Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 31, Hammond, Lake County, 31 August 1912 — Page 4
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Hammond Commandery. No. 41. Resalar meeting And third Monday of each month.
FREE LURCHES. We are wholly opposed to the aboil tloo of that ancient and honorable Institution, the free lunch.
Th free lunch has ever been a
solace and It has cheered
millions.
Nowadays la these tiroes of great trusts the free lunch Is the last free thing left In America and for heavens
sake don't slay It.
r.OH no the Wilson who tells whv Taft should he elected Is not
Wood row.
WOMAN went 3,000 miles to find
her husband. Thought they were not
worth It.
CHEER up it may be possible yet to get a letter from your girl on Sun
day.
THE EMPTYING ZOO. It is presumed that the order
PL J'X'TTT? Ot- for lxlH
VESPKRAL.
I, too. behold tbe day aad know It alr
I have lala silent where the noentldea anetl.
Woven of leavee and water and
air. Gives the hashed solitude a peaca to
Wbrrr gathered bnt-e and rarance
compel Tbe willing; aoul along; the way of sleep.
I. too, exult when through a awirl of
cloud The flamlni ania thruata forward like a ableld
Whereunder all the hoata f atorm are
bowed, And the laat cohort of tbe mitten rain
Flee down tbe wide borlaon, till the
field Of hard won aky be left without a stain.
Yet sweeter than all these the Uttl
apace Of alowly monntlDR twilight, are the nla-ht'a
Dominion la accomplished, and her face
Shadow the earth with ealmj most dear to me
A dylna; flush of sunset, and veiled
light Of musing; Mars above a soundless aea.
Charles E. Wbitmore In Serfbaer'a.
August 31, 1912.
his frock coat,, leaving a well fitting
overcoat in its place. f And winter is
approaching. The only difficulty is that at the church sociables Short will notbe able to. take off his overcoat. .
CHEERING news In these days,
when the high cost of living depresses
us, la a physician's statement that
half the present quantity of food is
the right amount. Humph! Maybe.
Stomach doesn't say so though.
ONE AS GOOD AS THE OTHER. Dr. Wiley gives Mr. Roosevelt a vote of 6,000,000 this early In the game. Why not 10.000,000 and be done with It? Indianapolis Star. Sure, give him 20,000.000 for all
we care. That's Just about as close as either you or old Doc Wiley will come to guessing the Big Wind's vote.
by section? No, you did not that was all arranged for you- you bad nothing to say about It. We Socialists did! Undemocratic way of selecting- a platform and a candidate for you, la It not? Its only "putting new wine In old skins." You have the "old aklna" all right. There are Teddy and a few thousand other hungry office-seekers clamoring for one more chance at the public crib. Bo you Progressives, blind followers of a blind leader, taw no need of a new party till Teddy had withdrawn from the regular, did you? The Idea never entered your cranlums that you needed this glorious thing until he was open for an engagement Then you taw that he was the very thing to complete your party. t But everybody is next they are on to the game of a fake candidate on a fake platform. - Why don't you vote for the real thing. Vote to abolish Interest, profit and rent. Own the trusts and your own homes vote for the full product of your labor, own your own tools of
production. In other words, vote for
real live Issues instead of palliatives and humbug reform.
PACT. I WRIGHT.
THERE is a good deal of intelli
gence on the bench, a judge having
decided that a man has no right to cross his legs In a car and muddy
other peoples' clothing. What about
putting children on the seat?
IT is a good thing that the post of the weather man is not an elective one for just now everybody in the county would vote unanimously for his retirement to even hotter climea.
of
banishment that the Gary ops issued against "Mike the Pike" is permanent and not a stall. If bo Gary's zoo loses another one of Its famous characters. Gary has had a lot of them but only the notorious Mike ever announced that he was "king of the town." There Is only one king in Gary and when the "Pike" began assuming royal perogatlves his downfall was speedy and we hope lasting.
WE can't Quite figure out how it is that "Gyp The Blood" hasn't been .dug up somewhere down in Laporte.
PHILADELPHIA man 72 years old was married Jast week. Gee how slow they are in that town.
BY all means Messrs. County Councllmn let us have that Forsyth avenue bridge. -
AN IMPORTANT MEETING. On next Tuesday, September 3 there will be a meeting of the county council, which means much to Lake county, especially the northern portion of the county, inasmuch as a matter of vital interest to every citi
zen of Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago will come up. This is the queston of an appropriation of $75,000 for a bascule bridge to span the canal at Forsyth avenue in East Chicago. If the bridge is built it means the opening of a vast area which is yielding the county but little revenue at present, making it available for factory 6ltes which when thus utilized will mean increased taxation on the territory affetced, sufficient to pay for a bridge of the kind sought, many times over. However the county need not depend on the revenue to be derived from prospective factory sites to defray the cost of the bridge. The taxes from the Schlesinger people alone, who recently purchased a
site of 400 acres with the Idea of
building a mammoth plant as soon as
the bridge for which the appropria
tlon Is to be asked, is built, will in a
short time pay for the Improvement
The bridge may therefore be regarded
in the light of a self paying investment Instead of a burden to the
county.
While there is litle doubt that the
county council will view the matter In this light, it may not be amiss to call the members attention to a few
facts before the meeting. ,In the first
place, the building of the Schlesinger
factory depends upon the installing of the bridge at Forsyth avenue. Second, the taking over of the west branch of the canal by the govern
ment Is dependent upon it ,as the gov
ernment will accept no portion of tbe
canal so long as it is encumbered with
a stationary bridge. The B. & O. Co
has agreed to construct a bascule bridge at Its crossing over the west branch of the canal, so this impediment is disposed of, leaving only the present stationary bridge at Forsyth avenue to be done away with, in order to make the west branch of the canal acceptable to the government in the matter of bridges. When the Schlesinger people of Milwaukee bought the vast tract they now own, it was on condition that a
number of things be done. The East
Chicago company was to dredge the west branch of the canal through to Lake George; the B. & O. Chicago terminal was to erect a bascule bridge
where it crosses the canal with its right of way, the city of Hammond was to make certain changes in its
streets, to conform with the plans of the Schlesinger people, and the coun
ty was to erect a bascule bridge at Forsyth avenue,. Inasmuch as te
East Chicago company was- willing to spend $250,000 in fulfillment of its obligation, the railroad company
$75,000 for a bridge, and the city of Hammond was willing to do what it was up to it to do in order to comply with the requirements, the Schlesinger people took a chance on the county doing Its share on the assurance of substantial business men that the county would do what was right. The East Chicago company Is spending its quarter of a million as an Investment, and in the same light may the expenditure of $75,000 by the county for a bridge at Forsyth avenue, be regarded. The bridge is more necessary right now than' any other improvement that could possibly be asked for. Delay in this matter means a whole year's setback as the county council meets only once a year, and action must be taken at this meeting or the entire matter must go over for twelve months. If the bridge is built it means the completion of the canal as far as Lake George and its acceptance by the government by the time the
bridge Is completed, the construction of the Schlesinger plant without delay, the imporvement of land now alueless and revenueless to a noint
where it will become the source of
large revenues to the county, and the
disposing for years to come of the
question of how traffic from Chicago will enter Lake county for direct
routes through to the southern and eastern districts of the county.
The bridge must be built soon any
how as the present structure Is in
adequate for the traffic imposed upon
it, and the apropriation might just as
well be made at once, and the Invest
ment negin at once to yield Its
revenue.
VISITING geographers state that, neither New York nor Chicago are true American cities. A chorus of "thank yous" from East Chicago, Gary and Hammond.
LIGHTNING in Kentucky struck a tree that stood in a pond killing 1,000 fish. When Judge Ames gets back from his fishing trip he will put that story In the shade.
STANDARD Oil letters were written it is charged merely to make a record. Somebody please put on another record or stop the music.
MAN in Rochester lived under the delusion that day was night and night was day says a news Item. What? In Rochester?
OHIO girl who eloped with a high diver has returned to her parents.
Probably found out that lief had too
many ups and downs.
LIFE is getting so rapid and so
complex that every day we are ex
pecting to see a baby carriage with a
motor in it.
A HERO is a man who goes around where he pleases in his shirt sieves, a martyr is a man who goes about with
his coat on.
RETRIBUTION, j Hammond, Ind., Aug. 30. I
Editor Turns: I
I am a printer by trade and love the ,
newspaper people.
In ancient times according to mythol- ,
ogy (one of the greatest studies to In
spire one with the truth of the reward of what was good and tre punishment of that which was bad.) "We read that
whom the Gods would destroy they first
made mad. Is the taking of the lives
of men and women in West Hammond
going to pass unpunished by the avenging nemesis of a righteous God? Never!
I remember how years ago in Chi
cago a good physician, a fine man, was lured to his death by evil-doers and 1 never will forget how one after another of those who did the great wrong
were visited by a certain sure fate and wiped out of existence with Ignomy. So it will be the case with the evil
doers of West Hammond, as well as
elsewhere.
God's decrees are as true today as In
the great past, there is no getting
away from the fact that "The souls
that slnneth It shall die."
I have watched It all my life and I
have noticed the awful conseauenc.es
follow the wrong doers. Many commit
ted suicide, others met frightful deaths
by accident.
Another idea of mythology was that
"the mills of the gods grind slow but sure." This I have found true aa much
today aa ever. Watch and aee.
In biblical records we read of Elijah
the prophet being scared so bad by a bad woman that he fled to the wilderness, and for this loss of full confi
dence In the powerd of the Almighty,
though his life was spared he was humiliated by being fed by the most
unclean birds, the ravens. He had to
learn a lesson. How discouraged the
must have been when he cried out the
words aa given in the "Oration of Elijah" in which tbe writer took a tenor part in a ehotr of 60 voices assisted by picked qaartet, Sunday even
ing. March 31 at Park avenue M. E.
church. Chicago, in these words: "Is
there then no more God in Zion.' If
Elijah lived today and was Jn the recent times in West .Hammond he truly could have sung that same story, but
there Is a God in Zion. and he is as true
and powerful today as ever. He never changes. Men's belief has not effect
whatever on God's truth.
God will repay sure and certain. His
blessings are great to them that believe
and trust him and his punishment is Just as sure, swift and awful. J. L. s.
MAN in Cincinnati named Short had great luck. A sneak thief stole
IF our forests are not preserved
what are the politicians going to do
when they take to the tall timbers in
the future.
VOICE OF RE O P lTe
A COMMENT OX THE PROGRESSIVES.
Hammond, Ind., Aug. 30.
Editor Time?: -In answer to Geo.
Groom's plea for the Bull Moose and bis cry for "actual human rights and
protection as against property rights
To make a start, the Progressive is
boss-ridden from start to finish, every
thing cut and dried for the sucker to
mite on. Teddy's only regret is that
he could not steal the necessary dele
gates at the Republican convention to insure his nomination for president on
the Republican ticket. Why did he not Btay away from the Republican convention if he had such fertile ideas as this "Rule of the People." Not he! If he
could have gotten the desired nomina
tion on the regular ticket you would
never have heard Teddy howl for re
form. Teddy has held office the
greater part of his life and thinks the people still owe him a living no matter
what the ticket..
Who are Roosevelt's supporters? Perkins and Munsey the Perkins of
Metropolitan Insurance scandal fame-
Perkins of the Steel trust Perkins of
Wall street. And the same may be said of Munsey. The Progressive plat
form was written by this same Perkins -it is his work and his alone. He gave it financial assistance as well as in
telligent direction and in one thing
Perkins has more ins than all the
other capitalists put together he sees Socialism and realizes that safety for the ruling class lies now In leading the people to vote for blind issues. The wily Perkins makes sure he has just the right kind of junk in the Progres
sive platform to catch the unsophistl
cated. Here is i'erkln's Idea in a nutshell. Bring out the wild, man from Osyster Bay and give him a platform
in part stolen from the Socialists and let him go around the country showing
his teeth and howling his head off. Ha
figures that this will hold the voters
for awhile. But men are getting ready to vote for live issues instead of dead
ones. Did you Progressives have a refer
endum vote on your, candidate for
'president, or on your platform, section.
"EVERYBODY LIES BIT TEDDY."
To The Editor of The Times Sir: It
is surprising that In connection with the present question of veracity be
tween Penrose and Archbold on one side and Rosevelt on the other, so little
reference has been made to similar oc
curences in Roosevelt's public career
heretofore.
One's memory goes back to the fol
lowing: When Henry M. Whitney of
Boston and a body of other business
men riem New England had an inter
view with Mr. Rosevelt wnen be was
President, and afterward quoted in good faith what he had said, a flat denial that any such conversation had oc
curred came from Mr. Roosevelt the
next day. Mr. Whitney's reply was dignified and expressed great astonish
ment, but if I remember correctly he
rtfrained from calling .h President of
h United States a liar.
Then came the Bowen spiso.l Bo- en
uiseovered evidence of grift and put it Bquarely up to the ex-Minister to Venezuela, who had meanwhile become
acting Secretary of State. Bowen wai forthwith called a liar and fired. I
knew Mr. Bowen when he was Consul
to Barcelona, and many of my friends know him intimately, ar.1 eoiue were
thrown with him intimately he!i lie
was in Venezuela. A more honorable
gentleman never lived.
Later came the "dear Maria" episode, where everybody lied except Roosevelt
In 1904 Roosevelt gav the lie dire-t
to Parker, but the difference between the public's confidence in him then and
now is marked. Then he was believed.
now who believes him?
But the Important thing about all this Is not so much whether or not the individual Roosevelt is or Is not a liar.
The fact remains that he. has brought
disgrace and contempt, especially In
the eight of foreigners, on the greatest
gift that can bestowed by the American
people. With the exception of Roose
velt there has not been a man who has occupied this high office who has not been sobered with Its sacred trust. He alone has trampled the trust of his countrymen in the dust and brought
disgrace to his country. R. S. P.
Up and Down in INDIANA
MATT BARKS LIKE DOG.
Physicians are puzzled about the case
of Harley Wagoner, 39 years old, who has been dangerously ill at the home of his mother, northwest of Marlon,
since last Saturday night. It is believ
ad Wagoner haa rabies. At times the
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young man has exhibited violent symtoms and it has ben found necessary to tie him in his bed. Two years ago Wagoner was bitten by a dog, but at
the time It was not known whether the
animal was mad. Four weeks ago he was bitten on the toe by a rat, and the doctors say It Is possible the rat had
been bitten by a mad dog. Wagoner
suffered several spasms yesterday, dur
ing which he barked and snapped like a dog.
HUSBAND FOUND HANGING. Charles H. Reevee, a machinist, was
found last night by his wife in the garden house at the Reeves home, at Lafayette, where, in the absence of the family, he had gone, and divesting himself of his clothing, hanged himself of his clothing, hanged himself with a clothesline. No reason Is assigned for the suicide. Reeves has three brothers
living In New Albany, Ind.
PURVIS WINS PRIMARY'. ' A primary was held In Tipton County
Thursday by Democrats to name their choice of a man to be appointed by
Governor Marshall to fill the unexpired
term of the late Leroy B. Nash on the
circuit bench. The official vote of the primary follows: J. M. Purvis, 687; Gl?n J. Glfford, 488; J. P. Kemp. 244; M. T. Shell, 112. . - , .
LOST BROTHER. AROUND HEREf Mrs. Rosa Gootee, a widow .of Tit-
cairn. Pa., has written C. A. Carlisle of the Studebaker Corporation at South Bend asking assistance In finding her brother, George W. Burkett, who she
has reason to believe Is living In north
ern Indiana, and who she has not seen
for nearly twenty years. She writes that he Is about 25 years old and is a
machinist by trade. COMMITTEE TO FINANCE COLLEGE.
A committee of twenty Marion citi
zens has outlined a plan for raising funds with which to purchase the buildings of the Marion Normal College and to establish a new college In Marlon. Mrs. Warren Springer of Chicago, has offered to finance the school if the people of this community acquire the property. Her Offer undoubtedly will be accepted and the committee hopes to raise sufficient funds within two or three weeks.
SPRING STR4AV VOTE GAG. Two Btraw votes taken by a traveling
man of Tere Haute on C. & E. I. trains in Ilinois resulted as follows: Taft, 4;
Roosevelt, 40; Wilson, 12; Chafin, 2; Debs, 3; not voting, 9. Taft, 0; Roose
velt, 9; Wilson, 13; Chafin, 1; Debs. 5; not voting. 3. All of those nuot voting said they formerly had voted the Re
publican ticket.
The Day in HISTORY
"THIS DATE IN HISTORY" August 31.
1828 John T. Gilman, for many years
governor of New Hampshire, died at Exeter, N. H. Born there, Dec 19, 1763.
1852 Stamped envelopes provided for
by act of Congress.
1857 King Victor Emmanuel began the work of excavating the Mont Cents tunnel through the Alps. 1880 Gen. Roberts relieved Kandahar.
1910 Colonel Roosevelt proclaimed the
"New Nationalism" at Ossawatomie, Kas. 1911 Standard Oil Company dissolved In compliance with the order of the Supreme Court of the United States. THIS DATE IN HISTORY" September 1. 1620 The English Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth in the Mayflower. 1715 Louis XIV. of France died. Born Sept. 16, 163S. . 1730 Marriage of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read. 1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of the charge of high treason. 1860 Prince of Wales laid the cornerstone of the Parliament buildings at Ottawa, 1861 Gen. Phil Kearny killed at Chantllly, Va. Born June 2. 1815. 1894 The town of Hinckley, Minn., almost destroyed by farest fires. -THIS IS MY 67TH BIRTHDAY" Congratulations to: Rex Beach, the well known author, 35 years old today. Robert P. Bass, -governor of New 'Hampshire, 39 years old today,
This Week's News Forecast
Washington, D. C, Aug. 31. Like the three-rlnar circus, the
to be something doing every minute in the field of politics the coming week. Colonel Roosevelt will leave New Tork bright and early Monday morning for a speech-making tour that will extend as far as the Pacific coast and carry him Into more than half the states of the union. After a short detour Into New England, where be 1 scheduled for two Labor day addresses, he will strike out for the west. Tuesday he Is to speak at the Missouri third party convention In St. Louis. Wednesday will be devoted to a swing through Iowa, with speeches in Keokuk, Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, Des Moines and other cities. St. Paul and Minneapolis will have the third party standard-bearer on Thursday, and the remainder of the week will be divided between the Dakotas and Montana. Governor Wood row Wilson will make his first speech in New Tork City on Wednesday, when he attends a dollar dinner of the Workingmen a Woodrow Wilson club. Vermont's state election, the first of the year, will be held Tuesday. Republicans, democrats and progressive tickets are In the field. Congressmen as well as state officers are to be elected, so the national significance will be apparent In the returns, at least to those who still hold to the old traditions that the result of the September state elections Indicates the way the general elections will go in the following November. Governor Johnson of California, vice presidential nominee of the progresslve party, will open his speech-making campaign at Syracuse, N. T., on Thursday, when he will address the delegates to the state convention of the progressive party. - Direct primary elections are to be held In California Tuesday for the selection of candidates for superior judges, members of the legislature and representatives la congress. Other events on the political calendar of the week will Include ? the5 Michigan state democratic convention at Grand Rapids, for the completion" of a state ticket; the Montana republican convention at Great Falls, to select a complete state ticket, presidential electors and candidates for United States senator and representatives in congress; democratic primaries In Louisiana to select candidates for supreme court judges and representatives In congress; primaries of all parties in New Hampshire for the selection of candidates for state officers and representatives in congress; primaries in Nevada to nominate candidates for state officers and representatives In congress, and state conventions of the new progressive party In Missouri, North Carolina, Iowa, North Dakota and several other cities. At a special election Tuesday the voters of Ohio will pass Judgment on the forty-two proposed amendments to the state constitution formulated by the constitutional convention held last spring. The list embodies nearly all of the measures of reform now in the public eye, including woman suffrage, the Initiative, referendum and recall, direct primaries, the extenissue and sale of corporation stock, the taxation of incomes, inheritance and franchises, the adoption of the Torrens system of land transfer, the abolition of capital punishment, the reform of court procedure, and the strict regulation of the liquor traffic. With Justice John W. Goff presiding, an extraordinary term of the supreme court is to convene IrKNew Tork City Tuesday "for a speed and vigorous prosecution of Indictments which may be found" as a result of the Rosenthal murder Investigation. The Duke of Connaught, the governor-general, will cover the first section of the extensive itinerary mapped out for his travels over the Can dlan west. He will be entertained In -Edmonton the first of the week and from there will proceed to Calgary to attend the great "Stampede" celebration and carnival In that city. Conventions of the week will be numerous and of an important character. Among them will be the eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, In Washington, D. C; the annual conference of the International Anti-Saloon League Superintendents, In Toronto; the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the United Typothetae of America, in Chicago; the Dominion Foresty convention, in Victoria, B. C.; the fifth annual convention of the Atlantic Deep Waterways association, In New London, Conn., and the annual session of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In Dundee, Scotland.
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A. M. TURNER
Cashier
President