. far can he learned nothing
was missing from the room. The door
had been spiintered and pried open
with an. iron instrument. The marks
of the Instrument were plain. senator
swanson, acting chairman of the COM
mittee, said far he could learn
nothing had been taken. He declared
nothing of value was ever kept in the
committee room. The police announce
ed they believe 1T was done by some
one hidden in the building as the cap-
itol Is very closely guarded at night.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
EIGHTH OF MILLION
rs COLLECTED
TIMES BUREAU
AT STATE CAPITAL.

INDIANAPOLIS. April 1s-The to-
tai amount of inheritance tax collected
by the state in the quarter ending
March 81. 1917. was s165.s291S. &C
cording to the report of Albert E
Humke. Inheritance tax investigator.
The largest amount collected from any
one estate was that Of Raphael IIirsch-
baum or Indianapolis. s22.22s a3. The
estate Of James ~aitconb Riiey the
Hoosier poet. paid in s4.s2s.12. Marion
county as whole paid in S5e,i7i.90.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
fRy United Press cablegranl.l }


PARIS, April l9.-"Evervwhera suc
cess was the epttome Of today's official
statement, detailing the continual
sweep forward of General Nivelle,s
armies The German defensive posi-
uons dominating Nauroy and Moron
pi1nere were captured in the sweep east
OF Rheims. Smash blows north OF
Vailly and oste1 gained more ground
northeast Of scissors. German atte-np4s
TO create diversion elsewhere along tba
front failed German counter-attacrs
on ground newly wrested from their
hands in the ST. Quentin front failed.
Today there is fighting along almost
the entire French front around 81.
Quentin. General NiveEe repor+ea
great activity Of artillery in this dis
tr1ct This may be the lead of another
infantry assault. In Coucy forest fartn-
er south in the bend of the fighting
front the statement reported patrol
fighting.
To the north of the Aisne the French
commander in chief reports farther
progress north of vainy and ostel. In
approximately the same sector In the
region OF Courtecon, south of Laou.
German machine gun attack was stop-
ped Southeast Nivelle described Ger
man attack of most violent Character
launched Wednesday night.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
YER D EA YES 7
WAR NE WS


tBy United Press CabIeSram.l
PETRoGRAD, April I9.-PIedge
that Russia stands unsweryfnE
against Germany was given today
by the foreign minister In weicim-
ing British and French labor dele
gates .'The provisional govern
ment,' he declared. "wilI continue
it's part in annihilnting German
npilitarism. Our idea is to prevent
the future possibility of war.
beg you will announce TO your
countries that free Russia is dombIy
strong.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
BY United Press.

WASHINGTON, April 1s.-Men who
marry to dodge military service will not
escape under a ruling of the war depart
ment today which officially announced,
"An men married since the outbreak of
the war will be treated on the same ba
sis as unmarried men insofar as their
military obligations are concerned"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
by United Press.

WASHINGTON, April 1s.-The fight
in the senate against the proposed dras-
tic newspaper censorship continued IN
abated today. Emboldened by the hit
ter denunciations by Senators Lodge
Brandege. Thomas. johnson and others
its opponents declared that if the bill
passed unchanged it would mako the
press of nation powerlass.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19

Six lower classmen going to do
their share. Fred Sefdenbecker, Ed
gar Beckmnn, Richard Tinkham, Don
aid HesIer, stewart Smith and julius
Caplan, all sOphomores but Beckman. l..
who belongs TO the freshmen class.
have been hOnored by the faculty to
represent Hammond at the annual mil
ifary training camp at Culver, held
from April 80 to May IA. Every year
Culver invites the high schools of the
state TO send delegation to the two
weeks camp. The boys must he ex-
empIary students with grades averag-
ing over 90 and IL is considered "a high
honor to be chosen.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
HAMMOND BOY
GOES WITH CLASS

Edwin F'rederich, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles H. Frederick of Hammond
who NO uld have graduated from Har-
ward university in forty days. class
1918, has enlisted and goes with his
class which has enlisted a body. He
IS another Hammond boy of whom the
city is proud. as he is an honor man
at Harvard and one of its most brilliant
students. He is a graduate of the
Hammond high school where he was
a1so an honor man.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19

WASHINGTON, April Is.-The cOun-
ell of national defer.se will recommend
to the PRESIDENT that he take drastic
action imln.siiIteIy TO step the manu-
facture and sale of liquor throughout
the United States. II remained to he
Getermiaed whether the president will
be urged tn stop liquor manufacture
and sale through procIs nation or
through emergency legislation, similar
to the onti-drug act.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19

friends since graduation. have enlisted
IN the coast artillery and leave this
evening for St Louis for assignment.
Ihey VIII be accompanied by Herbert
ioolas OF Gary. Ind. with whom they
nave been close friends. From St
LOUIS they will be shipped to the At
lantlc seaboard and may go to Florida
or Panama.-South Chicago Calumet
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
United Press cableeran,.

BERLIN, April 19.-offciaI orders
found indicate how far reacting were
the objects of the French attack on
Monday, declared today's official state
inent. 1.-THE French command did not
realize at any point practically and only
approximately obtained their tactical
objects"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
Ry United Press

HARRISBURG, PA, April 1e.-Orders
from the war department received here
today explain the order OF April 9 re-
lating to the discharge of the national
guardsmen by saying, '"rhe discharge of
men solely because they have families
or are married is not authorized"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
United Press cah1errar,

LONDON, April 19.-Four allied hos
pital ships have been sunk by German
submarines, Chancellor Bonar Law an
nounced today in the house of commons.
He said details OF the additional sink
ing would be made public later.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
LAKE COUNTY
INHERITANCE,
TIMES BUREAU
AT STATE CAPITAL.

INDIANAPOLIS. April 19.-Collectlon
Of inheritance taxes on estates in
Lake county were as follows William
Brueckmann, S23.75; Adam Dfi.abaugh.
$500 Lucius G. Fisher. S72s.sg. John
KIN sells. Augusta iSoptlis.. $50 Isl.
Thomas Mcfarland. So Many T.
shappe $3.50. cyrus Z. Smith. st23.50.
TntaI SlnI4qI
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
fRy Inited Prc-s.N

WASHINGTON. April Io.-Reureseut-
huFe meyer London, New York social
ISL ~ rahieSram to "a friend in the
Russian duma today. urged pubIica-
uon OF m authoritative statement de-
eiarfng Russian socialists do not favor
a separate peace with Germany.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
7 TIEUT()NS
GL(jI LINE:
WITH MEN
Allies Report Continued Sue
cess Everywhere Along
Great Battle Front.
BY HENRY WOOD

(With the French Armies Ahelda
Defend at any cost is the word
winch has gone along the German
front where the French are battling
IN their great offensive. The cost
OF the defense is apparent today in
the count of prisoners, heaps of
German dead and the demoraliza-
tion Of the defenses everywhere.
The German plan SENS to be TO
gorge the first line of their defenses
with troops. They literally glut
the hrst lines. The Germans hrst
lines are battered into nothingness.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19
HAMMOND
SENDS OUT
SEVENTY SIX
More Recruits Sent Out
Out From Hammond at
One Time Today Than
From Any Other Station
in District, Says Officer.
dBI LLETIN.)

Sergeant Nelck. local recruiting Of
fcer, received telegram this morn
ing from his superior that the Ham
mond high school boys would he kept
together and assigned 10 one regi-
ment
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-04-19

Lieut.. Col. Clement Flagler, q. S.
A, in charge of engineering work in
Washington, D. c., has been assign
ed by the war department to the post
of military attache at the American
Embassy in Rome. He succeeds
Major Elvid Heiberg, who was killed
a short while back on the Italian
front, whca kis horse threw h;1a.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27
BRING in HAY.

A sadder procession to us than a
| funeral was a line Of farm wagons the
other day going through the streets
loaded with hay. 1t was not coming
into market from the farms. 1t was
going out to the farms. 1t had been
raised and shipped here from the far
away west. The railroads that hauled
it got more for their service than did
the farmer who grew it,-and our
farmers whose acres are impatient to
be given an opportunity to raise it,
paid both the freight and the first
cost
We followed that hay into the coun-
try and to the farm where it is now
being used. There the farmer had his
crop laid out lust as it was done thir-
ty years ago He had turned the dirt
away from his cotton stalks Of last
year and split the middle to plant his
corn. There it was, up and growing,
clean but spindling in dangerously
small patches. Not an acre of other
grain, oats, wheat or rye, had been
raised during the winter. BY main
force the farmer was tending his lit
tie crop in such a way as to make his
effort eternally losing proposition.
He will not make a clear dollar in Il
thousand years. If he is permitted to
buy much on credit at prevailing high
prices his creditor will suffer.
Let us thank our stars that this sec
ton is living ahead of his day. The
farmer who buys feed for his stock
and food for his family isn't now Civ
en- the credit of being a farmer. He
has no right to the name. He is a
piker, Il make-believe and a swindler.
Before long he will have to "Smoke
up" or The world will not give him
room for such poor effort.
Our acres are calling for the man
who will consent to be up and at it.
Their stores of hay are greater and
more easily made than any in the
west. Why throw away the money?
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27
SOY BEANS EARLY.

Mr.. A. c. Frasuer has in his gar.
den some fairly well developed soy
beans that have been grown from this
years planting. They were planted
February 27, and within two weeks
they will be made. There beans were
hardy enough to withstand the cold
better than anything in the garden.
Their development this early indi-
Gates that they can be raised in great
quantities.
The United States government has
for twelve years been trying to inter
est the frmers of this section of the
country in the growing of this type
CT bean. II has been great human
food value, to say nothing Of the ami
nal food value. This bean is slowly
finding its way into the farms of south
Georgia 1t promises to add to the
wealth of the section rapidly and sure
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27

that has ever been made in any age
Of the history of mankind. Should
France fail, should England fail to
check it, we lose. Prussian rule must
be obliterated. The task is common
one with all free governments and
free peoples.
Shall we go tagging to do our part?
Shall we complain at the price we
pay, even if it takes the last of us?
Our forefathers paid with their blood
for our free institutions. The men OF
other nations have done the same.
Free government is peoples most
priceless treasure.
Junkerism, Prussianism, militarism
be downed! May there never be
man among us to falter when duty
calls. TO arms and at them!
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27
BURY THE BIG DITCH.

The Dispatch offers the suggestion
that great service might be render
ed by the present city administration
if steps were taken for the final dis
position of the water which tUmbles
down the big ditch through the resi-
dence section at times when there is
heavy rain. 1t will take the work of a
skilled engineer possibly to do away
with the difficulties arising from this
source throughout nearly all the best
residence section of COrdele and a
final disposition of this problem
would be hailed with great delight by
almost the entire citizenship of Cor
dele
Ii is more than likely that a divis-
ion of the water at the turning point
above the city square might be work
ed out by a civil engineer and in that
event. llaI Whlch goes GOWN I1e o'o
challilel would not De Oh sul'lclehI Eoi-
ume to make it impossible to enclose
with a concrete sewer.
This great blot on an otherwise
pretty residence section of Cordele
should be disposed of. 1t would be
nothing amiss to have some man Of
experience investigate and make re
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27

w. ]. Wingate Of Meigs was in Cor
dele Thursday in the interest of his
candidacy for state game warden. He
has ben seeking the appointment for
some time and has a large number
of friends all over south-Georgia who
would be happy at his success. Mr..
Wingate is a man worthy of the place
he is asking, 1t will soon be time Tor
Goyernor-Flect Dorsey to be looking
for a man and Mr.. Wingate has a
number of good friends at work. We
wish him success.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27
brass band deferred their bu

brass band deferred their business
meeting till Monday night. At that
time they viii assemble along with
the members OF the Home Guard and
will hold their organization meeting
after the drill practice of the other
body has been started.
There IS marked interest and the
musicians are eager to set into trim
in order that they may go to drills
with the Home Guard. There are sew
eral musicians OF skill and a number
Of good instruments in the city and
there is no reason to fear for the
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27

c. d. Hartshorn; Orie Bray; A. I.
Wooten; ]. D. Pendley; George M.
Bazemore; J. NJ. Feagle; D. f. Ham
ilton; A. NJ Austin; Ernest Purcell;
J. L. Carmen; J. /. CoGeld ana sew
eral other musicians who have not
yet made definite arrangements to
work with the band, constitute the
number of which band will be made
up.
Those who are organizing inc band
desire the presence of all the musici-
ans at the meeting Monday night,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27

CHAS. Z. BROWN, Editor
]. C. BROWN City Editor
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27
MUSICIANS MEET
ON MONDAY Night
LOCAL BAND WILL BE ORGANiZ-
ED AND TRAINING WILL BE
PUSHED.

On account of the closing Of the
city schoIs on Friday night the local
musicians interested in forming a
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27

whether it is the purpose to join and
help make the band a success or not.
Those who know Of band instruments
CT good players and those who have
m interest in the success of the Or
2aniz@tion are invited to attend this
meeting.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY
WHAT WE FIGHT FOR.

VIVA WE r lG7 run
The editor of the Moultrie Observ-
er may smile when he finds us sug
costing that he read the address of
tie president to congress when war
was declared against Germany. He.
NAV have studied The topic more care
fully. There is not doubt that he is
sincere, but with high appreciation
Of his position, we most surely feel
like going for him when he asks what
We are fighting for in the war with
Germany. Apologizing for taking his
cue from the Hearst papers, the edi-
tor devotes more than a column to
the claim that we are fighting blindly,
that we do not know what we fight
for, or what we shall demand as ba-
sis of peace.
There never was a better or more
definite answer to all this than what
the president has given the people of
this country and the people of the
world as definite reason for turning
American arms toward the German
battle front.
We should be using every occasion
to give our people i'll every commune
ty, however isolated or apathetic,
firm grasp of the reasons that have
moved great nation to see that the
issues of this great struggle are vital
to our own safety,-our actual physi-
cal individual and national safety
and to the preservation of dcmOCra-
cy and the right of fire governments
throughout the earth.
And why should we be busy telling
the people our reasons for going to
the war? The answer is easy Every
man who cOmprehends is then forti-
fled in spirit to play his part in the
world struggle against autocracy.
We want to call our brother to an
enlightcning discussion of the faith
in popular government which is now
on trial for its life The American
10
that the world which is made over
by this war is one in which we must
take our place to cooperate with those
and world freed from the dangers
of wars dictated by dynastic ambition
or national policies based on philos
and its heritage of hatred is to be
pointed towards the paths of perma-
nent peace, the American people must
be ready to touch hands with all peo-
pie who see, in a sane and safe world,
a goal worth some sacrifice of nation
al selfinterest.
The Observer suggests that man
has a right to the information that
will lead him to the fullest light Then
in the kindliest spirit, may we not
suggest that it is time the editor
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-05-27

Mrs w. A. Wilkerson and little
daughter, Sudie Louise, of Jackson
vile arrived in the city Saturday af-
tern0on to visit relatives for some
days
Evening star., 1917-09-05
Thev Understand His English.

The French officer. string of decora-
tions across his breast, explained in a
spirit of comradeship that his wife was
an American. He spoke English, not
Evening star., 1917-09-05
AMERICAN SAILORS IN
PRUSSIAN PRISON CAMP

Capt. Albert Oliver of the American
tank steamer Campana and four of the
five members of the naval gun crew
who were taken prisoner when their
ship was captured and sunk August &
by German submarine. are IN a prison
camp at Brandenburg, Prussia. The
American Red Cross has been advised
to that effect by cable from Geneva.
The message made no mention of Sea-
man William Albert Miller, the other
prisoner, and an inquiry has been
cabled to Geneva to learn his fate
The four gunners held by the Ger
mans are James Delaney, chief gunner's
mate, in charge of the gun crew; Ray
Roop, boatswain's mate: Charles Lovan
Kline, gunner's mate, and Fred Stephen
Jacob, a seaman. They, with Miller
were the first American naval men to
be taken prisoner since war was de-