Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 128, Hammond, Lake County, 16 November 1911 — Page 4

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THE TIMES. .Thursday, Nov. 161911.

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS By the Lake County Printing ! Pub. llahlas; Company. Gary Evening Times; Lake County Times (Country); Lake County Times (Evening); 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 Kast Chicago Office Tel. 963 Indiana Harbor Tel. 550H Whiting Tel. 80M Crown Point Tel. 68 LARGER PAID IP ClKCtLATlOX THAN ANY OTHER TWO AEWS1'APEHS IX THE CALUMET REGION. New York Representatives Payne & Young, 80-34 West 33d St.. and 29-35 West 32nd St.. New York. N. Y. Chicago Representatives Payna & Young, 747-748 Marquette Building, Chicago. 111. ANONYMOUS communications will not be noticed, but others will be j printed at discretion, and should be addressed to The Editor. Times, HamJ mond, Ind. THE CRY OF MEN. 1 Me are vveary of your pnrtlen Wilb (heir hollow nattle-rrirs Ae are lok of broken plrdnrn, M are Mirk of specious lies, "ion have promised, we have truated, on have failed and failed again; Me have had enough of part leu; Give n Men! Give of Men! Oh, n truce to poor exrivea! We have area and we have heard. In It hard to do your dutyf la It hard to keep j our word f Is It hard to deal the Justice You have avrorn with tongue and pen f We are done with trade and barter! Give us Men! Give us Men! Me shall And them, we shall know t hem i We shall call and they will heed Downright men, however labeled, Men of honent thought and deed; Wen who will not shirk or palter. Who will shame your weak-kneed "loth Then, a plague o both your houses! -We have had enough of both. We are romisg, we, the young men, J Strong of heart and millions IroBm I Me shall work where you have trifled, t Cleanse the Temple, right the wrong, Till the land our fathers vlsloned . Sball be spread before oar ken. Me or through with politicians! Give as Men! Give us Men! Arthur Galtermin. THE BOGY MAN. W'hen you get the glooms and somebodys adds to your apprehension by telling you that before long you will be sold out of your house and home just recall the . words of James McCrea, the president of the Pennsylvania system, the other day: "This talk of industrial depression, of a general business slump, of hard times, is all a mistake. This country is prosperous, and while there has been a shrinkage in some quarters, those who are predicting hard times certainly do not know the general conditions which obtain throughout the whole land." WOMEN DO THE WORK. Women are playing an important part in the cleaning up of West Hammond. Miss Virginia Brooks has evidently discovered that when the men of the village find their wives out fighting for civic cleanliness that they become ashamed of their own inactivity and that a prodded conscience accomplishes the rest. It will be remembered that Miss Brooks' first battle was fought with an army of women when the work of paving a street was stopped by them and later resulted in the securing of an injunction which stopped the work. Miss Brooks is appealing to the finer moral sensibilities of the women of West Hammond in her new crusade against, the dives. She has made a house-to-house canvas of the village for the purpose of arousing the indig nation of the women against the men ace to their homes that exists in the form of dives. ounaay mere win ne a mass meeting at v.hich both men and wo men will be asked to attend. Steps will be taken to route out the dives and interesting developments may be expected. CAREY ELECTED. The news, made public several days ago, that "Uncle Sam" Carey of Hobart was elected trustee from the Fourth ward following his announce ment that he would not become Intox icated during hia term of office, will cause considerable satisfaction all over the county. His election, following the publica tlon of his most unusual announce ment, will be a revelation to the aver age politician. The popular idea of the politician is shattered. Politicians, since the time of the first republic have been smooth, suave, oily persons with a great rroclivity for pretense (id an ante-election inclination to

break pre-election promises. Carey's qualifications and disqualifications for office may be summed up as follows: Disqualifications: 1. Frequently became intoxicated. 2 Absolutely illiterate. 3 Carries his business in his head. Qualifications: 1 Unquestioned honesty, a lack of hypocrisy and a good memory. The people of Hobart are intelligent American citizens. Doubtless they considered well' the advisability of electing to office a man of Carey's character. It is a splendid commentary on the citizenship of the people of Hobart that rugged honest weighed so heavily in the balance in favor of Carey that he was eleotod to the office he sought, and his shortcomings were overlooked. The crude, rough, unkempt Lincoln was pitted against the cultured, brilliant Douglas. The people of the United States chose the former as the chief executive of the land and he piloted the country through the greatest crisis in its history.

CHANCES GALORE. - Early next month the Young Men's Christian Association of Gary will be in operation. Housed in its quarter of a million-dollar home it will have unusual facilities for the work which it seeks to accomplish. Part of the plans of the founder calls for a great dal of attention to vocational education. This means that there will be night courses in literary, commercial and technical subjects. Thus the young man who is already a stenographer will have the opportunity of making himself a better one; the young steel worker will have new avenues of sutdy open to him; and in other walks of life the ambitious will have educational chances that no other city in the Calumet region can present. HIGH STEEL STANDARDS. Lackawanna is a model town, having been created within a few years by the big steel company of that name with a view to meeting all its special rpnin'rpmpiitu fnr hanHIInf -t-i rails and so on, were planned with great care and are said to be admirable. About two-thirds of its male inhabi tants says John A. Fitch in the Survey, are day-laborers in the steel mills mainly raw peasant Immigrants who know nothing about urban congestion and the sanitary problems raised thereby. They get a dollar and a half for a ten-hour day or a dollar and eighty cents for a twelve-hour day. Many of them inhabit lodging barracks that are thoughtfully built round and over a large swamp in the center of the town "of practically stagnant water, foul with unspeakable accumula tions of all Eorts," and receiving the sewage of the district through open Bewers. "I saw heaps of garbage in the rear of a great naany houses every time I passed along the street," Mr. Fitch reports; and he suspected that much of it went into the swamp. Last summer a distinguished steel man wrote Congressman Mann that if certain steel products were placed on the free list wages would have to be readjusted to the European level 'Owing to the high standards of liv lng enjoyed by bur working people," he said, "such a readjustment could not be accomplished without great suffering." Possibly he meant the steel operatives would be deprived of their swamp and open cesspool. Sat urday Evening Post. THE WHEELS OF TIME. They have an old custom in Tolleston of tolling the church bells to an nounce the death of a resident of lhat community. Early Wednesday morn ing the people of Gary and Tolreston heard the chimes in the German Luth eran church ring out. This time the bells sounded the knell of a woman 83 years old, who had been a resident of the county for more than a half century. Tolleston.is a community of some age. Every now and then the news papers record the death of some of 13 aged people who have lived many years in this county. Of late they have been going so fast that now there are not many left. It was the old folk that laid the foundations of the county and their passing is to be re gretted. However, as they leave this earthly threshold they go with having the satisfaction of being witnesses to the great wonders that have been tak ing place in the sand dunes these past few years. FINDING A MODEL. In the Gary schools they have a boy villa arganization. The boys are iden tified with a community of their own and to teach them citizenship they have their own mayor, council, boards of works and other officers. Officials are chosen by primaries followed by elections. We have often wondered whether

the boys look to local governments for their models. Can it be that they regard the government of Gary or that of East Chicago, those nearest to them, as fit subjects for study? A sociologist might find an interesting study in this connection.

"AN oath here is a perfect farce. The average man who comes here has no more regard for an oath than Nicodemus had knowledge of a new birth," says a magistrate in a New York court. You may have noticed the same thing around these parts and wondered what the dickens can be doue about it? CANDIDATE for alderman in Hobart, Ind., has announced that if elected he will swear off during his term of office. Probably doesn't care whether he's successful or not. New York Herald. Oh yes he does, and so do the people who voted for him. TWO thousand dollars commission on a $G,000 real estate deal sounds as if it were a mighty liberal commission, but then, of course, they do things in a large way at Gary. Indianapolis News. We are forced to admit the truth of this. INSOMNIA caused a Washington (D. C.) parson to resign his charge, but the dispatches do not say whether it was insomnia on the part of the preacher or on the part of the congregation. A great many people will have their suspicions, however. ONCE again you will kindly hand it to Notre Dame, Indiana's splendid university. One thousand students there have taken the peldge not to touch alcoholic beverages. And yet some people denounce sectarian Insti tutions of learning. NOW if some of these esteemed women's cluos and societies will only take up the question of how to keep boys and girls in at nights Instead of running the streets, they will have taken up a problem worth while. ONE woman character witness was called in the Gary bribery case at Valparaiso to thirty men. Was it a case of where it was believed that the female of the species is deadlier than the male?" . DR. Wiley's latest plea is to teach children the dignity of labor. Lordy, what a lot of things Doc Wiley's children will have to watch out for. There will be labor enough in life for them to dodge germs. RICH people who are always shov ing their filthy lucre forward, should remember that though making a noise like money doesn't come under the head of unnecessary noises, in reality it does. DON'T worry about women forget ting the happiness and dignity of "home keeping hearts." Women won't ever get so new that they wouldn't rather hear the old, old story than any other sort of fiction. CALIFORNIA women are now call ed politicianettes. We have stood for husbandettes, but we would like to see the practice stopped before they spring wifettes and editorettes. THE ideal campaign manager for both parties next year 'In Lake coun ty is the man who has no animosities and the search so far seems to ex tremely discouraging. POLITICS in Indiana is said to be very much mixed nowadays. It is, but then as far as that is concerned, Indiana has nothing on any of the other states. FOUR weeks since Hugh Th. Mill er's gubernatorial candidacy was an nounced and he hasn't done anything to further it. than to shave off his whiskers. WHEN they meet around the stoves in the Crown Point stores, that baseball pennant is still a matter of discussion. THE beef trust will now kindly step forward to the bar. It will be the bar where they will have to take what they get, however. INDIANA suggests that if the way to a man's heart is through his stom ach, why not nominate old Doc WTiley for president? SOME girls would do anything to catch a husband even catch serins

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STATE TIMES HI REAt', AT STATE CAPITAL. v Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. IS. A dispatch from Washington says that KJwin M. Lee Indiana Republican state chairman, is soon to be appointed'to a , consular position by the government, j Is corroboration of the news printed in these dispatches two weeks ago to the effect that Lee would probably soon I retire from the race for re-election as state chairman and that he would prob- , ably be appointed to a good position. This Information was given out at that time on the best of authority, and it appears from the news from Washing-i ton that the appointment will be innde soon. The dltspatch does not stute ' what post Lee is to get In the consular , service, but that it will be a good one, and one that will be attractive is thj information. Lee spent several months in making

... ..n.ie canvass ot tne various coun- n for it. Either Uoetx or Korbly would ties of the state for re-clctlon as statu be eminently satisfac tory to the Tagchairman, and he expressed confidence 1 Kart crowd. Neither, however, would tn his success. But it has been noticed J SUit the Fleming faction. Governor that in the last few weeks Lee has no;, Marshall's friends are believed to be ben devoting so much of his time to 1 satisfied with Goetz, because he an.i that campaign. He has let down in hiB j Edward J. Fogarty. warden of the state activity, and it is learned now that this! prlson, hilV. macie up and Kogarty Is was due to the fact that he was to get 'Marshall appointee, but the Marshall the consular appointment which is men-! riien would not be satisfied with Korblr. tioned in the Washington dispatch. Before they would accept him they Lee would have strong opposition if , would have to be bucked and gagged. " he should persist in running for state Friends of Congressman Boehne, of chairman. Of that th-re can be no I Evansville, who is out for the Demo -doubt. But whether he could win or cratle nomination for Governor, are

not is a question. The general belief seems to be that if he should go ahead and try to be re-elected he would be defeated, for there Is a large element of the party that Is oposed to him. This would mean defeat for the Beveridge wing of the party, with which he has . been identified, and this is one of th-i tnings that the politicians of the party are seeking to avoid aV this time. They are srving- to bring about a condition where al facons of the party can get together on a plan or organization of the state committee, and the election of a state chairman without giving offense to anyone. If Lee had remained In the race and had been defeated this situation could not have been brought about. But with Lee out of the way. through he medium of a consular appointment it is pointed out that the organtzaion can be effected without giving offense o anyone. And this will be a happy outcome of a bad tangle. It is believed that this will mean the lection of either Harry S. New, of this ity, or Will II. Hays, of Sullivan, as tate chairman. Both are able men and clean party leaders. They are not identified with any faction and both have had a lot of experience In the po litical game. The fight for the Democratic state chairmanship has taken a new angle. Fablus Gwln chairman of the second district, has authorized the statement hat he will not be a candidate for chairman. He Is the man who was reThe Day in HISTORY "THIS DATE IX HISTORY.' November 16. 1632 Gustavus Adolphus died from i wounds received t the battle of Lutzen. Born In Stockholm, Dec. 9, 1594. 1745 The French and Indians surpris ed the village of Saratoga. 6 Fort Washington, New York, captured by the British. 1811 John Bright, famous English statesman," born. Died March 27, 1389. 1812 John Walter, founder of the Lou - don Times, died. Born In London in 1739. 1864 Sherman destroyed Atlanta, and began his march through Georgia to Savannah. 1870 Duke of Aosta elected king of Spain. 1885 Execution of Louis Rlel, leader of the rebellion In the Canadian Northwest. 1S89 Brazilian monarchy overthrown and a republic established. 1907 Oklahoma admitted to the Union. House of Lords the Asquith Government's bill restricting the veta power of the Peers. "THIS IS MY 2D BIRTHDAY" Stephen S. Gregory. Stephen S. Gregory, the new presi dent of the American Bar Association, was born in tHsego County. New York, November 16, 1849. In 185S he went with his parents to Madison. Wis., where he graduated from the University of Wisconsin and began the practice of law. Since 1874 he has been engaged In his profession In Chicago, where he ranks among the most prominent members of the local bar. Mr. Gregory defended Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Carter H. Harrison, and was assoclatd with Clarence Darrow In de fending the conspiracy case against Eugene V. Debs. With John P. Wilson he successfullly defended the constionallty of the law creating the Chicago sanitary district. Mr. Gregory has been president of the Chicago Bar Associa tion and the Illinois State Bar Association. LABOR NEWS

Renewed interest in, the Farmen' Union movement la being taken in southwestern Missouri. There is considerable unrest In the engineering trade of Hungary which may lead to a general strike or lockout in this Industry. The International Association of Bill Posters will hold its next annual convention in St. Louis during the week beginning December 4. Pittsburg, Pa., will be the first eat-

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CH garded as the Tagart candidate until a wek or so ago, when it was learned that Mayor Goetz, of South Bend, was under consideration and that lie stood a good chance of landing the mace. The Oo''tz talk 1,as .befn reading " ever the state, and it has met with fa vorable comment among Democrats, es pecially those, of the Taggart faction. But another name is now mentioned for the plac ,and il is that of Bernard Korbly, of this city, a brother to Con- I grssman Korbly. J Bernard Korbiy is the Democratic district chairman of the Seventh tils -trtct, and is one of the most dyed-in-the-wool Tugart Democrats in the state. He is a candidate for reelection as district chairman, and there Is no opposition up to this time. -He will be re-elected. Home of those who have ' been discussing the situation believe that this will give him an advantage in the race for state chairman, if he roo much wrought up over the circulation of a report by the opponents of the Boehne boom that Mr. Boehne is a sick man and that he is not able to make u. campaign or to fill the office of Governor even if he should be elected. The Hendricks Club executive committee, of Evansville. which Is backing Boehnes candidacy, has sent a letter to this ity denying this report, and stating that Boehne is In good health, as he will show In his campaign. They say this report has been spread in order to weaken his chances for the nomination. They say, al.so, that Boehne's enemies are circulating the report that Boehne is the only Democrat that could carry the First district for congress, and that therefore he ought to run again for that offle. But they say that Boehne has made tha district democratic and that there are other Democrats who could carry it. Boehne Is quoted also as saying that he would not again run for congress under any circumstances. He is through with that office, whether he is elected Governor or not. He made the state statement in this city a few days ago. The Boehne boom does not appear to be making very great headway, however. LitUe is heard of It here, and reports from other parts of the state are the same. Boehne's political managers have visited this city to line up uome support for their man, but up to thU time no one seems to have taken holi of the matter for them. ern city to have a. bakery conducted by the International Union of Bakery and Confectionary Workers. In Thurlngla, Germany, owing to the Increase In the cost of living, wages have been raised In many of the factories during the last year or two. The CALL STJKGEONS FOR WHITE HOUSE TREES ONE y Jy& PATIENTS'0 Tree surgeon have been called to treat tree on the White Kous grounds in Washington that are now decaying. Some of them were planted by presidents. The picture show a sugar maple that waa set out by Grover Cleveland during his first term as the nation's chief executive, and In which the decaying- process Is to be arrested by plugging the cavities witH cement. (

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Twelve sons came to one father, and one of them became the favorite. A mighty nation was formed, and one out of many citizens was elected to become King. And ver since those days there have been men whose offerings and services have been acceptable, boys whose industry has made them favorites, and citizens whose talents have caused them to be elected Kings, Governors and Presidents. They have been crowned with glory and honor, and all their brethren have bowed down before them. They have won mantles of authority and held scepters of power. They have governed the brains, the bodies, the souls and the pocketbooks of the multitude. It is not knowledge that so elevates men above their fellows, for many a learned man has been born, reared and buried In complete and absolute Insignificance. It is not hard work, for many a midnight toiler has slaved himself to his grave in a cellor or an attic on forty dollars a month. It is

not prudence, ambition, love or religion, for the possessors of these attributes stand In multitudes upon every round of the ladder of success. What is it? , I will tell you what it Is. The faculty of accepting public and private trust and putting upon one's shoulders the burden of responsibility. When an employer hasan important letter whlcJi he wishes to be mailed at 6 jp. m. he will either put it in the box with his own hands or give it in charge of some one who would rather miss his supper than fail to do his duty. When the President of the United States appoints a Secretary of War he selects a man who would rather be shot, hanged, drawn and quartered than to fail to act promptly in a pinch. When the people elect a governor they want a man who will either veto a bill or sign it. The rabble honors a man who will act a man who Is not afraid to do things and to be responsible.

daily working time has been reduced from ten to nine hours in the glass factories. The number of trade disputes re ported In Canada during September waa .eleven, a decrease of three compare with August, and a decrease of three compared with Sept. 1910. In Austria the legal maximum of labor Is eleven houra a day, but it is exceeded, under permit by a large number of working people, particularly inthe textile trades. There are strikes in the building trades and in the textile Industry in several towns of Brazil. The building trades obtained the eight-hour day several years ago, and are now striking for higher wages. The United Hatters of North America report that most all of the manufacturers who. In 1909. banded themselves together and decided to dispense with the union label on their products, are now using the label. VOICE OF PEO PLE OX SOCIALISM. Hammond, In., Nov. 16. Editor Times: In your editorial Saturday, November 12, under heading "Wiping Out Party Lines," I would like to offer a few comments. First, about the four towns In Hobart township. In this instance, no great questions were at stake, no strikes, ,no interests desiring franchises or special privileges, and last, but not least, theri are no great social inequalities. Grafters can parade under the name of any party If It can be used as a veneer. Hence the new following party lines. Secondly,' the reason that many Socialist mayor were elected to municipalities in Ohio is explained in the fact that class consciousness was systematically fostered and mfiucea by the distribution of pamphlets and papers in

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RESPONSIBILITY. Some time near the beginning of the world men were equal In everything e xcept capacity and ability. They did not long remain so. Two brothers offered up sacrifices, and the offering of one was more accept

the working class district. Also the enormous sale of text books on SocialIsm in Ohio. Pennsylvania. Wisconsin and California were responsible for the large gains at election times as the records will show. A Socialist elected to public office is controlled by the entire membership; his resignation papers are placed in the hands of the party before he takes office. He is their servant, pledged to do their bidding for the good of the people. Important matters, to be voted upon in law-making bodies are referred back to the membership and the office holder is instructed as to their wishes. Should he fail to carry out these instructions, he is recalled from office, as illustrated recently in Kansas and North Dakota. The offending members was removed,- a new election held and another Socialist elected to fill his place. In all hl?tory, it is not recorded where the Socialists as a party have betrayed the people by whom they were appointed and whose Interests they were expected to serve. In foreign countries, especially Germany, Socialists have controlled cities for many years and the party is gaining In strength every year. Socialism is the stepping stone to industrial freedom and will eventually bring down the profit system and all our present social evils and Inequalities. It is only now in Its infant stage, cutting Its eye teeth, as you might say, but nevertheless it is wondering how It will sotn day f-l to live in the "White House.'' PAUL L. WKK1IIT, 60 W. "Sibley street. Princeton Mayor Pavlson has appointed a committee of citizens to Investigate the Consumers Oai company of this city to determine whether it is complying with its franchise in the matter of rates charged consumers for natural, artlfllcial and mixed gas. The maximum rates rft 23 cents for natural, II for artlflciaT and 65 cents for ixed, and some consumers allege they have been paying the mixed rate for natural gas. ARE YOU READING THE T1ME3T