Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 63, Hammond, Lake County, 6 September 1912 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

Friday. Sept. 6, 1912.

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Hammond Chapter. No. 117. meets second and forth Wednesday of each

month.

Hammond Commandery. No. 41. Reg

ular meeting first and third Monday of

fcach month.

OUT WITH THE OLD FOGIES.

The other dav some of the leading

business .men of Hammond -w ere dis

cussing the need of taking some step at the next city election to replace

the present city council with a coun

cil of leading business and profes

sional men.

The idea was that any business

man of large property interests can

afford to devote a night or two of his

time for the next four years to make

Hammond a live progressive city.

There is not the snap and ginger in the present city council that there

ought to be. Too many of the alder

men are listening to the voices of

few dry-rotting reactionaries and

think they have heard .the command

of their constituencies.

They do not fieem to realize that

sometimes this representative form of government, in fact and not in

theorv, becomes a matter of leader

ship and not of aimless following

becomes a matter of doing a thing and making the people appreciate the

wisdom of the act afterwards.

For instance A. F. Knotts ripped

up miles of wooden sidewalk in Ham

mond, did it in defiance of many an

honest old German's threat, did it

because he knew that the wooden

sidewalk would have to go in a llv

growing town.

Had Knotts followed the advice

and demands of four-fifths of his con

stituents Hammond would today have any amount of wooden sidewalks and

the city would b paying out thous

ands of dollars in personal injury

settlements. THAT WAS ONE CASE

WHERE THE PEOPLE OF HAM

MOND DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS

GOOD FOR THEM. In their spirit of ultra-conservatism they were afraid of change. They took, "Tread

in trodden paths," as their motto. Most of these ultra-conservatives are alive today. Thank God some of them are dead. Thank God there has been an infusion of new blood in community. But there are still half a dozen men in the Hammond city council who ought to be eliminated. They don't represent the progressive tendency that is now in the ascendency in Hammond. In the matter of street lighting they are still listening to the hard shell turtle in some outlying section of the city who pokes his head of his shell and says that he does not want to pay six cents a month for electric lights that will adorn only the busi

ness streets. He wants at least two ornamental lamp posts in front of his

cottage before he will let his councilman vote for the measure. And the councilman actually believes that this is the voice of his constituents. If it is, that councilman had better resign in disgust rather han represent such a crowd. The councilman does not stop to think that the improvement of the business district brings people to town, that it increases the value of business property and that this reflects value on the outlying property.

He Is so thick-headed that he is not

able to see that land which ten years ago was regarded as good only for

farming purposes is now being cut up into city lots. Why? Simply be-

ause Hammond has grown to the

point where it must expand.

Is it not plain ihen that if the

business district is well lighted that the merchant will do well and pros

per, the prosperous merchant hires more people, he builds a palatial

home in the outskirts of the city, he

pays more taxes into the fund from which the street lighting appropriation is taken.

The manufacturer looks over a

town. Its streets are well lighted ana

he concludes it is a live town and lo

cates there. That adds hundreds ot

thousands of dollars to the taxable

and swells the fund from which this

new lighting must be paid.

And yet there are men who can not

see how the illumination of the busi

ness district can rossibly help the residential districts. What is needed

is a man of determination to force the issue.

Try to please everybody and your

backbone becomes wobbly. And if the councilman do not respond to the

lemand of the progressive people of

this community they will find when election conies that one progressive

can cover more ground than ten

hard shell turtles." They will find that there will be a

demand for a business men's city council. The kind of a council th3t

will not be afraid to act In the face

of a little opposition.

If the Calumet avenue widening.

the greatest project that has been advanced In the history of the city, had

been put up to the city council in

stead of the board of public works in the final stages of the fight it would

have been defeated.

Today there is a boom of tremend

ous proportions started on Calumet

avenue because of the prospect of Its becoming the greatest business street

in the city.

Get rid of the barnacles.

his speech of exceptance. And to think that he was a prohibitionist and that we had to read about it in this dry weather. Oh happy days of yore! We trust the third termer has read the speech. If it elosen't get beneath his hide nothing ever could.

THE fans who think they have a faint-hearted chap to deal with in the person of President W. J. McAleer will be required in the course of human events to cogitate again.

OLD Doc Wiley who recently became a father is all "het up" at the third termer because he latter claims to be the author of the pure food law. "Up guards and at "em!"

NEVER TRIED HAY. They tell us that hay Is to b) much cheaper this year. Still w. insist that we cannot eat hay and pet fat. Lake County Times.

As for ourselves we have never

tried the hay diet, but we are per

fectly satisfied to accept THE TIMES

editor's idea in the matter. Hobart

News.

We didn't either but had the stuff

direct from old Nebuchadnezzar.

NOTICE that one or two republi

can candidates for county office are getting all their printing done at

democratic job office. That will be a most excellent place forsooth for

them to go and get their publicity

and support during the coming cam

paign.

GOV. Johnson the shouter, reiterates that he would rather go down to defeat with the third termer than win with any other man. That's surely going to happen to Johnson, but puil down the blind3 we are not Interested in you.

THE REALTY UPLIFT. The Gary Y. M. C. A. night college Is to have a course in real estate. We believe that nowhere else in the world is there such great possibilities for getting an unexcelled faculty. For the professorships there will be constellations many and brilliant. Let Dr. Tim Englehart, the duke of Ridge road, be dean of the faculty. The chair of western methods for eastern deals should be occupied by Prof. Walter J. Rellly of East Chicago. The lectures of Prof. Charles Fowle of Indiana Harbor should be heard by the aspiring. In the departments of Schlesinger research and Homewood investigations posts of honors will yearn for Prof. Gostlin, Prof. Meyn, et. al. An able exponent of county sent topography Is Prof. Herman Junker and of big corporation work. Prof. H.

S. Norton of Gary

PUNISH AUTOMOBILE SPEEDERS

How can the killing and maiming

of men, women and children by auto

mobiles be stopped? That Is a question before Chicago aa before many other communities as a result of the

rapid increase in the number of these vehicles and their use by persons in

different to the laws governing speed ing.

The general assembly of Illinois

has enacted automobile laws, In 1903

1907 and 1911. Chicago, under the

power given It by the act of 1911 has made certain municipal regula

tions. An automobile court has been created as a branch of the Municipal

Court, in which speeders are fined

For most persons brought before this court the fine Imposed Is punishment enough to prevent a repetition of the

offense. But for the rich or well-to

do a fine Is Inadequate as a deterrent

to reckless driving.

Judge Robinson of the automobile court says the law of 1911 should be amended to authorize a Jail sentence

of perhaps a year as an alternative to

a fine. undoubtedly the prospect of imprisonment would cause many drivers of automobiles to refrain from speeding. The next session of the Ilinol8 general assembly should enact such an amendement.

But those who are tempted to violate the existing law should remember that under it imprisonment for thirty days may be decreed us a punishment for operating an automobile after a license has been revoked by the secretary of state, and such revocation may follow a second conviction for violation of the law. This part of the law should be enforced rigidly. Our streets must be made jafe. Chiago Record-Herald.

Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.

SAVING ONE'S OWN. At the risk of his life a father

named William Burns saved a child

from drowning. He did not know whose child It was.

Half a dozen children were playing

by the side of a canal as Mr. Burns

drove by. Suddenly there were screams.

and little hands pointed to the water. Jumping into the canal. Burns encoun

tered a swift current caused by a near

by sluiceway. By great exertion lie reached the drowning child and brought

It ashore.

"My God. It's my boy!" exclaimed Burns. You say the conjunction of the man's heroism and the rescue of his own flesh and blood were a mere coincidence. Perhaps, but the moral remains. He who saves the child of his day or generation may be saving his own child. When a father insists as a patron of the public school upon proper lighting and ventilation and reasonable school hours he may be saving his own child from contagion or Illness. When he demands an atmosphere of moral purity in and about the premises of the schoolhouse he may be saving his own boy or girl from the taint of impurity. When he declares that the saloon

keeper must obey the law respecting the sale of Intoxicants to minors and

takes the personal pains to see that the law is observed he may be saving

his son from drunkenness.

When he helps to create a public sentiment that prohibits gambling ho

may be saving his boy from tempta tion. And so on. Fathers should realize that the in

terests of the child are inextricably

bound up with the interests of the

community. Communal concern Is con cern for the individual.

The weal or woe of the child Is largely dependent upon the disposition

and willingness of fathers to plunge Into the waters to save a child, no

matter whose child it may be.

If In the sequel it should turn out that the wtlHng citizen has saved hia own fleh and blood thrice blessed Is he.

No man llveth to himself.

We are all tied np together in the public concern, and there Is no way to

undo the tangle.

The only thing to do ts to Jump in when the occasion shows Itself and

save the child anybody's child.

NEW YORK ia to have all stepless cars fr-im now on. This may help some, but the dawn of hope will arrive when the (Towiilws vehicles put in their appearance. SEEING that worms are eating up the Gary lawns, it will be up to thn new park board to appropriate JlO.ndO for a few thousand bottles of Dr. Koolem's famous worm cur. NEW YORK politician arrested for

stealing gas

Up and Down in INDIANA

HiTTKHV A, SIKIllTEVS HIKE. With horses tired and nearly worn out. Battery A, Indiana National Guard of Indianapolis, which is on its annual

Foolish man when there "hike," arrived at Muncle yesterday

is so much of it floating about these afternoon to spend the night. The bat-ante-election days. ' tery is equipped with a poor lot of ! horses, and because of this It has been

decided to shorten the trip, arid the company will start on Us return to Indianapolis today. Nine horses have been lost since leaving Indianapolis last Sunday. Last night the officers of the battery were quests at a banquet and reception at the Commercial Club, while the enlisted men were enlertain-

T1IIS DATR IN HISTORY" ed at a theater Dartv bv members of

September O. (Company G, the Muncie company ot the

1645 New Netherland colony observed nationaly euard.

thanksglvltiK for the restoration of; ADVISI,S STrnv np COOKING.

peat r n nit ujc ifiiuaiia. i Mjs

lgl7 pr Alexander TUIoch Gait

Canadian statesman, born in En island. Iled in Montreal, Kept, in 1893.

The Day in HISTORY

IN the reign of the third Edward only three taverns were allowed. Couldn't have been much opportunity for the patrolman to sneak off his beat what eh?

NOTE that the Japanese diet Is having considerable trouble. A facetious person might indicate that it may be using too much rice and sakl.

A SUCKER VIEW OF IT. The Joliet Herald paraphrases the famous Roosevelt-Beverldge slogan

The department ,as "We stand .at Helangon and we

EAR

BY

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Mary Mathews of Purdue Uni

versity, who has been instructing; in i domestic science st Bartholomew CounI ty Teachers Institute at Columbus, ad

vised men teachers of the county to

was seemingly a case of love at first sight for both. The eoupl- obtained a marriage license at Shelbyville yesterday morning, then hurried to Indianapolis where the wedding was solemnised. PKIOI1T Iti:t OKI ltliOK FA. Building permits Issued in Ft. Wayne during- August broke the record for that month. There were eighty-nine permits issued, totaling J2S6.605. There was one permit for J15.000 and one for $19,0i0. The rest were below $10,000. DAY OF MIKACI.F.S NOT FAST. To reduce the tax levy of Decature County from 32 cents to 30 cents next

year, the County Council yesterday afternoon declined to appropriate cleric hire for the county superintendent and county assessor, reduced the county attorney's salary from ?400 to $300, withdrew the aproprlation for a pauper attorney and provided no funds for bridges and other Improvement. As a, climax to this stroke of economy, the council voted to donate theLr salaries to the county and to cut off a $100 fund to be used to pay the expense of bridge Inspection trips. SI'KS TRACTIOV COMPANY. The Rev. Willis H. Bond, pastor of the Friends Church at Danville, has

filed suit in the Hendricks Circuit

L6l VIClorien .uruou. ia.in.ua '-,loar. ermklne- ani tr. teach it to Ih.ir'c ...In.) . K. T M IX. TT nrVaA-

rnatirt, born in Paris. Incd there, :pupU(I Bn(i advocated the more simple! tion Company for $15,000 damages for Nov. S, 190S. (methods of housekeeping. She said It alleged permanent injuries. The Rev.

1336 Moses Brown, wno Introduced the . ,Hn9l orU v.r th ri imi ct.mv,.

Arkwrlght cotton mill in America, ' nouaewJvf,B to have thelr homes all ' he took passaRe on a crowded car. on died in providence, R- I. Ewi ... w1lh vH,.a vr i, r,..-i,,-., T,.,,n, ,

Sept. 23. 173S. I

lg57Flrst overland :nall from San

Dlepo, Cal., reached San Antonio, 1

Texas.

1862 Confederates occupied Frederick

City, Md.

1S75- Convention met at Montgomery

to frame a constitution for

bama.

1S76 Lafayette statue unveiled 'n

Union Square, New York city.

lSOl President MoKinloy shot at tho

Buffalo exposition.

1909 -Commander Peary announced his

discovery of the North I'ole.

vp

pictures, etc., and advised that these and other unnecessary tides be excluded from the homes. WOO ANI MED WITHIN WEEK. One of the briefest courtships ever carried on in Shelbyville ended today

" a prominent Shelbyville Klrl. and Sld-

ney Turner of Richmond, Ky. The j couple had known each other lees than ! a week. Mr. Turner operated a jewelry ! booth at the fair at Shelbyville last 'week and employed Miss Pishop. It

Indianapolis; that he was compelled to stand; that at a sharp curve in the road the. car gave a lurch and he wan thrown violently to the floor apainst the end of a seat, and a number of people thrown on top of him, rendering him semi-conscious and htlpless. CORN CROP RECORD BREAKER. Bartholomew County has the larpest corn crop this year ever before known In the county, and It is believed that much of the corn will yield 100 or more bushels to the acre.

"THIS IS MY trl II II I KTIID tY" Ytm f.uyot. Yves Guyot, noted economist and

former minister of finance in France, was born at Dlnan, France. September 5. 1S43. After holdlnsr various nubile

offices he was appointed a member of the Ttrard ministry In 1SS9. Previous

ly, as a municipal councilor, no at

tracted a ureat deal of attention by his attacks on the pn-ft cture of police. These cst him six months in prison, but ultimately resulted in the resignation of the prefect of police. M. Guyot Is probably the best known publicist in France. He has been connected with

various newspapers, amonp them La Lanterne. Le Rappel and Le Steele. He has published a number of works on economic, political. ;md municipal subjects, as well MS several satirical romances. Congratulations to: Miss Jane Addams. the noted social reform worker who h;is espoused the cause of Col. Roosevelt. 52 years old today. Melville E. Inpralls. noted railway executive. 70 years old today. James K. Hackett, well known actor and manasrer, 45 years old today. Gen. Sir Archibald Hunter, famous soldier and administrator, 66 years old today. William E. Cot. representative In Contrress of the Third Indiana district, 4S years old today.

NOTHING 13 OF GREATER IJIPOR. TANCE TO YOU THAN TO KEEP POSTED ON PASSING EVENTS IN TOUR LOCALITY BY READING TUB TIMES SACH EVENING.

THE ELECTRIC WAY

has more trains to Chicago tbaa any two other roads out of Hammond combined. FARE 25 CENTS Passengers have the choice of four stations in the best part of Chicago; 63rd St., 12th St. (Central Station), Van liuren St., and Randolph St. Three-car Through Express every 90 minutes. Nineteen locals. Cleanest and most frequent service.! Travel by the SOUTH SHORE LINES between Hammond, Gary, Chicago, Pullman. Hegewiseh, East Chicago, Calumet, Indiana Harbor, Michigan City, South Rend. TRAINS LEAVE HAMMOND FOR CHICAGO Daily except Sundays Expresses Locals 8 04 AM 6:20 AM 22:57 PM 6:31PM 9:34 AM 7:10 AM 2:17 PM 7:01PM 11:04 AM 8:17 AM 2:57 PM 7:48 PM 12 34 PM 9:06 AM 4:17 PM 8:42 PM 2:01 PM 10:17 AM 4:53 PM 9:50 PM 3:34 PM 11:36 AM 5:44 PM 10:29 PM 5:01 PM See Schedule for Sunday Trains 11:24 PM The road with a trolley built like a bridge

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of politics, fire insurance and real estate should be headed by Prof. Tom Knotts and the Brothers Davidsons should instruct the ambitious in the

ways of two townships. The field is new and inviting; the

opportunities excellent. We have an

able and available faculty. Now let us drum up the students.

battle for the Schnapps."

A WOMAN friend says that the most annoying thing in a house to 1 man Is a fly. Thanks awfully for putting the man first.

BECKER of New York wants a change of venue again. Must think he is mixed up in some sort of a blind pig case.

WHEN you pass a friend in your new automobile don't get the idea

that he is wondering what you paid WE have several cttizens who braf, tor it. He isn't; he is wondering who' bout their belng ROod mixcr5. As holds the mortgage on your place ' Q ,t ta,

says a California paper. n,nitM of a wt,.0.

GOVERNOR Marshall, of Indiana, says trusts bar the way to opportunity. Umph! Perhaps so, for a few millions of individuals, but look at the opportunity for those on the inside.

ALWAYS SOMETHING. Here when we thought everything was running smoothly, the street car strike possibility buried, Homer hot on the trail of the festive Gary grass worm, and seeing that everybody had at last got on to T. R. since his Vermont break about the farmers, corner yesterday's dispatches that another vice presidential candidate had made

FAMILY jars are no longer hidden in a cupboard and even the skeletons

are jerked out now and then.

WITH 600 wives Solomon certainly must have had a hard time trying to keep track of all the gossip.

THE horse-trot is the latest but

the bull-moose trot may be expected

at any moment.

THERE ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES MORE TIMES CIRCULATED EVERY" DAY THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN LAKE COUNTY PUT TOGETHER.

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Hammond's Greatest Dept. Ston

Saturday GFOcery Specials OUR GROCERY IS NOW LOCATED ON THE THIRD FLOOR. THESE LOW PRICES SHOULD INDUCE YOU TO COME AND SEE US.

Genuine French

regular price 20c,

Saturday, per can

Granulated

Quaker Oats, three packfor .S3C Blue Cross Macaroni or

f Spaghetti, fl - 2 packages

20-Mule Team B o r a,x, 1 -pound -Srflrf-a

Is package. . . . SUGAR J lest Eastern

13 ...1 . 1 . -1 rr

wiiii grocery oiuer ol i.uu or more, (soap, butter or flour not in- fijjra eluded) 10 pounds gPs&JL'

y SOAP Kirk's American Family or

Pels Naptha. with grocery Clla order. 10 bars BUTTER Elgin Creamery, made from pure sweet cream, special for Saturdav, per pound

B Hams, Oscar Maver's

Moose brand, weigh from 8 to 12 pounds each, per lb JLL?2-'

Fancy Spanish Olives, quart jar only AJSjrSw Fine Quality Pink Salmon

1 -pound tall can onlv

lie Peas,

15c

Best Quality Peanut But- I

ter, per 4 pound JLL Snider's Famous Tomato

Catsup, 15c bottle

ALWAYS a wonder to us why T. R

doesn't save wear and tear on his vol

by ijettln a trraphaphone that will j repeat the word "liar" every rive mln- I ute..

OCR special correspondent. Hennery Coldbottle, expects to be en masse at the Eagles' picnic at Miller beach next Sunday. AEROPLANE meets are fretting so common nowadays that they attract about as much attention as a man who has a gubernatorial nomination on a bull moose ticket. SICE that the Gary school board has bought a pulmotor. Hetter buy a couple of more, as the taxpayers will need all restoratives possible if the board keeps on with its little contract letting: game. SHOUIJ)N"T wonder the way that many divorced couples are making up now days that we'll soon have to be rurnins a 'married and re-married' oolumn. AMONG other things now in order is plum short cake. And ere long we may hope to taste of the festive pumpkin. NEW republic of China now lays

claim to a Georsce Washington. Bye and bye Chinese cities will have become so

civilized that they will be sporting Tom

Knottses. MR. TA FT has got the frout. No doubt poor William, just for fun, started to read soma of Theodore's speeches. It's a wonder that he didn't fet hardening: of the eyebrows in addition. POME one advertises in an exchang-e for a "lady stenographer." Our Idea of a stenog. of this character would be. one with a white dress, picture hat and rtiffle-d sleeves. SUCH of you who laughed at the ice trust all summer and who sent your .B. V. l.'s Into cold storage will now recall our early July adice. A progressive restaurant keeper is one who serves as side dishes canned corn, canned peas and canned tomatoes during the open vegetable season. And you don't have to go far to find 'em. FIRST call for Sentember brides.

hunting accidents, buii moose desertion, j a CAN GOODS Choice of Sugar Corn, Kidney Beans, Hominy or Pumpkin fj

remedies. H CloZCl! CailS, 89CJ per 0313

GREAT BRITAIN may pull the wires to control the Panama ditch, but you can bet your sweet life that Indiana Harbor will let no outside Influence have a hand in Its new Inland ship canal. FAVORITE song of the Armageddon boomers Is "Onward Christian Soldiers!" Some one please look up a copy of H and mail to Brother A. F. Knotts so that he can be sung at all

local bull moose prayer meetings and at i

lie

Fancy Cream Brick Cheese Holstein brand, -j Q per pound Ji.O'

FLOUR Why buy cheap brands when

you can get the best at these prices ? Va-hbl. sack, 2.98; Vi-hhl sk, 1.51 Vs-barrel sack a

POTATOES Extra fancy home grown g

white stock, per bushel, 75c; M hg per peek JLv' MILK Pet or Carnation, dozen large

small cans, 47c; per can

Coffee, Minas Blend, best Tea, extra fancy new crop value in Hammond, four Gun Powder, regular 60e pounds, 1.05; GpiT value, special, S$r per pound & & per pound jL&A

MASON FRUIT JARS Now is the time to buy them; H-gallon, dozen, 65c A) quart size, dozen 49c; pint size, dozen Tmj

7lC

Candy Specials

the forthcoming consecration Porter race track.

of the

Fresh Roasted Peanuts,

per pound

Cream Bon Bons, regular izf: 10c

Large Soft Gum Drops,

per pound

Best Quality Jelly Beans, pound . . . , 8c

Fancy Walnut per pound Cracker Jack, only 3 packages

Meats, h 39c 1 Saturday N 10C I 'lit m aswa