Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 147, Hammond, Lake County, 9 December 1908 — Page 4

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Wednesday, Dec- 9, 1908.

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THE UNITED STATES BEHIND IN ITS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. That the United States is behind Europe in general and Germany in par

ticular in the matter of its industrial schools is the opinion of a learned Ger

man scholar. Dr. Homan von Schurman, who has just returned to Berlin frfom a visit to thi3 country. He has been studying the industrial schools and is of the opinion that too much money is being spent in the aay school and not of the opinion that too much oney is being spent in the day school and not enough in the night school for the benefit of the junior apprentice. "It is all very well," said Dr. Schurman, "to teach the small boy the elements of manual training, but experience has shown that this primary teaching, given prior to the time when a boy decides upon his vocation, has very little lasting effect. "In six cases out of ten a boy will learn, we will say for example, something in the woodworking line, and when he has spent two pr three years and has a fair amount of practice, along with a great deal of theory, he will go out and look for a position. He finds that it is possible for him to get into the iron working business, where he has a friend who can get him a place, but he does not know much about iron working. "Now, it would have been much . better to turn that boy out of school earlier, after he had finished his mental training, and let him get his position in the iron shop. Then, if he could get the benefit of an apprentice's night school, where he could take up the line of his chosen vocation, he could make himself far more valuable to his employer, and he would have a

chance to rise easier and quicker from the bench to a more responsible

position. He would apply himself more closely at school because he would be learning the theory of his schosen vocation, and he would appreciate that he was getting along faster than the boys in his shop who were plodding along content to slowly master what they could from their daily tasks." . All of which is most excellent food for thought for those who are at the head of our educational systems. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS GIVING.

IS BETTY GREEN HAPPY? Item. A - plain old woman, wearing a dowdy black dress, with a slatternly appearing old hat tipped over a shrewd eye and a cunning face. That is a pen picture of Hetty Green, owner of many millions, as she sits at her private desk in the big bank she owns in New York city. Since the days of Russell Sage this woman has mora ready cash to lend than any other person in Gotham. When taxes come in slowly and the city authorities need money to meet the heavy expenses they go to Hetty Green for it and pay good Interest for the short loan, you may be sure. For. many years Hetty Green lived in a cheap flat in Hoboken, Just across the river from Manhattan, and paid therefor a rental of $19 per month.

New York gasped when she gave tip

her flat and moved into the high priced

Plaza hotel. It did not last long, though Hetty could have bought the

hotel and never missed the money.

She went back to Hoboken and tried to rent the old flat, but it had been

leased. She is still looking for a flat

In that neighborhood. You see, rents are cheaper and liv

Ine is cheaper in Hoboken. And the

grasping old woman pinches the nick els closer than you or I.

She lives only to pile up extra dol

lars.

So far as known, Hetty Green never

gave away a dollar. It would be dif

flcult to make her believe in the beati

tude, "It is more blessed to give than

to receive."

Therefore it is almost superfluous to

Inquire whether, with all her dollars,

6he is happy.

Not necessarily. Dollars won by

commercial conquest may give to the

conqueror a certain species of satisfaction, but dollars cannot brin hap

piness. Happiness and dollars belong

to different worlds.

Wealth itself Is like salt water. That is to say, the more you drink of either the more you want. And so this money mad little woman, at a time when she ought to be dancing her grandchildren on her knee, sits long hours in the bank. Besides the bank which she controls, she has many millions invested In real estate and securities. She denies herself the comforts demanded by a twelve dollar a week clerk and goes on squeezing out dol

lars.

For what?

In a ijulet, cozy Httle back parlor

there was assembled yesterday afternoon a "core or more of congenial splrIts, the guests of two of Jackson's most highly respected citizens. They had been invited to meat and break bread with Mr. W. M. Curry, the guest of honor of the occasion. . . . Mr. Curry, the guest in whose honor the

blow-out" was given, is one of the

many westerners who have made Jackson their home during the past few years and whose home is just west of

the city has been the scene of numer

ous such festive occasions.

There was no speech making, no

toast, no oratory, but the function, is said to have been one of the most enjoyable, one of the most social, and one of the longest to be remembered In the

history of the town. Jackson (Mlss. Clarion-Ledger.

We have reached aa age wheat we admit that a man may have an opinion different from oars and not be either a fool or a scoundrel.

"The mystery of 1908" is the way Mr.

Bryan speaks about the recent election. Yet, it was a mystery, why Mr. Bryan was ever nominated for the third time.

A man falls In love with a Girl because she ia such A dear little Temperamental thing and then Falls out of love with Her because she. Haa such a Temper.

This is the season of the, year when Chri3tmas shopping is the cry, when the Idea of present-giving occupifs the spare moments of those who are fortunate enough to have loved ones fo give presents to. It isn't necessary to call atention to the fact that it is not the value of the present given, but the spirit in which it is given, that is the thing. It is this spirit, which, at its best, must be properly felt before the idea of Christmas can be properly connected with the greatest religious festival in the world. There are altogether to many sordid motives nowadays actuated in the giving of Christmas presents. The spirit in which the little gift is given can make it transcendently beautiful and valuable to the one who gives it and the one who receives it The person who gives a present, expecting to get back what he paid for it, or more, gets mighty little joy and satisfaction out of Christmas and the sentiments that accompany it. Many people display selfish motives in their Christmas gifts and blacken the beauty of the day and all that it means. The little gift with its accompanying sacrifice is dearer by far than the elaborate one which costs the one who gives it nothing but money, whose loss he or she will never feel. Make some one happy; don't try to make them satisfied and if you cannot make some one you love happy, because of their selfishness, make some poor person happy. . .. A BIG FIGHT IS IMPENDING.

The wisdom of the members of the Gary bar in isolating themselves from the Lake County Baf Association the other night may be questioned. When

the appeal is made to the Indiana state legislature in January for a superior

court at Gary, it will look extremely queer when the Lake County Bar Asso

ciation goes on record there as opposed to the project The spectacle of a house divided within itself will be presented and how1 much Gary will get out

of it remains to be seen. It would have been much better to have compronr

ised and obtained something than to have left the meeting and obtained

nothing. The action of the Gary lawyers in withdrawing from the meeting was both uncourteous and uncalled for. It is true that it was spectacular and sensational; but it was highly impractical. That the Lake county lawyers, outside of Gary, are almost unanimous in saying. It is evident that the fight to be, conducted from Lake county in the Indiana legislature this winter

at Indianapolis, will be a memorable one and one from which Gary will re

ceive an immense aount of valuable advertising, whether win or lose. SOME GEOGRAPHICAL REFORM.

The extension of the civil service rules including a percentage of the

fourth class postmasterships Is being widely commented upon, but no convincing reason is given why the new order is applied to postmasters east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio, and not to similar postoffices outside of these bounds. It has never been understood that the merit system dependede on geography. It will be difficult to persuade the south, for example,

that its exclusion is not due to recognition of the fact that to require applic

ants to pass examinations and to file satisfactory petitions from bonafide

patrons of the office, would in a majority of instances mean postmasters not

In political sympathy with the present or the next administration. Is spoils hunting, as carried on in the south, of a character that entitles It to special

consideration? r

".PE ERECTIOM OF a hospital by the Inland Steel company at Tcdiai-ii

:iarbor is a schoaie that will bring credit to the officials of that, industry

T'o httle care ar.c consideration is given nowadays to the poor fellows v. ho

are marred and bruised while at work in mills, and any steps taken to allevi

ate their pain is an act of the greatest humanity. Other big industries might

build temporary hospitals with much credit to their directors.

NO, GENTLE READER, the new tie invented by -the Griffith man is not one that your wife can get you for a Christmas present . It is for railroad

companies and yet a railroad man could not wear it.

JURY AWARDED Ahusband $500 damages on the claim that a man had hypnotized his wife. Looks like a bear movement in either the hyp

notic or wife market

IT WELL HAVE to be admitted that as far as being a good press agent for his native town, Batling Nelson is certainly the Durable Dane of Hege-

wlsch.

THIS DATE IN HISTORY. December 0.

1608 John Milton, English poet, born.

Died Nov. 8, 1674.

1674 Earl of Clarendon, lord chancel

lor of Charles II., died In France. Born in England, Feb. 18, 1608.

1793 The "Minerva" appeared in New

York City, edited by Noah Webster.

1811 Americans under General Harri

son left the battle ground at Tippe

canoe on their return to the United

States.

1830 The first locomotive built in the

United States was finished and tested at the West Point (N. Y.) found-

r'-

1841 First through train ran from

Boston to Albany.

1861 Confederate congress passed a

bill admitting Kentucky to the con

federacy. ,

1874 Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell

university, died. Born Jan. 11,

1807.

1902 Germany and England joined in

a naval demonstration against

Venezuela.

Nice Vlalt at Shntser's Shanty.

Our first visit of the season to Shatz-

er's Shanty occurred last Friday, Sat

urday and Sunday. Upon arriving at the camp, at 9o'clock a. m., Mr. Shatz-

er thought he would add to his bill of

fare a mess of trout, but, alas, he was

fortunate enough to catch only those under lawful size, hence the dining department was that much short. On

Friday evening aa the shadows of night began to draw over the mountain wilds Harry Peters of Lumber City arrived

and joined as in the camp. On Satur

day morning he and Mr. Shatzer tried

their luck at fishing, but no go. Mr.

Shatzer wore hia long rubber hip boots

constantly, so great is his fear of ser

pents. He also took with him to the

camp six pounds of brimstone and

huge chunk of limberger cheese. The

brimstone was for the purpose of driv

ing out gnats, spiders and mosquitoes,

as they are unusually plentiful this

year, no doubt owing to the excess of

moisture. At 7 o'clock on Friday even

ing, Shatzer made the stove red hot,

poked it full of wood, set it In an iron kettle and into that be dumped the brimstone, then closed all doors and windows and got out. He said he was going to raise h 11 and he did. He also claimed that everything would run

that was in the shanty, and he was right. A roll of good fresh butter run all through the cupboard. Then Shatzer tried to introduce the other campers to his limberger, but they were

averse to having anything to do with it

Reedville News in Lewistown (Fa.)

Democrat-Sentinel. .

A silk purse may be made from anything nowadays, provided It Is lined snltably with long green and gold.

Mr. Wickey has looked at the mit

that Mr. Simon holds, and intimates

that it looks to him like a jack o

hearts, a ten of clubs a five of spades

and a pair of deuces.

THIS IS MY 61ST BIRTHDAY. George Grossmlth. '

George Grossmlth, the well-known

English actor and entertainer, was

born Dec. 9, 1847, the son of the late George Grossmlth, who was prominent

as a journalist and lecturer. The younger Grossmlth left school when 19

years of age to assist his father in re

porting for the London Times. Aa xew years late, having quit journalism, he began his career as an entertainer. In

1877 he made his first appearance on

the stage In Gilbert and Sullivan's opera

The Sorcerer," at the Opera Comique,

and for several years thereafter he continued to appear in the operatic successes at that theater. In 1889 he

abandoned the legitimate stage to enter the field as a monologue artist and In this line of entertainment he speedily became famous. In late years he has made extensive tours of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada and the United States, and everywhere met with success.

Some how It Is pretty hard for a red-headed girl to convince people that she Is religious.

RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS

The man who said we were going to have an open winter is up near the 6tove with his back to it and his hands behind him.

AT SOME PARTIES HALF THE

EVENING IS SPENT IN COAXING PEOPLE TO SING, AND THE OTHER

HALF IN LISTENING TO POOR Ml SC,

Delavan Smith has the honor any

way; if honor it may be, of being the

only person from- Indiana in the Roose velt Ananias club.

Aa boo a aa a girl gets married, she begins to hear nothing but hard times.

Quiet But Memorable "Blow-Out."

Some people in Hammond have such a scornful expression that they look

as if they had lived near a glue fac

tory all their lives. .

LABOR NEWS

Empress -to-Ce Of Germany Who Sells Jewels To Aid Families Of Mine Explosion Victims

Fifty per cent of all the men em

ployed in the printing trades in King

ton, Jamaica, have given notice to thei

employers that they will go out on

strike next Monday because the em

ployers have refused to pay the Amer

ican union scale of wages. The cost of living in Jamaica is less than onehalf what it is in America. i An official census of Berlin and its suburbs shows that there are in that territory. 40,124 persons without employment at the present time. Of this number only 1,716 are women. The figures do not include pensioners", but they comprise 1,933 others who enjoy small fixed Incomes. The small number of unemployed women is due to the great demand for domestic servants. A special organizer has been appointed by the Bakers' and Confectioners' International for the purpose of inducing French and Italian bakers at San Francisco to join the union. Public employment bureaus, whose services In placing laborers are gratuitous, exist in the larger cities and towns of Alsace-Lorraine, as well as being more or less developed all over Germany. A new regulation in Spain prohibits women under twenty-five and all children under sixteen working In trades wherein there Is danger from poisonous fumes and dust, or risk from fire and explosion. Boston (Mass.) Association of the Amalgamated Engineers recently decided to hold Ita fifty-eighth anniversary reunion Feb. 19. The Fore River. Quincy and Lynn branches will cooperate.

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Pointed Sentences From Roosevelt's Last Message

The huge wealth that has been accumulated by a few Individuals of recent years, la what haa amounted to a social and Industrial revolution, has been, as regards some Individuals, possible only by the improper use of modern corporation. . . Men of property should recognise that they jeopardise the rigbta of property when they fall heartily to join in the effort to do' away with the abuses of wealth. Democracy is ia peril wherever the administration of political power la scattered among the variety of men who work la secret. Concentrated power is. palpable, visible, responsible, easily reached, quickly held to account. The power of the Interstate Commerce Commission should be made thoroughly-going over railroads, so that it could exercise . supervision and control over the issuance of securities as well as over the raising and lowering of rates. AYe must stand heartily for the right of every decent man. The anarchist Is the worst enemy of liberty and the reactionary the worst enemy of order. Telegraph and telephone companies' engaged in interstate business should be put under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Long delays in the administra

tion of justice make In the aggregate a crying; evil. The power of injunction is a great equitable remedy which should on no account be destroyed. But safeguards ahonld be erected against abase. . The courts are jeopardized primarily by the action of federal and state judges, who through inability or unwillingness fail to put a stop to the wrongdoing of very rich men under modern lndostrial conditions. Judges who have not kept abreast of the times do. lasting harm, because they convlaee the poor men In need of protection that the courts are profoundly Ignorant and ont of sympathy with their needs. Our currency system is Imperfect, and it is earnestly to be , hoped that the currency commission wil be able to propose a thoroughly good system. If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once it la to save the forests of this conntry. The chief argument in favor of curtailing the scope of the secret service was that the Congressmen did not themselves wish to be investigated by the secret service men.

Santa Claus For Times Boys And Girls write Your Letters And Send Them To Santa Claus And He Will lake Care Of Them

shot twice and instantly killed tonight by a colored man whose name is not known, and who is said to have lived at Henderson. Ky. Baisch was talking to two women, and the negro passed and remarked. "Hello Honey." The white man upbraided him for the remark, when the latter drew a revolver and fired. The murderer made his escape. MAIL CARRIER HELD IP. James McCann of Jeftersonvlll, a private mail carrier for the Pennsylvania company between the freight and passenger station in this city, was held up at 7 o'clock tonight by two white men and robbed of the mail which he had.

; Until a month ago McCann carried the

cash of the day's receipts from one station to the other, and the robbers evidently thought he had this money. ORDER OPTION ELECTION. Petitions for county option elections were -filed yesterday In Wabash and Lawrence counties and in each case the county commissioners ordered that a special election be held Tuesday, Dec 29. The comissioners of Whitley county will act Thursday In connection with a petition filed in that county last Saturday. LAST WITNESS CALLED. Perry Collins of Rushville, the last to take the stand of the six persons now on trial for the alleged whitecapping of John B. Tribbey, testified today that

j he took no part in the whitecapping and knew nothing of it at the time. ; Collins was charged by the prosecution

with being the ringleader of the whitecapping. OLD MAN MARRIES GIRL. The announcement today that Attorney John Brubaker of Warsaw, 60 years of age, had on Sunday been united in

j marriage with Miss Emma HolloweU, j 18 years old, of Goshen, has created something like wild astonishment here.

ine ceremony was performed at Chicago, where the license was issued. WINS BTE AND LOSE. It now develops that Ethel Foster of Falrmount had two strings to Cupid's bow when she wagered Conductor McMahan of the L U. Traction line that she should have the choice of marrying him in event of Taft's election. Miss Foster has made no effort to collect her bet, and probably will not, for there is said to be another more dear to her than the good-looking traction man.

Another year has rolled arounud and Santa Claus is preparing hia gifts for his good boys and girls. As has always been its custom, the TIMES will publish letters from its younug readers, both hoys and girls, and give them to Santa Claus so that he will know what to bring them. Letters intended for Santa Claus must be written plainly and on one side of the paper only. It does not matter where you live, any letter from any part of the country, will be sent to Santa Claus.. Santa is getting old and his eyes are not so good as they used to be, so his boys and girls are asked to be careful in their writing. They must be careful and give their names and addresses for if the name only is given how is Santa Claus to tell where to go. Don't forget to write early. Santa Claus wants to know what you want and address all your letters to SANTA CLAUS, care of the Times, Hammond, Ind.

THE GBIEAM OF THE Morning News

UP AND DOWM ISA INDIANA

STRONG OLD MAN. John Skinner of Hartford City, aged 83 years, aserts he is the most powerful man of his age in the United States and issues the following challenge: "I hereby challenge any man of similar age to run. Jump, wrestle, fight or cut cord wood for any amount of money not to exceed J30. JOHN SKINNER." SELL TOBACCO POOL. The Southern Indiana Tobacco Growers' association of Boonvllle today sold a pool of 3,000,000 pounds to C. P. McClary, local buyer, at prices ranging from 3 to 14 cents per hundred. The pool was in three grades. It was the largest sale of tobacco ever made In southern Indiana by one firm. It will put 1225,000 in the hands of growers. DIVORCE DAY BRISK. Divorce day in the various divisions of the Marion superior court yesterday was unusually brisk. In all sixteen separations were granted, while several cases were continued and others were taken under advisement. LIVED IN INDIANA. Older residents of New Albany re

member Mrs. Florence Maybrick as

Florence Chandler, a bright sunnyhaired little girl, who lived with h-

motlier and little brother in this city

-ar or so during the civil war, who has just inherited a fortune. WANTS NEW CONSTITUTION. "The time is ripe when Indiana should adopt a new constitution," said Dean Enoch A. Hogate of the Indiana University Law school at Bloomington, before the freshman law class this morning. "Our present constitution," the judge said, "was made at the time Indiana was purely an agricultural state and is inadequate for the state under the present industrial conditions." ORDERS SPECIAL ELECTION. Governor Hanly yesterday issued a writ calling a special election in Vanderburg county to fill the vacancy of Walter Lcgeman, whose death occurred Nov. 28. The date of the special election to fill the vacancy is calletao tlon to fill the vacancy is fixed as Tuesday. Dec. 29. Legeman represented Vandeburg county In the state senate. REMARK CAtSES Ml'RDER. " Arthur Baisch of Evansville, 27, was

President Roosevelt's final message to congress is the most vigorous of his series and his plea for reform in many lines and positive declarations of policies deemed best for th country. " Charles P. Taft, brother of the president-elect, threatens libel suit, because of charges of graft in connection with

.Panama canal purchase. President Roosevelt urgea an emergency army measure under which It will be possible to put 2,000,060 men in the field in case of need. Ohio C. Barber, president of the Diamond Match company, attacks the railroads at the annual dinner of the Illinois Manufacturers' association. W. A. Brubaker's demand of Mayor . Bussee that President Schneider of the board of education be silenced on all questions or dismissed is spurned. Policeman is killed, four persons mortally wounded and two others are shot in a battle between the officers of the law and religious fanatics in Kansas City. Francis D. Hirschberg Is shot dead in his St. Louis homo and mystery surrounds the firing of fatal bullet. Victim was prominent insurance man and a director of the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Names of several women mentioned as co-respondents by Helen Kelly Gould

in her suit for divorce from Frank Jay Gould are made public when the New York Justice refuses to modify, complaint. Federal council of churches adjourns after adopting strong resolutions condemning "militarism and the divorce evil. Attorneys for the Standard Oil company decide not to put William Rockefeller and James A. Moffett on the witness stand at the present hearing In New York of the government's dissolution BUlt.