Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 156, Hammond, Lake County, 2 December 1912 — Page 4

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The Ijike County Times, dally except Sunday, "entered aa second-class matter June JS, lt6"; The Uk County Times, daliy except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. 3. If 11; The Gary Evening Times, daliy except Sunday, entered Oct. S, IS0; The Lake County Time. Saturday and weekly edition, entered Jan. SO. nil; The Times, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. 15, 1912, at the postofflce at Hammond. Indiana, all under the act of March 3, l7t. Entered at the PoetofflcA Hammond, Ind.. aa aeooad-clasa matter. FOREIGN 12 Hector ADVERTISING Bulldlnr - OFFICES, Chicago FtTBMCATIO?f OFFICES, Hammond Belldlnr. Hammond, Ind. TELBPHOES, Hammond (private exchange) Ill 4 Call for department wanted.) Gary Office Tel. 137 East Chicago Offlce Tel. 540-J Indiana Harbor Tel. 349-M; ISO Whiting Tel. 80-M Crown Point Tel. 63 Hegewlsch Tel. S Advertising solicitors will be sent, or rates rlvn on application. If you h'e any trouble getting The Times notify the nearest office and bare It promptly remedied. LARGER PAID I'F CIRCCliATION THAN ANT OTHER TWO NEWSPAPERS IN THE CALUMET REGION. ANONTMOU9 communications will not be noticed, but others will be printed at discretion, and should be addressed to The Editor. Times, Hammond. Ind. 433 Garfield Lodge. No. 669. F. & A. M. Stated meetings every Friday evening. Hammond Chapter. No. 117. R. A. M. Regular stated meeting second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Hammond Council, No. 90, R. S. M. Etated meetings first Tuesday of each month. Hammond CommanderyV No. 41. K. T'. Regular stated meeting first and third Monday of each month. OLD DOCTORS AND NEW. This is the age ol great freedom of peech, and therefore . hearing strange things. The last one to "get his" was the old fashioned family physician of sacred and awe insplr ing memory. Dr. Charles L. Dana, of Cornell, 6peaking to two hundred of the brethren in the east recently said the old line practitioner was badly trained, ignorant, over idealized in the story boeks, and his passing wa3 a good riddance. Sounds like heresy, or perhaps Dr Dana has recollections of a particularly nauseous bolus administered to him in childhood. But on the remains of the old family physician hear what i3 to arise Thus Dr. Dana: "The physician of the future will appear In all true love stories. He will also perhaps mitigate the climaxes and even lessen the triangular banaltles of the drama. 'Eugenics Driving Cupid' or 'Venus at the Feet of Aesculapius' will make future masterpieces for the mural decorations of the National Hall of Health. Physicians will become a part of statecraft. They will participate more in public affairs and politicians and lawvers loss. Physicians in place of politicians and lawyers? Fear the good doctor has confused healer and heeler. Rut perhaps he"s right. It's a wonderful age. And when he becomes a part of statescraft, it his duties include operating to remove the political obsessions of some individuals, why, so much the better. At any rate the old-fashioned doctor had some ideas of ethics which come present day doctors will never get; their kinship with medical societies and associations notwithstandingASKS a Boston paper: "Why are only five Massachusetts youths competing at the examinations for the Rhodes scholarships?" Wait until the football season is over, brother. "EASY ROADS TO SUCCESS." Almost without exception the great scholars of the world have been men who have studied continuously from young manhood to old age; and in this class are included both those who were quick and those who were slow at the start; for In the race for scholarship the track is so long that the Handicap at the start is not a matter of great consequence. The familiar illustration of Cato, that old Roman philosopher with the large Adam's apple, comes readily to mind here.

Cato began the study of Greek at C6 with the poet Ennius, and took up Greek literature again at 83, simply for the sake of keeping his brain in trim. Henry Clay, brilliant as he was in his 5011th, did not consider that the real foundation of his future greatness as an orator was laid until at

the age of 27 he began the practice of temporizing daily upon some cur rent topic, his efforts being witnessed by an audience of cows and hens. And there Is many another young orator who ought to do his practic ing, on the same kind of an audience. Dr. Robert Hall, the eminent Eng lish divine and scholar, in his old age, was once found lying upon the floor, racked with pain, engaged with the study of Italian, in order that he might become able to test the correctness of Macaulay's famous comparison of Milton and Dante. How weak and feeble, In compari son with this, becomes the "painless method" adopted by many of otir modern educators, who want the pupil to have education pumped into him with the aid of laughing gas and local anesthetics! And whose chief concern in life is to invent games and tricks whereby the unsuspicious child may get a thimbleful of brains with out knowing that he's got 'em. Does Willie object to eating meat? Then chop it up into tidbits and mix it with candy, or else put on so much tabasco sauce that he'll never recognize the taste. . Does he refuse to work? Then build a toy automobile around his lawn mower, so he'll think he is vio lating the speed ordinance while he cuts the grass. Gee! IT is reported that American mil lionaires are being skinned by London art dealers. But anybody that can skin an American millionaire is entitled to the pelt. SHOULD HAVE BEEN $2500. Some of the metropolitan newspapers seem to think it is a wonderful thing for Hon. Tim Englehart of Gary to get $25 out of J. Pierpont Morgan for the benefit of Gary'3 democracy. They are quite wrong. It would be, we are compelled to admit, quite a diffifflcult proposition for anyone other than the Duke of Ridge Road to gently extract 25 silver simoleons from the depths of the Morgan purse. , But for Tim it was a little thing. It is somewhat disconcerting to know that Tim only got $25 out of Mr. Morgan. We are a little pained to think that he did not separate the great financier from at least $25,000 for the benefit of Gary's" democracy. Just think where that amount could have been used. And Mr. Knotts too having been delicately persuaded, flatteringly coaxed and cajoled, to say nothing of being impetuously importuned to run for the mayoralty again. You must do better next time Tim. "WE shall have a war in the not distant future." says' General Wood. wis nope n win De a price war among the produce men. TIME TO HALT. Somebody has started to lease a hotel for the purpose of starting a Y W. C. A. in Gary. The idea of having a Y. W. C. A. came into being when some one imagined that a lot of worn en and girls in Gary needed protection As a matter of fact the percentage of women and girls in Gary who are away from their homes is a very small one when compared with other cities of similar size. We fear that Gary Is trying to make too much of a splurge in sad dllng all kinds of institutions upon Itself. There Is too much of a ten dency to ape the big cities and everytime a fool notion is crystallized the usual touches are made. Gary has its $100,000 Commercial club, its elaborate Elks club, its fancy Country club, its University club, its settlement house, it3 luxurious $300,000 Y. M. C. A., its Knights of Colum bus club, and other institutions to support. It is trying to float a Ma sonic temple, an Oddfellows building and an "aristocratic" town club. It Is called upon to contribute to the sup port of two hospitals one is enough and one of them is building a new home costing $100,000. Things have come to such a point in Gary that the hat has to be passe1 every few months to keep the score of churches, hospitals, the Y. M. C. A. expenses, new hospitals, negro missions, day nurseries, etc., etc., going. And now there Is to be a home for "homeless girl3 and women." The people of Gary -have enough on their hands now and any further passing of the hat for a new fad ought to be frowned upon in these expensive times. Let's put up a few more houses for working men.

. Tret's get a dozen or more community apartment houses.

PROBABLY the chief reason why politics did not hurt business during the recent campaign was that business was not hurting politics. A TANTALIZING PREDICAMENT. Huntington, Ind., Nov. 2.8. Although he will celebrate his 100th birthday anniversary December 14, Jacob Souers. Huntington's oldest resident, submitted to his first shave at the hands of a barber today. He did it under protest. The barber was summoned secretly by a daughter, who wished to prepare the veteran for a photograph In anticipation of the coming celebration. There is nothing more aggravating than to have a barber forced on one after staving him off and escaping his clutches for 100 years. Think of a man turning down a sea foam or a electric massage or a hair tonic for a whole century only at last to be forced into a chair. napery shoved under his jowl and then scraped by a barber long lust ful for the hoary wind-breas. Could anything be more aggravat ing? IN spite of the fact that the high cost of living pinches as hard there as here. England is about to send Spring-Rice to us. WELL a vote of thanks is due th9 weather man, anyway, for sitting on the lid as long as he did. STRIKING INEQUALITIES. Over at Valparaiso, a city of possibly 10,000 inhabitants, throe busses ,two cabs and two taxi-cabs meet every train. Making the trains has become a regular routine there. If 16 people get off the train the cabbies bark for half an hour and seem satisfied if they get four of them. Usually they have to take those four over on the hill, a good mile and a half, and get twenty-five cents for it. A taxi will call for you and take you to the depot for 25 cents, six rides for a quarter. Gasoline does not cost any less In Valparaiso than in Hammond, automobiles cost just as much and the human element Is about the same. But la Valparaiso you can ride so cheaply that it Is extraagant to walk and you do not hear of any failures either. Now in cities hereabouts with three times the population of Valparaiso, there are thousands of houses that can not be reached by street car, there are forty times as many trains, the expanse of territory is ten times as great, the people would willingly pay twenty-five cents within a radius of a half a mile, fifty cents within a radius of a mile and 75 ents within a radius of a mile and a hair yet and there is not a single carriage at the depots. Even the theatre trains are not met and it takes all of the way from half to three quarters of an hour, to get a carriage to the station after calling for one by telephone. The cities has the finest of pave ments and the wear and tear on equipment ought to be less but it seems that everybody contemplating going into business either starts a 8aloon or a fruit store and so we are towns of walkers. Take it in Hammond for instance when a carriage does meet you It Is dirty, smells horsy and likely as not the driver is drunk. What these cities need is first-class service and the public should patronize the first man that will offer it. NOW honest, Mr. Madero, have you told us all you know about the escape of Nephew Diaz? WOMEN say they are going to keep up the fight. Just for our assign ment book, which one? "IS PROPERTY MORE VALUABLE THAN LIFE ?" A well known sociological writer who visited Gary and other industrial cities in the Calumet region a few days ago expressed amazement because of the large sums expended for the police and fire departments and the beggarly appropriation given to the local health, boards. He- was especially surprised to learn that in a four-class city the law provides a mere pittance for the health execu tlve two cents per capita per annum according to the last federal census Thus in Gary the health executive, who is a doctor and who ought to be paid enough that he could give most of his time to the work, receives but $50 a month. If the statute were adhered to he would get but $2 8 and if the actual population were taken as a basis instead of the federal census he should receive $65. The New York Suu has a most timely editorial on this subject. Captioned "Is Property More Valuable

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What Is Yankee Doodle? It is the name of an air, adopted as a national tune to the United States. The words are mere doggerel. Yankle Doodle was composed by Dr. Shackburg, a physician in the British army In America, about 1755, and palmed off by him as a celebrated air on a body of American militia. Distinguish between Brass and Bronze? Brass is a composition of copper and zinc. Bronze is a composition of copper and tin. What is the Harvest Moon and the Hunters' Moon? The harvest moon is the full moon in September that falls nearest to the autumnal equinox. The hunters moon is the first full moon in October after the autumnal equinox. What Is meant by "Clinical" as applied to Surgery and Medicine? "Clinical" is from a Greek word signifying a bed, and ia applied to those branches of the medical art in which instruction is given to students at the bedsides of patients. Hospitals and infirmaries are the great schools of clinical medicine and surgery. What la the Year of Jubilee? Among the Jews the jubile came every fiftieth year, which was the year after one week of weeks of years had passed, or seven times seven. All slaves who were of Hebrew blood were freed, all debts were cancelled, and all. hands were returned to original owners during the jubilee. In the Roman Catholic church tb jubilee Is observed every twenty-fifth year. Who waa the Wizard of Kinderhook? Martin Van'Buren, who was born at Klnderhook, N. Y., wan bo called because of his astuteness. Who are the Slnophoblata? A Slnophobist is literally a hater of the Chinese. The term is applied to those who have clamored for restriction of Chinese Immigration. Who waa Geblr? He was an Arabian alchemist, who lived in the eighth century, and wrote the first book on chemistry. Thati Life?" it proceeds to say: "Startling as this question may1 see mat first blush, facts and figures appear to answer it. ' " 'The conservation of human life constitutes the grandest movement of the twentieth century,' says Profes sor Irving Fisher. Let us see how j the governing authorities of American cities further this movement.; When a Board of Estimate the mem-! bers of which are the peers of any; in the world for probity. Intelligence! and patriotism deems it proper to re-, duce to two-thirds the amount asked j for by the Department of Health of ! New York city, allowing one million' dollars less thsn the department's j estimate of its needs, the following; figures and facts cease to be matter! of surprise: "The State of New York spends for health preservation the munificent sum of 1 7-10 cents per annum for ! each of its inhabitants. Massachusetts spend 4 2-10, Indiana 1 7-10, Kansas 2 7-10, and so on. There is not one city health board that obtains enough money to carry on a successful fight with disease and death, despite the fact that most clt.ie3 are provided with efficient generals for the battle. "These figures are computed from data like the following: i "Minneapolis spent for fire prevention $1.67 per capita, for disease' prevention 1 cents. 4 . . "Portland, Ore., spent $1.91 for fire prevention and 13 cents for disease prevention per capita. ( "Louisville spent $1.36 for fires, 12 cents for health. "Providence, R. I., spent $1.99 for fires and 11 cents per capita for health. "An example of the attitude of, Legislatures is furnished by that of Ohio, which granted the farmers an appropriation of $25,000 for a laboratory to produce serum for preventing death of their hogs from cholera, but refusde to grant an appropriation for the production of a serum (antitoxin) to prevent their children dying from diptheria. "It hs been well said that the war against preventable disease is a struggle between death and the dollar. When our governing powers begin to realize this solemn truth they will brave the public clamor for low taxation and cease to prefer a high death rate to a slight and temporary increase in the tax rate, or spend tess on public buildings and ornamentation and move on health promotion. "Dr. Wiley has said statistics show

What la the Origin of tho Word "Pecuniary"? It is from the Latin pe-

cunia, money; the root of the word pecunla was pecus, "cattle" cattl having constituted the wealth of tha early Roman people. Whatre the Twenty Moat Beauti ful Words? In a voting contest th members of a certain Y. M. C. A. in New York city recently decided that the twenty most beautiful words are: Melody, splendor, adoration, elo quence, virtue, innocence, modesty. faith, Joy, honor, nobility, sympathy, heaven, love, divine, hope harmony, happiness, purity and liberty. What la the Weight of the Brain by Racial Classification? According to Bastlan, an expert, the weight of the brain in ounces la as follows: Scotch 50; Germans 49.8; English 49.6; French 47.9; Zulus 47.E; Chinese 47.2; Italiana 46.9; Eaklmoa 43.9. In all races the male brain is about ten per cent heavier than the femala. In the highest type of the ape the brain weight does not exceed 16 ounces. What ta the Origin of the Word "Pen"? The word "Den" aLsnifies a feather, and Is derived from tha Latin "penna," a wing. The phrase, a steel pen, ia literally a steel feather. When and Where was Lillian Rus sell Born? Lillian Russell was born In Clinton, Ia., in 1864. What Is Meerschaum? Meerschaum is a mineral found in many parts of the world, .chiefly in Moravia and Crimea, Because Meerschaum Is found on sea shores in some localities In peculiarly rounded snow-white lumps, it has been Ignorantly imagined to be petrified froth of the sea, which, by the way. Is the meaning of Its German name. Meerschaum, when mined. Is soft and soap-like to the touch. It is moulded into pipes, boiled in oil, and1 then baked In ovens until quite hard. What were Sharp-shins? Sharpshins was a name given to small currency obtained by cutting silver dollars into parts. It was uffed in ths early days of Virginia. that we die sixteen years before we reach our maximum usefulness. Why should we be content with an average life of forty-four years? Health In our most valuable asset. The slightest reflection upon the above data proves that it Is not protected with one-tenth the caution and effor that we exercise in the protection of property." A SEATTLE boy of twelve has a full beard. Evidently he isn't a little shaver. HEARD BT RUBE THE one amazing feature of this Balkan imbroglio is that the Chicago American hasn't yet printed any dispatches from the front in ancient Greek. THAT the good old days haven't gone entirely may be seen from the news announcements telling of the six-day blcycle races that they are to hold In Madison Square garden. A breath of late '90's, eh? Of bloomer sleeves, tandem safeties and the low cost of living. MILD winter is predicted. Clip this out and hand it to your coal man when you pay your bill as part of your satisfaction. AND remember that one month from today the annual water wagon cruise starts in earnest. HAPPILT hizzoner, the Hon. Tom Knotts, czar of Gary, has managed to pass by Thanks-giving without being arrested and here's hoping that he will "get by" until Christmas, at least. "THE Harbor of Love" Is Lippincott's latest book, issued Saturday. As yet we haven't reached the page where it says that the Gary republican and bull moose ships have sailed Into this amorous port. INDIANA ranks fourth In the matter of divorced husbands paying their wives alimony, but If the Lake county courts keep up their good work Indiana soon will e able to head the list. "GARY still a part of Indiana." Gary Trlbunesky headline. Printed no doubt to assure an open-mouthed constituency of readers that Gary hasn't wobbled over, the state line Into 'West Hammond's company. SEEING that Colonel Tim Englehart managed to squeeze J. Pierpont Morgan, to the tune of to for the Gary democratic campaign fund we take great, pleasure tn recommending Big Tim as treasurer of the national committee. "OVG DEAD. ONE DYING. ONE ILL." Joliet Herald li-eadUne, Despite the

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sorrow attached to it it won't attract the notice as such a headline as this: I "Two Strikes, Two Out, Three on Bases. Ninth Inning, and Three Balls." I WHAT'S the matter with this old world anyhow? , Greece, Servia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro are scrapping with Turkey. Roumania la getting; ready to take a hand In the sparring. China is collecting money to fight Russia and Russia wants to fight Austria and Austria wants to fight Servttt and Germany wants to fight the whole pack of them, and England would like to clean up on Germany. "We thought that th! dove of peace would be flutter- J ing when the Tripoli-Italy fracas and I the Simon-Brennan contest was settled, j AN East Gary mystery: Marshal Smith Is wondering why William Ash- ' ton is in disguise lately." East Gary correspondence to Thb Times. Ctrn it be that William is dodging the suffrag- 1 ette petitioners? .' j GARY'S WATER SUPPLY END AN- , gered." Times' ' headline. Great polecats! Gary may also lose a lot of its saloons. The Steel City Is In grave danger of becoming as dry as the Sa- ; haras of Lowell. ', i IN case the new Albanian republic ; can's find a suitable ruler a. cable to : these parts will bring out a generous ' offering of volunteers. j P. S. Mayor Knotts leaves for Cuba ' for a month's rest. If you hear of any , Cuban revolutions during December you'll know who started them. The Day in HISTORY "THIS DATE IX HISTORV" Deirrahf r 2. 1554 Hernando Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, died at Seville, Spain. Born in Spain in 1485. 1804 Napjoleon L crowned in the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Paris. 1805 French under Napoleon defeated the allied Russian and Australian armies at Austerlltz. 1S0S Madrid taken by the FVench and King Joseph restored. 1843 Franfis Joseph succeded Ferdinand as emperor of Austria. 1S59 John Brown executed as a result of his raid on Harper's Ferry. 1893 Pauline Cushman, noted Union spy in the civil war, died. Born in New Orleans, June 10, 1833. 1903 President Nord Alexis of Haytl deposed. "THIS IS MV GKTH BIRTHDAY Sir FraaeU C. iould. Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, one of the world's most famous caricaturists, was born at Barnstaple, England, December 2, 18 44. At ten years of age he caricatured a candidate at a local election, and the sketch was published. It was the late Henry Labouchere who gave Sir Ffraneis his first introduction to the realm of Illustrated journalism by publishing a series of his sketches in Truth. Mr. Stead of the Tall Mall Gazette next sought his services. It was as cartoonist for the Westminster Gazette, however, that he did his greatest work. Lord Rosebery once described Sir Francis as "one of the most remarkable assets of tho Literal party." It has been said that his cartoons and cleer skits won more ote for the Liberal party than eer were gained by the speeches of the most brilliant orators.

Monday, Dec. 2. 1012.

Congratulations to: Liliuokala.nl, former queen of the Hawaiian Islands, 74 years old today. Frank Jay Gould, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, 35 years old today. Sir Alfred Dale, ice chancellor of the Cniersity of Lierpool, 57 years old to day. Up and Down in INDIANA IJIKS fit 0I KAHIKS. A guinea pig which had been Inoculated with serum from a dog's head, sent in to the state's pathological laboratories from the Indianapolis dog pound, died Thursday from rabies. The dog bit Stella Ernst, a six-year-old girl, living at 129 North Liberty street, Indianapolis, prior to November 2. It then was sent to the lty pound and later killed. The state's experts were unable to find traces of rabies in their first examination of the head. It is believed that the Ernest child Ft ill will be able to ward off the disease by the Pasteur treatment. FAST TRAIX KILLS TWO BOYS. Frank Roach and Ernest Levine, 7 and 6 years old, respectively, of Michlgan City, were Instantly killed Saturday by a Michigan Central fast train. They stood on one of two parallel tracks throwing stones at a freight train when the pasenger train from the opposite direction strucic them. Popular Actress Now in Chicago ttissttenvon Bishop 2r) 'TbcJilliordi ibz . Olympic

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