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LANSING
HIGHLAND
There's lust One Thing To Do.

If your skin seems ablaze with the
fiery burning and itching of Eczema.
real and lasting relief can only come
from treatment that goes below the sur
faceIthat reaches down to the very
source of the trouble. So-ca1led skin
diseases come from a .disordered con-
dition of the blood. n the proper treat
ment is through the blood.
Search far and near, and you cannot
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-15
OLD-TTME REMEDY MAKES
BLOOD PURE.
Elkhart, Ind.-"When | va q al iust

men 4 Was q kl11 JUST
coming into woman
hood | suffered greatly.
I became weak and
nervous, in fact, all
rundown ID health.
In addition to this I
had q breaking-out all
over my body. At
times it would act like
eczema and then again
it seemed that it was
E~crofula. l could not
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scum Co to Gary TT & Saw
Bank. TT. 100
EAST GARY
Lot AZ, blk 3. 1st Sub. Gary
Hobt Invest Realty Co TO
Mike Horvat & VT ---------- 225.00
HOBART
Lot Z. blk II, Hobart PIX Add.
1st State Blk. Hob TT. to Jas
j. Cauley 10000
PhlIanthropic Strangers.
Another pathetic little feature OF
everyday life is the number of excep-
tional opportunities to make money
very rapidly that come TO q man by
mail from perfect strangers.-Colum-
bus (Ohio) State Journal.
Enlist In The Woman's Army
BY Conserving Foods.
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scum Co to Gary TT & Saw
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TOLLESTON
Lots SO, "a. blk 3. Central PIX.
Add. Harrison ] Stewart &
VT to Carl Benson & VT
Lot So. blk 4, Cos 4th Add. Vron
Lovingly (unmar) to George
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TROUBLES OF THE OYSTER

try in the world. and its people eat
more oysters than any other. While
the tabulated output of oysters for the
whole world is about 30.0o0.O00 bushels
a year, the United States produces
considerably more than 25,Ooo,ooo
bushels The great oyster states are
Virginia, New York, New Jersey.
Connecticut. Maryland. Rhode Island.
North Carolina. Louisiana and Cali
ply of oysters. principally from beds IN
the Gulf of 'St. Lawrence and along
the coast of British Columbia.
After the United States. the greatest
oyster-producing country is France,
and there oyster culture is carried on
with a nearer approach to perfection
than elsewhere in the world.
Great Britain and ireland. Holland
and Italy are somewhat important pro-
ducers of oysters I'm Europe. oysters
do not thrive in the Baltic sea. 1t being
enough, for oysters generally demand
that the water contain at least per
cent of salt.
The oyster grounds of England. usu-
ally beds under culture. are in the
Thames estuary and off Whitstable
Colchester and Brightlingsea- The main
places in the oyster fisheries and trade
in Ireland are Wicklow. Queenstown.
Galway, Neville and Ballyheige. Oys-
tertng in Scotland is a small industry,
and the principal points of the trade
are Inveraray and Ballantrae. The
principal centers OF the French oyster
Industry are Arcachon and Brittany.
In Holland oystering is carried on prin-
cipally in the estuary of the Scheldt,
and there Is also an oyster-bear1ng ter
ritory known as the SchlesSvig- Holstein
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is HINlDENBURG DOOMED
BY GERMANS THEMSELVES?

that in thus perforating effigies of the
renowned field marshal the Germans
have done the ''unluckiest' thing pos
sible, so far as their hero is concerned.
Mr. Lovett is q. prominent member of
the British Folklore Society, a lecturer
superstitiouS beliefs and an indefatiS-
able collector OF charms" and amulets,
some of which he recently exhibited.
If there is anybody in England spe-
cially qualified to discuss a "portent,"
1t is undoubtedly he.
'.,rhe belief that driving sharp objects
into figure representing an individual
worked injury to the original" said Mr..
Lovett, was a worldwide one in print
tive times and is held In many parts of
Europe today. In the old days If one had
an enemy one went to man-wtch Gor
it Is a delusion that all witches were
women) and bought from him II figure
modelled in wax representing the person
upon whom it was desired to be avenged.
The injured person was then instructed
to stick pins or other sharp instruments
into the wax figure, the belief being that
disease would be bred in the correspond
ing parts of the body Of the original.
when this had been done the wizard
generally contrived that it should be-
come known to the person upon whom a
spell was being worked that it was in
progress. and this generally preyed on
his mind to such an extent that he
pinned and died. which was the end aimed
at. The folklore In regard to this prac-
in disregarding it. have overreached
themselves. Anything more fatal, &C
cording to all traditions, than driving
sharp objects into models Of an individual
It is impossible to conceive. and. though
l am not generally given to superstition
suit Of just this thing-Hindenburg will
come to violent end
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telligence to broaden its field.
The Naval War College now reports
to operations. This is where officers
of the higher grade go from the fleet
to work out together problems of a
practical nature to At themselves for
the higher grades in the service.
1t has inspected, through Capt. Nc
Kean, the material condition of the
navy and it's resources in mercantile
ships, manufactures and transportation
Of supplies of every nature.
1t may seem that very little has been
said Of war plans. but this is because
most persons do not understand what
a war plan is. First. it is not the study
of a military situation and the move
ments of vessels, like so many chess
men on a board, up and down until by
a masterful combination the strategist
may cry "checkmate."
A war plan is much more radical and
extensive. 1t contemplates a situation
which may arise in case of hostilfties
with some other nation. 1t considers
that country's resources, its objective
and probable field of action.
The plan must provide for the defeat
of the enemy, and, therefore. involves
long and thorough preparation. 1t
must provide for the mobilization of a
naval force sufficiently strong to i'm
pose this nations will upon the enemy's
fleet. The plan must include. in a gen.
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the ships. their equipment and supplies,
and then Capt. Chase must operate
them-both, of course, under the direc-
ton of the chief.
Admiral Benson's work was SO sue
cessful and had SO fully demonstrated
the necessity of the office that Con-
gress in 1916 enacted that the chief
of operations should have authority
to issue orders within his juris-
diction in the name of the Secretary;
that the chief while holding that
office should have the rank of ad-
miral, and, to insure permanency, that
not less than fifteen officers should be
assigned to duty under him.
While the creation and development
of the office in a comprehensive way is
the great achievement, mention of a
few of the things actually accom-
pIished throws broader light upon his
undertaking.
The executive branch of the office
took direction of a number of loose
end offices, such as the movements Of
vessels, the reorganization of aeronau-
tics, postponing the purchase of many
machines until it had a satisfactory
type, meantime training a corps of fly
ers and mechanicians. 1t oversees the
office of target practice, and while the
feet does the firing operations is sup
porting it. 1t has strengthened the
naval militia and aided in securing ap-
preparations that will enable naval in
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territorialIy in control of what is now
the Rumanian section of the river.
Russia, a quarter of a century later,
by placing herself In possession of the
territory at the mouths, injected a new
element. Theoretically. Russia recog-
nized the freedom of navigation. but
she regulated 1t to the marked disad-
vantage of English commerce by VeX-
atious quarantine regulations.
The treaty of Paris following the
Crimean war. in which Russia was
worsted, decreed that the principles of
the congress of Cienna should govern
the navigation of the Danube. These
principles recognized common property
in a river flowing along or between two
states over which. it is assumed, no
one state had a right to exercise au-
thority to the exclusion of the other.
They provided theoretically for free
commerce and the exercise of police
powers by the riparian states. so that
no toll should be levied solely on the
navigation of the river and no duties
be collected on goods in transit.
Austria's national policy made 1t to
her benefit to restrict free navigation
to riparian states, and to prevent other
nations, such as England, from trading
between river ports. England. of
course, objected to this plan; so did
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What the French Workmgmn@m Think of Plans for Peace

gress. Both he and Hillquit have de-
clared in favor of the status quo, SO
that the kaiser would retain power
over Alsace-Lorraine. the Austrian
over the Trentino and Prussia over
Poland, on the ground that a German
victory would be no worse than
German defeat. that 1t does not matter
to workingmen which country wins.
Il seem to have heard that before.
1 said.
'Hillquit definitely Endorsed these
views on June %. 1915, and the Ger
man socialist majority in America
issued a peace manifesto in which
they demanded the territorial integrity
of Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Turkey. making no exceptions for ma
tionalities which do not wish to remain
real American-born socialists in Amer
lea are pro-ally. Their best known
leaders are against Germany They in
clude Eugene " Debs and Allan Ben
son, their two presidential candidates.
A. NJ. Simons and Max Eastman. their
two best known editors. and Charles
Edward Russell. Upton Sinclair. w j.
Client and the late Jack London, their
best known writers. or twenty lead
ing socialists of American descent, not
one has failed to take his stand against
Germany"
Yet Germans taught other nations to
sing the Tnternationale." ] said.
Yes, and they sang Deutschland
ueber allies at home" he concluded.
The original idea of internationalism
as preached before 1S4S. was the union
of entire nations That of Karl Marx
was the international union of work.
ingmen for the carrying out of class war
against the people of their own coun-
try That idea-'You have only your
chains to lose, and we'll help you!-is
specious. Workingmen have a great
deal to lose If they lose their nation
ality. Ask the Alsace-Lorrains."
Again the benignant smile. like
blessing.
Let US hope" he said. that the work.
ing classes, taught by the bitter ex-
periences of this war. will go back to
the more generous ideas of such lead
ers as Robert owen, Fourier ana
Saint-Simon, who wanted to unite the
world in a strong bond of sympathy
and good will between all classes and
all nations" STERLING HELLO.
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annexing power, if it feels uneasy. al
ways insists on a plebiscite, and the
populations vote for the bayonets. Sup
pose the Germans remain in occupa-
ton of Alsace-Lorraine when such a
vote is taken. who would dare vote to
return the French? Whereas. if France
be there in occupation, the vast ma =
jority Of votes will surely be for
France"
and French workingmen are solid
for the return of Alsace -Lorrainee
asked.
Eyes, except that the pacifists would
ed plebiscite. because the French be-
lieve that they would win on the
plebiscite. All France is convinced alb
solutely, that it is entitled to resume
Alsace-Lorraine, but the pacifist senti-
ment, more or less inspired by Ger
many, attempts, even in the case OF
Alsace-Lorraine, to apply the princi-
pie of consulting populations. They
forget that 100000 Alsatians have been
prosecuted out of the land since 1871
grants. 1t would be like asking thief
If he wants to keep the stolen prop
erty. One thing which the pacihsts
don't seem to realize is that if a French
did not restore Alsace-Lorraine to
France there might be a revolution in
twenty-four hours. OF this I feel the
more convinced because 1 was witness.
on March Is, 1871, at MontHiarttS' VI
the outbreak of the commune. There
was no plot, no desire to make an in
surrection. If, today, a surrender
should be made which equally excites
the Indignation of French soldiers. the
positions would be analogous, in my
opinion"
why is France to take back Alsace-
Lorraine?" / asked.
Because 1t was taken away from
France by brute force in 1871. and so
it can be taken back by brute force
now. There was no plebiscite in 1871.
American socialists seem to be for
the status quo" 1 said.
Tut, tut. we must distinguish he
answered. "Victor Berger. born at
Nieder Rebbuch, Austria. was the first
American elected as a socialist to Con-
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R1HE oyster has no easy time In
reaching maturity and in arriv-
q ing at that age and size at which
men will esteem it as worth eating
They are liable to starve if the water
in which they live is not rich enough
in the peculiar food on which the oys-
ter nourishes himself, and in addition
to famine 1t has some active and vicious
enemies. One of these is the drum hsh
and another is the star fish, A drum
fish will grind an oyster into fragments
and star fish. by its arms and suckers,
will open the oyster and then by turn.
ing its own stomach inside out Will
absorb 1t. .
Then there is little marine snail
which drills a hole in the shell OF an
oyster, inserts its snout and extracts
the meat. There is also. in some waters.
will kill an oyster. and there are other
important enemies which are called in
some parts of the world dog-whelk and
whelk- tingle which bore through the
shell of an oyster.
But before the oyster takes on his
familiar form it has to run many risks
The embryos or ''spats." having left the
parent oyster. swim upon or close to the
of other larval and adult creatures found
there.
1t is said that the oyster larvae are
only about one one hundred-and-fi
of an inch long. They are glassy-trans-
parent, with one or two dark brown
spots In this stage they are food for
many fish and things that live in water.
When they sink to the bottom they will
fix themselves to shells or stones or
other hard objects If they can find them.
and they soon become little white discs
about one.twentieth of an inch in di-
ameter. They have then become little
oysters, and some of the highest au-
thorities on the oyster say that for
about three years under favorable con-
ditions they will increase in diameter
about one inch year. After that the
rate of growth Is much slower. or per-
haps it may not gain in size at all. 1t
has been said that an oyster which has
attained the age of twenty years is
very rare. but that oysters of seven
and ten years of age are common.
The oyster feeds on small particles
that are suspended in the water. and
among these are minute plants called
diatoms. They are of great beauty I'M
with transparent shells of quartz These
and other kinds of food drop to the bot
tom OF the water in a kind of gentle
drizzle, and the water containing them
pours into the open shell of the oyster
and is filtered through the gills. It has
been estimated that full grown oyster,
in order to get enough food to live on,
filters between twenty-five and thirty
five quarts of water a day and builds
up it's body by the use Of microscopic
food.
found all over the world. in the waters
of the tropic and temperate zones. and
there are about seventy species that
have been identified. The United States
ia the -GreatAst oyster, xo4Nctn8zc oun-
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est RANKING Officer Of United States Navy

eral way. a forecast of the field of
action and the establishment of an ad-
vanced base ready TO support that fleet
In executing such a plan all the bu-
reaus of the department, all their divi-
sions, all the material resources of the
nation naval reserves, yachts, power
boats. provision houses, supply houses.
munition makers, taxpayers. bank ing
houses. inventors, laborers-all people
are involved.
What plans have been formed by the
three planning bodies-the War COL
lege, the general board and the Office
of operations in contunction-they will
not discuss: but it is safe to say that
1t includes the perfection of mobili
cation scheme. to accomplish which is
the most important aim and object OF
the Office, viz. to bring together a suffi-
cient number of ships. of such design
and of such types as are required TO
give the utmost offensive power. with
all the members ready for action. The
fleet must be properly supplied with
stores and munitions and fully manned
with men and officers. with sufficient
reserves and approved bases for opera
tions; so that it's force is superior to
any enemy. The rest of the problem
requires resolution and professional
skill, but it is comparatively easy
One of Admiral Benson's recent duties
has been to tell the House naval COM
to any one who. to borrow a nautical
phrase, knows the ropes. it IS apparent
that its action was largely based on
the recommendations of the non-spec-
tacular chief of naval operations
that unassumng officer who believes
that Congress will provide what the
navy needs. when it is made plain that
the navy needs it.
He and brother officers have made
plain that the fleet needs balancing by
adding battle cruisers, scouts. destroy
ers and subsidiary craft: that the
navy needs docks. yards. storehouses,
advanced naval bases, reserves or ann
munition, of men and officers. Con-
gress, at its last session. endeaNored TO
make up past omissions. and author
lied large additions of vessels and men.
1t is now trying to supply more OF the
omissions of the past ten years; put
the realization is brought home that
a navy cannot be thought out in day
or built in a decade.
All the omissions of the past have
not been supplied, and a mobilization OF
the feet would be unsatisfactory. naval
authorities say. No one knows that as
certainly as the chief of operations
but it is better than it was. and he is
straining in the old way every enort
that lies in him to make good; he still
keeps up that Utah spirit.
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Special Correspondence
LONDON. January Fl. 1871
"IELD MARSHAL Won HINDEN-
In BURG. the idol of all Germany. Is
- doomed. Doomed to violent and
tragic end, and this, all unconsciously,
by the Germans themselves, who wor-
ship him as their predestined deliverer,
little imagining him to be, in reality.
their predestined victim
How can this be? Well. 1t appears
that, in this instance. the Germans have
been misled For months upon months.
as everybody knows. the Germans have
been driving nails into wooden statues
of Won Hindenburg, which exist all
over Germany. Patriotic Teutons pay
so much for the privilege of driving
SO many nails. and thus money IS raised
for the German Red Cross.
There are gold and silver nails for
plutocrats to drive. Gar Ferdinand
in Berlin. drove in golden nails repre-
senting contribution of $500, and
many of these wooden efiigies OF Ger
many'S silent strong man are studded
with nailheads over every square inch
of their timber anatomies. The biggest
of them all, called "The Iron linden
burg" stands in front of the reichstag
building in the Konigs-Platz, Berlin.
and has been mailed" by practically
every one Of Importance in the capital.
Also by practically everybody of unim-
portance, since the mailing business has
been most carefully organized. Even
school children are taken to the statue
on holiday afternoons to drive nails
into Hindenburg. From the provinces.
mailing excursions" are run to Berlin.
On Sundays a military band plays in
front of the effigy to attract crowds.
and money, and at night a powerful
searchlight is directed on 1t.
The idea Of thus utilizing eh1gies of
the Prussian field marshal is q not I'M
ingenious one, but unhappily. from the
German standpoint, 1t spells disaster
for Hindenburg himself. So. at least,
asserts one of the most eminent Brit
ish authorities on folklore and super
-stitiona.- EdNaEd Loyettt who exnlaipa
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Rumania, but her voice was not heard.
Russia, at the time of the Franco
Prussian war, upset the Paris treaty
so far as it related to restricting her
rights in the Black sea, and the Dan
ube was involved in her action. The
treaty of Berlin. in 1873, which took
from Russia much of the fruits of her
victory over Turkey, provided that the
forts from the Iron Gates to the
mouth of the Danube should be RACED.
and this was done, but this treaty did
not greatly improve the situation as
to commerce and the commercial rights
of countries not contiguous to the river.
A few years after the treaty Of Ber-
lin went into effect no less than eight
systems of regulation were in force on
different sections of the river. Some
of these were the regulation of the gem
eral European commission and others
were those of the riparian states. I'm
der these conflicting regulations trade
was not SO free after all, but they were
gradually modified so that when the
great war broke out they We're not so
vexatious.
In the final peace settlement the free
commerce of the Danube undoubtedly
will be provided for and without the
local restrictions which have been so
vexatious in the past.
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70 9th the death of Admiral
MAN. George Dewey many are
WV asking who will succeed him.
His rank expired with him.
0nd there will be no successor unless
Congress sees fit to SO legislate.
But the chief of naval operations.
while holding that Office, is the ranking
admiral in the navy. The incumbent Is
William Shepherd Benson. born in 1855.
IN Georgia
For two years before entering the
Naval Academy he lived in the country,
where he had no opportunity to attend
school. and although he made the en-
trance examination. his lack of prep
aration was a handicap. He never gave
up. but kept on plugging" and gradu-
ated, although far down In the class
OF rs.
He had no influential friends to boost
him. and his present high position Is
the result of no spectacular perform
ance, but came from hard work and
fixed habit of making good in every po-
sition assigned to him. and saying moth
ing about it.
n DrOtner O1nCer ana Shipmdte said OF
him:
What ever ship he served was sure
TO be a happy and efficient ship. Not,
however. until he took command of the
superdreadnaught Utah did he find his
real element, where the force of his
personality could make itself felt. 1t
was there that he initiated and created
the Utah spirit, famous throughout the
battle fleet and now famous throughout
the navy, because he brought the Utah
spirit to the Navy Department with
him. Before he had been here long,
people began to find out that the Utah
spirit was the Benson spirit, best ex-
emplified in the ancient phrase: Mine
the labor, thine the praise
Those who know him best are we'll
aware that over and beyond all is
profound and consistent piety which
shows itself not in words. but in his
acts and character. so that, with his
great responsibilities and his far-reach-
ing military authority, the one idea that
shines out above everything else is his
never-ending charity and devotion to
duty.
No matter what his personal feel
ing for me might be. there is no officer
in the navy whom 1 would fear more If
I we're on trial for an offense of which
/ was guilty; for nothing would make