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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31
rUNIrEp Press CABLEGRAM

I MILD i
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN
LORRAINE, Nay 3l.-An American
raid in force penetrated tha German
third Lines northwest Of Toul this morn
ing.
Following terrific boxahardment the
Yankees crowded No Mans Land be-
hind q perfect barrage and swept over
tho enemy trenches. The Huns who
had survived the artillery IRE fled be-
fore them
The American explored German posts
lions at their leisure without any
opposition and returned TO their Lines.
our losses were extremely light.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31
U. S. TO GO ON
COAL RATIONS

WASHINGTON. May s1-with the
country facing another coal shortage.
prospectively as serious as that OF last
winter. Fuel Administrator Garfield is
about to put in effect a consumption
restriction program for the conserva-
ton OF fuel to governmental agencies
and industries essential to the conduct
of the war.
A preference list Is to be established
under which bituminous coal will be
distributed to consumers in the fol-
lowing order of priority:
l. Railroads
2. Army and navy.
3. State and county institutions.
4. Public utilities.
3. Retail dealers.
6. Merchandising plants on the pre-
ferred list.
T. Manufacturing plants not on the
preferred list.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31
WHERE IS
PLANT To
BE: BUILT
Chicago Has News That New
Ten-Way Ship Building Plant
Is To Be Built In This
Region Very Soon.

Much curiosity IS evinced in the Cal
umet Region this morning concerning
story in one OF the Chicago newspapers
this morning which says;
Chicago Is to have a new ten way
shipbuilding plant if the government
can use II. Announcement of the com
plete plans. which are 70 be taken %
washington IN few days, will be maze
in several days. says F. z. Sullivan
secretary of the Cooperative League OF
Building Trades and Industries
IN Calumet Region.
..The site has been selected in the
Calumet region" Mr.. Sullivan said
The building plans have been hnlshed
and the financial arrangements Tor the
new company are made.
There are still some details to work
out in the way Of organization mat
ters. They will be finished in day or
two. The men at the head Of the new
enterprfse have selected site which
will permit the launching OF ships end
wise. and their plans are TO build steer
boats of 6 6,4oo dead weight tons In two
parts such as contracts recently nave
been let at other shipyards on the great
lakes"
The new shipbuuding organization
will not geek any government contracts
until they can show the Washington
authorities that they have every facA-
ity for carrying out sh!pbuildins con-
struction. This will include finances.
materials and even complete laooF
organization OF real shipbuilders
Even the names OF an experienced
sunerintendent and construction fore
man are 10 form part OF the argument
which will be presented to the shipping
board by the Chicagoans when they
ask for contracts.
An Old Plea.
Several months ago when IL was sus-
xe.ted that steel boats could be con-
structed at Chicago yards in two parts
with permanent bulkheads and riveted
together after being taken through the
welland Canal. IL was stated that this
style OF construction was not feasible.
Recently, however the shipping board
has let q number Of contracts for boats
to be built on the lakes in this way.
According to marine engineers. steel
boats OF this type can be built in Chi
cago more cheaply than any other place
In the country.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31
ATROC|OUS
EXAMPLE
Of LYING
Allies Respect Agreement But
Barbarian Germans FOuIIy
Break TrOih

LIMITED PRESS CABLEcRAM1
FAH1S' May 31.-Eigkteen were kill
ed AID wounded in Thursdays long
range bo-nbardment Of Paris, it was an
noanced today. The bo1nbardnent took
place on the day the British agreed not
20 conduct raids on cities outside the
war zone.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31
rRv INrrEn PRFss.l

NEW YORK, May 31.-ConHtons
of the steel industry at present and the
outlook for the future are good, declared
Judge Gary, today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31

UNITED TNEsS NAHLEFRAM.
PARIS, May 51-The Germans by an
attack on the Ailette river region have
definitely consolidated the Asne and
Picardy battle fronts, according to the
French war office announcement today.
(seen1ngly this Is an effort to drive
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31
BULLETIN ]

[CNITED PRESS CABLEGRAM1
RAnSSGATE, ENGLAND, May 5I.-
Heavy gunfre was heard in the direc-
tion of the Belgian coast for FIVE hours
last night. There were also terrific ex-
plosions and a great flare, accompany
ing each other.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31
S('HALL.E:R
DEAD IN
HUN. FORT
News Seeps Out of Captured
French City that Matthew
Schaller of Dyer Is Dead.

News seldom seeps out Of French
territory held by the Huns. but this
much has come out OF Lille. held by
the Germans these many months:
Michael schaller. a Lake county
farmer, is dead at Lille. He died
presumably OF disease. 1t may have
been brought on by starvation, as
German kulture takes no heed OF
humanity.
Schaller was on a visit at Lille. where
his son-in-law was manager of the local
factory Of the international Harvester
company. When the Germans approach
ed the town the family, with others.
fed the city
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31

(Ramsgate is situa1ed just south of
the Thames river. 81 miles east of Lon
don. 1t is about 30 miles from Rams
gate across the English to Callais.)
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31
ALLIES BELIEVE
WORST IS OVER

UNITED PRESS CABLEGRAm1
LONDON, May 31.-Thanks to
the stubborn resistance offered by
the allies in defending every inch
OF ground and the maintenance OF
the closest coordination between
the French and British, the Ger
man thrust towards Paris in the
scissors and Rheims sector has
undoubtedly been checked, even if
not definitely stopped.
The allies are falling back slowly ana
In orderly fashion and their reserves
are increasing the support at critical
points. Developments of the past
twenty-four hours have brilliantly
demonstrated the value of the idea OF
a supreme commander
The British press and public were
more optimistic today then at any time
since Monday. There is not the sli<ht
est criticism Of the French retirement.
The overwhelming numerical superiori.
" of the enemy forces Is fully appre-
ciated- Likewise General Foch's re-
fusal to be stampeded into withdrawing
the bulk of his reserves from the north
ern front is approved. The forcing Of
such move was one German hope re-
garding the present offensive.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31
Born Near Dyer.

But the Dyer farmer said:
Il have no fear of the Germans.
will stay and mind the house and the
furniture"
For months no word came OF the
father. Finally TO his daughter-weeks
afterward-eame news that he had died
on December 10.
The death news reached Dyer this
week Mr.. Schaller was born a short
distance from Dyer and farmed in vari-
Gus parts of Lake county. more recently
in the Ridge road district south of Ham
mond. His daughter was we'd TO a
young Frenchman, who wooed her while
working at the Chicago Heights factory
OF the Harvester trust Later they sent
the young man to France TO be manager
at Lille and Mr.. Schaller was on a visit
there when death overlook him.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31

Buy Thrift Stamp and lick the
Hun
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31

smiling broadly he reads prisoners letter
Hun kultur gives queer of hunor among other
things This picture prince reading letter
from French officer captured officer
letter wife ready give postof-
flee when called help the German advance kaiser
getting big laugh out of it.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31

To DEAD Of
THREE WARS
Hammond Pays Tribute to
Those Who Have Paid the
Highest Devotion for the
Flag and Liberty.

For the first time in six years. the
Hammond Country club which has
always had an alI-day program of
golf and bridge and a dinner dance
on Decora ton day. gave up the
days program and holiday and was
silent in honor of the fifteen stars
on its service flag.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-31

CONTINUED on page six.)
Evening journal., 1918-03-05
An IDLE DAY CAN NEVER aE nEcATNED.

THE Food Administration has set aside this week.
March to Inclusive for farmers to put their imple-
ments In fighting trim 10 win the seasons campaign
AGAINST world hunger This is TO be known National
Implement and Repair Week. so designated by Hoover
edct being the custom nowadays to set aside certain
days and weeks and months 10 worship at the feet Of
autocracy, much 70 In medieval times This order
in consistory recalls demonstration Of Senator Sher
man, of Illinois, when he condemned the Garfield fuel
edct over which the Food Administration would do well
10 chew the bitter cud Of reflection. Here il is
u that the Fuel Administrator does not know
that thousands Of tons OF soft coal piled up the
yards and 10 the furnaces Of the great
ufacturng districts Of the Northern Mississippi Valley
81 that ne does not realize that between
and the first Of May $4,000 planters and 10000
reapers must be completed and ready for the and
small grain belt Of the United States, and that scarcely
half Of them made today
81 repeat what said here some months ago. That 50
per cent Of all the agricultural implements Of the world
are made within radius Of POO miles, drawn from Chi
cago center. majority OF all the output Of agri-
cultural implements only Of the United States but Of
the world made in the Rock Island Moline and ad-
iacent country They have enough soft coal to for
time in their factories. They win be instantly
parayzed by this order tomorrow, and at midnight to-
night their shifts Of hands must operation their
furnaces must die, and their factories close
"That is the effect Of this order and by June 1.
earlier in the southern parts Of the wheatproduong
country, these binders will be needed Harvesting begins
in May in the southern part Of the United States and the
harvesting belt moves norhWard, and these supplies
must be delivered In due In order TO supply the
demands Of those who require them. That cannot be
done these agricultural implements cannot be completed
II there is even a nve-day delay.
This the crippling Of allies in Europe.
It means The shortage Of our food II means the dis
oouragement Of the farmer both for and FOR the
bread producing grains Of the country. Il the
blockage Of the manufacturer There never more
nagrant instance Of the lack Of knowledge Of TO
whom great governmental power has been delegated by
Congress than the Issuance this proclamation by the
Fuel Administrator.
The effects Of that Garfield edct have been far-reach-
ng and the present hals them not for to quote again
the Senator from illinois, Mr. sherman. "a day lost in
ldleness never be reganed."
Evening journal., 1918-03-05
RED STAR RELIEF WORK.

n LTHOUGH The United States and the European
n tries have generally credited with the greatest
appreciation Of The services OF the horse in warfare, it
remained The Orient to show the way actual recog
milton Of his work in battle.
For centuries the far eastern countries have showered
the horse with honors and in the olden days statues
Of horses were as common as those Of Modern his
tory shows that at The conclusion OF tho Chino
japanese war. a monument consecrated with much
ceremony Toxic to the memory Of The horses lost in
the war The monument cost $4,000 AT the end Of
the Russo-Japanese war; the Japanese held funeral
service IN Myagi for the horses killed in the battles with
the Russians
Il remained for the western countries. however, 70
realize the fun value Of the horse and take practical
steps toward his and conservation. When the
present declared the British veterinary corps
found to be unable TO handle the huge numbers Of
animals which turned to It's Immediately
the British Royal Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
Animals hurried TO rs aid and since that time has cf
fected invaluable assistance 70 the English forces.
The American Red Star Animal Relief formed in
1916 to give the aid to Government In Of
war. When entered the conflict. the organization
Immediately became active and has done the Govern
ment much service by providing supplies, bandages and
similar articles. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is in
Franco representative Of the Red Star and viii offer
two large veterinary ambulances costing $1,000 to Cen
eral Pershpg the gt OF the American people through
the Red star Tho headquarters OF the organization is
In Albony. n. Y.
Evening journal., 1918-03-05
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1918.
our SCHOOLS AND the CITY REyENUE.

HE EMBERS Of City Council have expressed desire to
AVA give 70 the public schools in city the largest
possible measure Of financial support.
Members Of the Board OF Education have expressed
earnest desire that such a course shall be pursued
The people Of community are insistent that the
educational interests Of the thousands Of boys and girls
OF school-going age shall be conserved.
Therefore, the three prime elements in the situation
are IN complete accord.
It Is not matter OF whether the schools should have
liberal money allowance under The next budget It is
merely a matter Of how much can be allowed to them
from the city revenue IN hand and within sight
No city department gets all the money t asks. no
city department gets all the money it needs Such things
out Of the question under taS-rate system which
is based the principle Of satisfying the taxpayers
rather than the principle OF supplying the general
and the departmental needs Of our city.
Therefore. Board Of Education should so to the
Finance Committee Of City Council, and have said
before lay It's cards face-up the table, keeping moth
Ing up Its sleeve. And then, by the same token the
Finance Committee Of City Council should lay IT'S cards
on the table and say:
"Gentlemen-Wo shall have much money TO spend
for everything. II VIII be enough 20 distribute and
supply the fun needs OF any department Each depart
ment must be denied something Some OF them must be
denied many things. What we want to know from you
not how much you want and how much you can spend
you get IT, but how little you can get along with
without lmpairng the practical efficiency Of our school
system"
And then the Board OF Education should set forth,
categorcally and clearly, just what is absolutely
sary for Il to have in the way Of money and exactly
what purposes doing with IT,
With those things done, and with sensible and sym
pathetic regard being had for the imperative needs
The other departments great difficulty should be ex-
porienced in reaching agreement
Evening journal., 1918-03-05
JERSEY lawmakers
SEE soldiers Work
Camp Dix Gives Realistic
Demonstration OF Attack
on Foe
SHELLS SCREAM
OVER THE CAMP

CAMP DIX, Wrightstown, n. j.. March
5.-Governor Edge and New Jersey leg
lslators know what shell-pitted battle
field looks like. They saw one created
yesterday afternoon. The Governor had
just told 5000 Jersey boys that the State
had no fear of the reports that would
come back when they got over there s."
and the demonstrations with the Stokes
trench mortars that followed were by
way Of reply in showing how they are
prepared TO go after The worlds enc
mics when the call comes for overseas
duty.
Two-score shells dropped on sloplng
field in mo Mans Land" at the foot
of the fertilization system on Marne
Hill gave the official visitors and 1000
other spectators an idea Of the terrific
power Of modern explosives. The shells
were fired from two mOrtars in trench
pits on an opposite hill, English and
American officers manning the guns un-
der direction of Lieutenant Colonel g..
Il. White, senior instructor in the di-
vision schools Of arms. So rapidly were
the bombs launched that there were a
dozen Of them In the air at once Gov
ernor Edge and the visiting Assembly
men easily followed their course as they
scared a thousand feet or more in the
air, took a graceful curve and fell with
IN the area used as a target. each shell
as it struck tearing a great hole in the
earth and sending dirt and smoke high
into the air, while the ear-spltting din
shook the neighboring barracks. A bat
talon Of infantry In the area in which
the shells struck would have been liter
ally torn TO pieces
The "Nev jersey Day" celebration
opened with O review of the i5ith IN
fantry Brigade by Governor Edge and
Major General Scott. Included in the
brigade were 5000 rockies in camp
only a week. many of them not yet In
uniform; but they marched in column
formation and maneuvered on the field
in a manner that brought frequent app
plause from the spectators and praise
from the Trenton visitors
And they call boxing rough stuff
said Assemblyman Hurley father of
New Jerseys new boxing law, wher
later the Assemblymen saw two line.
Of soldiers, padded and masked. chars
each other at full speed each man
seeking with his wooden gun, TO land
fatal bayonet thrust on his opponent
The lighting lines met with ana impact
Evening journal., 1918-03-05
HE HAVOC OF HESITATION.

THE great weakness Of the administration has been
I IN ts lack Of foresight
AS as the broke out in Europe many OF the
leading Of the country the need preparedness
and urged IT, but met active opposition
Even after the Lusitania was SUNK the administration
could not see the need Of immediate preparation.
After Congress made appropriations for arms it took
The War Department months to decide what kind Of
rife TO make and the factories were correspondngly
idle.
When the soldiers called TO the camps and cam
tonments there was inadequate supply Of wool
clothing. oyercoas and blankets There was absolutely
for shortage Of that kind for every man had
warm clothing at home Every should have been
Instructed TO bring with him warm Undertaking socks
sweater and heavy overooat If he had one There was
not man but could have supplied himself from the
local stores Every should have been instructed TO
supply himself with we-ntting shoes For all Of these
the Government could have reimbursed the men.
It is true that the soldiers would have presented an
unmtary appearance training in black, brown or blue
overcoats, but they would have no more udcrous
appearance than they did drilling with broomstcks
instead Of rifles
The Department should have foreseen the scarcity Of
clothing and the limiting Of shoes and should
have instructed the 10 bring supplies in sufficient
quantity to make up the deficiency.
Evening journal., 1918-03-05
With The PaTagrsphers

The trailing arbutus boldly thrusts its petals through
crannes in the leaves The peep frog sends up note OF
victory winters Ice and with 10 a the soft
and quantity tred music OF the blue brd-the
bluebrd most beautiful Of all the feathery family with
the mellow sheen Of its radiant wings defyng the very
grandeur Of the heavens aboye-Charloue q. c. OBJ
server.
Democracy, however much it may be forced 10 adopt
auocratc methods in a OF defense against devol-
opod and trained auocracy is not going 10 have own
spirit extngushed If 10 prevails I'm the conflict u IS moi
going to give up freedom in thinking in speaking i'm writ
ing or in acting within the limits Of law enacted for the
common afety"-New York Journal Of Commerce
GEMS OF THOUGHT
NV foot on my native heath and my name is Mac
Grsgor.-Scott
:-@-.-:
Others NAV give their lives for their country but
ship carpenter-must have more pay-New York World
sunlcient to have stood though free 70 fsn-Nnlton
Evening journal., 1918-03-05

that frequently hurled the men apart
or hoisted one Of the Saponents on the
muzzle Of another's gun. It Is the most
strenuous Of all the bayonet exercise.
and officers regard the man who can hold
his own in such a combat can take care
of himself when he NETS the Huns in
the trenches or the open charge.
Greeted with a tumult of cheers from
soldiers who packed the big Red Tri-
angle auditorium last night Miss Mar
gsret Wilson, daughter Of President
Wilson, visiting the camp to sing for
the men in Khaki at the invitation Of
the Army Y. NJ. c. A., was delighted
when her audience reversed the order
and for 10 minutes entertained their
entertainer with their war songs. The
4000-voice chorus surpassed their best
previous efforts when, under leadership
Of w. Stanley Hawkins, camp song di-
rector, who has helped them gain.
reputation as the best singing division
in the National Army, when they sang
the national anthem for the daughter
Of the man who began yesterday his
sixth year as the nations chief.
Despite sleet storm and other big
attractions, Smileage players presented
Turn 90 the Right 90 q big audience
at the Liberty Treatre, last night. and
viii repeat the play tonight and We'd
nesday evenings. The play is presented
by Winchell Smith and John l.. Golden,
with several noted stars in the cast.
Leaders of the company declared last
night that communities interested in
the boys in Camp Dix have responded
better than any other section of the
country to the Smileage Book campaign,
judging by the thousands of books that
have been received by the soldiers here.
Evening journal., 1918-03-05
ouR PEoPLE,s BEsT- WIsHEs Go MIrn rnEM

rTNHosE Delaware boys who left yesterday for Camp
Greenleaf Fort Oglethorpe, Ca, took with them the
good wishes and respect Of all loyal and patriotic c-
The depth Of feeling not fully expressed but
merely symbolized by the aeotionse ieaveakings in
Wilmington and elsewhere
Delaware troops. volunteers and draft men, always
have acquitted themselves well in active service and it
may be predicted confidently that this of all wars
troops viii live up the highest and best traditions
Of the Little Diamond State.
Evening journal., 1918-03-05
EASTERN SHORE FEARS
LOSS ON TOMATOES

CAMBRIDGE, Md. March 5.--Farmers
in Dorchester and other counties on the
Eastern Shore Of Maryland and Della
ware are greatly exercised over the
price Of 80 cents per basket, or s2i the
ton, fixed by Government for tomatoes
used in filing Government contracts.
Prophecies are freely made that II this
price should be allowed to stand, few,
If any, tomatoes will be grown as a
field crop.
Evening journal., 1918-03-05
As To coLoNEL HousE; wAs .NononY HOMIE,


THE decision to keep Colonel House away from further
sessions Of the Versailles conference may be based
inspired reports from Washington have it, upon de-
TO keep the United states clear Of discussions which
have to do with affairs exclusively European. It
likely however that t Is the result Of the debates In
the Senate wherein the Colonel pontedly singled
out representative OF the kind of personal friend whom
President Wilson delights 10 make OF for all sorts OF
important purposes whether he be tted for the Job
not Colonel House has his uses to be sure
He IS accustomed to Keeping under cover senator
Penros has ad but the representative OF great power
In a great International council cannot wen remain under
cover He must out in the open. 1t may be that
Colonel Houses experiences at Versailles not to his
liking. He may have found himself outclassed by the
Lloyd Georges and the Bsfours and the Cemenceaus and
the Orandos whom he found ihere as his colleagues
Whatever the though, the that he is not
thus to be further employed IS welcome. IN his place
we may hope to have some one Of standing and ex-
perience
Evening journal., 1918-03-05

The annual report Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany for 1917 shows large 1916 passen
ger and freight service. And yet there material
decrease IN net income to the greatly increased cost
Of supplying such service Many other railroads have
been affected similarly In fact the same sort Of trouble
applies TO most big business throughout the country
tar, a1ter all. it is the net that counts
Evening journal., 1918-03-05

The customs in free trade" England for the
nine months ended December 1916 s2l75s50OO for
the nine months ended December, i9i7 s25sii5OOO In
the United states the customs for the periods
respectively were si62OOOOOO and si5iOOOOOO a COM
mentary law producer.