Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 8, Hammond, Lake County, 27 June 1910 — Page 4

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EVENING EDITION AND 'iflK, TIMES SPORTTNiO EXTRA, ALL DAILT NKWSPAPHRS PUBLISHED BTgTHE LAKE COUNTY POINTING AND Pt BLISHING COMPANY. The Lake County Tlrns "Entered 4 oond class matter J?une t8, I06. at the poetofflce at Hammond,. Indiana, unler the Act of Congress., March , 117 The Gary Evening Times "Entered Us seoond class matter October 5, 10, at the poatoiflce at Hammoritd, Indiana, uniler the Act of Congress. March 8, 17." MAIN OFWCB SAMMOXn, ITk'Ji., TKLEPHOXE, . lit 11. EAST CHICAGO AIVD INDIANA iTIARBOR TKLEPHOWK 83. GARY OFFICE- -RE V.N OLDS UI.DG, TELKIUONE, 137. bRANCIUuS EAST CfcUCAGi, INDIANA lUVRfiOK, . WHITI1VG, 1 OttO WN POINT, j TOIXESTON AND XOWttLL. YttAKLT , . SS.O HAUT YEARLY f , 9 S1NUL1S COPIES , ONE CENT LARGER PAID UP CIRCULATION THAiX ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER IN THE CALUMET; REGION. CIRCULATION BOOKS OlEN (TO THE PITHLICFOR INSPECTION AT ALL TIMES. TO SIBSORiBKRS Rcadtn ( TUUVl'I BES are,rrur1ed favor, the mamagrpicnt bjr reporting any (Irregularities' in dedveriuy;. C-umiaualcate with the Circulation Departiuenrt. COmiU3riCATI0'.S. THE TIMES will print , all snuiiui('iiii Am nubjrt'U ef Rrieral Interest to the people, nbrn tuck Mnuawdetillvu are Ki'cui-d by the writer, but will reject all communication not tri, no matter t-what their merit. Tbla pre rautlou la taken to avoid miareiircneartmtlo'aa. THE TIMES U published iu Ike best Inter of the people, sad Its utteracea always Intended to nrouaotc the. reral (welfare of the nubile at larce.

TAKES EXAMPLE FROM .HER INDIANA SISTERS. The spirit of progress is contagious. Here, for instance, is West Hammond, a village, in reality in Illinois but far enough away from Chicago tto 'be absolutely neglected and forgotten. West Hammond is waking up. So is Burnham. They do not draw their inspiration from the graft-cldden . political centers of Cook county, though their citizens are domiciled there, but) they are inspired by the progress of Hammond, Whiting. East Chicago and Gary the cities just across the imaginary line known as the Indiana-Illinois j boundary. These cities are finding that -they must have more and better outlets. West Hammond finds herself -in the same predicament. She has shaken off her slothfulness and opened her eyes to the fact that to share in the progress and prosperity of these cities from which? she draws her inspiration she must follow their lead and get new roads. Bully for West Hammond.

MR. T AFT'S SPLENDID ' WORK. It is more than amusing to the exponents of true journalism the small dailies and weeklies of the country to note how the "great" metropolitan papers are beginning to find out that President Taft and congress have done something after all. Ever since Mr. Taft 'was inaugurated he has been attacked and embarrassed by these pestilendal mercenaries of the press, whose poliv is always destructive and never' consstructive. They declined, uncourteously, to give President Taft a chance and isought to set the country by the ears in an effort to bring ridicule upon the administration. President Taft has been able to bring about legislation for the United States that will in aftor years make him a figure in contemporaneous history. He has done marvelous things with congress and he has -done it without any hurrah or slapstick tactics. The remedial measures for which he has labored long and hard will be shown in the campaign fast approaching that in not a single promise that the president made to the people has he "fallen down." As we have always predicted since Mr. Taft took office, J his administration will be one of the most marked in American history.

BOYS IN SALOONS. Last night, within one block, after 11 o'clock, in one city in Lake county, not many miles from hence, an observer counted eight drunken young men pass him with the space of ten minutes. It was a sight a little out of the ordinary in that all of these young fellows were above the average type in appearance. They were well-dressed and apparently refined under ordinary circumstances. Several of them were obviously under age. Boys as young as 16 years old are served in some saloons. Some of these boys would sacrifice almost anything rather than have their mothers or sisters see them in this condition. They have formed the habit. They may do this sort of thing only at infrequent intervals, but the ice is broken and they have eaten of the tree of knowledge. There are fools about who will encourage them to think this sort of thing manly. It may take several years for them to see what asses they are making of themselves and it may then be too late. The danger lies in the lonesomeness of some of these fellows. In the saloons they can always get the "glad hand." Among the saloon loafers are many ingenuous and friendly persons who ars gifted with a flow of conversation (when lubricated occasionally) which suffices to while away a weary hour or two. especially when the mind of the youth has been befuddled by a drink or two. The drinks lead to worse things and the morning finds him with a lessened self respect and a depleted moral fibre.

THEY ARE BY NO MEANS A SIDELINE. One of the most encouraging features of the growth of Gary is the activity of its religious, scholastic and philanthropic institutions. These are the things that count. During the present week a large number of Gary citizens are celebrating the erection of a church building which their self-sacrificing has made possible. Other denominations are making strenuous efforts to provide for themselves a church home. Others with homes in existence are devoting their time to the moral and social betterment of the city. The prominent women of Gary devote more time to the raising of money by various devices, for the service of their religion than they do to their own amusement. There is probably no city in the world, in proportion to population, which contains a larger number of splendid young men and women who are proud to proclaim the fact that they are members of religious organizations and who are active workers therein. There are no finer school buildings in the world than those of Gary and there are more to come. The teaching faculty of the Gary schools is second to none. It is headed by a man whose wide range of thought and great executive power is rapidly making for the uplift and versatility of the citizens of the next decade. - The men who are making their money from the industries to which Gary owes its existence have shown themselves to be broad-minded and intelli gent enough to desire to make the young men and women of Gary of the best possible type. For this reason they have given huge sums of money for the erection of a Y. M. C. A. and other similar institutions. The owning land companies have given much money and are eninB- n

t-Ayeup, over ana aDove tnat make Gary a city beautiful

The Gary of doubtful reputation has been superseded by a Gary which Is rapidly assuming a prominent place among the progressive and desirable municipalities of the country. There are, of course, many conditions which need adjustment but the activities of which THE TIMES has sppken will play a great part' in doing to. Christianity, intelligence and charity are the plants of hardier and more lasting growth than vice, graft and ignorance. THE TIMES is proud to be able to play a small part in the encouragement of the good things and is

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RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS

DOWN with the blank cartridge. ONLY Ave more days to prepare for a -safe and sane one. YOUNG man, find something else to do beside your father. MR. Taft's big stick did a fine job of coaxing instead of clubbing. HOW much better a thing tastes when the doctor forbids our eating it. OH, the hot spell won't hourt you, so don't worry. You need it in your business. ANOTHER blow to the Gaynor presidential aspiration is the elopement of his daughter. GREAT weather for the dame's handicap race to the ice cream soda fountain. SOONER or later you'll have to get up and hustle. You can't be lazy all the time. A IN other words Colonel Roosevelt is the Homer J. Carr of the country at large. He knows it all. CANDIDATE Peterson is going to furnish the pyrotechnics for Hebron's safe and sane Fourth this year. ' SEEMS about time to hear a terrific and perfectly justifiable roar about the false bottom of the berry box. A LARGE delegation of the Tetanus Germ family are said to be among the late arrivals in the Calumet region. SEEMS as if people might exercise a little more care on Sundays and not make a day of blood and horror out cf it. PERSIAN prince is in this country to find out what makes the United States so rich. Purity In politics, oh Prince! "WANT Knox for governor," says a Pennsylvania paper. Our governor doesn't want any knocks. There's the difference. A WHAT has become of the old-fashioned man who fiddled for his own pleasure and never annoyed the neighbors at that? THE newspaper that advocates a cheap improvement for a city, just because it is cheap, is a cheap paper with a cheap policy. A BROADWAY business man's wife won't speak to him. She sent him to the bakery for a roll and he came back with a bun. 4? " IN our hurry we forgot to announce that the best graduating class motto we ever saw is ' Beyond Lies the Wash Tub and the Saw Buck!" OUR idea of something to roast is a woman old enough to be a grandmother who paints to resemble a 16-year-old girl and acts giddy. YOU may be sure if someone says something nasty about you. It will always come back to you, but if they should accidentally say one nice thing about you, you never hear of It. - A PICTURE of Lord Li Ching Nan, head of the Chinese army, getting out of his auto in Paris looks like an East Hammond Horwat getting off a South Hohman street car. EIGHTY-FOUR year old man has received an offer to box at the Johnson-Jeffries fight. If he survives we look for the Leroy baseball team to make him an offer. TERRIBLE thing happened In Baltimoh. Distillery collapsed, releasing contents of 8,000 barrels of pure rye which rivuletted into the Patapsco river. Oh Maryland! My Maryland! IF you want better mail facilities for Hammond, Gary, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor and Whiting. Write to Otto Rabe. assisted postmaster at Hammond, from any city in the region. ihl ourtn ot July committee should put it up to Homer entirely and make him responsible. If he says there will be no fingers or firecrackers shot off in Gary next week, there won't be, b'gosh. $ BROTHER Zim, of the Valparaiso Messenger, is fussing over the passing of the luscious huckleberry. We, too, deplore it. Think of the pie that mother used to make out of the new huckleberries.

THE TXtIEL

This Week's

Washington. D. C. June 25. Ex-President i.

. . - " o cjvtfcLtiu iu at tend the commencement exercises at Harvard University and the reunion of

or wnicn no was a member. While In New England he will be the guest of Senator Henrv Cabot Dni1 nA m ..k,i .

' of prominent public men. among them

gmuuawj vi uic nsrvara iaw scnooi. The election of a United States senator, representatives In Congress and governor and other state official are involved in the general primary election to be held in North Dakota Wednnsdav a ntk. c. .v..

... w... w i o icfl u i. tilt-; miudie west the contest promises to be a royal battle between the "progressive" and "stalwart" factions of the Republican party.

rour aspirants for the governorship nomination before the Renublican Stat

- .. . v..i , muui)ititit!r. in Amine another Interesting gubernatorial contest will be settled at the Republican State convention on Wednesday.

A military carnival which is expected to eclipse all previous affairs of its kind in the United States will onen In rhimm t,,o

sion of the United States army will be

u-.u. iecii;ies wui continue daily until July 14. Towards the end of the week Boston will be invaded by a great army of teachers who will assemble from efery part of the country for the annual convention, of the National Educational Association. Preparations for the entertainment of the visitors are being made on an unusually elaborate st ale and It is .expected the convention will be the largest and most notable in the history of the associaion. ' The event of the week In aviation circles will be the world s contest at Montreal, while the attention of automobilieus will be similarly centered on Indianapolis, where the national record races and the annual contest for the Cobe trophy will take place over the famous speedway course, beginnin- Friday. An event of great interest to the Roman Catholic world is to take place in London Tuesday, when the great cathedral at Westminster is to be formally consecrated. The event will be attended by imposing ceremonies lasting two days and in which eminent prelates from many parts of the world will take part. A national conference of people who are interested in the welfare of children will begin Tuesday at Clark University. Worcester, and continue for five days. Among the many persons of prominence interested in the movement are Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Robert M. LaFoliette. Gifford Plnchot and Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver. Other events which will figure more or less prominently in the news of the week will be the provincial elections in Alberta, teh dedication of the Indiana monument on the battlefield of Antietam, the annual meeting of the American Library Association at Mackinac Island, the Empire rifle matches at Bisley, the Yale-Harvard boat race at New London, the meeting of the Southern Textile Association at Augusta, the annual observance of Dominion Day throughout Canada, ad the annual convention in Pittsburg of the Federation of American Zionists.

eari to ilear t Talks. Dy JSDWLN A. NYIL-i THE YEAST IN DICKSON. Hugh L. Dicksen Is a lawyer. Before he was a lawyer he was a locomotive engineer. One day his engine went over aa embankment, and Dickson went with it. He was badly mashed, and when he got out of the hospital both bis hands were gone. A man witheut hands isn't of much use in an engine cab. So Dickson started to study law. He couldn't pull a throttle without hands, but he ceuld turn the leaves of Blackstone and Kent and Walker and the rest of them. He also figured out a way by which he could hold a pen between the two stumps, which came In handy when a few weeks ago Dickson was admitted to practice In the supreme court of the United States and signed the roll. That was a long trip for Dickson from the hospital to the supreme court. But he made it by sticking to his law books as he had stuck to his engine. By and by be was made general counselor of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and things came easier. Dickson did not stand around, Micaw-ber-like, waiting for something to turn up. He went oat and started something. He did not reason as some others might do: "Here I am a life crfpple. The railroad company owes me a pension, and the world at large owes me a living." Dickson realized that if the world did owe him a living it was up to him to collect it. He was like that other lawyer, Senator Gore of Oklahoma, who went blind in his boyhood. Gore had his wife read the law books to him. And he did not stop climbing until he got into the United States senate. Young manSuccess in life Is not a matter of hands or eyes. It is a matter, of grit and of the yeast that is in you. If the yeast that is in you is poor you are likely never to rise. And even if the yeast is good, if it be not mixed with energy and brains, you will not rise. Do things seem to come your way slowly or scarcely at all? Cheer up! You have two good hands to fall back upon and two good eyes to find the way. What you need Is the Dickson spirit, the Gore grit Make the best of what chance you hare. If you have no chance, make one. If you lose your bands, use the stumps. If 'you go blind, use other people's eyes. And in due time you shall reap if you faint not. UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A FARMTR'S SKULL CRUSHED. D. B. Lavengood, 50 years old, was found dead in a field near Peru, In which he had been plowing in Perry Township last evening. His skull was crushed. Whether he had been kicked by a mule or was a victim of foul play Is not known. Coroner Goodrich has been summoned to investigate. Lavengood was a wealthy farmer and leaves a family. AMBULANCE IN CRASH. A runaway team of horses attached to a fine ambulance in which a Fairmount undertaker was delivering a casket collided with a buggy In which Miss Fern Brewer waa riding, throwing:

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a - - . wuuwcoo IIICCI liUlllUVl Attorney General Wickersham, who of Vermont will contest for the encamped in Grant Park and military the young woman to the pavement with much force. She escaped uninjured. The team ran two miles into the country and was stopped by a farmer. The casket in the rear of the vehicle was not damaged. BIG BANKS MERGED. Announcement was made yesterday of the probable acceptance by Mercantile National Bank of Evansvllle stockholders of a plan to liquidate that institution Immediately and merge its funds with the Mercantile Trust and Savings Company. The two related banking houses have had deposits of 750,000. BOO ATTEND Y. P. . CE. K. The twenty-third annual convention of the Indiana Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor Friday convened in the First Methodist church in Terre Haute with 250 delegates assembled. The sweltering heat has kept hundreds of visiting and delegate Edeavorers away from the annual meeting, but Friday evening and Saturday evening there were more than 500." INDIANAPOLIS TOO MODEST. Indiaapolls was found guilty last night of being too modest and was sentenced to be exploited. The jury consisted of about fifty advertising men and the verdict was reached on the first ballot after a trial lasting two hours, held in the assembly room of the Board of Trade. A special commission of nine men was selected to prepare plans for executing the sentence. MAYOR APPROVES MARRIAGE. Mayor John Bray of Brazil was compelled to give his consent today before a young woman whose residence i3 in Paris. France, was able to become the bridge of a young Frenchman of that city. The young woman is the daughter of Emil Petit, a Frenchman of this oity. and as she is under age the French laws compel her to secure the consent of her parents. The Fench law also provides that the written consent of the parents must be certified to by the mayor of the city In which the parent resides. ELECTRICAL STORM SERIOUS. Lawrenoeburg and environs experienced one of the most severe electrical storms yesterday afternoon that has been known in many years. Reports of trees, outbuildings and other property being struck by lightning are too numerous to record. No fatalities so far have been reported. LAPORTE HAS WATER PROBLEM. Laporte is confronted with a serious water problem. A report submitted by Lord & Burdick .Chicago water experts, condemned the present supply as wholly unfit for use. The city formerly obtained its water from the little Kankakee, but the plant has been in litigation for a couple of years and has not been in operation. Today the City Council gave notice that a special election would be called to give the cJtiaens an opportunity to express an opinion. DO A LITTLE INSI RGIVG. Representatives Crumpacker and Barnard of Indiana, who have taken some pride in their party regularity turned insurgents for a short while today. Both voted against the rule for the consideration of the Appalachian forest reserve bill and both declared they will vote against the bill itself when it is placed on passage. This is one of the administration's measures and a pledge for Its passage was contained In the Chicago platform. STEAMER W. S. WRECKED. While carrying a party of 250 Indianapolis excursionists at Michigan City, about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon the steamer United States crashed Into the Franklin street bascule bridge. The bridge went crashing into the river, carrying down the tug Elphicke, while the rear ends of the three decks of the excursion steamer were wrecked. Many of the Indianapolis people escaped death by a narrow margin, but so far as could be learned -last night, not a single one of the party was injured. LAKE SHORE TO RAISE RATES. The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Saturday filed with the Railroad Commission of Indiana a new schedule of classified freight rates to become effective Aug. 1. Thousands of stations are affected, and the tendency of the schedule is for "revision upward." TO RUN FOR COBE TROPHY. Chief interest in the three-day Motor Speedway program which will start next Friday is centering in the great race to be hi fc paaiaujnn of the

Uncle Walt The Poet Philosopher

THE UNIVERSAL TOPIC. Ofttimes when people get together, the conversation lags, till some one speaks about the weather; then it no longer drags. We've found a theme that's most appealing a theme we understand, and so, with energy and feel.

ing we talk to beat the band.. Of cloudburst, hailstorm, and tornado, we all have yams to spare; the weather is an El Dorado, for people everywhere.

The Big Wind came in '57," the hoary us are driven to other windy lies. "In with sleet." "Oh, Caesar! Well do I

gray! July the fourth came in September and Christmas was In May." 'Tis

thus, when people get together, to pass a social hour, they polish off the good old weather, and no one's sore or sour.. But if, aras! discussion switches to politics or books, or folks who roll in sinful riches, or servant girls or cooks, then everything's at once a jangle, and voices rise and screech ,and people stand around and wrangle, and fuss, and fume, and preach. So let us, when we get together, for genial, social ends, discourse of nothing but the weather,

and then we'll still be friends. Copyright, 1910. by George Matthew Dancer Wko Is ingnMTi ft-.

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The Political Whirl in Indiana

Monticello The Republicans of White county have nominated the following ticket: Clerk. Charles S. Preston; treasurer, William P. Cooper; recorder, Morton Coonrod; surveyor. Frederick Price; commissioners. Charles A. Gay and Jacob D. Moore; coroner. George R. Clayton, Jr. Bloomlngton The Indiana university Lincoln League, just before college was dismissed, passed strong resolutions Indorsing Senator Beveridge and recommending that the senator challenge for five joint debates any leading Democrat, the first debate to be held at Indiana university. Newcastle Stokes Jackson, of Greenfield, state Democratic chairman; Judge Douglass Morris, of Rushville, and Finley H. Gray of Connersville! Democratic candidaie for congressman from the Sixth district, are expecterday Saturday to attend the Democratic mass convenion, which will be held at the courthouse. Terre Haute The county and township primaries were held Friday. Countq Auditor Nate Wallace, democrat, is opposed for renomination by former Mayor Henry Steeg and former Sheriff" Louis Seeberger. Frank Hoerman, democrat, is opposed for renomlnatiorj as recorder by Arthur Jones. Evereft magnificent Cobe trophy, won by Louis Chevrolet, the fearless Buick pilot, at Crown Point last year. The FrenchSwiss swears he will drive as he has never before driven In order to retain the cup, while his opponents are determined to make every effort, they say, to wrench the victory and the attending reward from the grasp of tha foreigner. C L. S. S. R. SEEKS TERMINAL. Overtures between the Chicago Lake Shore & South Bend Electric Railway and the Illinois Central Railroad whereby the former road will run its electric trains into the heart of Chicago and land Its passengers at the downtown stations were made known today when a party containing the principal officials of both railroads came to South Bend on an inspection trip. The Installation of through trains will be carried out at once.

Monday, June 27, 1910.

grandsire cries, and then the rest of '64 the weather wizard predicted drouth remember the year that turned me WALT MASON Adams. Suing for Di ivorce. as. - i r Messick and Tom Dailey, now deputies in the treasurer's office, are candidates for the nomination for that office. Ft. Wayne Judge Owen N. Heaton of this city has finally given his consent to make the race as the republican nominee for representative in congress from the Twelfth district. The step was urged on Judge Heaton by local and district party leaders, whose efforts were supplemented by others higher in the party in the belief that he is the strongest candidate that could be nominated. Judge Heatoq's consent to enter the race makes It certain that he will be the unanimous choice of the republican congressional convention. Munclc Apple and cigars, and In due season cider will be depended upon to a large extent by the republicans of Delaware county to carry them to victory and into office. At some place in the county there is held once a week a social affair attended by all the candidates, the voters of the community and others whose obect Is to keep the party forces lined up. No candidate is allowed to speak but others may do so. A candidate may shake hands however. Speeches are made principally by men of the neighborhood in which the meting is held. Then the head ot the apple barrel la stove in and the cigars are passed. Political Announcements For Joint Representative. Editor I'lmtsi I wish to announce myself as (andidate for joint rpr. ,.- f ut I ve (for Luke and Newton conntle to the state legislature, on tk driuorratie ticket. ELNATHAN It HADDOCK. Johnny Coulon. the bantamweight champion bruiser, won't fight again until next fall. He announced last night that he would go to Bluff Lake. III.. July 1 to spend the summer. Johnny Is very fond of outdoor life ahI plans hunting and Ashing until forced to defend his championship honors. ;

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