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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

and sometimes two years salary in being elected?
Why should legislators be elected to Of
nee instead of easy? What is there in stringing
out campaigns for months? The present registration
and primary systems should be abolished entirely and
the old town meeting idea of forefathers adopted.
The state Of Indiana is old enough and wise enough 70
quit experimenting in election systems Other states
have done and have satisfactorily the problems
and there is why Indiana should do
for all.
Mr.. Killigrew who sat with the commission recently,
says of its first meeting:
Various opinions expressed relative to chang
ing the laws the discussion seemed to
trend along the Ire Of retaining the present primary
system it applies to congressman and all county
and township officials but aboshng it governor
and United States These last officials 10 be
nominated under the present system by delegates to
the convention who were selected the primary.
The objections raised the present system as il
applies the nomination of governor and United
States senators that OF moderate means could
not aspire to these Offices because of the gigantic ex
pense attached making statewide campaign at the
primary and election
1T the unanimous opinion of the assembage
that the present registration be repealed and
other such law established in its place 1t suggested
that registration be held in the rural districts not more
frequently than every four and in the cities every
years and that registration be held in the voting
precincts on primary election day with the assistance
additional clerk; (he fact of person voting at
primary held itself registration of such
voter With another registration 10 be held sixty or thirty
days before the fall elections register voters who
failed at the preceding primary.
Suggestions were also made relative to making the
absentee voters law applicable and TO increase the
pay members Of the election boards
The voters Of Lake county. who always prone
<make complaint existing evils during campaigns
should realize that this is the time act
These Mr.. Killigrew points out vitality con
of this section and he is espe
ciav anxious be able at this weeks meet
ing the sentiment of this region. He will be glad K
these suggestions before the commission that it may
upon their practicablity and value What do tbs
taxpayers of Lake county want? Now is the time fo
them to speak they their interests heart
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
WHAT ABOUT TAXES?
feeling is

The amazing amount OF taxes that OF the
cities towns Lake county have pay is proof
that has when the defenseess taxpay-
the things that the coming legislature do is to
pass a taxing that is just. The Indianapolis
News says that Evansville people have organized a
league purpose of which is bring about reduc-
Evansville and Vanderburg county.
the first meeting Of the organization charges
made the farmer does pay fair share of the
The has yet been heard from but ii
is safe that he has replied TO this charge
In prosperous county good farm land be
bought for 800 Frequently the sell.
ing price is twice much When the
lists that land taxation he often values $50
$50 an acre The assessor knows this is low and
also. but thus the always has
been done the instructed that they
must "equalize shaving little here and adding lit
Most of the poorly paid and the
highest class of always be hired for this
work
The farmer protests against higher assessment
he says that the city is getting off even
more easily he If the city has 500 10
money and lists it, he il assessed 800 If he has
800 in bank and the marketable twice
its par value, the rule is 10 it at = cen :
on the dollar. Just why this is done is mystery.
Meanwhile every sells and lists his property
low The system is blame and when the legislature
its gravest problems will he the passage
taxing that is fair, comprehensive and will
make full collections possible.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
FOR A NEW ELECTION SYSTEM.

Among the problems that confront the legislative
session Indianapolis that upon pres
ent unsatisfactory primary registration and general
ton laws and Republican County Central Chairman
Kligrew who has by of illness the family of
former Chairman E. NJ Norton been acting
rich commission to amend and revise these laws is
anxious to express the sentiment this region the
coming meeting next Friday Indianapolis
II is not necessary to go into detail show the
in which the present primary law is unsat-
isfsctory. That has been established The complaints
bipartisan. The present primary laws greatest
lection is its cost. There is something vitality wrong
with election system that prevents anyone but the
wellto-do for standing at election poor
not make primary campaign and election campaign
The expense is prohbitive 1t costs than the
rage afford TO squander county race.
but to for congress- senate governor under the
present system is expense that only few afford
the democratic and republican parties admit that.
A ideal election system is that obtains for sim
licty. What is the of two campaigns? Why should
a man who desires TO the people honestly and
oleanlv be compelled spend his first years salary
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

MAYBE you remember the good old
times when you could
GET niekel's worth of cheese and
crackers
AND really have some Of
BOTH when you left the store.
BOSTON is said 10 be one of the
greatest yarn producing centers in the
world
1T isn't in it with Amsterdam or even
HAMMOND for that matter.
COMMENTING on the fact that Mr..
and Mrs Wilson when
IN buckingham palace slept in bed
ONCE occupied by the kaiser
a RUDE contemporary wonders how
often
QUEEN Mary changes the sheets.
BILL Hohen1olIern is said to have
recovered from
HIS chill
WE'LL. he has a lot more coming.
NOW that peace has come
WE understand that the neighDor
women are
PREPARING to give more time
40 the discussion as to which wears
the more clothes
ANNETTE KELLERMAN or Thcda
Bera
AND while we have not been invited
WE feel that arrangements might be
made for US
TO take an exofficio part as it were.
WE understand that the clown prinz
wants to
SELL a $4,000 fur oyercoat
PROBABLY he's afraid that the reai
owner might
COME along and demand it.
OUR idea OF afluence
! Is TO sit down to the breakfast table
without having any one
| SAY: You could have had another
/ egg you know but
THEY are ten cents piece now
WE note that the milk price fixers
have been warned
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
FIREPRooF COAL.

Or. Garfield and his assistants, let be hoped.
will not take it amss. deem interference
the efforts of the United States carry the
to something encouraging the belief prevalent
in quarters, that coal delivered to consumers
AT the price fxedsby the government should be COM
patriots that coal at. say. $1150 per in the
should exhibit a tendency toward ignition when
posed to fire If il is treason to expect that coal shall
burn. there surely ought to be ruling that point
for the protection of the otherwise loyal who mani
fest signs of revolt upon discovering the coal
for which they have paid the fixed price reproof
Christian Science Monitor
The poor benghted creatures who. yielding to the
cry of Wolf, Wolff! the part of DR. Garfield and his
lesser supernumsries last spring. heaven and
earth 10 get few tons of socalled anthracite
bins, have now lived to it and call down anahema
on the heads of the fuel administration We plenty
OF these scared around these diggings They
the anthracite for which they paid $1 Of slate
stone and non-combustibe material They load up their
furnaces when they to bed only find the fire out
when they get in the morning They find the residue
in the ash % ashes and rs per clnk
ers In other words they paying SO ton for
real coal. Their patriotism cost them pretty penn!
and all the they have they put thmbe
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

HAS anybody kept tab
on the number of warnings already
given
AND the distressing results to
CONSUMERS?
AS matter of fact
AN editor is a person whom-o out of
every
TEN people have very little to do with
UNLESS they want to skin him alive
and then
| BOIL him in oil.
| PROBABLY now that the war is over
| THE new khaki handkerchiefs will go
out of style
AS they make a mans social promi-
nent
FRIENDS think that he hasn't got
clean one
ON occasions when he really has.
! WE have almost decided
To see if there isn't some serum
| treatment
J THAT can be given the neighbor's cat
AGAINST entertaining gentlemen nd
mirers
FROM Ruth and Carroll streets
BETWEEN 10 and in tho morning
T. HAVE you a fiat back?" Asks an
! exchange
WHO you Iudin at anyway? Our
backs our business.
THE greatest trouble with the hus-
band
WHOSE wife complains that he
doesn't love
HER is that he
HAS to hustle so much that he don't
HAVE time for loving.
PERSONALLY we always hurry out
and cream all the snow off our front
walk right away
so that if We should happen in on a
Mormon
MISSIONARY sometime and throw
him down the
STEPS We wouldn't have to pay GAM
ages
FOR having him slip and break his
neck
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
y - - - - - -
REMEMBERING FLOWERS.

The other day we saw covey of ladies pass floral
display in of the stores. No. they didn't exactly
pass. but stopped to look and admire. They we're &C
quainted with every flower; called by and show
cred 1t with their smiles. They seemed to make such
pleasant company for the flowers They passed Cd and
small herd of men up. They looked at the flow
ers in tired sort of and didn't of them
except carnation which they took for a rose What a
difference there between the way sexes regarded
the flowers The female soul and the flowers
in Eden the day and they have companions
ever since. The masculine soul understand the
ecstacy of flower. Their hearts are too
hard to recognize the divine afatus As proof that
the masculine heart is of with the infinite
assured that when is told the flower
he cannot remember it "A hours have been told a
cosmos forty times but today get with the
narcissus Indeed about the only flower we are abso
lutely of is a johnny .umpup
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
GERMAN FLAG YES. OTHERS NOT.

Deep problems for thought seen in the postwar
conduct and inner feeling of some Of the German born
this country Its bitterness out in in
teresting fashion and then. An instance which
speaks for itself recently under the writer's OBJ
servation
The principal is a weLknown and prosperous pro
fesisonal who born in Germany but came to
this country when he a child His wife is young
American
She wanted some flags for ornaments with her Holt
day decorations and said her husband Il wish you
would get allied flags when you go down town
o go with my holly wreaths.
He fairly snorted, Yes I'll get you some allied flags
NOT. You'll put allied flags in house. If you
want American flag and German flag I'll get them
for you, but allied flags? | guess not"
The irritation perhaps not hard 10 understand
but naturally led wonder just how general the
feeling is.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

SOMETHING ought to be done by the legislature to
put unsavory diseasesofmen doctors of bust
ness especially those who advertise Consultation free
then the benghted foreigner for "examina
ton. Why have examination" when your ills have
already been diagnosed without examination
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
Lieutenant l.. n. Ryan. formei

IIcUfFNaHt u. n. RHYME y IUFEHVT
Gary physician in a L. 5. hospital at
alta 405 Tyler street The Lieutenant
is actively identified in the eye, ear
end nose department of the hospital
and was detailed to assist in the in
huenza epidemic which ragged severe
~ at the Philadelphia camp. The Lieu
tenant expects to be discharged from
the service in three or four months
when he win resume his practice in
the steel city
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
Lit. walter Black. uo..r, who

been in camp in New Jersey. has been
discharged from service and returned
TO Hobart this week to visit with rel
atives in Mandene, n. ID. His wife join
ed him in the east a couple OF weeks
ago and they visited places of inter-
est in the east before returning.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

George Hornett. Whiting. is home
from Camp Merritt, \. j., on short
furlough.
Corporal VIM. f. Kyle, whiting. has
returned to Camp Taylor. Ky. after a
five day furlough.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
Mrr. II. J. NichoIs. Lowell. ha. re

ceived letter from her son. Huron,
Who is in France. it was over two
months since she had heard from him
and she was getting worried, but in
the letter he told her he had written
several times but had no chance to
mail the letters. He was with the ar
my of occupation in Germany. ...
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
Lieutenant John Drummond. rndia.

Harbor. is expecting to be transfer,
to Detroit. Michigan, where he viii
attached to the big Ford hospital
that city Three other dentists Wa
are with him at Camp Mcclellan vii
accompany him. Lieutenant Drum
mond has enjoyed rapid rise sine,
entering the army. He started in a
assistant camp dental surgeon At Nc
Clellan. Ala
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
@aHEARDFRo SolDIERs%SAIloR Ska

Captain G. c. BaSsett, only son of
Rev. T. J. Bassett pastor of the First
Methodist church, has returned from
France with the 11Tth field artillery
and expects soon TO be mustered out.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

Henry HIATT, whiting, has returned
to Camp Taylor. after a short fur
Tough here visiting his mother. Mrs.
John HIATT and his sister. Mrs. Arthur
d. Heyden.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
cnntatn chidlnrr. Hnmmora. !.

New Jersey al : debarkation hospital
and getting some wonderful exper-
fence in surgery. according to letters
he sends home TO friends. We see a
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

The casualty lists the past week re-
port two Riverdale boys wounded in
battle-otte Marbeth and Aipert j
Berschinski- Karl Beesman. who was
reported seriously wounded writes his
friend. Earl Dumas, he lost one foot.
but is on the way TO recovery.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
stephen MnIer. WhItina. membe,

of the 452nd Engineers. who was sta
toned at Washington. D. c. was
transferred to Camp Custer. Michigan,
where his regiment was demobilied
and he was given his discharge from
The service.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

oscar y. AhiEreb' ihoi""" H'"Oi
ar instructor in the aerial school Of
photography. stationed at Rochester.
\. Y. has received his discharge and
spent Christmas with one of his pals.
Alderman Carlson of Grapevine street.
Mr.. Ahlgren Will resume his law stud
les at Yale
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

Dor. an attaehe OF the uuartermaster's
department at Camp Harrison. is the
guest Of his uncle and aunt. Mr.. and
Mrs J. ". Lees for few days. He
came Christmas eve on a Eve dsy FUR
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

MIR. and Mrs. Guy CievinEer. Lowell,
have received a letter from their son.
Adrian, who has been in France for
severel months. He was still in the
hospital from the effects OF wounds.
but was getting nearly well ana hoped
10 be sent home in short time.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
IN MEMOR.IAM

IN MEMoRIAM
eoprpT :, - @ war with Germany and Austria Hungary
Aas MAC AN E Ind Dor died t Fl oslshorpe
RANK MaANET n b i d s A9 nstf July ,si7
oH sAm shs Hammond died at Lion sprnss as
ROBERTSON cary. IN frame s.s oes 81 =
~ t r ai Ss: 1 snsa at T r9sse a9s s p,
5Htt G5f p s LSNo
wAHp G kosTkADL Hobart, Explosion IN France Dec -
Sni @ a n sisa n la sPa ,S boat
EG iIoR6 6ftI FPy ahoid s1i9 a IL
camp A ssn Sn9 93as Ap ,,,s
re es 5Ae ds f ss ls sd u1is 5a I 4 n
sk5c smnon ORD x dsR 6 DIED a Phs1fiPas 2is
rGc Sia TR a ad Sa sa saef June
SSS T "a: s:s;s aSs .}so s:n June "a
S p s soa!d a'. .Ga 5aiy s6
sE soRsS SH dss9 Es l. sss .
5..s dsT E sSS9S 5 Is &
sfS #s SSSR %si f.;s :s 5sy Is ana
44 M s Fl Ian t9 sS s Ss Ss4s a$s
nj s Sss Isr;' lsi S l'i'
SHOWER Indiana in action.
Msq 2oc S cary f IN sa In aS gd2 June
ALIIi coLThoiP Gary; died in France Of disease
STEVE R E s c asa sn on g5anss Aug
ROY NOEL Indiana Iaroor; killed action France
rAIToS DAyIs & tins in action
~fS' 5u; sept 1s |"
1UssELl WALDO coon cary killed
ARTHUR o wIs1zMAN Hobart Co k F. A. pneumon1s sept Is
T AET HAMMOND Tors Spanish Spanish Inf inf Sent Sent 80
JOHN Gary action. ~
1Tso miiTciE Cary died at camp erant SPANISH pa Gt
p4Es o eary Camp Sherman Spanish asn a"'9 influenza
rEFc9 I'm AinsHh p oneu p E Oct
LIEUT. Il = lASt IN amp custer influenza
Y p PrIseH L&"e 9 lamp c aag0G .Hnuenzs Oct
JoHN vbns spanish ina Ab Spanish nh Oct
RAY JACKSON indiana aT Dor F0r s Tex Span inh
Lowell Columbus; Spanish Is
HaDEES 5uiS France Gea
q o II france
xENAKs lr&ana aarDor; Spanish inf Jefferson Oct H.
E<EMAN Dyer died French hospital sept a.
< oGcloFr Halnond Dodge spanish inH oet September
EMIL nAsE east chfsso on A sFsb in acton o France July
MILO THOMAS Lowell n pital ~
ogqlEY Gary died in sssnP nauon1a Oct 81
TEAN l4 nT Hapa o diea from 1r WOUNDS pPTanon
EDWARD AIoT a1nd S da a France oo oct
ROBERT JOKES Gary: killed in acton France Sept IL
CORP Jos AUsTGEs Itammona died from wounds Oct
GU1sEPPI rITEG3INo Gary killed in action Oct 20
Indiana Harbori killed
oFPEEaAN Hammond s; killed in action
sERGT D Hammond wounds IN Oct Is
isESaART Point killed med
ANGELO NANs Gary: wounds received in aotiOn
sEFG To SANS Gary dies wounds received in a e
BoEsEl orG ,1.I Point ii. died IN
killed /. in France
died in
EDA Hobart led, "a
w. in
killed in action Nov
w 7. n France
FRA whiting in De-
ar
JANfE killed
TAMEs Nov /
OH ] in Franc
MARTIN n actor Sept
II w. dent Oct
W. eAprI77
W S. E. died
W. France July
LEI in aetion,O Oct
Wal, s. w. Hal died Of disease France
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

Dupes. son of p. w. Dupes. OF Indiana
Harbor to the effect that this young
man, who has for months been a pris-
oner in q German prison camp. has
been sent to France. Mr.. Dupes. Sr
is now in hopes that he will soon be
on his way home
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

Lieut.. j.. r. stewart, of RiverdaIe. is
there on furlough visiting relatives.
Heiwas one Of the government traffic
experts with headquarters at Pitts
bure
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

THE Germans the occupied disconnected
Berlin. dispatch. Well let the doughboys
take Berlin then They can do it.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
sereeant ON Coz. formerIy q COR,


postoffice clerk is back from Fit. Mon
roe. where he has been in the radio
service for several months. He has
been discharged from the service and
viii enter college in the near future.
Sergeant Cox is visiting his parents.
MI and Mrs Charles Cox at Hammond.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

William Bones, of Cleveland avenue,
Rooertsdale, who is serving in the
Marine Corps. returned to Paris Island,
South Carolina, after spending a
weeks furlough with his cousin. Mrs.
Rhinesperger OF Myrtle avenue.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
Hugo FiaeId. Hobart. who hs. he.

in the service during the past few
months. has received his discharge
and visited in Hobart with relatives
this week.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

Corporal. John. McNeiIE.. Whiting,
who was home over Christmas, has
returned to Camp Grant. II.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30
Melvin Nonnett. Hammond. has re

ceived word from the brother. the ever
popular "Flabby' that he expects TO
be shipped from overseas any day.
Floyd is now with a base hospital
company.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

b. j. SWEETS and Hiram Wander
Woude. are at home at South Hol-
land. having been dismissed from the
training camp. but John Shilling. Jr..
Leonard l. ssnteford and d. II. P. De-
Young are home on furlough.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

Tough. Mr.. and Mrs. Lees nave not
seen this nephew in years
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-12-30

hundred fractures a day" writes
Child"
New Britain herald., 1918-01-31

instead of sleepy youths strolIing
along the streets with their hands in
their pockets being lowed along by
dogs, large or small, such as one often
saw in the days before the war one
sees today on the college walks youths
OF alert expression, vigorous gait,
erect carriage and a general appear
ance of purpose and dignity
This is a. description by Mrs. Ar
thur T. Hadley wife of the president
of Yale university, Of one OF the bene-
fits of military discipline in college
life. Mrs Hadley is a member of the
committee on women's activities of
the Connecticut State Council of De-
Tense. She has two sons in the army,
one of whom is a major, and she has
been active in the organization Of. the
Reserve Officers Training Corps and
the Yale Training Unit, of the uni
versity. She says Of the student SOL
diers and sailors:
The first i'm preston that a person
who has been familiar for many years
with Yale students receives in observ-
ing the college men of today is that
the men in uniform are in a state Of
extraordinarily good health. OF course,
this may be due partly to the fact
that the physically unfit have been
rejected in the beginning. But it is
even more due to the fact that the
normally healthy man profits at once
New Britain herald., 1918-01-31

and continually from care as tn food
and sleep. AS soon as it becomes the
goal Of a man to beb fit for service
ne taxes great care as to these thinss
even If they are not a fixed reorire-
ment.
In addition to this every man is
anxious to become an officer That
means that he attends to what he is
dolng with an alertness and interest
Inc change in the facial expression
OF the average undergraduates has
been frequently remarked. Instead ~
the sleepy youths strolling along the
streets with their hands in their
pockets, being towed along by dogs
large or small, such as one often saw
IN the days before the war one seq
today on the college walks youths o
alert expression, vigorous gait, erecI
carriage and a general appearance 81
purpose and dignity.
II am told that the change is ais
nouceable in more effectiveness and
eagerness in the class rooms. When
a man realizes that he may soon be
of age to leave college and go over
there, he begins to appreciate keenIy
a number Of advantages in college
work and life that had not occurred
to him when his studies were part
Of routine plan of higher education
that he was absorbing without great
effort on his part