Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 55, Hammond, Lake County, 21 August 1912 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS r Tke Lata CMMr Frtattac faaw IbUac Coaipaay. Tna Uk County Times, dal'iy except Bandar, "entered a aeoond-elass matter June tl. l0"j The Lake County Tlmea. daily except Saturday and Bunay. entered Feb. , mi; The Gary Evening Tlmea, dally except Sunday, entered Oct. t, !: The Lake Coeoty Times. Saturday and weekly edltioa, entered Jan. 10. 1111: The Tlmea, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. IS, 11. at the postofflea at Hammond. Indiana, aI tinder the aet ef March . UTt, Entered at the Postofflea. Hammond. Ind am second-class mutter. roRKIGTI ADVKRTISIXQ OmCBS II Rector Building '- - Chicago FI7BLICATIOX OFFICES, Bamtnoad Bulldln. Hammond. Ind. TELEPHONES Hammond (private eaohaag) .... ..ill (Call for depart Kv an t jraat4.X Gary Office. Te!. U7 East Chicago Office Tel. 540-J Indiana Harbor Tel. S49M; 160 Whiting TeL 9-M Crown Point .....TeL 83 Hcgtwttch ....TeL II

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MASONIC CALENDAR. Hammond Chapter, No. 117, meet econd and forth Wednesday of each month.

Hammond Commandery, No. 41. Res;nlar meeting nrst and third Monday of eah month.

had been improper. Nevertheless Joseph Sorraa, according to Judge Frank Green, re

fused to prosecute, and the cases against five men, who hold the honor of a little girl so cheaply, were dismissed. In Hammond this has happened repeatedly. Iii knight-errantry a thing of the past. We call the Japanese heathen and yet despite the low standard of. morality which prevails there the ' bushldo" Is the dominant impulse anl the Samuri protects the innocence of women with his life. Here low-browed human vultures flock about an Innocent unprotected girl of seventeen, dispoil her, ruin her life and get off without even a fine. As a matter of public safety the people of I,ansJng, Bernice and Oak Glen ought to drive these men out of town and order them to stay away. For all they know their own daughters may be the next victim. Little Hattie Sorma had no father to protect her innocence. She lived with a foster father who apparently did not guard her as carefully as she should have been guarded. It therefore becomes the duty of the state to make an example of the men who were iuvolved in this case. The state has failed miserably in its duty. The ends of justice have not been attained, tl Is enough to make people lose faith in our system of government. And this is an example of our much vaunted civilization.

Some time ago Gary let a sewer contract. A sad aftermath came the other day when 1,100 lots surrounding it were sold for taxes because the people couldn't pay the assessments. This is confiscation. Peopla of Ridge rotid must pay nearly $300,000 for a sewer which an honest and efficient engineer said should cost but $235,000. Later on there will 'be some grand Jury investigations. Hobart doesn't want to figure in any of these probes.

FELICIA We believe Jane Addams is a gifted and a sincere woman but we are convinced also that she loves notoriety and eelf-ad-vertising.

ARE WE CIVILIZED. In this community the justice counts will fine a man for stealing coal from the railroad, will send hiia to jail for the theft of a bicycle, there are scores of convictions for seining but the arch criminal who steals the virtue of young girls is seldom if ever convicted . Has the masculine degefterated to

the extent that he no longer cansid- WHEN a Braall boy can go around era it his privilege to protect the J all day attired In nothing but a cotyoung and innocent from the bestial ton bathing suit, little recks he of

IT might be well for the sporting writers in the Northern Indiana League to get together and agree a little more on the percentages.

appetites of sexual perverts? Little Hattie Sorma of Bernice through parental or guardian neglect became the common property of the community. She finally went to live with a grizzled old fellow with a family of children. According to her own statement

the amenities of civilization.

HOB ART'S SEWERS. The town of Hobart is about to let a contract for a $50,000 sewer. A lot of contractors are bidding on the job. If Hobart people don't want to

she was repeatedly mistreated while do some Weeping later on they there. The old fellow, himself admit- should see to it that their town , ted that his relations with the girl board does the right thing.

THE way some of these girls dress around here should convince Cupid that he need have no trouble whatever in hitting the mark.

LANSING is determined to be just as naughty a little girl as she can be without getting spanked oftener than twice a week.

THE latest sport for the wealthy is to charter a steam yacht and go out to hunt icebergs. An ideal summer vacation, wot?

registration should not be neglected, years ago. Our city populations dur

ing the past twenty years have in-

THERE are 12,000 lawyers practicing in New York City. No wonder so many of the policemen get Into trouble.

AN Illinois cow chewed up and swallowed a ten dollar Panama hat. Getting so now that cows insist on luxuries.

ANYONE who thinks that we can't raise fine stock around here should take in the county fair this week.

creased 21 per cent while the aggregate acreage of all the cereal crops increased only 3.5 per cent and the actual yield in 1909 was but 1.6 per cent greater than in 1899. Is it any wonder that the cost of living Is Increasing? Need the man who depends merely on the amount of work he can do with his two hands any other argument to Induce him to apply this labor for the benefit of himself and family?

MARK well the returning vacationer. By his tan and his mosquitoriddled hide ye shall know him.

IF you want to be somebody or do something in this world you will

THE REGISTRATION LAW. A correspondent asks for information about the Indiana registration law. Section 4 of this law provides for registration as follows: "The registration board of each precinct muct, in the year of a general election, hold three sessions, the first on Thursday, the one-hupdred-and-elgh-tieth day preceding such election, to be known aB the May session; the second on Friday, the sixtieth day before such election, to be known as the September session; the third on Monday, the twenty-ninth day before such election, to be known as the October session." The May session this year opened on May 9. On that date a great many voters registered. The law provides that a voter may register at any one of the three sessions. The two remaining sessions will be on September 6 and October 7. Those who registered on May 9, providing they have not in the meantime moved and do not move before election day need not register again. Those who have not registered at 11 or who, though registered on May 9, since have moved, must register at the coming sessions. If they fail to register on September 6, or if they again move, a third and final opportunity to register will come on October 7. A voter, in order to be entitled to vote, must be registered; hence

THE COST OF LIVING. Last week the drivers on freighjt express and furniture wagons In Hammond received an Increase in

wages, the demand having been made have to cease fearing criticism

through the teamsters' union. This week their employers voted them

selves an Increase in rates. There isj LAKE county is experiencing its nothing surprising in the action of annual combat with Nature in filling

either organization. No one need be;tarns with her productiveness,

surprised to see another correspond

ing increase in the course of time. The increased cost of living will naturally bring it about. There is no one to say now that the rates of either organization are exorbitant. What is the solution? The back-to-the-land movement i3 the solution. Here are Intelligent young men. In the prime of their lives putting In ten hours a day in dull routine work calling for ,00 originality and only brute strength. Their work - hold no future. The man with a family in a city nowadays does not go very far with eighteen dollars a week. The very sunshine and blue skies, the sight of trees and flowers, the song of the birds, and all the bounties of nature which are thrown in "to boot" in the country he must purchase for his wife and children by giving them street car fares. The dingy flat the Ill-smelling alley and the unwholesome city atmosphere are the lot of his family if he would have something for the rainy day. Statistics showing that greater opportunities In the soil are not lacking. They, were brought home very distinctly in THE TIMES last week when it was Bhown that seven firemen tilling an acre of ground in their spare time raised products valued at nearly $300. Statistics show 1 that there Ms less land in cultivation east of the Mississippi now than there was ten

SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS.

Detroit man who lived in a boarding house demands the return of his room rent. He wants it back because he found It tenanted by bed bugs and thinks that they and not he should pay the rent. He had to kill 28,000 of them before he could sleep so he says. He should have a care or somebody will have him arrested for hunting without a license.

HEARD BY RUBE

THREE things no wise recommends a good hotel, novel and a beauty doctor.

person a good

HEALTH is one of the most valua-

Jble things we have and yet we give

it up for baser things.

ANOTHER way to avoid being stricken by the heat Is to cut out political argument.

WOMEN have two ways of changing color, rage and rouge.

THERE is great rejoicing and a terrible hulabaloo among the bull moosers because one Inman of the Mlddletown, Ind. News has flopped. May we ask who is Inman and where on earth is Mlddletown?

"A CYCLE, in engineering, is any series of operations that leaves conditions the same at the end that they were at the beginning. "-i-From Tower. In other words, the Roosevelt promises are cycles. SINCE our millionaire townsman, Louie Bryan of Gary, has to marry a baby doll every so often. It la a wonder that Louie Isn't patriotic about It and marry soma local dolls. "OVER in Pennsylvania they've opened war on the dictagraph as a witness and are going to ask the leglslature to outlaw it. The political machine la the only one they tolerate over there." Toungstown Vindicator. Some one please tell the folks from Bill Fllnn's state that tttey have even better methods around here for queering the dictagraph. FALL must be upon us. A Robertsdale native felt and broke his shoulder In a roller skating: rink. SEE by old Doc Evans writings that there are 22,000 less bacteria to the

pint In city milk than there are In the small towns. If you don't believe It, count them. AUSTRIAN prince had to have fortyone hotel rooms for himself and bride while on their honeymotn. Owing to the hi kost of living most couples around here will have to get along with about forty rooms less than the requirements of royalty. NOW that Alderman Tim Englehart Is for having city inspectors to inspect the county inspectors no doubt old Battle Axe CaBtleman from his plantation retreat wonders whether it Isn't as complicated as his famous amendending amendments to amendments already amended. ( THET have Jap girls down in the Mexican 'phone exchanges. How'd you like to pick up the receiver and have one of those sweet klmona-clothed young things answer you? THE office boy who keeps track of

j such things says that despite the nu

merous warrants served on the mayor of West Hammond lately, the mayor of Gary still stands at the head 61 the arrested percentage, list. , , ANOTHER little darting: "Mr, and Mrs. O. Darling of Park avenue are the proud parents of a new baby girl, born Sunday, Aug. 18th. Burnham correspondence Thb Times. WONDER why It Is that young Al Beverldge hasn't been making any of those Inspiration speeches lately? "THERe' Is no use in preparing parks for a town of 35.000 such as we now are. We must prepare for a city of 150.000 people." Park Commissioner Carr in the Gary Tribune. As. this ia

likely to be a hard winter for the construction and the improvement and ballast companies bettter prepare for 600 -000 people. NOW that Governor Marshall has been notified of his Baltimore nomination he can go back to one of his chief duties that of nguring out how many more scalawags he will let out of the Michigan City prison. CABLE dispatches have it that Woodrow Wilson lead In a straw vote taken In Japan. No doubt if It had been taken In China tho thing would have been unanimous for the professor. Tou know he wrote that It is better to let In the chinks and keep out the Austrians. Bulgarians, Poles, etc.

The Day in HISTORY

"TUIS DATE IN HISTORY" A u tut 31. 17S6 Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval hero, born. Died Aug. 23, 1819. 1796 Ashur B. Durand, the first American engraver, born at Maplewood, N. J. Died there, Sept. 17, 1886. 1S08 The British, under Sir Arthur Wellesley, defeated the French and Spanish forces at Vlmiera, Portugal. 1849 Kossutn, the Hungarian patriot, escaped from Austria. 1856 The historic Charter Oak, at Hartford, Conn., blown down in a storm. 1880 The allies In China repulsed the T&i-plng rebels and captured the Taku forts. 1881 Sioux Indiana massacred the whiti settlers at New trim, Minn. 1911 President Taft signed the Arizona and New Mexico Statehood bill. "THIS IS MY 57TH BIRTHDAY Bins 8ndhnrat. Baron Sandhurst, who several months ago was appointed Lord Chamberlain In aucesslon of Earl Spencer, waa born August SI. 1855, and succeeded to the title in 187. He waa educated at Rugby and served for a time as an officer of the Coldstream Guards. He was Under Secretary of War in 1SS8 and again from 1893 to 1894. In 1895 he waa appointed Governor of Bombay and continued to fill that position for four years. At the coronation of King George Baron Sandhurst served as civil attache to President Taft'a special envoy. In his present position as lord Chamberlain he has practical control of all court function. Congratulations to: John Fritz, "the father of the steel industry In the United States, 90 yeara Old today. John M. Thurston, forme? United Statea senator from Nebraska, 65 years old today. Louis P. Brodeur, Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, 60 years old today.

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