Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 61, Hammond, Lake County, 4 September 1912 — Page 4
THE TIMES.
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1912.
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MASONIC CALENDAR. Hammond Chapter. No. 117. meets second and forth Wednesday of each month.
Hammond Commandery. No. 41. Res; clar meeting first and third Monday of each month.
SUNSET WINGS. Tonight this enusi't spreads two goldem wings. Cleaving the western aky Wlngrd, too. wttfc wind It Is. and wlnnoirfngi Of Mr da, If tbe day'a last near ta rings) Of atreauoua flight must die. Sua steeped ta lire, ne komewar plolona away Above the dovecote's tops; And elouds of sterlings, ere they rest with day. Sink clamorous like mill waters, at wild play. By turns ta every copse.' Each tree, heart deep the wranglingrout reeetveifc Save for tike whirr within. Von eon Id not tell the ntarltnara from the leaves Then oae great puff of wtago and the warns heaves Away vrlth all Its dla. Dante Gabriel Roasettl.
street commissioner that it is his duty to see that the moving of a house is prosecuted in the night time as well as in the daytime. In other words the streets should be occupied the smallest possible time in the moving of old shacks. Somebody must hare & pull.
ure, was what gave the northern states the victory In the civil war. Perhaps the owners of the great amount of foreign capital invested In Mexico perceive this fact. If they will see to it that Madero is amply provided with money there is practically no doubt that in a short time he will subjugate the insurrectos and to a large extent restore security for the business and industries of the country.
EMPEROR William Is better. Good. It is a bad time for one to even sleep let alone be sick in this restless world.
The Day in HISTORY
"IS the whale disappearing?" asks a contemporary. Don't know. Ten pound pickerel was the best we ever caught and we think those above that size are disappearing.
SENTIMENT CHANGING. Former Governor E. W. Hoch, of
Kansas, in a public statement made last week, says: "Americans are fair people. The more they study the administration of President Taft the more they will like It. Between now and November they will give consideration to questions Involved in this campaign. I look for an Increasing tide of public opinion favorable to Mr. Taft. During my travels as a lecturer I have found this tide already setting in. "Taft has never had a square deal, especially from the one who talks the most about this great virtue. I believe the American people will practice what the alleged champion of this doctrine so vociferously preached and they will indorse Mr. Taft's administration as it deserves to be. 'This campaign will be a repetition
of the one in 1S96. If the election that year had occurred thirty or sixty days after the convention Mr. Bryan would have been elected. But the people got down to thinking then, as they will this time."
PROBABLY there are members of the Chicago Board of Trade who don't know .that wheat is a dry indehlscent inilocular raryopsis, but it is safe to say that all of them known what a wheat corner is.
"I HAVE never done anything wrong," says the third termer. That man for modesty is so far ahead of any body etee that he has met himself coming back patting himself on the back.
HOUSE MOVING TROUBLES. In certain sections of Chicago the moving of buildings is not tolerated and when a building is to be moved
it is torn aown. mat is Decause traffic Is so heavy that the city will
not stand for blocking the streets.
In those sections of most any city of
any size where the moving of build
ings is permitted the moving must be
done at night as well as in the day
time so that there will be the mini
mum Inconvenience to the general
public.
A large two story house is being
moved on South llohman street in
Hammond. It is being moved only a few blocks and yet it has blocked the street for two whole days .necessitating the suspension of street car service and the abandonment of tbe street by traffic. All last night the building was untouched by the movers who should have been required by the street commissioner to keep moving so that traffic on the street could be restored this morning. It is about time that the city began to appreciate , the fact that it Is a meropolitan community and that a house mover should not be permitted to inconvenience the whole communi-
ANDREW Carnegie is to be made a count by the King of Italy. But what's the use, since he is already married and has plenty of money? HOW TO USE BOOKS. Sensible,ieopIe everywhere are beginning to advocate the plan of teach
ing the students how to use books In
stead of making a strenuous attempt to teach them to memorize what books
contain. How many thousands of hours the average educated man has spent in trying to memorize dates, names of battlefields and similar useless information given in the average history, geography and literary guide!
And to what purpose? The real les
sons of history are a study of the
causes and results of actions; the Important facts about far away peoples are the racial and commercial differences and similarities that distinguish
them.
This is the day of adding machines,
information bureaus and library indexes. Children should be taught,
and in many cases are being taught.
not how to remember facts, but how to understand principles. The all-im
portant thing is to learn how to use
books, not to remember the dates and
figures they contain.
To remember the date of Magna
Charts is not useful; but to have burned upon the could the results of the mighty struggle that culminated
then, is wonderful and inspiring.
In the days when the Bible, the Ma
sonic Ritual, and all glorious poems
and stories could only be preserved
and vitalized by the ear and the
cultivation of the memory meant the
progress of the world; but after
Gutenberg, the cnlef reason for
memorizing dates, nmaes and places passed away. A librarian can discover In half an hour more than the most brilliant memories can retain in ahife-tlme. The first thing to know about books is how to use them.
THE year has reached Its climax in light and beauty. Heat and the fruits of the earth are another story.
GOVERNMENT SERVICE A JOKE. Zero In efficiency is our Idea of the "public health and marine hospital service," a bureau of the federal government, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. An official of this department is quoted in the Record-Herald as admitting the danger from sewage dumped into the lake by 6teamers near Chicago's cribs, and also the danger from Racine and Milwaukee sewage, a hundred miles away.
Not a word about the sewage of 250.000 people and the factory wastes that enter the lake via the Calumet river, within two miles of the 68th street crib. No mention of the endless oil pollution at Whiting and the sewage of the Indiana towns
clustered around the south end ot
the lake.
This beats straining at gnats and
swallowing camels.
The government bureau evidently
knows less about sanitary conditions at this end of Lake Michigan even less than the city health department.
The official, one Dr. W. C. Rucker,
says: "I would not say, however, that the situation at Chicago is going to
develop into an acute problem. The
situation must be met as son as possible and corrected so far as the fed
eral government can contribute to that end."
This is very ignorant Ignorance.
The agencies contributing to the total destruction of fish in the south end of Lake Michigan, as an evi
dence of gross and disgusting pollu
tion, contamination of the best water
supply on earth, a crime and a dis grace to civilization are; The Stand
ard Oil Company, at Whiting; the
cities of Chicago, Hammond, Whit ing, East Chicago and Gary; the lilt
nois Steel Company and the Iroquol3
Iron Company, at South Chicago
These latter dump filthy slag and
other refuse into open water, unprotected by tight breakwaters, as re
quired by law. This filth can be seen
oflating on the surface of the lake near the shore any day the winds are
in that direction.
There is a fertile field here for the
city health department now. busy try
Ing to jam through an ordinance for
milk pasteurization; for the above
mentioned federal body and for anyone else who wants to do something to stop the pollution of our drinking
water, a rather Important matter.
Calumet Record.
"THIS DATR IN HISTORY September 4. 1804 United States ship "Intrepid" blown up In Tripoli harbor. 1S12 Captain Zachary Taylor successfully defended Fort Harrison, on the Wabash, against an attack by Indians. 1837 Congress convened In extra sesBlon to devise measures to relieve the financial embarrassments of the country. 1862 General Lee crossed the Potomac and Invaded Maryland. 1870 French Republic proclaimed. 1894 Twelve thousand tailors struck in New York city against the taskwork system. 1911 Hundreds of lives lost In floods along the Yang-tse-Klang river in China. ' "THIS IS MY 42ND BIRTH DAY C. Baseom Slemp. C Baseom Slemp, who for some years has had the distinction of being the only Republican among the Virginia members of the national house of representatives, was born In Lee County, Virginia, September 4. 1870. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1891 and afterward studied low at the University of Virginia. After serving one year as a professor at the Virginia Military Institute he began the practice of law in his home town of Big Stone Gap. In 1905 he became chair
man of the Republican State Committee of Virginia and two years later he wss elected to Congress from the Ninth Virginia district to fill the unexpired term of his father. Mr. Slemp was twice reelected, but this year he declined to accept a renomination because of his desire to devote his entire attention to
his law practice and business interests.
Congratulations to: Rear Admiral Corwin P. Rees, U. S.
N., retired, 64 years old today.
Bishop David H. Moore, of the Meth-
odst Episcopal Church, 74 years old to
day.
Henry Lefavour, president of Sim
mons College, 60 years old today.
THERE are 11,4 63 practicing attorneys in New York. But probably that is cheaper than enlarging the police stations and the Tombs.
. THAT rasping sound setting our teeth on edge is the British government filing Its protest about the Panama canal. .
"THE SINEWS OF WAR."
One of the most significant and sat
isfactory aspects of tbe situation in
Mexico la the comparative case with
which the Madero government has
been able to obtain a heavy loan to be
used for putting down the Orozco In
surrection. The fact that Madero could borrow $10,000,000 on the strength of Mexico's credit indicates
that the financial world has confi
dence that he will restore order in his country. If Madero can obtain all the money he needs to pay the government's soldiers and purchase arms and ammunition there can be no doubt of the outcome of the present rebellion. In war, the side which has the biggest treasure chest usually wins in the
SOME of the season's skirts are said
to be only a yard around at the bot torn. As for the top, that depends.
GET all the fun out of them you
can, the time is coming to put the
canvass shoes in the discard.
ty for the purpose of saving a $500 lend. That Is what made the resistto $1,000 frame building. lance of the Boers to England hopeless The council should instruct tha from the first. That, In large meas-
W ANTON SLAUGHTER.
. Two men in a grey car joyriding in Gary struck a man at Twenty-third
avenue and Broadway late Saturday night. Without stopping to offer the least assistance the car swept on Its way at a high rate of speed. A little
while , later the unfortunate victim
passed away. So far the police have
been able to locate the guilty parties
Automobile accidents will continue to happen. Yet the least that the cause of them can do is to assist their victims and in joyriding cases there
should be a greater disposition to
slat. It is bad enough to have autolsts
flee when they are not to blame but
in the case of joyriders their action in
flying by and leaving their victims to die in the streets shows nothing more
than brutal cowardice.
This affair is wanton murder. Tho police ought to exert- every effort
possible to track down the guilty per
sons and bring them to justice.
WHAT should be done to get after some of these Sunday street car
rowdies with the big stick.
FORTUNATELY, the clouds c
Oyster Bay do not cut off the sunshine
which the crops grow on.
HEARD BY R U B E-
GRIFFITH has at last attained fame
Man down there has a testimonial in an Indianapolis paper telling how a
remedy cured his mother-in-law.
PHILADELPHIA society women are
getting so fastidious that they refuse
to be operated on for appendicitis any
more for fear those new low cut gowns
will reveal the scars.
READ that the black hand Is after
John D. Chances are that tnese mysterious gentlemen probably figure they
might as well get in on the pickings as the U. S. senators are getting theirs.
FOLLOWING the advice of his physi
cian Hennery Coldbottle, our special
correspondent, will spend the next few
days In a cool place to cure his hay
fever. Hennery will be at home to his
friends in the refrigerating rooms of
Fred Carter's Hammond brewery.
COME to think of it that new Porter
race track was to start on Labor day.
No doubt Brother A. F. Knotts was too
busy floating the Armageddon county
ticket to pay much attention to the
derby arrangements.
EVERY time that a circus comes to town the chief of police of Lafayette notifies the good people to keep in doors and see that the windows are locked. ALMOST time for a new graft expose. Now keep your eyes on a school board one very shortly. EVER notice that nearly every dentist has an auto nowdayi? They are evidently In a money pulling business. WANT to start something? Well, Just suggest to an Indiana Harbor couple that they had better look up this eugenics question before they get spliced. IT would appear that the sane Fourth also has In its wake the sane Labor day. Many tltewads long ago went In for the sane Christmas. EDUCATIONAL director of the Gary Y. M. C. A. says that he will have a course in real estate. Move that Prof. Tim Englehart be made dean of the department. IF there Is nothing else to remind you about it you will know that this Is presidential year by the mere fact that Mr. Taft has started out to kiss the babies. ' WITH four murders rolled up against her since July 10 it would look as if Gary might Import a few more Bibles and mineral water and cut down on the supply of Kentucky whiskey and Connecticut revolvers. AND now the bills for the school books.
Up and Down in INDIANA
MUNSTER is just ashamed of the
way her sister Lansing is acting
these rainy days. ..
FACE 4RSON CHARCiE. Charles St. John of Letts, Decatur County, arrested In Anderson, was brought to Grensburg to answer a charge of arson. St. John Is charged with attempting to burn a drug store at Letts owned by him and Dr. Etra Pleak. The building and stock were heavily Insured. OLDEST SETTLer IS ORATOR. Strawtown, in the northeastern part of Hamilton county, surrounded by historic ground and which came within one vote of being the capital of the state instead of Indiana nolia. held Us
'first homecoming' Monday. A crowd
4 estimated at 1,000 people attended the
tutercises held In a grove near tae borne
SEC. OF WAR STIMSON ON LONG TOUR: TO VISIT ARMY POSTS IN MIDDLE AND FAR WEST BEFORE RETURNING TO WASHINGTON
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Secretary Stlmaon (at teft)t group shows, left to right: Secretary Stlmson, Mlsa Helen Clenn, Miss Margaret Gtasa bis, Philadelphia; Mrs. Stlmson, Col. E F. Glenn. Mrs. Qlsnn. Secretary of War Stlmson. accompanied by his wife, has started on a tour ot Inspection ot aoma ot the army posts of the middle and far west. He has already visited Ft. Benjamin Harrison Dear Indianapolis, and from thera left for Fort D. A. Russell In Wyoming. After Inspecting tbe Wyoming post b .will Visit the Preside at San Francisco; and then go on to tbe Puget Sound region. If be baa tlma. The accompanying group picture was taken at Fort Benjamin Harrlaoa, wber tba war secretary .wj the guest of Col. E. F. Glenn of the Twenty-third infantry.
Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.
I stricken manner slashed at the dog. His first blow slashed the dog's nose. COMPLETES SECOND LEO. Battery A, Indiana National Guard, is camping near Noblesville on Us 160mlle hike from Indianapolis through Marion, Hamilton, Tipton, Madison and Delaware Counties. The battery, with 100 men and horses. In command of Capt. Robert Tyndall, reached Noblesville shortly afternoon, having made the trip from AUlsonvllle. where they I were in camp last night. Capt. Mull of
the Fifth United States Field Artillery
and Gen. Sergt. Fitzgerald of the Sixth
SEEN FROM A CAR. WINDOW. The lnterurban stopped at the "Poor
Farm station," and the car window Unlted statC8 FleM Artniery are wltn
tramea tnis picture: the battery. Tomorrow the battery exSitting in front f the main building pects to reach Tipton. In the evening sun were the old men FAij.s in scicide attempt. and women Infirm, done for. twisted. ,,.-. ... . ' .! Mrs. Stella Sayera, 24 years old. Jf Expressionless they .sat Down and Barnhm streeU Ind,anapoll8. made an out, they were without hope In the unsucessful attempt to commit suicide world. With nothing to look forward eariy iast night. Mrs. Sayera lives with to but the slim dole of niggard charity, her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and they are without ambition save for Mrs. Virgil Gott. The brother and his food and a bed. For them the path wife were in the front yard at their has aruptly ended. They can no far- home and Mrs. Sayera was In a rir ther go, and they seek to go no far-' room talking to a man, whose name the ter I police did not obtain. She sent him rr-v . J. .-,1 after a drink of water and when he reThe men read no newspapers, and ned he founfl her on the women have no knitting. holding up an almost empty poison bot The train slides on into the suburbs Blcyclemen Trimpe and Klt.mlllcr where live the well to do. On ths answered the call sent In front the Gott porches and lawns, here and there, are home. No motive for the attempt is the old men and women, and as thai known. The man who was with Mrs. low July sun gilds the tops of the trees J Sayera declares they had not quarreled.
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But how different! These old men smoke their cigars, and the old women chat with others over embroidery frames. Some read the evening papers. All have In theii aged cheeks tbe tint of the good blood that comes from plenty of good food. Their rooftrees are secure. They slees in soft beds and keep some money in the bank. The train glides on Into the tene ment district near by to the business section, and here also are sitters In tbe sun. Here and there they sit, old men and women that have been tossed aside in the industrial world as things foredone. Tbey sit listless, silent, the bat
tered old men smoking their clay pipes and the poor old women holding theii hands. Their aged eyes must be dim
from the salt tears they have shed ovei what might have been. Aged sitters in the sun!
All of them have done their share In
the world's big work, and some har
done more than a share. Some bar
prospered and look toward a long, se
rene day ere the shadows of eternity shall close in; others have failed and
look to children or charity regretful hopeless, dependent. Is that a fair deal? Maybe so. And yet it would seem these ageo folk, whether prosperous or failed when limbs are stiffened and the blood runs slow, have earned the right to sit In tbe sun fre from worry, hale and respected. -It seems bo from a car window.
FINDS JOY PARTY I If HOME. Mrs. David Arthur Is dead and her husband la in jail at Linton charged with her murder. The shooting occurred at their home, two miles south of Linton, shortly after midnight this morning, and was the result of the husband's anger at seeing his wife a member of a "Joy party" which was being held in his home. Arthur had been In Linton, and on returning about midnight found his wife with another woman three men, joking, laughing and drinking. Drawing a' revolver he began firing. The crowd all escaped except his wife, who pleaded for mercy. His reply was a bullet that caused her Instant death.
of "Uncle John Coy. the oldest settler In the place and the orator of the occasion. Thirteen states were represented at the meeting. The first tailgate in Hamilton county was established near Strawtown and mony of the persons who paid toll thereat fifty years ago were present at the homecoming Monday. It was decided to hold these events annually. H4VF, Mia.tCl'LOl'S EiCAPE. A wreck on the E. & I. railroad was narrowly averted pt Massey, seven miles south of Petersburg yesterday. The trucks under the tender left the rails Just as the pasenger train was crossing the bridge over the rntoka river. The trucks were dragged across the bridge, but the cars remained on the rails. CUT OF RI'M.DO7S NOSE. -Moses-Houch, 465 Minerva street. Indianapolis, was aralpned in police court yesterday on a charge of cutting off the end of a brindle bull-log's noise last Friday. The case' wan continued. The charge against Houch is cruelty to animals. According to the story told by the Inspector the brindle dog is a neighborhood pet and everybody's dog. Lillle Betz, S43 Pettljohn street, was with the
dog Friday evening when Houch and his wife approached the two. The dog playfully dashed tov.-ard Houch and he suddenly drew a knife and in a panlo
B. & O. STARTS LABOR BUREAU A labor bureau. In charge of H. R. Brlcker, has been established by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Baltimore. Mr. Brlcker will have charge of employing both skilled and unskilled labor for all grades of railroad work. Branch offices have been established In ijhlladelphia. Washington, Clevelandland Chicago. A statement issued by tne company reads; "Railroads have been confronted frequently with a scarcity of labor at certain points on the line, notwithstanding statistics often presented concerning the armies of unemployed In many American cities. It Is believed that a bureau which undertakes to bring the Job to the man may
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Lady's Apron. A novel and yet practical a proa desiga Is here given. It is featured with shoaldef pieces and has a cross strap belt at the front. It la quite dainty, made ef lawn, batiste or dotted Swiss with the trimtaing of Insertion, The model is very simple te carry evt and Its differentness will appeal to tbe woman who tires of the eld ideas and seeks a diversion. The psttern. No. B350. is cut m ons lze and requires 1 yards ef 80-inch material, 1 yards of 6-ineh wide edjlng ind oae yard ef insertion. The above pattern can be obtained by sending ten cents te the 53iee ef this frer.
aid in solving this question of unemployment for both parties. - "This labor bureau Is In no way Identified with a contract labor system, being operated solely by and for the Baltimore and Ohio service."
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