The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-07-11

There is a dirty carnival going
full blast in West Hammond this
week and West Hammond's war
board is blind, deaf and dumb.
Gambling, depravity and shock
ing indecency seen by young boys
and girls of tender years are fea-
tured at the Barkoot carnival
whose press agent denied to THE
TIMES that such conditions ex-
listed.
GREAT CD THINGS THERE.
A little girl, her hair in a Mary
Jane ribbon. came skipping down
the sidewalk. singing shrilly.
"Hootchy-Kootchy Don't .....
...... .......," and the re-
porter as he passed felt assured he
was nearing the carnival on Went
worth avenue in West Hammond
which has provoked storms of IN
dignation in two cities.
Throngs, consisting Of many nice
Hammond boys and girls, whose moth
ers don't know where they are. surEed
within the long horseshoe Of booths
and tents and the scene was bright
with lights and color while the music
of band and the cries Of barkers on
the ballyhoo stands with suggestive
calls stimulated the senses. The X.
G. Barkroot. Worlds Greatest shows"
appeared to the new arrival to he
bigger and better" than the average
carnival and an ordinary proletarian
amusement.
THE MONEY ROLLS IN
The complete circuit Of the enclosure
revealed the show to consist or rer-
ry-go-round. a ferris wheel a jerky
ride called. The Whip" twenty gamb-
ling games and ten attractions in
Guiding Hula Hula Wild West and Ori-
entail dancers And every place was
doing capacity business.
Crowds swarming in good -naturedly
over the rough ground were composed
largely of young men with a consider
able portion Of giggling girls.
TREAT WAR As JOKE.
That the nations destiny hung in
the balance. that $500 Hammond and
West Hammond boys were marching
face to face with death, and that sac
rihce was the clarion call Of the hour
were thoughts foreign TO the environ
u,ent The War-SavinEs drive lagged
both in Hammond and West Hammond.
but this multitude vas devotius its en-
ergy and money TO the pleasures of
peace in time Of war. But. the reporter
soliloquized. the war workers must
have recreation. And so he investi-
gated.
UPSIDE DOWN DANCE.
The Hula Hula dance to which won
en- were admitted was only cheap and
vulgar and the '"U. S. A Girls the
same. The latter was just slander
on the L. s 4. and girls both The
Society Circus. The Alligator Girl The
Diving Girl. the wrestlers and others
OF the kind amounted to nothing more
than minimum of amusement for q
rnaxinlu Of expenditure. But the vice
Of the thing started where the six
Oriental Girls" danced for males only.
The coarseness and vulgarity Of the
exhibition can not be descvi bed. The
affect on the adolescent-and boys
crowded the tent-can only be mag
ined.
APPEALED TO SALaCIOUs.
Only the piece-de-resistance offered
more for the salacious. BY paving
fifteen cents and war tax male patrons
were given permission to climb steep
tight Of stairs and crowd about a rail-
ing to look down upon The Upside
Down Girl Who Dances on the Wall"
BY an arrangement Of mirrors the wo-
man. life-size, appeared to be stand
ing perpendicular on the wall She
was dressed in red tights. At first
the thing was silly. the woman taking
postures announced to the Morning"
September Morn. @Nfaidens Prayer
etc but finally she danced.
Yet West Hammond permits IL 1t