Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 127, Hammond, Lake County, 15 November 1911 — Page 4

Wednesdav, Nov. 15, 1911.

TME TIMES NEWSPAPERS By (he Lake County Printing mm Pah. llahlaa; Compaay. Gary Evening: Times; Lake County Times (Country); Lake County Times (livening); Times Sporting Extra, and Lake County Times (Weekly).

Entered at the Postofflce. Hammond. Ind.. as second-class matter. Main Office Hammond, Ind Tel. Ill Private Exchange. Call Dept. Wanted. Gary Office Tel. 137 East Chicago Office Tel. 863 Indiana Harbor Office Tel. 32IJ Whiting Tel. 80M Crown Point .....Tel. 68 LAHliEH PAID IP CIRCULATION THAS AM' OTHER TWO XEVS SPAPERS I. THE CALUMET REGION. New York Representatives Payne & Young, 30-34 West 33d St., and 29-3S West 32nd St.. New York, N. Y. Chicago Representatives Payne & Young, 747-74S Marquette Building. Chicago. 111. ANONYMOUS communications will not be noticed, but others will be printed at discretion, and should be addressed to The Editor. Times, Hammond. Ind. IX A TENEMENT. I think our alley' darker bott Since onre I mat aiTray I can't exactly tell yott henr In a atrange plare to play Aith ether children like myaelf, V nfcole loan; aummer'n day! It Ttaan't real. I mm mire That place ae at range to me, for nobody nil cold or poor; a It juat n ; nee a, and free. And up above tbere acemed of bine A million mllea to be. The fairies lire tbere! little Ruth The lame clrl told me ao; leat and 1 know It for a troth That tbere the falrlen go, And cover over all the tre With iamn white aa inn. The flower made In Fairyland Have brenth oh, breath that's aweet! And enre I held them In ray hand Far off from thla doll afreet! And looked down In their bearta and aaw The tracks of fairy feet. I dream at nlKbt of that ntrange plac. And In my dream, qnite nenr. They daace about before my face The falrlea kind and dear. And. oh. I wnnt to go to' them! on aee. they cnf came here! Florence Earle Coates. in Harper-, Wrrklv.

J An eastern banker scratched his ear Tlir t.t.o ,TT,, while counting a pile of paper money THE BEST NEWS EVER. and died of blood poisoning. The monCheer up, ye. unfortunate who find .v "was tainted: it had evil germs, and yourself short of twos and fives to tbey got busy on the scratch. The pay the coal bill, and prepare for the moral is plain, so plain that the peohigh cost of living. There is good PJe. or at least ninety-nine per cent news for you. jof them, will refrain from counting Rush orders have "been given at piles of money. Washington to the bureau of engrav-j Don't forget when you start on the ing and printing. It will put on extra next stack. Let some one else count forces and add an hour to the work- it. ing day, beginning today, to fill a !

pressing demand on the treasury for notes of small denominations. The demand is for $1, $2 and $5 notes. Isn't that just dear of Uncle Sam! The good Lord knows how many of us are short of tows and fiveB, but it i3 soon going to be fixed up all right. Glory be. Send in your orders.

THE PUMP QUESTION AGAIN. Central at different periods, the audiIt will be remembered that when'tor8' dePartment w&s able to report a the question of adding to the pumpJ net galn of S4u0'u0 on the lines east ing capacity of the Hammond pum,)- of Buffal for the month of September, ing station was up last winter and , accrding to a report just issued. A early spring that the principal rea-,Kain of '2'50.,)()(' ln (he operating revson for the insistence that somethin" enues for the nine months of the pres-

be done immediately was the fact that the city was fast outgrowing its water works facilities and that the excessive demands for water that come in the summer time must be met before last summer. The advocates of the electric pumps

pointed out that they could be install-1 The newspapers of Indiana who for ;td In the old pumping station, elimin-, years have consistently fought high aiing the necessity or building the school football and it was an unpopunew building that Is now under con-'lar fight are rejoicing that the game

struction, and that the electric pumps would be ready for use within a few ceks- '

But certain influences were brought ' have taken a decided stalid against it to bear in favor of the steam pumps, land forbade it. It is a surprise to note The result may be summarized as fol-jthat not a single school in Lake coun,ows: ty put' the ban on football. It is true t. The emergency, which was held that one or two discouraged it, but to exist, was not met. The city of that was as far as it went. No perogaHammond struggled through the sum-Jtive to banish it from the athletic curmer under low pressure. j riculum was insisted upon. In'speak2. Th4 city has been put to the ex-( ing of the crusade, the Marion Chronpense of building a new pumping sta-cle says "that football is no game for tion, not yet completed, which would ' immature boys of high school age. It have been unnecessary in the case had ' is dangerous enough for the husky, electric pumps been used. well developed, well trained men who 3. It has become necessary to go play on the college gridiron. The servto the expense of buying a large trav- ice of the game to real athletic develeling crane in order to install and re-'opment of an entire student body has pair the heavy steam pump machinery, been vastly over rated. The journey4. After the new pump is in work- ings of a high school football team ing order there is still a Berious ques- over the country is usually accomtion as to whether or not the pressure panied by evils inconsistent with the in Hammond will be materially in-'purposes for which school systems are creased without the construction of ( maintained out of the public treasury, another trunk line of water pipe. No 'it is encouraging to know that the matter how many pumps the city may' game is dying a natural death in the Install there is a limit to the amount ' high schools of the state, through a of water they can force through a T6- realization of the real facts both by

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ARE WAKING UP. Some day the American people are going to wake up to the fact that their municipal governments are the most mismanaged of their political institutions. There will be a realization that local government to be a success must be conducted on the same general lines as business. In most cities and towns custom has made it the current idea that the affairs of the city should be conducted for the benefit of the party in power. And elsewhere, and in fact not far from home, we have the spectacle ot padded payrolls for the political aggrandizement of the officer in the executive chair. No large corporation would tolerate for one minute officers who do not produce results. Some how or other, neither the people nor the office-holders of this day seem to realize that the mayor and council play the same role in reference to local government as do the president and directorate to

a commercial concern. However. there are evidences of hope. Our postoffice head, Mr. Hitchcock, has turned a deficit of $17,000,000 annually into an even balance. When Mr. Hitchcock retires from the postmaster-gen eralship he may be sure of a high post in business world. What has been ac complished in the postomce department can be done elsewhere. Probably the Germans have the best scheme of local government. Their city executives are fixed officials unless promoted or removed for cause. When a German burgomaster makes a success In a small city he is given a more important charge. An honest, efficient and economical mayor finds his services much in demand. Perhaps we can never adjust ourselves to this system, but in time a solution will be worked out. Probably the future will see colleges giving courses in government to be supplemented by practical training. What an opportunity there would have been for a trained official had he the chance like the golden one Gary offered and what great benefits would its tax-payers have reecived. The day is not yet too late. COUNTING MONEY. It becomes the duty of a newspaper to warn its readers of the evils and I perils that beset them and of which j they may not be cognizant; so when you have a big pile of paper money to count, don't count it Listen! "TIGHTENING UP." You don't have to go very far to find the reason for the slackness in orders for railroad equipment when you read how the New York Central system has tightened up in the following dispatch: "As a result of the economy order which frequently comes forth from the executive offices of the New York i ent year ,s a1so rePorted on the lines west of Buffalo. Nearly $1,000,000 represents the operating revenues of the lines east of Buffalo." H. S. FOOTBALL. is dying out on high school gridirons, Sensible parents will join in the glad ness. Many of the schools of Indiana parents and pupils."

LEGALIZED LYING. Perhaps if Ananias and Sapphira were alive today they could move in pretty good society without any fear of getting into the trouble which they met with. The times certainly have changed since that couple's day. That judge was up-to-date who held that it was not immoral to lie. He realized that courts must conform to public opinion. His ear had been catching the ground swell, and had heard the popular tide with its roar against those judges who stick too closely to the law says the Duluth News-Tribune. There can be little doubt of the growing popularity of lying. Exact truth as a science is a good deal of a back number. No woman is offended as she plods through her calling list to be told that her friend whom she has seen at the window is "not at home," she is only thankful for time saved. Men have ceased to believe the spoken word unless backed by a serious voucher of good faith. It is a good deal of a virtue to lie to shield a friend, and the lie is much, of course, to shield oneself. To be caught in a lie is more frequently a matter of joke than disgrace. Courts must be amenable to public opinion. But in diplomatic language, we are told that "the judiciary must be brought within the control and answerable to the well thoughtout judgment of the people."

PLENTY OF WORK. A state law compels the county commissioners to name a county sealer. This is to be done. Now the common council of Gary proposes to create a city sealer and legislation to this effect will be secured within the next few weeks. This is a good move as past history has shown that there is a great variation in the weights and measures used now days. Many times the fault is not due to the local merchant as berries, for instance, often come in boxes that have a high bottom. There are other little tricks practised by the unscrupulous in connection with weights and measures and the money spent providing for the protection of the public in this regard must be considered as a good investment. MR. Antone Caskovwhiski, the clever gardener of the grounds at Electric park, has sent the Leader company an other magnificent specimen of his skill in the shape of a splendid bouquet of flowers raised by him at Lake Hallie. Eau Claire (Wis.) Leader. Pardon us for calling your atten tion to the last name of Antone. How fine it is that it was not Kegovbeer. A STATEMENT has just been filed with the Mexican government of the personal expenses of Madero in finan cing the revolution which the govern ment will pay. It amounts to $320,000, which, considering the results, was dirt cheap. Incidentally, it cost the United States a good deal more than that. "HOW would it do to have a law that no man worth over half million dollars could serve as United States senator?" asks the Webster City (la.) Freeman-Tribune. Well, it would keep many of them out for one thing, BY the way, there are no fewer than twelve Indiana high school claiming the football championship of Northern Indiana. Football seems to get somebody in the habit of lying, too. CLEVELAND dealer has already taken an order for 30,000 Christmas trees. It is about time to begin darning up the holes in 30,000 pairs of stockings, too. THE leaders of the revolutions in China and Mexico might get up a neat little scrap if they would only get to gether and join hands. WHAT are the esteemed and re spected old ladies going to do about their tea if the Chinese don't stop their fussing? THEY seem f to think that Mr. Hearst's opposition to Mr. Wilson will help Mr. Wilson a whole lot What do you think? THERE doesn't seem to be twelve men in the whole blamed country who haven't an opinion on the McNamara case-. LAFAYETTE celebrated the battle of Tippicanoe by keeping the saloons open. Just before the battle, mother, eh? THE Indianapolis police are very busy forgetting the terribl Knabe tragedy.

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"THIS DATE IX HISTORY" Tnbrr IS. 170S William Pit, Earl of Chatham, born. Died May 11. 17 7S. 1T61 More than 100 lives lost ln the wreck of the ship lAuguste on tha coast of Cape Breton. 1763 Mason and Dixon arrived from England to survey the Pennsylvania and Maryland boundarj-. 1802 George Romney. celebrated Enjlish artist, died. Born Dec. 15, 1734. 1S06 Lieut. Pike first sighted the lofty mountain ln Colorado which bean his name. 1832 Philadelphia and Harrisburg were connected by railroad. 1854 Boston adopted a new charter. 1S89 Revolution at Rio Janeiro and a republic proclaimed. 1904 Germany and the United States signed an arbitration treaty. 1910 Dr. Edgar F. Smith chosen provost of the University of Pennsylvania. "THIS IS Ml' IUT11 BIRTHDAY" f.raod Duchess Olga. Grand Duchess Olga, who is reporteJ engaged to marry Prince Boris, the crown prince of Bulgaria, was born in royal palace at St. Petersburg:. November 15. 1895. She Is the eldest of the four daughters of the Emperor and Empress of Russia and a great-granddaughter, on her mother's side of the late Queen Victoria of England. The three sisters of the Grand Duchess are Tatjana, who Is fourteen years old; Marie, who Is eleven, and Anastasia, who recently celebrated her tenth birthday anniversary. Her only brother is the little Grand Duke Alexis, sev en years old, who will some day be called upon to rule the great empire of Russia. Prince Boris, who is said ti have ben chosen for the future hus band of the Grand Duchess Olga. is slightly older than his fiancee, as will be seventeen next January. He has one brother. Prince Cyril, and two sisters, the pretty Prlncsses F.minTi. and Nadelda. Up and Down in INDIANA DOLL'S WASH CAt'SE OF FIRE. After washing her doll baby's clothes yesterday morning the litle daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Davis of Jeffersonville, hung them to dry near a hot stove. The doll's clothes caught fire. The flames set fire to a sofa nearby and during the excitement the pipes of a water heater burst and flooded the house. The flood, however, did not quench the flames and the fire department was summoned. KICKS AT RAT, BREAKS TOE. George Dix, of Ctica, was awakened by a rat in the wall which later Invaded his' bedroom when he tried to scare" it away. He chased the rat all over the room and took a kick at it as it vanished into a hole. He struck his toe with such force on the wall that it was broken, requiring the services of a physician. WOW TO GO TO PRISON. Mrs. Ella B. Mertz, of Cannelton who admitted she shot and killed her hus band, Louis P. Mertz In order to save her daughter,' age fifteen, was found guilty by a Jury of manslaughter yesterday and was sentenced to prison for a term of from two to twenty-one years in the women's prison at Indianapolis. The crime was committed ln Dubois county. KILLED WHILE CROSSING TRACK. Roy McFadden, age sixty-five, was killed by the north bound Monon train that left Bedford at 7:40 yesterday morning. McFadden was crossing the railroad and apparently did not aee the Times Pattern Department DAILY FA?HIOr7 HINT. 477 Lady's Tucked Shirt Waist. The waist illustrated has little tucks arranged in small groups in front and extending the full length of the back. The neck ia finished with a large collar of the favorite Trourllle model. Lawn, batiste, organdie, madras and many soft novelty cotton material are available for this style waist, as well as messaline, taffetaa. voile, marquisette. &c. The pattern, 5477, is eat in 32 to 42 inches bust measure. Medium aire requires 3 yards of 24 inch material or 24 yards of 44 ineh. The above pattern can be obtained by sending 10 cent to the ofhee of this taper. .. . .

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FIRST WOMAN JURY EVER IMPANELED IN UNITED STATES FREES CALIFORNIA EDITOR WHO PUBLISHED "CUSS" WORDS IN HIS PAPER

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The first Jury of women ever impaneled in the United States freed A. A. King, editor of the Watts News, of Watts, California, on trial, charged with having circulated an "obscene and indecent newspaper." King admitted cn the witness stand that he had accused a member of the town board of trustees of applying profane epithets to him. and chronicled ln his paper the exact words which he said the official had used. He declared, though, that ha did it because he wanted tha people of Watts to know what kind of an official the trustee in question was. The Jurymen deliberated only twenty minutes before returning their verdict.

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The most remarkable feature of the situation, however, is that the exceptions to this rule are almost entirely to be discovered among the uneducated classes. It is far easier for a man worth $20 a week to get it than it is for one worth $6 a week to get that. In other words, the great demand of the hour is for educated people. The manager of one of the world's largest employment bureaus said to me the other day. "We com into communication with both the eployer and the employe. The uniform rule is that the employers who need our services are those who are looking for high-grade help, while the employes who come to us most often for assistance ar thosa who are incapable of holding responsible positions on account, chiefly, ot a lack of education. If we fail to bring employers and men together, which is not as common nowadays as it was ten or twelve, years ago. It Is because the applicant does not possess the n0cessary education." The call for help is loudest where It Is hardest to make men hear. If you want a hundred men to work at ordinary labor for $2 a day. it is simply necessary to put a three-line want ad In a big city paper, and 200 men who can answer your requirements will be at your door within an hour after the paper has issued. If yoi want one man to take charge of a big engineering Job at $15,000 a year, you may have to look a long tlm before you find him. Expensive men who are worth the money are hard to find. The reason for this peculiar situation is that most men and women do not realize the value of education, especially business education, until they believe it too late for It to be secured; and then. Instead of attempting to mend matters by study, they simply fold their hands and give up the ghost, so far as learning i sconcerned. It is the ability -to hear the "call for help" that conies constantly from those who are looking for the higher class of helpers which distinguishes the ambitious young person from the one who is doomed to failure in later life. If the boy and girl, young man and woman, of today is able to hear this call a few years in advance, and prepare for it, success will be the sure result.

train.. He leaves a widow. DAt'E TILL CARS START. One hundred stranded passengers turned the interurban station at Logansport into a dance hall Saturday night and danced until 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Power went oft on both the Indiana Union traction and the Ft. Wayne & Xorthern Indiana traction lines about 9 o'clock Saturday night, leaving four interurban cars standing in the station. FORCED TO PRAY BY A GVX. Following an argument Saturday afternoon in the Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company building, 425 West Maryland street, Philip L. Carroll, twentythree years old, 523 Madison avenue, in said by the police to have fired a shot at Charles Ricks, 538 Fletcher avenue, Indianapolis, in order to make the latter get down on his knees and pray. Both men are employed in the tin shop, and Ricks is said to have told Carroll how he should do some work, and the latter objected when he said that Ricks was not the foreman. Ricks .told the police that, Carroll fired one shot ln his direction, and that after he had offered a short prayer while kneeling on the floor Carroll pocketed the revolver. Carroll was arrested. charged with shooting with intent to kill. The case was continued in police court. GET LIGHT SENTENCE. William George, of Bmminence, who attempted a double suicide with his sweetheart, Loretta Cox, was fined $100 and "sentenced to six months In jail for assault and battery on Edward Elliott. He was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, but the jury returned a verdict relieving him of the intent charge. While George was awaiting second trial on the charges he and Miss Cox took poison In the office of an attorney after George had ben surenderej by his bondsmen. The two were seriously ill for some time, but recovered. ItKTl RS ALMOST KR07.EX. Robert Burns, twenty-three, a druggist, who has been mysteriously missing since last Thursday night, returned to the home of his parents at Corey, south of Brazil, almost dead from cold and exposure. For three days and nights a number of searching parties have been scouring the south end of the county. Burns's mind was a blank; he says he does not remember what caused him to go away, nor remember where he has been. He was 50 nearly dead from cold and hunger when he reai licd Corcj tht lie is now in a

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It is no new thing to say that the man who wants work today can usually get it. There are few exceptions; for one must be unusually situated. Indeed, not to be within grasp of many opportunities to work.

1 ; oils condition. ( TRIED TO KILL SISTER-IX-LA W. ; Olm Stewart, of Brookville, got Into a dispute with his sistpr-in-law, Mrs. Ed Stewart, late Saturday night and shot her with a gun and afterward broke the gun over her head. Her husband is sick in a hospital at Cincinnati with little hopes of recovery. .Stewart is in jail charged with assault and battery with intent to murder. KERN TO GO BEFORE THE CONVENTION (Continued from Paga 1.) boom him for the nomination he came tight back home and kicked the life oit of it. He told the boosters that it was out of the question for li'm to b .- 'a candidate ror tne nomination tor ; President, and he told them to drop the whole subject and quit booming him. 1 The result was that the matter was dropped and the organization whlo 1 j was made to push him into the White 1 House died out. J But Senator Kerns pbjections to the use of his name as a candidate for President are not ' taken seriously by the politicians who know him well. They recall that this is not the first time he has objected to the use of his name as a candidate for office. . They point to the fact that in the state convention of 1910, when he was nominated foi United States senator he objected strenuously and made a show of himself. He demanded that his name be not used for the place, and he actually believed that he had effectually shut off all consideration. But the convention refused to listen to him. and proceeded to vote for him. Kern left the convention hall and went to his office, firm ln the belief that he would not be votei for. But after he had gone the delegates voted for him with more vigor than ever. Kern heard about it and broke for the convention again to demand that he be not nominated, and several of his political friends hat to hold him to keep him from rushing into the hall and making an exhibition of himself. Finally the convention nominated him. He was at his office when he received the news. He was mad atout it for a. while, and then he coolej off. At firsT he would not say whether he would accept the nomination or not. He wanted time to think it over. He took the time, and for several days lie ri-refused to give a definite answer. Bh

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ml XL n J EDITOR A . A. KINGfinally he overcame his own objections, and announced that he would accept the nomination. Some of his enthusiastic followers are saying that Kern will do the same this time. He may object and raise a row about it before hand, they say, but he will ultimately quiet down and take the nomination for President if the convention hands It to him. They say it would ge entirely too great an honor for any man to refuKe, and that Kern's nomination would not go begging. As was stated in these dispatches several days ago, the Taggart Democrats are using the name of Kern to keep the antl-Taggart Democrats' n line this year. There is no fight going on. of any conaquenee, among the Democrats. A few weeks ago they were growling good and proper about the manner of organizing the party for next year, and the antl-Taggart men were telling what they were going to do to the Taggart crowd. But thia has all died out. It Is known that the Taggart men went to some of the ant's and told them that they must keep in line, and that there was nohing fov them to fight over. They said Indiana would send a delegation to the national convention that would be for Marshall, but that If Marshall could not be nominated the Indiana vote would go to Kern, and that Kern would get a great lot of support from other states, also. This has had the effect of putting a stop to all of the talk about a fight over the organization or anything else, for the Democrats of Indiana would be as well satisfied with Kern as the candidate for President as with Marshall. The fact that the quiet boom for Kern has been started among the Taggart crowd is taken here to indicata that it has the sanction of the eastern Democrats, for Taggart is in close touch with Tammany and the rest of the machina in the east. It is known that at a recent Tammany dinner tn New York the name of Kern was considered as a posibility for President, and it was agred among those present that he would not be unacceptable. They do net count him as favorable to "big business" as Governor Harmon, but they regard him as a man that would give "big business" a fair deal. It Is known, too, that Tammany has not taken kindly to the idea of nominating" Marshall. Senator O'Gorman, of New York, has an interview in some of the Sund papers in which he discussed the varV ous candidates for the Democratic nomr ination for President. He mentioned the names of all of the prominent Democrats who have been announced as candidates, like Wilson, Harmon. Marshall, Champ Clark. Folk and the rest, and said that any of them would make a good President. But he Said, there are some others who would make desirable Presidents whose names hare not yet been announced. He did not mention Kern's name, but this statement of O'Gorman' is taken to mean that he had Kern in mind, for O'Gorman is a strong Tammany man. The whole thing appears to be working around to the point where Kern will become a prominent factor in the race for the nomination. The talk In this state which has quieted the Democrats; the new from the east that New England present his name to the convention the news of the Tammany dinner at which his name was favorably considered, and the interview of Senator O'Gorman all are taken as indications in that tlirction. DAKOTA TEAM BEATEN, BUT GLAD Mitchell. S. D., Nov. 15. Although the Dakota Wesleyan university eleven of Mitchell was beaten by a score of 3 to 0 by South Dakota university team at Vermilion yesterday, the Mitchell players are jubilant over the showing made In the- contest one of the hardest fought battles ever played in a South Dakota foothill Held. If you are a judge of quality try. a LaVendor 'i&ar.

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