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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

the rule of politicians they would eagerly EN-
brace 1t boon Everybody would participate. we
were assured and everybody would likewise give the
matter conscientious consideration. AS consequence
would have only intellectual purists in office and
our governments would be models of economy and eff
hicency.
We have had several years experience with this
bogus any who has given study to
the results be Disguised thoroughly. Far from
bringing relief imposed additional burdens and
men selected for Office are certainly whit better
than those chosen under the old regime Indeed there
those who vigorously contend that the standard of
ohiciadom has been materially lowered 10y Of
the fact that many good fatty refuse to run
for office because Of additional trouble and expense
placed upon candidates by the primary system
The people have not welcomed a deliyerance
anything else, and except for the frantic beating
OF the bushes by the candidates is probable that there
wouldn't be three per vote under its
zion And with all the advertisng all the pulling, and
hauling by those Interested and all the appeals of the
press and public Of high position, its is the excep
tonal county that can register twenty-five cent
vote at the primary. The dear peepu simply don't
give darn. That which the wide-mouthed Mr.. Bryan
soulfuly beloved they would cherish the immediate
jewel of their souls. they ignore Except they
grumblingly and grudgngy brought to its observance
by the appeals candidates candidates close
friends The Lord knows if for the free
mobile rides the primary would hardly be worth
counting.
Thus have a tremendous public expense and
less onorous expense all candidates for end that
serves good public service. The tickets chosen
better than those chosen the old time conventions
and frequently good. the element OF second
choice is entirely eliminated It nfrequenty hap
that a field of half dozen candidates the
weakest man and the most unfit is returned win
ner. He has enough first choices make him high
and yet he is not the second choice OF anyone
Our primary law is delusion and n snare: a farce
aqd fraud. That is what every well informed man
knows in his heart. needed today is suhf-
cient number to stand and say The average
is moral coward and especially he hangs back when
he fears he may run contrary to public opinion The
primary law. hailed has as a peoples law has
been invested with of bastard sanctty
men afraid to denounce it. But its day is coming The
people OF Indiana going begin pretty
10 cut down expenses and when they white
elephant, that eats all night and all day. will be
among the first of the sacrifices economy says the
Fort Wayne News.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14
BISMARCK CALLED KAISER LuNATlc

Alenists say the kaiser is actually scientifically
insane frstcass German Endorsements for their
belief says indianapolis Times
Bismarck himself was convinced that Wilhelm was
crazy.
The iron chancellor knew the kaiser from his child
hood and knew the secret family history and family
rnaladies Of the Hohenzollerns.
Some time before his death Bismarck confded TO
his friend Felix Dahn, distinguished German historian
and lawyer that the kaiser lunatic. He minated
that he might have locked up IF the worst comes
TO the worst Bismarck and il should become nee
essary 10 put him under restraint, successor will
have more difficult than would have fallen to my
the German people would have trust
ed me-
The kaiser . endowed with the superhuman cunning
that has characterized Of the famous paranoacs
and epieptics who have been world leaders.
Another German chancellor. Prince Hohenlohe said
Far from being the sincerely religious which
nationalist the greatest egots and the most
grateful person I came across
Another German chancellor. Won Bueow. who had
so much trouble kaiser because OF his habit
of Quitting in diplomatic situations with personal
kilograms like the famous Kruger dispatch-a dispatch
which almost brought Britain and Germany blows
nneties-gave hint in the reichsag that he
irresponsible.
When Buelow being attacked for allowing the
kaiser commit many dangerous indscretions, he
said IF YOU ONLY KNEW WHAT l PREVENT"
Pope Leo XIII of the great world figures
who came with the kaiser when he a
young man The holy fathers estimate him is per
haps the most interesting of all Here it is
This young is obstinate and vain. and it it to
be feared that his reign win terminate if disaster
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14
THE SCARLET CROSS
BY
Margaret Widdemer
OF the VIgilantes-

S t tina you 10 today, lift
For al the Ithered n loss,
can you do lift o
We guard the hearbroken
We the wandering where all
We the and shell,
We the broken hopeless learning
Oh they red sign
We the nearly
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14
Bombardments Cannot
Drive This Woman Back
She Thinks Coffee for Soldiers
More important Than Safety.

The following extracts are taken
from letter written by n Red Cross
Canteen worker, Helen McElhone. an
American woman and college graduate
now located in a district almost con
stantly under bombardment
Foyer des Allies,
"Bar-le-Duc.
Things looly very black TO me.
am discouraged at the big outlook Of
nffalrs and also at my small doings,
but il may be the biachness that comes
before dawn. Let US hope so Our
men certainly need help now as much
as the poilus. l am beginning to
see those who have been at the
front. In fact. l am beginning 10 see
some Of the results OF this life. They
are sick nnd homesicl1. md worse
things have happened to them. Sew
eral have said All we ask IS to get TO
the front and do what we have to do.
Anything is better than this life. :
This morning we had more Americans
than have seen before at one time
One came up TO me here as ! was
drawing coffee from big marnlite as
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14
WHAT OTHERS THINK.

The Gary Tribune says in an astonishing editorial
that the Lincoln highway through Lake county is a
country road five miles from any town. and worth
improving
The Lincoln highway is maintained to produce
dollars for hotel keepers towns along it, II is
tiona institution II has been improved hundreds
counties with fraction of the wealth of Lake county
and in many of these the highway is impor-
tant towns.
The Gary paper has adopted the Stacker attitude as
regards road construction everybodyor- himself
instead of the altogether princple-Laporte Herald
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

fast as / could fill cups and. pointing
70 his pipe, said. Tobac, tobac.
said, DO you ant some tobaccoT He
seemed stunned for a moment and
then said: DO you know IL nearly
gave me a fit to hear you speak Eng
lish. | haven't heard a woman sneak
English IN five months He said he
had been walking about in the cold
since four o'clock last night. He
couldn't find hotel or a bright light
because, of course, everything is closed
and derkened on account Of the bom-
bardments. The Americans are
very fond of ham sandwiches They
eat much more than the French sol
diers, and when they first came In and
ordered sir eggs apiece it caused CON
sternation throughout the land. The
funniest thing Of all is To hear the
Sammies grandly urging these wealthy
English girls to keep the change-oh
keep the change We start the
day at five and work continuously m
I'll nine, when three fresh cantinieres
relieve US. At five we 20 on for the
evening shift from five to eight, and
II is the most exciting and exhausting
of the shifts There is certain time
when they come down on us like
flood. eight or ten deep around the
counter and three or four hundred al
together In this little room, as eager
and tired as schoolboys"
The foregoing letter indicates that
our soldiers look to the Red Cross
Canteen as an oasis in a desert. They
would not have 1t If it were not for
your Red Cross.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14
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THE AIRCRAFT INVESTIGATION.

The aircraft investigation is positively beginning
n smell worse than the Globe station stink factory when
the wind is borne over the lea from the southwest
It does not seem that Gutzon Borglum has acquitted
himself credaby although there may be more to his
plants than the people have any idea Of
They know one fact that almost a billion dollars
ten times more than was raised Red Cross has
been appropriated for aircraft production
We are not disposed to criticize the President but
somebody is not telling the truth and don't think it
is the President.
1t is claimed by some that there American.
built planes in France it is also there
thousands under way.
The quickest way for President Wilson to set the
minds OF the people rest is to give the fullest facts TO
the United Press and the Associated Press
The people have right TO know. The matter has
gone too far TO hushed up any longer
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

EVERY BODY who is worth anything
HAS IN nav ont more
suited
-
kINDHEARIED
THAT she viii marry some old
ehuckle-head past 40
IN order to be nice to him in his de-
Ginning years
A>-n rarbans hardly Give q second
rHotrc5r - tho fact
rrr,r ho Vas coolies ~ money
,,r,,- ~ .o,,o,,. rr,o ,as "a
chine
r,r,t--rr->-r,e u ~ - 1ser, !, r,nninr
a., 49,, 1900 o,,ns r.,,v,o,sIv
IF the darned thing mas something
Ha Ppe" ~ ~ ~ pN' ~ wa
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

you getting The Times make COM
the circulate departing emit
responsible for the return OF
unsolicited articles or letters and VIII not note als
rnou signed letters OF general
interest printed 81 dIscretion-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14
MIR. HoYNE.s GLORIOUS OPPORTUNITY.

Last the Hon Maclay Hoyne states attor
ney of Cook county motored from Chicago Gary
unheaved himself his opinion wicked this
county is. Mr.. Hoyne said about his own
preserves
The chances that the delectable Illinois state
official worrying wicked other counties
and is paying attention to his own. There con
tinues the of vice and awlessness in Burnham
West Hammond OF his county, the dives and saloons
there crowded with people who flock from dry"
Really it is tribute Mr. Hoyne that the Lake
county council defense has had pass
porng Illinois council of defense suppress
conditions that affect of the 10000 plants in
Lake county. AS long vice breeds Durham and
West Hammond long is material production in
terfered with here
One would think that MI Hoyne would show
aacrity and that it would be necessary for county
defense council to implore the Illinois council and the
department to act Both those units OF defense,
pecially department burdened with duties
voube public officials acted and talked less
war activities here would be improved.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14
TIE PRIMARY BURDEN.

From all Indiana there is story-a mis-
erably light vote in tho primaries The only people
who turned to vote the friends of those
ming for office and the faithful few-very few-who
public duty in assisting in the making of tickets
It will be recalled that when this precious primary
law of literally rammed down threats at
the behest of that greasy old charlatan William J.
Bryan. its advocates declared that it would be hailed
by the pee-pul as means of their deliverance from
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

DIR idea of self-indulgence
IS a whole nickel's worth of gum ia
one day.
THE gallant and hard-working maids
ARE certainly keeping the home gas
METERS buzzing
DOESN'T the supreme court realize
the need Of hurrying up that decision
THESE ryeless days.
SUBSCRIBER asks
IN the catalogue OF loot issued b.,
the Huns aid they include the
VALUABLE clock stolen by Prina
Eitel from q French chateau?"
DON'T know. Youu have to ask the
Custodian Of Stolen Property
vERwAHRER DIES GEsToHLENEN
EIGENTHUM. Berlin.
THERE are not grand iuries enough
IN the world
TO give every man just what he ought
70 get
THE Huns have new gas for the
Yanks
SAY. boys lasso the kaiser if YOU can
AND ven tie him to a post
N the middle Of the Calumet right
BELOW where the distillery used to
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

WE wonder whether President Wilson got that flock
sheep for the white house because he liked EN-
whether he did it escape running the lawn this
summer? We install sheep white house
but the missus sterny points to the lawn
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

NOW that the navy and departments have or
a cleanup States Attorney Hoyne of Chieago sud
denly is possessed with desire duty
ham and and West Hammond
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

THE only thing undesirable about that $75o0ooo0
gun plant the government is going to build l. that it
didn' start to build a year ago.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

NOW that we are all assembled here it is timely
announce that the wheat crop looks like whirwnd.
this Colt rnitt uns' and mitt the Huns
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

ONE way of helping to stick the kaiser is stick
2 few lhrift stamns YOUR card each week
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-05-14

Swift &Corrnpany
Made No Profit
The consumer would
pay only II cent a
pound less for his
dressed beef.
If Swift & Company
waived all profit on
cattle, and gave it to
consumers in the form of
lower beef prices, this
would reduce the cost
to the average consumer
less than25 cents per year
for all the beef he eats.
In fact, the packers pro-
fit is so insignificant that
if surrendered to the con-
sumner the effect upon
retail meat prices would
be practically nothing.
It is because of the
volume Of meat hand
led that the investor
in Swift & Con1pany's
business receives a salts
factory return upon his
money.
These figures for 1917
are convincing:
The profit of $1.2o
per head averages
Ia cent per pound
on dressed beef
Average Receipts:
Per animal for beef S68.o7
Per animal for by-products 24.09
S93.Oo
Average Disbursements:
Per animal for cattle on
hoof $84.45
Per animal for dressing,
selling and freight 1872
Net profit per animal 12o
$4,000
1913 Year Book of interesting and
instructive facts sent on request.
Address Swift & Company,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois
Swift & Company, US. A.
Evening star., 1918-03-29
|WOULDKEEP SCHOOLS
OPEN ALL THE YEAR
Supt. Thurston Cites Experiences Of
Other Cities, Showing Benefit
to Be Derived.

That the public schools Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia should be kept open
for twelve months every year was the
statement today of Ernest L. Thurston.
superintendent Of schools.
Confirmed in this belief by the ex-
periences Of school officials Of other
cities, who have found that keeping the
schools open for educational purposes
has resulted in speeding UP educational
work and lettering the standards Of
both pupils and teachers, Mr.. Thurston
today strongly urged that the District
schools be put under the quarterly sys-
tenn. With small vacations between
the quarters. This system will speed up
educational processes in Washington.
Last year about ZOO pupils were ac-
comm odated in grade schools open dur
ing the summer scattered throughout
the city. Two high schools were open
during the summer period Of about six
weeks. An appropriation estimate now
before Congress as part of the regular
District appropriations bill carries pro-
vision for money to permit many of the
District high and grade schools to re-
main open during the summer months.
In booklet compiled by the United
States bureau of education the follow
ing facts in favor OF keeping the
schools open in the summer months are
cited from various cities: Washington,
D. c. Number of children promoted and
strengthened. 252. a number equal to
six average classes. Salaries paid to
teachers for school semester would
amount to $4,000. Salaries paid for
summer tuition amounted to $505. max
ing a saving of $2,495. Alabama
Birmingham : Reduces retardation.
California. Pomona-Pupils advance q
quarter of a grade at about half the
cost of each quarter grade in regular
school. Georgia. .Augusta-Enables re-
tarded pupils to make up work; en-
ables bright pupils to graduate earlier.
At Eveleth. Minnesota, the all-year
school has grown out of a summer
school that has been successfully con-
Quoted for the past six or seven years.
The superintendent reports that a year
ago. when special efforts were made to
increase the enrolment of the summer
school to over SOC pupils. 1t was de-
cided to go over definitely to an all
year organization, consisting Of four
terms. spring. summer. fall and winter,
three school months in each term.
Evening star., 1918-03-29
ARE CONSIDERING PLANS
FOR SAVING SUPPLIES
Food Administration of3cials and
Proprietors Of Hotels and Restau-
rants in Conference.

Measures for the further conservation
Of foodstuffs. especially Of wheat. are
being discussed at a conference today
between hotel and restaurant proprie-
tors and officials of the United States
Food Administration. Prominent hotel
and restaurant men from all parts Of
the country are in attendance. The
sessions are being presided over by
John NICE. Bowman. chief Of the food
administrators hotel. restaurant and
dining car division.
At luncheon in the banquet room of
the New Willard today the present con-
servation necessities were explained by
Herbert Hoover and DR.. Alonzo e. Tay-
lor Of the hood administration. The ho-
tel and restaurant men pledged them
selves to do all in their power to carry
out the conservation policies Of the
food administration.
Following the sessions here today the
visitors will go to New York. where
they will spend the Easter holidays.
Evening star., 1918-03-29
MOVIES EXHIBIT PHASES
OF RED CROSS WAR WORK.
Speakers at Meeting Tell Why
$1oo,ooo0oo Campaign Fund
Is Urgently Needed.

New motion pictures showing the va
rious phases Of Red Cross war and civil
ian activities were shown at a meeting
OF the District Of Columbia Red Cross
finance committee at the New Willard
Hotel last night. Several speakers told
what the 800. .o0o. 900 raised last year by
the American Red Cross was used for and
outlined the uses to which the $1e0. .0o0, 900
to be raised in the campaign to begin
May 20 Is to be devoted.
The principal address was by John W:
Davis, solicitor general OF the United
States and, councillor of the American
Red Cros Cornelius N. Bliss. jr.. who
arrived in Washington yesterday from
New York, also addressed the members,
as did members Of the allied embassies
here. including Maj. c. H. Lyell. British
embassy; Gen. Emilio Gugliemotti, mill
tary attache, Italian embassy; Col. Dercle.
French Army Medical Corps. French en-
bassy; Alexandra Paternotte. secretary Of
the Belgian legation, and Lieut.. Col w
G. MacKendrick, distinguished service
order. who has come from Ottawa to
represent the Canadian Red Cross Society
Evening star., 1918-03-29
TRUCK FARMERS TO MEET
AND PLAN FOR SUMMER
Scarcity Of Labor Principal Topic
at District Building Conference
Tomorrow Afternoon.

District. Maryland and Virginia truck
farmers will meet in their third con-
ference at the District building tomor,
row afternoon to discuss plans Tor
meeting the labor shortage situation
during the coming crop season. Ed
ward F. Colladay, chairman of the gar
dens committee of the District Council
of Defense. will preside.
At the first meeting called by Mr.. Col
laday about thirty farmers stated that
they would plant greatly reduced
acreages this spring on account Of in
ability to obtain labor. A second con-
ference, held two weeks ago, was at
tended by seventy-five growers. who
izing the labor Of school boys and
women. They agreed to fOld neighbor-
hood meetings and ascertain il plant
ers in various sections would agree to
employ groups of woman workers Re
port as to what has been done in this
respect will be made at tomorrow's
meetink
some announcement tomorrow as to
plans for increasing shipments of food
stuffs to Washington via the Potomac
river and the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal. Both are natural food lines that
are not being worked to anything like
their possibilities. 1t is said that farm
ers of King George and Westmoreland
counties, Va. have been isolated from
the Washington market since the
steamers Wakefield and Majestic, which.
handled the bulk of the traffic along
the Virginia side of the lower Potomac
last year. have been transferred to the
government service. Residents of these
counties are understood to be preparing
a petition favoring the immediate con-
struction of the proposed Newport
News Short Line railway, which al
ready has secured rights of way
through their section.
Evening star., 1918-03-29
CHARGES A|RPLANEDE[AY|
TO SPIES IN THE PLANT
Senator Overman Also Declares That
There Are 100000 German Enc
mics in This Country.

Charging that the delay in furnish
ing combat airplanes to the American
Army was due to the activities Of Ger
man spies in this country. Senator
Overman of North Carolina declared
in the Senate yesterday afternoon that
If he were President he would COM
mandeer the Curtiss plant. turn out
every man in that plant and hire only
loyal Americans.
He charged there were at lease 400,-
900 German spies In this country.
"why have we no fighting machines
in France?" said Senator Overman.
why have we not carried out our
scnndule in furnishing on the first day
nl April 200 or 800 Bristow fighting
machines? That was the contract.
Thoy were to be fuynished. Why was
it not done? Because a German spy. as
any senator can see. had cut the steel
in two and filled it with lead and then
painted 1t over, and when the first
machine was tried out it fell to the
ground.
Steel Had BEEN Tempered With.
"a British officer an inspector of that
great plant. in order to see what was
steel had been tampered with That
delayed the building of the Bristow
machines for more than two months.
Why? Because every machine had to
be examined. and these pieces had to
be made over again. An investigation
had to be made. because the men max
ing the machines did not know how
these machines had been interfered
with and what other devilish work had
been done.
.If I were Secretary Of War or the
President Of the United States, I would
commander the Curtiss plant and turn
out every man in that plant. and hire
only loyal Americans and dispense with
those under suspicion. I want to say.
in passing, that some Of the leading
men In that plant have German names.
make no charges upon those men. They
may be innocent men. but they have
strange names to me. But we do know
that spies are in that plant. and they
have delayed the furnishing Of the
Bristow machines or fighting planes
on time to Pershing, and that Is the
cause of it,
Evening star., 1918-03-29
CLAIM HUN GUN CREDIT.
Madrid Press Declares spaniards In
vented superweapon.

MADRID. March 27.-The. Madrid
press is claiming for two Catalonian
Spaniards the credit for the Invention
Of the 1ong-range gun which has been
bombarding Paris. These Spaniards are
declared to have been working for the
Krupps on the invention since 1916.
The inventors. according to the press
accounts, offered the invention to
Spain and then to the allies, but in
neither case met with favorabl re-
sponse. The German consulate at Bar
celona. however. is said to have in
yestigated the invention and sent the
men to Germany in a submarine after
purchasing the idea.
The invention is explained as that
Of two or three subsidiary fuses de-
tonated in the flying missile, which
thus carries long distances.