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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-28

For Fuel. Phone Four ''Diboa the
Coal Man Phone 4. adv.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-28

has been ailing for number of years
from cancer and has been bedfast for
the pact six weeks following g. stroke
OF paralysis She came 10 America
in 1881 and for a number OF years re-
sided Chicago. She then moved to
East Gary and Crisman and during the
past twelve years has been residing
here with her daughter Mrs. l.. Traeg-
Ell. She was the mother OF six child
rem and all have passed away except
one daughter, Mrs. L. Traeger. who
survives. also two grandchildren and
one great grand-child survive Funeral
services will be held at 1870 today at
the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Traeg
er on Main street by Rev. stark OF the
Swedish Lutheran church OF which she
was a member The interment will
be at the Blake cemetery at East Cary
The members OF the o. E. 5. Auxil-
iary VIII have a beach party AZ Lake
Michigan. Thursday and will leave at
80 from the residence OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Petersen.
The Ideal Book Club will be enter
tanned at one o'clock dinner at the
Marshal Fields tea room this evening
Mrs Nellie Thomas is the hostess
Miss Margaret Banner visited friends
in Chicago Monday
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medateiy viii
provisions of the senate b
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LOWELL

Mrs. E e. Ragon and grand-daugh-
ter Henrietta Ragon. of Gary came
last evening for a visit with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs Fay Christie returned
to th>- home s.. Hammond last even
ing after a visit hare with her par
ents. Mr. and Mrs y F.. Clark
Mrs H. j.. Baughman and daughter
Henrietta, returned last evening from a
visit with relatives in Racine. Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Brownell Of
Yeoria. I'll. are visiting at the hcns
OF his mother Mrs. p. r. Browneu.
Mrs George Christie Of Hammond
came last evening for a visit with
friends.
Dr. and Mrs. J. A Dinwiddie and
son Abbot. have returned from week 3
stay al The Shades.
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IF You Are Easily Tired Out,
Your Blood Needs Purifying

s.. tancc IN giving the system
general bousecieaning.
Nearly everybody Just now needs
few Bottles of S. s. S to cleanse
the system Of impurities.
S. S. S. Is without an equal es =
general tonic and system builder.
Il improves the appetite and gives
new strength and vitality to both
old and young.
Full information and valuable
literature can be had by writing to
Swift Specific CO.. Atlanta. Ca
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been expected the senate would refuse
to release the kiper bill from commit
tee until the house had concurred in
the amendments to the Johnson home
rule bill.
Prospects for adjournment sine die
late tonight are favorable unless some
thing unforeseen develops ana in any
event the legislature is sure to ad-
journ tomorrow. it is said
According to present -indications ire
kiper bin will go into conference i'm
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-28
BETTER PROSPECTS
FOR ADJOURNMENT
Special Session of Legislat-
ure Sure to Adjourn To
morrow, il is Believed.

Chances for an early adjournment Of
the Legislature We're more favorable
today than they have been at any time
since the special session convened two
weeks ago last Modnay following the
release BY the senate to the house or
the Kiper tax cure bin BY a vote OF
II TO y. The bill had been tied up in
a conference committee for several
days. The decision Of the senate. il
Is believed. will tend 10 relieve the
tension which has existed between the
two bodies OF the legislature for some
time and restore harmony in the leg
islature for some time an drestore har-
mony in the Legislative halls. 1t had
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C1oeged-uY imPsritie. Win Under
mine Your Health.

The first symptoms are usually
loss OF appetite. followed by
gradual lessening Of energy, the
system becomes weaker day by
day, until you icei yourself on the
verge of breakdown.
This whole condition Is bit the
result of impurities in the blood
that show that nature Heeds as
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-07-28
HOBART

Mrs. Clara Bark wistrand was born
July Is, 1913. In Hammarvik, SKIOLD
inge Socken. Sodernanland. wweden.
and died here at eight o'clock sunday
evening on her 18th birthday She
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MERRILLVDLE

The Centenary Club will meet next
Friday with Mrs. Adie Boyd. The
chairman is DESTROYS of good attend
ance.
The Henry Kuehl family naotored 81
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lanhattans Greetings "Lets Go Get Something to Eat

a lot of sensations which we have been re-
garding as springing from the soul to the
plane of the stomach, don't you?
Why not? he comes back at us boldly.
It's a good plane isn't it? There's awful
lot of tommyrot talked about the soul as
ii is. Plenty of girls would never fall for
chocolates If they weren't already chock
full of steak and potatoes. And how many
men do you suppose would plug along at
an office, day after day, il they could get
roast chicken without paying for IT? ASK
dad he knows. Hunger-that's the main
spring the driving wheel and the spark
plug. Every time,
Speaking of love, he muses. sentimentally.
is there anything on earth so beautiful as
your wife when she's making an apple pie
for your supper?
George rather annoys us when he runs
on like this. He is too darned truthful.
To divert him we ask where he would
Icy the scene of this novel
New York of course says George. There
isn't another place in the world that pays
so much attention to food. Manhattan IL
the eatin'est place in creation. Look at
the hotels. Look at the restaurants count
the delcatessen stores in your block. TAKE
any hour of the day or night and youn nnd
a whole cityful of people eating In this town.
And, for contrast, count up the number OF
New Workers who do not eat There's heart
throbs for you!
Warming to this theme, George goes on
to elaborate on stage settings. Your heroine
Che says) may meet the hero in a one arm
restaurant; with that beginning the drama
would be mere Chids play. But they will
find out as you must show in your story.
that no matter what they are starving for.
life is no Automat. You can't drop enough
nickels in the slot to get plateful Of
dreams come true.
Personally, we think that a more sue
cessful novel would be one entitled Thirst.
Illustrated.
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Lively SilhOuettes of Human Nature

fices at AZ Broadway In Vienna 900 chill
dren are fed one meal a day at the public
kitchens. and $4,000 throughout the rest of
Austria. Yet less than a third of the starv-
ing little ones have been reached.
They don't have turkey even one day a
year, nor anything like so good. What they
get when lucky at the public kitchens Is a
slice of black bread and thin vegetable
soup. on this one meal they have to subsist
an entire day.
And IL the tots grow too fat on this diet II
is cut off and they get nothing. Why? BE
cause other children must have their turn TO
receive the meagre ration. The children look
forward TO weighing in day with horror.
ON this day the pitiful mites who have been
receiving the American food must try the
scales TO determine whether their condition
OF undernourishmcnt still necessitates the
relief III one OF them has gained the speci-
f.ed number of pounds for his size and age
ne must surrender his tin pail cup and spoon
and white card that entities him to n share
at the Kitchen He may still be hungry he 49,
but he must give way 10 some child whose
checks are more sunken and whose limbs
arc more shrunken because of hunger long
endured.
DR. Clemens Pirquet. head of the depart
mcnt OF chdrens diseases in the University
Of vienna has written Herbert Hoover,
chairman of the American Relief Admins
tration. that more than rs per cent. of the
whole child population of Austria up to the
age of Is are underfed. In other words. only
about 2 i'm 100 are getting adequate nourish-
ment and $4,000 out Of 1.1s2,000 Austrian
children are not getting enough TO eat.
The administration began tho work Of
feeding the Austrian children in April, 1919.
It's available food supplies have not been suf-
ficient TO fill all the hungry mouths. Is not
this need something TO think about and try
10 reduce at Christmas?
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Farmer Deals Against Forces
That Permit of No Appeal

Because the farmers business is ele-
mental. and because there can be no strike
against nature. TO speak, the farmer feels
he is the ultimate goat in the social scheme.
The salaried and wage class know that
there are certain merits and kinds OF per
suasion by which their remuneration can
be- advanced, and it is a fixed sum, paid In
money and with regularity. The farmer
knows he is dealing with prime forces more
souless than corporations to which there
il no appeal. His production cannot go be
yond the yielding power Of his land and
may be anything less; his market is =
gamble; the only thing he is sure OF Is
hard work.
When economies was a newer thing TO
the schools than it is to-day II was some
times spoken Of as a ''pseudo-scierce.'
This criticism was true in the sense that II
is not an exact science like physics or chem
istry. It's laws are positive and constant,
but they are laws Of tendency and not i'm
mediate action. because they deal with hu-
nan aggregates. A physical body will fall
by gravitation at a computed acceleration.
a mineral will fluX at a determined heat.
but social communities are never entirely
Plastic. and their molecular human units
are not equally kinetic. Personal feeling.
cnvironmental attachments. age and con
,ention. as well as statutory laws. impede
fluxing OF communal appointments which
causes many people to believe that eco
uomic laws are not fundamental
II is certain that II farming or any IN
dustry does not pay IL will be abandoned
But the migration from the farms Is not
made in a day. the liquidation Of tho farms
is slow but sure. and even II mechanical
farming forfend food shortage, there viii
result political structure which will not b.
grounded on the earth like that which pre-.
coded II.
Feraro points out that one Of the facts
which marked the fall Of the Roman Empire
was the descrtion of the farms for the cities
During the stress and wars and orgies and
crusades Of the Middle Ages the stabilizina
fierce that pulled social organization through
was that strange system OF necessity fcudal-
ism and feudalism was founded on land
tenure.
Whether n nation founded on industrial
ism. without it's basic communities attached
to the soil. could meet a continued strain ON
~ necessity production, is a question per
haps not fully answered by the last i've
years At least there Is nothing more haz
ardous to social equilibrium than an agrarian
agitation founded on an unsound economic
cor dition.
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young and easily stirred to laughter that
sweeps round the table: but perhaps New
York will see to 1t that you have these quail
ties always.
Georges Novel.
~ GORGE has been after US for years
T to write a novel under the title
Hunger" Gle doesn't know that
one under that title has just been published.)
Think, he urges us. what theme that is!
Why, it's the only thing that really matters!
Love! he snorts contemptuously; what's
love compared TO hunger? War? What s
war compared to hunger? Business? What's
making money compared to getting full
meal?
George is not as his explanations might
lead you to believe, a starving man. He
feeds at the best clubs and has a profile he
regards properly But he itches to make
other people work.
The big idea Che goes on TO explain) is
that the greatest novel is the one which
treats of the universal theme; and hunger
is universal. Not every one cares about
mailing money. but every one cares about
eating; not every one falls in love, but even
celibates fall for food; not every one hears
bugle, but every one hears the dinner bell
It's universal, that's what it Is, universal.
It's all nonsense. he declares. to say that
novel must have heart interest. Stomach
interest-thats the ticket! More married
men would appreciate that sort of a novel.
And your hero, we ask-will he be the
hero of Everett Shinn's great play Gastric
Juice?"
OF course, you don't have to stick to mere
food in this novel, George Comedies if you
want to you can introduce love, as being the
hunger of the lonely, and fighting as the
hunger of the cowardly. and bullying the
hunger of the weak, and business as the
hunger of the restless. All these things are
forms of hunger, and as such MAY properly
be included in this novel that you're going
TO write.
Well, George. we say mildly. you reduce
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Census Shows Farms
Are Passing Fast

communities. with their solidarity and local
pride, are matters of concern.
National strength consists in the integral
strength of the whole fabric not in the
divisional strength Of parts loosely meshed
together. Division of labor has been con-
jure word but carried too far 1t spells di-
vision Of thought and division of sympathy
II is said the intelligent and industrious
farmer is successful. only the hidebound
and sluggish 60 TO the wall. You may drive
through Chenango county and be charmed
with the evidences OF pastoral prosperity
the herds Of Holsteins grazing on the hills.
the big milk trucks rafting TO the collect
ing stations. and you will hear that the
farmers are doing well. You can go to the
vineyard region OF western New York and
be told that before the prohibition wave
struck the country the grape growers were
getting $25 or $50 ton, and out of their
despair they are now selling their grapes
for $140 ton. You can go into the Con-
nectcut valley and hear that a man came
with $500 and is now worth S150,000 from
growing tobacco. All of which does not an
swer the reiterated complaint of a great
body of farmers that they cannot make "A
living nor refute the statement that the
resident farmers in southern New England
averaged over fifty years of age.
Let any business man plot out hundred
acre farm divided into the conventional
wood lot, pasture and tillage. Add team OF
horses. which it will take eight acres to
feed: add the overheads OF repair and de-
probation of fences and buildings. insur
ance. taxes. ageing and contingencies of live
stock: then compute the revenue POSSIBLE
ties and see where there is a profit.
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TIME recent publication of the census
figures concerning the distribution of
population in Rhode Island, being
they are in conformity with the general tabu-
lations of the Eastern States, indicate
social readjustment which has been operat-
ing for long time, the logical result of
which is not easy TO forecast further than
that there is nothing in sight which seems
likely to reverse the urban flow of popula
ton back to the land
Since 1910 the number of farms in Rhode
Island has decreased 22S per cent total
acreage 25S per cent. and improved acreage
25.5 per cent. The number of white farmers
is 1903 and there are 900 female farmers in
Guided therein. One may now see women
driving commercial delivery motor cars and
delivering milk, butter and eggs from their
farms.
Not so many years ago by the calendar
but In antiquity by the march of changes
before Thanksgiving fleet OF farmers
wagons, loaded with turkeys and perhaps
also "hXin's" was an annual sight in the
exchange square of a New England city
from which vended the festal bird at a
figure which nowadays seems like a Joke
The wagons are no more: there are turkeys,
to be sure, at price. though where they
come from is not apparent, for he who
motors many miles through the countryside
never sees them.
The farmers says they can't raise them.
that they wander away or sicken from damp
ness, and there's no money in them anyway
Thus civilization seems to have enervated
the husky bird whose gobble "A generation
ago was the concomitant of the rural home
stead And so has passed away an industry
the ugh perhaps a small
Truly. it's a strange situation. There are
floods of talk about the estate of the farmer,
there are more floods OF grumbling over the
high price Of foods and there the matter
rests or, better, drifts. for nothing is stable.
and the interaction of the urban and rural
communities is problem of serious qoten-
t.alities.
No computations are of value unless they
are reduced to a base unit. and farming.
from its elemental nature. is entitled to be
called basic industry into whose terms
the relative prosperity of all industry may
be rendered. Not only so. but the farmer
himself on his personal side must be used
in factorizing that aggregate which is in
tended by the word commonwealth
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Balance of Trade Affects
HamIetS as Well as Nations

Perhaps the Eastern towns in the post
bellum days Of the last century were pa
rochial, perhaps their people were narrow
and lacked vision, except OF what their
neighbors were doing. But there is a self
conscious strength in standing on ones own
feet, establishing oneself in an integral com
munity; for values are always relative and
the personal and industrial equation of the
small towns was what made the amenities
of their life, when times were more simple
IL is as true Of "A hamlet Of a nation that
there Is balance Of trade for or against il
IN cannot buy more than the equivalent OF
what It produces. Many rowns classed as
rural either contain manufacturing villages
or are the residence OF persons living more
or less on invested wealth. SO that their sit
uation is economically fictitious
The towns that are strictly agricultural
are generally producing almost nothing to
commercial channels. their buying power is
negligible. only those who are stalled by age
or poverty remain on the land, and were II
not for certain phases Of state aid their
position would be desperate.
The discussions about the abandoned
farms are trite enough the causes not dis
puted, the results clear. But what OF the
future? There are those who say that eco
nomic laws define the survival OF an indus
try: II small farming does not pay IL must
go like the stage coach before the railroad
Mechanical farming on the prairie lands
has supplanted Il and the food supply Is
safe, perhaps, though there may be posi-
bilities Of disturbance even there. But at
any rate the segregation OF an industry.
the wide zone Interchange Of commodities
and especially tho elimination ~ farmer
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To kill the chef would be, perhaps. too trite :
Nor could he cook well. after such blight
must devise some new tricks with my feet
To charm him till he hands me out bite)
! cannot get quite all I'd like to eat
ENVOY.
Waiter 1 beg you. go and fly your kite
Don't daily here. or l shall rise and smite
To wave that menu card is NOT discreet.
Odd. how some people sudden death invite
] cannot get quite all I'd like to eat
A we say there used to be little res
~ taurant years ago. You probably
remember another one just like.
which you think of as your own. We a
crowd of four five. all young and all
destined TO become famous. found it first
BY accident, of course These places are al
ways found by accident And assembled
there nightly.
An Italian philanthropist with rosy bald
head and an unfailing smile presided over
the kitchen. He was it is true. chef waiter
and proprietor. He served u.s. with bologna.
red peppers, celery roast chicken, long
loaves and a pint of red wine. all for half
dollar; and when the plates were cleared
away he brought a shiny copper pot that
held gallon of black coffee and left this on
the table for so long as we chose to sit there
a1u ldih. Anu 'aik we uiu-lor nouf upon
hour. Eheu, he Is gone on now. with his red
wine: we used to think that no one but our
selves knew of his dinners: but the town
discovered him and he became famous long
before we, his lordly patronizers did. OF
course, there are no such places now.
IN I'D you ever breakfast down in Fulton
Market away downtown. at earliest
dawn, when the flush of sunrise was
just silhouetting the spidery cables of the
old Bridge and the fishing luggers rocked
lightly against the tide rushing down from
Hell Gate? You thread your way there
through the canyons of the financial district
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giant office buildings. dark and deserted at
that silent hour, and emerge upon the bust
ness of yawning marketmen; and you sit
down at the long counter to broiled mackerel
that was hauled from the salt sea just an
hour before!
First lore lasts longest"-ah hoU true!
M first Ioue icds an oyster stetci
NR. after driving through the sharp
tingling November air up into West
chester, have you stopped at that
teahouse for buttered scenes and tea that
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ID you never eat in that Hungarian
restaurant on Second avenue, below
Stuyvesant Square? Nor in the
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with him and encourages him and is thrifty
with the money he can spare for their house
hold and personal expenses. But
When she takes a woman friend or ac-
quaintance driving she tells all about the
people who live i'm the houses they pass.
See that place there?" she will say
Pretty fine. isn't it? You'd think folks who
could live in place like that would have
money enough to pay their bills wouldn't
you? Well. they owe everybody Why
they owe Jim $500 for two years and he
can't get a cent out of them. | say sue, but
Jim says they got so many judgments
against them now that the prospect OF one
more won't scare them"
She has like tale to tell Of the people
who live in almost every house she passes.
Now. what she has to say is repeated. OF
course. and eventually it comes to the ears
Of the women folk in those houses. They
tell their men, and when Smith and Jones
and Brown have any repairing to be done
on their automobiles or tractors, or when
they want to buy accessories, or even get a
new machine they go over to the next
county with their business. Jim's business
is going to the dogs. and he can't under
stand IL.
No one seems brave enough to tell Jim
that his wife ought to be muzzled.
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young and easily stirred to laughter that
sweeps round the table; but perhaps New
York will see to 1t that you have these quail
ties always
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r INEVITABLY. you have lunched at that
delightful little Armenian cafe on Lex
ington avenue Its very name carries
ar alluring suggestion OF mysterious streets
in Bagdad or Stamboul-"Cafe de L'Orient'
though you won't find that name in the
telephone directory. They give you savory
pilaf of lamb and rice there, and that honey
laden dessert, pakava, and you may sit
long over your thick black Turkish coffee,
gossping lazily and wondering what those