Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 108, Hammond, Lake County, 24 October 1910 — Page 4

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THE TIMES. Monday, Oct. 24, 1910.

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A TRIBUTE TO SHERIFF THOMAS GRANT. Among the most important offices in the gift of the people of Lake

county ia the sheriff's office. The present incumbent is Tom Grant and while the people of Lake county have had a sheriff, they have never had a better one than Mr. Grant. They have never had a sheriff more faithful nor one who has carried out the duties which he took oath he1 would carry out, better than Thomas Grant. Next Tuesday, week, he will again ask the people of Lake county to re-elect him and we believe that they will subscribe willingy to the assertion that Mr. Grant, in his career as the chief officer of the law in this rapidly growing county, merits a return to the office in which he has so well served the people, and send him back with a flattering majority. It is impossible to keep from praising Tom Grant for his faithful performance of the varied and onerous duties of the shrievalty. Never has he been weighed in the balance and found wanting. He has been a true officer of the law. When he was assured by Governor Thomas R. Marshall in different instances during the first few months of his term of office, that he had the gubernatorial backing in extra-functional crusades he had undertaken, so well did Sheriff Grant carry out these orders that he was praised by Governor Marshall for the uncompromising tactics he displayed in dealing with threatened law-breakers. He did not, as has been done by Indiana sheriffs in the past, give the governor to understand that he knew his business and didn't need any instructions from the state executive, but went simply ahead and stood for law and order. That is the kind of a man Lake county now has in the county sheriff's office. A sheriff possessing the detective instinct, the industry, the unceasing and. unnrelaxing vigilance possessed by Mr. Grant, is a necessity in Lake county. He has a lot of clever jobs to his credit in running down law-breakers and has been a terror to evil-does. He has never yet temporized with the forces of evil for a minute and he has been isolated from some who were his stauncn friends and supporters for the simple reason that they could not use him as a bluffef and stool piegon. When, in carrying out his duties in the preservation of law and order, Sheriff Grant bumped into a friend, he sacrificed that friendship and has been honored and respected for it by right-thinking people in this county regardless of their political affilations. There are hundreds of democrats who will go outside of the party pale to vote for Thomas Grant oft the 8th of November and they know they will make no mistake in doing so. Lake county can be and is proud of Sheriff Grant, and his majority this year will undoubtedly make the one he received last time look like a back number. He deserves a rattling good big majority for he has been too busy attending to the duties of his office to leave them an'l go on electioneering trips. If he doesn't get around to see you to solicit your vote, just put it in your hat that he is running down some law-breaker and believes THAT is the way to be sheriff of Lake county. .

"THIRTY MILES OF SEPTIC TANK." The sooner the cities which depend upon the Calumet river to serve as a drainage for their sea-age realize that the day is soon coming when the stream MUST BE PURIFIED, the better for this typhoid fever ridden region. It is a problem that must be faced, so why not face it & once? The question involves more than any political problem. The health of the entire region is at stake. J. H. Brewster, water chemist for the Indana board of health, who spent all summer in a survey of the stream and the territory adjacent to it, has pronounced the Calumet river "THIRTY MILES OF SEPTIC TANK." It has been admitted that by chemical process a certain amount of the poison .from sewage is eliminated, but THIRTY MILES OF SEPTIC TANK is surely not without its menace. What does it profit a community that tie fruit dealers, the confectioners, grocers and butchers are compelled by the state to adopt precautions against the typhoid-breeding fly,- when the populace drinks MILLIONS OF TYPHOID GERMS IN EVERY TUMBLER OF WATER CONSUMED? There is no question that by .far the greatest number of cases of typhoid fever are caused by impure, water. The most scientifically devised filter, while it clarifies the water, cannot kill the deadly typhoid, germ. It is not what is visibe to the naked eye that is the menace to health. The poison becomes a part of the water itself, and only boiling wfll eradicate it. The mass of the people will not take the troube to boil the water that they drink, and he result is that there are more cases of typhoid fever in this region than in any region throughout the state, of corresponding population and area. -

WHY IS THIS THING? Two republican poll-takers were brutally assaulted in Gary on Saturday by one Peter Boskovich, a policeman, who is the terror of officialdom in Gary. He has run things with high hand at the police station since he was a slugger in the last campaign. A few weeks ago Boskovich assaulted another Gary

citizen. A few months ago he beat up a newspaper reporter. During election riots last year Boskovich used his knife. Boskovich has insulted Chief of Police Martin. One time he had a gun taken away from him after he had smashed a show case in a Broadway restaurant. He has used abusive language about Mayor Knotts himself. Boskovich has a partner called "Dog Face Charley," whose reputation is undesirable. Mark this prediction, Boskovich will shed human blood one of these days. There are men in Gary who stand in mortal terror- of him. Boskovich is now out under bond for being implicated in attempted murder charges and nothing has been done in the case by the prosecutor's office though the murderous assault happened a full year ago. Is there any reason why this fellow should be allowed to run amuck? WHY IS IT?

UNIFORM SIDEWALKS. " It has been said that Garj's new sidewalk ordinance was passed by the aldermen more with a view to creating a lucrative berth of chief inspector than to do the city any special benefit. However, whatever were the motives, an examination "of the ordinance discloses that it has some good points. It provides the proportions the concrete shall be, it stipulates the uniform grades and width and undeviating confarmonce with the city grade. Such things will he good if they are enforced. Those who have traveled over the different portions of Chicago, and who have seen its ill-constructed ieidewalks, will appreciate the need of a good ordinance in this respect. '

RANDOM THINGS & FLINGS

THE Cubs will proDably not try to come back any more. DID you cuss when you were put ting up the stove pipe? " ' WELL that will be about all for those dear old lady Cubs. IT won't be long before a gloomy and drizzlay day will call forth no comment at all. IF Mr. Roosevelt comes to Gary, he may also decide to twist a few tails on his own account. WALTER Wellnian is like Chistopher Columbus, he is so different. Old Chris refused, to turn back. PERHAPS Manuel was insured in the Prudential and therefore took refuge on the Rock of Gibraltar. THE Mayflower must have been a bridge considering the immense number of peope that came over on it. AFTER all one is lead to wonder what the grand old State of Indiana has done to merit all this affliction? A- uuDD politician doesn t care whether you strew roses or rocks in his path. He goes on just the same. ! SOME men just make enough to keep their famlies together and others can't make enough to keep them apart. - THE more pictures of Mile. Gaby Desby that you see, the less you can blame Manuel for losing his head and his throne. MR. Kern, it is safe to say, lives in constant fear and trembling lest he be thimblerigged out of it as he once was before. "THE most popular query about this time of the year: "Say Mary, where in thunder do you keep my winter underwear?" - WHAT in thunder has become of the newspaper that wa3 always talking about the boiling of the political pot this time of the year. - A JUDGE has ruled that a man is not obliged to support his mother-in-law. The court must be trying to make a bid for popularity. IT is a mighty poor city that's satfied with its census. Here's Colum bus, Ind., absolutely standing up on her hind legs and demanding a recount. IT is not too early to begin the crusade against the housefly next year, by putting as many of them out of business as far as possible this fall. An English editor aptly says: "The evil than men do lives after them." Even when the amateur cornet player dies he leaves the fatal instrument behind. e SARTORIAL expert assures us that the correct evening dress this winter cannot be obtained less than 5400. Fear that a few of us will have tc ramble around in an old nightie. DOESN'T it rather disgust you to hear a political candidate with a very red nose and raucous voice get up and talk about the "moral issues at stake?" $. . MUST be an awful job these days to run an nlndianapolis paper and keep track of all the political speeches. Almost as tough a job as having to read one. ANOTHER great blow has been handed to Governor Marshall. One Meredith Nicholson has just put the governor s name on the page after the title in his new book. WHAT has the democratic party got to offer the young man but low wages and conditions that were ex tant in 1S96 under a democratic administration? IT all simmers down to this fact. We are strong for the party that will take the blamed tariff out of business. That the republicans want to do, the democrats don't. ft THE average Cub fan who lives around these parts has a face these days that looks life a piece of old crepe and walks around as if he had a dozen corns in a pair of new shoes. THE contihued silence .of John W. Kern on his bribery charges lead us tc offer ten red apples to one that he will not name the eight until after h? is defeated. ' u v

EEPUBUOAK , TICKER Senate ALBERT J, BEVE RIDGE.

Secretary of Stat OTIS R GCILLBY, Danville. Auditor of State JOHN E. REED, smeta. Trcnaarev mt Stat , JONCE MONTHAN, Orleans. Clerk; Snpreme Cnrt EDWARD V. FITZGERALD Portland, Stat Statistician. JOHN L. PEETZ, Kokonao. State Superintendent PaMta Instruction S. C FERRRLL, Shelby-rtUa. Attorney General. FINLEY F. UOCNT, Orawfordartlla, State Geologist. W. S. B LATCH LEY Terr Haute. Judge Sapremo Court Second District OSCAR MOXTGOMERY Seymour. Judge Supreme Court, Third District R. M. MILLER Franklin, Jndg-ea Appellate Court, Ftnrt District C C HAD LEY, Indianapolis, and WARD IL WATSON, Caarleeton. Judgrea Appellate Court, Third Dtatrlet D. W. COKSTOCK. Richmond j JOSEPH M. RABR, Wininmaport, and H, B. TUTHILL, Michigan City. Cong-ross KDGAR D. CRUMFACKER. Joint Senator FRANK N. OAVTT Joint Representative WILLARD B. VAN HORNaa Representative MICHAEL GKIUHER. Prosecuting Attorney CHARLES E. GRBENWALDy Clerk La he County Court, ERNEST L SHORTRIDGBL Sheriff THOMAS GRANT. Treasurer. A. J. SWANSON. Coroner DR. FRANK SMITH. W. B. BLACK. Surveyor RAT 8EEL.B3T. Commissioner Second Dlstrlei LEVI P. HtnTON. Commissioner Third Dlatrlod HAT J. BROWN. eart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. MARY SONTAG. HEROINE. Mary Sontag of Chicago does not know she Is a heroine. She does not even know what the word heroine means. But she is a heroine just the same. Mary is about nine years old. Her mother died a year ago. and, besides Mary, thre are six children Mike, aged eight; Itosie, seven; Georgie, six; Susie, five; David, three; Pinkie, two. Mary mothers them alL She gets up at daybreak to cook her father's breakfast so that he may go to his work. Then' she helps to doess Mike and Rosle and Georgie and get them off to school. After that she feeds and washes Susie and David and rinkie. - That is not all. Besides being mother, Mary is financier aud general manager of the Sontag solidarity. She pays the rent She buys the children's clothes and washes and mends their garments. She gets all her father's wages except what is reserved for his pipe and his car fare. Mary makes every cent count. The neighbors say the Sontag kiddies are always tidy and clean and that you could eat off the floor of Mary's kitchen. Mary cannot read or write. You see. she has been too busy being a heroine. She had to learn other things than books. The mother was delicate, and Mary had to help with the big brood. And as superintendent and financial director of the Sontag interests she has been exceedingly busy. Can you deny that this little slip of an Irish lass, with her busy brain and hands and motherly heart, is less than a heroine? The fact is we need either a new definition or n new interpretation of the word heroism. A hero or heroine in our ordinary definition is one who does the unusual or the startling deed, whereas you will more often find the real heroism in doing with smiling face the usual or ordinary thing, and doing it over and over. The heroism that labors quietly, sacrifices willingly, suffers gladly and per sists in such labors and sacrifices to the end that is genuine heroism. Let the frenzied financiers rage. Let the near great strut in their pride. Let the censorious preach their nasty pessimism. It matters not. because The glory and blessing of the race are its everyday Mary Sontags. "THIS HATE IN HlSTOnY" Oelober 21. 161S Treaty of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years' War and establishing religious toleration. 16S0 Samuel Butler, author of "Hudibras," died. Born in 1612. 1784 Liberty of conscience pf claimed in Newfoundland. 1789 George Washington welcomed In Boston. 180" Sir Jjimes Henry Craig appointed Governor of Canada. 1819 William Rabun, governor of Georgia, died. Born in North Carolina, April '8, 1771. 1S36 First, patent for friction match granted to Alongo B. Fhlllips of Springfield,. Mass. 1852 Daniel Webster, famous statesman, died at Marshalfleld, Mass. Born Jan. 18, 1782. 1875 Rev. Paul Durien consecrated Roman Catholic hishop of New Westminster B. C. 1887 Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain born. . 1903 The forces of president Zelaya of Kleirastta "-badly defeated by 'in-

surgents.

THIS IS MY 52ND BIRTHDAY Herbert C. Wilson. Herbert C. Wilson, distinguished as an educator and scientist, was born in Lewltton, Minn., Oct. 24, 18gS. After graduating from Carleton College in 1879 he studied astronomy at the Cin cinnati Observatory and later became an aslstant at that institution. In 1882 he became chief astronomer of the observatory resigning several years later to become computor to the Transit of Venus Comisalon under the direction of the United States Government. In 1887 he became assistant professor of astronomy at the Goodsell Observatory of Carleton Colege, and In 1900 he was made associate professor of mathematics and astronomy and later acting dean of the college. During his career aa an astronomer Professor Wilson has devoted particular attention to double star observations and astronomical photography. FOSS UNDISPUTED IN HIS CANDIDACY Withdrawal of other candidates Thursday made Congressman Eugene N. Foss the gubernatorial candidate of all factions of the Massachusetts Democracy. UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A BREWERY DROPS CASE. The suit filed several months ago against the Good Citizens' League of Franklin, by the brewery agents and venued to Morgan County, has been dismissed by the brewery men and costs all paid by them. The defendants have to pay their own attorney fees and a collection is being taken up for this purpose. ' OPPOSE 1IALLOWEE.V MASKING. Any person who appears on the streets of Anderson on Halloween wearing a mask will be promptly arrested, according to a proclamation issued today by Mayor Foster. It has been the custom for many years to allow masking on the streets during the early hours of the evening. Many depredations alleged to have been committed last year under cover of masks is the reason given by the mayor for discontinuing the custom. OXLY GOD AXD SHANK KNOW. "There are more illicit joints operating in Indianapolis than there are in the seventy dry counties of Indiana," declared J. Frank Hanly In his speech for the county local option law in Crawfordsville Friday nght. "How many of these llicit joints there are in Indianapolis on'.v God and Mayor Lew Shank know," continued the speaker. IIi;i,I KOK MIRDER. Joseph Novak, accused of luring Tony De Wolf of Battle Creek, Mich., to Iaporte and robbing him, has been tbken into custody charged with his murder. De Wolf's body was found In a creek near the Mlrhigan town. Novak is alleged to have taken umbrage at De Wolf's accusation that he robbed him and after drugging him, to have thrown the body Into a creek. PINCHOT IN INDIANAPOLIS. Henry Wallace of Des Moines, la., president of the National Conservation Congress, and Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester whom Preisdent Taft ousted from the Department of the In terior and who is now head of the National Conservation Association, are to confer on conservation matters in Indianapolis today. BEVEBinGE CAMPAKiN HOT. In a drizzling rain, along muddy roads. Senator Beveridge traversed the Eighth Congressional District Friday, speaking to the people who awaited patiently his coming at Portland and Winchester. He arrived In Muncie Friday evening to appear before one of the largest and most enthusiastic audiences he has faced during the campaign. APPROPRIATES fl.0,000. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has completed double-tracking its line from Logansport to Bradford through Hartford City. The company will make additional chatiares here that will entail the expenditure of $150,000. The work will include the building of a $50,000 passenger depot and a mammoth coaling and water station a mile west of the city. FALL FROM LADDER FATAL. Robert Kunkle died in Hartford City today as the rest of Injuries re ceived a week ago when he fell from a etepladder. His death occurred on his seventy-fourth birthday. He was the father-in-law of the late Sydney W. Cantwell, former speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives. TRISTEES ARB ACCl'SED. Charges of loose methods In purchasing supplies and of excess salary payments are contained in the reports filed by field examiners of the State Board of Accounts, who recently completed their Investigation of the' books of

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The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH CAMERON

"What a superfluity this world, at least this part of it it may be different on the other side of theglobe has of half cocked people. Peopl3 whose judgment is always a few minutes and usually some hours behind their actions,. I mean. It seems to me that to one person who would be improved by thinking and moving and acting more quickly there are nine who would be made more desirable citizens by thinking and moving and acting more deliberately. Most of us go off half, or, at the most, threequarters cocked the majority of the time. A man told me recently of a stenographer whom he was about to dismiss for just that fault. "I tell her of something I want done," he said, "and she seems to understand me perfectly. She assents to all my directions. I say, 'Are you sure you understand just what I want?' She is almost insulted by my doubts and rushes off to start the work. In five minutes she is back to interrupt me at whatever I have focussed my mind on with half a dozen questions that she has thought of. "She's a nice girl in lots of ways, but I want some one who doesn't go off half-cocked most of the time." Emerson, in one of his essays, speaks of "afternoon men" who upset the scheme of things by being always tardy, always lagging behind the times, always a bit too late in their decisions and actions. Seems to me the scheme of things is upset a good deal more by "sunrise men" who are always wasting their own and other people's energy by hasty and unconsidered action. In one of the western states there is a prison where the men who have committed crimes that are a result of a quick temper, such as murder or manslaughter or assault, are set to work doing some of the very finest work of watchmaking. They deal with such microscopic and fragile parts that a hasty or illconsidered movement will destroy the work of weeks. The theory is that the complete control and slowness of motion that this work requires acts upon them mentally and teaches them self-control and deliberation. Seems to me it wouldn't be a bit bad idea if a course in watchmaking could be introduced into the public schools. I suppose that is a very wild idea, but surely if the habit of control and deliberation could be inculcated, even to a small degree, in our children it would do young American more good than some of the frills and furbelows with which its educational garments are trimmed nowadays.

several township trustees of Sullivan County. IT CAN NOT BE. Lochinvar came out of the west part of Woodburn in the person of Elmer Jones last Tuesday and captured the heart of Miss Augusta Messman of Maumee Township, who was to have been married yesterday to George Aekley of Tuscola, 111. Jones had been Miss Messman's favored suitor before the tall, dark stranger from Illinois came upon the scene. PRAISE!) INDIANAPOLIS SCHOOL. Dr. Robert J. Aley, state superintendent of public instruction, speaking to the members, of the School Men's Club at Its first fall meeting in the Board of Trade Builds last night, especially commended the Ind'.anapoils schools and the work they'are do

ing. He urged that Indianapolis In-, more publicity regarding the work done in the public schools and show the public what is being accomplished, describing this os the most effectual manner of awakening public interest in the work. ENDS KIHST SESSION. The second day's session of the annual meeting of the Woman's Synodical ociety of Home and Foreign Missions of Indiana,- held in the Washington Avenue Presbyterian Church, in Terre Haute ended a short session last night with a partial election of officers. THERE'S A CHANCE TH AT YOIT OUGHT NOT TO POSTPONE THAT "SHOPPING" ANY LONGER. READ THE TIMES' ADS AND SEE IF THIS - IS NOT SO.

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