Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 292, Hammond, Lake County, 31 May 1912 — Page 4
THE TIMES.
Friday, May 31, 1912.
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Th Laka County Tlma. dai'.jr except Sunday, "entered aa second-class matter June 2S. 10"; The Lake County Times, dally except Saturday and Sunday, enteied Feb. I. ItU; The Gary Evening Times, dally except Sunday, entered Oct. 6, l0t; The Lake County Times. Saturday and weekly edltloa, entered Jan. 30, Ull; The Times, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. IS, 111. at the postofflae at Hammond. Indiana, ail tinder the act of March S. 1171. i Entered at the Poctofflca. Hammond. Ind.. a aecond-class matter. .
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HOME DEFINED. "Home's not nerely f nr qmrr Trail. Tkonch with pictures haag and gilded Home la where affection calls. Filled with ahriaea the heart hath bulldrd. "Hoar! Go watch the faithful dove Sailing- aeath the heaven above a Hosae la where there's e to laveHome Is where there's one to love as. "Home's not merely roof aad room.
It aeeds somethlas; to eadear lt
Home Is where the heart can bloom
Where there's some kind lips to cheer It."
purpose, namely, to enhance th Interest, of life by good enchantment, to save people from the plague of dullness and the curse of Indifference by showing them that the "world
is full of the stuff for hearty laugh
ter and deep sympathy. This way of seeing things, with constant reference to their humorous and senti
mental potency was essential to the genius of Dickens.
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MASONIC CALENDAR. Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M
special meeting Wednesday, May Hth,
Mark Master.
Hammond Commandery No. 41 K. T.
Stated conclave, Monday, June 3rd, Knisht of Malta.
ness districts means vast increases in values.
The man who is able to pick out
the street which will be the center
of the great mercantile district of
this future metropolis of the State of
Indiana will make millions.
The Calumet region is just on the
threshold of the most wonderful
period of development that the
world has ever known. The imag
ination . which can see ten story
buildings rising on vacant lots; th-s imagination which can be tempered
with good judgment and conservat.
ism will reveal undreamed of
fortunes. j S
So accustomed have the people of
the Calumet region become to hear
ing extravagant claims regarding
the possibilities of the region that
they discount the probabilities of the
future.
The basis of great fortunes has been laid already and other fortunes
are to be made. Only the persplcui
ty to see where the increase in values is to come is needed to make fortunes for even the small Investo.
CHEER UP MR. BOILING. The esteemed South Chicago Calumet editor is again wasting his brilliancy on the Indiana Harbor "slipping" question again. It is hard to understand why he cannot find something nearer the truth to exercise his keen wits. If he will come over to Indiana Harbor or Gary sometime we shall be "pleased to point- out the fallacy of these diatribes; show him the firmness of the land and that he can walk along old Lake Michigan's beach in Indiana without falling off and getting his feet wet. Here is the latest "Bawling out" we get from the editor: Not very long ago, when the docka at Indiana Harbor slipped into the lake, because of shifting sand, we took occasion to point oujt the futility of trying to locate a harbor there. We pointed out the difficulties which had attended harbor construction at Michigan City, and said time would demonstrate the ' impossibility of any such project, located where
the, swirling sands wrought up by
the northeast tempests, were bound to overcome man's efforts. This common sense view of the question awakened loud protests from speculative real estate In -tests in that section, which seemed to imagine themselves modern King Canutes, who could In reality command the tides and waves. Probably a desire to sell land at purchaser's risks had something to do with the protests. For the last three days a storm has raged out of the northeast. It has beaten upon our shores, it has stirred and shifted and washed away, relentlessly and with awecompelling might. This morning bright shines a summer's sun. It looks upon a . devastating havoo along tha shores from South Chicago, on and along the southern border of Lake Michigan. Where was that havoc greatest? Indiana Harbor; wher the shifting sands, caught tho first Impact ( the swirling white caps, and today finds Its boasted harbor a toy to, the elements. Any harbor which cannot resist storm. Is no harbor at all. Why should the government waste money on a palpable impossibility?
FORTUNES IN REAL ESTATE.
An article in one of the current magaines shows how the Astors, the
wzendels and four or five of the wealthiest families of New York city made their fortunes in the increase
of New Tork real estate.
. They bought lots and acres and
hung onto them until they had in
creased in value so marvelously that they were made millionaires. They had the fore-sight to see that New
York city was the logical location of
the metropolis of the country. The same opportunities are open to the resident of the Calumet region today. THE TIMES list of unbuilt industries Indicates that the region will have a population of 500,000 in ten to twenty years . It will take enromous business districts to take care of such a population. The building of these busi-
rows now because of the high cost of
living. Seems to us as if it only makes matters worse. Look at the high cost of catching enough English sparrows for a family of five or six.
STANDARDIZING THE PRESS. The Pennsylvania State Editorial
Association advocates the licensing
of newspaper editors, just as lawyers
or doctors, or ministers are licensed
It wants a sort of supervision au
thority to pass upon editors to the end that the"dangerous" ones may
be eliminated, presumably.
The average editor will not ob
ject to being licensed. He is th
best-natured soul on earth, and does
not kick at any precautionary
methods. You can license him, vac
cinate him, baptize him, deodorlzs
or disinfect him, and it is all th9
same. He stands for anything.
But it should be borne in mind
that licensing editors will not make
good editors out of bad ones any
more than licensing lawyers makes
them all good lawyers. Nor will it
have anything to do with the opera
tlon of newspapers. Springfield
News.
THE COST OF LIVING.
Every one in this county who is
not worth one hundred thousand
and they are but few should
read the "American Spenders" in
the current Issue of the Saturday Evening Post. It is by Will Irwin
and it touches on the present day ex
travagance of the. working classes
Some very good facts, which might
acount for the present high cost of
living, call to mind that we are liv
ng a great deal different than those
of a generation ago. In fact the
difference between 1912 and 1896 i
ery marked. j We have become so ashamed of
economy that even in this very
county of ours you never see a school
boy with patched trousers. Did the boys of twenty years ago get th3 dimes and quarters as freely as they
do now? Father walked to work
then; now he rides when It Is over
eight" blocks.
If daughter goes to school sha
must dress very stylishly and keep
up a sorority appearance (happily
we haven't this evil in our county).
We might go on and point out a lot
of more illustrations but the Post
article covers the ground so well and the merits of Its logic are so timely
that no one should miss reading it.
THE Indiana society, composed in
the main of those vto made their
money in Indiana and have gone to Chicago to spend It, will condescend to tarry erstwhile In Hoosierdom for a
few hours.
MICHIGAN City judge held that be
cause & man pushed his wife down
Btairs she had no grounds for divorce. No, but if he had to push her upstairs probably he would have some reason for complaint, if not a divorce.
SCIENTIST says there are eighteen
million microbes on a $20 bill. Nobody
but scientists and bankers can argue
the matter with him, however, for only
they have $20 bills.
EXPERT says card playing stupe
fies the mind. Yes, there is nothing
more stupefying to find somebody has
nosed your kings up out of a big pot
with aces up.
THE ART OF CHARLES DICKENS
As an artist in fiction Dickens wa?
great; but not because he had a cor
rect theory of the technique of the
novel , nor J because he always followed good rules and models in writing,
nor because he was one
"Who saw life steadily and saw It
whole."
On the contrary, his vision of life.
though vivid, was almost always
partial says a contemporary. He
was capable of doing a great deal of
bad work, which he himself liked.
The plots of his novels, on which he
tolled tremendously, are negligible;
indeed it is ofen difficult to follow and impossible to remember them.
The one of his books that is notably
fine In structure and approximately
faultless in technique "A Tale of Two Cities" is so unlike his other novels that it stands in a' class bv itself, as an example of what he could have done if he had chosen to follow that line. In a way it is his most perfect piece of work. But it is not his most characteristic piece of work, and therefore It has less value for us than some of his books in which his peculiar, distinctive, unrivalled powers are mora fully, shown. After all, art must not only interpret the world but also reveal the artist. The lasting interest of hl3 vision, its distinction. Its charm, de
pend, at least In some ( real degree, upon the personal touch. Being himself a part of the things that are seen, he must "paint the thing as he
sees it" if he wishes to win the ap
proval of "the god of things as they are." Now the artistic value of Dickens's way of seeing things lay in its fitness to the purpose which he had ,1a mind and hear, a really great
PENALIZING THRIFT.
In what this Delphos, Kan., editor
writes of his own experience with th
ation a good many people will recog
nige a familiar condition. He says:
"Once upon a time the editor of this
paper became possessed of the laud
able ambition to own a home. Having
managed to save up a few dollars, he
purchased upon the payment plan somo
property which had been taken in on mortgage by an eastern investment
company.
"The house was in such bad repair that It was not fit for occupancy. The
cellar was full of stagnant water, weeds grew rantly about the house, the porches were rotted and sagging,
the house unpainted. The lot was a couple of feet above the sidewalk and
the earth had washed and caved, mak
ing it impassable. The place was an
eyesore ana a menace to nealth; we
wanted a home and saw its possible
ities. "It was located In a good neighborhood and from it we had a beautiful view over a pretty valley. Being rather handy with tools, we went to work before and after office hours.
We repaired the porches, "painted the
house, sodded and terraced the yard, and drained the cellar and put in curbing and parking. We worked early and late, until at last we had, as many people told us, one of the prettiest
homes in the town and then the assessor came around and doubled our taxes.
We were fined because we had
worked hard and converted disorder
into order, ugliness into beauty, and
had wiped out a plague spot In the
neighborhood. It is also true that the towner of a few vacant lots adjoining our place immediately advanced them
In price, but neglected to cut the tall
weeds which grew on them. It may be added that his taxes were not Increased, notwithstanding the fact that he held his lots at a higher price.
"We have told this story because the statement itself ought to cause
some one to do some hard thinking.
There surely Is something radically
wrong with a system of taxation In
winch a person is fined for merely being industrious." The tax on Improvements is a tax on industry and enterprise and operates to repress them. In some countries all improvements are exempt and they should be exempt In all our states. England and Germany, to mention only the most important c6untries, have found a way to keep the owners of land for speculative or in
vestment purposes from reaping the
reward of his neighbor's enterprise Their means is the tax on the un
earned increment in land values.
Dubuque Telegraph.
IN the meantime It will be just as
well for Indiana's delegation to the
national convention to remember that
it is there for the good of the party.
cot of any one man.
steamers, so even if John D. doesn't give TThltlng that sanitary drinking fountain this year the sight of the trusty salts from the steamers docked along the Inland canal should heal all sore spots.
A WIRE .from our special corre
spondent. Hennery Coldbottle. who Is enroute from the motor races at Indianapolis, Bays that he has changed his
homeward route so as to leave out
Lowell.
A WIRELESS received from the top
of the Hotel Ponchatrain and signed
'A, B.p" which -might man Antony,
Baukus, the confessed and missing alderman, indicates that he now regrets
that he ever left Gary and he inquires how much the roulette benefit pot is to
be.
HEOEWISCH wants more water
pressure. Now what's the matter with
those brewery agencies over in Hege-
wlsch?
SEE by The Times that Whiting's
ball team is to have new timber and for the benefit of those Indiana Harbor
fans we will say that It won't be wood
en heads either.
THE editor of the 'steemed Fort
Wayne News tearfully asks his readers to forget Doc Wiley's aby, and while we are at it we would like to add that a plea that there be less said about the Indiana society's picnic at Culver tomorrow. NOTHING tickles a mairVbct doesn't own a machine more than to see the cops nab an auto speeder.
"TIZ REMINDS HE OF
MY BAREFOOT DAYS!'
IT Is impossible for Mat Sternberg,
of Indiana Harbor, to take any Interest
in politics or anything else. The Harbor boys have lost three straight games.
SOMETIMES a woman gets angry if you agree with her. When a woman says "Oh, I know I'm not pretty," and you agree with her, of course she gets angry.
PRESIDENT Taffs new pension law will make the old soldiers look upon Memorial Day with more tenderness than ever now.
"My Feet Never Get Sore, Tired ox
Chafed Now, Because I Use TIZ."
"TIZ makes me feel like a boy again. Nothing would hurt my feet Jn those days; even when I'd run around barefooted with Rover, over rocks and peb bles and sticks. -
"WW Y.u ThiW About Cramp. 7"
dltlFFITIL MiS8 Wllma Woods, Miss Eva But
ton and Miss Mary Mcllvaine spent the
week end at the home of Miss Mary E. Bennett.
r. and Mrs. Walters and sons attended the funeral of their nephew, J. Cunningham, at East Chicago, yesterday. John Hutton and his mother, Mrs. Caroline "Dutton. visited at Rosa yesterday.
neither absent nor tardy during the ninth, month of school: Leo tSovert. Jacob Zyp, Arvld Gustation, Daniel Getslnger, Mamie Helfen, Helen Hanson, Marlon Meyenburg, Raymond Covert, Karl Taggart, Leigh Alger, Edith Govert, Margaret Grimmer, Frankle Dutton. . Maurice Hutchlns, Wayne Light foot, Aloyslus. Mary E. Bennett, teacher. A. S. Dowler of St. Louis was here Tuesday looking over the town and surrounding country with the view of locating here. I J. C. Groves of Dubuque, la., was i here Monday looking after his real es
tate interests. v. - i
DYER.
Miss Elenora Scheldt who has been spending a few days with relatives her returned home with her aunt
John Miller. Jr.. was a Hobart visitor MlM Barbara Schcidt. yesterday. . John j Klein ' announces to his Mrs. Clara Duttori and Miss Valrie'manv frlends that on Sunday he will Prott were Hammond shoppers 'Wed-' n an ic(S cream' parlor and connesday. feetionerv shoo.
Mrs. E. Newcomb and her niece. Miss Laura Newcomb, of Highlands called on friends here yesterday. Mrs. L A. Southworth and daughter. Miss Emily went to Valparaiso yesterday. The latter will take a normal course there this summer.
Mrs. Joe Russell, who was reported
Mrs. M. Schaller of Hammond was a Dyer visitor yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kellman wcrt among the Michigan City visitor ye terday. Anna Kellman of Hammond visited her parents yesterday.
The. following visitors from Chicago
to have been taken to a hospital for an spent Decoration Day here: Misses M.
operation, did not o as her condition Schaefer, Anna Hoffman, K. Greiner,
was so much improved that it was hoped the. operation would be unnecessary . She is much better at this time.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hand of Madison, Wis., are spending a few flays at the home of their brother, Noah Hand. Mrs. P. R. Tucker and daughter of Ross visited friends here Tuesday. H. C. Dutton transacted business at Ross Tuesday. Contractor Ed. Riggle, who received the contract for repairing the broken places in the concrete walks, is making rapid headway at the work. The following pupils of room II were
and Messrs. Jacob Hoffman and Mat Hoffman. ' '
Mr. and Mrs. A. Stommel and daughter Ruth were Michigan City visitors yesterday. Mrs. R. Peacock was a Chicago vlsiy j tor yesterday. Mr. M. Bchlachter and daughter ot ' Chicago were Dyer visitors yesterday.
THERE'S A CHANCE THAT TOTJ OUGHT NOT TO POSTPONE! THAT "SHOPPING" ANT LONGER. READ THE! TIMES' ADS AND SEE IT THIS IS NOT SO.
IT is high time to get busy with the screen and the garbage can, swatting the fjy to keep in practice every now and anon.
GUESS summer has thrown her hat in the ring by the looks of the dust on the country roads.
SO far we have failed to get any report on the toothsomeness of this season's chickens.
IT is necessary to bolt sometimes or choke to death trying to swallow thingB.
HEARD BY RUBE
THEY are trying to tell Vincent
Astor how to spend his money. If we aren't too late, we suggest that he get
In touch with Dick Schaaf or Walter
Riley and have them show him where
a few choice lots will take care of part of it. 1
DENNISON (la.) paper calls John W. Kern the grand old Abraham Lincoln of Indiana. Our junior senator may be grand, he may be old, he may be from Indiana, but by the nine gods of war we fail to note any resembling mentality to the martyred Lincoln.
WOMAN with nine children was arrested the other day in a neighboring county. Heaven, help her! A woman
who has borne that many children
ought to have the best of everything
Instead of being arrested. "
THEY want us to eat English spar-J
0 mmmB
EVEN the autos are doing It: "It Is hinted that Dlehl was running his car on alcohol instead of gasoline and that accounted for the accident." From.THB Times. THE motion film people taking Mexican conquest views at Miller beach, may know what t iey are doing, but if they had the armies of the Hon. Bill Vrolius and th Hon. Tom Ephraim Knotts scrapping over the lake front deal the pictures would attract a bigger clientele in these parts. WHY spend $30 to see the motor speedway races at Indianapolis? It doesn't cost . more than a qaurter to get out to Ridge road and see those
cranks go a whole lot faster than they
dare to on a speedway.
THE leather medal this week goes to the Gary authorities. Although they made . a little mistake and forgot to
stop the bribery benefit carnival gam
bllng last weelt they have vindicated
tho law by arresting several Hungarian penny-ante players this week.
Those who spoke harshly of the Gary officials last week will now tee that
they mean well when it is the other
fellows?
SEEING that the-land down Lowell way has gone dry" we might mention
that If any one wants to go in for
starting a blind pig they should first
equip themselves with that handy book entitled, "The Immunity Bath," which is from the pen of a well known Gary expert. - - CONSIDER the' humble toad. It is ugly, but it is the farmer's chief ally when it comes to getting rid of the little bugs. . "I believe the president will carry the solid delegation with perhaps the exception of two districts, and in this district we have an excellent, chance. Mr. Taft's New Jersey campaign manager. All of which goes to show that even the best of us ought to guess again now and anon. WITH Col. Timothy W. Englehart back once more eating buckwheat cakes in his Ridge road baronial mansion, the Ridge Is itself once again. A. C. H. Tour suggestion that we have sanitary and individual drinking cups for horses is all right, but wait till they provide enough for tho hu
mans. STANDARD OIL has ordered atx new
"To bo able now to have feet that never ache, never get tired, blistered, swollen or chafed, or have corns, callouses or bunions. Is a glorious recompense for all the other aches and pains ona suffers In the winter of life. TIZ
makes the feet feel young, and young
reet make you feel young all over. "I've tried many things for my poor
old tired feet, 'for those bunions of 20 years, and for those corns that have added wrinkles to my face. I've tried plasters, powders and salves and nothing has ever given the relief that
xiz nas. My feet are now strong ana vigorous, they never get tired or swollen. I have no corns, callouses or bunions any more they are boy's feet on an old man!" TIZ gives instant relief and cures all foot troubles. It operates on a new principle, draws out all the poisonous exudations that cause foot miseries. Don't accept, a substitute. An elderly man specially, has a mind of his own; see that you get TIZ. TIZ, 25 cents a box. sold everywhere, or sent direct, on receipt of price, by Walter Luther Dodge & Co., Chicago, 111. Recommended by all Drug Stores, lepartment and general stores.
IDtaJFMCIES
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G. MINAS OO Hammond's Greatest Dept. Store
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Saturday Grocery Specials
Cut Vour Food Bill at this Sale
Dearborn
20c
Karo or Fort Corn Synip, 5-lb can .......
Fancy Japan Rice, 8c kind, iQr 3 pounds I Armour's or Sndier's Tomato Soup, 1 (n 2 cans. I Ull
Rumford's Ponder, 25c can
Minas Blend Coffee, best value in Ham
mond, per lb
Sweet Juicy Navel Oranges, 1 fift per dozen Qu 20-Mule Team Borax, 1-pound 1 0fa package 1 dAt Red Alaska Salmon, 1-pound tall 2 Q Q Oriole Corn Flakes,2 packages 1 FjQ
Baking 19c
27c
Argo Gloss Starch; three 1-pound packages. : .... 1 1
Full Cream Brick Cheese,
Ier pound ..........
Rockwood's Breakfast Cocoa, 25c can 1 Oa at IOC
aah vwm w 18c
19c
Butter, Elgin Creamery, guaranteed absolutely pure and finest quality obtainable, lowest QQp price of year, per lb si. ww Sugar, best Eastern Granulated, with grocery order of 1.00 or more, flour, butter or soap not C 1 ft included, 10 pounds . ....... O I Lr Soap, Kirk's American Family or U. S. Mail, with grocery QQft order, 10 bars. . . . . OUu Pineapples Do your canning now, prices can't be lower. Fancy ripe fruit, per dozen, 73c; CAl each. v.vi 4 . . . U2U -i . . . Flour Another chance to buy the best cheap. Gold Medal or Ceresota, ya-bbl sacks, 3.12; Qfln -bbl sack, 1.58; Vs-bbl sack. OUU
Quaker Oats, OXr per package. . . 02
MILK Borden rs Peerless, dozen large cans, 88c; per' can. , ... V . Saturday Candy Specials
Fancy Santa Clara Prunes pound . . . 10c Snider's Tomato Soup,
per can. ...........
Fancy Mezzina Lemons, large size, Ofll1 per dozen jfc&Uu
Domestic Sardines, in oil or mustard, 1 fin 3 cans. I Uu Fresh Cut Asparagus per fin bunch .....Uw Early June Peas or Solid Packed Tomatoes, 2 cans 25C Fancy California Hams, weigh from 5 to 7 pounds each 4 I J per lb. ... ... I I H Choice of Kidney, String or Wax Beans, Hominy, Pumpkin or Sugar Corn, dozen cans, 88c; IXf per can. f 21 :.7c
Assorted Fudges, fresh made, 1 0p per lb I & w All our Regular 40c Chocolates, special for QCSaturday, per lb. . . Ji
Fresh Roasted Salted Peanuts, 1 0f per pound 1 U Buttercup Candies, with cocoanut centers, H f per pound U"
Fancy Walnut Meats, all halves, Qf per lb. .'.Owl
Molasses Kisses, 15c reg
ular price, Saturday, per lb.
10c