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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28
0NE-PRICE PLAN
FOR SEASON
Problem of Adjustment Put Up
to Industry.

FyET9 HAT the solution to the prob
lem Of adjusting bushes
k8s4AG conditions is function
- which industry itself mas
undertake is reflected In tn,
avalanche Of replies received to a let
ter recently sent out by the Lakewood
Engineering Company, Cleveland, {
reproduction Of q few of which are
shown herewith.
Believing that price IS most 20
tent factor. this company announced
its decision TO make price periods OF
not less than six months, with a view
OF bringing about common under
standing between the producer OF
manufacturer and his consumer. and
q definite establishment Of confidence
between the two.
New Price Revolution.
Irving Fisher. professor of political
economy OF Yale University. has writ
ten an article which was presented
TO the governors and mayors confer
ence at the White House in Washing
ton, In which he said, Business men
should face the facts. To talk rev.
erentiy of 1913-1914 prices IS to speak
q dead language today. The buyers
of the country, since the armistice,
have made an unexampled attack upon
prices through their waiting attitude.
and yet price recesslons have been In
significant
IL In interesting to observe that
many manufacturers think that prices
must come down, Including the price
OF labor, but they are ready TO dem
onstrate to you that their own prices
cannot come down, nor can they pay
lower wages Almost everything they
buy somehow costs twice as much as
twice as dear. They cannot pay their
labor If labor IS to meet the increased
cost OF living. As matter Of fact
when we investigate any individual
one OF the so called high prices we
are likely to find that the individual !
price Il not high, that IL Is not high |
relatively TO the rest Everyone /
Seems to have lost the sense of value. |
I In the review of history conditions /
before and subsequent to war. there
is not one instance where prices have
receded to a pre-war level. The dew
astaHons OF this war have affected the
United States less fndustrially than
any other nation participating. Ire
mendous demands created by the war
have expanded production with conse-l
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28

q record OF all It's transactions. Upon
receipt OF the farmers complaint the
manufacturer looked up the previous
sale TO which the farmer referred. He
found that such a sale had been made
and that the farmer paid for the
buggy not IN money but with a ship
ment Of wheat The manufacturer
then replied to the farmer, giving a
complete record OF the transaction and
ne made this proposition: IF you
viii ship to me for your new ol-gy
the sau .a amount OF wneat yon shir,r 81
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28

qcent increased wages TO such a point
that in period of four years they
are practically doubled
The average increase of building
materials In the same period has been
but s. per cent The recession in
building material prices during the
last four months has almost been in
visible.
Product Prices Higher.
A short time ago a farmer asked a
buggy manufacturer for a price on a
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28


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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28

certain type of vehicle. Upon receipt
of the quotation the farmer wrote the
manufacturer accusing him Of prof
teering" and similar high commercial
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28

crimes and misdemeanors. In justif-
cations Of his charges ne reminded the
manufacturer that he (the farmer)
had once bolSh a very similar buggy
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28
Action Necessary.

The only economic solution for tha
problem OF unemployment, the only
way TO obviate further unemployment
IS 70 overcome the present inertia by
bringing into activity the enormous
potential buying power. which we ell
know exists.
Judging from replies to the suggest
ed lone price for the season plan
industry itself intends to overcome
this inertia The replies come from
every conceivable Industry and from
every state in the Union and they
were e9.4 In favor OF doing for them
selves without waiting for someone
else to set the pace.
It is the purpose OF the National
Prosperity Campaign. an organization
with It's headquarters at the Commo-
dore Hotel in New York, supported by
members of industries, to further this
spirit through the trade and business
press of the country.
The only way for business to have
people know what is good for BUSH
ness IS TO take the people into its conf
dence and get them thinking and act
Ing on those things which are good for
business on the theory and good sense
that whatever is good for business is
good for the people as a whole and
that whatever IS good for the peonIe
is Sc ca0S p h,uStaa~x
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28
Industry United ON Plan 60 Stabilize
LETS CO.

II every person who reads this
: article will take up the slogan
: LET'S Co.. put It across and
get everybody thinking, doing
and going, everybody acting
without waiting for someone
else. nothing can stop America.
no person. no business, no M
ton ever got anywhere by wait
ing on someone else. The sue
cessful one Is the one who does.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28

from the same factory at a price far
below the price now quoted. The
manufacturer operated one Of those
systematic businesses that .nasntains
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-05-28

for your old one, we will shin the
buggy, and in addition will ship you
piece OF household furniture and
kitchen stove"
1t is fact that the products of the
farm can today be exchanged for be-
tween 10 and 30 per cent. more of
manufactured articles than ever be-
fore
In the face OF prosperous conditions
obtaining in the retail stores Of the
country, the situation is somewhat dlf.
ficult to analyze. On the other hand.
these merchants are not repienishing
their supplies, manufacturers are not
buying their raw materials, foreign
buyers In this country are holding
back the orders which they came to
place. awaiting a settlement of condi.
tons, In the belief that there may be
some recession In prices
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05
PRESIDENT WILSON'S ILLNESS


HE ILLNESS of Mr. Wilson proves that he too is flesh
 A and blood; subject to the ailments of men. It quite thinking of the who entrusted with the settlement of the world that they different than other able endure therefore to be aided their tas but only shouted a and abused that things may become harder for them to do.
 Undoubtedly like Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemen- do rule contain than equal number ofaverage certain amount of vry of sheer physical is to large and successful stronger take them in the aggregate than their fellows.
 But the of physical is not probably much greater than the normal The burdens tonal leaders, tending to ourun their strength Let hose therefore, who not entrusted with the duty of guiding events make the task easier for those who have the duty surely easier for the American President to carry his work if he is conscious of enthusiastic and undivided port
 To be the President knows that America is back of him. He it through such circumstances the straw votes the League of Naons which stand than three to favor of the Covenant and by other signs
 The voice of acrmony loud. The sound of prejudice envy and hatred is murder takes newspaper than righteous deeds the comparatively ing opposition to the Presi tmaes appearance out of proportion to it's importance in America not only solidarity but the appearance Help the President do his work Give him support
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05
MIR. FORD ON DIVORCE

PON THIS appears article on marriage and di- O vorce, written by Henry Ford in which he discusses title FOrds Own Page, of the difficulties welded fe and suggests making marriage happier.
 MT. Ford may be regarded expert in this field He employed many thousands of whose well being he his thoughtful Under his system ami- lies have been econced and the principles of martial justice have been incucated with successful thOroughness.
 At least the most casual reader will be impressed with the Fords ideas of how to make home py which mparted by the Laura Jean Libby advisers Mr. Ford speaks the language the words of real wisdom; shows that the which to other enterprises should be brought to the great enterprise of matrimony.
 who not successful in his home is not a The unhappy at home is not in first class form goes to business The happy home is economic quantity It stands for many values.
 simple truths exhibited by Mir Ford in plain thought anybody understand be helped
 Times has obtained from Mr. Ford permission print week MT Fords Own Page just it appears week Fords periodical The Dearborn Independent
 this interesting and valuable feature the attention inc readers o The Times is soberly directed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS
CFrom The Farmer, April 7, 1869)

The gentleman who made that bet with the Towa Clerk wi" pease walk 10 the captains and settle" Some account of the 5o which up missing will al the same time be expected 'Toe the mark No lodging"
 The fire department notified their present organizations until further orders chief of the depart ment. ---
 manufacory for twine and cordage of every description to be established in this city the premises belonging to James IT, Moore, on the point having been rented same
 Hatch Watson, bankers, offering few Rockford Rock Island St. Louis per gold bonds at par and currency interest The loan has negotiated and only a few bonds remain to be sold
 The fine pieces of music by Professor Louis Has selmayer which he plays scientifically the Stvocarfe and known Idas Mazurka and Pauline Medley the latter comprising American airs be had arranged for the piano at Clarke Bishs music State street bv those them.
 The Bridgeport Union School will give grand exhibition at Franklin Hall Thursday night April 8th consisting of music dialogues, charade acts &c handsome program will he presented Admission ? cents. Park Hill. Principal
 Farmers Look Up Ritchie alive yet! wants 100 tons of Rye Straw, the month of August will give S48 per ton, cash. delivery to his mills.
 He fill all orders for Paper.-Straw Mania--Tea Paper. &c, at a low figure. for cash,
 Farmers with your Straw, for he may have large order for straw Washington Ritche Booth
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05
SOLVING TROLLEY PROBLEMS

IA R. LASHAS method for dealing with the trolley situa 4V1 ton in Bridgeport will work cut under cond tion that the rental be paid the Connecticut Company not too,excessive.
 The Connecticut trolley lines operated by the Connecticut company be worth something than $3O0OOO treat physical properties these lines about the payments for rental than mil lion dollars year.
 The trouble with these properties began in the imitation of their vaues; the of millions of dollars more in securities than the properties worth.
 Had the lines been wisely built, and wisely operated, and return sought for the capital invested in them than return the actual investment in property used for the pub lie, there would be trouble five cent fare would have returned pros which would be represented splendid physical property surplus strong Gibraltar.
 Nr Lashar offers the only immediately promising solution of the difficulty His attack the problem, if it works out would solution eseWhere what be done Bridge port can be done in other cities
 It is difficult however, to escape the conclusion that it would be better the long if the trolley properties of Con- neccut allowed to travel their destined to receiv ershp from which they might be reOrganzed sound bu principles,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05

But, they do They cannot help it. They change hecause they grow. He becomes of a man, she more or woman. He becomes critical hot necessarily in his manner, but in his insight she opens her eyes also. If the truth told prob ably the woman who comes to the balanced of matters first
 Dreams cannot last forever would a pity if they should For the realities are better.
 But the passing of the dream is a dangerous period Tor 1t tends to make or the other, times both, to feel that they have been tricked.
 However, they have been tricked. dred to one they have not married unwisely. They are simply going through a normal experiences moultng period, it were.
 But there is the first danger. the suspicion that they have married unMiselY.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05
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The second danger is more to be feared namely the false belief that the first the life is nothing but misery waiting in the future.
 Now the fact is that the first part of marriage is not the best. It seems be a time; outside beholders are betrayed into thinking it but it is not. It may be ecsatic spring like, more ruled by the stormier emotions of joy.
 But after a1I there no happiness like that of Darby and Joan at their fresdes many years aftershe bit deluded but knowing him to be true man, and he not a bit de- luded about her but knowing her to be and both loving each other more deeply than they ever did before, but perhaps not saying
 It should be incorporated into marriage cerez monies, so that young folks would be deluded when it arrives, that time of change will when young affection will begin to make room for something deeper and more enduring
 It should be impressed young and that is this latter time they really playing for that all of inconveniences and dis borne wisely for the sake of the better understand ing and the better loyalty which is in later years.
 life men play for the distant prize In marriage the prize is to be Loyalty understood 25 from the wedding day It is worth everything to achieve that , If this second danger the danger of thinking the first part the best be avoided the of domestic life is usually safe.
 All this, however. takes no account of those far too many homes which have snagged both rocks. Because husband and wife think that the fading the early glamour is proof of their having made a mistake and because they mistakenly think that the end must necessarily be greyer and goomier than the beginning, there is much bitterness in the
 There is hardly any bitterness one can conceive that approaches the bitterness of married couple who fancy they have made a mistake.
 That is why olr divorce courts busy.
 But observe this: There more mistaken di- vOrces than there mistaken marriages.
 We don't need divorce courts in this country half much need Courts of Explanation and Courts of Reconciliation and Courts of Understanding.
 When you have divorced two people you have simply turned soured souls into society else a souring influence others.
 The most powerful argument in favor of the di- grist that divorce is in the interest of the happiness of the parties concerned and society; and that argument is completely neutralized by the fact that the hapnness of those parties often consists in saving their marriage than in destroying il.
 A certain lawyer who did large divorce business. reformed and for the purpose of making experiment for his satisfaction began be the friendly adviser of all who applied him obtain divorces for them. Their application the door for his inquiries, and he found himself able in all but negligible percentage of be able effect a good understanding and reconciliation.
 Our progressive communities also the folly of grinding divorces wholesale They establishing intermediary courts where applicants for divorce may be with.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05
SHAVING THE TENS OF THOUSANDS

~ AUL-IIAS slain his thousands; David his thou - sands. Such, in loose quOtaOn the language those who praised the slayer of Goliath.
 slain its millions and prevenabe diseases their millions The campaign against the social maadies Nyise timely, necessary and sure to be successful.
 Themillions American boys who have been fighting mankind been taught what to fail in the M persona the soldiers have brought civilian Bridgeport in the film, Win be shown at Polls Sunday afternoon.
 Fulay direction of better things is pamphlet Know Enemy under the mprmatur of the State partmen Health of which everybody who the film will getAascopy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05
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Domestic happiness is not only of private import ance- It is the worlds business, ness, how dOmestic life 4 many desirable conditions in the present day by the untoward domestic conditions.
 Take a shop which is manned by O unhap- home life and compare it with a manned bv men whose home life happy, and you will see a vast difference in the quality quantity of the output. Moreover, you will a difference n the wisdom and reaSOnableneSs with which the manage their private and industrial affairs
 The business who is in domestic difficulty. and who is doing anything clear is up against the strongest kind of competition would be interesting sociological investigation to how many business failures have been con nected with domestic failures.
 A mans first success ought be n his home
 There two and II of the globe no matter how much they may prate about affinity, difference of temperament and "incom- patibiiy," who could not together make K cellent home, that attract the widest and worthiest circle of friends, if they only to-
 And 1t would be worth doing. be the strongest asset either of them could have
 There is a banefuI connection between domestic failure and every other kind of failure.
 But cheating the domestic bogie means team work It means talking it together. It means compromise here and there. It experiments, with her way of managing matters, now with his. It means bear and forbear' old-fash- toned rule that only shall be grouchy a time. It means a sense of humor, too, for the oldest wisest of us only boys girls
 But perhaps it means first deepest of all the solid fact that domestic difficulty absolutely pre- inevitable It is preventable. through ig- norance will ii is prevented, then it is very far from the necessity of going through to a break up, for it curable.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05

Of Connectcuts insane, twenty per cent insane a maladies. mbecies, half feeble the parents contracted the dies Ten cent of all blind and 80 cent of the infant bnd cut off from the light of the by the social maa dies.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05

vor, will be a neighborhood abhorrent, a peril apparent, a threat impossible, a something to be utterly obliterated.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05

The vast number of surgica to which woman are submitted monest of these social maladies.
 The duty of men is simple. pamphlet, Know the Enemy" District, upon which municipal
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05

operations of the major type
 arise from one of the com
 See Fit to Win" Read the From thence the Red Light authorities look often with ia
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05

Mr Ford's Letter Saturday Feature on this page.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-05
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It is not to be expected that this official iater- Tenton for the sake of preventing is going 10 be fully successful In the first place, ton of adviser in such matters should be cial at al but friendly In the second place. ficial adviser seldom type person knows the profounder phases of the problem with which he deals In the third place, the people whose domestic life is most worth saving the people whom these intermediary institutions hesitate deal
 Yet it is true that husband and wife in circunl- stances of domestic bitterness. possesse the means of coming understanding by themselves. It is of the this difficulty people Who of all the people in the world closest to each other, should in their most important concerns be farthest apart. so it Is and it Is far from being the only presents.
 There be some outside influence from their condition influence cannot be effective unless the man and them selves adopt spirit of simplicity and regard them selves boy and a grown girl who have forests. Only in this spirit they profit by which the heart of friendIincss the wisdom of experience would offer them.
 If it could be made clear as matter of educa- ton public information that changes O tenpera- ture in the married life not abnormal but per fectly natural if it could made clear the day of dreams comes to end and the day of grown up reality begins if it could be strongly ed that teamwork, teamwork and again teamwork IS the chief rule of domestic suCcess-absolute fidence, loyalty and exchange of vews-nany do- 1nestic sorrows would be avoided
 And then if il could be made clear O every true-that instead of being escape, divorce more likely to be leap into the fire--that would be of assistance also.
 If the testimony of divorcees could on this point the revelation would be startling.
 Marriage may be repaired it is broken at great peril
New Britain herald., 1919-05-29

should meet her. Tell me about that movie program at CresthaVen. Is 1t too late to go over? l beheNe II We hurry we could get there m tlme lof the second run. We could take a taNl over and that 11:15 back. Then we have time for a cup Of coHce Il we
 wanted to after the performance.
 I had about as much interest in
 movie program at CresthaVen as
 had in the ponderOus discussion ot the old theologians concerning the num-
 Der, of angels who could dance on the
 point of needle, fut my instinct rec
 ognized a tensity in the mental atmos-
 phere surrounding my husband ana
 me which I would have taken almost any means to loosen. To my surprise,
 Dicky showed distinct traces of em-
 barraSSment.
 Dicky's Reasons.
 "Why, I guess we've got time
 enough!' he said. "But-well. you'H
 have to do the explaining to Miss
 Dean.'
 I took q firm grip on my temper and
 suppressed any indication of surprise.
 I'm the best little eXplainer in the
 state, probably in the country I re-
 torted gayly, but I certainly will have to have an outline of what I'm to ex- plain If youll just give it to me in words of one syllable-a1thOug per haps Miss Dean will understand bet ter than I do.''
 Dicky's face was @ brick red by this time, but there was no possible word of my 1ittla.speech which was obvious ly challenging, so he answered in as
 matter -of-fact manner as he could command:
 T suppose you know that Miss Dean lives in Cresthaven." He paused for confirmation of his assertion.
 She has told me so," I returned sweetly, with an air of accepting nothing as truth unless it were proved to me.
 "Oh, Il" Dicky named a place far removed from Cresthaven and it's present climate then made q frantic grasp after Calmness. "On the train tonight she happened to mention the unusual excellence of the movie program at the Cresthaven theater, and wondered why we never came over there. I thought perhaps 1 you'd like to go, and as she's such a do but to ask her to meet us and go with us to the show and some supper l afterward.I didn't have her telephone number, so I couldn't explain to her ] when you didn't come, and now, if we go, the explanations will be up to you"