Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 240, Hammond, Lake County, 30 March 1911 — Page 4
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HOW ABOUT A "CLEAN-UP" DAY? We believe that the mayors of these several cities in the Calumet region cities will not take it amiss or that anyone will intimate that this paper is officious or presuming in calling attention to the good work that was done by the mayor of Kalamazoo recently in issuing the following proclamation:
"Whereas, it Is the desire of ail
zoo not only a good city, but also a clean one and believing that cleanliness is next to Godliness in civic as well as personal matters, "I therefore proclaim that Saturday, the first day of April next, is hereby designated as 'Kalamazoo clean-up day,' and I urge that on that day every citizen, and particularly every pupil in our schools, make It his business to see that the premises on which he
lives, back yafd as well as front yard. Is thoroughly raked and cleaned and all rubbish either burned or otherwise disposed of. in order that mature, who is about to deck herself in the garlands and ventude of spring, may not be obliged to blush in shame at her surroundings." Is it not a commendable spirit to proclaim whereon the cities of Hammond, East Chicago, Gary, Whiting and Indiana Harbor might clean up? Isn't ii a civic virtue to be clean? When you look around and see the good that might be done, wouldn't it be worth while? This paper believes that it would.
LETTING CRIMINAL GO FREE. The clearing of criminals in courts of law will undoubtedly do its share in inculcating a contempt for law, especially on the part of those who have a leauing in that direction. ' It would appear that a little rustling abound on the part of certain officials, provided these: officials are otherwise capable, would work wonders in the matter of getting together the necessary evidence to convict criminals who have been indicted, and whose cases have been held from the justice courts, to the higher departments of justice. ! If the authorities is compelled to pay the expenses for getting this evidence out of his own pocket, the county commissioners should provide the necessary funds. There are plenty of men who have the will to do unlawful acts, had they the soul to dare. . It Is just such things as these' that embolden .robbers to rob, grafter's to graft and thugs to assault
THE FARMER SHOULD BE HAPPY. While the farmer is of the opinion that his life is about the hardest of anything that can be encountered, how many city peopfe are there who would give their ears, to get out on a farm these beautiful spring days. Nay, not to merely "get out" on a farm, but to be master of a farm. Who
does not grudgingly breath the city's smoke and germ laden atmosphere, with a
pang for the pure air and healthful work of the farm? Why is it that almost every man and woman, after they have tested of the artificial life of the. metropolis, until middle age, 4unr away, satiated and disgusted, with its false and meaningless lure, sick at heart for field
and meadow, brook and grove, and nature dwell? Nature? Is not man himself a When he has done with the artificial, seeks the sun, to the farm.
Not to the unconquerable wilderness. To the farm. For man Is seldom
satisnea Tor long with that In which work with God. The farm supplies this
If the farmer had the slightest conception of the extent to which he is blest, there would never be a complaint from his lips. His song would be as the larks and the only thing that would sadden him would be the contemplation of the millions of city folk, weary to the soul of the endless battle to make both ends meet, or satisfied to disgust with luxury, who
yearn to be "real farmers." "THE BEAM IN
Gary's official efforts to put the Aetna Powder company out of business for fear of a repetition of the Pleasant Prairie disaster, would be received with more enthusiasm, if the city officials would only, while they are, about
it, direct a little reform toward themselves. While any action looking toward the safeguarding of the city from a physical standpoint, is commendable, there is so much room for improvement within Gary itself in the matter of morals and manners, that any efforts at reform where danger is so comparatively remote, only serves to attract attention to what is overlooked at home. How tvbout the graft in the high places in Gary, which have made the city a by-word from coast to coast? How about the high-handed methods that are pursued in the administration of the affairs of the city? How about the bribery charges against officials elected to serve the interests of the rublic, but who appear to have entirely overlooked this function, in serving their own private ends? A city should look well to those things that blunt the morals of its comXEunity, and rob the public coffers, as well as to its physical well-being.
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HARBOR, WHITING, CROWN POINT, LOWELL. . LB ONE CENT AT ALL good citizens to make Kalama magnificent solitude, where God and part of nature? The real man, that is? he turn3 as naturally as the plant God alone has his hand. He wants to want. THINE OWN EYE."
Faith. , We have faith in man. We believe in our friends. We believe in the essential good will of those with whom we have to do. Nay, more; we believe in the hman race as a whole. We believe that its instincts and motives are fundamentally right; and that if we can remove the ignorance and misery by which so large a part of Its members have been burdened we can give them not only new comforts and new knowledge, but new spiritual life. We have faith in the truths of nature. This an even more distinctive feature of our Twentieth Century life than either of the others which I have named. We believe that the world about us Is governed by laws, and we care for the discovery of those laws; not only for the sake of the practical results which they place in our hands, but for the inspiration obtained by the fuller and better understanding of the mysteries of the universe. We have learned as never before to "Look through Nature up to Nature's God." And we have faith in the God of justice. We may not always call this God by the same name that our fathers did. We may not surround him by the same attributes with which our fathers invested him. We may shrink from appealing to him under the old forms, or sometimes even from calling upon him with the old freedom. But we have In our hearts, and I believe more firmly than ever before, the conviction that at the heart of the universe there is a supreme being on the side of right. President Hadley of Yale.
RANDOM THINGS 6 FUNGS DON'T, you wish you hadn't planted the flower seeds? UP to Mr. Seaman to begin driving spikes pretty soon. IF you work In a fire trap you have a right to kick and kick hard too. THE backbone of winter seems to be a pretty stiff old proposition. c A POSTAL saving bank will hook Gary up pretty well in the financial institution line. MARCH is living up to his reputation all right. Enough. He is consistent, hence a jewel. AND one of these days you will be asking mother to call you early so aa to be Queen of the May. MR. Walter Fisher has been secre tary of the interior for three weeks without getting into trouble. NAT Goodwin gets divorces so fast that it would take a moving picture machine to keep track of them. I HtiKiii aoesnt seem to be any thing getting away from these parts in the automobile Industry anyway. OF course the pie-counter delega tion has to stick ur for Governor Marshall. We understand all about that. RUSH to the front is the order now adays and the insurrectos under Gen eral F. Louis Meyers may show up at any time. vsl 1 LONLON paper says that shaking hands is more dangerous that kissing. All right, we will cut out the hand shake, but we won't the kisses. ja UNCLE Joe Cannon has refused $50,000 for 100 lectures. Well a man who wears a woolen hat and barn door pants might do worse than that. DOUBTLESS Governor Marshall finds it so hard to down the French Lick contingent because Its lawyer, J. W. Kern has been sent to the United States senate. SEE that two girls were held up at Clarke Station the other night. Down at Crown Point they are being held up every night and nobody thinks it unusual at that. . SIMPLY can't help but feel overcome with ennui when you see a woman with a blanketed poodle in her arms, edge away from a little child on a street car seat. ec PHILADELPHIA man says he got, drunk eating onions. If this theory is generally accepted it will be 'pretty hard for some wives to determine the truth these days. ELENOR Glyn complains of the lack of babies on Fifth avenue in New York. Is it possible that "Threo Weeks" and other like rot has something to do with it? AS long as Miss Virginia Brooks keeps her Amazonian guards on the west side of State Line street, all will be well, but if they get over on this side, we shall throw a few fits. CONNECTICUT woman thought to be crazy because she hasn't worn a hat for forty years. No sign of weak mentality. Lots of the dear things are wearing things that are not hats. LATEST is for young men who have silly and wealthy fathers, is to wear violets In their corsage. Don't know what the world is coming to. but. justifiable homicide is going to be common after a while.
Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.
OUT OF THE DEPTHS. ''Life is not only what we make of A, but what we think of It," Which is true. And it la none tbe less true because it was written by a bedridden cripple Thomas Lockhart of Wellington, Mo. This man bos been utterly helpless for twenty-four years, having the use of only one finger and thumb and on eye. But he is not a wbiner. Despite the dreadful handicap Lockhart has earned bis own support, paid for a nurse for nine years and purchased a little cottage home. For many years his mother was de voted to him, but nine years ago she died, and Lockhart was left alone and helpless. What would you have done? Lockhart started to write books. And this is the way he wrote: Lying on his back, unable either ts turn or to raise his head, the paper was put where he could reach it, and with the one finger and thumb that would do his will he held tbe pen. Among the things Lockhart has writen is this: "I am thirty-nine years old and twothirds of my life has been spent lying motionless as a marble statue. Life has had few Joys for me. It is drSwlng to a close. Yet I can smile and laugh and sing and praise God for my blessings." Say, you You who can walk and use your arms and fingers and eyes, you who say you have no chance, you who bewail the tides of your ill fortune, you Are you not ashamed? You who talk of failure because you have "no pull," you whose plans must forever wait because you have "no capital," you with your health and appetite-Are you not well rebuked by this brave paralytic? He says "life is what we think it," and be is eternally right. ) If out of the depths of a living grave Thomas Lockhart can laugh and sing and be thankful, where shall you appear if you go grumbling and discontented, glum and ungrateful, on your way? TIMS DATE IN' HISTORY" 51 arch 30. 1814 Americans repulsed by the British in battle at La Colle Mills, In Lower Canada. 1SZ2 Territorial government estab lished in Florida. tS33 United States concluded its first treaty with Slam. 1S37 John Constable, famous land scape painter, died. Born June 11, 1776. 1838 Office of grand viiler abolished in Turkey. 1842 John Fiske, American historian, horn . Died July 4. 1901. 1843 Sir Charles Metcalfe appointed Governor of Canada. 1348 Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender, born. Died July 18, 1809. 1358 De Wolf Hopper, well known comedian, born in New York city. 1873 Seven hundred lives lost In the wreck of the White Star steamship Atlantic, oft Halifax. 1878 Gen. U. R. Grant visited Rome and was received by the Pope. 18S9 The Eiffel Tower, In Tarls, opened. 1903 Beginning: of the great strike OX extlle workers at Lowell, Mass. 1910-KIng: George of Greece issued a royal decree for the revision of the Constitution, ending the regime of the military league. THIS IS MY 4OTH BIRTHDAY" Joseph C'alllnux. Joseph Caillaux, who has accepted the post of minister of finance in the new Monis ministry In France, was born at Le Mans, March 30. 1863. the son of Eugene Caillaui. a noted engineer end politician who was minister of public works from 1874 to 187. The younger CaiUaux was educated in the best schools of France. He made a specinl study of political science and became a well known authority on that subject. For some years he held a professorship In the School of Political Science .which he resigned to enter the government service as an Inspector of finance. From 1899 to 1902 he was minister of finance In the WalderkRousseau cabinet and in 19"6 he held tbe same portfolio In Ihe Clemeneeau cabinet. For a number of years M.
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DAXLT FASHION HINT. 5191 A TEN GORE SKIRT. Tnia skirt Is one which we would raeom. nend for summer fabrics, as It is wea Ida p ted to narrow widths. It la cut on the latest lines, with no su perfluous material in It. The front and back are made aa flat as possible by the use of panels and the side seams are joined together In the usual way. irus sntrt oners a particularly fine model for linen, which can be rlohly cmbrotderea. ana it is also suitable for gingham, pongee. Madras, cheviot and' aerre. The pattern. S.19L Is cut In sizes 22 to 32 Inches waist measure. Medium size relUlres 3V yards of 44-lnch material The above pattern can be obtained by tanaing iu cents to tne omcs or this paper, Caillaux has represented the Sartlra J district In the chamber of deputies. HAS is the author of a number of books dealing with problems of finance and puuucsi science, including a work on the Internal revenue duties in France WHOSE PROPERTY? BY MII.O HASTINGS. Many people labor under the notion that water power must, from the very nature of it, be cheaper than steam power. As a matter of fact, only about one-tenth of the fifty million horse power used in the United States comes from our streams. Fuel power pre dominates for the simple reason that it is cheaper to dig coal and build en gines than to build and operate dams, turbines and power transmission sys tem. According to the hydographer of the Lnnea states geological survey, our streams have a minimum flow avail able for water power purposes abou equal to the total power consumption or the country at the present time, but the final limit could be Increased to two hundred million horse power by the building of reservoirs to retain the spring freshets. Our power consumption is doubling every decade, and our coal supply is limited and Its exhaustion a matter of calculation. As a result, we know that water rights, which are today of lit tie or no value, will in the future be worth fabulous sums, for; as the price of power .rises and, with Improved equipment, the cost of operation falls, an ever Increasing amount will be left to credit to the sun's energy, which lifts water to the mountain top, whence It may run down and make the wheel go round. This earning power of nature J known to the economist as rent, and the increased value of a natural re source that comes from humanity's In creasing needs is the unearned incre ment. t-pon the fundamental wrong to th many that comes from the few, thus capitalizing1 man's growing needs for nature's bounty, Henry George based Ms justly famous plea for single tax which virtually means governmen ownership of all natural resources, thu securing the unearned increment for the people. Against tne theoretical justice o single tax no economist has ever been able to frame a successful argument, but the problem of the private owner ship or our larm lands has not wor rled us because such a very large and representative part of our population have been land-owning farmers; and, knowing that he Is robbed in so many other ways, even the city consumer has been tolerant with the farmer's getting ihe unearned Increment on his land. The monopolization of forests and mines and power sites is a thing alike :n principle, but different In fact. The private ownership of land by farmers breeds homes and democracy, but the private ownership of such resources as form the basis of gross corporate wealth breeds political corruption and solicits foraging expeditions from the emasculated nobility of Europe. The present conservation policy of the retention of such resources, either for governmental development or to be leased for private development under government supervision, appears to be a serious effort to sever the chain that has bound progress to poverty. After all, the difference between the radical, the progressive and the honest conservative is not so much a matter of what each wants to do, but of how fast he believes It can be done. Between the radical, who would knock the props out before he builds new ones, and the conservative, who has to hustle to keep the weeds of corruption from growing faster than he uproots them, surely there is a speed of action that will get somewhere withoutpardon the metaphor throwing the Goddess of Liberty over the dashboard the first time the front wheels strike a rut In the road. UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A MEETS AFTER 52 1KARS. Mrs. Almlra Parish and Mrs. Sarah Kersey, of Indianapolis, met a brother, Adam Hall, of Ix-banon, yesterday, for
The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH CAMERON
"Ah, how rare it is to find a soul still nougi to hear God speak." WIU I be considered sacrilegious it use that incomparable sentence to inrodute a somewhat similar thought? "How rare it Is to find a mind silent enough to listen to the wisdom of other minds." A great staetsman whose knowledge of many subjects and consequent breadth of mind was the wonder of all he meet, was introduced to a sheep rancher one day, and straightway be gan to question him about the raising of sheep. The rancher was astonished at the fundof previous information the questions showed. A Latin professor happened to be in the group. "Ha knows just as much about archeology," said this professor. I think he dines off encyclopedias. Tell us, senator, how you find time to read and study up on so many sub jects." The senator laughed. "I don't And time to read much at all," he said, "and when I do I read mostly congression al records and poetry." "Well, how DO you do it then?" per sisted the rancher. "Well," said the senator, "I guess it's Just this. All my life I've made it a rule to let the other fellow talk as much as possible. And to make him talk of something he knows about. Every man you meet has some cpecialBOSTON SOCIETY GIRL $1,000 ROPE OF Miss Ruby C. Breed, of Boston, Is spending the winter in Washington aa the guest of her Bister Mme. Kull Khan, wife of the charge d'afthe first time in fifty-two years, at a died in Boone county In 1859, and it reunion held in Lebanon. Their father was at the father's funer.il that the two sisters last saw their brother. Other relatives present who had not seen Mr. Hall for fifty-two years were: Mrs. Mary Gray, of Frankfort, and 1. C. Hall, of Lincoln, Neb. William Hall, of Kansas, was unable to attend. TRIES TO CREMATE HERSELF, Mrs. Frank Stanley, of Kokomo, whose husband died a week ago, became demented through brooding over her grief, and yesterday attempted to destroy herself by setting, fire to her home. She collected a number of Inflammable articles in the sitting room, set fire to them, and sat down to await destruction, but was found by neighbors, who rescued her before she was injured. TARES ACID INSTEAD OK REEK. Mrs. Mae Anson, of Evansville, 51 years old, a bride of thre weeks, drar k carbolic acid yesterday afternoon ami died amid the stacked furniture in thir new home on outer Read street, into which they haSvjust moved. She and her husband had quarreled, it la said, about the number of glass of ber thev were to drink at dinner. Hrr mother told Coroner Macer that h attempted, to commit suicide a few months ago by drinking laudanum. TAKES POISON BIT I A ElV Mrs. chutt of Brar.il. swallowed two ounces of carbolic acid at her home In Church street, in the presence of Ie Morton, ago eighteen, with whom the woman was In love. Physlclana arrived In time to save her life. Mri. Schutt is thirty years old and ha been separated from her husband for some time. TAX iET THEM ON STRAIGHT MV. Having put large mirrors in the theater lobby, with the announcement that women patrons may use the looking glasses in replacing their hats as they leave the theater, the management of the Lyric moving picture theater, at Columbus, now argues that the women have no further excuse for keeping their hats on whil in the place. The theater management figures that the women previously have refused to remove their hats becau?e
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tifts that he knows more about than you do. If. Instead of telling him what you know, you get him to talking on one of these specialties, you stand to
learn something I've been doing that for forty years now and I find it works pretty well." If all of us followed the senator's rule, of course, there would be trouble, because everybody would be trying to listen and there would be nobody to talk. But as long as human nature is what It is, I don't believe there is much danger of such a dire state of affairs, i "Let the other fellow talk and make him talk of something he knows a lot about," Is a motto that most of us could follow more closely than we do, to our advantage. Joseph Emerson, that prince of teachers, once said; "He who is rot willing to be taught by the youngest of his pupils is not fit to be a teacher." Doubtless the reason Emerson was so great a teacher was that he realized that tbe youngest of his pupils COULD teach .him something. Wise though you maye be, deep thinker and earnest student, every one you meet could teach you something, almost every one, a great deal. Do you want a broad and splendid education "Without money and without price?" ThenJsTeep silent and listen. RUTH CAMERON. WHO RECEIVED PEARLS FROM SISTER f aires of the Persian legation. On her recent birthday anniversary Mme. Khan made her a present of a beauj tifu'l rope of pearls valued at $1,000. thev dreaded the horrible risk of set ting the top pieces on again without the help of a kindly mirror. CHILD'S CRV SAVES FAMILY. Members of Dora HarroU's family of Wabash were aroused from their slumbers Tuesday night by a 10-year-old daughter, who was almost overcome by smoke from the burning dwelling. Jumping from their beds, the members of the family rushed from the house, clad in their night clothes, just before the roof fell in. INVITES MAYOR TO DRINK. Because- LloyJ Hoover Invited Mayor Milo Felghtner of Huntinarton to "have one on him," he was arrested as a drunk and was fined J5 and costs, Monday. Hoover mistook the mayor for one of his companions and invited Felghtner to go with Mm to get drink. DID NOT MIND I.ITTI.E FALL. Alor.so Birknell. of 'indlaliaTnmsrJ Massachusetts avenue fell down a thirty-five -'oot stairway In the business block wehre he rooms, last night and esoaped without injury aside from a minor bruise or two. Blcyclemen Todd and Okey were called to th Utrway when it was believed by ro.Mners in th building that Bicknell must have been killed or seriously lnJtircd. Hi. knell, however, lay still a moment or two anJ scrambled to his feet ti meet the- wheelmen and protest thttt he "didn't mind little thing like I hiit." ' tiKTl HEI.IUIOI S RETt RNS f25. AYIUiam K Purkes. of Bryant, ha rei'oWfil $3i from C. M. Wilson, of Marli. in ll'e shape of conscience imMw. inirkea lost the ntivney In 1895, in same of chance. Wilson being on the winning (pud, and Durkes finishing with t cent n hand. Wtlson says he hast been converted. In sending the money to Durkes he asks for forgiveness, He says he believes he was havlug "fun" when he "lived in sin," but that he now realises his error. Durkea says the $:T money order is substance meet for repents nt e. IF OIT THINK THAT THE TIMES) IS TIllNI TO CilVE YOU THB F.WS, lOIR St'nsCRUTlOX WILL HE APPRECIATED.
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