Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 2, Hammond, Lake County, 11 February 1911 — Page 4
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NEED A LITTLE HORSE SENSE. A dispatch from Indianapolis states: "Senator Fleming says the high license feature of the liquor bill as amended, will keep the saloon business
in politics, but that high license win
a legislature that will give them relief."
In other words, the liquor interests people of Indiana. The liquor interests are certainly
of dictation. Many who would be neutral so far as the liquor interests are
concerned, if they kept out of politics, are watching a chance to "put them down" on account of their activity. Since not only the brewers and the distillers are trying to run national and state politics, but the saloonkeepers are trying with much success to regulate city and ward politics, there are many, who would be content to see the saloonkeepers do business in their private capacity, who would liketo abolish them altogether owing to their activity in politics. The people do not like to see the liquor Interests control the legislature, nor do they relish the fact that men whose only qualification to eligibility for the office of alderman, consists in the fact of their being able to furnish free drinks to a certain class of voters, are thereby chosen to run the afTairs of their city. Haste the day when somebody will teach the liquor interests a little horse sense!
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A DESIRE FOR PEACE EVIDENT. The most noticeable thing in the Gary strike situation at this time is the earnest desire on the part of the unions in the Associated Building Trades council. This is one of the most important moves on their part following the declaration of the "open shop" principle on the part of the contractors. ' Although the Employers', Builders' and Material Men's association persistently refuse to arbitrate, declaring that they offered that recourse long ago and that it was not accepted, events may now ake place that will bring about the desired settlement. As in all other strikes each side wants to come out without any loss f dignity. Probably to the contractors, arbitration would mean a retreat from their position of "open shop" and perhaps for this reason conciliation is held back. The chief question now. if there is to be a settlement, is how the contractors can arbitrate and yet maintain their old position. It seems to be the idea among them that meditation will bring the situation back to its original basis. Perhaps they may be right in this for the question is one certainly of difficult analysis. Somehow, and let us hope so, means may be devised that' will bring an amicable settlement all around. If the contractors eventually dominate the maintainence of a defined position for the unions it will prevent future discords. Until something tangible is presented the strike will present all of its present complications. Who can now evolve a plan that will bring peace?. Here is a subject worthy of study.
A WORTHY BIT OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION. That the giving of false information to newspapers or newspaper reporters, which leads to the publication of stories that are untrue, should be a misdemeanor and punished by law, is tbe opinion of Mayor A, H. Ulm, private secretary to Governor Joseph M. Braum of Georgia, who through the Influence of his friends, the governor, expects to have Introduced into the state legislature a bill to the above effect. Should such a law become universal, there would be general rejoicing among newspaper men throughout the country. There is probably no newspaper but what has been imposed upon more than once by some fool of the village cut-up type, whose distorted sense of humor has led him to think it a brilliant "joke" to have published misleading information. Were there anything humorous in the situation after the matter has been publshed, which anybody with a true sense of the ridiculous could discover with a microscope, it might be different. Where a newspaper takes seriously and publishes as fact, a fake -so palpable that even the smarty alec who primed the reporter with its alleged details would recognize as such, without having been a party to the "joke," there might be something laughable in the situation. But the most simple minded numb-skull could say to the most seasoned reporter that John Smith was to marry Mary Jones, when the parties in question had no thought of entering Into such an alliance, and have it accepted as face value and printed, without having prove dhlmself a humorist, or the reporter a fool. And yet such Is the character of the "jokes" most frequently palmed off by the village cut-up, and printed by newspapers, resulting only In embarrassment to the persons whose names are linked, and the guffaws of such weakminded individuals as those who furnish the misinformation.
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RANDOM THINGS S FLINGS WHY not give a prize for ponderrsltv? . IOWA has decreased in population, but not in politics. ' ' WHY ls it that so man murders are pulled off in Wheeling, West Virginia? SULTAN of Sula has fifteen wives and,only gets $125 per month. Honestly, how does he do it? NOT a single one of the local grand juries will admit that he as much as board of Adams County, Ohio. TO go along with the rest of the sporting intelligence, note that Mr. "Bugs" Raymond has re-formed. IT is claimed that polygamy is not a thing of the past. No it seems to be on the Increase right here at home. IF Mr. Roosevelt is going to be a candidate In 1912 he should put the snuffer on Nick Longworth's clapper. "TOWNS are judged by their newspapers," says an exchange. Well, we are not all anxious about the verdict. THE kindly hen is getting busier and the chances of getting a fresh egg for breakfast are increasing daily. SING Sing must be a nice homey sort of a place with that gallant crook John R. McFarlane leading the Bible class. ST. Louis woman dresses just like her husband. Go as far as you like girls, but never ask us to dress like ! our wives. WE second Mr. John T. McCutcheon's motion to have Uncle Joe tell us something Interesting about the Danville affair. HOW would it be for some rich nob of an Englishman to come over here and wed a poor American girl just to ring in a change. THE head that wears a crown Isn't in it for uneasiness with the Lake county mayors whom the councilmanic combine is bricking. " , . . ONE of our careful readers com menting on our Carry Nation qiun points out that bad results may come from any kind of intemperance. . CLUB women decry Sunday comic supplements. Still they must admit that they help father keep the baby quiet on Sunday morning many times. SOME men do a lot to improve the line of public service by not getting the jobs they want, says an exchange. Names please, or would the list to be too long? WE revere our judges, but when a court rules that a hen Is not a bird there are some decisions thev can never understand. SENT a negro to jail in Alabama for cutting a wart off the hind leg of a mule, says a dispatch. Don't believe it. The mule would have kicked the tar out of the nigger. ., - THERE would be great rejoicing in many parts of the region if Officer Weifenbach, of the East Chicago force got what he has been handing out with just what he handed it out with. . . EVEN a frenzied newspaper press. which was shocked beyond expression to find that a political party was bent tpon redeeming its platform pledges. is now half-heartedly admitting the argument advanced by Governor Mar shall in the recent camnaien. This is that a change in the unit of vetiug in the option law will do far more to abolish blind-tigers than to rehabilitate the retail saloon. Laporte Argus-Bulletin. VAT iss de name bf.de "fr-r en vied," please? IT is the habit of city newspapers to poke fun at some of the crudities of country journalism, but of all the silly customs the worst is that follow ed by many metropolitan papers of not referring to their competitors by name. For instance, in this morning's Indianapolis Star a reporter felt compelled to speak of the News, but accordin gto orders from the great mind that guides him he spoke of it as "an evening paper." The big editors should not imagine thai their readers do not laugh at such folly and pity the smallness of the mind that could conceive any advantage from it. Crawfordsville Journal. Well, isn't it an evening paper? '
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fan. a f D' " Feb- U The Proceeding, of Congre,,, what It does or Son' The a,UH,n th?,rminS WCek' "HI naturally attract much' public atten! tion The session will end three weeks from today. Aparently President Tr, V Pr?ramme 18 lltt,e near enactment than It was on tha flr. Monday n December, when the session began. If anything is to be done in rtgard, quickly ,Ue8UOnS demandinS a"en. 1. obvious that it mult ZToH th- ?,V,dent Taft haS accepted an invitation to attend the annual dinner' of the Gridiron -Club at the New Willard Hotel Saturday evening. jB,tice Hughes will go to New York on the same date to be the guest of honor at the "n"'dfln"er tn New Y' County Lawyer,' Association. Seemly Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor has several engagement to speak during the week. In Boston. Akron and New York City enSasementa ,?6n- Geore B- Davls- who has been judge advocate general of the coTt of .f pVtenJear'' be placed on the retired list Tuesday on !
" W1W iron, me active list one of th few surviving officers of the civil war. He will be succeeded as judge ad vocatl general by CoL poch H. Crowder. the next senior officer of the corpl Coi ThY to" r KV0M,'0hUrl W" Tom West Point s ,? 11. MI tOI?edo boat Monasrhan wi be iaunche(J t N Saturday i?ia n e(BkM,nighlVf Spokane. Wash.. wi christen the vessel, she ,3 a sister of the late Ensign John R. Monaghan 1 whose honor the new vessel win be named. Ensign Monaghan was killed In the Samoan trouMe. of M - Branches of the National American Woman Suffrage Association throughout the country will join Wednesday In paying honor to the memory of Sr famous leader. Susan B. Anthony, on the anniversary of her birth Tin 1 e Jnlt-r W" beimad t0 rai- - orial fuYd
T any me iur equal suffrage The proceedings of the British Parliament promise to furnish the most Interesting news from abroad, while nearer at home will be the progress of Honduras. CnneCUOn inSurrectlon ln Mexico and also the trouble, in ? Hafue Conrt of Arbitration is to assemble Tuesday for the consideration of a case that differs considerably from an other that has been brought before the International tribunal. This is the case of ?7vrir the Indian student, whom the court, in Bombay hate just sentenced to t ran portatlon for life on a charge of sedition. Savarkar was arrested in lindo a year ago and wa, extradited to India for trial. At Marseilles he effected his escape but was captured by a French gendarme and turned over to SJ British author.tie. under the belief that he wa, a common thief. When -the true fact, came to light an International question arose a, to the legacy of the surrender of the fugitive. It i, this question that The Hague court U aboyfncePn "" Meant!me the of Savarkar ,3 held in Pan-Amercan commercial conference, more practical and comprehen.ive than any trade gathering ever assembled In the national caZl wHl' meet in Washlnrton Mondav.
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.uuS merest ,n soutn and Central American trade possibilities, with especial reference to the opening of the Panama canal. President Taft will Hver the opening address Monday afternoon resident Taft will do-
Popular Actress Now in Chicago IT. &f Cuts-' MJ t6 MtrcZeZaufreT' THIS DATE I!f HISTORY. February, II. 1735 Daniel Boone, famous Kentucky , pioneer, born in Bucks county. Pa. , Died in Missouri, Sept. 26, 1820. 1802 Lydia Maria Child, author of the first anti-slavery book printed In America, born, in Massachuetts. Died Oct. 20, 1880. 1803 Judge Jesse Fell, residing near Wilkesbarre, Pa., discovered the combustlbllty of anthracite coal. 1828 Governor De Witt Clinton of New York died in Albany. 1833 Melville W. Fuller, chief justice of the IT. S. supreme court, born in Augusta, Me. Died In Sorrento, Me., July 4, 1910. 1836 Mount Holyoke college incorporated. 1873 Abdication of King Adameus of Spain and proclamation of a republic. 1899 Archibald Lampman, Canadian poet, died. Born Nov. 17, 1861.. 1910 Transatlantic liner "General Chanzy" sank oft Island of Mi- . norca, with loss of 156 lives. THIS IS MY 08TII BIRTHDAY. Daniel Croaby Greene. Daniel Crosby Greene, for more than forty years a prominent missionary of the Congregational church to Japan, was born in Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 11, 1843. After graduating from Dartmouth college In 1864 he took a Ave years' course of study at Andover Theological seminary. He , was first sent to Japan in 1869 by the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. During his long residence in the land Of the mikado Dr. Greene has devoted much of his time to translation of the Scrltures and of biblical literature Into the Japanese language. For six years he was professor of Old Testament exegesis in the university councillor and president of the Aslattc society of Japan. A WANT AD COST IN THE TIMES IS LESS THAN VACANT ROOM LOSS.
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THIS DATE IX HISTORY. February 12. 1791 Peter Cooper, founder of the Cooper union, born In New York City. Died there, April 4. 1883. 1809 Charles Darwin, the famous naturalist, born In Shrewsbury. England. Died in Kent. April 19, 1882 1817 Conrad Baker, fifteenth governor of Indiana, born In Pennsylvania. Died in IndlanaDolis. Aivrti tc ) 1833 Henry Clay introduced the' com promise tariff measure in the sen- . ate. , 1857 George Peabody donated $300,000 to establish a free literary and scientific institute in Baltimore. 1877 The first public exhibition of the 1 telephone wa, given by Professor Bell at Salem. Mass. 1902 Marquis of Dufferin, former governor-general of Canada, died in Ireland. THIS IS MY BOTH BIRTHDAY. Jndsoa C. Clemeata. Judson C. Clements, the new chairman of the interstate commerce com. mission, was born in Walker county Georgia, Feb. 12, 1846, and wa, educated at Cumberland university. He fought in the confederate states army during the latter part of the war and in 1889 was admitted to the bar. Ke served as a member of the Georgia legislature from 1S71 to 1880. During the succeeding ten years he was a representative in congress, withdrawing from the contest for renomlnation m isyo because of his opposition to government ownership of railroads wnicn a majority of the voters of his district advocated. H was appointed to the interstate commerce commission by President Cleveland in 1892..and received three successive appointments. Judge Clements is regarded as one of the conservatives of the intrttat commerce commission, although for many years he has advocated, vigorously, adequate supervision and control by the government of the operations of common carriers. THE DAY IN CONGRESS SEX ATE. Root made lengthy argument against direct election of senators. Brown of Nevada followed Root in advocacy of the proposed measure. Beverlclge also upheld the proposition. Johnson of Florida upoke in defense of Lorlmer. Democratic members held conference to consider action on pending legislation, but arrived at no definite conclusion, except a general undrstandlng that a vote would be had on th-s direct election resolution next Wednsday. At the conference Stone declared himself In favor of reciprocity, but Bailey pronounced against it. Newlands declared in favor of the tariff board bill. HOUSE. Lever of South Carolina offered amendment to agricultural appropriation bill, which was adopted, directing the secretary of agriculture to investigate and discover any possible deposit of potash salt in the United States, 112,590 being appropriated for this purpose. COMMITTEES. Chairman Payne of the ways and i means committee reported that a vote will be taken on the McCall reciprocity bill tomorrow and the bill would be returned to the house immediately. A canvass of the house today showed nearly two-third, in favor of the McCall bill. Its passage by the senate is practically assured. Lenroot of Wisconsin and Madden of Illinois appeared before the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce-and presented arguments in favor of their bills for physical valuation of railroads and other public utilities. TO Bl'ILD VAIDEVILLE HOUSE. John J. Ran of Cincinnati, lessee of the Colonial Theater of Indianapolis, announced yesterday that he proposes to erect a vaudeville .theater In Indianapolis to cost $110,000 and to be finished Sept. 1.,
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UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A TELLS OF SUICIDAL ISTEVT, Frank Summers of Lebanon, who killed himself yesterday afternoon on an interurban car near Columbus, Ind.. left hi, home in that city last Saturday with the avowed Intention of committing suicide. Mrs. Summers, who was visiting In Missouri, received a letter from her husband last Saturday in which he told her of his intention to take his life. REWARD FOR IXCEDIARY. A reward of $100 was posted by Sheriff John Clamma of Hartford City, yesterday . for Information leading to the, arrest and conviction of the- incendiary who last Sunday night attempted to destroy the Inman tile mill at Mill Grove, east of Hartford City. The building was discovered In flames by the owner, who extinguished them after a hard fight. Investigation disclosed that coal oil had been poured over the floor and lighted. EJECTED; WELL YES. On the ground that he was ejected from a street car on West Michigan street, Oct. 23, 1910, Clifford Ward sued the Indianapolis Traction and. Terminal Company for $2,000 damages yesterday in Superior Court, Room 3. Ward alleges he was assaulted with a switch hook and hit with a brick thrown by the conductor. SALOON KEEPER ARRESTED. Eugene Morris, the Burnett saloon keeper who, last week killed Fred Stultz, was arraigned in the City Court yesterday. Bond was fixed at $5,000. which was given, and Morrl, wa released. LEWIS A GREAT PRESIDENT. That Thomas L. Lewis will be remembered in the history of the United Mine Worker, of America as one of the greatest presidents the association has ever had i, the belief expressed in the United Mine Workers Journal Issued yesterday. INVOLVED I BIO THEFT. Secret manholes and doorways found in the home of Paul Mattlck. 631 East Georgia street, arrested charged with grand larceny following the theft of a motorcycle, were pried open by police yesterday, when the found loot valued at $2,000, which the prisoner confessed to have stolen. The search of Mattick's home fololwed a written confession to j police after his arrest, in which he said ' he had committed wholesale roberies of motorcycles and machine part, during the last few yearn. COMMERCIAL CLCBMEX MEET. Representatives of commercial bodies of Indiana cities, meeting yesterday af ternoon at the Comercial Club, voted to present to the Legislature a bill for the Des Moines plan of commission gov ernment' They appointed a committee to urge the passage of tha bill and the committee met at 8 o'clock last night to consider Its work. UIXS AMITK WITH Cl'S, After Sam Franklin of Rushvllle had quarreled with workmen at the city water, light ana power plant, where i new boiler, are being Installed, yes-1 terday morning, he returned yesteroay afternoon with a shotgun and held the men In a room for several minutes, threatening to shoot the first man who appeared. Before the police arrived women all over the neighborhood fled, fearing that the man. who was said to be wildly intoxicated, would murder them. TO IXSPPfT MILITIA. The commanding general. Department of the Lakes, with headquarter, at Chicago, has issued a general order for the Inspection of the organized militia of the department- The militia of Indiana is included and will be inspected by regular officer, of the Tenth Infantry and of the medical department from Fort Benjamin Harrison. ' GETS LARGE LEGACY. Mr,. Adeline Anderson of Vincennea was yesterday, notified by her brother.
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William Metcalf, that she is entitled to $6,000 In cash from the estate of another brother. Ed H. Metcalf. who died recently at Katlin. Wash., she being one of the seven heirs. Another $7,000 will become hers when the real estate of the deceased brother I, divided next month. FANCIERS DISAGREE. Dissatisfaction with the management of the eleventh annual show of the Fanciers" Association of Indiana, on the part of about ten members of tho association who held thirty-nine share, of the capital stock, is said to be the reason they tendered their stock to the treasury yesterday at the annual meeting in the parlors of the Hotel English. Books Reviewed THE ROOT OF EVIL." Thomas Dixon never wrote a better novel than "The Root of Evil" and the Doubleday, Page & Co. of New York who publish It, are finding It one of their best sellers. Mr. Dixon has writ ten a big atpry dealing with big problems in a big way. There is a gripping fascination about the tale which holds the attention of the reader until the very last page. The feminine characters in the novel, which deals with phases of modern society, are very true to life In that circle in which they move and those who are fond of a heart Interest book must read "The Root of Evil," which the author makes, of course, the lure of gold. Strong and stirring event, are depicted remarkably well. If you read the book you won't want to put It down until you have' finished It, for the characters come Into uch juxtaposition with each other that the reader's interest travel, apace with their life as it works out in the splendid novel. The book is beautiful typographical and a tine addition tto any library. "THE VHAXTOM OF THE OPERA," The name of Gaston Leroux Is one to conjure with among those who lova romances of mystery and adventure. M. Leroux', new novel, "The Phantom of the Opera," is doubly fascinating In that it sets against the background of the Paris stage a problem of love and of the seemingly supernatural which few will solve without the wisely deferred assistance of the author. Erik, the "Opera Ghost," who plays such terrible tricks who, as "the Angel of Music," exercise, such an uncanny and yet wonderful influence t over the innocent singer. Christine Daae. BobtMerrill Co. The shortest hours of any union workmen in New York city are those, of the caisson worker, who have just signed an agreement with the employers' association for the year 1911. Three hour, a day, with thirty minutes off for luncheon and wage, of $5 a day is the stipulation for the men who work under an air pressure of threa atmospheres., . .