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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-08-22
BUSINESS CROWS.
COMPANY EXPANDED
East Chicago Auto Sales Go.
Erects Handsome New
S25, 900 Home.

In order TO care for rapiditv expand
ing business the East Chicago Auto
Sales Co. has found it necessary TO
build a new home as the present quar-
tiers are too small a handsome build
ing TO cost SIS 600 is now being err
ected on Chicago avenue and the bus
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-08-22

Better call up The Times arc
have it sent to your house every
night. Then you'll be sure it vii
be there.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-08-22

Advertise in The Times and ad-
v~ertise again. Results come with
constant effort.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
Liquor Dealers Invite the Worst.

Those liquor dealers in all parts of
the country who are violating the war
prohibition act are doing their trade q
serious, but Characteristic, disservice.
Their refusal to obey the Federal
statute. which Is binding on every
resident of the United States, serves
to confirm the assertions of the advo-
Gates of prohibition of all liquors,
wines and beers, who hold that the
liquor trade as 1t has been carried on
is fatally tainted with lawlessness.
They are supplying evidence which
will be used against the reputable
men In the business In the future TO
the disadvantage OF every movement
which may be started for tolerance of
beverages containing small quantities
of alcohol.
We say this dlsservlce to their
own cause Is characteristic because
every mans observation upholds the
contention that 1t was not liquors,
wines and beers but the abuses Of the
trade in these commodities which
caused the growth of the sentiment
which wrote war time prohibition In
the Federal law and the prohibition
amendment in the Constitution of the
United States. The Illegal and anti,
social behavior of law defylng and
decency defying owners Of some drink
ing places aroused an antagonism to
the trade which swept all before it
throughout the country.
Experience should have taught
every liquor dealer that dIsobedience
to the law would inJure his case with
the American people, but apparently
there are some men in the trade who
cannot learn even from experience.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09

year Of increased traffic rates and
taxes TO keep Government railroads
going, are asked to give up. all their
own rights and to sweat billions and
billions more of traffic charges and
taxes In behalf Of Government reil-
reading there is going to be more
than a hitch at the ballot box. There
Is going to be trouble.
In the United States Census Report
Of nine years ago, for example, the
American farmers alone were enumer-
ated at more than 100000; and
what comes to the American farmer
as the result of his twelve, fourteen
and sixteen hours of hard work a day
very largely depends, in normal times
as we'll as In abnormal times, upon
the railway transportation service and
the trafflc rates for that service. One
Of the brotherhood officers the other
day, in discussing those who were
plundering the railroads or plumber
ing something, spoke of firing squads.
For the 100000 American farmers
working their twelve, fourteen and
sixteen hours a day and faced at the
polls with the proposition that in still
longer and harder hours Of labor they
should sweat out still more billions
for Government railroading. sufficient
unto the day might be three tined
pitchforks.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09

does resort to violence crime Is
committed against the State, that 10,
against organized society. and II be-
comes the duty of the State, rs the
agent Of the public, to put down the
violence and to punish those who In
cite or participate in 1t. An unlaw-
full assemblage Is unlawful, whether
the individuals In Il are strikers or
non-strikers; riot is riot, no mat.
ter who the rioters are. 1t Is the
States duty to preserve public order.
II 1t fails to preserve order 1t fails
Of Its primary purpose. A State that
does not or cannot preserve order
cannot endure.
These elementary principles and
their inevitable implications ought TO
be familiar to everybody; but the re-
markable doctrines concerning the re-
lations Of the public. the public ser
vice corporations and the employees Of
public service corporations which
have been sedulously preached lately
may have obscured them IN the minds
Of some residents and even some Off
cials of this city and State. and the
restatement Of them may be produc-
tive Of great public good at a time
when selfish interests seek to over
ride the law.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
Mayor HyIan's City Buses.

Pursuing with engaging enthusiasm
his project for a feet of city owned
and city operated buses to give every
traveller in New York n seat on his
trips about the city Mayor HYLAN
paints this glowing picture Of happy
time he foresees:
AFTER theatre at night there could
be a concentration of buses in the
theatre district. starting out in all
directions.
TN the early morning most of the
buses could be up town, ready to
bring the crowds down to work.
''In the late afternoon they could
be concentrated down town. ready to
give our tired people a decent, pleas
ant ride UP home. with n seat guar
anteed for everybody.
This would end the strap hanging
days of New York"
With all the workers in the down
town district arriving at their places
of bdsiness ut about the same time
in the morning and departing fol
home at about the same time in the
afternoon, with seat guaranteed for
everybody going and coming, New
York city will see such an aggregation
of vehicles as no community has ever
seen since the world began. The con.
gested highway to Verdun In the darh
days Of the assault on that heroic
city will be remembered only as O
lonely thoroughfare in comparison
The parked buses awaiting theil
happy patrons will form a spectacle
worth travelling miles to see.
Mayor HYLAN has taken q hand
personally in regulating street traffic
this week. Perhaps he was practising
in preparation for command of the
stupendous traffic squad We shall need
when his bus dream comes true.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
Mr.. Wilson's Food Relief.

In a situation which Is streaked
with lightning much Of the relief sug-
gested by President WILSON in his
cost Of living message to Congress
will seem to many persons to have
the velocity of cold molasses. The
new legislation he recommends can
not be produced in a day. The nee
essary administrative machinery TO
carry out the purpose Of the proposed
statutes cannot be set up and put In
good running order for weeks and
months. The paralyzing red tape in
separable from Government business
will have to run its usual course
around and into and through all the
works. Meanwhile the American PEG.
pie will be wanting their food and
ether necessarfes at more reasonable
cost.
Nevertheless there Is hope in Mr..
WILSON'S message, because he not
only recognizes the powers he already
possesses but because of his resolve
to exercise them both with force and
with despatch. He can and says he
VIII check profiteering. He can and
says he will stop boarding. He can
and says he will get the enormous
food reserves distributed where they
ore needed. He can and says he will
drive the Job.
Surely this will make a beginning
the beginning which might have been
made, which ought to have been
made, months ago when the Executive
presence was across the seas, the
Executive genius was bent upon for
eign enterprises, and the Executive
aspirations could rise only to visions
In the air, while the American people
at home, surrounded by abundance and
superabundance, were being pressed
inch by inch into the very anguish Of
want.
But let that pass for the moment
Rather let US dwell upon his return
even in the midst of his discussion OF
our own immediate crisis, to his
familiar theme-our mission to feed
clothe and save the world In peace
as he declares we saved it in war.
Let US, in truth, thank COP that
Mr.. WILSON now sees the work to be
done here at home and promises, in
words that no one shall doubt are
as strong as they are fine and as
courageous as they are clear, that he
will do II.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
Squeezing Out the water.

Railroad brotherhood officers and
counsel fall into strange confusion
Of ideas and facts when they discuss
American railway capitalization with
out distinguishing between stocks and
bonds. 1t Is a sloppy brain which
does not know the difference between
property owned by q man or group Of
men and debts owed by that man or
group of men. The stockholders own
the railroad; their property owes the
money which has been borrowed from
the public on the road and which, for
the protection of the lenders, is a
mortgage on the property. The own
ership is represented by the stock, the
debt by the bonds
If this very day the United States
Government should buy the American
railroads from their owners-the
stockholders-the Indebtedness of
those roads-the bonds-would re-
main stuck as hard and fast to the
roads as an undischarged mortgage
would be stuck to a house anybody
should buy:
You might as we'll talk about squeez-
ing the water out of the mortgage on
the house you own as about squeezing
the water out of the bonded indebted
ness of railroad. If the Government
bought the railroads from the stock
holders 1t could not honestly and hon.
orably get rid of the bonds on the
railroads any differently from the way
the road privately owned could &c,
rid Of the bonded Indebtedness. All
the roads could be thrown into bank
ruptcy and apctioned of at forced
sale II the Government insisted on 1t,
with the bonds extinguished by the
bankruptcy proceedings. Or the bonds
could be paid off. Or the bonds could
be refunded. Otherwise the bonds
would have to stick.
You might as well talk about the
Government honestly and honorahly
squeezing the water out Of its Liberty
bonds-the money the Government
owes the bondholders--as to talk
about the Government honestly and
honorably squeezing the water out OF
the railroad bonds-the money the
Government would owe the bondhold
ers-if the Government bought the
railroads from their stockholders.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
Ike Walton's Birthday.

Three hundred and twenty-six years
ago to-day IzAAK WALTON was born.
When he reached go he wrote The
Compleat Angler. or the Contempla-
tive Mans Recreation" OF this ram
bling dialogue CHARLES LAMB said !:
'Tt would sweeten mans temper at
any time to read it."
In these days Of the high cost OF
living, Article X. and Shantung,
strikes, profiteering, high rents, in
creased taxes and other worries 1t is
a pleasure to know that the book has
been reprinted more than a hundred
times and, while early editions de-
light the heart Of the book collector,
the volume can be purchased for a
sum to fit any pocketbook.
Old IzAAK himself saw the book go
through five editions He was be-
lever In advertising and In the follow
up system. He prepared the follow
ing advertisement which appeared in
the Perfect Diu,7dH from Monday,
May o, to Monday, May 15, 1853, and
in the Mercurius Politicus from Thurs
day. May IL, to Thursday, May 10,
1858:
THE Compleat Angler, or the Con-
templative Mans Recreation. being
a discourse on Fish and Fishing. not
unworthy the perusal of most An
glers, Of Is pense price. Written by
IL. WA. Also tho well known play OF
the Spanish Gipsee, never till now
published: Both printed for RICHARD
marriott, to be sold at his shop in
Saint Dunstan's Churchyard. Fleet
Street."
Modest IKE! who allowed his book
to go forth with his name disguised
as az. Wa" WALTON was gentle
simple, kindly, learned man. He was
much read man. THE Compleat
Angler" refers to sixty-seven books
Most Of WALToN's blographers de-
scribe the patron Of fishermen as q
linen draper; there is evidence, how
ever, that he was an ironmonger.
To his death IzAAK WALTON carried
the spirit of kindness and helpful
ness. In his will he set aside some
rent money for the bringing up OF
two boys, "the sonnes Of honest ant
poor parents" so that they would
''be better afterward to make their
owne livelng." He was not forgetfu
Of poor people, and his duaipt dlrec
lions for buying coal for these PEG
Pile are not without practical good
sense. The said coales' were to b,
delivered she first weeke In Janu
airy, or in every first weeke in Febru
AIRY; I say then because I take II tina,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09

time to be the hardest and most
pinchiag times with poore people"
LAunE ID. MITCHELL, with his no
pound tuna IN the Nova Scotia waters |;
N. A. HowARp, with his 493-pound
black seabass, and W. G. BosCHEN.
with his 463-pound broadblli sword
fish in the Catalina waters. taken with
rod and reel and the most sportsman
like tackle and methods: their feats
gentle LEAK WALTON never con-
templated az within the possibilities
Of the rod.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
SAFEGUARD AMERICA NOW.
The League Might Give Unprecedented
Power to One Man.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: While
the covenant of the League OF Nations
states how the action of the League
shall be effected, what members shall
constitute the Assembly and the Council,
1t provides for the election only Of the
four members who. with the representa-
tives OF Great Britain. the United
States, France. Italy and Japan, shall
constitute the Council.
1t may be presumed that the members
Of the Assembly and the remaining hve
representatives of the nations compos-
ing the Council are to be chosen by
their respective nations. But how are
they to be chosen7 Are our representa-
tives to be selected by the President In
the same manner as President Wilson
selected the members of the Peace Con-
ference who were supposed to represent
the United statesr WIN they be nomi-
mated by the President and their Mt
ness and qualifications passed upon by
the Senate? These are questions that
are unanswered In the covenant.
1t seems that 1t would be wise TO
specify in the covenant that each nation
shall select its representatives, fix the
length Of the term Of their service and
stipulate their authority to bind their
nation. This would leave to Congress
the power to control the representatives
OF the United States. Heretofore this
country has not been prone to give one
man absolute authority to decide i'm
portant questions affecting the welfare
of the nation, and no sufficient reason
has vet been given for a change in the
national custom.
| Is II left to each nation TO adopt It's
own method OF expressing it's will in
the Council? II 1t were left TO the
discretion Of one man. the representa-
tive IN the Council. he might, for one
reason or another, vote against the real
interests of the United States.
Now is the time to set at rest all
doubts concerning the intent and pur-
port Of the covenant. as II will be prac-
tically impossible, because Of the terms
of the covenant. to amend II after 1t
has been ratified.
Unless President Wilson and his party
are willing TO meet criticism with an
open mind and adopt amendments TO
the covenant that are shown to be es-
sential to the safeguarding of the
rishts and liberties of the United States
there seems to be no alternative for the
Senate than to reject the treaty of peace
with Germany as presented to 1t by the
President. EDWIN GORDON LAWRENCE.
! ArHoL, Mass. August s.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
THE pOLTCEMAN'S LOT.
Is He Really the Least Appreciated
Among Public Servantsi

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: I
am sorry indeed to see the old thing
started again, the renewal Of faulthnd-
ing with the police.
The least appreciated of our public
servants is the police officer 1 would
classify them in this respect in the
following order: Letter carrier, fireman,
sailor, soldier, and the poor fiattie comes
last: but he is the first one we call
for when we are in trouble.
A crime must be committed before
he can get on the Job. I don't know
what the percentage is, but some crooks
run longer than others; some fall on
the first crack; all have the start on
the police.
We read In the papers of the police
going on a strike in England, Canada,
Australia and other countries; we read
OF some policemen in our city leaving
the job because of poor pay; but as
for talk of strike. the New York po-
lice officer Is not that kind OF man. Yet
how could one expect the poor cop to
be in q pleasant frame of mind when
he sees by the papers what no ac-
count he Is? You must remember the
police officers have homes and families.
Here is what hurts the most and
hurts the city as well. I have travelled
in other States and in Europe on police
business and after prisoners. While on
such errands one would naturally talk
with police officers about the great city
OF New York; one Is very apt to boost
ones home town, and 1t is not very
pleasant, 1 can assure you, to have
some one shove under your nose home
paper showing what poor lot the po-
lice are. But as Inspector Byrnes used
to tell us when the papers were ripping
us up the back, when one pins on a
police shield one must expect that sort
o. thing. FRANK n. EvANHoE,
Retired Police Detective.
CENTRE MoRIcHEs, L. l., August s.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
There Should Be No More Tinkering
with Economic Questions.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr: Ac-
cording to press dispatches from WASH
iEeton the Administration desires to re-
sumo its former mischievous tinkering
with economic questions by way Of price
fixing, food control and other artificial
devices.
To the man up a tree Il looks as II
these are the very things we need most
to avoid. The present muddled state of
our entire Industrial and economic sys-
tenn is largely due to governmental
meddling, and II would therefore seem
that the remedy lies in curtailing rather
than increasing the powers of the Ad-
ministration in that respect.
In this connection a parable has re-
Cured to my memory which would
like to commend to the prayerful con-
sideration of the powers that be. 1t re-
lates to one of the exploits of the Peter
kin family, whom some Of your older
readers will recall as an erudite tribe
Of highbrows inhabiting the envifons OF
Boston in the '70s, and who were long
on intellect but short on intelligence
note the close analogy.
On one occasion at a family picnic party
when the PeterklnS ana their peionsiHss
were safely loaded in the family carry
all and Pa Peterkin had taken up the
reins and whip the hitherto reliable old
Dobbin refused to start. After expert
mer.ting with various and sundry de-
vices, suggested by different members
OF the learned family. 1t was decided to
apply for advice to the lady from Phil
adeIphia. This practical friend and
neighbor was at the time confined to
her house with cold. but after survey
ing the situation from her window with
the aid of a pair of opera glasses she
turned to the family envoy and re-
marked with a sigh
"Why don't you unhitch the horse
from the post?" GEORGE WEsTERvELT.
NEWARK, ". j., August s.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
The Truth About MEXICO.

1t is time we heard the truth about
Mexico, and the Senate Is going to
have 1t told to Us.
For seven years we have had prop
aganda, suppression Of facts, soft ped
alling Of the conditions south Of the
Rio Grande. Mr.. WILSON has sent a
feet and two armies into the dis
tracted country. He has maintained
an army on the border. He is now
building a series Of forts on the boun-
dairy. and all the while American
property and American lives have
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
THE SUN, SATURDAY, AUGUST ., 1919.

been destroyed whenever bandits In
one Mexican uniform or another or In
no uniform at all felt like indulging
in destruction.
The people Of the United States are
hopelessly ignorant Of conditions In
Mexico. They have not been able to
get the facts from Mexico city or
from Washington. Thei- appeals for
information have been ignored by the
Wilson Administration. They have
been kept in the dark until they do
not know what to believe or what to
disbelleve.
whoever Is hurt, whoever is helped
by the truth about Mexico are mat
tiers Of no consequence. The people
Of the United States need the facts
about Mexico, and when they get the
facts they will know what their
duty Is.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
Governme emit Railroading at the
Ballot Box.

Mr.. GLENN e. PLUMB, author Of the
railroad brotherhoods' Government
ownership bill, and the chiefs of these
labor organizations are anxious to
60 to the polls with their programme
as national issue. They have every
right to proclaim that issue; no fair
minded man can take exception to
that. They have every right to go to
the polls with It; no believer in Amer
lean institutions would deny them
that right. But when they get there
they may not be so anxious to stay,
Their political persons may be very
much rumpled, their political spirits
may be very much depressed by what
they meet there.
There are 100000 railroad work
ers. No man shall gainsay that they
are entitled to make an American liv-
ing out of an honest days work. No
man shall gainsay that whenever they
are not getting an American living
out Of an honest days work the rail-
way owners, the railway shippers and.
for the matter of that, the ultimate
consumers whose articles of consump-
ton are transported on the roads
should be ready and glad to give
them an American living for an hon
est days work.
But when 100000 men propose to
the hundreds of thousands of Ameri-
can citizens who directly own the
roads, to the hundreds of thousands
OF American citizens who have lent
money directly to the roads, and to
the 100000 American citizens who
directly and Indirectly own the roads
and have lent money to them through
their savings banks and Insurance
companies--when these 100000 rail-
way workers demand that the 10000
600 owners and creditors shall turn
over their properties to the railway
workers, as the paramount right Of
those workers, there is sure to be a
hitch at the ballot box.
And when 100, 900 American peo.
pie. already sweating two billions a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
DEPUTIES
RATIFY PEACE PACT
League Fails to Offer Guar
antees, They Say.

BRUssELs, Aug. s.-The Chamber of
Deputies to-day unanimously ratifed
the peace treaty with Germany. Dur
ing the discussion of tho treaty the
Foreign Minister said
THE League Of Nations falls to Of
fer immediate guarantees and compels
US to look to our own defence. That is
why We are seeking at Paris a revision
of the treaties of 1899.
II wish to assure our delegates the
whole nation supports them. Revision
of the treaties will provide the required
ruarantees"
The speech OF the Foreign Minister
was loudly applauded.
The Chamber also ratified the annex
to the treaty concerning the military
convention entered into by France.
United States, Great Britain and Bel
GUM.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-09
TRAVEL IN FRANCE.
May a Tourist Go Where n Soldiers
Mother May NOti

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: In
the late spring and early summer of
this year Il wrote twice to the War De-
partment for a passport to visit my
sons grave in France, In each instance
I was Informed CURLY that no passports
were being issued to relatives of SOL
dlers.
In Sundays papers / note that
tourist agency is advertising trips for
tourists to see France. Can 1t b. posi-
BILE that a tourist has a stronger claim
on a grateful Government than mother
whose hsart lies buried with her son
in France?
SERGEANT JsYcn KILMER's MOTHER.
IIrcHFIELD, Conn, August s.