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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
YOUR BUSINESS CHARACTER.

N all business operations involving credit. certain
requisites essential the risk salts
factory the who extends the credit. These
requisites are best expressed in what has well been
Three Big Cs Credit" namely, Character,
Capacity and Capital. This talk will the first.
In order to possess a business character. need
have what is ordinarily known business honesty,
for business honesty big thing business
integrity Neither say long prayers and pass
the plate. however admirable these may
must have than semblance of relgion;-he must
carry the religion the Ten Commandments,
the Mount and the Golden Rule his business
life. He must do tricky thing;-he be the
level. He must give the square deal HI sword must
be better than his bond He must mark goods fairly.
advertise honestly. rectify any error any
understanding and forget that his best advertise
satisfied customer. and satisfied customers are
made only by business integrity
The underlying reason why some men have become
great merchants is to be found in the spirit of the
house" There great stores in every large city
whose greatness single fact that they have
back Of them business character Their good wi
millions, il good will Of integrity. taken years
build it up.
The buying public finds out the spirit of the
house. You catch a sucker but once. It doesn't
pay try the time do well to inquire how
this element of integrity your business life
for if the banker does believe you you can get
loans from him You lose this priceless by
single lapse from business virtue, lost
IL is hard shedding to regain it.
certain bank made a large sized loan to builder
for specific operation with the understanding
funds TO be used 10 purchase pay labor
for that job It developed in spite of the
fact that the contractor claimed progressing well
with work, nothing had beene done-he had used the
money elsewhere. 1t breach Of trust The banker
had checked him up bankers generally do. He has
lost his character in that bank, his longer
goes.
Another concern was buying automobiles with the
banks money, giving the bank receipt whereby
could not be delivered without obtaining release
from the bank and paying the The banker be-
suspicious that something wrong and checked
the presumed to he the trust agree
ment and found that four had been sold without
counting TO the bank Result-a hasty calling the
entire loan loss of confidence loss helpful business
arrangement. friendship.
You cannot play fast and loose in business win
out You cannot deceive your banker for long He has
knaok Of finding things out. Gossip gets him fast
He has second sense that smells danger lie is de
tective.
Therefore. build your business structure with char
acter The first OF three supporting piers active
the church like. be you pretend to
be- but remember always. that in business not what
YOU be but what you that counts and your
true nature viii become manifest those who are
in position find things and help you if they
trust YOU but cannot if they don't
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
WARTIME PEEPS INTO ENGLAND.

Meat is so scarce in England that recent sundays
some families have had without their usual joints
Butchers form in line at depots their sup
plies and customers get line at the butcher shops
And there isn't enough to go around.
The London papers that come to our desk also
speak Of the queues In England you wait your turn
in line to get meat, butter and butterine.
over there they also have the habit 81 heckling
public officials when they speak publicly Sir A. Yapp
controller of fats asked why his wife didn't get
line buy butter He explained rather than get
in line she had done without.
Sir Auckland Geddes says that the army needs more
and they viii have munition factories
Perhaps some day here too will have to draw on
munition makers fill up the ranks That means
burden for the women.
Lord Rhondda. who is England's Hoover fears com
pulsoTx ratoning is coming. That food cards.
each entitled to allowance. In this connection
ourselves viii have to share the privatons OF food
shortage for it win stretching 10 tide over
from April to August
There plenty Of potatoes and the English gov
eminent is going encourage their growth offering 10
take over the entire supply good price Nov
ember first There plenty this country too The
allies owe a great deal to the potato.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31

China after the Boxer outbreaks. promptly
mitted all share except the amounts necessary
reimburse Americans who had sustained losses. The
other nations which participated in that indemnity
recently RENTED their claims in recognition Chnas
severing OF relations with Germany Germanys claim,
of course, has been forfeited When the is
shall join other nations demanding that Germany
make good the damage she has done, but history
record act of oppressive nature in which shall
have share. with malice toward none; with charity
for all" the words in which the immortal Lincoln
expressed the sentiment the American people
all with whom may have differences though our
disagreement be settled only by the arbitramen
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
WHAT DIFFERENT IDEALS.

\ correspondent in a letter printed in THE TINES
the other evening called attention effort on the
the spread of prohibition that really belonging to the
w. c. T. L.
able record. wide class of citizenry may agree
with it, but the organization has invariably kept clear
of politics and its aim has been the achievement what
considers an ideal
With the Anti-Saloon League there is opposite his
tory 1t has had its activities perverted political
machine that recently threatened in yelled manner the
president Its ideal is to get the money Candidates
who refuse bow feel whatever pressure Il can
bring bear
The work of the two bodies is patent. on hand
is the w. c. T. U. sincere on the other the league ra
ing in the dollars, wallowing in politics. smelly be
cause of its pernicous lobby at Washington
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
TIVE TO USE HE eooT.

The anarchist Emma Goldman. is quoted having
said that the Bolshevik of the best
and that revolution would bring this about in this
country II it is ue that she has made these utterances
she has committed of and should be dealt
with accordingly.
The anarchist. socialist !. ". W, pacfs and con
scentious director Germanys strongest allies.
Anarchsm, well the Bolshevik socialism is a
to good government society, deeency. 10
morality and democracy. Yet the government is very
lax. Why drastic action taken is beyond our
comprehension. Does the government the gravity
the situation in toerating this menace
soon boys viii be giving up their lives fighting
for democracy lighting in defense of flag and
try, but still these these towards these slackers
large. spreading their propaganda, which detr
mental to the successful prosecution Of the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
KIPLlNe AND THE GERMANS.

4 great author ism necessarily great stateman.
Rudyard Kipling volunteer statesman, freelancing
in international affairs isn't convincing Kiplng
the story-teller
kiping once issued long statement disposine
of the Germans. He announces that the conflict has be
for the Teuon not a of victories. but war
Of determination for his species He breathes bitter
hatred in saying that all the before the
ditch and the conflict is British their
allies, simply question of killing the rats When they
through killing, he suggests there Will be very lit
tie of the German problem to settle. No Germany viii
remain There will be few peoples living the eternal
defensive in moral social and political trenches. but
there will be Germany"
1t will take more than hatred 10 defeat the Ger
and than words to destroy Germany. A
homogeneous nation Of nearly 7oO00o00 people ism
easily abolished No matter how decisvey the Teutons
may be beaten, there viii probably BE Germany as
long there is England
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
Lake County, s
Roll of Honor
TX sT 49,
\gYEsSfN@NssA@1/
& TX

Lake Cour+y's dead In the war
with Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary;
ROBERT MARKLEY, Ham
mond; drowned off coast Of New
Jersey. May IS.
DENNIS HARMON. Indiana
Harbor. ptomaine poison. at Fort
oglethrope, Chattanooga. Tenn.
June Il
FRANK ATANLEY. Indiana
Harbor. killed in France at Bat
tie of Lslle. Aug. 15
ARTHUR BASELER, Ham
mona; died at Lion Springs. Tex,
Of spinal meningitis. August Is.
JOHN SAMBROOKS. East Chi
cago; killed in France. Sept IS.
ARTHUR ROBERTSON, Gary:
killed in France. Oct. 81.
LIEUT.. JAMES VAN Alta.
4 Gary: killed at Vimy Ridge.
JAMES MAC KNIFE. Gary;
killed at vimy Ridge.
DOLPH BIEDZYI<I, East Chi
cago: killed ia France, Nov. -.
I. BURTON HUNDLEY, Gary:
killed in aviation accident at
Taliaferro fields. Evorman. Tex,
Dec. /, 1917.
HARRY CUTHBERT LONG.
Indiana Harbor; killed in acci-
dent at TT Bliss. Texas. Dec. 10.
DERWOOD DICKINSON. Low
ell. died somewhere in France, of
pneumonia. Dec. Il.
EDWARD c. KOSTBADE. Ho-
hart: killed by explosion in
France, Dec. %.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31

You cannot talk and sing about an
invincibIe Watch on the Rhine as long
as the Dutch and the Swiss do not sing
the same tune"-Bley. Die alldeutsche
BewegunE und die Nlederland. 1SaY.
I'VE may then leave It to Switzerland TO
choose whether she shall enter the
German confederation. bringing ali her
cantons or only the German ones with
German customs union and the Pan
her. or whether she shall form part
Of the German empire on equal terms
as federal state."-Grossdeu chland
nm das Jahr ClS93), 1925.
TO speak quite frankly: Austria
will assent finally 10 that shifting eff
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
IN
IMEMORIAM
Says Men of
Wabash Are Not
Interested in War

WABASH. IND Jan. 3t.-The men q
Wabash have been placed in the slack
er llstbyMHo Meredith, chairman Of the
county council of defense. In state
ment issued yesterday. Mr.. Meredith
"a 81.
~rhe great majority Il the mon o.
Wabash are not Interested IN the war
nor do they care apparently what hap
nens Do YOUR sons. who have gone "a
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
ENFORCE JUSTICE UPON GERMANY.

The United states has always dealt generously with
a vanqushed foe. We shall deal generously with Ger
and vet shall stand in the way of enforc
ing justice from that nation in her with those
she has grievously wronged we dealt gen
erousy with Mexico, with the south Spain with
The Philippines and, when indemnity was imposed
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
v y y y ~ y -
THRIFT STAMPS.

THE TINES is pleased to accede to the wish Of
the executive officers of the War Savings Committee
in announcing that Lake countys quota of the $1,000
100000 War Savings and Thrift Campaign is S2s1782o.
This quota computed on basis of $40 every man.
woman and child in Lake county.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31

ONE or these fussy doctors who
writes health hints for
THE newspapers says that deep
breathing VIII
CURE any ailmeut
WE are breathing as far down as
we can and note that our chilblains
HURT as much as ever.
TAKE it easy friend for in few
weeks you
WILL be yelling your head Off about
THERE being so much humidity in
the air.
IF you See an editor
WHO pleases over a small fraction or
the people
THERE viii be q glass plate over his
FACE aud he will not
BIZ standing up.
WE note with a great deal of interest
THAT skirts are not going to be worn
any shorter and this
WILL no doubt prevent US from OBJ
serving whether
THE new knicters are being worn
As much as it was prophesied they
would be-
THERE is little doubt in our mind
but what
II the neighbor's cat were gallivant-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31

so nobody can Jerk it away.
BEING above the military age re
sometimes feel as if
OUR service Is so small
THAT We ought to do more than We
are doing and it
MAY be necessary some day 10
LIVE entirely on rye bread and garlic
just to make
ONE supreme sacrifice.
THERE is SO little interest in the
pugilisuc game
THAT we guess it is useless for us
TO offer a good-sized purse
FOR a hight between Trotzky and the
kaiser
TO a finish
WHO took the sense out Of censor
If the hustle comes back
WE wonder if we VIII be able to
BE as much Interested in them as We
were as a hoy
WHEN We gazed with awe on them
and
WONDERED how much OF st was and
how much Of II wasn't.
THE streets are just fun OF sad-eyed
little boys who
! ARE worried TO death because the
COAL shortage may yet close the
4 schools
YES, they are.
LLOYD GEORGE says he IL afraid Of
a food shortage
HAS he no faith in DR.. Barnard
THE brains OF the Count Luxburs
1 are spurlos vessenkt.
UNLESS the fuel administrator re
Tents
WE shah have to go down TO the
ERIE and make faces at the brake
men
OK the coal cars
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31
What Ais Germany
BY SAMUEL b. HARDING
Professor European History. Indiana University.

Selections from German speeches and printed utter
ances showing the state of mind which caused the
war Chiefly from publications of the Committee
on Public Information, Washington, D. G.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31

IF the county fuel administration doesn't have too
lany snowstorms and too much advice chronic
outtnskys viii manage to keep all Of our fires going
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31

SNOW. ice, cold, teups-the worst is yet to come.
Just till the general haw brings floods your
bible now TO see what old Noah did
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31

the weight Of gravity which took place
IN 1865 she viii renounce all future
claim to be the chief ruling power in
Central Europe. as she was in her an
cient days OF splendor. There is no
formal dependence involved, no cur
failing of soverel gnty. no giving up
Of Inherited power. but all the same
there VIII be an actual acknowledge
ment OF the existing position OF
existing forces. ''-Naumann. Central
Europe. 1915.
Send THE TINES 10 your
soldier boy. Let him see how we
feft behind are backing him up.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31

It is not wasting food to throw some crumbs and
little suet out where the birds can get them.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-01-31

frocks orphans she makes from dis
carded shirts
and clothes orphans from outwon d
idea of Mrs d. Gilmore
good the material d
discarded
patching Mrs Gilmore hopes to supply
the small children such real need
of them
The Little River news., 1918-01-02
HIKES HIKES STATEMENT
 ABlljT WEES WEES CAsE:
Ncli-KHown Georgia FsrDaer Says ianIac ReiieTed Her of Aellfe indigeAsion-Gains 20
 lts!n.is.

"T think every nctt!e of Tanlac is vol h it's weight in gold.' said J. s. Crosby, a well-kno own farme., of Gris- woldville, Ca, recently, "and my wife says so, too, for it has been the mak- ing of a new woman of her
 My wife had indigestion so that everything she ate wc.Ild sour on her stomach end make her feel al bloated up Gas that rose made her heart beat fast and she had smothering spells that like to have overcome her The attacks got to be acute, and she had severe pains in her stomach. and vomiting spells that would just about exhaust her. Sae fell off whole lot and got so n9rT,s she could hardly sleep and sometimes hadn't he strength to sit up. l was uneasy about her, for was afraid one of her bad spells would carry her off.
 '"The first few doses of Tanlac start ed her appetite right and she com menced enjoying her meals and get ting her strength back. She hts taken several bottles and it sent her weight up 20 pounds and she hasn't had one of those awful attacks of acute indiges- ton since All her nervousness is gone and she sleeps like babe. She is now ss well woman as she ever was and everybody can see it. I believe that Tanlac will do as much for any other sufferer as it did for my wife!'
 Tanlac can be obtained from Boyer Drgg Store, AshdoWn; Foreman Drug Company, Fcceman; Winthrop Drug Company Winthrop, Roy Budd, Ogden, and W. M. Sykes, Richmond. advt.
The Little River news., 1918-01-02

loor stands, and replanting was gen. efal. Some fields were planted three times and the last plantings were made in some localities after the mid- Gle Of June, July and August condi- tiona were generally favorable, and 5he plants produced an unusual amount of forms, which caused a general over astitaation of probable production. Boil weevil injury was late in appear. ance end many predictions were freely made of a million and a quar- ter bales for Arkansas" Boil weevil injury, when it came, was most severe in central Arkansas, perhaps because t Was loss expected than in the usual Y infested regions. In October, there were four killing frosts. The one of October 9th cid the greatest damage, especially in eastern and northeastern Afkansas wherc so much of the crop was late. The result was that the a2f1teIn part of the state, only pro- dHced from 50, to SO per cent as much lint per acre as, in 1916 but in west ern and southern Arkansas where the crop WIS well matured the yield was generally better than that of last year Flo final figures will probably show Arkansas in fifth place this year a'nong the cotton producing states. The state yield of 162 pounds of lint per acre is the lowest since 1909
 Corn.
 The corn production amounted to 67,200,000 bus hels an increase of near ly 50 per cent cCer 1916. The increase in acreage was yearly 10 per cent, and the value offthe crop is two and one seventh tines that of 1916. The yield per acre of "A bushels has been euuaiied only by the crop c,e 1910. equalled only by the crop c,' 1910. The 1917 productin puts Arkansas in seventeenth place among corn pro- ducing states. It is worth noticing however, that five other southern states eXcelled us. Ire figures of o1 Q quality. excels that of S3.S for toe United States.
The Little River news., 1918-01-02
Soesnt write very much.

Frank Locke. Jr-, is home from Sar fntonio where he is attending schoo or his vacation with his grandparents ;apt and Mrs. D. B. Coulter.
 Mr and Mrs. Dan Dan Phillips and 2hil3ren returne1 from Henrietta
 klahoma, Sunday, after a visit with dc parents of Mrs. Phillips
 Mrs Howell Hunt ard children left Gonday for their hctne in Ardmere Oklahoma after visit with Mrs Hunts parents, Mir and Mrs. R. L. 5oyer ST.
 Mrs. Frank HoTner of Foreman was -;siting friends in the city the first If the week and attended the annual lew Years reception of the A L c. Monday night.
 Bad digestion rohs the bc1y of the nourishment it needs to maintain 2 llth and strength. To restore tone n the digestive organs there is no bet
 improves digestion and cle2nses the 5 omach, liver and howels. Price $1 25 zer bcttle. Dixie Drug Co.,, special agents. adyt
 Rufus Morgan who has been in the 9nploy of the Texas Produce Go for years has resigned to embark in Harlains with his uncle, Or. R. D. McCrary at AlIene.
 Misses Glover and EiiEa beth Sander s"', Nita Wimberly. lola Turner and Annie Trustworthy were the guests of Miss Willie Wood Thursday and Fri day at her home in Red Bluff.
 Constipation is the starting point for ,1any diseases that end fatally. Healthy regularity can be established through the use Of Priekly Ash Bitters. It is fine bowel tonic, is mildly stim- 'lating and strengthens the stomach, liver and kidneys Price $125 per bot e Dixie Drug Co. special agents.
 Miss Addye Bishop returned to iope Sunday evening to resume her work Monday morning in the Arnorld Abstract office, after visiting home olks during the Xmas holidays
 Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hardage of New 'ort visited the }atiers parents, MT
The Little River news., 1918-01-02
GG{|,I1':EIn''A!MEAI 0Ii|lIIEE2'lssHI|Ip WILL FOLLOW OPERATION 0F n0ADs giamedirte Pooling of All Railroad Equipment Ordered By Di-
 reetcr General
 McAdoo.

Washing o1, Dec. 29.-The inmedi- ate pooling o6 all railroad equipment was .cnigha ordered by Director Gen. eral Of Railroads McAGoo.
 In the formal notification to all rail roaGs, he also directed that 2ll sys- tems shall be operated as one na- tionc' system of transportation
 First Appointees.
 A. the same time he announced his first appointment to his temporary staff. Waller D. Hines, New York, was appointed assistant pro-tempore to the director general.
 Alfred H. Smith of New Yc'k, was appointed assistant pro-tempore to the director general in charge of transp0r- t1tion in the trunk line -erritory east e.e Chicago and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers.
 Steps to pool docks, car floats liGh.crs and other facilities for dis t...tuting traffic in New York harbor including marketing facilities now controlled by individual railresds,' al9o w&s ordered.
 The interstate Commerce Commits sion was requested to make an investi- gaaion of conditions existing on all trunk line railroads in eastern terri tories.'
 Presidents of the Pennsylvania, Erie, Bal imore & Ohi., Lackawanna, New Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley rail- roads, likewise, were instructed to make an immediate study of terminal facilities on the / New Jersey water front at the port of New York.
 A report recommending necessary eeijustments of passenger and freight schedules to relieve congestion at these terminals, was ordered as quickly as possible.
 All Possible Through Routes. McAdoos order directed establish ment Of through routes where neces- sary. Railroads were directed to ig- nore shippers desires as to routes 4s<-. rI
The Little River news., 1918-01-02
P'EEAg: PEAAegE OFFER E i'0T
 ID BE c0Hss||DDEER|EED
Must Come From Responsible Gov. ,sinment First, U. $. Says. Demand Proper
 Form.

Washington, Dec. 29.-"If Germany wants peace let responsible German government hold up it's hands and say 50. Inere will he no let up in the war or cur preparation for war"
 That is the view official Washing ton meets the renewal of theNGeSmap nesce offer. It was answered. kbaAy after two aew deyei .lments/ These were:
 I. An Amsterdam rskt that the kaiser has devolvod 1I6n Chancellor yon Hertliag the/fight to make peace
 ?. .Indicatio,Y firm the Stare De- partment tlI no peace proposals can be even considered unless they gro pres ented in formal and respon- sible manner.
 rhe suggestion that the kaiser has d26gated the peace-making power is viewed as a "camoufiage." It is re- e2lied that similar step was taken +a year ago. At that time just after Pro5isent WIlsen had made his offer Of mediation, the kaiser published a letter to Dethmann-Hollweg, then German chancellor, authorizing him to on CT Eesce resoia.Sons. It is believ- |es the pre-, ent delegation of power Will no more fulfill tao a.liel require n5Cnts for 2 responsible or reasonable German. government than the letter of fa year ago Tt will require a complete change 1 in the German constitution said one allied diplomat here today, Ito make a, peace offer that will be con- Esidered. If the kaiser should say tc , von Hertling, T authorize you .tc 2 make peace it would amount ta noth- sing.. It would merely mean that the sxyine' powers of Wilhelm had been
 ed on to his ag<lEc