Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 146, Hammond, Lake County, 8 December 1909 — Page 4
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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. President Taft's message to Congress is a judicial document. It covers a good deal of ground and is strong in many of its features. The people will be relieved to find that there is no beating of torn toms and banging of cymbals in it. It3 tone is so moderate and tranquillizing that in comparison of some of the presidential documents preceding, it is an anodyne. Mr.
Taft does not suggest the taking of any drastic and mordant means to bring
about his aims. He is content to let well enough alone. The document will
exasperate no one. There are no doubleshotted ebullitive threats to stir
up a row and yet the president speaks with telling effect. He is the great
moderator and pacifier. Not to frighten away prosperity, not to throw a wet
blanket on business, not to lash the nation into turmoil, are his evident de
sires. A careful reading of the message will show that Taft is in the right
place.
THE OLD GAME OF FOOTBALL SAFER.
It is quite amusing to note the comments on football as a game, made
by those who never saw- a real match between trained elevens. This class
together with the striplings who were running around in short dresses when
the game jumped into prominence are displaying their ignorance by declar
ing that the day of the flying wedge and the mass play were infinitely more dangerous than the open field and murderous tackling of the up-to-date game. The kind of football played today is far more perilous to life and limb than was what is now called the lod-style game. Statistics will prove it and those who have played the game a dozen years ago will verify it. The old game
was far safer. The looser style of play which it was thought would remedy the dangerous features of the play has not done so at all. The forward pass in a broken field with its opportunities for fiendish tackling where men in
play do not have time to find themselves before they are encompassed in
a mad charge in itself is a hard play. Stop illegal piling up, pulling and pushing a player along. Don't let the offense gather too much power before it hits the line. Eliminate the forward pass and narrow the neutral zone
between the scrimmage lines and many dangerous features will be eliminated.
Keep TaiTis out of the game unless they have a physicians certificate that they
can play and there won't be 3S killed, S00 maimed and hundreds more injured.
HAS HAMMOND GROWN? WELL RATHER.
Hammond will have a representation of nearly thirty persons at the banquet of the Indiana Society of Chicago which is to be held in the gold room of the Congress hotel. A table is to be set aside for the Hammond
delegation.
This is of no significance except in that it shows the social progress that has been made by this city in the past fifteen or twenty years. Twenty-five
years ago it is doubtful if a full dress suit could be found in the whole city,
The social activities of the Hammond people of those days was confined
to mask balls, the butcher's picnic, Sunday picnics, dog fights and prize fights
with an occasional trip to a theatre in Chicago. The people of the pioneer
city little dreamed that in the year 1909, thirtty or more Hammondities
would be journeying to Chicago in formal attire, the guests of business men
statesmen, authors and playwrights of national reputation.
As we remarked before the matter is only of interest, in the light of the
past, as showing that Hammond's progress has not been entirely along com
mercial lines. There is something else patent besides the remorseless
pursuit of the lady on the eagle.
Seriously, the influence of such affairs upon, the community is beneficial
To hear and see the greatest artists, authors, speakers and playwrights of
the middle west, for most of them come from Indiana, is a privilege.
Their wisdom and witticism will be reflected, in a degree, upon the com
niunity at large and the local members of the Indiana society who have made
it possible for so many Hammond citizens to attend this delightful affair are doing more than providing an evening's entertainment for their friends
It was only a few days ago that a man of national reputation who spoke
at a Hammond gathering, expressed the opinion and the serious opinion that
no where else in the state could the affair have been so successfully given
4WH BLANKET YOUR FAITHFUL ANIMAL.
The cold weather has at last arrived and the old appeal to horse owners
to "blanket your horse" is being made. And if the appeal was made in every issue of a newspaper, the cost of the space would be paid for in excess, if
any good was accomplished thereby.
It is an old appeal to the faithful old horse, man's best friend, the faith
ful beast who does more for mankind and gets less in return than any other
animal in the animal kingdom.
BianKet your horse. Its a small thing to ask and it is likewise a small thing to do. Think yourself how you would feel after a hard run to stand
out in .the biting wind, some times for hours with nothing to protect you How much care does the horse really get? It is true that the horse is us
ually well fed and at night housed in comfortable stables. But in comparison with other animals, for instance, petted and prized dogs and cats, who are cuddled and cared for. petted and pampered, fed and feasted, bathed and -perfumed. Does the horse get any of these? Should he not be at last well fed and cared for, for what he does in return? Is he not at least deserving cf a warm outnket during the winter weather? A little common sense is all that is necessary. Man's heart is not hard and as a general rule he loves his horse. It's just forgetfulnesp, but don't forget. Please blanket your horse.
THE gtorm-door is king. - GLORIOUS goosebone weather. -- SHOPPING early advice is getting
rretty late.
IT is also the time of the short day
and the bill that bothers to beat the band.
IT is somewhat of a relief not to
be bothered with flies and mosquitos anyway.
AND you certainly could never have
seen anything more beautiful than those trees.
OF course you heard from Medicine
Hat, if it didn't catch you with your ear tabs on.
THE squdger is persona non grata,
but that doesn't make any difference to him whatever.
leart to Heart
Talks. By EDWIN A.IVYE.
DECIDEDLY NOT, OTTO! A Chicago newspaper is authority for the statement that one Otto Williams is to stage ten-round bouts in Gary in the near future and has been assured that he can hold the bouts. It is reassuring to read or Mr. Williams assurance. Perhaps he is Kid Howard in disguise or at least the latter's reincarnation. The honorable "Kid" a short time ago assured Chicago sports that all he had to do to pull off bouts in Hammond was simply to hold them. When the time came, however, the Howard person was sadly disillusioned, juite likely the sublime faith of Mr. Otto Williams is to be rudely shattered, indeed it is more than likely that when he pulls cf ten-round fights in Gary, "the stars will grow old, the sun grow cold and the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold." Nothing doing Otto! Put not your money in three sheets advertising ten-round bouts In Gary. We have enough troubles of our own at present without dallying with your ten-round affairs. There are enough clashes between the authorities and the blind pig owners coming off to furnish our pood people with all the excitement necessary without your little game.
A LITTLE less than three weeks in
which to fuss about Christmas pres
ents in your dreams.
THE weather fiend has already be
gun to tell you how he hates winter and longs for the good old summer time.
WE will know who discovered the
North Pole first, mighty soon. Santa Claus is expected to-arrive within a
few days.
INDIANA HARBOR boy who ran
away to Hammond, came a little too late. The Boyville election excitement
is all over now.
.- INDIANA should have a state re
publican love feast this year, the chickenhearted down state brethern notwithstanding.
Vik NOW then who will be the first to
get the snow all cleaned away. Don't all speak at once and please don't block up the sidewalk.
HICKS says that December is going to be u stormy month. Please Mr. Hicks we'll take your word for it. It isn't necessary to show us. SEND in your Christmas presents early, says an .exchange. Sure send
them in early and send them in often. AVe dearly love Christmas presents. A KENDALVILLE has fourteen candioates for city marshall. Probably there are no crossings there to clean off snow in the good old winter time. s PITTSBURG man made eight attempts at suicide. If he was anything but a Pittsburg man he would remove from the city and take his body with him. WE are glad to note that Bjornstjerne Bjornson is pronounced out of danger. We have had a lot of trouble in pronouncing the name of this distinguished man. IT will be necessary perhaps to spend a little of the hookworm fund to get some of the politicians in this neck of the woods together during the rext few months. MR. CHRISTY says "I don't care three whoops what she said." Mrs. Christy says "If he takes me in his arms, I'll forgive him." Somebody get a net they're falling. PRESIDENT Zelaya knows how to sympathize with the small boy who has been led to the woodshed and well paddled on the place provided by nature for paddling purposes.
j WE note with pleasure that the price of peanuts is soon to increase. This will probably make it harder for the man who is incessantly munching them in your ear to get them.
WE will give a years subscription will show us a democratic paper that to the Sunday TIMES to any one who ever speaks of a republican policy as anything but a grab or a graft. A KANSAS hen has laid an egg bearins the legend "Drought 1911" This is pleasant to look forward to when there is so much of It frozen on the ground and falling through the air. AN exchange says that "after a man has been married a while he does hate to walk down the street with his wife hanging on his arm.'' Well we think the wife's feelings ought to be considered a little. .. COULD it be done in your town? The Plymouth Independent says: fifteen women in an aid society of this city. . sat together and sewed for a whole hour without saying a word. It was done on a wager and no deaths occurred, but the scene that followed when the time was up may be imagined much better than told.
THE SQUARE DEAL. Young manDo you know why there is such a
large proportion of failures in business in this country?
Do you think it is because of lack
cf experience or of energy or of proper location or of management or of proper
advertising? All these may have something to do with business failures; but. according to a business man who has made his millions, it is lack of something else. And what do you suppose is that lack? Lack of downright business honesty! You do not think so? You have come to believe perhaps, as many young men do believe, that knowledge of the business, "tricks of the trade," shrewdness in getting the better of a bargain, the ingenuity of deceit that these are the qualities by which men get on in the world today. That is where you are mistaken. The millionaire mentioned, whose name is known throughout the country, says: "I'm not a preacher or a moralist Business isn't a thing to preach or grow sentimental over. But it is so 6lmple in principle that only a fool mistakes it and falls." Continuing, he says: . "Twenty-five years ago I discovered for myself that honesty was the easiest graft known to business. It can't fail in the bands of a man with common horse sense. . Once let it get abroad that every customer coming iuto your place gets the square deal and you can't keep them out with a club." A very strong statement that. But the man has proved it. He started up in business determined upon a policy of "making good" to every customer. His definition of making good was
the Golden Rule that is to say. he determined to treat every customer of his precisely as he would want to be treated if he were the customer. And from that policy he reaped a fortune. Simple? So simple, as he says, that "only a fool mistakes It and falls." There never was enunciated a truer statement than that of the old copybooks, "Honesty is the best policy." Do not get It into your head that rascality pays. Dishonesty spells FAILURE and spells it in capital letters. The square deal wins always, everywhere.
which, resulted in the loss of both his eyes. TRY TO CATCH BURGLAR. An attempt to rob the Phi Delta Theta House at Bloomington early Monday morning -was frustrated by two
members of the local chapter, Millard' K?nt and Dane Hoover, whose attempt' to capture the lone burglar was unsuccessful. The barkir.fr of a pair of bulldogs kept in the house at night gave the boys wr.rning. j STRICKEN BY APOPLEXY. Major David F. Allen of Frankfort, one of Indiana's best-known men. Is in a critical condition at his apartments in this city from a stroke of apoplexy. He was stricken while alone about 5:30 Sunday evening and for nearly twenty-four hours lay on ; the floor of his room conscious but!
unable to aid himself or call assistance. TO BE CITY AGENT. Official announcement was made at the operating headquarters of the Monon railroad in Lafayette Monday that George B. Peterson, who for somt time has been city ticket agent for the Monon at that place, will on Jan. 1, become city passenger agent for the company at Indianapolis. LOCATE MOONSHINERS.
Mooashlmng" on an elaborate and
profitable scale is alleged to have been
unearthed in the heart of the business
district of Elkhart, only the barricaded
rendezvous of the illicit workers proved to be an oleomargarine shop.
CRUEL TO HIS HOG. John Bondrager, a well-to-do fasmer
of near Auburn, was Monday made defendant in a suit filed before Justice
Green for inhuman treatment of a hog.
The complaint, made by his neighbors, is that Bondrag-er ran the norker.
stoned It and then chased his dog after it till the animal fell, in the fence corner almost dead.
ORDERS MONKEY ENGINES. The Monon has ordered three of the
new type, known as the "ironk'jy" typi
passenger engine. The coi-.r.any h.xa number of these etig'nes now in
service and Is so pl'.ised with them that it thought It wise to purchase additional engines of that type. Theae
engines have three pairs of dilving wheels and handle the through pas
senger trains at high speed.
Goes to Receive, the Nobel Prize
-THIS DATE IN HISTORY" December 8. fV73 The siege of Quebec began.
1S10 Elihu Burritt, originator of the International peace movement, born in New Britain. Conn. Died
there, March P. 1879. 1S23 Macon, Ga., incorporated.
1844 Jefferson Davis entered the house
of represetnatives from Mississippi.
1848 Joel Chandler Harris, author, born in Eatonton, Ga. Died in At
lanta. July 3, 190S.
lSoO Robert E. Pattison. governor of Pennsylvania, born. Died, Aug. 1,
1004. 1S54 Doctrine of Immaculate Concep tion proclaimed by the pope. l$gn Charles Fisher, of New Bruns
wick, one of the "Father" of the
Canadian Federation," died.- Born Sept. 16. 1S08.
1903 General Reyes elected president
of Columbia.
1905 John Mitchell. United States senator from Oregon, died in Portland.
Born in Washington County, Penn sylvania, June 22, 1S35.
1907 Gustaf Y. ascended the throne of
Sweden. "THIS IS MY 50TH BIRTHDAY" Rev. Joseph Henry Crooker, president of the National Unitarian Temper ance society and a clergyman and au
thor of wide note, won born in Fox-
croft, Maine, Dec. 8, 1850. He gradu
eted from the Ypsilanti Union seminary in 1S70 and seven years later en
tered the Unitarian ministry. Snbse
quenlly he established large Unitarian congregations in Helena, Mont.. Ann
Arbor. Mich., and other cities. Since
1905 he has been pastor of the Roslin
dale Unitarian church of Boston. In
1903 Dr. Crooker was selected to preach the anniversary sermon at the
meeting of the British and Foreign
Unitarian association in London. He
is the author of several books on re
ligious topics, among them being "Religious Freedom in American Educa
tion" and "The Supremacy of Jesus.'
UP AND DOWN IN I N-DIA-N-A
WORK OF THE DAY IN CONGRESS (Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1909.) Senate. The senate met promptly at 12 o'clock with a full attendance of senators on the floor. The president's message was brought in shortly after the call to order and the reading began. The senators manifested deep interest in the document, some following the reading and others turning over the printed pages to find subjects In which they were specially interested. Following the custom the message was referred to the committee of the whole. The sensta than held an executive session until 2:30 o'clock, adjourning to meet Friday. Houne. ' The house assembled at 12, and a few minutes after when the president's message was brought in there was a scramble to get copies. The actual reading of the document consumed a little more, than an Hour and a half. The message was referred to the committee of the. whole and the house adjourned until Friday.
Times Pattern Department
STRIKE-BREAKERS EMPLOYED. Twenty-five of the strike-breakers who arrived in Bedford Monday went to work in the morning, while several others joined the strikers' ranks. A large number cf the strikers and sympathizers have been on picket duty at the Dewey House, where the men are quartered. CONDICTOR SIBDIES DRINK. Tony Jlaurtr of Kvansviile, who was knocked down and arrested by Conductor Lanuiel Brown on a traction- car near the county line saloon at Princeton Sunday night when he erected a disturbance was j eterday fined for intoxication and for assault and battery. LOSES BOTH OK HIS EYES. While bending over a fuse attached to a dynamite charge at the Campbell & Dobson quarry west of Bloomington Monday afternoon, Alva Dobson, 4rt, and senior member of the firm, wag the victim of a premature explosion
MISSES' FRONT CLOSING DRtso. Plain blue serge is the material of fhis misses' dress. The collar is of green and white figured foulard trimmed with Mack braid. The hraid is also used on the sleeves and fancy green and white buttons close the front. This pattern is cut in three siws, 13, 1 and 16 years. Sire 16 requires S'4 yards of 27-mch material. Price of Pattern i56 is 10 cents. No. 456.
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following cable from London: "Marconi left London this evening on his' way to Stockholm, where he will receive the Nobel prize of physics, the value of whic his $20,000. The priztorigian'.ly was worth doubl ethat sum, but this year it was divided. Mr. Marconi wilL deliver his lecture on Dec. 10 and receive the award the next day. Mrs. Marconi accompanies him."
LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS
What the Little Friends of The Times Want Good Old Santa to Bring Them for Christmas.
Hammond. Ind., Dec. 7, 1909. , candy, oranges, apples, Dear Santa Claus: r am 12 years old new dress, now. I am a poor girl. Would you please send mo a little present. I will S54 Roosevelt avrmie be satisfied with what I gr-t. I have only two brothers and they are the ones' Hammond Ind that support my mother. I hardly ever! Dear "v-nta Clans- I gel presents on Christmas eve. Rix year's "old. I g, to
ours erv i r,; . LUCY ZIMMERMAN.
cookies and EDNA HOIN.
Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 7. 1909. Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me a small piano. Webster's International Dictionary, two books, one is Little Men. the other is Little Women, four and one-half yards of red vvoolen goods for a dress, two yards of "n'ue ribbon for hair ribbons, pfncll. penholder and some candy. I ;im nine years old. I remain as ever. CLARA GARD. li. R. 7. Box 21.
Dec. : 1909. am a little boy kindergarten. I
I love dear Santa Clnus. My mamma is j alone to support the homo and sh ; works very lia-d. She tells me she ' can't get much for Xmns. so T ask for a sld or a box of tools. With love to Santa Claus from FRANCIS WARNER. 49 Truman avenue. ! Don't forget mo. dear Santa.
Hammond. Ind.. Dec. 7. 1909. Dear Santa Claus: Xmas is soon here! and i hope you -remember me. Would j you please bring me a big doll, a nice ; while dress for myself, fur scarf and ,
muff, a nice story book and a box of candy. Yours sfnferelv. ETHEL OLSON. 144 Harrison avenue, station 1.
Fast Chicago. Ind . Dee. 7, 1903. Dear Krienri Santa Claus: I am going to tell you what 1 am wishing for Christmas. I want a pair of skates. I an: ten years old. I wish to skate this w i n t r. Yur loving friend. JOHN SABO. 4S24 Melville ave. P. O. Box 457.
Hammond. Ind., Dec. 7. 1909. Dear Santa, Onus: If you would please bring me a wagon and bicycle and a box of candy and a storv book. Your trulv bov. HOWARD OLSON"
Hammond. Ind.. Dec. 7, 1909
Dear Santa Claus: I want a llttl
cradle and a brown wig for my doll. I want a red chair and' a trunk. DOROTHT.
Kast Chicago. Ind.. Dec. 7, 1909. Dear Friend Santa Ciaus: I am ten years old and I am ging to tell you what 1 want you to bring me for Christmas. I want you to bring me a sled. Please do bring it for me for J want to go sleigh riding ;liis winter. Yours trulv mary Lewis. 4823 Alexander avenue.
Hammond, Ind.. !e 6. 1909. Dear Kind SantaC!aus. Times Office. Hammond. Ind.. Dear Sir: I am a boy rilne years old and my little lame sister and I would be so pleased if you would send her ti doll Led and me a small wagon to take her ridinir in and a too chest to kep It flxfd with. From vour iovlr v. little friend. MELV1N HERMAN JR. 17 South Ho h in an street.
Hammond. Ind.. Dec. 7, 1909. Dear Stntc. Clans: T would like to have yon bring mo a sweater coat. Christinas trees, orarge. nuts and caniv. From vou- little friend. OTTO DREISCHERF.
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East Chicago. Ind.. Ie. 7, 1909. Dear Friend Santa Claus: I am going to teH you what I want you to tiring me this Christmas. 1 want a pair of skates. I am -eight years old and I wish to learn how to skate. Your loving friend. JOSEPH I-'ARCUS. 4922 Melville avor.ne. Hsmmond. Ind.. Dec. C, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I would like to have a sweater coat and a pair of stoek-
Ings and a pair of shoes and nuts and t; OVER NO n PARDONS THREE. Governor Marshall has pardoned three, prisoners at Michigan City, who are wanted at Illinois an Ohio prisons. The men are Charles Vandyne. and Wa'ter If. Rroks. wanted at Chester. HI., for violating their paroles, and David Welsh, who i. wanted at the Ohio state prison, from which Institution he sor.Tied five years ago. LOSES LE.S AND ARM Joseph Dempsey. a car repairer, suffejed the loss of both legs and his right arm in the yards of the Panhandle at Log.i:iport by a switch engine ba. kioe down upon him as he was at work under a car. He was taken to St. Joseph hospital and will die. M H IDE'S BODY ARRIVES. The body of Norman Simons, who mureder his sweetheart at Coalinga, Cal., before committing suicide, reached Marion Monday and will be buried here. Simons lived in this city before going to California a number of years and engaging in the oil business.
Hammond. Ind.. Dec. 7. 1909. Dear Santa Claus: 1 am a girl ten vears old. I go to the Central school. I am in the fourth grace. As Christmas is drawing near 1 would like to luive a rice pair of shoes nnd a nice dress and a tory book. My brother wants a too! box and a story book. My little sister wants a doll bed and a doll wig and a story book. Dear Santa Clans, don't forget mamrra and papa. Your lit! fr!nd. . MARGARET Ll'SCIIER. 179 Logan etreet.
CONNIE SMITH BEATS FITZGERALD New Tork. Dec. 8. Connie Smith of New Jersey outpointed Jack Fitzgerald In their ten round bout at Brown's gymnasium last night. After about two minute of milling in the first round Smith caught Ills antagonist on the jaw with a short left hook, sending him down for the count of nine. The bell cams to Fitz's relief before Smith could follow up his advantage. The succeeding nine rounds were desperately contest 1 by both men, but Smith had the better of them.
REDS' CATCHER ( BACKS JOHNSON J
Clr.ci.nr.atl. O., Dec. Lean, the, big cau-hT a strong admirer of
8. Larry Mcof the RUds, is Jack Johnson'H
TENANT-HUNT IN THE TIMES.
fighting ability. lie is forming a big pooi to back the negro In his coming"
encounter with Jeffries.