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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17

at this momentous epoch. and the main
features Of his life and his teaching
represent the transition from Hellas TO
Hellenism. which meant magnanimity.
high in noble thinking and loyalty Of
mankind
The precepts of his simple prose be-
came the highest ideal of aspiration.
Socrates who was his contemporary. is q
perfect man OF Intellectual endowment
and his works have been a large factor
in the uplift building Of humanity.
The disastrous death of Cyrus after
the battle of Kunaxa 401 B c. and the
famous retreat of the Ten Thousand"
made Eenophon's name immortal. He
returned through the north coast Of
Asia Minor. to %Byzantium. European
Thrace to Greece. to revert again TO
Asia. But this time he wen@to cam
paign in the central provinces of Asia.
He settled Greek Colonies through Asia
and Thrace.
His contemporary. Isocrates. succeed
ed in spreading the Hellenic influence
and culture throughout Asia by means
of a combination Of forces of Greece.
Macedonia. Illyria and Thrace. These
forces were organized under Phillip,
King Of Macedonia. and were lead by
Alexander the Great IN s34 B. c.
The crushing of the colossal army OF
the barbarous Persia at the battle OF
Marathon by the Greeks saved the lib
erty and civilization for the entire
world.
The Creeks proved to be the only
civilizing factor in the East that stood
with b%oundless sacrifices as a barrier
against invasions of the barbarians. and
thus they safeguarded the entire civil
l~ization of Europe.
In 1855 Constantinople fell before
overwhelming hordes of the barbarous
and ~uncivilized Turks. a t%yrannical peo-
pie to whom brotherhood m-agnanimity
and civilization were unknown.
Con|stantinople was built by Megarian
c~olonists about seven centuries B. C
under Byzas and was called Byzantyum
up 20 the regin Of Constantine the En-
peror from whom it was given the name
Constantinople. This Metropolis was
the capitol Of the Greek Empire.
Since the fall of Co~nstantinople the
Turks were doing their best. by a sys-
tematic propaganda way. 10 de
stroy and cXterminate the Hellenic ele-
ment in Asia Minor. Thrace and Mace
donna and also Isles Of the Aegean Sea.
Women and children under the tyran-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
DRONES.

Legislative efGciency IS at the loves eb It has
reached in a generation" This is the comment of
a man in Washington who has serTed the CongroEs
in an important capacity for twentY-four years. He
voiced a thought that IS in the minds OF many per
sons over the country.
There is no leadership worthy Of the name IN
either branch Of he legislative BODY. and the cha
oGc legislative situation Is due in the main to the
lack Of leadership. Within recent weeks the Demo
cratic majority in the House has been engaged in 4
scramble for legislative pork Some Of The Re
%publicans have not been above taking a hand in this
activity. The committee, in the old days counted on
10 formulate important constructive legislation. Tor
the most part has been idle this session or has been
proceeding nap aimless. ineffective sort OF wa.
The lamentable condition is unparalleled. No one
TO be able to find a reason for it. unless because it
5 Of the Presidents absence from the country. There
seems TO be a disposition to let things slide. The Demo
inactive because they know they will soon lose con
rol and the Republicans until they get control. II does
ook. however. as # some one has missed an opportunity
or leadership at The next session OF Congress that will
lever come back again. Legislative efficiency at In
during the session now go.ns on seems to be
below par With a little over three weeks to go, the
General Assembly has done nothing WORTH special notice
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
TEDDY WOULDN'T ALLOW 1T.

Speaking about those thirty-six boxes OF valuable
presents that the Wilson's received as gifts from Euro
pean royalty. the Fort Wayne News points out that in
connection with the acceptance of a vast number of
presents by President Wilson from the royalty OF Eu-
rope, it IS recalled that when Alice Roosevelt was wed
a certain king sent her a very costly gift which her
father fatty declined to allow her 10 receive. While her
case was not legally covered by the inhibition Of the
constitution, President Roosevelt contended very prop
erly that in an indirect sense the present was a tender
to himself and hence could not be accepted. Certainly it
would not have been sent had not be been the president
of the United States. SO morally if not legally his conten-
ton was correct. At any rate he saw fit to avoid even
the appearance OF evil and thereby commended himself to
the affection and respect OF his fellow citizens. II was
a way he had.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
SERVICE STRIPES FOR ALL.

The amendment which is said TO have been tackled
to the army appropriation bill f%orbidding the troops on
their return from abroad to wear their hard earned ser
vice stripes and their cherished division insignia is said
to have aroused much Indignation on the part OF the
men who have seen service, from d~oughboys to generals
The story has reached the troops abroad and The p"o
tests are loud.
It must have been some softheaded Congressman
who offered that amendment, perhaps one whose son has
been wearing the khaki in a Washington office. and. as
Uncle Joe Cannon sardonically remarked, wearing the
top of his desk out with his spurs. Naturally the boy
who have served in France wish the satisfaction Of the
small badges that tell OF their service. They are badges
of honor: all they have. except those who bear wounds
to tell Of their part in the great VA. They should have
the privilege of wearing them as long a least as they
are permitted to retain their uniforms, and if the inten-
tons of the War Department are carried out, this will
he but a few months. rishtfully declares the Indianapolis
Star
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
WHY GREECE'S DEMANDS
ARE REASONABLE
An Address Delivered at a Mass Meeting in Favor of
Greece's Rights in Salt Lake City, Utah.

At a lime when so much IS said daily
about the Greek claims IN the Anert-
can press, re take pleasure in pub
Eshing the following address, which
was delivered before q mass meeting
In favor Of the Greek cause in Salt
Lake City, Utah. The speaker, Mr.. p.
-. M~arthakts, who IS one OF the most
prominent cittx Of Greek descent In
Utah, has studied the Greek claims
thoroughly aud his plea for Heuas IS
most convincing. Here is the ad-
dressi
Gentlemen
The Heilenes or Utah rave rendered
me a great honor in asking me TO in
terpret the JOY and enthusiasm OF the
entire Greek race for the brilliant and
complete Allied victory for the winning
of which three hundred and fifty thou
SAND (350. 000) Marathon hghters--Greeks
took part on the Macedonian front.
! shall express my deep gratitude by
economtzing your time by proceeding to
speak at once and outline the wishes Of
the Hellenes the best that I can without
any further preliminary preamble.
I wish to discuss my subject from
three points of view. First. What the
Greeks have done towards civilization.
Second. What part the Greeks have
played in the recent war. and Third
What the Greeks ask OF their own
Allies.
II is customary by the modern stu
dents nj history to date the origin OF
the Hellenism from the reign of Alex
ander the Great. whose house, through
Aristotle's teaching. adopted Greek cul-
ture. and whose great victory carried 1t
into the far East.
This to my mind is a superficial view
and ! shall endeavor to show that
Hellenjsm is older than that. It begins
from the moment that Athens ceased TO
he the dominant center Of Greece in
politics as well as in letters.
In 4o4 E. c. Athens was taken by
Iysandcr. who abolished democracy and
~intrusted the Government TO the Thirty
t~yrants." AS a result of this change or
government the ambitious and demo-
cratic Greeks we're thrown off INTO
search of employment into Macedonia,
Asia Minor. Persia and Egypt These
countries found the eXpatriated Greeks
of a mercenary nature and endeavored
to make them friends and reconcile
them to their ideas Of state
Xenophon became a friend of Cyrus.
KING Of Persia He stand out clearly
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17

THE way they wear skirts and their
stockings
KEEPS as from having much sym
pathy Tor the
GIRLS who complain that thelr legs
are chappcd
THE reeonstructio problems At our
house
HAVE mostly been solved
EXCEPT the one as 70 what to do
with 2
TEN year old boys pant. when they
cave in
THREE months before the coat
shows any sign OF ILL.,
PBOBABLY no man looks
QUITE so carefree and happy
WHILE taking his cold shower bath
on a
WINTER morning
AS the one in the advertlsenen does.
TT IS entirely Unnecessary however
For the newspapers 10 tell US that s
Second
TRIP or Wilson to France in Doubt.
HE'LL have 10 go back 10 Strengthen
out
THINGS that are tangled up from the
first.
ONE interesting popularity Of The
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
The remains of Gregory white, age

IS years, a returned soldier. were ship
ped TO Denote. Ind, on Saturday for
interment. White, who has been IN ser
vice for several months. has just been
discharged and returned home only 2
week ago. Death was caused by bror
hial pneumonia, he passing away a.
the home Of his father-in-law. John Hs1-
avac, 1883 Myrtle avenue. The deceased
IS survived by his widow and q two
and e half year old child.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
PATD-UP CIRCULATION THAE ANY TW
orHEE FAPERs IN TRB cALuMET REGION
xorrcr 20 sunscRmrRs.

= - you have in he PAST please do not thiHk has bee
'oxt or was not sent OF time Remember t3at the mai
ssFvice : not what Il rsed r. be End that compiaials a..
Ice. TIE .TIMEs has increased It's mailing equipment ana
9 striving earnestly to reach its patrons on time. Be
nronpt in advising US when you co not get your paper and
VS. VIII act promptly.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
Heard from Our
SoLdiersondSoiLors

Sergeant VI. J. CcuIy, East Chicago.
has arrived home from Camp Sheridan.
Ala. with the division OF the 18th inf
medical corps department. He fcrmerly
was employed as time keeper al the
American Steel Foundriex.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17

James KarnB, . 8ornasr HAry PRINTER.
now at a convalescent camp IN Eng
land. writes from Camp Epsome. Ems
tina he is recovering nicely from wounds
Mr.. Harris expected soon on Janu
airy z4th, the date or his letter. TO leave
for a visit to Scotland and Ireland and
then return to his outfit to be return
ed to Canada for rehabilitation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
Z. o OF Peter Tox. formsr

Joe Fox. son OF Peter xoz. formsr
park commissioner Of Hammond. write
his parents from Neuweitt. near Cob
lenz. which IS within forty miles o.
where Peter was born. He f. with O.
l.. 151st Inf. Willie. his brother. arrived
from France last week.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
Char1es J. w1uiams, .tasaon,d =,

Camp Devens. Mass. for several months
has received his honorable discharse
and returned to his home in Gary On
Grant stTeat.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17

James Enrch ts horne ct polton from
the naval training camp at Seattle
Wash. honorably discharged. "Jinry
looks fine and dandy and won a great
reputation IN the sailors athletic game
as boxer. He made many q good mar
see stars.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
serRe. nAior aAorna uArnar. for

SerEe. zG2Jor George Dernsr. for az
months with brigade headquarters at
Camp Lee. Va. is home in Hammond
with discharge still smarting under the
disappointment OF not getting TO France
His brother. Harry. is back from France
awaiting discharge at Camp Grant.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17

Adolph BschmAn, &ivsrdAle. hons
from Camp Lee. Va. bearing an honor
able discharge from the army.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17

SerE cant william n. Market. of N.Y.
tie avenue, returned TO Camp Taylor. a.
Louisville. Ky, after being home on 2
nve-day furlough.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-02-17
Louis stern ana August Maaak., Of

the B~lackhawk Division. arrived home
IN Dolton Sunday. bearing honorable
discharge from the army. Both boys lcoa
fine and dandy and their parents. rels
tives and friends were AL happy 70
greet them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12

The better class Of workers get away
from these dreary districts to snug
cottages and pretentious houses o.
the hillsides and up the gulchcs.
The mill tenements are as unhome-
like within as Notwithstanding but
the rudest furniture Of living in
congruously mixed up with pianos,
graphophones and washtubs, with
dirty babies ,sprawling on the floors
and rolling out the doors and into
the streets. Despite the environ
ment, the human stock of these low
ly districts is vigorous. The men are
stocky and muscular and the women
sturdily moulded for motherhood.
There are no signs of malnutrition;
no evidences of lack of food; and Of
a Sunday the men DON the most up
to-date clothing and the women
blossom forth in expensive raiment.
The crowding in these dingy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
The Hills and Valleys

On the hills is sparsity Of popula-
ton, in the valleys such crowding
as Is not surpassed elsewhere in
America. Above IL the cleanness
and wholesomeness Of the primitive
world; below the dirt and squalor
OF the human warren. From vallcy
moor TO hilltop one passes from the
completely Of the Industrial age to
the simplicity Of the rustic era.
Above, the world gems good and
ned; bolow, it appears dubious and
'nrbid In the hills reside the homo
geneops old American stock. to-
'hy life In leisurely fashion: in IT,
valleys swarm and jabber all tn
races and tong1es Of the alien worl4
IN bedlam of social and ccononia
'~sraction. On the hcights tIrer
are no modern problcms", in Tia
"epths there IL nothing else.
Where the blue MononnaheIa fro.a
inc south unitcs with the brown Al
sgheny from the north 10 form the
0n'o il Pittsburgh city, straddling
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
At the top OF the page,
some Of the great steel shops
in the Pinsburg strike dis
trirf.
The picture ADORE sho,os
Gourishing truck gardens un-
der the shadoso Of the great
TaiLLs themselves.
at the left--lNo strike in
'his alley.

places is often awful, but there
seems to be little relation between
lhat fact and the earnings of the
workers. Thrift concentrated solely
on the amusement of cash is not
altogether a virtue. The foreign
workers are willing, with the ex-
ception of few extravagances, to
sacrifice all present good and we'll
being to the accumulation of money.
With such a goal, high standards of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12

living are Incompatible and appar-
emily excluded. Crowded together
like animals in a stockyard of their
own volition, decency and cleanli-
ness are impossible and sanitation
forgotten. Most attempts to i'm
prove living conditions among the
foreign masses have failed. Often
when houses have been provided
with bathtubs they are used for
coalbins and other storage pur-
poses. Then the plumbing gets out
Of order, the householder has a big
plumbing bill to pay-and after
that he wants no more modern
houses. All he wants Is place to
sleep, place to eat and a place to
work. His thoughts are always on
the old home in Europe and the
pile" that will take him back one
day, there to live in ease and COM
fort. Of course, marriage, children
and their responsibilities often come
to dissipate the initial purpose, and
then begins the phase of mergence
into American life, higher stand
ards, little home up in the bills
and living for living's sake. To the
men Of the squalid tenements the
strike really appeals as a chance for
more money-not more money fer
better living, but more money f,r
the stocking, the money belt and
the bank-more money for the life
in the old homeland.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
By Theodore M. Knappen

~ ITTSBURG'S industrial re-
+ e'on. the vsrson of tn. war
for the control Of steel, , A
naturally one Of the M Ist
picturesque sections Of Ame' ica,
and viewed in the mass the works
Of man have but added to N ature's
work. Into setting Of mag sive hills
md deep and marrow valleys
coughing three great rivers and
any tributaries, VIII ere Nature
c..ilded- solidly and hugely, came
augh, sturdy and inc Iomitable men
ID rear in time the hard, toilso me
.Custries of iron az i'd steel that pro-
-uce the foundatie ms and the fabric
e the physique of modern civsliza-
on. Most un'lovely in themselves.
he intermina' ole smoking mills, fur-
l.aces, coal 'yipples, oil we'll derriclls,
Tailroads that slash the hills, and
he myriad towers and stacks that
cies'ce the sky, Stag dumps that re-
fmble and rival glacial moraines,
Il contribute to scene of Impress
re grandeur, shrouded by smoke
y day and glowing with the fires
: creation by night.
The steel giant, as symbolized by
ihttsburgh, is colossal octopus
nose tentacles reach out through
all the valleys roundabout from the
city itself and grip the rustic hills
:, coils of relentless industry work
.og nightly in iron and coal and
as. The capital of steel is thus not
compact city that excludes the
country but rather one that pene-
rates and encoils it for a hundred
miles. The farmer from his corn
fields and pastures looks down upon
cities and towns that have length
rather than width, and the stripped
worker at the blistering furnaces
and FORCES has but to look upward
to behold fair and quiet country
side. From the great spaces Of the
generous hills and plateaus it is
but a step to the construction and
congestion of the huddled work
shops and habitations that intrude
upon the rivers on one side and
gouge and hang onto the hills on the
other.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12

Up the Monongahela on either
side of the stream are Homestead.
Duquesne, Braddock, Rankin, Nc
Keesport, Glassport, Dravosburgh.
Clarion, Monongahela City, Donora,
Monessen, Charleroi and so on, in a
continuous city. Up the Allegheny
are such places as Sharpsburg, Etna,
Tarentum, New Kensington, AS
pinwall, Breckenridge and Nationa,
and on the tributary streams scores
Of busy towns that work in iron and
steel. In all Of them, the majority
Of the lowlier workers live in mean
houses, chiefly frame, and usually
painted dull gray, that front on
'dirty streets, leading from the mills
In the larger places there are
rarely any yards, but in the small
er towns, even in the company
houses" all but the most recent Of
which are extreme in their ugliness
and monotony, there are patches of
yards, but they are always Uttered
and uncared for. They do not look
Ike hoEes-they are only bunk
houses for families or boarders, no
matter how substantial they may be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
Great Blacksmith Shop

The mills and plants are rude
places and the making of stee, is at
best hard and dirty work, and often
dangerous. 4 steel mill is, after all.
nothing but a great blacksmith shop
"a place Of smoke, fire, heat, steam.
noise, cinders and SCOT, where MAN.
moth machines annihilate time and
multiply power in dim and murky
bays under griny vaults. Fascinat-.
ing to a spectator as is the colossal
process Of smelling iron from ore
and steel from iron and the concen-
tration of prodigious mechanical
force that beats it into shape, it is
only a dirty job to the common
yorker From the dirt and CRIME
Of the mill the unskilled worker
goes unmoved to an ugly home in a
dreary street. In lovely world in
the hills all roundabout he lives and
has his being in the dank valleys.
To him a strike vaguely points
the way to the hills. 1t varies the
monotony of serving with the stimu-
alton of protesting. For a time he
gropes into a world of thought and
Jews life outside the shop and the
human den. A strike is an epoch in
his life. 1t is grand variant from
the dull round of humble work, even
II it leaves him poorer. 1t demon
strates the Importance Of his labor
and dignifies for him his part in the
human drama. 4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12
Neac Cottages

The steel companies feel the re-
proach of these squalid dwellings
and the gray lives Of the jewellers,
but they hardly know how to go
about improving conditions. Never
theless, they are building more and
more cottages, varied in design,
thoroughly modern and low in rent.
Almost every mill has it's athletic
field and recreation grounds for the
children, and spacious Mushrooms,
ample lockers, shower baths, lunch
rooms and cafeterias for the men
are coming in. A little more time
and they will be introduced into all
the mills. Hospital facilities, emer-
gency and permanent, are generally
we'll supplied. Community gardens
have been established to give the
people a chance to get away from
their confined districts, and attempts
are even made to beautify the open
spaces in the mill yards. But so
long as the poorer houses remain
they will be occupied. The long
hours Of the steelworkers doubtless
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12

all The rtvers--the hxain and head of
70 q octopus. It has grown out Of the
9alleys for It's better residences, but
the business district is piled into
them and is close against the innu-
merable mills, around which are
built the endless rows Of houses in
which the workers live. These are
usually two-story structures, abut
ting directly on the streets, contrast
Ing strangely in their more or less
unkempt-though by no m an 8
wretched-appearance with the trim
office buildings and great stores that
rival the hills in height.
All the life and activity Of the ten
uous valleys flow into this tense and
pulsing city. Just as the rivers con-
verge here, so converge the railway
lines in intricate yards and ternai
nals-not only from the surrounding
territory, but from half a continent
In these yards are collected and
thence dispatched to the ends of the
earth the greatest initial traffic the
world has yet produced. The rivers
themselves do not escape the law Of
toll that is upon all this region. Ur
and down their canalized loops
move, day and night, long lows of
coal barges from the countless river
mines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-12

have something to do with their in
difference to their home surround
ings.
There is danger that an account
of the worst conditions will give an
erroneous impression. 1t needs to
be remembered that probably not
more than a third of the mill men
live in the poorer class of houses.
The other two hirds-mostly Amer
icans-live' in better houses, provide
better and enjoy more of the good
things Of life than most of the wage
workers in such cities as New York
and Chicago. They earn largely
and spend freely.