Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 125, Hammond, Lake County, 13 November 1911 — Page 4
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THE TIMES. 4 mm Mondar, Xov. 13, 1911.
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Young, 717Chlcago, 111.
r 4 S Marquette Building.
ANONYMOUS communications will not be noticed, but others wilt Its
printed at discretion, ana should be ! evidence.
such ruling, it hardly jteemed probable that the judge had dfcided exactly rh reported. That sucha conclusion was correct is now entirely clear. Judge Van Fleet has defined the uses to which the state may put the machine. As a result it is evident that the judge merely ruled that the records of the instrument should not be used as primary evidence. This means that the state will offer the dictograph records as corroborative of the testimony of T. II. Dean, the principal prosecuting witness, who accuses Williston and other officials of Gary with graft. When Judge Van Fleet refused to permit typewritten copies of the dictograph records to be sub-
mitted as evidence, Dean's story of
his conversations with Williston had not been presented. It thus appears that Judge Van
Fleet's much discussed ruling is in reality to' the advantage of the prosecu-
i tion instead of the defense. If Dean's testimony is corroborated by the rec
ords of the machine, the case against the city engineer of Gary cannot be other than much stronger than had the records been presented as primary
The testimony of Dean
forgotten. IWhag oome- to b a pretty
Well accepted theory anions jurors that no man, no matter which, tie is charged with, nor how palpable are the charges, should he convicted on the testimony of "another against' whom Serious charges ate. alleged. , Jurors are particular from whom thejy receive testimony. Sometimes the guilt or innocence of the defendant ia a secondary matter. So a strenuous effort is being made to blacken Dean's character. He has been trailed to distant citf.es by ever watchful detectives who have, a note of "every little movement." If Dean's halo was adjusted most of the time; about all that remains to be done in the Interests of , the defense is to frame up something on him. This reform business is rather
strenuous.
addressed to The Editor. Times, Ham
mond. Ind.
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BESIDE THE SEA.
lui. plaything
of the
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nlid The Mpfrtlvr nlnda that ah-pc faataMIe things '.Moils irorar, Hra red and pale nandworl ; Then as n meary eblld. aside wh. fllnso It n-el-eas toy w hen day tx done, Leaves them there im fcetplewa vrlng. Mltln -- the tiuaea of pnth the
faltet trace, Et-ae- o'rr with aon and humble weed that clinical Jt lends Into a little aaelte -it apace, Where lowly ret with reel and flftlier thlaan All toned with aa;e to aoftent stray. With nun. with wind, Had salt aea M! Then on and on the little road wind free. And nt ft end Ike the aea! The (clurloiia aen! It Ktretehen afar In opaline splendor r'laafcea aad horns 'neath the klaa of the null This akllled aeeromaaeer with mnjclc moot tender, thana-la to Jewel, wavea u they
would then have been more or less corrobrative in nature. According to the ruling, Dean-s testimony is that which is to be borne out by this. Instrument ..which has recently cut bo much figure in gathering evidence against officials charged with corruption. South' Hend Tribune.
UNDER COMPULSION. You will find lots of men who never
I let loose of anything until they realize that they will bo compelled to let go.
and it happens so in nearly every waltt f life. They are like the lad who found a 50-cent piece the other morning: "Found a whole half-dollar?" cried his mother. "How fine! What did you do with it?" "Pete Jones was along, so I gave him half." "
"You dear, generous boy! Did you
do that of your own accord?"
"Yessuni -well, we decided that
would be right."
"Jimmy! He didn't whip you and
make you give up half?"
"Xo, mamma. If he'd liked me, he'd a' had it all. The scrap was a draw."
RICHARD AND BOOTH. Richard Harding Davis whose wife
is suing him for divorce, was in In
dianapolis the othef ..evening on the trail of chorus girl in a popular
opera, o doubt Mr. Da vis, ltKe uootn
Tarkington. was merely in quest of "local color," but what the public
would like to know is what he doeB with it when he gets it. Fort Wayne
Kews.
Gets into more trouble, that's easy.
A MAN" who is pushing a wheelbar row through Missouri teflls the country editors he is to receive a prize of $10,
000 for a three year walk, provided he visits every State capital In the United States. Who on earth can . possibly give a tinker's dam as to whether this "gent" visits every capital in the country? Do you? Same here. Neither do we. KansaB City Times. We shall keep this for that "Soargent John" person'who is always hitting the pike to the office door telling of his great pedestrian trips.
The Day in HISTORY
THIS DATE IX 1IISTORV" ovember 13.
16 1 1 Thomas Painter, of Hinfchani,
Mass., publicly whipped for refusing to have his child christened.
1761 Sir John Moore, who conductea
the memorable British retreat to Corunna. born. Pied Jan. 13. ISO?17S1 John Moo!y was hanged in Philadelphia as a Brttif-'h spy.:
1S05 Vienna taken by the French un- ;
. iler Prince Mvjrat. 1S17 William Wirt of Virginia became Attorney-General of the United States'. :' . 7 !
(J84!) California adopted a State con
stitution. 1862 England . declined tlie French proposal for joint mediation in th-s American civil war. 18G8 tliacchimo Rossini, the composer, died in Paris.' Born . in Pesaro, Italy. Feb. 29, 1702. 1910 Wireless communication was effected by Marconi between ltaljanU Nova Scotia. "THIS IS MY 55TH IIIRTHDIV I. oulo It. nnftidcfu. J,ouis r. .Brandeis, the Boston lawyer whose name has been mentioned in connection with the vacancy on Hits United States supreme bench, was born tn IjOuisville, Nov. 13, 1S56, and was educated in American and German universities, being a law graduate of Harvard. He began the practice of law Boston in 187S and attained sueces early in his career. In recent years several cases In which he was engaged as counsel brought htm into national
prominence. He was employed Ira the celebrated Ballinger-Plnchott investigation and later appeared before the Interstate Commerce Commission as counsel for organizations of shippers opposing, higher freight rates. In the last-named rase Mr. Brandeis caused something of a sensation by declaring
that American railroads are wasting $1,000,000 a day through lack of system. ,
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LOUISE 4rf?w X
SCATTER PKTH
BECAUSE President Taft in his speech at Chicago was honest 'enough to admit that there . was a possibility of republican defeat in 1:912, a pack of papers are now snapping at his heels like hounds at an anise bag.
IVhat la It nets the alt tears a-well-lf
WhT reach vre o.t ..... to the j CHANCE FOR CO-OPERATION, rreot reVM. tldef 1 I - Ah, her it I. the I .a .it h.th dwelling, Tne organization of a South Side
ia rathomiesa dent ha myateiiea abide. Improvement association In''' Ham-
V lafleld Uo.el Scott RtsIbi Traoacrtot.
la Beatoa
t THEN AND NOT BEFORE. . An esteemed legal friend of ours complains that newspapers do" not have enough respect for the law. We shall have immense respect for the law. Just as soon as they can put spikes on it to prevent lawyers from trampling it all the time, and not before.
WRITER In the North American Review, by the way very careful magazine, eays "Shall We Make Our Constitution flexible?" Can if you like. May some of the parlor furniture won't seem so stiff then.. ?
mond is commendable. 'There are now three neighborhood civic organizations
in the city, each of w,hich Is looking after the particular needs of the section over which it has assumed supervision. ' This sugggests the idea that it would be a good thing if these neighborhood civic bodies could In some way be identified with the commercial club which represents the city as a whole. The citizens of Hammond should organize a commercial club that would
CARNEGIE AND SO. CHICAGO. lreally rePresent the progressive spirit
jot tne city. This organization could A few. days ago Andrew Carnegie have a governing house of nine deleset aside $23,000,000 to be used for the j gates, six of whom would represent welfare of the people. He also pro, the commercial club and one. each of v!dod for a new corporation which is Unom would represent the subsidiary to relieve him of the irksome task of oivic organizations in various parts of giving his money away. the cltr Already Mr. Carnegie has given a In th"at way. tbe arger organization
u,c u, uuuuieu minion aoiiars to could cooperate with the smaller or-
. various cnantaoie, educational and ganizations in carrying out its more philanthropical projects. His libraries ninnrt!int r,wf. ti,.
lunify the civic activity of the city and
.yet would make It possible for each of the local organizations to look after
.the smaller details which could not be handled by the larger organization
dot the lands by the hundreds. Most',
of them are In town that are innocent
Df smoky steel mills. ; Over in South Chicago there are when, business is good, 9,000 men on the pay-rolls of South works. They compose one-twentieth of the employes of the steel trust. Every year the steel trust pays Mr. Carnegie $20,OiiO.OOO interest and dividends on his bonds and stocks. The South Chicago mills at (his rate give a million a ?'?;! r tribute to Mr. Carnegie. Since
without encumbering it-with comparatively unimportant details. For Instance, the East Side Im
provement association could act as an
independent organization in the mat
ter of encouraging the beautifying ofi
home sites, the establishing of build
ing lines and all other
ui u.e corporation m purely a local character, but
r 'ill i sniiTn I n t r 1 1 rrri n nr if fwiri inn
lo his wealth. I Yet in all South Chicago there Is not even as much as a Banitary drinking fountain to mark Mr. Carnegie's benevolence towards the community that earns for him a million a year. The steel king gives his money elsewhere. It is true that Mr. Carnegie ouce contributed towards a church organ In the Austrian church. But the $100,000 libraries have gone to other places. Gary is to have a library from the Garnegle treasury. It deserves it as much as any city. Still It would seem that Mr. Carnegie would look more to his own, and we cite South t Chicago as an example.
matters of
In the
big project of widening Calumet avenue, a project, which is of great im
portance to the entire city, it 'could
call upon the commercial club for as
sistance.
This suggestion could be worked out to a good advantage in that It would unite everyone in the city who is interested in the development of Hammond in the larger projects which require united action.
MAYOR Brown of Kansas City has
a cabinet that meets weekly, ' Kansas
City would be. a great place for Aider' man Castleman, the distinguished champeen of the peepul.
Up and Down in I N D I AN A
AND while the Chinese are so busy
with their reforms the Emp. ought to pass an. edict maing them , deodorize
their oriental stinkholes in the shape
of a laundry.'
INDIANAPOLIS sleuths have about
as hard a time figuring out who killed
Dr. Knabe as the Hammond police have in getting a tail hold on some of these sneak thieves. .
MAKES FEEDING EX PER IM EXT.
'An eprlment is being carried on by
the animal husbandry department of
jthe Purdue experiment station which promises to arouse, considerable Inter
est among1 farmers, as soon as the de
tails of the experiment ' are made
known to them at the short courses of
the coming year.. Briefly, the experl
ment is one In which the value of corn silasre In the rations of lambs is
to be ascertained, and if the results are
as already indicated, the balance of
consideration will confirm the afflrma
ttve results of a slmila'r experiment
last year. 'Tha twti -win undoubtedly present a. prominent feature for ex
tension ' -work in . animal husbandry throughout the state. In last year's experiment, grain was .shown, not only
in the weigrhts of the animals, but ia
the. profits when-the lambs were offer
ed on the current markets?
ARREST ENDS HOHAIVCE.
After holding: captive a woman he
said was -his wife. In a South Bend rooming; house the five-weeks' romance
of Charles Wallace, a young Mexican, ended at South Bond Friday- with his
arrest. Mrs. Nellie Story, the woman
in the case, admitted she eloped, from
Lopansport with Wallace, abandoning
her husband there. The Mexican 'em
ployed a colored woman to guard her and prevent other men from carrying
her away. t '
ATTAC K MAKES filRI, INS lF,.
right, brought on by an attack oy
her stepfather, Michael Kazebla. has
driven Helen Btizasi of South Bend
MAN who brags his superiority in the house and how he reigns supreme is reminded that though be may do the reigning his wife does the storming.
SEE that there are one million and a half brands of cigars on the market. Now you understand why it is so easy to get a :otten cigar.
FOX married a Gees in Lake county the other day. Would it be proper to say that a Gees was a goose for marrying a fox?
DOC Wiley is jumping around after the unripe orange now. And while you are at it Doc, tae a crack at the overripe orange.
THE ISSUE AT VALPARAISO.
The tactics that are to be used at Valparaiso seem to convey the idea that a strenuous effort Is being made to have the real issue forgotten. The defense wants the jury to forget that Willit8on Is on trial. It would like to have the jurymen get the impression that Thomas B. Dean is the real culprit in this case. And if it succeeds in conveying this impression the next thing will be to
convince the jury that Willitson ought
not to be convicted on the testimony
A day or two ago it was reported of such a man as Dean.
that Judge van Fleet had ruled J In the meantime the real question against the dictograph. To those who at issue, "Is Willitson guilty of the
topped to consider the Importance of crime of accepting a bribe," will "be
THE DICTOGRAPH. That the dictograph will figure In the trial of C. A. Williston. city engineer of Gary, charged with bribery, is altogether probable. , This despite sweeping assertions to the contrary.
THEY have cut, out Valerie West
from the Hammond public library now.
Miss Valerie and her ilk are personae
non gratae.
WHY awaken China? thunders a
contemporary. Why? - Indeed!' Let
China roll over and resume her
snooze.
AS the Williston tase goes on at Valparaiso, it may be necessary for
the bailiff to issue rain checks.
THE Whiting Commercial elub, the baby of them all, proposes to make
them all sit up and take notice.
WELL, senators( and congressmen, how did you slike It as far as you
went? ' -. " - : J
HAVE , you had an eye kiss yet Theyay It is an eye opener. . .
Times Pattern Department
DAILY FASHION HINT.
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Lady's Waist.
Chicago police, investigating the past of Mrs. Louise Vermilya, charged with poisoning a boarder at her home and suspected of having killed nine persona in the last few years, declare it will be shown that th has outdone even Mrs. Louise Gunness, whose wholesale butchery of men on Jier farm in Laporte county, Indiana, startled the world three years ago. There la a striking 'physical similarity between the two women. Mrs. Vermilya has the same heavy face, road shoulders, strong limbs, powerful forearms, and the same small, dark eyes with their furtive glance that makes men uncomfortable in her presence. Mrs. Gunness slew her victims with an axe. The police charge that Mrs. Vermilya shook death into the food of mea who lived in her house out of a black pepper box. In which she kept arsenic " ,
violently insane. The attack was
made last night, according to the po
lice, who so far "have been unable to learn the ' cause of the man's rough conduct. The attack took place sev
eral blocks from her home, to which
the girl ran, and where she collapsed shortly after realiing the door.
VERDICT AGAIXST TEACHER.
V Jury, Friday night, after being out j
eleven hours, returned a verdict for i
$4,300 in favor of Miss Eva Close in
her damage suit for breach of promise against Wlnfield Fox, science teacher
in the Elwood high school, who lived in the southern part of - Vigo county, where Miss Close was his schoolmate in a township school.
Afterward -'he married Miss Maples.
of "West Terre Haute, and Miss Close brought suit, end a few- days later she
accepted 1200 when brought Into a con
ference with his friends in the office of County Auditor Wallace, but later said In court she was intimidated by Wallace and others. ''Fox admitted that for several years he called regular- on Miss Close, but denied he promised
marriage.
TWO WOMEX niRMID. Mrs. Honora Sullivan, of Terre
Haute, age eighty, was fatally burned and died shortly 'after noon Saturday.
when a cloth saturated with coal oil
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TOTALIS! : go Hilary jftft aw
Our Sense of Shame.
It is easy to Judge a man's character by observing " the things of which he is ashamed. We are. as a class, too easily frightened Into a blush for things 6f which we have no reason to feel ashamed. In the "presence of those who are more fortunately situated than we are.
we feel ashamed of our salaries, ashamed Of our clothes, ashamed of our abilities, ashamed of our ages. We purposely misread our weight upon the scales, we wear high-heeled boots to appear taller than nature designed, or we try to grow taller by the cartilage system. A woman with thin hair raises above it a "rat" into massive pompadour. A man with a "bald spot brushes his side hair over it to hide the place. of shame. We are ashamed of the street we live on, ashamed of the amount we pay for board, and a woman Mrith large feet wears shoes a size and a half too small because shes ashamed of nature. One of the trademarks of traly big people is that they are not disturbed by these petty vaaities. There are women who are willing to admit their ages . frankly, and men who do not attempt the socml deceit of Spending more than they earn in hope that people will believe they can afford it. These are the world's strong. They do not nod their heads wisely and say Wonderful!" when Chateaubriand is mentioned.y'unless they know who or what Chateaubriand is or was. They do not feel the slightest sense of shame at mere matters of dress or
which she had about a burnel finger salary, because their minds are fixed upon something more worthy, caught' Are from a stove. The 11a mes To make our sense of shame serve wise ends instead of foolish, we must spread to her clothing, and her flesh learn what sort of things "we should be ashamed of.. We hould learn to be was practically cooked from her knees ashamed of Idleness, of lack of candor, of social lies, of ungenerous-conduct, of
up. Her son, who ' was attracted by woriniessness, or sniramg, or narrowness, oi mggaranness, ana oi me aesire the screams" of a sister, threw a ru to oppress. We should blush at the Jack of virtue that make a man-Jess than
over her and smothered the flames. I n oemanas mat nis wire snaw ne; at me least 10 display mai leaas a veaty.
j ralf-like sport into dishonorable debt; at the habits of life that break down constitutions anj fill cemeteries; at the diabolical meannesses that bring financial profit at the expense of honor, and the loss of decent pride; at everything that makes men less at heart and in spirit than they ought to be.
FIRES AT RABBIT. HITS MA V. While hunting rabbits northeast of
Lafayefte Saturday Kred Thleme. president ot the Thleme & Wagner Brewing Company, was accidentally shot by his partner in business, Frank Wagner.
Thieme was ' walking a considerable'
distance ahead of Wagner, when the latter shot at a rabbit. Nearly all of the charge of shot entered Thleme's right leg, ' Inflicting a serious wound. This is the first hunting accident of ,
the-season reported at Lafayette. j OXE DEAD EIGHT ILL, WITH FEVER, Florence Beatrice, thirteen-year-eld davighter of E. B. Weismantel, coun- j cilman, of Elwoold is dead of typhoid fever. - Mr. Weismantel Is also confln- i
el to the home in a serious conlition to hers. from typhoid. Dorethea, the seven-i " Why?" pursued
year-old daughter. Is also ill with the disease, while three older chillren are" convalescing from the malady. Two children In the hotnp of I-muel Hoover are seriously 111 with typhoid, and physicians' say the the ten-year-old son can. not recover. An eight-year-old ; daughter of Dr. Runyan, former sec-, retary of the board of health, is also '
The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH OAJMEROIV
"Have you called on Mrs. R. yet?" inquired the lady-who-always-knows-somehow. "I haven't," said Molly, the little stenographer. The rest of us added our negative
the lady-who-al-
ways-knowa-some-how. "X hate formal first calls." said Molly. "I always put them off as long as I can." "I've been so busy," I pleaded. "I'm really going soon." "I guess I was just lazy," confessed the Butterfly." "How long do you think it's since
Dr.
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dangerously 111 with typhoid. A warning has been Issued by
A. Mott to all families ' using water from surface wells to boil their drinking water before using. It Is believed the lpw stage of water In hundreds of wells about the city Is responsrole. Ql ITS AS VI. I'M i ETS IXSAXE. With $60t0 in bills In his pocket, a demented man giving his ndme a. -5
Adams and saying his residence is i:i !
Dubois County, was picked up by an E. & I. north-bound train crew just north of Petersburg yesterday morning. The man was hunting the Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at Evansvllle and was recognized as one
of the attendants, who, was given sev
eral days vacation and was on his way
to Washington to visit relatives and lost hi way. Close association with insane people for the past twelve yestrs is the only known cause of his Insanity. OXEX BRIXOfHIGH PRICES. 'Work oxen are still in use fin Brown County-and some of them bring high prices when sold. At a public sale held by SamtiP? G. Hooksettler of! Brown "County a yoke of oxen, which he had offered for $40 at private sale, brought $75. '
since Mrs. it. moved here?" asked the
this little tale that our neighborhood Is a peculiar one. I don't believe it is. I think It is typical, and that little tragedies like this one are going on every day in every communltiey. Laziness forgetf ulnoss, indifference, procrastination. busynetM these are the feeble excuses that we offer for our cruelty. And meanwhile the woman we fiave isolated on a desert island of loneli
ness by our selfishness or our carei leseness. waits and wonders, and eats her heart out with lonesomeness and homesickness. I do not doubt but there have been many cases ef nervous prostration.
perhaps, even of suicide, caused by the people who didn't call. Of course, few people enjoy "formal first calls. But. since they are the
(inevitable first step toward nelghborliness, I think, we surely ought to fn-
lady-who-al ways-knows-somehow. i "Why, I suppose It must be five or ' sfx weeks." reckoned Molly. j "Tt's over three months," said the
lady.
"It ran t be," cried Molly.
"It is." said the lady, "and listen, dure the evil for the sake of the good
Vesterday afternoon I was over there that follows
and what do you think that poor lit-j And not only endure it, but endure i tie woman did when I asked her If It quickly.
she liked the neighborhood? She; Don't you? just broke down and cried. You I ' RUTH CAMERON, know she moved here from a long . - ways off and the hasn't a friend or T3T A "KTC! C!ITI"1"DT,
,11., tjho 1W M - WUI
relative within a thousand miles. She
hasn't any children, either. She lost her only little girl last year. Her husband is devoted to her, but he has to be away on business a good deal. And what do you think, she said that In all this neighborhood only two other persons besides myself had called upon her." "She asked me If I thought she had done anything to offend people, or if I had any idea what the trouble was. She said she was almost cray with lonesomeness. Now don't you think we all ought to feel pretty much ashamed T" ; Needless to say, we did not think so, and Incidentally registered our Inten
tion of calling the very next day," as
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POSTAL BANKS Washington, D. C, Nov. 13. Frank H. Hitchcock. postmaster-general, wishes to extend the postal savings bank Bystem so that what he calls community and neighborhood stores In cities and rural districts will be qualified to receive deposits. He said: "There is no other way In which the postal savings bank system can be extended to its full scope of usefulness so quickly as through the merchants and storekeepers whose business places form the neighborhood and community centers. The postal savings system will be extended as rapidly as It can with safety until every office In the -t'nited States where there Is a money
Perhaps you may be persuaded fcytrdtr office 3 a postal depository.