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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
A NATIONAL OUTRAGE.

Congress is woefully slow in taking action on the
repeal Of the luxury tax
Probably about the time that it gets too cold to eat
ice cream cones the Will be repealed and the
man or woman who likes ice cream for lunch in
drug store won't it longer and the repeal will
be Of no value them.
The governments idea Of what constitutes luxury
is the weirdest of all weird ideas
Why can't child buy an ice cream cone without
having pay tax on it.
Why can't cleanly person buy toothpaste without
being taxed for it?
Why cant one eat cough drop TO cure co,,gb
Without having to pay a tax on it?
Take the tax the ice cream cone There are
many people to whom ice is food Ii is a food
and mighty heaIhfu but if you 90 10 drug store for
15cent dish Of you to pay two cents tax
Tor i. In restaurant you pay Why PICK ON
the druggist? During these summer months soda
fountain drinks are necessity many especially
women and children. A child may have nickel to
spend. yet ii has TO another penny before il can
buy an ice cream cone What receipt does it
get showing that the government will get that cent tax
Absolutely none
The most preposterous thing is the tax on tooth
paste Did the congressman who fixed that schedule
ever clean their teeth2 Imagine taxing tooth paste as
luxury! suggests that people 90 back 10 primeval
days when they used to all enamel OFF their
teeth using charcoal
Another monumental injustice Il the tax on little
necessities that poor people use like coughdrops A
coughdrop, the government is luxury and though
il relieve troublesome cough you have TO paw a
tax
The tax on medicines is another shameful inius-
tce If you buy lotion that costs quarter tax Is
no greater than if it only five 1t is PENN
for every % cents fraction thereof The public is
just simply being robbed BY the imposition Of these
hardshps imposed i BY this petty pennyextractng
at the
TIE people had been lead to expect great deal
from the present session Of Congress way of the
repeal the luxury weeks old blt fhara
i little sign that relief il near
There are scores q other things that ought to be
tax free. The people Of the United States have sup
ported the magnihcently and is an outrage that
as great country as this is should months after
over be holding the people BY this socalled luxury
Every man and woman in the land should write 10
their representatives in Congress demand repeal
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

AFTER weeks sojourn in the hos
pital
WE are prepared to chat with the
neishbor women
OVER the back fence
ABOUT the very latest style opera
tions in the
ABDOMINAL and other sectors.
ONE thing that puzzles Us is why az
| orderly
JUST before he prepares you for an
operation
ALWAYS goes out and trims all the
HEDGES and lawns in the neighbor-
hood with
THE same razor he uses on you?
AS the fatal hour arrived and the
doc came 10 the
DOOR Of the cell and said Wen.
were ready for you now"
HIS visage reminded Us of the deputy
sheriff who
CAME 70 the death chamber just be-
fore the execution and said to the con
demned:
THE governor refuses 70 grant the
reprieve."
WE rejoiced however that pone or
the dear girls whose
HANDS we love to press now and
anon
COULD see US dressed in the --latest,
style in
OPERATING room attire trying to
pull down the remnant Of a
SORT Of an Eos shirt and
TO pull UP two legs cut off pair Of
old pants
WORN by Barnum's fat man
PROBABLY some operator invented
the outft. 70 give the
CHAP who lets the ether drip into
cone
SOMETHING 10 laugh about as he
straps you onto the
COMFY little board.
AT any rate the last thing We thought
about was the little cheerful sentence
HE leaves behind a wife and ono
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
LETTERS AND LETTERS.

While the boys abroad great numbers and
subjected all the soul-straining hardships of life in
the field urged that letter be sent 70 them
which cheerful confident. inspiring Letters
carry best the home he love Of the
home hearts, and make il easier for the boy 70 sustain
his own and his country's honor
Il possible that many people learned phil
osophy of letter writing through this necessity. Il
would interesting know how many carry
For instance. one woman letter her sis
the other She retailed the of her house
cleaning She dwet in such detail upon the recent hot
weather that the thermometer fairly the room
the recipient read the letter She told how III they
been with the flu in her household. and how slow
in recovering She managed successfully 10 con
gey impression OF discomfort, l-luck and illheah
could fail to depress Who read it. As
people who read letters have their burdens such
letters this needs make lite little harder "a
bear
1t just the difference between intentional optinl
ism and unintentonal selhshness which distinguished
the happy the soldier the heavy to
the other member of the family.
Since, as the copy book assured US long Life
is battle" might be regarded soldiers in
the field If only all letters written lfes soldiers
could be cheerful. confident inspiring,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23


ONE inmate all love and tears and
the next wondering
HOW much alimony she really ought
to ask for when she
BEGINS the divorce proceedings
WHEN the neighbor women
GET 10 heaven
WE imagine the first thing they will
do
WILL be to take awfully long and
SEVERE looks at Mary Magdaiene
AND Cleopatra
BEFORE starting in to be real nice
to them.
GERMANY now says that
SHE was defeated by Wilson'S IA
points
MADE her bed herself
AND oh how she lies on IT.
OUR idea Of multum in parvo
is stout girl in fashionable tight
skirt
PROBABLY the world today holds NJ
MORE distressing sight than a
RECENTLY graduated high school
girl
ExERrrNG every ounce of her
RUBBING womanhood in the effort
not
To giggle any more and only
SUCCEEDING partially.
WE had considerable auricular evil
dence
AGAIN last night that the
W. X. NEIGHBoR's cat has no more
idea than
A RABBIT that summer has come
AND she win proabbly go on think
ing it is
SPRING until me webb St gentle
men cats
TAKE tumble.
AT that we feel that it is going to
take us some time
BEFORE We get in the old stride.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
MAKING THEM PARTNERS.

Make your daughter your partner the Country
Gentleman advises the II is demonstrated in
the article daughters make good that they
rise responsibility develop under confidence and tend
TO stay on in which they have personal and
financial share.
About the time, the Maryland Farmer prints
poem in which a stranger asks the farm boy, now a
town-dweler. why bolted. There lot Of the
but few lines will give the Of the boys reply
] left my dad, his farm. his plow,
Because my calf became his
left my dad-'twas' wrong, of
Because my colt became his horse;
l left my dad and reap
Because my lamb became his sheep;
dropped my hoe and stuck fork
Because my pig became his pork.
The garden truck that made grow
Was his sell and mine hoe.
So the boy town. not because he liked smoke
and dirt and noise. but he wanted something
that his
There a lot Of hard truth in il all, and it applies
to other places besides farms
Cooperation makes for conrentment. An interest
in the business which has toied makes all the
toll while. Nobody who attained Of
discretion. and who has ambition, is going re
main contented very long where another all the
fruit o labor.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23


Banks throughout the United
States realize that they are doing q
valuable service 20 their clients when
they urge them - --r gardens and
holm them II TIL Tor the home
food pro.i-c1v e majority Of
eases - Z skri5ty cllizen md Is likely
to he : setter customer than he
w51,d be. otherwise. On this account
many banks are cooperating with
The National War Garden Commits
sion CT Washington and have been
distributing thousands Of free garden
books 10 their patrons. The New
York State Bankers Association has
urged all its client banks throughout
the state 10 back up the victory gar
den campaign and help spread the
message Of home food production
Following the lead Of the Mercantile
Trust and Deposit Company. OF Bal
timOre. more than a score of banks
throughout that State have begun
campaigning for gardens.
A history of the war garden move
meat which has just been published
under the title The War Garden
Victorious''@a memorial volume not
for sale. but being sent to Libraries
as a permanent record Of this pa
triotic activity-praises highly the
part taken by the banks as well as
by big industrial concerns iD stfrnn'
lating interest IL this work.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS
From Edw. J. Beckman.

Rumelange. Luxembourg. June ?
Editor TINES
After having finished reading two
dozen copies of THE TIMES, just re-
ceived I could not help but notice the
MANY arguments set forth BY soldier
contributors as to who won the war.
or who captured the largest number
Of prisoners Some Of these articles
appear childish in setting forth
claims for so-called best divisions"
which are all out of proportion with
the facts
The average soldier Just back from
France. unconscious though he may
be of it, has a tendency to exaggerate
the truth It Is this exaggeration OF
the truth that sets up in the public
mind false notion Of Just what hap
pened over here.
I believe that the enclosed official
compilation Of the activities OF each
division. being based on a percentage
or 1000 400 per cent being given
major casualties" 500 per cent -kilo-
meters advanced. 100 per cent ~artil-
iery captured 100 per cent machine
guns captured and 100 per cent
prisoners captured. VIII afford a
fair means Of estimating the credit
that should 20 to each division hav-
ing participated in real action ! am
certain that no one will begrudge The
first five divisions their envious places
shown on the enclosed table. the
truth speaks for itself
The Lake county members Of this
re giment and the division had the
hard luck 70 be ordered home and then
70 have had the orders revoked. Hopes
Of returning to Hammond before the
4th of July have dwindled until now
no one believes ANYTHING but that We
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
WHAT GERMANY ESCAPED.

No comment has come from Germany regarding the
flights American seapanes and the British air
plane across the Atlantic the attention given
BY Germany to long-distanee aviation during war
there ought 10 be considerable interest this enter
prise But the Germans remain silent
Perhaps they are doing some thinking They ought
to be if they realize the purpose for which those
erful craft We're intended
The VickersVimy plane in which Captain Alcock
few from Newfoundland TO Ireland Of big fleet
built by Great Britain for the specific purpose of bomb
Berlin. retaliation the German raids.
than ton OF explosives in addition its
crew and the necessary fuel The Atlantic flight is
four times the distance from the French battle
front Berlin.
The American seapanes With their Liberty motors
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
william Donovan, with the a44th nolt

artillery. Goth division has reached
Charleston, w Va. and expects q be
houorably discharged and return to the
home in East Chicago he forsook SO
many months ago when stern RESPONSE
hilties Of war urged him 70 make A
spe edy enlistment. While he was en-
gagged in some OF the most strenuous bat
ties word came here that he had been
killed. other rumors we're thar he had
lost his sight still others that he had
been hopelessly manned and in spite or
all reports he is 10 march back into his
parents arms sometime this week more
stolid than when he left East Chicago
awaits him eagerly
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

though originally designed patrol also
built with this possibility They admira bly,
qualified bombing planes. and big
load than the vickersvimy. and probably far
in flight II would have been easier for the feet
Of Nc's to fly from Paris Berlin than from New
Foundland TO Azores.
Germany beaten her game, and fortunate in
having avoided the consequences OF further fighting
does we'll TO say nothing.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
TO THE POWERS THAT BE
The Boys Want to Come Home!
Get EN- Home loot
Sweet

Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Petrie of Lowell
have received letter from their son
Harry. who is in France and expected
70 sail for home in short time. that he
has been ordered e return r. his regi-
ment in Germany. Harry was attend
ing school in Paris and expected 70 sail
as soon as school was out He is a
member Of the Fourth division and the
sailing orders for this division has been
cancelled until after Germany signs the
peace terms
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
SALES GIRLS
TOO PRETTY TO
STAY UNMARRIED
LINIERNATIoNAL NENs SERVICE


EVANSTON, Ill, June. - Evanston
does not take up much room in the
worlds gazateer. but the mana gers Of
the two department stores in this mans
town certainly can select pretty girls
for salesladies.
And as result the unmarried male
population Of The town shops as fever
ishlv as the most seasoned bargain
hunter Of the female species
Also. the mana gers of the stores say
they are having a hard time keeping the
girls They all marry shortly after they
start to work. one manager lost eight
girls in one week. four clipping without
giving notice
If there lives a girl. good-looking and
with sales ability who has no intention
Of marrying. she VIII be able 70 land 4
good position in one of Evanston's de-
partment stores
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

Chalk McMahan is also one Of the
East Chicago bows who came in Satur-
day He has been in quite few fights.
He saw action in the ArgOnne and $.
Michel He was with the 3l5th am
munition train Goth division. Chalk is
going around showing his red chhevron.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

VIII stay for the next war. But war
rlors they be and Uncle Sammy says
warriors they'll remain.
Sincerely.
SGT EDW J. BECKMAN.
7th L. s Engs. 5th Div.
Army of Occupation.
The report enclosed ranks the d.
visions as follows: End. 1st. srd. ANA.
9TH, 32nd. 2sth ssth 3srd 18th
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
Corporal Leslie J. parry arrived /

Corporal Leslie ]. Parry arrived in
Crown Point on Saturday from Camp
Taylor having been discharged from
service. Luther Rudolph. John Krost
and Charles johnson also came from
there on Sunday. All these young men
having returned from overseas and been
honorably discharged from the army.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
sergt. Ernest Kosehniek laft rriaay

for Denver Colo. after spending the
past ten DAYS with his mother at Crown
Point Sergt Koschnick was eassed
while ia active service overseas and for
the past four months has been in camp
at Denver. He IS feeling hne now and
expects to be discharged in the near
future
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
THE DEFICIT OF HOUSES.

Many people wonder why that the housing prob
lem has become acute They know that nationa al
population sweled much by immigration
years and that nearly 100000 Americans are
still absent from in military service. Why, then.
the houses not sufficient 10 meet the demands?
One obvious is that the lack of homes is felt
the cities especially the industrial centers and
been made serious by the influx of workers
these cities numbers than before But this is
only partial and superficial There actual
shortage nearly everywhere. in of the smaller
where might expect TO find empty houses
The big reason that during the building has
almost stopped. We used build 100000 100000
houses year replace old structures Of
increased population There already deficit o.
housing in 1916 Since then have been building only
$4,000 homes The result j. actual deficit
nearly 900 homes and the nation be prop.
erly housed until they built
These show plainly enough the duty or the fed
eral and municipal governments do all their
power remedy the stuaon and the patriotic duty
builders and buildngrades unions together
where in a spirit OF mutual accommodation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

Doll Connors. formerly Of ST. John,
has returned from overseas and is visit
ing with his brother Rob and wife at
Chicago
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
John Peck. Dick arrnkan and Dave

Posner. three Of the overseas boys wi.h
the 315th ammunition train. are back
again IN Hammond. getting in the tail
end Of the Wees from Osann. Germany,
by way Of Camp Taylor. Eddie Fitz-
gerald who started at Camp Purdue
with this outht was transferred 70 the
artillery and : somewhere enroute
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
Raymond Keilman and N1ath Herman

returned 20 their homes in Dyer recent
~ after receiving their honorable dis
charge at Camp Sherman. g. They both
were with the 4 E r il France
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
y y v " v " -

There only room for one FLAG in Lake county ard
that Is the Stars and Stripes room for only
one language and that language Of the people Of
the United States
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

Werner Meisser, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Meissner Of Clark street, Whit
ing has returned home from long serv-
ice In France This Whiting boy was
one Of the vehy first to enlist from this
city.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

II all this talk about presidential candidates there
highv important fact that both parties over
looking Suppose the newly enfranchised
into their heads TO nominate woman for president.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

Mr. and Mrs Joseph n. Taylor, 41s
FOLK street Cary. haAe received a tClc-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
sergeant Rernard crotty. w1th the


sOth Division in the machine gun bat
talon. just returned from France. IS
visiting in Gary with his sisters. Mrs
James Fahey. 735 ADAMS street and
Mrs Mccain. $50 Massachusetts street.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

WHO said the Germans lacking in Christian
sprit2 They willing forget all IN
pleasantness. if the Allies viii do likewise
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

Charles S. Perel, whiting. who has
been stationed at Ellington Field Hous-
ton. Texas. wrote that he expected TO
leave that camp on last Saturday for
Camp TAYLOR. Ky, where he expects to
be discharged
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

THE watch the Rhine-which present is
largely American--may be doing watching
distance to the east Of that historic river
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

MOST people would appreciate it if, the time
the department dsposes Of any surplus foodsturs
would offer them in less than carload lots The or
binary kitchen box won't hold that much
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

IF the Germans rafuse 10 sign. old question as
to whether the is mghtier than The sword may
be decided
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

Corporal Jay Brown, son of Mr. and
Mrs. NJ J. Brown. OF Crown Point. re-
turned on Friday morning from Camp
Sherman. He landed in the u S from
France on June 18th and has been dis
charged from service
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
Arthur sass, of whiting, who is

Arthur Sass, Of Whiting, who Is sta
inned al Douglas. Ariz.. has recently
finished a course al a baker school. H\
has been appointed 10 first cook and has
225 men 10 serve.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

DR.. Z. L. Townsley IS back in East
ChtcaEoafter being across the sea He
has reopened his Office IN the Calumet
building
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

James Kane, Of whiting, who recent
~ returned from France. has again re-
stunned his duties with the S. 0. CO.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

Stanley Fleagher of west Hammond,
who has been doing guard duty around
Washington. las his discharge and is
back home ass.n
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23
ION!
Here's Buddy!

gram from their son Lieutenant Marvin
Taylor. announcing that he would be
discharged and would arrive in Gary
next Monday. Lieutenant TAYLOR has
been in the air service at Ellington field.
Dallas. Texas. for the last year
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

A E YOU reading The Tiaes1
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-06-23

Mrs. John Boutwell, and Elsie Kosch-
nicki Crown Point accompanied their
| brother Sergeant Ernest Koschnicki "a
Chicago on Friday. He left for Denver
on Friday night
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-05-09
LOAN DRIVE DRAGGING

Boise, Idaho, May-Montie b.
Gwinn, Chairman of the Idaho Vic
toryLoan Committee said today that
the campaign continued to drag in
some parts of Idaho. He stated that
if Idaho was TO get the honor class
1t was necessary for the people of
this State to respond bit more
promptly and he expressed the be-
lief they would do so and clean the
state quota up the early part of the
week. He said that there was no
question Idaho would meet its quo
ia He was extremely anxious that
the amount be raised before the end
of the campaign next Saturday. In
order that Idaho should be given the
credit for having lined up with
other States in going over the top
before the limit had expired.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-05-09
UNUSUAL PROSPERITY

Boise, Idaho, May-Unusuai pros
perity is promised the farmers of
Idaho this year, and for that reason
the officials in charge of the Victory
Loan have not hesitated to urge the
farming population of the state to
be unusually liberal in the purchase
of bonds.
An unusual wheat crop is pro-
missed and the price $40 bushel
insures large returns from that
source Heavy crops of fruit, beets
and other produce will add TO the
agricultural wealth OF the State.
1T is not only the raur,otic duty
of our farmers as well as all other
they offer splendid investment.
classes of citizens to invest as heav-
lily as possible in these Victory
Bonds" said Chairman Gwinn, but
The outlook for the farmers in Idaho
is most assuring, but in some future
years conditions may not be so sat
isfactory as those prevailing at the
present time. 1t is the duty OF far
mers, therefore. to take advantage
of the prevailing prosperity to lay
aside something for a rainy day and
there is no better means than
through the purchase of these Vic
tory Bonds"