Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 45, Hammond, Lake County, 10 August 1909 — Page 4
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WORTHY OF LEADERSHIP. Indiana would love to see Judge Crumpaeker speaker of the next house, judging from the response given the TIMES suggestion that Mr. Crumpaeker was the man to fill Cannon's shoes. The Lafayette Journal says: After the tariff argument was over Mr. Crumpaeker quietly withdrew from the ways and means committee. By the resignation he entered a protest to the autocratic methods of the Cannon organization. In this incident we have illustrated the way in which Speaker Cannon abuses his power. Vv'ith such arrogance existing one can see the difficulty in the way of popular legislation. Certainly Uncle Joe has served too long as speaker. He stands for an old idea It Is time that the newer and more progressive idea be given a chance. As a representatve of progressive republicanism, which finally shaped the tariff law to something like the form demanded, there is no one more worthy of leadership than Mr. Crumpaeker. It is not surprising to learn that leading republicans are looking to the Tenth district representative to lead the fight for a new order in the house.
NEWSPAPER EDITOR INVESTIGATES FOR HIMSELF. Charles Stevens, managing editor of the Joliet News, came to Gary the other day to conduct a secret investigation for his paper, as to the conditions. His story reprinted in these columns yesterday is one of extreme Interest. He said among other things "THE CONDITIONS THERE (IN GARY) HAVE r,EEN FAR WORSE THAN WAS PORTRAYED IN THE CHICAGO PAPERS." And yet a certain Gary paper whose editor has been making a peevish attempt to stir up a bitter feeling against this paper because it printed a truthful story of the vice conditions in Gary, would have the people believe with Mayor Knotts that this paper had set out to injure the city. Even the ministers met and intimated that the stories of the terrible conditions were exaggerated. Here however, is an outside, unprejudiced newspaper editor who found that the half had not been told. We trust that the other half will not r-ava to be.told.
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IS GOV. MARSHALL INTERFERING. Governor Marshall Is right when he says the prizefighting at Terre Haute should cease. Prizefighting is contrary to the laws of the state, it is degrading and it is proper that the governor should insist that the sport be ended. Rut in taking this stand isn't Mr. Marshall interfering with the rights of local self-government? During the campaign, when votes were needod, Mr. Marshall put great emphasis on the doctrine that a community should govern itself. If Terre Haute wants prizefighting is it within the province of the governor to deny the pleasure? And on the other hand if Mr. Mai-hall has authority to enforce a law at Terre Haute, why hasn't he the same right to insist that gambling be stopped in Kentland, Lafayette, French Lick or any place where it may be going on? If the governor is Koingr to interfere with the rights of local self-government it is difficult to understand how the dividing line is to be determined. Lafayette Journal.
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FEW PATRONIZE THE BEACH. Like the people of other parts of the country, Hammond is at present sweltering in torridity, but unlike many other parts of the country, it is their own fault when they do not seek relief from it, for Lake Front Park is the most magnificent beach around the lake, Hammond people do not take the advantages which they should. Last Saturday was a hot and oppressive day, yet it is doubted whether there were over fifty people in the water at any one time and some of them were from East Chicago and Whiting. Now the beach Is big enough to accommodate hundreds instead of tens of people. The water at present is most delightful. The park is well kept and well policed. The order this year has been particularly good and yet the water is poorly patronized. There is health and longevity in these water dips and relief from the city's oppressive heat. Try it once or twice and see.
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WE SHALL TAKE NO PICKLES THERE. The Michigan. City Dispatch informs the church people down state that the city's business men do not care about that class of picnickers who come there wth a pickle and sandwich in their pockets. That's about as sarcastic and plain as anyone could express their sentiments. Valpo Messenger. If they came there with a bible and a hymn book, the Michigan City Dispatch would undoubtedly start a movement to drive them out of town.
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NO REPUBLICAN who is not an arrant free-trader and such a person would be an anomaly, should say that the new tariff is iniquitious. President Taft did not promise to give the people of this country a free trade bill. The United States must have a tariff bill. The republican party has done the best it could, under the circumstances. Only time will tell that it is not the right bill. It may prove to be just the thing wanted.
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IF YOU HEAR some fellow vociferously explaining the tariff and declaring that it is an outrage, etc., just ask him if he knows enough to be a competent judge on the tariff. If he replies with asperity the he does, ask him what he understands by the differential on sugar, and ask him to explain the maximum and minimums preferential. If he can't explain those to your satisfaction, why laugh at him!
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REGARDLESS OF the efforts of peanut democratic politicians to discredit the work of Congressman E. D. Crumpaeker over the tariff, his constituents in general In this district feel that Cannon spiked him because Mr. Crumpaeker refused to revise upward.
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MAYOR KNOTTS says, "they will be sick of this (the lid) before I am through with them." What Mr. Knotts meant to say was: "They will be sick of me before they are through with me." They are sick of you now, Mr. Knotts.
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IT MAY RE well for you to remember that if you ask for witch hazel In a barbershop, you may be thought insane. At least Jerome seems to think that Harry Thaw is out of his head, because he asked for witch hazel at Mattewan.
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IT HAS ALMOST got so that when people see a bank clerk coming out of a grocery store with a porter-house steak or a basket of Rockyfords, they wonder if he isn't robbing some bank.
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Talks. &y EDWIN A. .NYE. WHAT THE CITY DOES. England Is teaching the nations by horrid example that they cannot afford to neglect the physical welfare of their people. In 3850 the lowest standard for British infantry was five feet six inches. During the Boer war, In order to fill up the ranks, it was further lowered to five feet Which tells a sad story of physical decline. Or, to put it in another way: During the Boer war 50 per cent of the English troops fell below the minimum standard of chest measurement and 75 per cent of them fell below the minimum weight required. Put in terms of everyday speech, that means that the English, common people, once a stout yeomanry that was the pride of Britain, has degenerated physically and is rapidly becoming enfeebled and stunted. There has been no such weakening of the Germanic peoples. And this fact, in the present 6tate of feeling between England and Germany, is a source of apprehension to the former. What is the cause of the physical decline in the English masses? The city. Two hundred years ago 25 per cent of England's population lived In cities; now nearly 75 per cent live la these urban centers. The great, growling monster, the city, receives into its insatiate maw the strength and rigor of manhood and spews it out weakened muscles, flabby flesh, tainted blood. The country builds up healthy tissue; the city eats it up. God made the country; man made the city. The country Is man's natural, normal place; in the city man is out of his natural surroundings. Man in city surroundings is a physical misfit. Therefore whatever influences tend to keep people out of the cities, where the massing of humanity in congested districts breeds disease and degeneracy, are to be encouraged. Made to live close to nature, man la like that fabled personage who could renew his strength only when his feet touched the ground. Deprived of his sources of etrengtn, he degenerates, not only in body, but what must Inevitably follow In mind and morals. shucks! , s From the Diary of Si. Lence I -I Louie's girl giv him ther "far-away look yestlddy, an' last nite he saw her out with thet Algy Spoonor. Louie demanded an explanation an' all he got wus thet. "Algy played krokay Jest divine." Ef yer don't think yer eyes deceive yer, visit an optician. THIS HATE IX HISTORY. Aufoint 10. 1753 Edmund Randolph, first attorney-general of the United States, born in Williamsburg, Va. Died Sept. 13. 1813. 1S14 William L. Yancey, orator and statesman, born in Georgia. Died i nMontgomery, Ala., July 28, 1S63. 1821 Missouri admitted to the Union. 1822 Donald M. Fairfax, the United States naval officer who seized Messrs. Mason and Slidell, the confederate envoys, on the steamer Trent, born In Virginia. Died Jan. 10, 1894. 1846 Smithsonian institution at Washington founded. 1861 Federals defeated in the battle of Wilson's Creek. Mo. 1893 First Chinaman deported from San Francisco under the Geary act. 1S96 Rt. Rev. Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic bishop of Mobile, died. 1908 Mehmed All Bey, Turkish minister to Washington, recalled. THIS IS MY T5TH BIRTHDAY. Hornoe White. Horace White, noted as an editor and as an authority on finance, was born in Colebrook. X. II., August 10, 1834. In his youth he removed with his family to Wisconsin and his education was received at Beloit college. He began journalism in Chicago in 1S54. When the Kansas war brok eout two years later he was appointed assistant secretary to the National Kansas committee, whose headquarters were in Chicago. In 18S8 he accompanied Abraham Lincoln in his political campaign against Stephen A. Douglas for the office of United States senator, and the notable features of this campaign were given to the public chiefly through Mr. White's letters to the Chicago press. After a term as a Washington correspondent during the civil war period he became part owner and chief editor of the Chicago Tribune, with which paper he remained until 1S74, when he removed to New York. In the latter city he became associated with Henry Wlllard In western railroad enterprises and in 1881. when Mr. WMllard assumed ownership of the New York Evening Post. Mr. White was made chief editor. He remained in this position until 1903, when he retired from active business. Recently Mr. White headed the New York commission appointed by Governor Hughes to Investigate the Wall street exchanges. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMES You are authorized to announce ray name aa a candidate for tbe republican nomination for mayor of Hammond before the republican ion. Inatiag convention, whose date la to ha decided upon at a later date. ROBERT KIDNEY.
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SHELBYVILLE DRYALMOST. Last night marked .the closing of three more saloons In Shelbyville and Shelby county is "drier" now than at any time In the last thirty years, there being only one saloon In the place. STREET CAR STRIKE IS BROKEN'. With nearly thirty former strikers among the men operating Its cars, the Evansville & Southern Indiana Traction company did what is believed to be the. record normal Sunday's business of Its history. Extra cars were added on many of the suburban lines, and Oak Summit park, which was vacated for the first ten weeks of the season because of the strike, saw the gathering of thousands of people last night. GAMBLING IX FORT WAYNE. The police of Fort Wayne early yesterday morning made the rounds of alleged gambling houses and resorts, and over Glerhart & Swift's saloon at 610 Calhoun street arrested six men, all of whom were caught in the act of gambling. The roulette wheel was moving around merrily and the machine, wtlh other apparatus, was confiscated by the officers. Charles Beebe Is charged with operating the place. VETERANS HOLD REUNION. Several hundred gray-haired veterans of the civil war will march upon Bethany park today at Indianapolis charge the tabernacle and proceed to hold patriotic services to commemorate the deeds of members who fell on the firing line. The celebration will be held under the direotlon of the Seventieth Indiana Regimental association and will be the thirty-fifth annual reunion of the organization. MICHIGAN CITY'S BIGGEST DAY. A crowd variously estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000 strangers visited this city Sunday. The big drawing feature was the Woodmen of the World field day exercises conducted by the Jurisdiction camps and groves In Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. Ten excursions were ru nover steam roads, while the two electric lines could not handle the crowds. The day was the biggest Michigan City has had In many seasons. 20O AN HOUR FOR IMPRISONMENT. Charles Ayres, formerly of Shelbyvllle, but who is now a resident of Wayne county, is again In the limelight, a suit having been brought against him by James Johnson of Jackson township, Wayne county, charging him with false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. The plaintiff asks $4,000 damages for being In jail twenty hours, which Is at the rate of $200 an hour. MINISTER Bl'CKS "TIGERS." The Rev. Edgar Green, pastor of the United Brethren church at North Manchester, has been waging a relentless war upon "blind tigers." The latest result of the labor is the arrest of George Rhoads, whom he charges with conducting an Illegal sale of liquors. As a result Rhoads will appear for preliminary hearing. Mr. Green, who heads North Manchester's vigilance RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS Why are you making a roar about the tariff anyway? Aren't you getting your pig iron cheaper? Doesn't it make wine happy to see you coming home with ten or twelve pounds of cheap pig iron? When you think abont doing something wrong you are guilty of the deed, you know. There are said to be one hundred ways of making love In New York. There are more than that many In Lake Front park after night. Several monarch who wear their angle at a tilt of 45 degrees have had them Jarred loose lately. Philadelphia consumed 70,000,000 bananas In July. We thought all they did in Philly was to sleep. It seems now that all they do is to sleep and eat bananas. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR AN OPTIMIST TO BE A DYSPEPTIC SO IT IS MEDICINE TO SMILE. Now there is talk of a hosiery trust. How can one man have a monopoly on calves, though? A women Is getting; a divorce From her hunbnnd because He'ii no skinny. That la a Thin excuse for a divorce. The downward revision of lumber rates will enable every one to have a big stick of his own. We are having several made. The fickle populace always dinner" with the weather, so don't bank on it. Another one of "my policies" has gone up so high that an airship could not find it. Snccc In often the result of keeping one's opinions to themselves. About seventy million people were fanning themselves yesterday sweating to keep cool. She loves us one and all in turn, Each has his week or two, in fine. She hastes, she has no time to born, I or she Is going down the line.
committee since that town has been "dry," asserts that Rhoads has been doing a heavy liquor business. GAS FOUND AT OAKLAND CITY. The Monroe Oil & Gas company Friday completed its No. 1 well on the Sim Burnett farm In Sec. 23, Monroe township, and the result is a gas well of nearly four millions cubic feet volume. The sand in the well was regular and clean and was drilled into to a depth of thirty feet, but shows no trace of oil. This Is one of the best gaesers in the field and will be a valuable well when a market Is afforded for the gas. It Is absolutely dry. The well was gauged Saturday and shut in. The company has made another location on the lease and a new well will be started next week. The company is controlled by local people. A well-defined gas field has now been thoroughly proven and comprises several sections. MEALS SERVED ON "THE SQUARE." A square meal will be served every evening this week on "The Square," located on College avenue, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth street, Indianapolis. It will be the scene of the International Interdenominational County fair, which will open next Monday and continue all week. The meals will be served at the dining tent from 5:30 to 7:30 p. m. MAY PURCHASE BATTLEFIELD. The Misslssinewa battlefield, where Colonel Campbell and his force of 600 fought under the American flag against as many Indians, Dec. 17 and 18, 1812, was the scene of a meeting of committees from Wabash, Grant and Miami counties yesterday, which had for its purpose the purchase of this battlefield, of about twenty-six acres, from Its owner and dedicating It as one of Indiana's historic battlefields. The plan is to have the purchase made and then the Indiana Battlefield association will be expected to have suitable monuments erected and make the field a historic park. KILLED BY SLIP ON SIDEWALK. Mrs. Mary McFetridge of Madison met death in a peculiar manner Sunday night at Logansport, where she had been visiting. While walking along a street she slipped and fell backward, her head striking a stone. She lived but a few minutes. Relatives In this city were notified but no arrangements have been made for the funeral. OLDEST FEDATION IN I". S. The silver anniversary of the Indiana Federation of Labor, to be celebrated In South Bend Sept. 28, 29 and 30 will be the first observed by any state labor organization In the United States. For this reason the state convention scheduled for those three days will be attended by the largest delegation of union men ever assembled at an Indiana labor convention. The plans of the South Bend labor unions having the entertainment of the visitors in charge show that they exspect from 450 to 500 delegates and as many more visiting union workers. The Indiana federation is the oldest state organization in the country.
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News WASHINGTON. Users of foreign wines and liquors must pay higher rates because of Increases in new tariff bill. General redesigning of paper money planned by officials of United States treasury. All bureaus of government providing for Improvements of lands will spend exhibit to Chicago irrigation exposition. CHICAGO. Graduated scale of wages, affording Increases to many and losses to none, offered to street car employes. Husband and wife fight revolver duel in their parlor; former fatally wounded, latter killed. Startling disclosures promised by Chiperfield legislative committee. New York legislative committee to Investigate direct primary laws due here next Monday. August crop estimate exceeds yield of any previous year; smaller than July total. Chicago authorities deny that blondes predominate in prisons. DOMESTIC. Irrlgtation congress opens at Spokane, with vast throng of delegates from all over world In attendance. Illinois comes In seventh in Coeur d'Alene land race, with Wheaton man twenty-eighth and many others from Chicago and vicinity well to fore. Annual encampment of G. A. R. opens I at Salt Lake City; 50,000 visitors ex pected. Mrs. Sutton's letter, read on stand, asserts son's ghost told her he was beaten to death and then shot to hide crime. NEW YORK. Many mysterious features in inquiry as to who got $110.0"f worth of copper stocks from bank. The members of the life saving corps succeed in swimming Hell Gate. FOREIGV Greek flag, which was raised over fortress on Crete, lowered through influence of four protecting powers. Swedish strike growing; many more unions join walkout. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Erie railroad's annual "round" of its traffic officials begins in Chicago today. IN POLITICS Representative and Mrs. Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama are receiving congratulations on the arrival of a da ughter. Charles P. Curry, secretary of state oi California, has announced himself as
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The Evening Chit-Chat 3y RUTH CAMERON
iluvv doyou shake hands? Do you shake hands at all, or do you Just allow your hand to be shaken? When you are Introduced to a person, do you take his hand In a firm, strong grasp that says, "I'm glad to meet you; if you are the right sort we. are going to be splendid friends," or do you lay your hand In his in a lifeless, indifferent way that leaves him a feeling as If he had held a lump of clay? The hand shake Is the doorway to acquaintanceship and the outer portal of friendship-land.
"Yes, I like to go there," my sister said hesitatingly when I asked her If she had enjoyed her visit to a certain home, "only " "Only what?" I queried In great amazement. "I thought you and Louise were the very best of friends." "Well, I don't know as I ought to say it," she answered, "for I know they do everything to make me have a good time, and I know they don't realize how it sounds, but they always do make It so obvious that they have to go out of their way to have me there. "You know Louise and her mother live alone, so naturally their housekeeping Is quite simple, and the presence of an extra person means mora planning than It would in a larger family. "And when I'm there it's always, 'We must get an extra pound of steak. Helen is here,' or, 'WThen we are alone a loaf of bread lasts us a week.' or, 'Louise, you had better make a loaf of cake When we are alone we eat so little cake that we don't bother to make it very often." "Of course they make It plain that they are glad to see me and glad to take the trouble to have me there, but I wish I didn't always realize that It was a trouble "I do love to visit where I feel that I do not in the least change the routine of the family." So do we all. The ideal hostess and the rare one, of course is the woman who can. make every arrangement for her guest's pleasure and comfort, and yet make it appear as if the routine of her daily life were not in the least changed.
a candidate for the republican nomination for governor of that state. William J. Bryan has been Invited to attend the Peerless Prophets' celebration to be held in Wichita, Kas., during the last week of September. Governor Glasscock of West Virginia is said to contemplate calling a special session of the legislature to consider a primary law and a liquor reform measure. James R. Garfield, son of the late President Garfield, may be nominated by the republicans of Ohio to make the race against Governor Harmon, whom the democrats will probably nominate for a second term. Caleb Powers, whose several trials on the charge of complicity in the assassination of Governor Goebel of Kentucky, occupied public attention for nearly five years, has announced his candidacy for congress. The city of Toledo. O., expects to have a hot fight on for mayor and other city officials this fall. The street rallway problem is the leading issue, and it will be fought out along the lines of Tom Johnson's 3-cent fare campaign. H"!"1"H" ; How to Cure Insomnia In Summer. I Insomnia Is more prevalent in ' summer than at any other peI riod of the year. The excessive ' heat causes restlessness, and I the HEART AND BRAIN ARE ' PROMPTED INTO INCREAS- ! ED ACTIVITY. ' A well known New York phy- . slclan recommends the following 't method of Inducing 6leep in the torrid months: I "A bath of moderate duration . In lukewarm water just before retiring will be found to be an encourager of sleep. "But the person should take . care not to dry himself thoroughly nor rub himself with a rough towel so that the circulation is stimulated. "The idea Is that by merely t t t t t i t wiping off the body so that it Is yet damp at the end of the bath the body retains the Boothlnjr and quieting effects of the warm water. The stimulus supplied by brisk rubbing would over-
, come those effects, as would wafer of extremes of temperature." "--' 'fHf4r i t' Afcfr ' - v . ' ' .
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; -IK 3 lt Times Pattern Department LADIES' PLEATED SKIRT. This skirt has nine gores with a pleat laid in each gore and Is a most suitabls design, to form part of a suit or to wear as a separate skirt. The model is suitable for any material. This pattern is cut In five sises, 33 to 30 waist measure. Size 26 requires 5,i yards of 36-inch material. Price of Pattern 478 is 10 cents. No. 473. Name Address Size Fill out blank and send to Patten Department of this newspaper.
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