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The Washington times., 1918-05-25

Your willingness TO advocate any
matter that will benefit this city
prompts me to do something I new
er have done before, and that Is to
ask for newspaper agitation, always
preferinE to leave that to others.
However, when I see community
associations hold meetings and pass
resolutions on matters that have
caused no interest only when things
have happened, l think II about time
others interest themselves.
One association blames the killlns
OF brave and fearless policemen 10
..bootIegging," also we should nave
a ferry" but, a matter that Is OF
vital Importance and should be taken
up by the different organizations as
well as the civic and commercial or
ganizations, is to protect those who
are continually putting their lives IN
danger to protect US; while we are
sleeping they are watching when
we need help we call on them, even
when some need advice they call on
them, and those are our tried true
eyer-watching policemen. Now sup
pose we ask those who can help
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

woman, Janet, and 1 will show
you a human being who can sur
vive the ravages Of almost any
unhappy love affair. Fortunately
for US, we are made that way!
The victim Of a love tragedy may
feel that life is over. Certainly
for the time at least, his interest
in life has gone. He is like a
watch with a broken handspring.
But the handspring can be repair
ed. and so can he.
In the blackness Of the first
days he wonders how he can work
on, meet the thousand demands
big and small-that crowd into his
days. II is the need Of meeting
these demands that saves him.
And It is because he has a variety
Of demands to meet that the aver
age man RECEIVERS from an unfor-
tunate love affair much more
quickly than the average woman.
The woman, as a rule, must re-
main in the environment which Is
full Of memories Of the tragedy.
The man can get away from It,
can get out in the world, and dis
tract his thoughts in a dozen ways.
For them both, Janet, there are
two cures-time and work.
Within a few days the man IS
strengthening his sagging shoul-
ders and feeling a keen zest for
his meals. II, then, he can fling
himself into some absorbing new
interest, his battle is half won.
He will still have black days and
nights, hours OF memory and de-
spair. But his cure Is under way.
His greatest aid, however, is his
own passionate desire to get over
the experience. He hates being
The Washington times., 1918-05-25
LET US HELP THE POLICE

help to have their salaries increased,
they certainly deserve IL. from Major
Pullman to the mere private, the
high cost OF living Affects them, and
they must have just as good nourish-
ment as anyone working In one OF
the many office buildings.
Instead OF making complaints
against them for every little reply
made by them that seems impudent
to some let US stand by them, they
are our protection at home while our
brave soldiers are "over there"
Let every lawyer in this city Of
fer his services in the endeavor to
help the policeman and the Police
Department. They come In daily con-
tact with them and know the hard
ships they endure. I am ready and
willing without one cent OF COM
pensation or thanks to do my part.
Who will help7
The Times has done considerable
for this city and for those who de-
serve II. now how about the guard
ian OF the peace in Washington, the
policeman, give this space and let
me hear what you have to say 70
this. L G. GROSSMAN.
The Washington times., 1918-05-25
Few Die From Broken Hearts

unhappy. His masculine common
sense revolts against continued
wretchedness. With hands and
feet and nails and teeth he fights
his way out Of the black abyss he
is in and up into the light Of day.
A woman-the average woman,
at least-deliberately cherishes
her unhappiness. 1t includes her
memories, and she is not willing
to lose those memories. While the
man is climbing up out Of the pit
she is resolutely settling herslf
for a prolonged stay at the bottom
of it. She refuses to hear the
voices Of her friends calling down
to her, or to see the life lines they
drop for her use.
In the end she, too, will come
up. But it will be long, long af-
ter the man has done so. Then
she must find her oblivion as he
does-in work and new interests.
WOman's Attitude.
II these interests can be un-
selfish, so much the better for
her, so much the quicker her cure.
In working for others who are
unhappy, too, she can forget her
self and her troubles in the best
and most worthwhile way there
is.
Even after they are out Of the
pit, however, many women cling
to their sorrows.
folly,
"Go, you may call it madness,
You shall not drive my gloom
away.
There's such a charm in melan-
cholY,
would not, if l could, be gay"
That is the tacit attitude OF
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

many women who are carrying
about what they believe to be
broken hearts" They drape
themselves as dramatic and tragic
figures against this background.
Consciously or unconsciously, they
pose before the world.
The type Of woman who RECEIVERS
most quickly from a broken heart
Is the dignified woman whose pride
has suffered. She has loved IN
worthily; her love has been re-
jected. She suffers, but every in
stinct in her proud nature rallies
to her aid.
Shall she continue to adore a
man who rejected her or preferred
another woman? Never! Like
the average man, she hurls herself
into whatever interest is nearest
at hand. Her cure is swift and
complete. In one year such q
woman can look with complete in
difference upon the man she once
loved.
So broken hearts, Janet, are
merely aching hearts. They ache
savagely, almost intOlerably. And
the ache extends through the body
and to the very soul Of the victim.
She becomes as wreched physic-
ally as mentally. and her condi-
ton, If it fingers, is serious in
deed.
To encourage It to linger is to
indulge sheer selffishness. The
world today is no place for selfish
men and women.
Perhaps that is why, during the
period Of the greatest suffering
the earth has known, We hear less
than ever before about broken
hearts"
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

An eighth of q mile Of peonies
in gorgeous blazing full bloom
Is a sight worth going miles to
see, and unless you have an au-
tomobile you will have to walk
miles to see It.
The strip OF peonies Is on the
south side of EAST POTOMAC
PARK, along the river wall. To
get the full benefit Of this un-
usual sight get OF the road and
20 down on the wall itself.
otherwise you will see only a mar
row portion Of this wonderful
strip.
The Washington times., 1918-05-25
TWO ODD BITS OF RED
CROSS NEWS

Dining at Child's saw one Of the
sweetest things 1 think that's this
week occurred in the great Red
Cross drive. The waiter on the front
station picked up q SO bill, and. as
no one claimed It, he voluntarily and
with no one having knowledge Of his
find turned IT over with the under
standing It be turned into the Red
Cross fund
These are the qualities Of deeds
happening in the quiet Of the public
pathways that command respectful
notice. Incidentally l asked the boy 8
name. It's JACK BLUM, and he
halls from New York city.
]. ERNEST HURST.
The Washington times., 1918-05-25
Mr. Platt, of New York. whose support of prohibition
measures has been unremitting, said:


think proposition like this to hold up the President
him to do something he not think wise to do at
this time pain of refusing to the farmers Unconstitutional
farm bureau and educational work to which they entitled
is outrageous.
He has the power to prohibit the of these food
products for the making of malt and liquors he thinks
it and is necessary He asked Congress in the last
sion pass such legislation this Let him take his
time and settle this matter, if it is necessary settle it. He
the responsibility of deciding how the grain ap-
pooned out and he knows how the supply holding out
We do not know and when he thinks necessary to issue
proclamation stopping further making of beer and wine
do not believe that he will have hesitation about doing it.
know that Republicans will vote for this amend
ment good joke the President" coming from Demo-
cratic to put the President in hole but decline
to be party to any such scheme.
Senator Sheppard of Texas the leading Prohbitionist
IN the upper branch this morning that he will
not support any plan to make prohibition bill out of
measure seek to hamper the President in the execution
Of duties and the settlement of responsibilities concerning
which ample legislation has already been enacted.
The passage Of amendment would mean, unless the
President vetoed it, that ice water and bad whskey would
be the only beverages available.
The before the Senate. It should have
short consideration and early death unless the enemies
Of the President and the friends Of bad whskey are to rule
CongreSA
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

SUNSHINE MARY" the newsgirI
that sells papers at Fifteenth and g
streets. asked me TO say she had
made SIS for the Red Cross from her
sale Of papers, and that she wanted
TO know II you would put an item IN
your column, where everyone VIII
see It, saying she would Ike some
body to double this amount and she
would donate SIS more
HENRY NJ. ROCHESTER
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

Coming downtown from Four
teenth street and Columbia road, q
gentleman in an auto invited me to
ride downtown. About half way
down he produced q Red Gross box
and asked US There were three IN
tbe machine) Il we would put our
car fare in the box as a donation to
the Red Cross.
It's a wonderful idea, and could
be used by other auto owners, doing
a two-fold good-helping a worthy
cause and relieving car shortatge.
Needless to say, we all paid dou-
HE fare. I heartily indorse the idea.
CHAS. FISHER
IlS5 Columbia road
The Washington times., 1918-05-25
By ELIZABETH JORDAN.

Dear Miss Jordan: Please
write about broken hearts-hearts
broken by love. Is there any
cure for them7 And how can
men and women bear them.
JANET.
A T the risk of seeming un-
~ sympathetic, Janet, l am
1 \ going to say at the outset
that the number of hearts broken
by love has been greatly overesti-
mated.
Shakespeare tells US: "Men
have died and worms have eaten
them-but not for love"
He might safely have committed
himself to the same statement
about women. Few women have
died of broken hearts.
There are, Of Course, many in
stances in which the anguish of an
unhappy love affair has added its
weight to an already overbur-
dened heart and helped to crush it
There are many instances in
which men and women already
seriously i'll have succumbed un-
der the disaster of a love tragedy,
when a happy love affair might
have saved them.
What Saves Us
There have been instances of
those run down, Ill, who have re-
fused to aid their own recovery
because they were too unhappy
over some love affair to wish to
live. And every doctor knows how
necessary is the patients co-opers-
ton in many sick-room fights with
death.
But show me a healthy man or
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

ED SNYDER says that on dun
days can always say, "Well, ! saw
so-and-so with a plug hat today" and
l guess III call it dull day and say
that while Ed was giving me this
sage advice he had on a Fedora
shaped Panama hat.
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

Certain ladies I know are sore be-
cause their Red Cross chieftainess
Nd them they must positively NOT
wear their skirts more than five and
a half inches from the ground in the
recent parade; and they all obeyed
implicitly; but found to their great
surprise that their leader herself
wore a snappy skirt about eight
inches off the concrete while the
rest of them looked like lot Of pill
grims.
The Washington times., 1918-05-25
HEARD AND SEEN

Just as l was passing Speaker
Clark's Office in the Capitol BEN
JAMIN MEIMAN stopped me:
Il would like you to meet q friend
Of mine," he said, who is making =
bust Of Mr.. Clark"
The Washington times., 1918-05-25
The Randall Amend
ment An Insult To
The President

Under the camouhage of pretended prohibition move
msn few bigots and oppounists seeking In the
Of the Randall amendment to the agriculture emergency D
to strengthen themselves politically and gain few brief
moments of legislative prominence. -.
The amendment besides being menace to the punncl
good is an open insult to the President
Its supporters would rob him of discretion and make it
impossible for him to exercise in moment OF naona peru
the functions of Judgment already expressly conferred upon
him regarding the regulation Of the manufacture OF Light and
harmless beverages.
Under the act of August TO- 1s17 Congress empowered
the President to limit and IF HE THOUGHT 1T WISE to-
urt the use of foodsus in the manufacture OF malt and
vinous beverages
Exercising that authority with his customary wisdom,
the President has already reduced the alcoholic content OF
beer to and per cent and cut tne use OF
oods to seventy per cent Of the amount consumed last
Beer is now go per cent water containing less alcohol
than any malt beverage manufactured in any other country
in the world
But DESPITE this wise exercise of Presidential authority
Mr. Randall and his coworkers for disconten say 70 the
President 1--WE place value on your discretion DO our
bidding or we will hamsng and hog tie department OF the
Government that necessary the winning OF the war
nto the credit of some of the honest supporters of
prohibition that they have repudiated the amendment and
voted against its passage.
Mr.. Gambler, Of Mississippi usually nrm aoVoca1e OF
prohibition legislation, said in the House:
You propose by the adoption of this amendment to 60
I'D to the President the United States and to him. Until
YOU issue your proclamation propose to stop the agcu
tua industries in the United States and acuVlueS OF the AS
cultural Department" -
This is not a real prohibition proposition, because It will
secure no results and you know it. 1t simply amendment
to put up the President and say him. 1--WE command you
and you shall obey If you do not obey we take from you
the money provided in this paragraph OF the bill
You mistaken in the President you think for
moment you drive him to do what his conscience and
Judgment does approve. AS said at the outset if it
prohibition bill, it real prohibition amendment
which would results if it upon bill where
ought be- and which would bring about prohibition would
vote for it, know would many other members of the
House You know and know that this amendment will not
accomplish prohibition and aid that which have fought
for voted for since twenyone years DID, and refuse
to ride "wooden horse and make play in effort to de-
ceive somebody by trying to make them believe this real
prohibition amendment when know and you know is
You cannot deceive the people, and am not going to join you
in effort to do
Mr. Platt of New York. whose support of prohibition
measures has been unremttng said:
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

BILL BRIGHAM took his UNI
brella and went to the movies Tues
day p. m. saying as he did so:
''They've euchered US out Of all
other amusements in this burg"
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

RAY MORGAN got all poison
ivied last week clearing up brush
over to his farm in Virginia
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

The friend was MOSES WAIVER
DYKAAR, q Russian Jew who has
studied art in Paris, and IS already
known widely for a bust Of Count
Tolstoy.
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

We went into SPEAKER CLARKs
private office. The Speaker was
reading a paper In that big arm chair
Of his, and over opposite him was
q large thing swathed in towels, re-
minding me Of a giant in q barber
chair, preceding a massage
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

They tell me HENRY LANS-
.BURGH went over to Baltimore
with that Almas bunch q day or
two ago and hammered a bass
drum for an hour OF two and chased
up and down the streets collecting
more money for the Red Cross than
all the rest Of the outfit put to-
gether. Is that right, Henry?
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

The sculptor unroIled the towels
and there I beheld what believe iS
the best likeness Of Champ Clark
ever done by the hand Of man. It is
in clay, as yet, and the artist has
caught all Of those characteristics
which go to make Champ Clarks
head and face something to be re-
membered for all time.
The Washington times., 1918-05-25

It to the credit of some Of the honest supporters
prohibition that they have repudated the amendment anc
voted against its passage.
The Lake County times., 1918-12-14
j. s. NAVY
LEADS WORLD
IN DESTROYERS
rRr I-Nrrrn PRESS. ]

wASHINGTON. Dec If.-The United
States navy leads the world in destroy
ers. built or building.
This information Rear Admiral Grif-
fin. chief Of bureau or steam engineer
ing, gave the country today in his an
nual report. recording achievements of
the past war year.
Much Of the report is technical but
its substance is story Of success in
big things with about 275 destroyers
building. Admiral Griffin has this TO
say of the destroyer standing;
In ships built and building, the
United States has now a larger force of
destroyers than that of any other navy.
This increase has not been gradual.
but has been attained By giant strides
within a year The difficulties encount-
cred in such unprecented progress have
no parallel in warship construction
anywhere at any time.
When the last $50 destroyers were
ordered. a 2S-knot speed was contem-
plated. but before contracts were let. II
was decided the speed should be 50
knots This meant doubling the num-
Der of boilers and increasing the
amount of forgings. Makers of the lat
ter were far from keen TO handle the
work. but the tasks were undertaken.
even though an Unprecedented amount
Of work already was under way.
Actual expenditures Of the bureau for
the fiscal year 1917 were estimated at
s49.5s6.093 whereas the fiscal year 1918
expenditures were s2s3.742,767. This
represented more than three quarters Of
a million dollars expenditure per day.
"Since the United States became
- sec ,er4-
neering work of the navy, both me-
chanicaI and electrical has been-not
only in its actual amount but In the
rapid development OF facilities for its
execution-without a parallel. for the
same period Of time. in the history of
the worlds navies." says Griffin
A bfrdseye view Of the bureaus ac-
tivities may be obtained from the fact
that the navy Is operating $40 regular
navy vessels, 90 coast guard, lighthouse
and kindred ships. 937 converted mer-
chant craft. and PAT vessels for army
and navy transportation. There are un-
DER construction at navy yards s7s com
batant and auxiliary vessels and 81
tugs The navy has about 210 radio
stations.
Griffin reveals that anti-submarine
devices were developed during the war
and that radio. telegraph and telephone
apparatus for communication with air
planes have been remarkably developed
The Lake County times., 1918-12-14
PIMPLY? WELL, DON'T Be!
People Notice It. Drive Them Of
with Dr.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

A p;nply face will not embarrass you
much longer if you get package of Dr.
Edwards Olive Tablets. The skin should
begin to clear after you have taken the
tablets a few nights.
Cleanse the blood, the bowels and the liver
with DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the sue
cessful substitute for calomeI: there's never
any sickness or pain after taking them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do that
which calomel does. and just as effectively,
but their action is gentle and safe instead
Of severe and irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets is
ever cursed with "a dark brown taste"
a bad breath. dull, listless mo good"
feeling. constipation, torpid liver, bad
disposition or pimply face.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are
a purely vegetable compound mixed
with olive oil: you viii know them
by their olive color.
DR.. Edwards spent years among pa.
tients afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints. and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result.
Take one or two nightly for week.
See how much better you feel and look.
10c and 25c per box. All druggists.
The Lake County times., 1918-12-14
WHITING
D { F { 4 7 s
HAMMOND

The Whiting high school basket
ball team defea-ed The Hammond high
school basketball team last evening
a Whiting by score 81 Fl to a.
The fact that the athletic depart
ment of the Hammond nigh school has
been without coaeh this year ow-
ing TO the war may have something
to do with the defeat shanks and W
seidenbecker. forwards. kovac>. scott
and F. seidenbecker guards and Gear
ing. center and good material
A new coach. George F NeenKer
OF Batavia. Ill. VIII ltake charge Of
the basketball squad Monday and MAY
be able to WHIP the team into shape
yeenker has been physical director All
a cantonment during the war
The Lake County times., 1918-12-14
lR. ". {. NICHOLS
BACK FROM CAMP
Hammond's MI. ID. Resumes
His Practice After Five
Months in the Service.

DR.. ". E Nichols returns 70 Ham
nond after two months st Fl. Ogle-
thorpe and three months at Camp Jack
son. S. C. TO which camp the doctor was
transferred when the influenza epidemic
nrst started there In late September.
Camp Jackson boasts being the lsrg-
est and best camp in the q. 5. and hav-
Ing the largest base hospital in the
United States. the hospital having ac-
commodations for more than six thou
sand patients was hlled to capacity FOR
more than two months. there having
been thirteen thousand cases Of infiu-
enza and twelve hundred of pneumonia
following which an epidemic OF menin-
gifts and measles broke out
The fatalities from induenza were
very small. while those from pneu-
nonia were about twenty-five Per cent.
he small percentage OF deaths among
the soldiers was due TO the fact that
soldier is a soldier whether sick in the
hospital or on duty with his command.
an American soldier knows nothing but
10 obey commands and ask not the rea-
son why. thus the care needed was
rendered In every instance. no money
was spared 10 save them and the best
that medical and surgical science af-
fords was given them
The base hospital was equipped with
the most modern methods Of research
and medical officers from the greatest
medical institutions Of the country
were there 10 give council and advice
as well as work over and with the sick
soldier the hours never grew too long
nor the body TOO tired to so forth
through the wards to render any and
all assistance where IL might be needed.
Clinics Of instruction and discussion
OF the various and special cases were
held twice daily at which the stan OF
the hospital numbering one hundred and
eighty-five medical officers. would meet
10 study and devise such treatment as
seemed most efficient
As a medical school where any ana
every medical man could learn newer
and better methods Of coping with dis
ease this base hospital never had an
equal and never will exist again ex-
cept there be another great war. The
war brought together medical men from
every part Of the states and each. how
ever high in the profession learned
much Of the things he could not have
lsarned otherwise.
Every physician who went into the
service viii come home better prepared
10 cope with disease and more able 10
diagnose his cases than could otherwise
have been.
Doctor Nichols IS located at his old
stand. 697 Calumet avenue. and will be
glad to see his friends as of yore.
The Lake County times., 1918-12-14
HARBOR
HOLDUPS
LAST EVE

There ere several heIdups in Indiana
Harbor last night. all occurring in the
same locality
Paul Maginski and Stanley Mellon
4 ere stopped by three men and relieved
OF s1Is.25 and $3.50 and a gold watch
respectively.
s. Macko. zoos Fir street. was held
up Snd relieved of S5.9e
A third holdup IS unofhciauy reported
TO have occurred. but details are IN
known
This work occurred in the vicinity OF
14Oth and Fir streets. the same three
men doing the Job in each instance
The Lake County times., 1918-12-14
GRlSsELLI CO. DIRECTOR
DIES SUDDENLY IN OHIO

The employees Of the Grasseli Chem
ical company were shocked today on re
ceipt OF word from Cleveland. o.. OF the
death of Fitz Hugh Lee, director o.
the company aud chairman Of tho manu-
featuring committee
Returning to Cleveland from a busi-
ness trip to New York city. Mr.. Lee
was taken i'll &C acute indigestion and
died within half an hour before medical
attention could be secured.
Afr Lee started in the employ o. the
company At its East Chicago plant as a
chemist ard his promotion was rapid