Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 223, Hammond, Lake County, 10 March 1909 — Page 4
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By, EDWIN A- NYE.
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UP A D DO!
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There is one serious problem which the people of Lake county will soon have to decide for themselves when the county option question comes up at the hustings. There is at present over the state a great hue and cry against saloons. If the wave of temperance keeps up Indiana will be
practically a prohibition state. Now, wherever this has been tried.
has proven more or less of a failure. Just remember to start with that the only persons in the South who have benefited from the prohibition move
ment have been the liquor dealers themselves.
It has simply resolved itself into this: that "blind tigers" supplant
the saloon and the officials wink at their presence. Why?
Because a big percentage of people want to break the laws and the
officers do not care to make enemies by stopping them.
Now, before you make up your minds, ask yourselves whether you
want "bootleggers" and "blindpiggers."
Then there is "near beer." Do you know what "near beer" is that is brought into a dry state? Well, it is a brew containing a percentage of alcohol, just a grade or two below the amount prohibited. Anybody can sell it, anybody can make it, anybody can drink it. Drink enough of it and an awful jag will be the result of it. As a writer said of it: "This stuff remains an intoxicant nevertheless and will produce '.he same effect as beer if you drink enough of it to make up for the difference in alcohol. "A short time ago a singular incident occurred in one of the police :ourts, where a test was instituted in order to find out just how much near beer was required to make a man drunk. Near-beer serves another purpose, too; it is used as a pretext under cover of which stronger intoxicants are sold. It is difficult to' tell one beer from another and the purveyors of the substitute find it easy to sell the genuine intoxicating article along with the weaker substitute."
Now, these are problems that Lake county people have to settle for
theeselves and they present only one phase of the question. It is up to you to begin to do soma tall thinking and some pollticratching. CONGRESS AND REAL ECONOMY.
BE A "BOOSTER." Boost Is a slang- word that fits ad
mirably Into American speech. There Is no other that quite conveys the
same meaning.
Jolly" is another bit of colloquialism
that is useful in its way. But there is a wide difference between a Jolly
and a boost. j
To Jolly is to flatter. To boost Is to put forth sincere ef
fort.
The Jolly is from the lips only. The boost comes from the heart The booster has a genuine attach
ment to his cause, whatever that may be. He has faith in that which he boosts. He believes; therefore he
boosts.
The booster always is an optimist.
A pessimist .cannot boost He doesn't know how. A pessimist Is naturally a "knocker." The word "knocker," by
the way, is another useful coinage in our American speech. Instance the man who boosts his town. To him his town is the center of the universe. His property is there his home, his family, his future, even his grave, probably; therefore he believes his town is worth boosting. An admirably good fellow is the booster of his town. And so of the man who boosts his church. He believes the doctrine of his church is right. lie believes the preacher is the best. He urges you to come next Sunday and occupy his pew. The pastor's best beloved is the church booster. And so of the man who boosts his home. His home is the coziest hi3 wife the sweetest and best and his children the smartest of all. Hind
you, he doesn't go about telling these
things. But he boosta his Home just the same, as everybody knows, and
especially his family.
It is not so of the jollier, who keeps
his promise to the ear, but breaks it to
the hope.
It is not so of the knocker, who is a
nuisance to his town, his church, his home and to himself.
The booster is wise in his day and
generation, because when he boosts he
boosts himself. When the knocker knocks the knock comes back upon the knocker. By the same law of reac
tion, when the booster boosts the boost comes back upon the booster.
Boosting 13 the soul of all work. Work without soul is drudgery. Ef
fort of whatsoever sort without enthusiasm is but dreary commonplace. But
the booster puts soul in his work, and therefore his work is a constant series
of happy accomplishments.
MONON PLANS IMPROVEMENTS. The Monon is arranging to Improve the roadbed a distance of forty miles with crushed stone and contemplates In the not distance future .having the entire road bed ballasted with crushed stone, which Is about as convenient on that line as any other material to solidify the road. RECOGNIZE LAW AT LAST. At a meeting of the liquor dealers of Cambridge resolutions were adopted to live up to the law and to conduct their places as the law Indicates. It also was decided to stop serving free
lunches and to do away with all card
games and gambling.
GIVEN GOOD POST. George B. Peterson, ticket agent of
the Monon at Bloomlngton, recently transferred to Lafayette, Is looked upon as one of the shrewdest and most active ticket agents the company has In its employ. lie was changed to
Lafayette on account it being a more Important point on the road than Is Bloomlngton.
ADIMITS HE IS A PERJIRER. A sensation was created yesterday
afternoon when George Skinner, upon being arraigned In circuit court at Marion for trial, pleaded guilty to the
charge of perjury that had been held
Daughter of American Ambassador Is Betrothed to a Prussian Count
A great deal was heard during the present session of congress about that body tightening up on the public purse strings but at the end of the
short session we find that the total appropriations figure about as much as ever and probably a little more. Congress, after all, has a great deal of
imagination about its economy. The trouble Is probably as Secretary Cor-
telyou recently pointed out. Congress appropriates a little less here and a
little more there and supposes it is cutting down the government expendit
ures while it has little or no idea as to what the government income is or
may be for the succeeding year. It is to be regretted that we have no de
partment where our government income and expenses could be adjusted. Bay after congress had authorized the expenditures. Such a bureau of course could have no authority to authorize any expenditures, but it could
weigh up what was authorized with the income in sight and then reduce all
the expenditures safe incases where specific bills were ordered paid, a cer
tain percentage.
If it was found, after the adjournment of each congress, that the appropriations had exceeded the government's income by ten per cent., for example, this bureau of financial adjustment could have the authority to cut ten per cent, off all appropriations. Some such arrangement must be
made sooner or later, because it is very apparent we cannot go on spending
more than our national income.
DEMOCRACY IN EDUCATION.
been unable to find trace, is the strange situation told by Chief of Police James McWeeny of South Bend today. Five men are under arrest suspected of being Implicated In the affair.
SALOONKEEPERS ORCAMZE. One hundred proprietors of saloons in South Bend are holding secret meetings in the hope of preventing their defeat In the local option election, which. It is expected, will take place in St. Joseph county In June. The fight in this county promises to be the most farmly contested in the state and the saloonkeepers are planning to enlist
the sympathy of the business men in their battle. FLOODS ARE A MENACE. Heavy rains, almost cloudbursts In intensity at times, which have contin
ued at Oakland City for twenty-four
hours, now threaten the most danger
ous flood of the season. The Patoka
river, which was already over the low lands, not having receded since the flood of two weeks ago, is beginning to rise rapidly and now threatens to reach the high mark of the March floods of last year. SHOWS MURDER OCCURRED. Coroner Spicely filed his verdict in the Wilson murder case at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The coroner finds
against him for nearly two years. It j simply that Lulu Maude Wilson is sup-
had been anticipated that the case
would be hard fought and Skinner's decision to throw himself on the mercy of the court caused a big surprise and was a heavy blow to W. J. Houck, a prominent lawyer and democratic poli
tician, and to Orange Stevens, a farmer living near Mier, this coutny, who are charged with subornation. EAGLES TO BUILD CHURCH. The state officers of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, In session at Indianapolis yesterday decided that the mem
bers throughout Indiana will be urged to help build a church at Montpeller. Although it was outside the power of the officers to vote money from the state treasury, they individually contributed a total of $50 as a start on the building fund. CLUB THIRTEEN YEARS OLD. The Jackson club of Lafayette will celebrate its thirteen anniversary today. Four hundred members will par
ticipate and the principal speakers will
be Mayor Durgen, ex-Mayor McGinley and President Bergman. The Jackson
club was organized with twelve mem
bers and is now one of the strongest democratic clubs in Indiana.
BRAWL ENDS FATALLY. One man shot and perhaps mortally
wounded and another beaten into in
sensibility in a street brawl Sunday night, but of whom the police have
posed to have come to her death as a result of wounds on the head feloniously and purposely inflicted by a person other than herself with intent to kill and murder. "DRYS" BEGIN CAMPAIGN. The "drys" of Montgomery county will open the campaign in Crawfordsvllle this evening when Myron A. Wa
terman of Kansas City, Kan., will deliver an address on the effect of the abolishment of saloons upon the business of that city. Mr. Waterman is identified with the banking business of that city. The meeting is held especially for the benefit of the business men of Crawfordsvllle, many of whom, it is rumored, are inclined to vote "wet.' BLAMED FOR CHILD'S DEATH. John Fulford, of Bloomlngton, who was arrested Sunday shortly after the funeral service over his 11-months-old daughter, was placed in jail at the in
stance of Coroner Rogers, who was informed in a letter that Fulford had mistreated the bady. Yesterday the coroner went to the Fulford neighborhood and two brothers-in-law of Fulford, William and Irlving Bell, gave the officers signed statements in which they charge that Fulford picked up his baby three weeks ago and threw
it against a wall, causing an injury to
its spine.
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More trouble In Cuba. We believe
It would be a good plan for Cuba to remember that the next receivership case will probably be a permanent one.
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
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Some of those ladles who wear these tnbe gowns look as
though they could be rammed Into tooth-paste case with i ease.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY. March 10.
1683 The first council and assembly
of Pennsylvania met at Chester.
1776 The British soldiery, contrary to
orders, plundered Boston.
1820 Benjamin West, famous painter.
died in London.
1830 Sioux Indians annihilated the Sac
and Fox tribes near Dubuque, Iowa.
1844 m. Rev. William Quarter, first
Catholic bishop of Chicago, conse
crated in St. Patrick's cathedral,
New York. 1855 Nassau hall, Princeton college, dpstrnvftrl bv njp.
1862 Manassas Junction evacuated by if it is pushed on public ways after the Confederates. dark. Seems to us that some people do
1863 Jacksonville, Fla., taken by the aU they cftn tQ diSCOUrage the rearing
i-eaerats.
The Man who Slosa the loudest Slay just be the chap Who drops the button la Contribution box.
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A Chicago judge has decided that a
baby carriage must have lighted lamps
In an address the other day on the "Social Responsibilities of the Public Schools" the indictment that ofttimes educators are employed with
unpopular opinions, coming from the university and the college to the public school, was brought out by Prof. Colin Scott of one of the Boston schools, who said: , "On the side of the superintendent this keeps him working in the dark. He is forced to make progressby the informal consent of those who are denied a responsible hearing and have no rights of expression. He has to guess what they will accept, instead of asking them directly. This makes him a leader who is never able to find out who or how many support him, who works, therefore, in the dark, where votes are not counted and where the bitterest and most widespread opposition may exist unseen. There is only one way out of this situation, and that is to Americanize the teaching body. Give the man or woman 'on the job' a voice. That this should be done gradually and in proportion to responsibilities actually undertaken goes without saying." CHANGE FROM THE OLD DAYS.
1865 General Sherman occupied Fay-
ettevllle, N. C.
1872 Guiseppe Mazzini, Italian patriot,
died. Born June 28, 1808.
1S95 Prize fighting declared Illegal by
the courts of Louisiana.
1902 Suit begun by Attorney General
Knox to dissolve the Northern Se
curities company.
1908 First international convention of
Young People's Missionary move
ment opened in Pittsburg.
THIS IS MY 57TH BIRTHDAY. Charles E. Vreeland.
Captain Charles E. Vreeland, U. S. N.,
who commanded the battleship Kansas
in the recent cruise of the Atlantic
beet around the world, was born tn
New Jersey, March 10, 1S52. He en
listed in the navy as an apprentice.
Later he went to the naval academy at
Annapolis and was graduated with the
class of 1870. In the early part of his
career he served on the congress and
Ticoncferoga and Hartford of the old
navy. From 1S93 to 1836 he was the
American naval attache in Vienna and
Rome. During the war with Spain
in 1S9S he served on the gunboat Hel
ena and dispatch boat Dolhpin. For two years he commanded the monitor
Arkansas and since April. 1907, he has
been in command of the battleship
Kansas.
of children. Those who do have enough
trouble without having to put a gaso
line lamp on a baby every time they
get caught in the dark.
We doubt not a bit that a soul-
mate or an affinity will be able
to throw a rolling pin or a flatiron Jut as hard as the good, old-fashioned family spouse.
There is no question but what things have changed in old "Injianny." Imagine Shelby ville dry! Imagine Kokomo dry! Imagine Huntington dry!
ny it wasn t long ago that these places were among the worst in the state as. far as drunkenness is concerned. The writer remembers bein; in Huntington on a summer Saturday night about a year ago and it seemed
as ir every other man to be met on the street was carrying a load of comfortable dimensions. In Kokomo and Shelbyville, as one Indiana paper puts it, "it was possible to get anything from knockout drops to ginger
pop." And what a change now! Each of the three places dry! MARCH AN UNHEALTHY MONTH.
March is recognized as one of the worst months in the year for sickness. It is the month that the doctors have a bonanza, if the hard-working,
cneeriui professional can be said to have a bonanza. Perhaps It is unfair to tell the people how to cheat the doctors out of business. Take care of
your health and you won't need any doctors and take care of it in March especially. This is the reason of wet feet, damp soggy atmosphere, changes of clothing, poorly ventilated rooms, sudden changes in temperature and many victims reult. It is the months of colds which, though in themselves perfectly harmless, ofttimes have dire consequences. Take care of the colds and the rest of your health will take care of itself.
Only 60,000 full-blooded Indians are
to be found in the United states. This does not include the Hammond Indi
ans.
A man we know Is always ready to Express his fearlessness of death, Hut we never yet saw , Anybody who was So afraid That He would Ret his feet wet.
RANDOM THINGS AND FUNGS
Cordial Invitation.
If any one's hen roost was robbed
last Monday night the lobster migh obtain some useful information by call
lng at this office. Jones County (Ga. News.
Fred Fricke of Hammond has not
been invited to join Teddy Roosevelt's hunting party, but Fred has his private opinion about it just the same.
It is charged that the average woman knows nothing of diplomacy or statesmanship, says an exchange. Well, what of it. Neither does the average man.
Here Is a Go. Boots Brown didn't ifo to Appleton City Sunday. Later We learn that he did. Rockville (Mo.) Booster. OH, WELL, WHAT IS THE USE OF WORRYING? IT HAS A HABIT OF
THE MAN WHO CALLS YOU UP AND TELLS YOU THAT HE DOESN'T
LIKE THE POLICY OF YOUR PA
PER, IS THE EDITOR'S BEST
FRIEND, FOR HE ALWAYS COM
PLAINS WHEN IT GETS AROUND
AROUND TO HIS HOME A FEW
MINUTES LATE.
Guessing at the Truth.
One of our dashing comedians wa endeavoring to dazzle the worldly man ager of a North London music hall th
other day by the alleged magnificence
of the prospects offered by his forth
coming engagement in America.
"Yes," he said, with all the enthusiasm of a man who wants his hearers to believe what he is extremely doubtful about himself, "I'm to have ten thousand dollars per per " "Per-haps." interposed the worldly manager. Tit-Bits.
Traction graft row In Chicago nears
and end in a love feast as sinful rebates become mere discounts and as
the other charges are explained.
United States lawyers strike the
ardest snag yet encountered in the
rosecution of the Standard Oil com
pany.
Investigation of the plot to free counjail prisoners reveals that the mur
derer of Policeman Callahan, under sen-
ence to hang. Is a "trusty."
Gowns of the dark ages will be
hown today at the dressmakers' con
vention for up-to-date styles.
Federal inquiry of the packing in-
ustry Is complete and indictments may
be reported today.
President Taft has made it clear that
he will not interfere in the fight in
the house against Speaker Cannon and
the old rules; his principal anxiety is
to secure tariff action.
President Taft at his first cabinet I
meeting asks members of his official
family to leave to him the giving out
of such information as it seems best
to make public.
New census bill providing for ap
pointments under a modified merit sys
tem is likely to be passed at the spe
cial session of congress.
Young man in Baltimore who said his'
fiancee was killed by a highwayman
admits he fired the fatal shots and the
police claim he planned the deed to rid!
himself of the girl.
Missouri supreme court overrules the
motions for a rehearing in the ouster suit against the Standard Oil company of Indiana and the Republic Oil com
pany of Ohio and decides the order
stands.
Kingdon Gould, 22-year-old son of
George J. Gould, is elected a director
of the Missouri Pacific, being slated to
succeed to his father's work.
ir. Max u. fcciuapp or cornea uni
versity tens isew lorK society women
that the move for woman suffrage is a
peril to the race.
Attorney for defense in Cooper trial at Nashville declares Carmack sought
encounter which ended in his death.
Mayor Busse of Chicago practically abandons Albert J. Hopkins in the fight for the senatorship when Speaker Shurtleff intimates that unless the Chicago executive stays out of the toga war Chicago's bonding bills will be killed. State prohibition leaders are aroused at the discovery of the passage of a senate bill which they declare will nullify in part the local prohibition law.
Representative Walter A, Lantz Introduces a bill at Springfield prohibiting Sunday baseball and practically all other forms of entertainment on Sunday except the beer gardens and saloons. Income tax bill is passed by the French chamber of deputies aid an elaborate plan of raising revenue is arranged in the measure. Grain list opens lower, but Patten forces apply muscle vigorously and force a turn; corn make record for crop year; cattle unchanged; hogs firm; sheep weak.
Paris, March 9. The engagement was announced today of Muriel White,
daughter of Henry White, the American ambassador, to count nermann
Scherr-Thos, an officer of the Royal Prussian Cuirassiers.
Miss White met the count only a few weeks ago while visiting Mrs.
Reynolds Hitt, wife of the secrtary of the American embassy at Berlin. Ambassador and Mrs. White were at the time at Nice, entertaining the officers
of the American fleet. The couple saw much of each other during the short
visit of Miss White to Berlin and the count followed the young woman back.
to Paris, where he pressed his suit with such ardor that the engagement
was announced today.
LAKE GDUH1Y
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RACE TO IKE OF AUTQ ERA
Event of Chicago Automobile Club on the Local Roads
Holds Much Interest Many Entries Received Other Auto News.
(By Carbureter.) ' Surpassing in magnitude and impor
tance all other racing fixtures for stock
cars on the 1909 calendar, the first national stock chassis race for the trophy given by Ira M. Cobe, president of the Chicago Automobile club will mark the dawn of a new eii in the history of western motoring. In all essentials, it is confidently anticipated that the first contest for the new cup will duplicate
the history of the first battle for the Vanderbilt trophy, as regards the display of public interest. The contests committee of the Chicago Automobile club is devoting its energies toward arranging the preliminaries for the coming event, which It is proposed to hold on May 29 and June 1 Decoration day falling on Sunday. The committee has been handicapped somewhat thus far by the lack of definite information as to the classification and formula under which the event will be conducted, but tentative entries have already been made by a surprisingly large number of makers.
As soon as public announcement of the
exact entry requirements is made by Chairman Frank Howt-r, of the contest board of the American Automobile association, it is expected that the entries will begin to pour in. The manufacturers have given tho event thtlr unqualified indorsement, and the western field is so alluring from a sales standpoint that this opportunity to bring cars of speed prowess to the attention of the public can not profitably be over-looked. Course in Indiana.
hand are included a Knox car, two Locomobiles, two Thomas Flyers, two Palmer and Singer Simplex, two Bucks, three Apperson and two Diamond T's. Some of these cars are planned as candidates for the small car race which will be run as a curtain-raiser. Steps have also been taken to secure the Importation of the French Berliet, which won the Targo Bolonga. The contests committee of the Chicago Automobile club J. F. Gunther, A. J. Banta and C. G. Sinsabaugh ha3 already begun preparation for adequate police and protection. The state militia will be secured, if r.o insuperable obstacles are encountered. Failing In this, however, private individuals will be engaged and sworn in as deputy marshals. It is determined to leave no ground for criticism as . regards the adequacy of the protection afforded both racers and spectators. President Cobe, donor of the cup. has expressed the belief, based on tho aspaurance of entries already given, that it will be necessary to limit the
number of entries to be accepted. Early application is therefore advisable. Locomobile lo Try Out Course. At the clos; of the Boston show, the Vanderbilt Licomofcile will be shipped to Chicago, ami A. J- Banta will send the racing monster over the course to ascertain ,'tt what points preparation is needed. The pre-ent roa-lne-il is in excellent condition, but the turns are too l!at for fast work and will require alterations. Detroit t Weleome Gllddenites.
The course selected for the race is lo-j That the Glid-h-n tur of 190'j might cated in Lake county, just east of the! start from Detroit, citizens of the hike Illinois line, and about forty miles ; city guarar.t- .-d that a celebration from Chicago. It is twenty-two miles j never before tqua'.ctl would be prein length, with three straightaways! pared, and that every organization in and one sporty, zig-zag leg. There is j the city would tal; p.-irt. TVe Autono railroad crossing at any point, a 1 - j mobile club of I . f ' " ( though three railroads skirt various j part of the responsibility, but ill have sections Of the course. It is believed ; ample assistance. Mayor BrHtmeyer to be as fast a course as any in the I Indicated in advance that the jf.ys of land, and will require only a slight the city would be turned over aJhd Coraaniount of banking and oiling to be missioner Smith, of the police! depart" placed in lightening condition. l Among tentative entries already in (Continued vn Page Fivf.j