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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-17
QUESTION DID THEY
DRINK THE BITTERS?

IS funny" hissed the slouth as he
drew near a former grog shop at tho
corner Of Holman and Hoffman. 1t was
gas a. n- A man had appeared a the
window of the saloon and as suddenly
disappeared.
Let's see what's going on muttered
our friend. Captain Strong of the Ham
mond Central police station. for it was
indeed he.
The COP flashed his light through the
window. on the floor lay the bartender.
his apron thrown over his face Two
men bent over him. spoke few words
one to the other. and staggered into q
back room.
All this the captain saw and Fastening
TO a police box he sent in an alarm for
the wagon. The faithful bus answered
to the soft persuasfous Of Driver Carl
SON and soon the black maria arrivedp
Officer HanIon arrived also. The three
men forced their way through a hack
door They raised the har Keeper He
vas stiff intoxicated beyond expression.
I'm the rear room they discovered three
other men who were slowly hut surely
sinking to The noor from their respective
chairs They could talk-but only with
ueir hands. All were taken TO Central
station.
In the back room OF the saloon were
found twenty empty cases OF btters.
f. schultz. 349 Towle ST. was re-
leased on $500 bonds. pending bis ar
raignmeut ON "a charge az conducting a
blind pig" VIII Kliest. 367 Honmau4
VIII Pomplum. COZ Hoffman. and Johu|
Dorman- We're charged with drunkenness
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-17

William Bennett Hoffman, Can
ton. O.. man recently won out In a
race with cupid 10y obtaining a bride
before Feb. /. thereby meeting the
provisions Of a VIII which he SAYS
leaves him a fortune of $4,000. Hof-
man Obtained a marriage license to
wed one young lady who answered
his ad While the preacher waited
TO perform the ceremony she changed
her mind. Within 'twenty-four hours
Hoffman had accepted another girl
applicant and married her. She was
Miss Ida Hinton Middlebranch- o.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-17
SAY PRICES
ARE COMING DOWN
But It Will Be Hard to Con
vince People of the Fact.
ILIETIN

AddreSsin Ea convention Of hutter
,,,uufarturers today. DIR. Z. ". Lnr~on.
of the L. = department of agriculture
nrc,licted n reduction Of from f>e -
se,e ncentS in the price Of butter.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-17
WASHINGTON
HEARS WILD
STORY TODAY
President Not Dangerously III
Specialists Scout Stories
Circulated.
BU LLETIN.

ItTERNETIoNAL NEWS SERVICE
tsHINGToN. Feb. I7-There were
widespread rumors in Washington to-
day that President Wilson uns most
dangerously ILL They are abSoIuteIs
unfounded. Mr. Wilson spent the great
er part Of tho morning in the White
House grounds.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-17
THE WEATHER

TOR II 1fD-ANA-Generally fair tonight
Ana Wednesday, except probably snow in
no4~Ecast portion; warmer tonight in
south port1oni colder Wednesday in north
portion.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-17
DO a Good Turn Daily"
Ask a Boy Scout
He KnowS

On streets and newsstancs as
per cory. Delivered by carrier IN
hammond and West Hammond, soc
per month.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-17

INTERNATIONAL NEWS
FULL LEASED WIRE
SERVICE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

A man may be so dumb that he doesn't know the name of the Vice President. But that doesn't keep him from knowing how the government should be run.
 Even when woman gets so that she has to turn sideways to get through a door she hates to admit that she is getting fat.
 Any man who has $50 salary and a $5o wife is getting about all the hell that is coming to him without waiting for the future. We want to compliment the women on wearing sensible looking hats. There was time when a woman wors a peck of vegetables and flock of rooster feathers on her, headpiece and thought she looked human.
 Any woman with 40-inch Waist can tell you that the waist measurement of a perfectly formed woman ts 40 inches.
 Where do the illustrators get the idea that girl has to have green hair and pink eyes in order to get tsher face on 2 magazine cover? There wasn't much hi cost of living Tn the old days when a man bought a box containing a dozen paper collars for dime and wore one collar a week
 The average woman is thrifty soul who will gladly spend 20 cents to save a dime.
 Adam was about the only man who didn't have to listen to his mate harp cn the fact that she wished she had some decent clothes to wear like other women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28

ernment. It has proved futile and the significant statement was made by Deputy Lord Mayor O'Callaghan of Cork that he believed hunger striking would be abandoned.
 Everyone in America who sympa- thizes with Ireland would rejoice to see this needless sacrifice prevented. It is evident that Irishmen who starve themselves to death in jail cannot force concessions from the British government in that way. It is har- rowing spectacle which seems to be as unavailing as it is painful to wit ness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
MIGHT MOB HIM.
MACAULAY ON THE BOLSHEVIKI

after wine has been for few months their daily fare, they become more tenn perate than they had ever been in their town country. In the same manner, the final and permanentN fruits of liberty are wisdom, moderation and mercy. It's immediate effects are often atrocious crimes. conflicting errors. scepticism on points the most clear, dogmatsm on points the most mysterious It is just at this crisis that-it enemies love to eX- hibit it. They pull down the scaffold-< ing from the half-fintshed edifice: they point to the flying dust, the falling bricks, the comfortless rooms, the frightful irregularities of the whole ap- pearance; and then ask in scorn where the promised splendor and comfort is to be found. If such miserable sophisms were to prevail, there would never be a good house or a good government in the world. sss
 There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom pro- duces; and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner first leaves his cell he can not bear the light of day. He is unable to discriminate colors, or recognize faces. But the remedy is not to fe- mand him into his dungeon, but to ac- custom him to the rays of the sun. The blaze Of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on and they will soon be able to bear it. In a fe years men learn to reason. Ths extreme violence of opinions subsidies. Hostile theories correct each other. The scattered elements of truth cease to contend, and begin to coalesce And at length system of justice and order is educed out of the -chaos."
 The Russians are not the first people to go into wild excesses in the reaction from autocracy. There is every reason 10 suppose things will run their course there as they have run their course among other peoples similarly situated.
 An American authority on Russia. coming out of the country after a few months of bolshevism was asked what he thought of the situation. I'm an/ optimist on Russia" he said. T believe they may settle down there within twenty or thirty years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
FAILURE THE FINAL TEST

From Orison Swett Marden, in The New
 Success Magazine.
 Real winners in life never show the white feather. They are like the drum mer boy in our Civil war who, when his regiment was being moved down, still kept pushing ahead, beating an ad- vance. When ordered to beat a re- treat, the boy replied that he had never learned how-he had only been taught to beat an advance
 The finest type of manhood is s,neyer overwhelmed or entirely dismayed n, matter what comes Ifsa man of this kind loses property, if his ambition is thwarted and his plans demolished, his spirit remains undaunted, his courage his resistance and his self-confidence are undiminished and he can start afain. Many man has been made by his failures. because he used them as stepping stones for his advance.
 Failure is the final test of persists ence and an iron will; it either crushes life or solidifies 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
From the Kansas City Star. y7 N SPITE of changes in fashic

| From the Kansas City Star.
 S7 N SPITE of changes in fashion in | H literary styles. and in spite of obvious defects in the style of
 Macaulay (somebody has said he was always a brass band), the Macaulay essays are as good reading today as they were more than half century ago when they were fascinating England
 These remarks are called forth by re-reading of his essay on Milton. and particularly of the passage in which he refers to CromwelTs Great Rebel lion." It is rather long for quotation, but it's application to the chaos in bolr shevist Russia justifies recalling it al |.this time:
 "If it were possible that people brought up under an intolerant and arbitrary system could subvert that
 system without acts of cruelty and
 folly, half the objections to despotic powers would be removed. We should, in that case, be compelled to acknowl- edge that it at least produces no perni- cious effects on the intellectual and moral character of nation. We de- plore the outrages which accompany
 revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel
 thet revolution was necessary. The violence of these outrages will always be proportioned to the ferocity and ig
 norance of the people; and the ferocity and ignorance of the people will be pro- portioned to the oppression and degra- dation under which they have been ac- customed to live. Thus it was in our Civil war.
 Tt is the character of such rcvolu- tjcns that we always see the worst of them at first. Till men have been some time free. they know net how to use their freedom. Tho natives of wine countries are generally sober. In cli- mates where wine is rarity intemper- ance abounds. A newly liberated pso- rle may be compared to a northern ar9y encamped on the Rhine or .he Xeres. It is said that when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to indulge without restraint in such a rare and expensive luxury. noth- ing is to be seen but intoxication. Soon, however plenty teaches discretion; and.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
A PRODIGY

From the Springfield Republican.
 Columbia's twelve year-old Fresh man, Edward Rochie Hardy, IT,. led his classmates in entrance examination points and excels in Arabic. French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. Dutch, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Assyrian, chemistry, physics. geology, astronomy. botany. zoology, archaeology. philology, Babylonian, Semitic, Assyrian and Ara bic history, plain and solid geometry, algebra and trigonometry. piano. harp. violin and mandolin. But he is de- clared to be, nevertheless, regular boy. He plays baseball swims and on Wednesday took an intense and per- spring interest in the annual quarrel for campus supremacy between sopho- mores and freshmen" His straw vote orPresident is not announced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
THE LABOR PROBLEM
the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 In connection with this subject comes
 up the matter of labor which means, in
 the main, manual labor. During the war
 and since wages have risen to new high levels, although in most instances not
 disproportionate to the profits made as result of such labor. Productiveness, however, has not kept pace with the rise in wages and has in a number of
 cases even retrograded. With price de-
 clines, the element of labor cost has be- come a serious problem, and the work CTS have been made aware of this in divers ways. Mills and factories have
 gone on part time or have shut down altogether because of inability to see a profit in working under existing con- didons, and bonuses and extra shifts have been dispensed with. Efforts are being made in several of the industries to get to a piece work basis, instead or a weekly wage, in order to get greater productiveness. The signifi- canoe of these things, added to the lessened demand for labor, has not been without effect on the attitude of the workers. Nor have they been insensi- ble to the meaning of the fact that at- tempted strikes have in almost every recent instance been a failure. So the spectacle has been presented, for the first time in years of operatives being willing to speed up production evenNto submit to reductions in wages rather
 than see the complete stoppage of work. On the part of the employers there has been striving for greater and increased use of automatic devices to take the place of manual labor. One concern engaged in designing automat- ic machinery is so overwhelmed with orders that it will not promise deliv- cries for about year, while another has work enough in sight to keep it busy for three years to come. The use of such devices may serve to increase the capacity of workers so as to make it possible for them to continue to receive high wages, because the latter will be wholly dependent on quantity of output
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
 777 THIN forty-eight hours the WM newspapers have reported the
 w death of two men whose names were unfamiliar to most of us, but whose personalities. possess definite interest.
 One of these men. was Harley Nov rey, ST., of vernal Utah, who is as- serted to have been the last survivor Of a battalion of more than 500 members of the Mormon Church which fought in the Mexican war under Brig.-Gen. Stephen w. Kearny. commanding the army of the west which conquered New Mexico. His military service Was per formed while the Mormons were nee- ing from Nauvoo, the ~Place Beautifui. in Hancock county, Illinois, which they were forced to abandon after the repeal of their charter in 1s45. leaving their just completed temple and much or their property because of the nostiiity which had been aroused against them. Al this time it was believed by many that the MOFmouS pAe " tho Mississippi valley and ultimately the whole continent.
 The Mormons who served under Gen. eral Kearny, contributed their bounty monev to their co-religionists. and this proved of great assistance to the migrating host. which at the moment did not know it's destination. This pill grimage ended at the Great Salt Lake today the centre of Mormopism. Ten years after Mowrey and his companions served under Kearny the Mountain MsAdows massacre occurred and the conflict known as the Mormon war" began. Mowrey was ss when he died.
 The other man whose death recaiis the United States of another dayiwas Geogre s. Hawkera of Ayr, Scotland. who attained 1os. He was . veteran of our Civil war and of the Frxhco-Prus- sion var of 1sn. His- distinction ,is based on his declaration that in his business as tailor he had Lincoln among his customers. Whether this patronage was given before Lincoln be- came President or afterward the news from Ayr does. not disclose.
 It would be interesetpE te get Mr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
Forty-three t'Night Riders"
 Arrested in Alabama

-HE arrest of forty-three alleged
 might riders" in Marshall Rlount and Cullman counties within the past few days is an indication that the authorities are determined to break up a form of lawlessness which is not only pernicious and de- structive, but is an insult to the in telligence of the state. Other arrests are expected to follow.
 "Night riding" is due to ignorance and violent propensities. Nothing could be accomplished by such folly. Burning gins and terrorizing cotton growers is not the way sensible and well-informed citizens face an eco- homie situation.
 The state law enforcement depart ment is to be commended for it's work. Representatives of the department have been making investigations, it is announced, since the first gins were posted. It is not to be expected that every person guilty of might riding" will be caught and punished, but forty-three arrests will prove a salutary warning, which will be strengthened if a number of convic- tions are followed by prison sen- tences.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
AN ACTOR OF THE OLDEN TIME

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 Oliver Doud Byron, dead at 77, is merely a name to present-day theatre goers, so that to most of those who have seen him in recent years in "The Lion and the Mouse" or Tn General John Regan.' his name carried no weight of theatrical history or tradi- ton,
 That merely shows how rapid and sweeping are the changes in the theatre as, well as in other fields of modern life. MT. Byron made his debut as a child in 1858 with Joseph Jefferson. Thereafter he played with Charlotte Cushman he was leading man with Edwin Booth. alternating with him as Othel1o and Iago; he played with Hack ett and Laura Keene, and was the Ro- meo for the beautiful but ill-starred Mrs. Scott-Siddons.. He was in the best line of the old theatrical tradition, but in 1870 he had the good fortune to get hold of melodrama. Across the Con- tinent.' which he played for twenty eWc oCdopHo dll OFcT tne y,~ acquiring handsome competence.
 Byron's wife, Kate Crehan, played with him and was responsible for the introduction to the stage of her younger sister, known as Ada Rehar. the greatest comedienne of her time. With their own achievements, those of their son, Arthur Byron, and of Miss Rehan. the Byrons rank as one of the theatrical families from whom the stage was so largely recruited in that older day. Another mark of the tradi- tion to which they belonged is the fact that they were preparing to celebrate their fifty-second wedding. anniversary in November. Marital fidelity was as much to be expected in those earlier theatrical families as fidelity to the great English school of acting in which they had been trained. The Byrons honored themselves and the stage by their faithfulness to both standards
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
THE ABBEY'S "UNKNOWN" f h o1r lxr. IN..1 l..


 Heretofore every tomb in Westmin- ster Abbey has been that of a known personality. figure in the develop ment of Britain's life and history. Now ' there is to be one exception, by royal consent and approval. Some one of the unidentified dead of the private soldiers who fought in France will be buried there, under a stone with this inscrip- tion, Here Lies an Unknown Soldier Who Fell in the War-19l4-1919." The idea is worthy of the highest and worthiest sentiment of Anglo Saxon dom Not many men of action lie in Westminster Abbey. but the Wolfe Monument with the figure of the knightly Englishman dying on the heights of Quebec and a soldier point ing to the Goddess of Fame lowering overhead, will'put the Unknown in good company. And the shades of John Wesley and Richard Golden and David Livingston will welcome him to the ! Fellowship of Idealism.
 One wonders, however, whether st.. Paul would not have been better place for such a demonstration of what Britain owes to the humble men who did their part in the saving of the world. Napier and Nelson are there. So is Sir John Moore. who was buried softly at dead of night" There. too. is the, monument that commentaries the Noble Six Hundred of Balaklaya. who l rushed into the jaws of death, in the mouth of he'll" without reasoning why. or late years the tendency has been to bury men of action in St. Paul; men of thought in Westminster Abbey. The private soldier of every army in this great war, as in all armies of all | lesser wars, has not been accorded, and cannot in the nature of things be ac- corded, what is his just due. And every effort to approximate to just recogni- tion is deserving of applause and ap- preciation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
Election Returns

The Young Men's Christian Associa- tion has planned to receive the clec- tion returns on Tuesday, November 2, and will have a leased wire operator handle them" said w. g. Stallings, general secretary. The association is planning to make this very interest," ing evening for it's members and friends, and in addition to the election returns will have moving pictures and other features of an interesting char> acter.
 -Four years ago. the association had a crowded house on election night, and the indications are that next Tuesday night will see an overflow audience at the Central buildingH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
Hard on Women.

Lone women travelling are in some measure subject to suspicion anywhere, which is unfortunate, to say the least,' says John P. Acker hotel man, and are more or less undesired in all hotels of the larger cities. However, Allan ta hotels are by far the most uncom- promising of all. It is regretable to state that hotel clerks there hardly sc to the trouble to glance up at lone women seeking to register before giv- ing rather curt, and certainly short, all rooms taken, It does seem that some discretion would be used in the matter. Travelling women in Atlanta are certainly up against it, for if by any chance whatever, missing trains, nests failing to meet them, or other contingencies they are positively and absolutely turned out from one hotel after another. That is, among the leading hotels of that city. In other words, nice women are often obliged there to seek second or third class ac- commodation, or spend the night on the streets. Woman's suffrage seems Of minor importance beside the accord ing of ordinary privileges of citizenS to our women.S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
Missed Some

'Jack Carter. a dairyman who was held up and robbed on the Green
 Springs road, was clever enough to lose only small amount of money he, Lad in his pocket" said Fred McDuff. chief deputy sheriff. Tt happened that on that morning he had collected several bills and one person owing him s5 Lad given him two s2 bills and a s1. At that time she told him she was giving him the $2 bills and hoped he wouldn't get held up. This money. together with S1.75 he wrapped up and when the highwayman told him to give up his money, he pulled out this roll and handed it over In that same pocket
 he had nearly s1oo, but as the negro failed to tell him to turn his pockets out he missed that roll of greenbaaks."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-28
sF T a A Prosperity That Is Shared By All

7H HE good financial account which
 u the Birmingham iron and steel operators are giving of themselves this year is the best kind of news to the people of this district. When these corporations are successful, manufac- ture large output and sell it at prices yielding fair profit, tens of thou Islands of men are employed at good wages, bank deposits increase, mer- chants do remunerative business, homes are built and the district is a splace of peace, plenty and happiness.
 When these concerns are not >oper- lating successfully and when the mar kkets are not asking for their products, sthe same tens of thousands of men ere not busy, bank deposits do not in- crease and merchants do not sell so many goods. The prosperity of the individual in the Birmingham district is the direct reflex of the prosperity of the producing coal, iron and steel interests. British Government Unshaken
 by Irish Hunger Strikers
 1r HERE is grim irony in the yer
 u dict of a coroner's jury that Terence MacSwiney died of "heart failure" in Brixton jail. Michael Fitzgerald, the hunger striker who died in the Cork jail, was adjudged to have feloniously done himself to death.
 Neither the British government nor any of its representatives con- cedes martyrdom to the hunger strikers. Official announcements are coldly matter-of-fact. They take no cognizance of the suffering of these two men, or the intense feeling their deaths have created throughout Sim '~Fein Ireland.
 It may be that MacSwiney and Fitzgerald served purpose. they lit tie intended. They may have put an end to hunger striking as a weapon of protest against the British gov